Poll of the Day > Am I a garbage human for liking this game?

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I must confess that I love the game, Shadow the Hedgehog. I got it when it was new and I played it a lot. The tone and mechanics of the game are so cool. SEGA did a great job expanding upon Shadows character and lore. The guns are also quite fun to use. I actually enjoy quite a few modern Sonic games, even if there are glaring flaws.

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Never played it, but it'd be hard for it to be worse than Sonic 2006... and even the DC games kinda sucked.

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for other reasons

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That game was awesome. And the Vincent FFVII game.

My brother had it. I think he liked it overall. I dont remember it too well...
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Nope. The 2 aren't related

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No but this doesn't help your case
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/3-poll-of-the-day/78942348

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Shadow the Hedgehog was mostly legit... but I don't play games for the story

The only problem is the repeating boss clips YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY!!!!

THE MORE THE MERRIER!!!

THE MORE THE MERRIER!!!

THE MORE THE MERRIER!!!

THE MORE THE MERRIER!!!

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SunWuKung420 posted...

No but this doesn't help your case
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/3-poll-of-the-day/78942348

Wrong. That topic only supports the notion that I am a quality human.

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I played it when I was young but I don't remember hating it

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I like the meme where they're revealing it and there's a pic on the screen of shadow's hand with a knife and the director dude is trying to justify it

i used to play this with my brother-in-law (who is much younger than me) about 10 years ago. he loved it so much, and i wasn't about to tell him otherwise. it's a dumb game, but actually sorta kinda fun. i'll allow it, ok?

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As much as it got a lot of hate for turning Shadow into a gun-toting edgelord for the sake of appealing to the masses, it was actually pretty solid as a 3D Sonic game. My biggest complaint was that you had to go through every story variant (14, if memory serves) to get the true ending, and that just got so tedious that I gave up on the game before I made it. The story variants were, for the most part, the sort of hamfisted choices that are often passed off as a morality system (save puppy to be good, kick puppy to be evil, alternate to be neutral), and presenting all of them as being equally viable alternatives for explaining who Shadow is ("this... is WHO I AM," because subtlety is apparently not cool) really made them all seem pointless and not worth slogging through for the sake of getting to another variant that invalidated them all. I would much rather have seen them give a more linear, concrete exploration of Shadow's past and identity than to take such a half-assed "you get to choose!" approach that didn't commit to anything and required me to play through Westopolis a million times.

As a 3D Sonic game, though, the controls worked pretty well, the gunplay occasionally added some interesting segments, I remember the level designs being generally passable... It wasn't a bad game. Worth playing, but nothing amazing and not as good as SA1/2 were.

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"Am I a garbage human for liking this game?"

Why would you be a garbage human for liking something? It's a game that you like and it it shouldn't matter to you what others think of you for enjoying it..

You be you ^_^

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adjl posted...

As much as it got a lot of hate for turning Shadow into a gun-toting edgelord for the sake of appealing to the masses, it was actually pretty solid as a 3D Sonic game. My biggest complaint was that you had to go through every story variant (14, if memory serves) to get the true ending, and that just got so tedious that I gave up on the game before I made it. The story variants were, for the most part, the sort of hamfisted choices that are often passed off as a morality system (save puppy to be good, kick puppy to be evil, alternate to be neutral), and presenting all of them as being equally viable alternatives for explaining who Shadow is ("this... is WHO I AM," because subtlety is apparently not cool) really made them all seem pointless and not worth slogging through for the sake of getting to another variant that invalidated them all. I would much rather have seen them give a more linear, concrete exploration of Shadow's past and identity than to take such a half-assed "you get to choose!" approach that didn't commit to anything and required me to play through Westopolis a million times.

As a 3D Sonic game, though, the controls worked pretty well, the gunplay occasionally added some interesting segments, I remember the level designs being generally passable... It wasn't a bad game. Worth playing, but nothing amazing and not as good as SA1/2 were.

This is a good critique!

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I remember being really excited about the game when it was first shown. The cutscenes looked beautiful. And with the ending of Heroes, I was excited to find out if this Shadow was really the original and not a clone or a robot. But... The game was pretty shit. The controls were wonky as fuck and the whole alien thing was a hugely unnecessary addition to Shadow's backstory. Then there was the fact that even if you were working for the bad side, the bad guys would still attack you.

All that being said, I still beat the game 100%, all to get that one line of dialog at the very very very end of the final battle confirming that this Shadow was the original.

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It's a bit of a guilty pleasure of mine. I don't think the game is quite as bad as many people say it is. But I'm also mostly just nostalgic for 2000s edgelords... I actually used to hate it when it was new. I was a hardcore sonic nerd back then and I hated the game for what it did to shadow. Now I just don't care.

The game is actually pretty fun when you just ignore the guns and play it like a sonic adventure game. You can get through a pretty decent amount of stages without picking up any guns iirc.

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I've never played it, but liking that game shouldn't make you garbage. What games you like is your opinion.

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I never did get my pre-order beanie :(

I remember it being very repetitive.. you'd have to replay a stage a couple of times to unlock everything in that stage..

But once you did, you could breeze through it on a new game, pick your path etc

I gave up finishing it completely when I heard there were over 20 endings

I definitely spent more time playing 06

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Metalsonic66 posted...

I remember being really excited about the game when it was first shown. The cutscenes looked beautiful. And with the ending of Heroes, I was excited to find out if this Shadow was really the original and not a clone or a robot. But... The game was pretty shit. The controls were wonky as fuck and the whole alien thing was a hugely unnecessary addition to Shadow's backstory. Then there was the fact that even if you were working for the bad side, the bad guys would still attack you.

All that being said, I still beat the game 100%, all to get that one line of dialog at the very very very end of the final battle confirming that this Shadow was the original.

This. But also the graphics were horrible and frame rate dips. Felt like a bad n64 game at times.
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JixHedgehog posted...

I definitely spent more time playing 06

I spent more time in the loading screens of '06 than the actual game, lol

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I can't even remember the last Sonic game I spent more than five minutes playing. It's been an age or three.

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