I am a big fan of Shadow and so I find this game kind of interesting but it's also rife with big problems that makes it not one of my favorite games. I remember watching Shadow the Hedgehog on Youtube, I saw a commercial for it in like 2005 and a year later, I checked out the last story where Shadow confronts Black Doom and becomes Super Shadow. That's when I was smitten with him, his earnest personality, his voice, and emotional pain had him one of my favorite Sonic characters ever. So, at least this game caused me to first fall in love with Shadow, before, I had no opinion of him.
Story:
There are different routes to go in this game so you can make Shadow evil, a hero, against his evil creator Eggman, an emo hedgehog who's guilty for his actions, etc.. It's a bit of a mess. It was canon that Shadow was a good person who was mad at the world and wanted revenge for some perceived injustice. He has a dark past which caused him to be this way but it doesn't make him a bad person. So, He's an aloof character, I don't imagine he's the type of person that would care about anybody except for Maria. I don't mind him wanting to discover who he is since most kids his age would want to find out who they are anyway. They tried to make the villains creative, but I don't like the alien idea.
Character:
Why make Shadow curse, use guns, shoot people, and become evil and on the aliens' side if the player wants him? And also, it is implied he contemplated suicide in one of the paths and thinks insecure, hateful thoughts about himself.
Even Sonic curses and depending on who's side you are on, if you are doing something opposite (and for few characters, destroying Eggman's robots), they will tell you to stop and it gets annoying. I mean, all this time, Sonic and the others wanted to defeat Eggman and now they don't care neither.
This is a kids franchise, I don't understand why Sonic would go that route.
Controls:
The controls are very slippery. Moving Shadow around the whole game is a chore.
Overall:
A pretty forgettable, though funny Sonic game. The backstories were unnecessary, Maria is a flat character and it makes me think a game about Shadow and his past may not be the best thing to do. A better game probably would've been Sonic Adventure 3 or something. Kids may see it differently, but teenagers 15 and older would probably find it too annoying to be particularly memorable. Shadow fans and video game fans like myself might find the game relatively enjoyable, though.
Story:
There are different routes to go in this game so you can make Shadow evil, a hero, against his evil creator Eggman, an emo hedgehog who's guilty for his actions, etc.. It's a bit of a mess. It was canon that Shadow was a good person who was mad at the world and wanted revenge for some perceived injustice. He has a dark past which caused him to be this way but it doesn't make him a bad person. So, He's an aloof character, I don't imagine he's the type of person that would care about anybody except for Maria. I don't mind him wanting to discover who he is since most kids his age would want to find out who they are anyway. They tried to make the villains creative, but I don't like the alien idea.
Character:
Why make Shadow curse, use guns, shoot people, and become evil and on the aliens' side if the player wants him? And also, it is implied he contemplated suicide in one of the paths and thinks insecure, hateful thoughts about himself.
Even Sonic curses and depending on who's side you are on, if you are doing something opposite (and for few characters, destroying Eggman's robots), they will tell you to stop and it gets annoying. I mean, all this time, Sonic and the others wanted to defeat Eggman and now they don't care neither.
This is a kids franchise, I don't understand why Sonic would go that route.
Controls:
The controls are very slippery. Moving Shadow around the whole game is a chore.
Overall:
A pretty forgettable, though funny Sonic game. The backstories were unnecessary, Maria is a flat character and it makes me think a game about Shadow and his past may not be the best thing to do. A better game probably would've been Sonic Adventure 3 or something. Kids may see it differently, but teenagers 15 and older would probably find it too annoying to be particularly memorable. Shadow fans and video game fans like myself might find the game relatively enjoyable, though.