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I gotta wonder how the Commander feels about the President having a picture of Shadow, a person he is convinced got the ARK shut down and everyone on it killed, on his desk, and that his boss stares so wistfully at it.

I really gotta wonder what the thoughts are of those GUN soldiers who are basically enacting their own hollywood action movie ending here. The Commander's constantly yelling about all of Shadow's evil atrocities, and then they see him wobbling around on an alien beyblade and failing tiny jumps. and ...

Mmm, I would disagree that this ending where Shadow becomes Space Knuckles (Pre Sonic 3) would be a good ending for him. He's not consumed by a desire for vengeance or hostile to humanity here, but as a person he's still fundamentally trapped in the past, and has abandoned the connections he has in ...

Fun Shadow Facts! The Egg Dealer is in fact one of vanishingly few Eggman mech designs that actively helps the player defeat it under normal play. Oh also raocow you won because Eggman drove directly into the bomb blocks placed around the arena while Bomb Fever was active, setting them all off at on...

I actually really like how they contrasted Final Haunt and GUN Fortress. Both of them have pretty slow, relaxed themes for final levels that you can A-rank on enemy score alone. But the music underscores the fact that, for good or ill, by this point Shadow has settled his inner conflict. The differe...

Fun Shadow Facts!

Right at the start of THE ARK, if you turn around and walk to the edge of the platform, you can actually see the Eclipse Cannon in the background!

Fun Shadow Facts!

The music for Heavy Dog is actually a remix of the boss theme for the fights against the F-6t Big Foot, B-3x Hot Shot, and R-1/A Flying Dog bosses in SA2!

Fun Shadow Facts!

Black Bull is actually named after a racing machine from the F-Zero franchise, whose latest entry was actually worked on by SEGA just over a year earlier!

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This is the only time in any official English Sega media that Sonic offiically swears. "Damn, they got away! Leave it to me, I'll chase them down."

Fun Shadow Facts! In this fight with Diablon, and only this fight, if you don't move at all when the fight starts, Sonic will get stuck on the terrain while charging at you and Diablon will be completely inactive, waiting for you to approach. You can actually put down your controller and leave the g...

Fun Shadow Facts! Final Haunt is the only stage in the whole game where it's possible to get an A rank strictly through enemy score alone, as there are just so many Black Arms in the stage to kill for Hero score. This also works in reverse, as you can complete 90% of the Dark Mission, toss yourself ...

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Maria is the only helper character that can directly injure Shadow. If she attacks him while he's in a turret, he'll lose rings and be thrown out of it.

....It actually feels in character for Eggman to put an override system in his computers that is only activated by karate chop.

Fun Shadow Facts!

Prison Island is one of the few levels where the secret co-op feature does not work, as Charmy cannot be controlled at all since he reuses the flying code for Doom's Eye.

In today's video: Shadow plays Rez to get a Chaos Emerald. Fun Shadow Facts! Despite all the risks taken by Sonic Team to make a darker, more mature tale to attract older audiences, their effort proved laughably ineffectual, as the released product was thoroughly trashed by critics and snubbed by th...

Fun Shadow Facts!

If one wishes to truly 100% Shadow the Hedgehog, they must complete Westopolis 326 times.

Fun Shadow Facts! Taking the idea of the multiple character themes in the previous 3D installments and skating with it, multiple vocal tracks were composed for the game, with each meant to be played for a specific path through the game. However, not all the tracks made for the game actually ended up...

Not really a fan of vector saying "we can't let them do this to gun", considering that gun are the actual villains behind sa2 (and thus the backstory of this whole setting). just like with mega man x, the subsequent games after the game decrying the military-government continue to positio...

Fun Shadow Facts! Shadow The Hedgehog was the first game to feature a new English voice cast, as part of Sega of America's attempt to provide proper consistency for the franchise, reasoning that different voices for Sonic across the media empire would simply confuse children. Therefore, shortly befo...

Fun Shadow Facts! Due to a...minor controversy with the use of weapons in the game, as well as the ah, mild swearing and the fact that the humans and aliens had blood instead of smoke inside them, the game initially received a "T" rating from the ESRB. Sega even tried to play up the higher...

Fun Shadow Facts! Another element the team worked hard to put in the game was the use of branching pathways within the story. The concept had originally been meant to feature in Sonic Adventure 2, but a lack of time and resources had shelved it. This time though, it was made an essential component o...

Fun Shadow Facts! With the tone for their anti-hero cartoon mascot decided thanks to, of all things, Constantine, the team then began to add other much-requested features to the game such as the ability to ride vehicles and the use of weapons, which was given real emphasis to make Shadow the Hedgeho...

Fun Shadow Facts! Now, Sonic Team USA, having renamed themselves Sega Studios USA after the completion of the absolute trial that was Heroes, were not so foolish as to begin development of a game based solely on an official poll. In fact, the poll was made simply to gauge potential fan reaction for ...

Fun Okami Facts!

The Ark of Yamato bears a great resemblance to the Ama no Iwafune, a heavenly boat said to be made of stone that was the vessel of the kami Nigihayahi no Mikoto, who helped facilitate the rise of Emperor Jimmu, grandson of Amaterasu and who unified Japan in ancient times.

FUN SHADOW FACTS! SHADOW THE HEDGEHOG: BRITAIN'S FAMILY GAME OF THE YEAR After the release of the multi-platform Sonic Heroes, everyone questioned what the Sonic series would do next. Would there be a sequel to the new Heroes style? The release of Sonic Adventure 3? Or would it be something really n...