Antihero

Gimme the tedium! Bring it on, I can take it! Reloaded could've been a better ROM hack if they included a thing to keep the original grading stuff/keys, so I guess it's back to where I started. At least I won't lose any progress since it was roughly the same ROM anyway. The ROM hack seems designed for the 5 people who really really like Shadow the Hedgehog instead of people looking for a less tedious experience with the game. If I were more experienced, maybe I could make a fork of Shadow Reloaded suited to my needs, but I'd rather go vanilla.

It won't put a gigantic damper on progression, I think. Ntm if I wanna speed through things I've already seen or whatever, holding down TAB in Dolphin is right there. My goal by the end of this week is maybe up to route 20? I reached 13 yesterday, so it could be manageable.

Source: Official U.S Playstation Magazine 29 (February 2000)
Scan source: RetroMags

The Neverhood's last game. I kinda forgot this exists, though I think a lot of people might've, too. Would be great if EA could pluck The Neverhood (the game) outta its abandonware status, a remaster by Night Dive would be killer.

i adore how over-the-top SA2’s story is, something about having all these furry kids be very blatantly Literal Wanted Felons Pursued by the State of California for most of the plot and them handling it like it’s an average tuesday is so funny and genuine and such a fun vibe

The wanted posters are also extremely funny

These imply Tails was never born to a specific place or nation nor on a specific date, they simply Appeared one day and began Committing Crimes

Which is perhaps the best take on the character and I do not care that it is wildly incorrect

I can't help but imagine someone sitting at a desk in the police station or whatever, and having to fill out this wanted poster using this standard template. This template was made for people, and this desk jockey is exasperated.

There's a photo on the poster. This is a fox. Hair? Brown. Fox brown. Complexion??? Uhhhh... fox. He's a fox. Race? Fox. BIPEDAL TALKING FOX WITH A MECH.

They're emailing their supervisor, asking if they can update the template. Of course they're told no. It's the template. Just do the job. Five minutes later there's a ping. New email. This guy is red, his name is apparently Knuckles, and they have no clue what animal this guy is supposed to be.

this is THE FUNNIEST possible explanation for why the template answers are so weird and i’m taking it as basically canon

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