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Sonic Dissected is an animated web series that takes an analytic look at the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise, be it the games, animations or anything Sonic related that gets announced, (like Sonic Boom) and discusses them about its narrative, its flaws, its characters and gameplay and how we can improve them and see these games and characters from another point of view. The Sonic series can be quite controversial and is not there to just criticize the games or its audience—they just want to give viewers a better and deeper understanding of the games from a narrative perspective as well as to inform and educate them.The series was launched in 2012, created and hosted by Roger van der Weide (of Sonic In X Minutes, Kingdumb Hearts and International Moron Patrol fame) and co-hosted by Luke the Fox (real name Luke Wholey), A British Sonic fancharacter who also voices in some of Roger’s animations. They also have a third guy, Captain Theory (voiced by SalaComMander) who would sometimes pop in and explain a hypothesis on why certain things in Sonic work that way or why Sega/Sonic Team have done it.Over the series they have discussed various games, its characters, had random guests that want to say their piece on certain Sonic Games and Roger has also done various Dissections on games such as Shenmue and Megaman.The series can be found hereThe videos were originally labeled as episodes 1 and 2, with a series of chapters, but now their episodes are more specific, talking about a certain theme. Here is a list of themes they have talked so far.
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Non Sequitur
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Roger also takes offense with Post-Unleashed Sonic's over-reliance on Non Sequitur based Surreal Humor with him especially hating the over-reliance on random food puns and Inherently Funny Words. He often finds that it's relied on so much that it makes the writing resemble something made for babies rather than the more general audience that Sonic is ostensibly supposed to be made for.
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Darker and Edgier
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Darker and Edgier: Discussed, and parodied in episode 2 with the reasons for why Sonic Adventure 2 was good. Roger is actually quite shocked this trope is averted with Sonic Unleashed, despite the world getting destroyed, Sonic suffering a painful transformation, and people being mind controlled.
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Genre Shift
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Genre Shift: Discussed. Frobman, unlike Roger and Luke, doesn’t like Sonic Adventure 2 that much, and one of the reasons is how different it is compared with the first game.
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All There in the Manual
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How and why Sonic is turned into a werehog is never fully resolved, it just happens. (Unless you have read the manual, as Captain Theory points out.)
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Mr. Fanservice
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Mr. Fanservice: Shadow, jokingly.
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Breaking the Fourth Wall
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Breaking the Fourth Wall, for Roger, since he feels it cheapens both the humor and the story with the characters being aware they are fictional.
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Aborted Arc: Luke mentions how Sonic Colors brings subplots, only to make nothing out of them, and waste his time. Luke noticed how Eggman actually managed to create Robotnikland/Eggmanland, his life goal in the series in Sonic Unleashed, only for no one, not even Eggman himself to notice, only for him to sit around his chair and complain. How and why Sonic is turned into a werehog is never fully resolved, it just happens. (Unless you have read the manual, as Captain Theory points out.)
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Anti-Climax
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Anticlimax: Demonstrating the writing of Pontac & Graff In 'Pontac & Graff Bingo', Steph appears that she is about to murder Roger then she disappears and Luke appears at the end with no explanation given.
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Sick Episode
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Sick Episode: There is an arc where the episodes are set in a hospital ward due to Luke's accident in "Unleashed again".
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Funny Background Event
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Funny Background Event: During Frobman's first appearance, he decided to complain about Transformers. Roger ignores him and talks about other things, while Frobman is still complaining alone. Also the destruction & rebuilding of the Royal Society.
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Special Guest
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Special Guest: A random guest would sometimes pop in to say their piece on a certain Sonic game, or someone to fill in for Luke to talk about other games and subjects with Roger.
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Trial-and-Error Gameplay
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Trial-and-Error Gameplay: Discussed by Luke, Roger & Theory when they were talking about Sonic Unleashed's level design.
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Catapult Nightmare
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Catapult Nightmare: In episode 8, Roger dreams about the announcement of Sonic Lost World and woke up reacting to Lost Hex.
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Clueless Aesop
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Clueless Aesop: Or more specifically, Clueless Theme. Roger doesn’t understand what Sonic Unleashed is trying to say, compared with Sonic Adventure 2 who went for the forgiveness route.
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Quintessential British Gentleman
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Quintessential British Gentleman: Luke is basically this. The theme of Dissected is set in a charming stereotypical British setting with the hosts & guests dressed in early 1900 outfits.
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Superheroes Wear Capes
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Superheroes Wear Capes: Captain Theory.
