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Bladesyphon posted...

The fight itself was great, but the actual research and character assessments this time around were some of the worst they've done, especially in Eggman's side of things.

This is one of those times where DB very obviously played favorites with one character, and significantly downplayed the other. The Metal Virus and Sage both frankly should have made this an entirely open sided fight, but DB handwaved the Metal Virus off because "magic" and completely misinterpreted Sage's processing ability with the whole "She couldn't calculate any way of defeating The End", when it was Eggman who literally told her to find a way to do it without Sonic's involvement.

Frankly Sage alone would have made this a guaranteed victory for Eggman, as her entire character ability is based around the idea of running an unlimited number of simulations to find the one winning strategy.

That said - the animation on this one was one of the best they've done, and it overall was a fantastic episode, they just completely fucked up the assessment and result this time because Nintendo.

Totally agree. I'm fine with the outcome, since I acknowledge that Bowser is conceptually hard to fully kill with conventional means, given like all Koopas, he can continue as a Dry Bones (which in Mario lore, is basically an undead creature), but they massively undersell Sage. She indeed did have solutions for The End, but ignored the ones that involved Sonic, because Eggman explicitly told her to. Sage even references SA2 for how effective Sonic & Eggman are when working together.