![]() ![]() i think one of my favorite things thats referenced in sa2 is tikal's prayer about the chaos emeralds.even though he doesnt directly say her name, knuckles uses the same prayer to nullify the chaos emeralds and i really miss that sort of continuity from previous games because it really showed that knuckles still cared about tikal and remembered her words :') even sonic) hearing her spirit? i think about her so much because her fate just makes me really sad :( plotwise her story was super cool to add in sa1 though. OKAY SO MUCH WOW UMMM so i dont have too much for tikal in comparison solely because she just isnt around as much as knuckles, but i REALLY wish they'd continued to reference her.i feel like it wouldve been pretty easy, maybe just lines here and there about knuckles (or hell. but it's just at the point where it's so obvious sega doesn't think that's interesting pertaining to him, it's just about how they can make another unfunny scene surrounding it about him being "stupid." and i think that sucks :( because i actually think knuckles being gullible or more naive in trusting others is actually a REALLY good part of his character and reflects how different his background is to the other characters. but i think what makes it good is that that's actually knuckles himself choosing to be silly in that moment? whereas a lot of sega deciding knuckles is the comic relief stems from making him the butt of a joke and him being unaware of it. because i like when knuckles is a little silly! one of my favorite moments of him is actually from the racing overdrive short where he mocks rouge as he drives past her DHFHKJDHK its so good. I feel like a lot of people's "solution" to this is that knuckles just shouldn't be allowed to be goofy, ever, but i feel like that's kind of ignoring the problem with his inconsistent writing too. so i feel like all bad writing shadow and knuckles face is always gonna be intertwined with the other. _- and i think it's the most evident with how quickly they changed how they wrote knuckles to become a comic relief character once they decided shadow was sonic's new foil, and then how quickly they jumped on shadow being sonic's edgy rival because of the same decision. ![]() I think sega has this very weird mindset that in order to be someone's foil you have to be their rival or enemy. i think in a way shadow effectively became the new knuckles after his introduction if that makes any sense? both in terms of becoming the more prominent "foil" to sonic and in terms of popularity compared to how knuckles was super popular in the classic era (like to this day knuckles and shadow are the only characters aside from sonic to have titular games w/knuckles chaotix and shth.and so much early knuckles stuff advertised him as "cool" in the same way sega tries to market shadow as 's just very interesting to me). ![]() effectively ended up ruining both the characters' writing in the process. WHICH brings me to my opinion that the moment shadow became a breakout character is the exact moment when sonic team decided to botch knuckles' writing to make him differ from shadow more, since at that point in time they both fell under "stoic determined foil to sonic" and then they just. "this partnership is only temporary" so cool knuckles.no one asked but thank you) to officially being a part of team sonic is SOOO good.i feel like in the adventure era knuckles easily had the most prominent character development out of the cast, and the only one you could really argue was on that level of going through an arc was shadow. king.Īnd his progression from a reluctant ally with sonic to an actual friend who wouldn't really admit he's sonic's friend (just singing "i have no such thing as weak spots" out of absolutely nowhere. that's honestly one of my favorite things about sonic heroes, it's basically his first time off the island that doesn't have to do with the master emerald and he's just complaining about how bright and loud everything is i love him. i think the era from adventure 1 to heroes had the best characterization of him, where he's still serious and determined and a little bit of a grump because knuckles is always at his best when he's just a little grumpy i think. i miss when he had that much of an importance on the plot in sonic games. like you genuinely could not have sa1 without knuckles and his relating plot elements in it and UGHHH. i feel like much like sa2's plot is so reliant on shadow's lore, sa1 is reliant on knuckles' lore. OKAY knuckles first.he seriously has some of THE coolest lore in the franchise i think and ultimately that's really what draws me to him. Ohhh girl help this literally just devolved into a rant about sega/sonic team but echidna-themed this time HDFHKJHDJ such are the woes of being a sonic fan u_u
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