#i havent played many sonic games but this is the only one with the chao garden so its the best one sorry liberals sun glasses emoji

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I wish that music players on blogs still worked. If they did, I would put this on loop.

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If I want to get into Sonic, what game/media would you recommend to me first?

Ive heard that like Sonic Adventures 2 is the best 2D game from the original series at least but i dont actually know much at all

I did watch both recent live-action movies but that's about it

Ok so I'm still very new to Sonic, having only gotten into it almost 6 months ago, but here's what I've got to say.

The first Sonic game I played was Sonic 2, which is one of the 2D games. I played it because it's available with the Nintendo Switch online membership and its also on the Nintendo Switch E-Shop for pretty cheap. It's definitely a fun time passer and honestly you could probably beat it in a few hours if you're not trying to get all the Chaos Emeralds.

But for my second Sonic game, I wanted to play a 3D one, so what I did was I looked through a bunch of Sonic games to see what ones people liked the most.

I went with Sonic Unleashed. While it does have a mechanic that quite as fun as going super fast, the speed stages are incredibly fun and the story is really good too!

And despite it being new, I'd also recommend Sonic Frontiers. Frontiers has 2 modes, one for people who are used to Sonic gameplay, and one for people who aren't, so I feel that could be pretty good for you. The game is also relatively open world, so you're not just running on stages like you would be in Unleashed.

I've also heard good things about Sonic and the Blacks Knight and Sonic Generations, but I haven't played those 2 yet.

As of other media, there's shows and comics! I havent read too many of the comics, but they're pretty fun and quite short to read, though the only place I've read them was a sketchy website so uh yeah :')

There's also a bunch of shows! I'm not the best at explaining them, so here's a post with them all -> X

The post has descriptions for the shows and stuff, so you can just pick whatever interests you!

I'm also sure some of my Sonic mutuals would gladly add onto this post to help you out a bit too! :D

So yeah! Sorry if this all is just a rambly mess. I don't think I'm the best at this sort of thing, but I hope it at least helped you a little :')

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Finally finished Tales of Eternia!! 

And that makes 11th tales games finished and 15th overall played in some degree (Phantasia, Legendia, Innocence, and DotNW being the ones I havent finished yet).

Once I started again in December I decided that instead of liveblogging I’d make a review at the end instead.

So here we go! I will keep this spoiler free as possible!

I’m pretty scatterbrained but I’ll try to divide this into: combat, story, characters, and other game mechanics.

Combat: So obviously, the combat is above Phantasia and Destiny’s, being made after them. I honestly have grown fond of the 2d linear style format. There’s so many different boss fights in this game that can only work in a 2d field rather than 3d. 

On the flip side, that’s not always a good thing. I count bosses like the wild dog thing in Vesperia, and Fodra Queen of Graces to be among the hardest mandatory boss fights in tales. Welp, Eternia added one to the ranks. Rem (aka Aska the light spirit) is one of the most frustrating boss fights I’ve done. Apart from constantly slowing healing itself, on the field it brings a shiny ball with it. You cannot destoy the orb, it’s there all fight, and if you touch it it hurts you. And of course it blocks the way to Rem. There is a way past it, it moves up and down so you just have to wait until its up to move past. BUT GUESS WHAT THE AI DOESNT DO. So your party will probably either be dying or constantly in pain. AND REM CAN MOVE THE ORD ANYWHERE. Also you cant physically hit Rem while its casting a spell only far away skills. So if you ever play this game just cheese it and spam variations of Sonic Blade.

Of course, on the flip side it’s every easy for you to cheese boss fights and just back them up into a corner unable to move or do anything until they die, so it evens out.

The sprite animations for the artes are gorgeous. Reid moves so fluidly in his artes, he’s honestly my third favorite protag to play as behind Yuri and Ludger because of this. The caster animations are great as well, granted it can become cluttered and hard to see in when artes like blizzard and earth shaker are used. BUT GOD DAMN I CAN WATCH MEREDY USE METEOR ALL DAY IT LOOKS SO COOL.

