This mod makes STH2005 a very good game. While i thought the original was decent, the reloaded mod just improves the game so much.
Shadow is better to control, the missions goals are reasonable now with some room for error.
It's just great.
Shadow is better to control, the missions goals are reasonable now with some room for error.
It's just great.
The game gave me a negative initial impression on the first route I finished, but after finishing True Neutral, True Evil and the Final Episode, I really like the game. Certain levels are very lengthy, and there are other levels that were purposefully made incredibly harder. Although controlling Shadow was finicky at first, it was extremely easy to get used to. The boss fights in this game were among the greatest I've played in a Sonic game, and the level design and themes were great as well. The final battle and soundtrack were fantastic. Each run of the game is short, but it was handled well and was an enjoyable experience.
I appreciate the better controls and the fact that the kill 'em all missions now feel like they were designed by a sane human being, but eh, it's still largely the same game but more polished. My issues with Shadow the Hedgehog are mainly its bland level design where 90% of the time you'll be just holding forward and spamming the shoot button, and the utterly nonsensical story that gets even more confusing when you actually make use of the choice system instead of just following a linear route where you're always doing evil, dark or neutral missions all the way to the end, none of these things are really addressed in this version.
Credit where it's due, I do enjoy a few stages where this mission system is well used, like Lava Shelter, where doing the hero or dark mission will lead you to wildly different paths in the actual stage, with your actions even altering the layout by making the stage more or less flooded by lava. Why isn't the rest of the game like that instead of the same "kill 50 enemies" missions plastered all over the place?
Credit where it's due, I do enjoy a few stages where this mission system is well used, like Lava Shelter, where doing the hero or dark mission will lead you to wildly different paths in the actual stage, with your actions even altering the layout by making the stage more or less flooded by lava. Why isn't the rest of the game like that instead of the same "kill 50 enemies" missions plastered all over the place?
Fodinha :)
(Melhorou um pouco, mas ainda é meio paia)
(Melhorou um pouco, mas ainda é meio paia)
Alright here's the deal. I've played a shit ton of the original release. I love it to bits, I've got a whole thing about saying that people who give the game flak aren't giving the game the credit it deserves. I have a lot of adoration for the original game, and I can take my rose tinted glasses off of it and also say that man there are some parts that are aggressively rough around the edges. There are things that absolutely can be fixed and I fully concede that.
With that out of the way, if you think that getting this mod will fix every issue that the original had, you are dead wrong. After playing through all the levels, beating the final story, and beating expert mode, I walked away wondering who in the world this is for. And then it hit me. It's for people like me who want Shadow the Hedgehog to be a better game, and goes in and files down those sharp corners to something a bit more palatable...only to then feed you the shavings again after a little bit of time.
Some of the changes made here are absurd. Removing the key doors? Great! Those don't need to exist since most of them are useless anyways! But then you change the keys to red rings and put them in the most cryptic nonsensical locations possible, to the point where the only ones I found were either the ones that stuck out like a sore thumb, or the ones that were unchanged from the original.
Stage re-balancing fluctuates from "We removed a few enemies so now you only have to go through most of the level instead of all of it!" to "We didn't touch this stage sorry" to "Yeah we made this stage intentionally more difficult by changing it in a negatively balanced way that does nothing but make the stage worse to play!" and it's frustrating. Most of the additions play off as someone messing around with a stage editor and either saying this is great and keeping it all in or just not remembering to revert their changes before putting the stages out.
Expert mode in particular is absolutely a guilty offender of the latter of the above statement. A majority of the difficulty comes in either flooding enemies or removing jumping platforms and not providing replacements, requiring a spin dash jump. Something you'll run into and have to repeat for around 60% of the expert mode playthrough. It's evident that the people making this just wanted something that felt hard and not something that felt particularly rewarding to beat or was well designed while being difficult when you realize that they took the most annoying and difficult segments of the original expert layouts and adjust them to be even more annoying in a "Let me copy your homework, don't worry I'll change it a little" type beat way.
Now look, this adds in a lot of changes that I do like. Little tweaks here and there, and some stages play incredibly fluid and well for them. It's just a shame that if you're not a Shadow the Hedgehog super fan and think that this is your big chance to cross that black sheep off your list that this is somehow worse in some cases, and chooses to wear those poor adjustments on it's sleeve. Alas.
