@deadlydonut lovely points, tying perfectly into what i said about the simplicity of sonic's character being his strongest suit in this game specifically - goodness, sincerity, and always aspiring to be better might be viewed as boring or one-dimensional, but they're also traits that everybody should always aspire to embody

@chandler oh i love the treasure hunting stages don't get me wrong, i just definitely feel like they drag their feet a little bit compared to the high skill ceiling of the other two modes - the element of RNG and reliance on memorizing the stages is cool in and of itself but it feels like an odd one out, having more in common with the racing stages more than anything

and yes absolutely lol. the toolkit sonic and shadow have in this game is crazy. i've watched so many videos of people completing a ton of non-sonic/shadow stages just by getting creative with the movement options

i haven't played DLC so it was for sure a main game thing. me and my best friend (who was my roommate at the time) played through it together and were sitting there losing our minds about joshua and dion being queerbait even after dion was in an actual gay romance

@moschidae i think ff9 would easily be in my top 5 games if they didn't fuck up freya and beatrix so badly. they literally couldn't think of arcs for them other than "uh, they get boyfriends instead of resolving any of the actual conflicts in their sub-narratives" and they're both conceptually really fucking cool characters!!! i wanna say most older FFs have a bit of that and it's always a lil cringe, but they usually have at least something else going on, like ff6 gives celes and terra actual motivations outside of romance (with terra not even having a romance, besides those perverted freaks that try to ship her with edgar the child groomer when there's literally 0 chemistry between them and they rarely ever directly interact).

also ty!!! 🥰 marcille and falin are my current sapphic hyperfixation and they're so girlfriends in that official art

@MiraMiraOTW i was worried it'd come off as too nice, so glad to hear lmao

@straylight did they do that in the base game or was that a DLC thing???? it's weird for me to not pick up romantic subtext if it was base game. either way i wish terence had been an actual character! they really just saw that one gay romance in the early seasons of GoT and decided to copy that. like, dion kissing another man is supposed to somehow shock the player or something??? idk it's just the vibes i get from it

@FallenGrace i wanna say the demo doesn't reflect the rest of the game, but only because I think the demo makes the game seem a lot more coherent and interesting than the rest of it actually ends up being lol

Hazy one - Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix lets you switch back to the original character sprites, but backgrounds can't be changed from the updated ones. Not sure if it qualifies. Also it looks awful!