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@GriFFoss @sonicstadium You might want to watch an interview with Pontaff where they clearly state a big F you to SEGA for telling them "no that's wrong characterisation".

@JoanofRestore @sonicstadium And how does that prove me wrong exactly. That just means they were localized terribly in english lmao Y'all talking your asses here so confidently when it's in the damn credits of the games. Forces was written by Makoto Goya and Eitaro Toyoda and localized by the Pontaff duo

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@RyanLThomas1 @sonicstadium Same here! Aww, I thought you'd crap on 06 like every other boring tourist. But it not getting a bad rep is a win in my book! 🥳

@JoanofRestore @sonicstadium Oh Bless, I've been playing Sonic games since the very first game on the Megadrive - for the gameplay. There isn't a single Sonic game with what I would call a good script, its never been the focus. Some of the ones you named are the arguably the worst offenders. Black Knight 🤢

@GriFFoss @sonicstadium The dialogues differ in each language, so no. Try again. I like the 2000s era games for both good writing and unity of dialogue (for the most part). I can enjoy Eng 06, Shadow as much as JP

@JoanofRestore @sonicstadium I want you to know that Colors and Forces were written in japan so that is not guarantee of anything.

@oriasaway @yggdrasilsaltar @sonicstadium 👍

@JoanofRestore @yggdrasilsaltar @sonicstadium Respect 🫡

@RyanLThomas1 @sonicstadium Oh bless. Have you actually ever played the games i mentioned, or is it too much for you?

@JoanofRestore @sonicstadium Oh man, if these are your examples of good scripts/writing I can't recommend The Teletubbies enough!

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@JoanofRestore @yggdrasilsaltar @sonicstadium yea. AMERICA 🇺🇸 💯💯💯🤞🏼🤞🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

@RyanLThomas1 @sonicstadium You want me to name em all??? OK SA2, Shuffle, Shadow, (Heroes is in character, see my original argument, but story flat), Riders, Zero Gravity, Unleashed, Black Knight, Secret Rings, 06. Have I missed any? Besides SA1 (which is a 90s game anyway), Eng script is bad, jp boring

@JoanofRestore @sonicstadium Which? Names? Sonic Heroes!? "Dear Sonic Heroes, guess what Sonic Heroes..." Oh boy, Tolkien shaking in his boots!

@RyanLThomas1 @sonicstadium 2000s games. Post 2010 is where it either is fumbled or falls downhill.

@JoanofRestore @sonicstadium Out of interest which Sonic the Hedgehog scripts, written in Japan, are the literature marvels, which simply couldn't be matched by ANY other nationality?

@Sometf2player1 @sonicstadium 👍

@JoanofRestore @sonicstadium Thing vs thing Japan

@RyanLThomas1 @sonicstadium And yet they are better at understanding the character. Not when the stories or scripts they have written over the years have been crap. Oh I'm such a weeaboo, boo hoo!

@JoanofRestore @sonicstadium Why do they have to be Japanese? Nationality has nothing to do with storytelling prowess. Hell, as Sonic is aimed at a Western audience it makes sense to have a western writing staff. Just a load of nonsense from weirdo weeaboos.

@fancyoverture @ChaomasterZ @sonicstadium It's not the language, I like English 2000s as much as japanese, but the stories were written by japanese staff that actually know what theyre doing.

@ChaomasterZ @JoanofRestore @sonicstadium Why does the language matter, just write a good story and no one will notice the difference

@MeowyWood Based! 👍

Please make them all Japanese. Bring back Sonic back to his roots because Western culture ruined him. Yeah yeha he was inspired by western culture but that was... FROM THE 90s. Now everyone wants to be gay and fruity.

@Rafo_Fu @BriefyLeafs @sonicstadium Ah move the goal posts, cool. IDW is crap. All the game characters are OOC.

@JoanofRestore @BriefyLeafs @sonicstadium I give a pass to Generations, it's supposed to be a celebration and full of references. But Shadow Gens proved how he can make a compelling emotional history + all of IDW which is great.

@RyanLThomas1 @sonicstadium And in SA2 none of the writers, character designers or supervisors were US, again so...

@JoanofRestore @sonicstadium By a mix of staff, as many Sonic games have been.

@michaelthecat11 This 👆 And I just play the old games anyway now.

This won’t change anything when you want to change the script to appeal to western audiences, people prefer the Japanese writing than the English writing. Not only that the sonic character voices have to sound and act like them selves again just like how it was back in the 2000s. The balance between cool, edgy and a bit of lightheartedness works for these characters, but when you take away that the fans grew up with, the older fans are just going to play the older Sonic games or just play other games.

@Rafo_Fu @BriefyLeafs @sonicstadium Sonic Generations remaster would like a word. "Without the timestones???!!!" Frontiers has its issues too, especially Final Horizon.

@JoanofRestore @BriefyLeafs @sonicstadium The writers from the 2010s have been gone for a while, Ian Flynn (IDW comics writer) has taken over the games since Frontiers and he's been great!

@yggdrasilsaltar @sonicstadium One is better than the other, so...

@JoanofRestore @sonicstadium sonic’s juice is that american and japanese developers work on the franchise, you cant have one without the other

@RyanLThomas1 @sonicstadium Made in the US by japanese staff lol

@JoanofRestore @sonicstadium Sonic hasn't been consistently Japanese since Sonic 2... Sonic Adventure 2 was made in the US... This argument that it needs to be strictly Japanese is pure nonsense.

@BriefyLeafs @sonicstadium 👍 but the games have been massacred in English from 2010 to now.

@JoanofRestore @sonicstadium They only applicant to people that live in Japan so you don't really need worry about that.