Nitpicks about the combat system are, Life, the reviving spell Farah has, takes to long to charge, and for Meredy and Keele to use healing artes you have to mix and match who has what craymel (spirit). There might be a guide but I didnt look beyond reddit so Life was the only resurrection spell I had. 

Last nitpick comes from the Aurora Artes. Aurora Artes are skills only Reid can use, but in order to use them you have to have health below 15% and press circle, square, and x at the same time, so it’s very easy to mess up and die. Then to use more Aurora Artes you press the same buttons repeatedly, and after you use them Reid is left with 1 hp. AND the final boss has an automatic kill skill, you have to press the buttons at the right time to activate it and keep everyone alive, or you can cheese it like I did and have Farah hold a reverse doll to revive her after she dies. Did I also mention this skill happens in phase 2 of the fight when the bosses health is less than 20,000 after starting from 300,000? If you fuck up thats like 10mins of redoing.

But to end on a better note for this section, I love the way artes are learned. You have to use certain artes a number of times before you can unlock it (I THINK abyss and vesperia and many others are like this but this is the first time I found it rewarding). I grinded like hell to get the best artes for Reid AND YOU BET IT WAS WORTH IT. Omega Demon Chaos I love you,,,,

Story: Like countless other Tales titles, the conflict comes from two worlds being at odds with each other. However this game does something that none of the other games have done with this story beat. Language barriers! It’s super cool in the first couple of hours theyre just trying to figure out how to talk with Meredy. Of course by the end this point is nearly dropped entirely, everyone else just getting the special ear ring I spent 3 hours to get so the plot can move on.

Like most tales, theres a moment you thought the story would end but BOOM the twist. I wasn’t shocked by it, but that’s because I knew who the final antagonist of the game was prior to playing it, but still it was executed well. 

Something that makes this Tales stand out is how they deal with backstory. So the main fours backstory is vital to the story and their characters but they don’t show it till like 20 hours in. It’s like if Graces you start off in main arc and learn about the childhood arc 2/3 of the way through and went “ohhhh that’s why they were distant with each other.” And other stuff about it but I won’t spoil it.

Overall a good story, though I do feel like I’m missing things either from missing some side quests, or because of no skits.

Characters: The main ones to shine are the four main characters (Reid, Farah, Keele, and Meredy), everyone else literally is either one dungeon and/or optionable. Chat does still feel like a character being the owner of the Van Elita aka means of transportation for half the game. Max and Ras tho rip. ESPECIALLY MAX. Ya know how every tales there’s the mandatory Talk Before The Final Battle? Yea well they all get one except Max. You see him, but he doesnt talk, YET THEY CRAYMELS DO.

Another odd, yet charming, thing is that there’s no big moment of character development for anyone like Luke cutting his hair, Magilou keeping the portal open, or punch in the face like Alvin. They just. Slowly change. And its really weird cause for all of disc 1 Keele is basically an unbearable asshole and he just? Learns to be a better person from everything he sees? There’s no callout or moment of realization, he just slowly learns and it’s super refreshing. 

Reid is probably one of the most relatable protagonists up there with Jude. I’m sure most of you know the “he doesn’t want to do shit lol” persona he has BUT GOD WHY HE’S LIKE THAT BABY I LOVE YOU. Farah’s personality is also explained in the backstory, so for any of you crestoria players that Farah’s backstory is really different like how Emil’s is, but the sentiment of why she’s like that is the same and stem for a similar event.

Meredy’s also great. I thought I’d get annoyed of her and her “You bet!” but god when she says it the last time at the end of the game, I was pretty moved. I wish I knew more about her backstory but I’m pretty sure a certain section of her life info was left to skits and ya know we didn’t get those till Symphonia :)))

As antagonists go, besides the Craymels who are there to test you before you get their power, there’s just two. Main boss and their lackey. The lackey is eh. You see him once at the beginning of the game, then see him destroy a  city, then one last time where you kill him. You do get his backstory and stuff but eh I’m usually not fond of tales mini villains minus Chimerad, God Generals, and Artorius’s lackeys

The main antagonist tho, I really don’t wanna spoil it but it’s hard to talk about why I’m conflicted on it without spoiling. So it’s like Destiny’s final boss but written better in some part and worse in others. So at one point it’s super emotional and pretty powerful with the message eternia wants to send but at the same points its a jrpg where you gotta kill god cause he doesn’t think humans are worth it. 

