Why is it that Mega Man could get away with exploring much darker themes, plotlines, and characters in later entries, whereas Sonic the Hedgehog was roundly mocked for doing the same thing?
Why is it that Mega Man could get away with exploring much darker themes, plotlines, and characters in later entries...
Bentley Clark
Ethan Thompson
megaman is cool and sonic is cringe
simple as
Alexander Richardson
1. Sonic is a much more popular and universal series
2. Nobody actually likes the X series except autistic spics
3. The X series gets dunked on all time for autistic melodrama, but the fans of the series don't care
4. The Zero series actually did a serious story with really good presentation and payoff
On that last point, Sonic's issue is not with having dark or serious stories, it's the presentation. The presentation of Sonic games is always too goofy or stilted for most people to take them seriously even if games like Sonic Adventure 2 have similar story beats to other "dark" children's media like Pokemon The First Movie. Beyond that, when Sonic went multiplatform things started slipping for his games in quality so it became cool and trendy to shit on Sonic or hold double standards towards the IP.
Autistic fan of both IPs btw, Mega Man and Sonic are life.
Angel James
Zero and X are poorly written shitfests though. It's probably because at least when crapcom makes badly written stories, they make an actually playable game with it. There isn't a sonic 06 of megaman, even the 'extremely hard' gameboy advancd one is pretty manageable.
Dominic Hughes
Sonic satam did it fine though, it just has to be done right because at face value it’s a series about small colorful animals
Jack Roberts
People hate/laugh at the story in the X games, but the gameplay and controls are good enough that story doesn't matter. 3D Sonic gameplay is boring and easy.
Jack Fisher
>There isn't a sonic 06 of megaman
mega man x6 and x7 are worse than 06.
Christian Anderson
They made more then one Mega Man series, and let each be it's own thing. That way, expectations were kept more in check.
Charles Peterson
Robots aren't anthropomorphic animals.
Adrian Clark
combined with the goofiness of Mega Man's characters and universe, the fact people kept wanting the series to stay 8-bit and complained about 8's animeisms (voice acting aside) made it hard for me to believe if it was supposed to be a fairly lighthearted but also grounded series, or just a gritty and "realistic" one.
Like, come the fuck on.