@Boxer Hockey this may not be the best thread to pose this question, but I'll still try my luck. As an artist, how do you think a modern animated adaptation of the mainline games or canon game arcs could ever come to be?
Mmh, I'm mostly curious about feasibility. Given the output of current partners leaning towards quality and not quantity, I'm not quite sure if Powerhouse and Giggex combined could pull of a solid 20 - 25 ep. season within a SEGA-reasonable timeframe. Depending on if the upcoming crossover between DC & Sonic is a roaring success or not, we might have a chance to see some Sonic media produced under the Warner Bros umbrella -- add on the fact that Warner Bros Animation was already working with Paramount Pictures for the recent Watchmen flicks, and the third Sonic movie coming in a couple weeks is bound to make a lot of Paramount suits happy after the holiday season, the stage is set in SEGA's favour... Although the odds are slim, of course. I could foresee the former studios making mini-movies, a-la WB's animated superhero lineup? Assessing productions from the background was never my strongsuit though, Mr. Hesse is bound to have a way better assessment on this stuff than I could, given he's had his hand in directorial matters. I know my place and am going back to drawing :p
It's an interesting question because I'm of the mind that adaptations under the best of circumstances usually pale in comparison to their original format. Game stories for example are usually strongly propelled by the player projecting themselves into the character because they're controlling him. In most of the best Sonic stories for example, the only thing stopping Sonic from winning the day is that he is not at the place he needs to be to win. If he didn't need to go through zones and arbitrarily collect chaos emeralds he could just show up at the final battle and win. It's a difficult thing to adapt a story like that into passive media. Not that it couldn't be done, but it's a hard sell to the kind of people that greenlight TV shows. Personally while I think the movies loosely adapting some game stories is fine, I wouldn't even like a TV show to adapt older games. If I'm going to spend 24 episodes watching a story I'd like it to be one tailor-made for that format. We only have a handful of really great Sonic game stories to adapt, I'd rather experience them in their original format and watch an entirely new adventure in a TV show. I think generally if the new material was hitting the right cues we wouldn't feel the need to revisit the past so much. That's the future of Sonic I want to see.
Beyond games like SA1&2, 06, Unleashed or Frontiers, other mainline games could not work well due to how the emeralds are portrayed. And due to how the franchise is now, at best, employing episodic adventures, there's little continuity to work with in a potential adaptation. Understandable, even if a bit saddening...
In terms of the Chaos Emeralds I fully understand why they’re not individually located in Special Zone type locations. Having 7 scenes like that wouldn’t work. In a TV series where they’re hunting for them and they visit a Special Zone every 2 episodes or something could definitely work imo. In the live action movies I would love for them to visit the Sphere planet on his map and it be a combination of the classic Zones. So he has to break out of some kind of rotating maze (Sonic 1), survive a half pipe run with different hazards (Sonic 2) and overcome some type of challenge that incorporates the Spheres (S3K). At the end they retrieve the Master Emerald that was sent there maybe accidentally. Knuckles attempts this first being the guardian, Tails tries to figure it out using his computer but Sonic is the only one fast enough to beat it...or better yet each character has to defeat one portion. 3 characters - 3 obstacles.
Ok the teaser in the movie wasn't... for nothing. It gave us... ANOTHER TEASER. I think she will be the Nico Robin of Sonic characters.
Maybe it's because I just finished playing Frontiers but I swear to god I can't stand Amy saying she wants to show love to the world every single time.
The voices actually sounded fine and dandy. Well, Amy's still felt a bit older for her actual age... Still, I wonder if that ~On The Road~ means incoming changes to TailsTube...
I don't think she's Maria's sister, but maybe she is related as the descendant of the archaeology kid of Gerald, like Maria's niece, hiding her surname due to the damage Robotnik's done to their family name. Professor Victoria Robotnik.
Hey guys, a happy new one. This community is notorious for overanalyzing things, but honestly, that's a good thing. What this fandom is capable of has been eye-opening to me and really boosted my spirit when I personally needed it. You are all good people, and a part of me believes it's because of that blue fur ball. Crazy, isn't it? Anyway, keep doing what you're doing and keep working on yourselves. That's advice from me to you! It's a thing, and you shouldn't miss out on it. Keep it up, lads. A new Tails centered game, I'm up for it!
Has that been confirmed somewhere, or are you just speculating? It's fine if you are speculating; I'm just curious if I missed something.
I am joking, kinda. her appearance in the movie was surprising. So I like to interpret her as some sort of unifying force across all Sonic media, the embodiment of "everything is canon" lol. She is the Sonic Historian.
