So my current main project is just trying to sort all the Sonic media I’m familiar with and all games with a plot into one line of cherry picked canon to make a cohesive story out of a tangled ball of thread.

Today I’m focusing on how I would write out the game Shadow the Hedgehog if I wrote it as a single story and the ultimate decision I made was to use a random number generator to pick potential story paths to create that illusion of distorted truth and really messing with one’s brain, basically trapping him in a weird hallucinogenic time loop where Black Doom tries to get what he wants. I kept randomising stories until all 10 final bosses were accounted for, since, you know, you have to get all 10 potential endings to unlock the final story. So time looped Shadow has to make both all the worst and best decisions in order to escape.

I just want you all to know the majority of the ones the randomiser picked end dark aligned, there’s two full dark ending routes in there and the time loop ends with the route where Shadow goes full hero because he fancies Amy.

Also after the first time in Cryptic Castle (where he goes neutral), every subsequent visit to that level ends in helping Amy.

I can’t believe my Shadow retelling just turned into a story of Shadow slowly realising he’s in love with Amy-