With that out of the way, if you think that getting this mod will fix every issue that the original had, you are dead wrong. After playing through all the levels, beating the final story, and beating expert mode, I walked away wondering who in the world this is for. And then it hit me. It's for people like me who want Shadow the Hedgehog to be a better game, and goes in and files down those sharp corners to something a bit more palatable...only to then feed you the shavings again after a little bit of time.
Some of the changes made here are absurd. Removing the key doors? Great! Those don't need to exist since most of them are useless anyways! But then you change the keys to red rings and put them in the most cryptic nonsensical locations possible, to the point where the only ones I found were either the ones that stuck out like a sore thumb, or the ones that were unchanged from the original.
Stage re-balancing fluctuates from "We removed a few enemies so now you only have to go through most of the level instead of all of it!" to "We didn't touch this stage sorry" to "Yeah we made this stage intentionally more difficult by changing it in a negatively balanced way that does nothing but make the stage worse to play!" and it's frustrating. Most of the additions play off as someone messing around with a stage editor and either saying this is great and keeping it all in or just not remembering to revert their changes before putting the stages out.
Expert mode in particular is absolutely a guilty offender of the latter of the above statement. A majority of the difficulty comes in either flooding enemies or removing jumping platforms and not providing replacements, requiring a spin dash jump. Something you'll run into and have to repeat for around 60% of the expert mode playthrough. It's evident that the people making this just wanted something that felt hard and not something that felt particularly rewarding to beat or was well designed while being difficult when you realize that they took the most annoying and difficult segments of the original expert layouts and adjust them to be even more annoying in a "Let me copy your homework, don't worry I'll change it a little" type beat way.
Now look, this adds in a lot of changes that I do like. Little tweaks here and there, and some stages play incredibly fluid and well for them. It's just a shame that if you're not a Shadow the Hedgehog super fan and think that this is your big chance to cross that black sheep off your list that this is somehow worse in some cases, and chooses to wear those poor adjustments on it's sleeve. Alas.
This is a mod that improves the infamous and maligned Shadow the Hedgehog by cutting down on the more tedious aspects of the game. Overall, it's okay. The gameplay is like Sonic Heroes but worse, the story is dumb as hell and the main reason to play this game as it is entertaining because of how ridiculous it is, and from being just edgy enough to be E10. Music kinda slaps and the level design is not good. Play this one if you're bored and want to see dumb but entertaining platformer.
So Edgy, so cool
ok the gameplay is actually fun now you can play it
game still bad but atleast its cool and fun
Playing bad Sonic games and wanting to see them improved is like wanting to be able to breathe oxygen. Out of all the games from the series' slump in the mid-to-late-2000s, Shadow The Hedgehog is one I have a weird fondness for, in spite of it being pretty terrible. I was the core audience who thought Shadow packing heat and riding a steel horse was the coolest shit in the universe, and I still kinda am.
But looking from the eyes of a jaded, more knowledgable 24 year old, rather than a dumb, easily impressionable 7 year old... yeah, the game's objectively pretty awful for a number of reasons you probably already know by now. Controls are like wet ass, the tone and story are trying way too hard, and the gameplay structure takes the worst parts of Sonic Heroes and amps them to 11. You know the whole shabang; some really fun shooting gameplay, a couple fun levels, and sone heavy rocking tracks ain't enough for me to go full apologist, not no more.
Enter, Shadow Reloaded. A fan mod that mostly aims to sand off some of the rougher edges (ha!) of the game, change some stuff around, and provide a lot of QOL to what's seen by many as one of the worst, most tedious Sonic entries. And it... works, kinda, a little bit!
For the record, I didn't even consider trying every stage from my fresh file at the time of writing. Ignoring I already avoid the unholy trinity of Mad Matrix, The Doom and Lost Impact like the plague on a vanilla playthrough, genuinely don't have it in me to 100% motherfucking Shadow The Hedgehog anymore, so barring a detour to Space Gadget in place of Lost Impact, take note I went pure neutral, hero and dark respectively, before jumping to the last story. Regardless, a few of the stages have enemy kill requirements toned down. Either that, or I think there's a few more enemies available? Stages like Glyphic Canyon still had 60 Black Arms soldiers, and I was going all in on the neutral route, so ya know. I swear there were a few more spring cages around on some routes, probably to minimise frustration of killing enemies you're siding with. Nice!
