#sonic movie 3 crit

[applestorms]

i was gonna write a more extensive post about this, but. fuck that i have too many points to write proper sentences rn, here's a bullet point list of my review of sonic 3. spoilers, obviously. tl;dr: i'm a hater

maria is fridged to hell and back, she is such a nothing character i have secondhand embarrassment for the writers every time she shows up. maria exists only to smile in flashbacks and lie in the flowers and go, "noooooooooooooooo, shadow :(( you can totally be whatever you want, dude," and then die on the floor. we don't even get to see her getting shot. fucking rip off.

to clarify-- maria absolutely does NOT have to be a fucking dead wife trope incarnate, imo. she can very easily be used that way, yes, but i think doing so also misses the core of her character and what she means for shadow. part of the appeal of the conversations that maria & shadow have on the arc in SA2 comes from the fact that they are characters coming from a very similar position, both being incredibly alienated from the rest of the world/humanity, daydreaming about it more than they are able to interact with it directly. like, come ON, they literally live on a fucking space station, the symbolism does not get that much more obvious?? it is the fact that maria CHOOSES to love humanity anyways, despite being unable to interact with it/live within it, that makes her words meaningful. jesus fucking christ.

anyways, speaking of. shadow has NO arc in this movie (literally and figuratively. did you seriously put the spaceship in Ohio) and it drives me up the wall. perhaps i'm just out of the loop on the Current Shit, but it feels like Nobody knows how to write that guy nowadays :((

not that i could fucking tell anyways in this particular movie from how little he shows up or SPEAKS. LET HIM SPEAAAAAK. i swear to GOD, he interacts w/ the main cast like three (3) fucking times in this entire movie and two of those interactions are fights. if you want those cute, quirky, somewhat cringe sonic/shadow interactions, you're better off watching the trailer plus whatever clips of the final fight inevitably end up on youtube, since that's basically their only real conversations in the entire movie.

the ending falls incredibly flat because of this. in the last movie, we at least had some decent character interactions between sonic & knux which made their fight and eventual team up at the end that much more satisfying. there was something to dig your teeth into, a back-and-forth that was entertaining (by sonic movie standards) but also established who they were, not only why they didn't like each other but how they could eventually bond. you had reason to care about knux, and reason to root for them to fight together!!

instead, here we got a whole lotta nothing. sonic and shadow fight, and it's cool, and it does all the Sick References and wowie yay clapping my hands live & learn blue/red lights cool. epic. yet i'm still left sitting here like WHO IS THIS BITCH??? WHO IS HE?????

fundamentally, the problem with this movie is that it Does Not Know what it's primary storyline is, or even who the main character is, and it falls flat on its fucking face because of it. there is no focus. sonic maybe barely kind of squeezes out an arc about teamwork and believing in your friends (a repetition of the last movie, i would argue, but whatever). eggman gets a much more hefty plotline about coming to terms with family, which i would be able to appreciate a whole lot more if it didn't feel like the only meaningful story arc in the entire fucking movie. robotnik bullshittery should be the B plot guys, come the fuck on. and shadow, of fucking course, gets NOTHING. he stands around looking grumpy and cool (and very cute, the animators did alright, i'll give them that), and emotes jack fucking shit. i know he's not a certified yapper like some people, but come the fuck on, he can still like. say words. right. RIGHT

is this review even comprehensible even more? i don't care, this is driving me insane. are you guys seeing this shit. are you.

this isn't even just me being a shipper and going wahh wahh no sonadow moments. you put those bitches on the poster why are they not talkinggg. even just an argument would be Great. it was like the one thing sonic prime figured out, why is it so empty here.

this also leads to the fundamental issue where i have NO fucking idea why either of them are so chill with each other by the ending. not only do i not know why shadow is so chill with sonic, considering he was just dead set on ending the fucking world to get revenge and one conversation is not enuf to convince me that he would get over it (even the lowkey suicidal tendencies fall somewhat flat for me since AGAIN. NOTHING), but i ALSO don't know why SONIC gives a shit about shadow!! or why he's so happy go lucky about all this!!! dawg he just killed the closest thing you have to a father. as much as i hate the humans in this series, even i have to sit for a minute and go uhh what? there is absolutely NOTHING to make their team up at the end of this emotionally meaningful other than the bland, surface level reaction of Yay Shadow And Sonic On Screen :) like the movie itself simply does not build up their rivalry in a meaningful enough way to make it feel worth it. one conversation can do a lot, but only if you have the build up to MAKE it mean a lot. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaugh

