Sonic cd intro in sonic mania3/16/2024 ![]() or they just went rouge on Eggman right at the end during the (terrible) final Super Boss fight. or they were working together sometimes but not always. The entire game had you chasing Eggman and The HBH's grabbing the Phantom Ruby off each other at various points. Essentially they became The Deadly Six all over again but were Robots instead. The HBH's are an interesting idea, but solely existed as another another antagonist group for Sonic / Eggman to beat, without the prologue it wasn't clear to me what the HBH's were about or why they went rouge (with the exception of the Phantom Ruby giving them powers since they were just basic model eggrobos at the start of the game). To be honest, as much as I LOVE Sonic Mania - the story, how it's depicted, escalated and told (including the use of and what the Phantom Ruby actually does) never really made any sense to me without reading the Prologue - it's too convoluted for a 2D title to follow instinctively. If the HBH's are gonna be the catalyst in a new timeline, then they would have happened in the old timeline too that went from S3&K -> Sonic 4 -> Sonic Adventure without Sonic being snatched into the future by the Time Eater etc.) Mania happening because Eggman made a new decision depends on him being the driving force initiating the plot. In that case it could sort of work since Eggman now has the knowledge that his future self never defeated Sonic buuuut 1. (As an aisde: I like to go with the headcanon that Mania replaces 4 in a new timeline created from Classic Sonic and Eggman returning from Generations with their future knowledge. I can definitely see why this was either rejected or changed naturally with iteration to reach what we ended up with, but yeah, the other stuff towards the end is cool. I like the latter part of it, having Eggman on classic stages and HBHs on new ones (which is almost what they did anyway), and especially Sonic having to "navigate" a fight between the two sides (which again, sort of happened with Egg Reverie, but not quite in the way it's described here).īut yeah, depressed Eggman doesn't work for me, it feels out of touch with the rest of the franchise for him to be having a mid-life crisis after S3&K in particular considering he would go on to relentlessly come up with new plan after new plan without regrets for Sonic Adventure through to Sonic Lost World without any faltering on his intentions.
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