Here's neat detail: The Gutterman that appears during the ambush in the ruined exit section does not have its coffin, which means it is the very same Gutterman that coffin we found in the ceiling alcove in the tram station initially belonged to.
(Screenshot not mine)
They’re fucking sentient. This one specifically writes prose about the love it has for its battery, and the hatred it has for itself. This went from being strapped into a death machine to being strapped inside a death machine that can think and hates itself and its purpose as much as you hate it.
And what the fuck does this mean about the other machines? Do sentries cherish the ability to see the world for what it is while everyone else sees it as pixels? Do guttertanks hate guttermen or do they feel pity for the beings they were made to destroy? Do earthmovers care for the cities living atop them? What the fuck does this mean for V1?!?!?! I always thought it was purely nonsentient, since I remember reading that somewhere. But...
We see other machines showing some form of emotions like V2’s sportsmanship and spite as well as the Mindflayers' protectiveness of their bodies that they themselves made at the cost of materials, and the Swordsmachines finding themselves beautiful and hoarding old scrap, seemingly for the sentimentality of it. But this is like the first confirmation of sentience other then the terminals. Do these machines feel pity for the sinners? Do they sympathize with the demons, created to fill out a single purpose and unable to deviate from it? Is V1 sentient or an exception? What does it think of Hell’s monologues? Does it enjoy being Hell’s favorite gladiator or does it hate that role? I’m going crazy over this! Were there machines that willingly died because they couldn’t stomach the idea of fighting their brethren for blood? Are the people in the Guttermen dead because the life support failed over time... Or was it because the Guttermen disconnected it themselves as a form of mercy?
-Bobby
@true-king-of-monsters
Sniper even looks like Baby Godzilla.
King Crimson slaps one of Cappucino’s minions - FHD 1080P 60FPs Version
Credit to whoever made the original meme.
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Tfw Ford Brody’s Japanese dub voice actor shares the same one who voiced Jean Pierre Polnareff.
I’m not even kidding, they do.
So much for working with her through all these years...
Ghidorah’s Entrance rescored with “The Icon of Sin” by Mick Gordon from DOOM Eternal.
Technically, this is the “Final Sin” rescore, but it’s the released version of that track, not the game-ripped version.
Credit to The Toho Society on Twitter for the musicless scene.
Ummm, we already have a soft-canon kaiju named Shinomura. We'd be confusing the two if that was her designation. XD
Ok this might make people who've read ATOM laugh, but... I really think Shimo's name would work better as a kaiju name if it has a third syllable.
Since I played Shadow Generations, I went back to re-watch the opening cutscene of the 2005 game. And wow, my 8 year old brain definitely filtered some of the stuff in the intro, or didn't notice it because of how fast it played. The black arms are probably one of the most brutal factions in sonic history. They literally just drop out of the sky and start raising hell, which is unironically terrifying if you were just a civilian living in the city.
Like, look at the scene where the giant one tosses an entire car and causes an explosion. It rolls, and explodes right by a gun squad, ragdolling them all instantly. That's three or four people DEAD.
The next scene has a POV of a Gun Soldier, and you see a black arms trooper hop up on a car, and guns down a soldier. And another black arms on the left just walking casually shoots the other one (and continues shooting the dude's body, absolutely brutal.) The only gun soldier standing which is the soldier we have the POV of, gets attacked by one of the flying black arms. That's presumably three more dead, possibly even more, since the one on top of the car continues shooting at something off screen.
Even while GUN troops are getting destroyed, not even civilians are safe, because although the car this behemoth lands on is empty, he slams a civilian car into the building. I thought it was a cop car, but this is a solid black car, no white doors or anything. All of the civilians in that car (Possibly a family with children) are now gone.
The final scene in the intro is probably the most brutal, because of how much stuff happens in just a few seconds. In fact if you blink you'll probably miss it, so I zoomed in a little.
On the top left you can see a squad of three GUN soldiers being absolutely demolished by some sort of explosion launched by the Black Arms troopers charging at them. Then those same troops keep sprinting past their bodies and begin shooting at presumably more people between the buildings who were probably survivors trying to hide.
On the lower right we see that there's an entire horde of them, a behemoth throwing a police car at something off screen. (Probably a person) and all around him there's like a dozen or so black arm troops walking around and shooting at everything and everyone (once more off screen)
I find this one the most disturbing for two reasons. One is that if you look closely, some of them who are hanging behind the parade are just purposefully shooting at wrecked cars and debris piles. Which could mean either they're purposefully causing as much destruction as possible, or they're trying to scare survivors out. (They even bothered animating the sparks of laser bolts hitting the cars and walls, which meant the animators purposefully animated some of them doing that.)
The other reason I find it somewhat unnerving is that the idea of an entire horde of black arm troops just walking down the street and brutally massacring the town, and in such a casual manner as if it's a completely normal thing.
All those people dead in like a twenty or thirty second timespan. The fact that somehow all this stuff was in a sonic game. A SONIC GAME. ONLY RATED E 10 AND UP, LIKE NONE OF THIS WAS WORTH THE TEEN RATING?
H O W ? !
Back in the 2000s, people accused this game of blatantly copying the Covenant from the Halo series, and even if they did, they definitely were faithful to the original material, considering they kept in the part of the aliens wanting to genocide humanity and will gun down any human they see.
Anyways rambling over. I love Shadow and I love his game. :-)
Godzilla's Antarctica Entrance rescored with “Roundabout” by Yes (ft. To Be Continued).
Credit to The Toho Society on Twitter for the musicless scene.
Koichi really explodes?
Aw man...
King Ghidorah: Your trust may be misplaced, old friend. But it is appreciated.
Rodan: You can take my soul... if you’ll shut up.