the ending being almost exactly the same as the beginning thus doesn't surprise me in the slightest cuz like. what else do you do. sonic Does Not have any reason to care about that bitch and neither does anyone else. his actual enemy eggman is presumably dead, so. who cares. a couple good fights then nice knowin' ya man o7 thanks for sacrificing yourself to save the world or whatever

the scene where shadow stalks the individual team members through the remains of their old military base/Ohio Arc stand in or whatever is cool, yes. one single hand clap for that. i like them making him ominous as fuck. but i just-- i need everybody to shut the fuck up for like two seconds so sonic and shadow can talk directly and have a proper fucking conversation before the literal end of the movie, like please just argue or SOMETHING. DO. SOMETHING. MEANING. LIKE A CHARACTER THING. WHO R U

also the eggman/stone shit drives me up the wall. another set of bitch ass writers too scared to make their characters canonically queer, so they bury their gays instead. idfc that they're inevitably going to revive him again, it's still stupid as shit. stone also does nothing in this movie so his internal "conflict" is dumb anyways aaaaskjdflksdjfl smacking my head on the keyboard

there comes a point in this movie where it really does feel like Everything is just about eggman and gerald. tails and knux stop being meaningful characters with personalities outside of quips by approximately the chao garden. sonic's weird human parents aren't even given a meaningful storyline outside of the one time that shadow punches him when they try to set up some miscommunication bullshit or whatever at the end. sonic and shadow fight but even that gets interrupted by... whatever the hell they were doing??? again, all of this would be way less aggravating if those scenes were able to fulfill their actual purpose: side bullshit funnie stuff to break up the serious scenes of the main plotline. unfortunately, this movie thinks a flashback to the traveling wilburys is sufficient to make its main character a complex, nuanced person. face in hands

seriously. why is that scene of eggman & gerald telling stone & shads to get back in the crab a microcosm of this entire film. orz

also also, before someone bitches at me for not paying close enough attention to [x] specific detail or whatever-- anything that you can easily miss on a first watch through should Not be integral to the plot of a movie. istg, i write scripts, i know how this shit works. if your audience can't figure out the emotional arc of a character after one watch, you have fundamentally failed your job as a writer. a flashback is not sufficient character writing, jfc.

and really, that's what it all comes down to, isn't it? the writing. it's always the Fucking writing with these movies. the animation here is, for the most part, fantastic, the voice acting is decent at worst, even the awkwardness of a half-human cast is somewhat smoothed over. yet the writing for these movies never fucking improves-- the jokes are still cringe at best, the references are blunt and unnatural, and the characters. have. no. arc.

perhaps it was somewhat inevitable that we end up at this point. this movie series has already been building up an entire universe of Other Bullshit, and it is here that we feel a lot of that crashing back down. the shelf could only stand up for so long.

i suppose in conclusion, my main takeaway from this movie is that it is an adaptation that fails. it does not understand who its characters are or what they want, it does not know why people connected to the characters it attempts to introduce on an emotional level, and it does not know how to make its own confusing lore work with all of the new details.

[artshineaura]

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[dlamp-dictator]

Allen’s Video Game Update: Starting Fresh!

Oh right, I forgot I tag fandoms when I do my video game updates.

Hey there everyone, I’m Allen X, or Dlamp, or the Dictator, or... whatever else you want to call me. I usually doing little essays on fandoms, writing, and other stuff called Ramblings, and monthly blurbs about the anime I’m currently watching and video games I’m playing called Anime and Video Game Updates respectively. Well... I usually do the Video Game Updates monthly. 

It’s... a story I wish I could take back, but I deleted all my saved data from my PS4. Around late June PSN was acting up for my PS4, I couldn’t access anything network-wise. I could play games and whatnot, but I couldn’t access the PSN store, my video apps, play online, and stuff like that, and I had PSN Plus too. I was getting some sort of error that wouldn’t grant me access. I did a bit of researching and a site said that re-initializing my PS4 would fix up it and reset everything. It would also delete my saved data, but... I’d rather have access to PSN than my save data. So, I reset my PS4, memory and all. 

And sadly... I was still getting errors. 

Oh, I was furious. I raged, I cried a little, but... I eventually fixed the problem by fiddle with my modem settings a little. So... I’m starting from scratch with a lot of my games. Some are fighting games and platformers that aren’t too much of a pain to redo due to either short playtime or my ranks being set on a different server, but... most of the games I play are JRPGs. JRPGs I had new game plus files waiting to be used... Yeah, I’m not happy about that one bit, but I can rage about it later, I’ve had a month or two to cool off a little, so... I’m starting from scratch again. Not much of a problem, but I’ll be doing the simpler games before moving onto the heavy stuff. 