Oh yeah, and you read that right, I only did 3 playthroughs prior to the last story, because that's a major QOL change the game so desperately needed! Sure, 3 runthoughs of Shadow is a complete toss up depending on your chosen route, but compared to the 10 you need to do in vanilla? Bet your ass I'll take it, that's just how it should've been to start! Beyond all I've mentioned thus far, there's also a few bits of unused content that get restoredin here; with plenty of unused dialogue being reimplemented into stages that made me go, "Huh, that's real neat." More importantly, Powerman 5000's Almost Dead is totally abolished, replaced with the unused Who I Am and Broken on pure and semi dark route completion respectively, which made me very happy as someone who stands by the former as Shadow's true theme.
Shadow Reloaded is also a surprisingly stingy bastard with a revamped ranking system, and a few mission difficulty tweaks I wasn't that big a fan of, though. I mean, the ranking system from the original was kinda easy to break in half, but runs that would've easily earned a B at the lowest returned Cs and lower; I got an E Rank for beating the Death Ruins fight with Black Bull in 40 seconds, while doing the same to Lava Shelter's Egg Dealer got me the single A I landed thus far, what's up with that? But if you don't want that? Don't fret; it's a separate mod if you opt to patch the ISO yourself. I was just lazy and grabbed it pre patched, cause using the Steam Deck's desktop interface in handheld mode anymore than I have to is enough to make me drink.
Good god, the first thing I played on EmuDeck after not bothering to set it up for a year was motherfucking Shadow The Hedgehog...
Anyway, about that other point! A couple levels have more enemy spawns as established, there might be some laser grids in sections that never had them, the panels in Digital Circuit never completely block the entire path which actually does wonders for the pacing, small things like that. But Space Gadget and The Ark stuck out with their major changes to me. The former's Hero mission now requires you beat Sonic on a whopping 3 minute timer, down from the 5 in the original. I was a little tense getting to the end, after restarting from a random Black Arms grunt on a saucer ramming me from off screen in the middle of a jump, fuck that guy. I would've personally added an extra 30 second grace period, since I think 3 minutes flat is a bit tight, but ahh what do I know?
The ARK was much more of a bitch; in a level that's pretty mindless fun as Shadow takes flight on a Black Arms bird to destroy the level's defence systems, now becomes an exercise in annoyance as turrets are placed everywhere, backwards facing dash rings are liable to screw you further, and there's a plethora of forward dash rings designed to hurl you into the final defence system's turrets at fuck off MPH. Wasn't a highlight, which bites, cause it's one of the coolest stages in the original! At least my beloved G.U.N Fortress was left mostly intact from what I could tell.
Beyond all these QOL changes, though? Shadow Reloaded is still Shadow. Might not be the worst game in the franchise for my money, and I'll admit there's some guilty pleasure shit in there. I won't act like I didn't enjoy returning to Lethal Highway, Digital Circuit, G.U.N Fortress and Final Haunt for the first time in about a decade. But you really can only do so much with the game when it's still got that same mostly flat and linear level design (barring the reworked key system, that opens up new pathways? Neat for those curious!), that goddamn story and all its issues therein, those levels that are fundamentally bad to play, and still often annoying structure, regardless of attempts to remedy it. There's fun to be had, for sure; some a holdover from the vanilla game and some on its own merits as a QOL hack, but I think Shadow's an inherently flawed enough game to the point that it still can't rise into anything above plain mediocre in spite of it all.
But that's not to knock the attempt at all! On the contrary, I've got nothing but respect for the time, dedication and passion that the Sonic community put into these kinds of things! Whether fixing botched PC ports, creating badass original fan games, full blown reimaginings of existing titles, or just an attempt to make small tweaks to a game for an overall better experience, that's the kinda shit I love to see, and god knows there's plenty more coming down the pipeline! For something like Shadow Reloaded to exist at all, made, presumably anyway, by a person entirely on their own time, is commendable and then some, and I hope nothing but the best for anything they do going forward!
But looking from the eyes of a jaded, more knowledgable 24 year old, rather than a dumb, easily impressionable 7 year old... yeah, the game's objectively pretty awful for a number of reasons you probably already know by now. Controls are like wet ass, the tone and story are trying way too hard, and the gameplay structure takes the worst parts of Sonic Heroes and amps them to 11. You know the whole shabang; some really fun shooting gameplay, a couple fun levels, and sone heavy rocking tracks ain't enough for me to go full apologist, not no more.
