This blog is exactly what it says on the tin. Might not sound particularly interesting, but that's just me in general - not particularly interesting. Still, you're welcome to, uh, follow and do whatever it is you Tumblr-ers do. (I'm off the pedantry clock for that one). Contrary to what the above description might suggest, I'm into gaming, animation, fiction and good (and, in some cases, hilariously bad) films. So, who knows? Maybe I won't turn out to be so mundane after all. Or maybe I will. You've been warned.
So, I was looking through the new wave of Sonic Boom toy releases on the Toys R Us website to see what’s coming out and JESUS H FUCK WHAT DID THEY DO TO TAILS
I mean I know it’s supposed to be engine oil but he just looks demonic
I’m taking Media Studies for my A-Levels and we get to choose the essay title for our coursework examining how different media industries/outlets have changed according to market demand and become darker and edgier to appeal to a more desensitised audience. Naturally, I instantly knew what industry to write about. And I’m damn sure as hell I know which game is gonna be my central focus:
If I were your teacher you would have a zero right now.If you are going to bullshit on a game you haven’t played at least you could be informed about it as much as you could, which is easy in the world we live since there are playthroughs everywhere. You have a bunch of problems here that require from a correction before presenting this as your essay:
Rouge (the name of the female character you are talking about) only shows a part of her arms and the upper part of her chest.That’s all. I still don’t see how this can be your first point in such a questionable game in 2015. She’s pretty much covered for my concern.
The game suffered a censorship and the first idea was that even Sonic could swear. Maybe you could add this to the essay! There was a lot more of deaths and blood and Shadow had a memory of Maria falling to the ground after receiving the shot. In HD.
“Heaven can’t save us, hell is a joke" has other meaning here: there is no hope for humanity at all and hell is a joke compared to the destruction the Black Arms bring to humans.
BLACK ARMS NO BLACK HANDS. People from the game is racist as shit and the Commander decides Shadow is one of them and therefore he is bad and must be eradicated even if he sacrificed himself in SA2 saving the Earth.
You have the option not to kill innocents and fight Back Doom in order to save the Earth. In these plot lines Shadow shows love for the Earth and he will protect it for Maria.
Maria was 12, no 9.
He didn’t “accidentally mutate“, he was created as Shadow himself with Black Doom’s DNA to give him chaos powers to stop the Black Arms because they were planning to return to the Earth and destroying it when 50 years had passed. Gerald Robotnik thought that by creating him with this DNA he would find Maria’s cure and protect the Earth from the invaders, all at once. He recorded a video to Shadow about this, check it out, it’s your job since it is you who is going to be graded for this essay.
When Eggman dies he just screams “noooo“. No “deadly” sounds at all.
Black Doom’s “planet“ is a meteorite and people would be conscious when being eaten even after the gas.
I don′t know where you’ve seen Shadow shooting Sonic in the head, he’s only beaten up and falls to the ground. This happens or not depending on the path you choose.
Now, if you are planing to be the next Anita Sarkeesian then don’t change a thing and present this essay as it is written now.
Also, I’m presenting this game in tandem with other games, so this is really just a dashed-off ‘itinerary’ so to speak of the points I’ll cover for this one.
It’s not a matter of me not knowing this stuff - hell, I can sing along to essentially every Crush 40 song - but I had to dilute/exaggerate in parts both to make for easier reading when structuring the actual thing and to demonstrate how drastically it differs from other instalments.
I’m taking Media Studies for my A-Levels and we get to choose the essay title for our coursework examining how different media industries/outlets have changed according to market demand and become darker and edgier to appeal to a more desensitised audience. Naturally, I instantly knew what industry to write about. And I’m damn sure as hell I know which game is gonna be my central focus:
If I were your teacher you would have a zero right now.If you are going to bullshit on a game you haven’t played at least you could be informed about it as much as you could, which is easy in the world we live since there are playthroughs everywhere. You have a bunch of problems here that require from a correction before presenting this as your essay:
Rouge (the name of the female character you are talking about) only shows a part of her arms and the upper part of her chest.That’s all. I still don’t see how this can be your first point in such a questionable game in 2015. She’s pretty much covered for my concern.
The game suffered a censorship and the first idea was that even Sonic could swear. Maybe you could add this to the essay! There was a lot more of deaths and blood and Shadow had a memory of Maria falling to the ground after receiving the shot. In HD.
“Heaven can’t save us, hell is a joke" has other meaning here: there is no hope for humanity at all and hell is a joke compared to the destruction the Black Arms bring to humans.
BLACK ARMS NO BLACK HANDS. People from the game is racist as shit and the Commander decides Shadow is one of them and therefore he is bad and must be eradicated even if he sacrificed himself in SA2 saving the Earth.
You have the option not to kill innocents and fight Back Doom in order to save the Earth. In these plot lines Shadow shows love for the Earth and he will protect it for Maria.
Maria was 12, no 9.
He didn’t “accidentally mutate“, he was created as Shadow himself with Black Doom’s DNA to give him chaos powers to stop the Black Arms because they were planning to return to the Earth and destroying it when 50 years had passed. Gerald Robotnik thought that by creating him with this DNA he would find Maria’s cure and protect the Earth from the invaders, all at once. He recorded a video to Shadow about this, check it out, it’s your job since it is you who is going to be graded for this essay.
When Eggman dies he just screams “noooo“. No “deadly” sounds at all.
Black Doom’s “planet“ is a meteorite and people would be conscious when being eaten even after the gas.
I don′t know where you’ve seen Shadow shooting Sonic in the head, he’s only beaten up and falls to the ground. This happens or not depending on the path you choose.
Now, if you are planing to be the next Anita Sarkeesian then don’t change a thing and present this essay as it is written now.
