2 Spooky 5 Pumpkin Hill (Happy almost-Halloween!)
Now I don’t reblog silly stuff alot, but screw it. It’s getting near Halloween, I freakin’ love Pumpkin Hill’s theme, and the Sonic social media accounts are the funnest thing about being a Sonic fan right now. Never change, Aaron Webber :D
Day 23 - Genie Twilight and Spike
A Sprite Tumblr about a Twilight that is a Genie and a Spike that got a serious injury in his eye. Really wanted to use one of them in the SRR but first time was denied and the second wasn’t in my comfort zone, but I got to show them off in a side comic at least. Decided to do their Spike in my style as a gift. Personally I think it looks better in the MLP Online Style.
Thanks Akuma ^^
I’m in contact with Navitas every few days or so over on Steam. So I thought it’d be proper of me to answer it.
Navitas got a bit of Pony burnout. It’s ok, not everyone can follow one show for so long. He just felt like it was time to move on. He doesn’t dislike the show now or anything. In fact he doesn’t mind when I talk about what happened in the latest episode with him. But otherwise he’s not drawn any Pony related art or watched many Pony stuff (Aside from the 100th episode, but that was a pretty big deal all things considered) as of late.
It doesn’t exactly help when two months ago what seems to have been a Hacker’s doing… all his Tumblr blogs and his dA were deactivated with what looks like no way to get them back.
Because of that Navitas has no public way of telling what’s he’s doing aside from making a new account just to tell people how he’s felt. So if you want to, feel free to spread to any other concerned friends you know that were also fans of Twixie Genies and/or his other works.
Now I haven’t mentioned it too much aside probably usually in conjunction with some of my Smash 4 hype before & after the game came out. But if you’ve known me enough either through talking with me on video games or anything you’d know I’m a huge Sonic fan and have been since the early 2000′s. Now this isn’t a video I made, this is from a LPer that just happens to also be a longtime Sonic fan called The Great Clement. The reason I’m showing this off is it’s an insecure time for Sonic fans these days. With negativity and pessimism at an all-time high ever since Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric came out. And all because of it, suddenly we’re seeing yet another influx of recent trends of Sonic in the media that include very familiar headlines and/or topics relating to Sonic in Social media that have been around since the big travesty that was Sonic 06. Including having Sonic yet again part of those lists of Top 5/Top 10/etc. franchises that need to die, People pointing at past Sonic games even if they’re generally beloved (Ex: Both of the Adventure Games) saying they were never good in the first place, and all other things that have made hating Sonic the “cool” thing again.
But what holds true, is even if games we loved in the past don’t meet the critical eyes of now who hold a very different viewpoint on games then the fans and/or kids that played them when they first came out. There’s a reason Sonic is an icon of gaming. Yes terrible quality games like Sonic 06 and Rise of Lyric happened and there will be no erasing them from memory. But are they really such a black mark that the entire franchise needs to die? Of course not, because we know there are good Sonic games out there. Now opinions may vary of which ones are inherently good or not. But it stands there are games people love from this franchise, and there are people who know Sonic can have good games again.
For Sonic fans, I think it’s time we start reflecting on why we liked this franchise to begin with. And why we’re still here, holding hopes that the next main Sonic title is a good one. Part of the video I share has Clement ask people to share their original Sonic story, what their favorite character is, and how did they get into Sonic in the first place. I think I’ll end up this post with my very own story. (Below the break)
((Just a bit of a long post warning, I don’t think this one is quite as long as my Friendship Games thoughts. But still I ramble about this episode quite a bit, but obviously for a good reason since it’s undeniable this episode was a pretty big deal))
Well, unfortunately no. I can’t really catch livestreams that often. The tournaments usually played at a time I can’t watch. (I have limited bandwith at home, I use too much and it becomes a big bill if it goes over the limit)
Iiii’m also not quite as interested in competitive play in Smash as you and others might be ^^’ I pay enough attention that I get what characters are generally good. Like I’m certainly happy Sonic is seens as one of the better characters in the game for example. But otherwise I’m not quite as big on the competitive scene.
My younger brother is though. He’s huge into competitive Smash (On a side note, He just started College 2 days ago). He beats me most of the time in any Smash game we play together (Usually Smash 4 and/or Project M)
