A long time coming but here it is, the next main chapter to my chronicles as a fan of Sonic the Hedgehog (and Shadow the Hedgehog, as you shall soon see...)
Oh my goodness, oh my
goodness Sonic Adventure. I was
blown away by the beginning intro movie. And jeez the rock music! There’s singing in
it! Singing!! The graphics were so amazing and fluid and
Sonic was…Sonic was uh…different. Very
different. I mean I knew for a couple of
years, but…dayum, Sonic’ s longer quills, green eyes and…yeah, I’ll stop right
there before it gets weird. I was
fifteen years old, and then sixteen years old when I got the SEGA Dreamcast. So there.
This excerpt is from July
4, 2001. Hah, an Independence Day! I didn’t remember!
★4th
O’ July—Yeah, I played SA alright.
I began a little later than I [wanted to] cuz there was something extra
needed to plug in the Dreamcast machine with (or into the TV). I wanted to help Dad with it cuz I was
definitely interested. Oh, while Dad went
to Best Buy to get the extra cable, I read the instruction manual for SA and I found out some cool stuff about the
game—‘bout Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Amy Rose, Gamma E-102, and Big the Cat. I realized that this video game was more than
just collecting 7 Chaos Emeralds, freeing animals and busting up RBNK. In fact I think it was TOO MUCH! I know I should be able to handle all of
that, but boy is this game something or what?
There is actual dialogue in the game… unlike the games for the SEGA
Genesis. Okay, I’ll write more tomorrow…★
According to what I wrote the next few days after I started playing the game, I seemed to have been in love with Sonic. At my age of 16, was that weird? And with Shadow too. I got a chance to play Sonic Adventure pretty much almost every day. It helped me wait for the advent of Sonic Adventure 2. This was before I had my own computer, let alone experience the Internet (except for a few weeks in 7th grade computer class elective). So I couldn’t learn too much about Shadow at the time. But, as for Sonic Adventure, I needless to say started with Sonic’s story in the game, and then little by little tried out the other characters like Tails and Knuckles. Knuckles’ story was especially interesting because of the past with the other echidnas. There were other echidna characters appearing in a Sonic game, it was bizarre. Supposedly Knux was the last of ‘em. The best of them. Tougher than lava!....See what I did there? His theme song was a rap? A rap? Just cuz he has dreadlocks. My sister was a big fan of Knuckles; she was happy to play through his story. She enjoyed making m him run around in the Mystic Ruins.
And then…and then the
robot Gamma E-102. I still need to
write about him for my other blog Cybernetic Dreams. His story wasn’t very long, but it was a
nice story; he worked for Dr. Eggman and then eventually turned good and helped
out Amy Rose. But…but his story is
sad. Gamma E-102 is one of the robot
characters that led me to my fascination with robots. But that is another story, maybe to be shared
on Cybernetic Dreams.
Gosh, there are so many
things to say about both Sonic Adventures,
but I don’t want each game post to be a whole book! So I‘ll mention some things, a few of which
might have its own post: The NiGHTS Pinball game OMG... And of course…the
new Super Sonic! Yikes! :O
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