#Shadow is Sonic’s boss

[sumju]

The Ultimate Lifeform is Sonic’s boss 👀✨

[humming-fly]

The 2D vs 3D contrast of the sonic and shadow generation hubworlds cracks me up the more I think about it

Bonus:

[glitchedcosmos]

Fuck kissing , I need to see two bitches HUG. I need to see them EMBRACE. I want them to hug so tightly and so sweetly , because they never want to separate again, they both fear that when the hug is over, they will never be able to embrace each other again. I want them to throw every emotion they’ve ever felt for each other into that soul cradling hug. I NEED to see them tho blue from the grip, and never, ever let go.

[futuristichedge]

Can't wait for him to not show up in Sonic X Shadow Generations </3

[son1c]

ngl i struggled with this boss and was locked the fuck in but when he said this i kind of stopped and like. blinked. they got a great voice actor for him this time around. not only were the line deliveries great across the board but i also liked how his register contrasted with shadow's. i don't think they should sound exactly the same and in fact i prefer that they don't. mephiles having a higher, dramatic voice compared to shadow's lower, gruff voice was so enjoyable especially when they were going back and forth. and then this line specifically... huge props to the voice actor for getting me to feel a pang of sympathy for this character. kiss

[ultimate-blorbo-bracket]

There will be one more final fight between the champions of the three tournament to see who will take home the title of Ultimate Ultimate Blorbo!

[nenemyunart]

Is this what you feel?

Scorned by a realm that cannot comprehend

What you are

[marketableplushieenthusiast]

(Spoilers for Shadow Generations)

I think what I appreciate most about Shadow Generations is just that it gives Shadow ACTUAL, CANON closure for his struggle between good and evil.

By the end of Adventure 2, he remembered his promise to Maria and made his choice to save the world, but then he "dies".

When Heroes revives him, he doesn't remember any of that.

His namesake game (and I say this as gently as possible), as cool as the multiple endings were, feels so unsatisfying. We get to see Shadow's potential for good and evil, sure, but then the true canon ending comes, and it doesn't specify what he did (or even what exactly he remembered about his past) to get there, and then he just decides not to let his past control him. Which isn't a terrible direction on paper, but the symbolism of him literally throwing away a picture of his family just seems... Like the opposite of what made this character appealing in the first place?

And from there, the games kept giving mixed signals. Sonic '06 shows how deeply he and Team Dark come to care for each other, but then its events get literally removed from the timeline. Sega begins to pretend that Team Dark aren't even friends in their mandates for a while (despite the fact they clearly care for each others' wellbeing before anybody else's). Shadow becomes practically a popsicle stick puppet for "angry, serious, violent rival", and they never feel a need to explain his motivations or reactions beyond waving at that four word character description again.

Shadow's appeal (at least to me) was never that he was a character who didn't care about anything - it was that he cared very deeply, actually. (Someone who nearly lets the world be destroyed as revenge for losing his family is the exact opposite of someone who doesn't care!) He may not be cheerful, he may be quiet and stern, he may have a temper and be capable of terrible things if he isn't careful, but he isn't heartless.

And Shadow Generations FINALLY got it right, I feel.

There's now no doubt that he remembers his past, and that it did matter to him. It still does, in fact, and we're dropping the idea that he'll move on from it like it never happened. That's not how tragedy works.

But he will be able to move forward.

He has finally, WITHOUT GETTING AMNESIA, IN THE CANON TIMELINE, gotten to become the hero Maria wanted him to be.

That doesn't mean his story's over: I'm sure they can still find adventures to send him on. And that doesn't mean he needs any kind of complete personality overhaul, either. He can still be more aggressive than Team Sonic, and more stern, and maybe even more willing to resort to questionable methods to fight next week's bad guy.

But all of Team Dark has gotten to acknowledge that they do, in fact, care for each other, even if their attitudes aren't as chummy as Team Sonic.

Shadow has gotten to hear from his family that they are proud of him, weird alien DNA and all, and that even though he will have to go the rest of his long life without them, their love will always go with him, and give him the strength he needs to overcome any of his darker parts.

Shadow having a darker edge than Sonic and Shadow being a hero are things that can and SHOULD coexist, and I'm so glad we finally got to see it for him without it getting wiped from canon or his own memories again.

[archiesoniconline]

Sonictober 2024 Day 17! Theme: Doom. At the last way to proceed, the devilish alien overlord battle his ultimate creation. Shadow the Hedgehog must beat Black Doom if he's to carry out his late friend's wishes. And if he can't stop him, life will be forever doomed...

Art by @jasketchblog

[novirp13]

No, seriously. Mesphiles boss fight was so dang fun for me??? Legit the first stage I want to S-rank asap.

I never liked the Doom Morph skill. While Dash and Flying are easy to do because you just have to hold the Y button for the both of them, you have to press the B button for Homing Attack BUT hold the B button for swinging around with the Doom Morph skill. My brain cannot compute with the different button input! I often lost a lot of times and rings because I forgot to hold the button to swing, causing me to fell to my death.

CASE IN POINT:

Yeaaa...platformer games are not my strong suit...

However, in Mephiles boss fight, you won't fall to your death because the area is wide and circular. The cumbersome Doom Morph gimmick was enjoyable to play there and I was grinning from ear to ear from start to finish.

Ugh, I love this boss fight so much. If Mephiles had to come back and ruin the world just so I could fight such a fun boss battle once again, I would welcome him lickety split XD

[spoongio]

NEO METAL GAMES!!

Wanted to redraw this classic Toriyama piece, Neo Metal Sonic and Cell just share too much of that sauce 🥫I also intentionally did an ensemble piece since I don’t draw a lot of these characters very much, so this was a pretty efficient undertaking if I do say so myself… 😼🙏

[izuizzy]

HE’S BACK BITCHESSSSSSSSS

(bonus no filter version under here)

[humming-fly]

Inktober Day 25 - Alpha Gaming

Today I thought I'd go ahead and hunt down that new hedgehog game everyone’s so excited about, since I had a target giftcard and it's been a hot sec since I played one of these - was fully planning to hop on that cool winged shadow trend for the inktober to commemorate my success, but that changed 15 seconds into the first stage when I remembered I actually suck shit at sonic games 👍

[swati-art]

From a meme on Twitter - my two comfort characters lol

[bubbly-bubbs]

"Shadow...?"

Sonic fast food worker au!

Pov: you return home from sonic x shadow generations... and there's a shadow there waiting for you >;)

AHHHH SONIC IN OVA OUTFIT MY HEART <33!! I tried to give shadow a similar look!! I hope the outfit i designed for him is cute <3

[sonknuxadow]

COMPUTER. ENHANCE

^ omega spotted