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Character Development
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Character Development: A character arc more specifically, but Luke talks about Amy's development, starting from a Damsel in Distress, to a girl who wanted to return to adventure and become part of the heroes gang, learning her place in the team and ending with her speech to Shadow who ultimately, saves the world. However due to flanderization the next time we see her, she is trying to force Sonic to marry her.
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Feeling Their Age
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Feeling Their Age: In the "Sonic is dead" video. Luke and Roger compare Sonic Boom to the Old Age stage in life, where the characters just act like old people and would feel like Sonic & co are caring for old people in a home. This seems evident in the episode "Hedgehog Day" where Eggman would experience the same day over and over and Knuckles experiencing back problems.
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Captain Obvious
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Captain Obvious: The reason they didn't talk about Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) for a long time, is that most of the problems were already talked about by other reviewers. And even then, it was pointless to complain. Roger compared this with a train competition, with the judges dissecting how the trains worked, but in the case of 2006, it would be a train that is a giant mess that everyone can notice. In a more literal take of the trope, there is another superhero character that is actually named Captain Obvious, who appears in Kingdom Hearts Dissected, and is the arch-enemy of Captain Theory. Whereas Captain Theory is more into speculation and interpretation, Captain Obvious is into observation and facts.
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Civilized Animal: Luke The Fox.
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Early-Installment Weirdness
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Early-Installment Weirdness: The earlier episodes have Luke & Roger in a dark room and they both wear smoking jackets. Luke was even shown with a pipe. Then later on they are shown sitting outside a Royal Institute wearing the outfits they have now. Roger and Luke only talked about story in the Sonic games at first. They now talk a bit about gameplay, mostly with a guest character. Luke notes that while Amy being in love with Sonic was apparent in Sonic CD, during Sonic Adventure she doesn’t seem to be that romantically interested in Sonic, being a fangirl at best. The first time Amy and Sonic interact, it's Amy asking Sonic, a well known hero who is occupied with the Chaos plot, to take care of a little bird.
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Never Bareheaded
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Never Bareheaded: Outside of Dissected, you rarely see an episode with Luke, Roger & Cpt. Theory without their hats.
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invokedAlternate Character Interpretation: Roger & Luke compare & contrast the various versions of Sonic & friends and how their personalities keep changing in each game.
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Suddenly Shouting: Luke is prone to this. He got out of the building in chapter 5 when Sonic Unleashed used Cartoon Sound Effects.
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Central Theme: Sonic Dissected wants you to know that it is all about the balance in Sonic games.
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Alcohol Hic
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Alcohol Hic: Luke becomes very drunk during the ‘Things..Dissected’ episode, but still manages to act like himself..apart from the swearing & vomiting.
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Straw Character
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Straw Character: Luke takes this role from time to time, sharing the hatred for something the Sonic fandom also hates. This make his Butt-Monkey status more noticeable. Subverted, however, is that Luke also has some very good opinions that Roger agrees with. It came to a point where he has to throw the script, because Roger made him say that he likes the Babylon Rogues.
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Nostalgia Filter
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In the same episode, there is an attack on Genrunners
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Action Prologue: Praised with Sonic Adventure 2, disliked it with Sonic Unleashed. For the role reversal and mystery tone and how the plot carefully increases in the first, and how meaningless and without consequences is on the latter. While in the first game we have Sonic arrested, we later see him in jail, moon gets destroyed and people reacting and commenting about it. In Unleashed, Eggman just jokes about Sonic turning into a werehog, and Sonic hardly reacts to the destruction of the planet. It doesn’t help that after all the drama, the next scene is Chip having an orgasm with the chocolate ice cream or laughing like idiots.
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Real Life Writes the Plot
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Real Life Writes the Plot: When something Sonic related is announced, you’ll know a Dissected video will shortly follow.
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Original Character: Roger tried to retell the story of Sonic Adventure 2 with the characters knowing the twist before hand, and it ended with Shadow and Amy married with 5 kids, and Roger's original character Awesome the hedgehog being born. Luke luckily shuts him up and returns to the point being discussed. Luke can also be seen as this hence the nickname 'British Tails'.
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Show, Don't Tell
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Show, Don't Tell: Luke complains about Sonic Unleashed's overuse of explaining stuff, and comparing it to Sonic Adventure's scenes with Chaos.
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Stiff Upper Lip: Luke & Roger would do this when talking about Sonic, usually Played for Laughs. Luke even said it to Roger in one episode.
