Sonic Mania - Sega's Last Chance

This is Sonic Mania, Sega's 25th Anniversary game for Sonic. Honestly, this trailer makes this game look wonderful. I cannot wait to see more! However... yes, however... This is Sega's last chance to win me over with this series.

I was born in the year 1990, so I grew up with this series. I watched my brother play it, I started playing it, my daddy and I started going back and forth to see who can get the most points in Sonic Spinball. I freaking loved Sonic back during the 90s.

Then once he entered the 3D era, things just started sucking. This series just isn't a 3D platformer, it doesn't work, especially since we're working with a character that moves as fast as light.

Generations kinda made things okay, but it still wasn't Sonic. I don't want to play as two different Sonics where one can do more 3D type stuff versus one who can only stay 2D, that's... That's not Sonic!

This series is definitely 2D only, because there's so much stuff it can do, but Sega fails to do it! Sonic 3 and Knuckles is, in my opinion, the best Sonic game out there. That first boss fight where we're running through a field and a giant ass ship is dropping bombs. Like I honestly have no clue what that thing was, but seriously, this build up to the first boss was... ERMERGHERD!!! Then we're running through the forest where we see RoBUTTnik himself.

There was just so much this game offered to impress, and then what did we get afterwards? Sonic 3D, a really, really horrible game. It's just... I don't even want to explain it. Because this is the game that started to make Sonic go downhill. Game after game, failure after failure, it was depressing to see that my favorite series started to just be one of the most laughable series out there. Nothing, and I mean nothing, could make the series awesome.

But this game... maybe this game can bring back Sonic to the respectable level it once had back in the 90s. There is absolutely nothing wrong in going back to the past, going back to it's old roots. I truly believe this is the way Sonic needs to be. Keep making Sonic games be more like this. I cannot begin to explain how many people are going gaga over this game, even though this is just the first trailer we've seen.

I want to believe... that Sonic can finally be good once again!

Over-Sensitive

Overwatch is once again being targeted by some overly-offended person that demands Blizzard to take stuff out of their game. But it's not Tracer that's being the target this time, no, it's Symmetra, the lovable turret placing, portal making supporter shielder.

A religious statesman and the president of the Universal Society of Hinduism, Rajan Zed, is demanding that Blizzard takes Symmetra's Devi skin out because he believe it's "trivializes" the Hindu goddess.

Zed states that "the player controlled movements of Devi, while in reality the devotes put the destinies of themselves in the hands of their goddesses. Moreover, Devi and its movements depicted in Overwatch did not match with the characterization of the goddesses in the scriptures."

He also sates that, "Blizzard Entertainment needed to follow it's own "core values" which included "lead responsibly", as in this case it was creating confusion in the minds of community about Devi by misrepresentation."

Okay, first off, "Devi", and her re-colored skin "Goddess" are just skins. To show off to the other players, "Hey look what I got!" That's it, that's all that this is for. It's to show off. None of these costumes actually mean anything, they're just for fun. But once again, the oversensitive needs to bark at the artists and demand that they scrap their hard work because they think everyone should be offended by this.

When I play video games, games take over my thoughts. I don't compare what I'm playing to real life things. When I first saw this skin during the first stress test I got in, I thought this was a really cool looking skin since her other two legendaries falls flat. When I look at this skin, does it make me think it trivializes Devi? Of course not.

I don't understand why these things are so much of a bothersome towards people. Nowhere on earth is Blizzard saying that Symmetra's skins are a mockery towards the Hindu religion, nowhere. Players aren't even mocking it either. Heck, Pharah has two legendary skins that are based on Native Indian culture, Raindancer and Thunderbird, and no one has said anything about those skins. What about Reaper's Mariachi skins? Should Mariachi players be offended by those two skins?

It pretty much boils down to where if you don't like something, ignore it. I can never really understand why people are bothered by the contents of video games if they don't even play it themselves. And from what this Rajan guy sounds like, it certainly doesn't sound like he's an avid video gamer. There are things to protest about and then there's this... Something that's really not worth fighting over.

What's even more interesting, is that no one is making a scene about the fact that she is possibly autistic, as shown in the comic that featured her a couple months ago. There's signs that shows her having trouble socializing, she dislikes crowds, has an obession with structured enviornements and has an inability to empathize. Traits that are typically associated with autism.

That and the comic even states where she fits in the specturm.