Thanks for the heads-up, but this isn’t actually the essay, far from it. It’s more a general list of points I’ll make in the actual dissertation, so it’s obviously not 100% factually accurate in terms of the plot.
I’m actually a huge Sonic fan - frankly, would I be doing this game if I wasn’t? :P - but I don’t intend on going into huge detail in terms of the narrative, just some general examples, compared with more violent series like CoD in this day and age.
So again, thanks for the corrections, they’ll prove useful, and trust me, I know my stuff when it comes to Sonic (in truth, I partially exaggerated some of the points on this initial list in order to sell the idea for the essay to my teacher since she was kinda skeptical) and sorry if I really ticked you off. The actual piece ain’t gonna be this. This is as rough as it gets :P
I'm taking Media Studies for my A-Levels and we get to choose the essay title for our coursework examining how different media industries/outlets have changed according to market demand and become darker and edgier to appeal to a more desensitised audience. Naturally, I instantly knew what industry to write about. And I’m damn sure as hell I know which game is gonna be my central focus:
Don’t believe me? Here’s my title:-
Explore how computer game franchises have developed narratives in order to appeal to an increasingly desensitized audience, with a particular focus on ‘Shadow the Hedgehog’.
And here’s my initial list of points I’m making ‘bout the game for my structure:
* Narrative in video games
* Audience interaction
* Critical response to morality systems in games
* Narrative perspective/audience position
* Difference between gameplay styles and cinematics
Shadow the Hedgehog Main Points
* One female character wears revealing clothing
* Shadow carries a wide variety of firearms, ranging from basic guns like pistols and shotguns to even sniper rifles, RPGs and AK47s; Shadow can also rip out blunt objects like street signs and tree branches and beat people upside the head/stab people with them in graphic detail (red/green blood spurts); all of which are useable ingame and can be switched out at will. The range of weapons available, and that they are represented with such casual visual detail, is indicative of desensitisation.
* Swear words like ‘damn’ and ‘hell’ are thrown around liberally during gameplay – even Sonic, otherwise a kid-friendly mascot, curses at times. Shadow tells the game’s villain that he will send him “straight to hell and then [he’ll] destroy this damn planet”.
* The game features several songs by American metal bands Crush 40 and Powerhouse 5000; one features the lyric ‘heaven can’t save us and hell is a joke’, implying religious and satanic themes.
* Throughout the narrative, a series of dark scenarios play out:-
* The core plotline of the game is Shadow having amnesia and having to collect the 7 ‘Chaos Emeralds’ for a threatening alien race called the Black Hands who have waged war on Earth; at several points during the story, his allegiances switch, and he kills innocents in cold blood to achieve this end.
* Black Doom, their leader, makes no secret of the fact that the consequences for Shadow disobeying will be apocalyptic – Shadow exhibits a callous disregard for the planet and claims he’s only collecting the Emeralds for himself – not an ideal children’s hero.
* The plot partially revolves around Shadow’s creation aboard the ‘Space Colony ARK’ which was shut down by government forces who invaded the space station and killed everyone aboard; including a 9-year-old girl named Maria who, being terminally ill, befriended Shadow on the ARK; it is revealed she was among those assassinated, and her death is shown onscreen through Shadow’s memories. Naturally, outright killing a child is an immensely dark narrative element.
* It is also revealed that Shadow was created as a prototype cure for Maria’s disease which accidentally mutated into a living being after coming into contact with Black Doom’s blood, hence their connection – again, very dark themes.
* In one ending, an entire city, presumably inhabited, is annhilated in a nuclear blast. In another, Shadow outright murders Black Doom and implies he’s going to destroy the entire planet. In another, he murders the secondary antagonist by snapping his neck (offscreen, though the sound is clearly heard).
* The game’s true ending reveals Black Doom’s true plans for Earth which would not be out of place in an R-rated horror film: he reveals he wants the Chaos Emeralds to warp his home planet to Earth in order to unleash a paralysing neurotoxin on the Earth’s populace, then release an army of alien spawn on the planet to feed on their unconscious bodies and repopulate Earth – effectively implying mass genocide in an immensely gruesome fashion. Black Doom tests the gas on Shadow’s friends – Sonic included – and they all clearly grimace in pain.
* The game’s opening features Shadow mowing down several human soldiers with a machine gun, then shooting Sonic in the head, who slumps to the ground, presumably dead (the game later shows him to have survived, much to Shadow’s chagrin).
* One mission has Shadow attempt to assassinate the President.
I’m a Sonic fan, just to clarify, and this is the first episode of a new LP of the incredibly polarising Sonic Unleashed that I'm doing and intending to be a 'reboot' of sorts for the channel (in that I'm actually going to finish it) and I'd like some criticism.
Now, before the inevitable "don't use a camcorder" comments come rolling in, I'm fully aware of the fact that it isn't optimum quality (the video, anyway, even though HD is available - the audio's like butter to the ears), but I'm on a budget and don't want to pour vast quantities of money into a professional capture device that may or may not even work with a PAL Wii U, finicky piece of hardware that it is. The visual quality luckily improves from Part 3 onwards, should you care to stick around.
As such, I'm more looking for feedback on my commentary. As in, do you buy into my brand of anarchic hyperactivity and enthusiasm? How'd you find the humour? Am I engaging? All that kind of stuff, and since the audio is infinitely higher quality than the video, it'll be easier to critique my voiceover anyway. Lucky!
In Sonic Unleashed, Sonic literally never gets a single wink of sleep. The game obviously takes place over several days, given the constant day/night switching, and he’s running around all day and doing Werehog stuff all night (why he doesn’t just sleep it out is beyond me).
And yet he still functions perfectly and is able to kick ass. What a boss.
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