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Humiliation Conga
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Humiliation Conga: In the Episode, ‘Unleashed again’ Luke gets struck by lightning and by the end of the episode an Ambulance falls on him.
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Gentleman Snarker
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Gentleman Snarker: Roger & Luke would sometimes do this to one another on occasion.
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He also makes the observation that in the newer games, every time Sonic is being shown wounded in battle, being in love, or sharing his feelings, it's always with the character of the week, who doesn’t appear in later games, and never with the main cast. If a villain even manages to defeat him, it's always through cheating, because if the heavens don’t allow Sonic to be properly beaten and allow him to overcome danger, then the conflict is boring.
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Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene: Why Luke enjoys Sonic Adventure 2's story.
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The Professor
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The Professor: Both Roger and Luke act as professors in the studies of Sonic the Hedgehog. As the main host, Roger gives us the most information and his own views on the franchise.
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Contemplate Our Navels
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Contemplate Our Navels: In his dissection of Dissidia Final Fantasy, Roger muses that all of the Purple Prose and symbolism thrown around in the narrative are just there for emo teenagers to have something to feel profound for understanding.(Also so that hormone addled teenage girls can squee over all the homosexual undertones.)
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Sliding Scale of Gameplay and Story Integration
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Sliding Scale of Gameplay and Story Integration: When they delve into the gameplay of Sonic games, it's typically from this angle with them discussing how the gameplay and level design and mechanics convey the personality of the characters involved, the story that the level itself is telling and how that level fits into the overarching storyline of the game. They also examine the conveyance of gameplay mechanics and level objectives, which can impact the player's experience with the game overall, Such as the overabundance of Trial-and-Error Gameplay that makes Boost style games such a drag on your first run through but an immersive blast on replay or how the Classic games built a structure of giving the player automated dopamine hits followed by tricky platforming with subtle but effective visual cues to signal the transitions between the two states.
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Lazy Artist
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Lazy Artist: Discussed. Roger, as the “Bad Animator” he is, notices when an good animator is bored out of his mind, and knows that the most boring scenes to animate are talking scenes, when nothing is happening. This is the reason why he tends to put characters interacting with the background on his personal animations. Since Sonic Colors's cutscenes are mostly talking, he feels the animators are not having the opportunity to have fun.
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Caustic Critic
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Caustic Critic: Luke, being more prone to anger, and hating things like Sonic 06 and characters like Cream, Charmy and Big, is also the guy more prone to make fun of the fandom.
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Accidental Misnaming
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Accidental Misnaming: Luke once called Captain Theory ‘Captain H’ due to the H emblem on his chest, not aware that it stands for Hypothesis, another word for Theory.
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Artistic Age
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Artistic Age: A point made in "Sonic Dissected 6" is that Sonic characters rarely act their age or do things people their age would do.
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Take That!
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Take That!: They make fun of the Reviews Are the Gospel mentality in the first episode. In the same episode, there is an attack on Genrunners
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Hypocritical Humor
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Hypocritical Humor: Roger has issues with the animation of Sonic Colors. Luke of course, reacts the best way about it When talking about recolors, Luke started to complain that there was nothing more pathetic that someone designing themselves as Sonic characters with minor changes and adopting a badass personality. Roger and Frobman noticed the hypocrisy with an Aside Glance.
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Berserk Button
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Berserk Button: Luke nearly loses it in episode 2 over the cartoon sound effects used in Sonic Unleashed. Roger hates it when someone says that all Sonic games after Sonic Adventure 2 were dark, trying to follow them since the only games that tried to be dark were Shadow the Hedgehog and Sonic the Hedgehog (2006), only two games compared to the others released at the time. Roger gets tired when people make the assumption that a story is good or not depending if it's dark or not. Although Roger usually discusses his grievances with certain aspects of Sonic calmly, the writing of Pontac and Graff tends to get his dander up. As for Captain Theory, the existence of Modern Shadow will quickly set him off.
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Plucky Comic Relief
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Plucky Comic Relief: Luke, being pissed, complains about Sonic Unleashed not knowing how to use this trope with Chip.
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Slasher Smile
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Slasher Smile: Guest Speaker Steph sports this as she slowly walks over to Roger holding a knife in 'Pontac & Graff Bingo'.
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Informed Attribute
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Informed Attribute: The main topic of the "Sonic Boom: Identity Crisis" videos are to examine how the characters' personalities in the show don't usually match up with what their official profiles says about them.
