Sonic booming business
  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    473·
    5 days ago

    I’ll say, after a decade or more of the Sonic property languishing in bad game after bad game…

    Fuck, thank goodness these guys got their hands on the property so at least we got some fun movies out of it and people freaking out over the reveal of Shadow with a gun. Possibly the only time you might ever be happy seeing “He has a gun” trending online.

    We even got Ugly Sonic out of the whole deal.

    • RentlarEnglish
      151·
      5 days ago

      I wonder if we are going to get Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie: The Game.

      If we ever do, then someone needs to mod in first trailer Sonic in.

    • Maalus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      151·
      5 days ago

      I wonder if the franchise would’ve survived with ugly sonic. Also, does this count as “a good video game movie”? I thought those didn’t exist.

      • Syd@lemm.eeEnglish
        61·
        5 days ago

        I’m pretty confident that was clever viral marketing.

        • Nythos@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          71·
          5 days ago

          With how much it would have cost to delay the film by 3 month and reanimate the face, I’d doubt it.

        • Ofiuco@lemmy.cafeEnglish
          21·
          5 days ago

          It was, but the Internet feels better believing the expected backlash achieved something