#what is about sonic that makes fans wanting to squash any dissenting?

[beevean]

If I’m being honest, you are all getting way too hung up on fake diseases and attacking a writer as if he personally attacked your family. It’s a strange obsession you have and you guys always come at any small nitpick as if it’s the end of the world. It’s a weird obsession and you have all been doing it for years. Maybe you liked Sunset Heights getting a remix but you also play victim when people don’t like the 2010s games. You can see Sonic is more successful now and doing things much better but you just like to sit in your anger towards the series for years. I’ll add that you’re much more sane in your reactions than RandomtheFox, but this whole side of the fandom here is so pathetic. The endless loop of anything new coming out for Sonic, and your little posse hating on it because it isn’t the meta era or because Ian Flynn has his name on it makes me glad you guys are a small minority in the fandom.

Do you want to know why we're discussing this?

If you go back and read our discussions, see how much we brought up with this little detail!

I looked up the effects of low gravity on the human body: I learned something new about science. I tried to put into words why this detail is harder to accept than Sonic breathing in space: this is about stories and world building. I immediately found a replacement idea. We discussed about SA2, its gameplay mechanics, its cutscenes. Someone even brought up the idea of drawing parallels with AIDS and how it would affect Maria. Negativity can stem from a place of reasoning, "how would I do that?", and it makes me use my brain in a fun way. I'm aware it's a inconsequential detail, but I'm having fun!

As for the rest of the message, yeah, we are a minority. Which makes me wonder why you care so much about a group of, what, four people?

Why don't I get any engagement when I'm positive, but suddenly people are up my ass when I talk about something negative? I didn't even tag most of my posts. Bro half of the Sonic fandom blocked me already because I'm a dirty sinning IDW non-enjoyer. I am not bothering anyone.

By the way, my negativity about IDW once even resulted in me writing a fic about it. Again, creativity and genuine discussions about writing a story and its downfalls. It nourishes the brain.

I don't like this new direction for Sonic. There, happy? I don't feel catered to, as a 2000s fan, by all this "REMEMBER WHEN WE WERE COOL????" stuff, not to mention I'm just not a Shadow fan so seeing him with wings and shit does nothing for me. I am annoyed because this used to be a franchise dear to me, but the current environment, both games and fandom, alienates me. I am also aware that, precisely because I'm in the minority, I'll just have to wait until ST changes trend again.

If my writer side activates when I talk about a writing decision I don't like and I'm having fun dissecting it, let me, alright? You can find me cringe, if you want to, but I'm not doing anything different than other fans, just directed towards a less acceptable target and in the privacy of my blocked blog.

Also: to be perfectly honest, if it only takes me one day of mild bitching to get anons yelling at me that I'm a joyless bastard doomed to be sad because I refuse to be happy, it kind of makes me want to be saltier out of spite. I'm already a bad person, might as well, right?

[blazehedgehog]

Some people on tumblr are angry about your more neutral honest opinion on Yuji Naka, why do you think Sonic fans are putting Naka in such a high regard that they can't accept criticism on his behavior?

To be fair, unless they're doing it in a way that I don't get tagged from, I only saw one person being upset. It's fine.

As for my opinion, I dunno. You gotta think that this is how abusive people get away with being abusive, I guess. They put themselves in a position of power and it makes others afraid to challenge it -- after all, that person is "cool" or "important", even if they've been faking it and squashing dissent.

We've had enough rumblings over the years to suggest that Yuji Naka is, or did not used to be a very nice person. But he deliberately put himself in to the position as "the father of Sonic." For decades, people credited him for the creation of the Sonic franchise. They don't want to admit that they're wrong, not when so many other people regurgitate that unchecked fact.

I dunno. I feel like I realized pretty early on that such a claim wasn't true. I feel like with Sonic in particular, and how up and down those games are, there was always this need to identify what makes good Sonic games and what makes bad Sonic games, which naturally lead to understanding that Yuji Naka was just a programmer on those Genesis games. Naoto Ohshima, Kazuyuki Hoshino, etc. were the artists, and Hirokazu Yasuhara and Takashi Iizuka handled game design and level design.

That's become especially important now that most of those guys don't work at Sega anymore.

If Yuji Naka was so integral to making Sonic the Hedgehog so huge, why hasn't he been able to bring that to literally any other project he's been a part of? Why is there always something that holds the project back?

You could argue that Balan was him trying to solve that problem -- realizing that maybe he needed better character designers, and hiring somebody he knew was responsible for some of Sonic Team's most iconic designs. But then something still held that project back, didn't it?

It's like that GoldenBolt video. Sometimes you just gotta read the writing on the wall. None of the information he presented was new to me, but the way the dots connected together was. It's all about point of view, and I have spent a lot of time in my life trying to see things from as many different points of view as possible.

But you also have to keep perspective on that, too. That your point of view may always be wrong. Unless we're there and see it with our own eyes, hearing it from someone else may not always be the truth.

It's a very complicated process. Just slow down and unpack every situation rationally.