Kill me now.

[flyboy_fox]

No. Noooo no no..... Argh!

Okay, SEGA, stop killing everything Sonic ever was ;_; Seriously. Stop it. NOW!!

I am pissed and upset. Yeah, maybe I don't have much of a life, to care so much... but... IT BUGS ME >O

Sonic is going to be 5'10" in the Next Gen Sonic game. They gave him human proportions and made him taller than I am! That's... not right! Sonic is supposed to be small... He was cool because he didn't need to be human-sized in order to kick butt. Having him be human-sized is just TOO weird. I just can't fathom it, to be honest.

There's also going to be a new rival hedgehog... a cream colored hedgehog that looks a lot like Sonic :\ Great, all we need, ANOTHER Sonic look-a-like rival character!

Oh, and Sonic is "the Iblis Trigger", some kinda chosen one who can summon the Devil or something. Jei said the whole plot is sounding like something out of a Final Fantasy game. Whilst FF may be very cool, Sonic is NOT FF. Gyah! It's like they're just... changing EVERYTHING about Sonic and the fandom. Right now I really can't see much 'old-school' about that game at all... in fact, it barely even feels like a Sonic game, aside from in name :\ Screw you, SEGA ._.

Oh yeah, and the fourth playable character in the new Sonic Rivals game for PSP has been confirmed as... wait for it... ANOTHER NEW CHARACTER!! 'Cause we need more new characters, oh yes. >.>

::Sigh:: This is not good. The Sonic fandom is heading in a direction that just feels so different from what I'm used to. There's not much left to cling to... it's all changed, all different... all so much the same as every other fandom out there now. It's so divorced from what it once was.

Gonna go mope now :\

Comments

Re: Heh...

[toysthatbreak.livejournal.com]

I suppose that's one of the main divergence points for us. I don't particularly enjoy or see a need to villify the human race, at least not to the degree that many other Sonic fans do. I think it makes the furry characters much more meaningful when they're placed in the context of a world where furries and humans live in harmony--they represent something different from the humans, and it creates interesting questions about the nature of humanity. I guess... My love of fiction ties to a longing to explore humanity. Not humanity as in flesh and blood humans so much as the human mind. And I view the furry characters as empowered humans--so the addition of unempowered humans just adds to the picture.

I'm just a different breed of fan, I suppose. Something about Sonic has always resonated with me, and that something hasn't left the series, it's simply changed, evolved into something new. I see the same darkness in the Post-Adventure games as I did in the Archie comics--the form it took was different, but its essence is the same. And that darkness, and the struggle between it and the light in each of the characters, is what makes the series enjoyable for me, so long as the light wins out in the end.

Re: Heh...

[flyboy-fox.livejournal.com]

It's not so much a case of villifying the human race... more a case of that I just don't feel there NEEDS to be humans everywhere ^^; Sonic was kind of an escape for me from the 'human' world... so the fact that the world they're in now is almost a replica of our own kinda ruins it for me.