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sonic-adventure-3 · 1 year

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“he roller skates!” “they’re air shoes.” is designed to kill me specifically because firstly that’s so fucking funny and the presentation and the line delivery is fucking amazing and also secondly shadow’s shoes are originally based on inline skates NOT roller skates (well technically inlines are a kind of roller skate but in a broader context “roller skates” are almost exclusively used to refer to quad skates. inlines have their wheels in a line, quads are quadragled) and his animation is 100% based on quad skating in prime BUT SHADOW IS AN INLINE SKATER ORIGINALLY HIS SHOES ARE BASED ON INLINE SKATES SA2 WOULD NOT EXIST WITHOUT INLINE SKATING I CARE IMMENSELY ABOUT THIS

#NOT EVEN JOKING ABOUT THE LAST BIT #THE GRINDING MECHANIC OF SA2 AND SOAP SHOES ARE BASED ON INLINE SKATES #PLUS THE CULTURAL CONTEXT OF THE TIME OF ITS DEVELOPMENT WOULDVE JUST BEEN CATCHING THE TAIL END OF THE ERA OF AGGRESSIVE INLINE SKATES #skateboarding but inline skating as well are crucial components to what sonic’s very personality and the tone/aesthetic of sonic adventure #also inline skating way way faster than quad skating #genuinely genuinely i’m not mad i’m not mad i’m not mad #prime is great this bit is great the animation of prime and shadow in prime is great shadow is great #i’m not even angry!! it’s such a good bit!!! it’s animated well! roller skates are more well known today!!!#BUT HAVE THEY CONSIDERED THAT I CARE IMMENSELY ABOUT SHADOW THE HEDGEHOG AND INLINE SKATES AND SHADOW ON INLINE SKATES?!? NO!!!#his animation in sa2 and heroes and shth is based on inline skating also #his animation in 06 is quad based but it also sucks complete ass so it doesn’t exist to me #most other skating animations of his are mid and i haven’t analyzed them enough to tell #theres a large grace area i give cause i don’t expect animations to be 100% accurate to real movements #plus the air shoes while based on inlines are their own thing and i think it’s nice when they embrace that #BUT FUCK QUAD SKATES #i don’t hate quad skates inlines are just cooler by an order of magnitude to me and them being the default makes me sad :(#rambles #prime #action sport posting #<- yeah. thats a tag. it will be used more in the future

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