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Pet-Peeve Trope
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Pet-Peeve Trope: Breaking the Fourth Wall, for Roger, since he feels it cheapens both the humor and the story with the characters being aware they are fictional. Roger also takes offense with Post-Unleashed Sonic's over-reliance on Non Sequitur based Surreal Humor with him especially hating the over-reliance on random food puns and Inherently Funny Words. He often finds that it's relied on so much that it makes the writing resemble something made for babies rather than the more general audience that Sonic is ostensibly supposed to be made for. Roger has avoided reading the Sonic comic books because he personally dislikes serial storytelling in comic books, much prefering self-conclusive stories.
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Gentleman and a Scholar
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Gentleman and a Scholar: Both Roger and Luke resemble very sophisticated highbrow gentleman...that like to talk about Sonic games.
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Self-Deprecation
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Self-Deprecation: Roger described himself as a “horrible, pathetic, bad crappy animator” in episode 3.
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Not That Kind of Doctor
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Not That Kind of Doctor: Frobman is probably this as he performs unprofessional surgery on Luke using a dagger. Apparantly he is filling in for his brother...who’s a dentist.
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Lighter and Softer
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Lighter and Softer: Discussed. Roger nicknamed the era starting from Sonic Unleashed to Sonic Generations as “Adventures of Sonic the talking squirrel”, saying that while the gameplay is fine, they recall the plot as “Dumb Cartoon stories”
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Meaningless Meaningful Words
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Meaningless Meaningful Words: The plot of games like Dissidia Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts annoy Roger because he feels like they employ symbolism and Purple Prose just for the sake of it without any actual depth or meaning.
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Unusually Uninteresting Sight
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Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Throughout the series, the Royal Society suddenly burns down, gets run over by tanks and then is rebuilt as Royal Society 2.0, which neither Roger or Luke notice.
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Limited Animation
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Limited Animation: Discussed. Roger mentions that, despite the very Limited Animation of Sonic Adventure, the game uses interesting environments and good use of the camera, and makes the story work, especially for its time. Of course, Sonic Dissected as many of Roger's cartoons, plays this straight. Because of the reviewing nature, it's probably justified.
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Flanderization
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Flanderization: Discussed. Roger gives the argument that Sonic was a more emotional character during the Adventure series, showing emotions like sadness, fear, being worried, surprised, among others. But in the newest games, Sonic's only personality trait is being "Cocky and in control". Roger says that Sonic being always in control ruins the balance, and doesn't allow Eggman to have a moment of victory, making the whole conflict meaningless. He also makes the observation that in the newer games, every time Sonic is being shown wounded in battle, being in love, or sharing his feelings, it's always with the character of the week, who doesn’t appear in later games, and never with the main cast. If a villain even manages to defeat him, it's always through cheating, because if the heavens don’t allow Sonic to be properly beaten and allow him to overcome danger, then the conflict is boring. Luke notes that Sonic CD notwithstanding, Amy was actually quite complex during the Sonic Adventure games, with her focus on Sonic was not because she wanted to marry him but because she wanted to get out of her boring life, to do the right thing and she admired Sonic for being an Action Hero and wanted him to respect her. She even went against Sonic to protect her robot friend. Even during Sonic Shuffle which is not canon but was written before Sonic Adventure 2, Amy says “Forget about Sonic, look at my clothes!”,something that surprised Roger. During Sonic Adventure 2, which is the game that started the idea of her being in love with Sonic, Luke suggested that this is an act to make herself more comfortable around danger, and make Sonic believe she is not intimidated by the adventure.
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InfoDump
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Info Dump: Sonic Unleashed is guilty of this, repeating things over and over, hurting the pacing of the story, and wasting Luke's time...and he hates that.
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Took a Level in Cynic
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Took a Level in Cynic: Roger went from cautiously optimistic when he started the webshow, but the Pontac and Graff stories in the Sonic games, the meta-jokes done in Sonic Boom and social media, and the negative reception of Forces has made him quite cynical towards the series. It came to a point where Roger would even be cynical to any reference to Green Hill Zone, even in the movie where it's expected to be.
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Big-Lipped Alligator Moment
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Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: In-Universe, At one point in Sonic Adventure 2, Amy is trying to take Knuckles out of the sewers only for that to go nowhere, and being forgotten. Roger has always been weirded out by this scene.
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Running Gag
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Running Gag: Every time Sonic 06 is mentioned, Luke will start to rant about its quality. It came to a point where he needed a recording machine to do his rants.
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Don't Explain the Joke
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Don't Explain the Joke: Pointed out when discussing the humor of certain games. However Roger points out that some jokes do need some sort of explanation.
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