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the Star : Why would you do this? We have always been here for you.

the Stranger, having just broken out of being eternally imprisoned and tortured and finding out the Star was just watching the whole time doing nothing : ...

Come to think of it, it is kind of weird that Nintendo has multiple franchises about an Eldritch species imprinting on an alien protagoinst as a parent figure.

A while, but they're all just lyrics from the Billy Joel album "The Stranger", so it wasn't that bad. It took some time to think about which lines best fit each guardian, but i randomly got the title track stuck in my head after watching the LP and was listening to the album when i noticed...

You may never understand How the Stranger is inspired But he isn't always evil And he isn't always wrong Though you drown in good intentions You will never quench the fire You'll give in to your desire When the Stranger comes along the Chain Well we all have a face That we hide away forever And we t...

It's interesting that the Architect seems to relate most to the Burst since she also seems the most unlike him in some ways. There are certainly similarities—both are willing to embrace chaos, value cunning and personal goals over chivalry and duty, and maintain logical demeanors despite potentially...

Blaze is just how Silver sees Big in his head, which means Silver is the narrator for the Sonic Rush series. Tails has most definitely heard of making stuff out of metal and jewels. The way Sonic Rush Adventure introduces and talks about the concept is so ridiculous though it feels like they are mak...

If you've never really played golf, it would make sense to assume 0 would be a good goal for a typical player, but most will never get anywhere close to that. Someone who expects to shoot even par is close to the 99th percentile of players, even among people who play at least somewhat regularly. But...

I like how the Furier run gives us a chance to reinterpret everything with the context of knowing who the Stranger is. Like how the Scale's arena appears to be the impact zone where the Stranger landed, with the corrupted land excavated and incorporated it into the prison (and of course the Scale's ...

The people/person who wrote the story and the people/person who designed the game clearly did not communicate at all and it's great. The incongruity over the chaos emeralds would be weird on its own, but when mixed with a story that consistently ignores and is ignored by everything that happens in g...

As of episode 901, i've now met someone officially involved in All the Sonics (the drummer of Wilco), making that my #1 celebrity encounter.

Did the Oarsman fight change the reward for a perfect parry from a heavy counter to triggering the QTE?

The switch to a 2D fighting game aesthetic midway through the encounter was a nice twist on the game's formula.

Seeing the rest of the cutscene makes me think Headon may not have actually killed the missing guardian. The way he was talking, it sounded like whoever was there might be someone close to him, and he may have gone ahead to hide them from the Stranger rather than to fight them.

Headon killing the next guardian on his own before they get a chance to talk to the Stranger is definitely suspicious when it comes right after noticing the Stranger showing hesitation for the first time.

It doesn't entirely make sense, but when the Master of Time said you were fighting yourself, my first thought was that he was supposed to be an older version of your character since he looks similar to the Stranger and can manipulate time. His line about not being able to kill the Stranger would als...

raocow deciding which NPC is going to win Sonic and the Secret Rings multiplayer each day is a genuine highlight of AtS.

The "what if we gave Sonic a gun" sentiment keeps paying dividends

If any game were to have a library support staff made up of book librarians, this one would make a lot of sense. It seems like the final boss clashes a bit with the hold-jump-to-jump mechanic because having to hold and then release the button rather than just press it cuts into your reaction time, a...

chagrin by Engi

"EAGL4 Contest" by SomethingFawful was also really cool.

"That's not a rampage, that's a murder" ( Sonic and the Secret Rings ) Hearing raocow casually deconstruct the silliness that permeates the Sonic franchise is always a joy. "That little squirrel got to go in space and not Boon, king of the frogs!?" from Yoku's Island Express als...

Kaguya

It's basically the same character in Touhou and Okami. Shinmyoumaru is also descended from Issun.

GRRROL CONTROL by artifishal intunagence