Oh one more thing thats honestly hilarious, there’s literally SINGLE animated cutscene by Production I.G in this entire game minus the op. 

Other things: the amount of mini games in this game is insane, but the amount you have to do IN JUST THE SECOND DISC to continue the plot is more than any other tales game I can recall. Some of them are fun like the card game, others like the bomb one I want to throw in a fire. 

There’s also so much Destiny pandering in this game. There’s portraits of the characters, you can collect lens, I’m 95% sure the way a certain character is done is because they wanted another Leon, you can SUMMON THE SWORDIAN USERS ARE AS AN ACTUAL SUMMON. While all Phantasia gets is the cameo battle and the Eternal Sword. I mean I didn’t mind cause I’ve finished Destiny and it’s one of my fav tales games but damn it was pretty obvious. 

EXPLORATION IS SO FUN IN THIS GAME. Mainly near the end when you have free reigns. YOU CAN DIVE UNDERWAY AND EXPLORE THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA WHAT OTHER TALES GAME LETS YOU DO THAT??? 

In conclusion: A fun game! I don’t think it was worth 133 dollars tho consider my play file was 35 hours and thats with a good chuck of side quests and ex bosses. Probably in my top 5 combat systems of tales and final villains, but not in terms of story or characters. A really hope it gets remastered soon I’d love for more people to play it.

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gonna use sonic bcs i am just on sonic chaos mode rn (as ppl can probably tell ;w;)

📃; bcs it sonic, GOD does it depend. i really really have always liked chronicles even if its unpolished and unfinished. as a kid i was very facinated with rpgs (still am i love them) so it hooked me really tightly. i loved shade a lot bcs i just found the concept of the lost clan of echidnas coming back very different and cool. theres just,,,, so much going on in chronicles to describe it al honestly. (unrelated but after years i managed to finally figure out how to find omega (i never could as a kid) and that made me so happy,,,,,,,,,

✨; idk what really? describes it. my cousin played a lot of sonic games too and my interest just got sparked to all the characters. im a sucker for big casts. i cant say i actively dislike any characters even,,, theyre all so interesting to me and each one is special in their own way to me.

💕; one of my big ones is blaze!! i played sonic rush allll the time and loved playing as her. i never got to experience 06 for myself but i just?? i like big sister characters. they make me feel happy even as an only child. plus i really liked cats and the color purple heehee. shes just very comforting and is really only one of my many favs out of all the cast members in the sonic games and comics n stuff (i also really like espio, silver, charmy, vector- rlly all of the chaotix :3c)

💎; hmmmmmmm hard to say. theres not a lotta facts that havent already been told b4. i think my favorite fun fact is the way characters will sometimes get reused, like the way charmy was first introduced in the shogakukan manga before being reused for knuckles chaotix! never know, maybe tiara b. the manx will get her chance someday!

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i had the best idea for an alternate smash storyline

a bunch of video game worlds are colliding together and they have to stop it before too much chaos ensues. the reason it’s happening is because the other villains from other worlds want to discover more power, and someone managed to strike a deal with galeem to do this. master hand (and crazy hand?), instead of being a villain, is trying to help everyone seperate the dimensions back to where they normally were, and being pissy with galeem about merging so many universes. dharkhon might also be working with galeem im not sure i havent played world of light only the spirit board and fuck the system if a whole game world is colliding with even more every character is there, not as an assist trophy or spirit. this includes other universes/timelines of the worlds, like sonic’s dimension gets sucked into the mess you might even see forces/classic characters. course if this was made into an actual fangame of some sorts (which i doubt ill ever do) it would be limited to only a few per world but cutscenes would have everyone involved. after defeating galeem master hand is about to fix everything before seeing everyone saying their goodbyes, sad they’ll never see them again. they manage to figure out a way for them to travel between universes freely without time and space collapsing. while they can still cross over into other universes some different ones get sucked into it as well, letting dlc characters be a thing. i kinda actually want to make this a full on au...... so i might go deeper into this one day.. 

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