Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) movie

So, boosting the levels in Photoshop tells us a few more things.

- completely blue body, apart from the hands, no gloves

- 'real' hedgehog shaped muzzle - is it also blue?

- green glass like eyes just set into the head, no whites?

 

Into the Sonic-verse. Featuring pakistan sonic, bootleg obama sonic... and paramount sonic.

 

I thought 4chan was just screwing with me. hollywood why is this real?!

I'm sure hollywood could screw penders in court so they could use the various sonics in pre-reboot archie then fuck it up somehow.

 

he's legitimately terrifying

 

Christ, it slowly gets worse the more you look at it.

 

I brushed these off as a joke when I first read them, but after seeing that movie poster they don't seem quite as far-fetched.

 

And Pikachu with a sombrero.

 

And we got Mania 3 years later. I'll be using that.

 

Literally the ONE thing that is impossible to fuck up....they fucked up. Rings have NEVER sounded like that....EVER!!! The backlash is going to be worse than Sonic 2006 .



But I'm still going to see it through....

 

I mean, why would you go and see something you know you're not going to enjoy? I'm sure as hell not going to see this movie, just like I never bothered to play any of the Boom games.

 

Yeah, why support abominations like this? The last thing we want is Paramount thinking that we want more of this.

 

Naoto ?shima just retweeted a fan-made "correction" of the movie poster. :v:

I think this speaks a lot about what he's thinking regarding this monstrosity.

 

This is why deep down, I gave up on Sonic shortly after I got tired of playing All-Stars RT (along with Generations, are my favorite 3D Sonic titles). I bought Mania on Steam as well but have only clocked all of 75 minutes on it before never touching it again because I just don't care anymore. Mania looks great though, but still.

The sheer level of inconsistency with this franchise is disgraceful. Sonic has no identity whatsoever. Besides running fast and eating fucking chili dogs, what is Sonic all about? All of this reinventing the wheel shit has turned the franchise into a circus. There's no planning or direction, it's just a mystery box of content released year after year with shitty to mediocre results at best.

This movie poster just proves that change/evolution needs a legitimate justification in order to be a positive thing.

This. Has no justification. If it ain't broke, don't fix it or change it for "the next generation of fans." Fuck the new fans. Look at what happened to Star Wars.

Honor the past and everything that made something great in what it was and it will continue to thrive. Changes need to be gradual and incremental, otherwise you throw everything out of balance and you alienate your entire fanbase. But who am I right? My opinion doesn't matter anyway. If you complain about a product in 2018, the developer will just double down on their direction.

Don't support this.

 

I saw this earlier. It really is on point, and it just goes to show how naturally Sonic's design lends itself to CGI, despite what Paramount thinks.

It truly is amazing that they somehow managed to make something so universally reviled that not even Sega or Sonic's designers can pretend to like it. Even Yasuhara is getting in on this: https://mobile.xcancel.com/Yasuharah/status/1072127040990568448

 

I've been tagged and shared this constantly over the last 24 hours, and every time, I cringe. I mean, what the hell is this? Who is it even supposed to appeal to? I don't understand it.

What's more worrying is that I read somewhere (not too sure where) that this studio had to run this design by Sega several times to ensure they were OK with it. Please, someone, tell me that's a joke. I mean, there's no way anyone internally at Sega signed this off, right? Right?!

 

Someone there had to have approved it. Besides the legal use of the character, there's probably a binding on how a character can be visually be portrayed as well, so as to not damage the IP.

I assume. Right? Anyone?