>lefty sonic general
starting with sonic and the black knight, a game which I never play b4.
>>45072sad play on daz emu i guess
Sonic is the trve prole's choice. He is the working class's hero against imperialist robotnikkk empire. I hope I get to go to mobius one day and marry my furry boyfriend.
>>45087Gem. Another Cybershell W
SALLY X SONIC > AMY X SONIC
why does Sonic appeal so much to people with autism
>>45094He's nice. He's cool. He likes chili dogs.
>>45095Sonic is like an autistic person's idea of being cool
>>45096(not hating just making an observation)
flood detected post discarded >>45099My most controversial opinion is that archie was great. It had its problems, but as a story there's nothing quite like it.
I don't care if it's cringe. "Cringe" isn't really real. It's non-material. An organized resistance of animals (even if under a monarchy) fighting against a hyper-imperialist technocrat and techno-fascist nazis is radical and based as fuck.
That's the real sonic, to me. I wish I lived in a world where there was real pushback against the disgusting, boundless human greed that has devatated the planet we live on.
>>45119Archie being great is controversial?
I would consider reading those comics again, if I were into comics right now, which I'm not
I genuinely wonder how nobody has noticed the correlation between the series' shift in quality and it's odd change in political leanings. No I'm not joking, you'd actually be surprised.
We all know the original few games were environmentalist, that's a very simple premise to really put out there, but later on in SA2 we had GUN as well, like the actual military (possibly a private military). They were pretty distinct antagonists, I mean they literally murdered children.
After the shift to third party though, there IS a distinct change. By Shadow 2005 they actively write GUN in a sympathetic light and have characters you would not expect to help them, do so.
By Sonic 06, the shift is so major that the person previously victimized by GUN is now directly working for them. Ontop of that, it is the first time the series has actively justified monarchism as a real and tangible thing that has merit to be upheld. Elise is able to contain iblis because she is of royal blood, not of the specific, soleanan royal family, no just "royal blood." We know this is the case, because Silver (a peasant) tries to contain iblis, and Blaze, note, a PRINCESS, has to come and contain iblis herself. The game is actively justifying monarchism, by saying these two princesses are special for being royalty, biologically speaking.
Sonic 06 is arguably the pole opposite of what came before, writing wise. Sonic is no longer cool, he sucks it up to royalty, and literally tells Elise to run from her problems, but in any case, that's not my point.
The point is that after 06, things were never the same again, in terms of the series political leanings, subconsciously or not (since all art is influenced by external factors, which politics are), Sonic games have lacked what they did before.
Ignoring how the 2010s marked an era intentionally avoiding complication and sticking to very run of the mil plotlines (and rehashing), even the game conceptualized as "Sonic Wars" has very little in terms of political substance. The war in forces is a backdrop, there is literally zero depth to what a war torn earth is like, it's ironically a far cry from the series roots in environmentalism. Compare the locales in Forces with the bad futures of Sonic CD, and you'll see exactly what I mean.
All of those are the impetus for the Sonic movies, they are obviously commodified kids films, but personally I find them rather insulting. A "good cop" father figure is one thing, I hate it but I can't pretend people are not foolish enough to believe in it, however, rewriting the Ark incident as a literal, accidental, stray bullet by GUN, is laughable. It's concerning how much the people writing these seem to wanna uphold the notion that the police and military have good intentions. They even have a GUN agent unironically believe Sonic is Shadow, when in the original game it was really left up to interpretation, a rather popular concensus being that Sonic was framed.
The series has, in my opinion, sucked major ass for quite a long time, but while the games have "technically" improved in quality, I believe the seeds for this sort of "neoliberal fantasy" were planted long ago, and are only going to get worse from here. This series is basically unrecognizable now, in terms of conveying ideas.
>>45171Sally was a princess but at the same time Archie had a lot more context around it, especially with the state of the world (the mobians were mostly fresh out of their version of the stone age), Sally and Elias' opposition and resentment to their own roles and the concept of being royalty.
A lot of nu sonic fans (especially the ones who have cropped up around 'that' twitter circle) I don't consider real fans. They have no appreciation for the subtle writing and themes in the early sonic games or the overt themes of Archie. They're parasites who have no place in the fandom
Luckily they are the extreme minority and it seems a lot of the younger alpha/gen z fans are intelligent enough to understand and agree with the environmentalist/anti-technofascism themes of Sonic. The fandom is probably one of the only worthwhile ones in terms of cultural output and personal beliefs.
>>45171two things come to mind: speaking strictly on environmentalism, it was all the rage during the late 80s and throughout the 90s, likely because we had reached "the end of history" and everyone was convinced that all it took to save the planet from moneygrubbing industrialists was conscious liberalism. not a single soul believes that today unless you're particularly retarded or an atlanticist (but i repeat myself), so environmentalism was dropped out of everything once the link between capital and environmental destruction became obvious to everyone, no more captain planet, no more x-men or gi joe PSAs at the end of every episode telling you not to litter, and no sonic that speaks for the trees.
second, the early games worked because it relied on narrative simplicity. this guy is the evil industrialist, and then sonic is a real rebel, tuned to what's cool and what's cool is environmentalism. if you squint he looks like he wears air jordans, that's how cool he is. he's like the lorax if the lorax wasn't a preachy fuck. very easy to parse. the minute you have like the president or three later agencies trying to add political nuance, everything becomes shit. it doesnt work and it has never worked (unless you completely rework the universe but i argue the comics arent really sonic anymore but something else entirely) i cant even fault it for it having monarchy apologia. 06 reached lows so remarkably low that it was unable to even deliver a coherent story, let alone an understandable subtext, i mean it feels like the story was more interested in sonic wanting wanting to fuck, and what represents libidinous fantasies more than wanting to fuck a virginally pure holy madonna, you think it's a coincidence that all the sonic fetish stuff balooned after that? no! everyone's unconscious understood the message, sonic is a fuck beast, he fucked even the virgin mary. there's nothing holy anymore.
>>45183 (me)
this is just to say, sonic, being a marketable company mascot, it's not its own entity. it's always been a figure designed by council, emerging from the zeitgeist like some swamp creature. sonic was an environmentalist because it was cool at the time, and he became an enemy/collaborator of a literal deep state because in 2001 the american mind had melted after 9/11. now sonic persists in its eternal twilight, past its intended demise, vacillating between imaginary sexual object for the absolutely deranged, and nostalgia bait. it is what it is.