Trip is the Best New Sonic Character in Ages
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- Опубліковано 5 чер 2024
- This video's a bit all over the place. Didn't exactly know how I wanted to tackle everything I talk about here. So I figured I'd just throw it out in one big sloppy thing. Hope you liked it.
I shoulda mentioned it in the video, but the story is one thing Superstars is miles above Mania in. Mania has literally no story. Where this captures the spirit and feel of original Sonic surprisingly well. And it was written by IIzuka. So he's 2 for 2 at writing Sonic games with good stories that most people don't understand.
I'm sure many will notice Trip's arc here is reminiscent of Blaze's story in Rush. Which I'm okay with. It's something I find very relatable. We all have our issues. And I love to see Sonic tackle these things with positivity, fun and good characters. It's what Sonic is really all about.
Guess I'll briefly touch on the comics and animation here. The Fang comic is alright. Not much to it, and there are some minor details that feel a little off to me, but fine.
Trio of Trouble is great. Don't love the Sonic super friends vibe of it, but it makes sense considering the concept of the game. No other complaints. Please make a Classic Sonic animated series already.
And for those unfamiliar with the manga, here's a link to a machine translated video of it. Not ideal, but it gives you the gist until Windii translates it. It's neat. Feels very much like the manual stories of the original games. And it feels quite similar to a Sonic 2 project that I may or may not be working on.
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It’s kinda insane going from Pariah’s mixed feelings in his live playthrough of this game at launch to, now, being Sonic Superstars’ strongest soldier. It’s stuff like this that makes me keep coming back to the channel, and I’m all for it.
One thing I love about Superstars is that when you combine it w/ the Fang comic, it makes up for a really interesting dive into Fang's character : his strengths, weaknesses and ego.
Being designed by the great Naoto Oshima himself helps a lot considering he knows exactly what a Sonic character entails. I hope Trip is a recurring character for future Sonic games.
I'm very fond of how Sonic games will take these characters who are nigh upon demigods and make them completley inept dorks in regular social situations, like Blaze with Cream in Rush or Silver with Amy in 06. Its very cute and I'm glad we got to see it continue with Trip.
I dunno if it’s ‘Trip’s story has gone over people’s heads.’ I think it’s more ‘Trip’s story is cute, but it’s really simple.’ Eggman’s motivations being muddy don’t help the remaining story either, let alone the random dragon
"More characters like this please, and less characters like Zavok" killed me XD
SORRY, but Whisper exists
Saying this is the best story since Black Knight is a bold statement, but I genuinely can’t think of any other examples. I knew there was a reason I loved Superstars’ story, thanks for the enlightenment!
Hopefully "Superstars'" mediocre sales performance (or the weird flip-flopping regarding whether or not the modern Classic games are their own continuity) doesn't preclude Trip making an appearance in a modern game one of these days. I think that she'd fit into the modern titles real well, and I would certainly like to see how they might update her design to fit the rest of the cast.
Too bad she's never going to appear in a Modern game, despite being confirmed to still be there during the Modern era.
Something I'd like to note on Fang as a bully, something I'm pretty sure isn't actually taken into account with the creation of the story but is neat regardless, is the way that Fang has had very similar faults Trip fell into in Sonic Triple Trouble. The way his traps would go awry, how his own missile gets sent back at him one time, how he literally get buried into the ground another, and of course how he runs off like a coward when Eggman is approaches in his jumping machine in Atomic Destroyer act 3.
To fully Understand the full wingspan of Superstars story...
One interesting detail that may or may not be intentional with thrips clumsiness is that it seems to stem from the armor itself. You see a lot in the animated cutscenes especially that the big helmet often gets in the way of arm and hand movements and that her big blocky boots often causes her to trip.
next video: “the problem with sages existence”
You just know that they're gonna bring Zavok back more than trip tho. Sonic Rumble is already proof of that
She’s really cute in my opinion
Honestly, the one big letdown of Trip’s story in Sonic Superstars is that she doesn’t get to fight the black-and-purple dragon alongside Super Sonic.
Trip's cool, and all, but let's be real here. She'd get mogged by the sheer epicness of a REAL dragon character like the mighty Zavok.
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You might say something that gets me annoyed at you down the line, but I'll admit, I'll respect you for having the huge fucking balls to say you liked Superstars' story over everything between it and Black Knight