Anyway, with all that tragic story out of the way, here’s what I’ve been playing for the last few days now.

Now, I’m playing Fate/EXTRA mostly so I have context to Fate/Extella. I bought Extella a week ago because I heard it was a good Warriors-type game and I was somewhat familiar with the Fate series. Plus Warriors-type games are simple and not a pain to redo, I’m still a little hesitant to buy another JRPG. However, I felt so lost after playing Nero’s campaign. I just could not care about the story, and that’s saying something since most Warriors-type games have decent/passable stories and character arcs. This one... felt like fanservice for Fate fans. Again, I myself am a casual fan of the series, watching Deen’s Fate/Stay Night, Ufotable’s Unlimited Blade Works, watching Deen’s Unlimited Blade Works movie, and watching all 4 seasons of  Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya. 

But Extella... Extella was just throwing out too many terms I didn’t understand. Se.Ra.Ph.? Code Cast? Moon Cell? How every character seemed to already know each other, how the protagonist had an instant emotional relationship with Nero... It just made my head spin and had me skipping cutscene after cutscene. So, I double-checked PSN, found Fate/EXTRA available for 10 bucks, and I’m gonna’ run through this so I have some context for Extella.

I’m about four hours into this game so far and hot damn I’m using a guide for this game. There are... a lot of things I’m not liking about this game after four hours, starting with the rock-paper-scissors RNG enemies and unskippable text. This game is following an visual novel-style of trial-and-error choices, but the gameplay itself isn’t smooth enough for me to really tolerate reading through long bits of text I’ve already read. I feel like there should be a quick save option and there isn’t one. The fact you can’t save while in the Arena with enemies that are very trial-and-error in terms figuring out of attack patterns makes every death I have feel cheap. And then I have to rewatch long cutscenes and text walls I’ve already seen. Like... damn, no wonder this series is said to have a large wall of entry. With gameplay like this you have to be dedicated to stick with it. 

So yeah, I’ll be using a guide with this because the internet exists and I’m not dealing with this RNG, trial-and-error nonsense that makes Fire Emblem’s 2% crit-spamming enemies look fair and balanced.

Moving on, while I’m still salty about having to replay a lot of games on my PS4, and refusing to even touch any of my RPGs, Samurai Warriors 4 is a game I don’t mind starting from scratch. Warrior Series games are just fun to play in 1-hour spurts, something to pick up once a day to get some fun gaming in if you’re pressed for time. And they also tend to get boring once you collect most of the collectibles and get all the best weapons for your favorite characters, so starting the hunt over will be fun. I... don’t have much to say about this one save for the fact that I love the Warriors series and I’ve been a fan since Dynasty Warriors 3. And I get to make a bunch of cute warrior girls while traveling Japan in Chronicle mode, so... looking forward to that.

And finally, I’m going to try and beat Fire Emblem Echoes. While I have... mixed feelings about Fire Emblem Echoes, I am on Act 4, I did buy DLC for it, and I do need to finish it at some point, so... I’m giving it another shot. 

When I first talked about this game, I said was gonna’ do it on Classic Mode and not soft reset anything because I wanted to play this like a man and not a little boy pretend to be a grown-up. However... Slique died, Faye did, Tobin died, Kliff died, and Lukas died all on the same enemy phase and suddenly I had no mage killer, magic damage dealer, tank, or healer... so then I deleted that file and made a casual one because I’m a filthy casual that could care less about playing a game how it was meant to be played.

Now most of my issues with Echoes just comes from the fact that my first Fire Emblem game was Fire Emblem Fates and I personally like that game a lot more and I’ve played it more than this. The lack of personal skills, the fact skills are limited to what type of weapon a character is using, the fact that no one has a growth rate in resistance, the fact that random enemies spawn rather than letting you fight them optionally... This game has a lot of good things as well (love the retreat system and how supports are done), but... it’s so different from Fates that it was off-putting. I’m gonna’ try and tackle this one again now that I’ve had some time away from turn-based RPGs for awhile, but... no promises on me liking this.

And that’s the Video Game Update. Technically I’m also playing Sonic Mania, but I make it personal rule to not talk about games that can be beaten within five to seven hours, replay value or not. If you guys have any advice for me for any of this games, feel free to shoot me a message, I’d appreciate any help, especially with Echoes...