
Sonic Generations — the ultimate celebration of everything fans love about SEGA's iconic hero — just veered dangerously into "uh-oh" territory.
The game's official Japanese site just opened and revealed that alongside Sonic, Tails, Dr Robotnik and Metal Sonic, the so-called ultimate life form Shadow the Hedgehog will make an appearance, along with classic Sonic Adventure 2: Battle stage Radical Highway, which was previously hinted at.
It's not sure in what capacity Shadow will feature, but as long as he's not driving around shooting things, it might not be too bad.
Right?
[source sonic.sega.jp]
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Very intriguing, indeed. (This comment has been edited due to my lack of common sense of writing a comment)
I'm sure it was already said that Sonic's friends will make an appearance ( A LOT of 'em ), but the only characters you'll play as is Sonic and Sonic.
People are so paranoid these days.
Hopefully all of this retro awesomeness can push out Shadow's unwanted presence.
@TehRay Yeah, I changed my comment since I don't think too good when I wake up in the middle of the night or in the morning. I never meant to be paranoid.
Am I allowed to swear? Probably not on family friendly Nintendolife. Oh well...KEEP SHADOW OUT OF SONIC GENERATIONS FOR GOODNESS SAKE
I don't care who's in as long as Sonic and Eggman (and probably Tails) aren't the only characters that appear outside of cutscenes.
Don't you dare ruin this Sega! DON'T YOU DARE!!
didnt mind shadow in the sonic ds rpg.so dont mind if hes in this game.
Shadow is meant to be in the game as boss character and thats it. And @DrCruse, sorry to say but Silver is also included as a boss.
I think its great that shadows in the game. And he is ment to be a Boss/Rival Battle in the same way as metal sonic. I think its basically just a race in the 3DS version (Based on screens ive seen of Metal Sonic & Shadow).
Radical Highway was one of the better levels in SA2 so that's not too bad, although I wish SEGA would've given the game more classic levels. Shadow's not too bad either but if Silver is in it like SuperSinSlayer said (haven't been really following the news for this one enough so I don't really know) then that's going a bit far.
I doubt shadow's role will involve shooting stages. At least I hope not.
I sincerely doubt there'll be any Shadow shooty nonsense in Sonic Generationa. Every screenshot and trailer depicting actual gameplay since the game was announced has featured Sonic and Sonic alone. I don't think there's anything to worry about.
WTF. How is adding Shadow, the best, coolest, and most bad-ass character in THE ENTIRE SERIES an "uh-oh" moment?!? Seriously, guys. Get your act together.
I don't understand how Shadow is a bad thing. Like Godot said, he's the most bad-ass character of the series.
I like Shadow, so it's all cool.
Shadow as in SA2 Shadow is good.
I like Shadow (even his game) so this is great news.
Honestly, I always preferred playing as Shadow in the newer games, haha.
I really don't mind having Shadow in this game, since the game IS about generations of sonic, but just... just.... don't give him guns please...
Back then people use to like shadow but now they hate him. Aside from being slow, I found nothing wrong with silver gameplay.
Don't worry guys, Shadow simply appears as a boss for the Radical Highway Stage. It was confirmed when some hackers hacked the demo. Also, Shadow is quite cool when he's not on his bike with guns!
I don't think sonic characters(in general) are that bad, just badly written and voice acted, and they are a part of Sonic's history.
For all we know, Shadow could just be a boss, like he was in Sonic's side of Sonic Adventure 2, just as others have said/hoped. If this is the case, I'm fine with it. Shadow is a terrible character in general, even worse than Waluigi, but an evil version of Sonic for a boss fight wouldn't be terrible.
I really want this game to succeed, I liked Sonic Colours and Sonic Brotherhood, even both Rush games were likeable, so fingers crossed this gets at least an 8.
I got here too late, everyone is butt hurtting :/
Shadow is only a boss battle, no big deal.
I like how Shadow featured in one bad game and for that he may never be forgiven, ever. Try to remember the original character was actually fairly decent. By Sonic standards, anyway. He wasn't irritating and they tried to give him a little depth. Then they gave him his own game and it went sucky, sure. But Tails had Sky Patrol and Knuckles had Knuckles Chaotix. We've forgiven those guys. And the blue 'hog himself had Sonic '06.
Him and Metal Sonic make for decent matched-skilled adversaries to Sonic, so I don't mind his inclusion. So long as he doesn't strike up too much conversation.
I don't see why they shouldn't include him. It is his stage after all.
Shadow is one of the better Sonic Universe characters. He's certainly not going to be shooting off guns again, so there's no reason to fear his inclusion in the game.
Now, if the game has the Chaotix characters in it (unless Espio somehow makes a solo appearance), that would be bad news.
I don't consider myself a Shadow hater, even though I prefer Sonic. It's not THAT big of a deal. Sonic is still the only playable character (Classic and Modern), so we can wave guns and bikes goodbye.
Radical Highway is a cool stage, too.
If we forgive Shadow for his shortcomings we find that we Love him underneath.
Well, I'm only getting the HD version, so it really doesn't matter.
Shadow was pretty cool in Sonic Adventure 2, but he has been a pretty useless character in every game since.
I don't really see what the big deal is though. If this game is going to include stages from SA2 then it only makes sense to include Shadow.
Uh.. So what? How is Shadow being in this bad thing? What, is Sonic being in this game a bad thing because his game (Sonic 06') sucked?
It's not even like Shadow is going to be a major character, just a boss fight.
YOU CAN MAKE IT SHADOW!!! I know I'd really like to see him in more than just a boss fight. Maybe some later cutsenes after encountering him.
shadow makes the game way funner
i though loved sonic adventure battle2. I also loved to play SHADOW THE HEDGEHOG
Oh god, so what if he shows up?
He's part of the series now, get over it. The Mega Drive era is long finished.
THIS JUST IN:
The name of "Sonic Generatons" is changed to "Shadow the Hedgehog 2: This Time it's Worse". And is focused on shadow biking around shooting random people
I wouldn't be surprised if Sega actually did that.
Yeah I still don't get why they gave Sonic a level restricted only for Shadow. I mean don't get me wrong I'm hyped about seeing Sonic run through those Legendary Looping Highways, but you know I'm just wondering.
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