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places im also posting to

▶ @saberdramon - personal blog

▶ bluesky - not theming that thing but i do always repost the yakuza friday account

▶ ao3 - the words i write down sometimes

#figured i'd make a pinned doesn't everyone have those #also i've been logged off of this account for a while now bc of yakuzaposting mostly so. here's some places where i am logged in atm #not quitting this blog or anything. but yeah i don't have much to say on sonic rn #and that's kinda the thing here isn't it

i imagine btw that aside from at some point probably finishing shadow gens (i've been dreadfully busy and more interested in other games) there is a non-zero chance i won't be posting much here in the future which is probably no surprise at this point, save for some niche exceptions that in all likeliness won't be Typical art and such. i can't really do much of the things im interested in currently within the confines of sonic and im having much more fun with those than i would with furries for kids. i also doubt the next game wherever that might be will be enough to grab my interest again everything considered

check my pinned for places to find me if that interests you, my personal blog is mostly where i am currently though

#maria robotnik alone cannot keep me around i fear #there are meta things about some of the games that are fun to mess around with but im not really prioritizing any of that rn #and i've long been sick of trying to play Artist on social media and make it a Thing and such anyway #the kind of meta horror i have been writing also mixes poorly with cartoon animals for kids with the way i do it too lol #yeah. over @saberdramon. probably won't be returning to 'hogs. i think that's the gist of it

every day the urge to stream sonic 06 festers like the specter of a crt television

#soda offers you a can #despite everything she's still very very dear to me for all the objectively correct reasons #and to share her joy would be wonderful if i was some kind of entertainer. which i am not

tiliqi

ill advertise it in proper once i have some new art, but please welcome the new heavy force website

and please please talk to me abt my story

#logging on to let you know about peak

reporting from the frontiers modding front that the new tool i downloaded does not have animation support for its skeletons and using any other animation importer just completely breaks with it in a glorious fire of whatever this is

this is very cool to discover when i've been working in blender 4.5 btw and cannot bring my meshes to older versions

my workaround was importing a base game sonic model into blender in 3.2 where the old model importer still works, appending him to my current file 4.5 to get his skeleton, and then parenting my meshes to the old skeleton so i can test the weights properly, and once im done with that im presumably going to have to reparent everything to the new weird skeleton again because the add-on for that is the only way i can export anything out of here

anyway so the transferred weights aren't looking too bad everything considered i will have to smooth a lot of shit out tho and maybe reconsider the brow height

#soda offers you a can #he's missing some forehead quills which i won't do until the head itself is working properly #there is some fucked up clipping going on in places but it's mostly bc of the gloves and socks on the base model #which i don't have here and thus the mesh doesn't morph quite as nicely #but it's very fixable and requires just blending the weights i think #not looking forward to fixing the jacket it is so bad and i don't want to touch it :)

what a lovely arrangement of quills it sure would be tragic if the mesh was like shit underneath all that

teehee

#soda offers you a can #this is bad but i don't have the strength to fix it #i will simply extrude this shit until the quills stay together well-enough in animations

antirepurp

back at it again with the frontiers modding why are the skeletons so nasty with these new tools

antirepurp

oh he looks like 06 that's neat

#soda offers you a can #this time i have add-ons for material editing also that could be fun and cool #anyway idk why it's all green there should be transparency in the texture for the pupil but fuck that noise i suppose

back at it again with the frontiers modding why are the skeletons so nasty with these new tools

#soda offers you a can #the ears are tiny and the eyelids are fucking massive what is any of this #i mean at least it imports standing up and not rotated 90 degrees i suppose. but man

one more thing before i resume playing other video games: why are they not doing more with maria's presence. i mean yeah imo they shouldn't have fucked with her due to her unique position on the fringes of the narrative with us having only subjective and filtered views of her through other characters, but if you're bringing her back because time shenanigans why. are we not doing more with that. why not go all in and have shadow really interact with her. give them an entire cutscene to share. poke at him with the fact she is here, disturb him, or give him a nice thing in the midst of this chaos to stop to. i was expecting them to be doing more than just a bit of optional dialogue and scarce few cutscenes where she doesn't end up doing much anyway. even if it wouldn't align with my read of her i would've liked to see something? anything? come on now

#soda offers you a can #i don'ttt hate the gameeeee but it could be so much more and so much better #which i think is fair enough grounds for some criticism

i could fix maria tho i could do something really fucked up with her but we'll have to see if i get enough brain worms to write something

#soda offers you a can #the worms are busy with yakuza still so don't get your hopes up #that doesn't prevent me from fermenting something in the background tho

i mean. in essence this is just generations with plot. and funny new abilities that work fine but could be better and utilized with more creativity i mean, where are the wings? you get them once in the beginning and im guessing they'll be back for the final boss or something, but why not make it an ability you can trigger at will and design levels with flight in mind? i can appreciate the edge in the aesthetics but if you're not doing anything interesting with it it's just. a nice coat of paint and some stage gimmicks. they could have really fucked with the formula here but it feels like they've played it safe and stuck with the boosting and it's. fine. but it's just more of the same. the most fun i've had has been in the "open world" because at least it's something fresher and i can fuck around and find paths to locations and such, the main stages are fine (and kingdom valley does invoke the original at places really nicely imo) but they really just don't scratch the itch the same. lowkey a game that makes me wish i was playing sonic 06 because at least that tried to innovate hard and do something cool with shadow's moveset that the player gets to have full control of instead of tying everything into stage features.

i don't hate the game there are infinitely worse sonic games out there. like colors wii. it's just. it could've been more instead of a literal generations dlc with the plot the base game refused to have. it has the building blocks to be more and it doesn't do anything with them. it's sad to see if im real with you

#soda offers you a can #definitely not worth 50€. maybe worth the 20€ hard to say honestly #generations stays losing overall i fear

they put dubstep in the frontiers rep???????????????

#soda offers you a can #okay tbf the cyber space ost invokes 2010s monstercat but. i mean. on the islands????#also i know frontiers is here bc it was the latest newest game but shadow was nowhere near that shit come onnnnnn

despite metal overlord being such a weird fucking add to this boss roster because shadow never even fights her i have to say it was cool of them to pit the transfem coded characters against one another

#soda offers you a can #tho idk if they should be fighting when metal would probably benefit from an in-depth conversation of identity with shadow

antirepurp

okay they really nailed kingdom valley i have to say

antirepurp

the 3d one the 2d kinda sucked ngl

#soda offers you a can #they really wanted to make you wait around for some of these obstacles goodness me

okay they really nailed kingdom valley i have to say

#soda offers you a can #i'll accept shadow going into the fast speed segment on account of the time fuckery that's fine

look i know this is sonic generations dlc with gens being one of the most nothing games ever made in terms of a story. but you're telling me our magnificent reunion scene is maria and gerald saying hi and shadow running off on his own immediately after. i know he's emotionally constipated but that's it? are you fucking sure?

#soda offers you a can #also maria would've shot those black arms just saying. i can fix her

does black doom know there are stages other than radical highway

#soda offers you a can #why is it always radical highway like sure it's a good stage but. come on now

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