Enter, Shadow Reloaded. A fan mod that mostly aims to sand off some of the rougher edges (ha!) of the game, change some stuff around, and provide a lot of QOL to what's seen by many as one of the worst, most tedious Sonic entries. And it... works, kinda, a little bit!
For the record, I didn't even consider trying every stage from my fresh file at the time of writing. Ignoring I already avoid the unholy trinity of Mad Matrix, The Doom and Lost Impact like the plague on a vanilla playthrough, genuinely don't have it in me to 100% motherfucking Shadow The Hedgehog anymore, so barring a detour to Space Gadget in place of Lost Impact, take note I went pure neutral, hero and dark respectively, before jumping to the last story. Regardless, a few of the stages have enemy kill requirements toned down. Either that, or I think there's a few more enemies available? Stages like Glyphic Canyon still had 60 Black Arms soldiers, and I was going all in on the neutral route, so ya know. I swear there were a few more spring cages around on some routes, probably to minimise frustration of killing enemies you're siding with. Nice!
Oh yeah, and you read that right, I only did 3 playthroughs prior to the last story, because that's a major QOL change the game so desperately needed! Sure, 3 runthoughs of Shadow is a complete toss up depending on your chosen route, but compared to the 10 you need to do in vanilla? Bet your ass I'll take it, that's just how it should've been to start! Beyond all I've mentioned thus far, there's also a few bits of unused content that get restoredin here; with plenty of unused dialogue being reimplemented into stages that made me go, "Huh, that's real neat." More importantly, Powerman 5000's Almost Dead is totally abolished, replaced with the unused Who I Am and Broken on pure and semi dark route completion respectively, which made me very happy as someone who stands by the former as Shadow's true theme.
Shadow Reloaded is also a surprisingly stingy bastard with a revamped ranking system, and a few mission difficulty tweaks I wasn't that big a fan of, though. I mean, the ranking system from the original was kinda easy to break in half, but runs that would've easily earned a B at the lowest returned Cs and lower; I got an E Rank for beating the Death Ruins fight with Black Bull in 40 seconds, while doing the same to Lava Shelter's Egg Dealer got me the single A I landed thus far, what's up with that? But if you don't want that? Don't fret; it's a separate mod if you opt to patch the ISO yourself. I was just lazy and grabbed it pre patched, cause using the Steam Deck's desktop interface in handheld mode anymore than I have to is enough to make me drink.
Good god, the first thing I played on EmuDeck after not bothering to set it up for a year was motherfucking Shadow The Hedgehog...
Anyway, about that other point! A couple levels have more enemy spawns as established, there might be some laser grids in sections that never had them, the panels in Digital Circuit never completely block the entire path which actually does wonders for the pacing, small things like that. But Space Gadget and The Ark stuck out with their major changes to me. The former's Hero mission now requires you beat Sonic on a whopping 3 minute timer, down from the 5 in the original. I was a little tense getting to the end, after restarting from a random Black Arms grunt on a saucer ramming me from off screen in the middle of a jump, fuck that guy. I would've personally added an extra 30 second grace period, since I think 3 minutes flat is a bit tight, but ahh what do I know?
The ARK was much more of a bitch; in a level that's pretty mindless fun as Shadow takes flight on a Black Arms bird to destroy the level's defence systems, now becomes an exercise in annoyance as turrets are placed everywhere, backwards facing dash rings are liable to screw you further, and there's a plethora of forward dash rings designed to hurl you into the final defence system's turrets at fuck off MPH. Wasn't a highlight, which bites, cause it's one of the coolest stages in the original! At least my beloved G.U.N Fortress was left mostly intact from what I could tell.
Beyond all these QOL changes, though? Shadow Reloaded is still Shadow. Might not be the worst game in the franchise for my money, and I'll admit there's some guilty pleasure shit in there. I won't act like I didn't enjoy returning to Lethal Highway, Digital Circuit, G.U.N Fortress and Final Haunt for the first time in about a decade. But you really can only do so much with the game when it's still got that same mostly flat and linear level design (barring the reworked key system, that opens up new pathways? Neat for those curious!), that goddamn story and all its issues therein, those levels that are fundamentally bad to play, and still often annoying structure, regardless of attempts to remedy it. There's fun to be had, for sure; some a holdover from the vanilla game and some on its own merits as a QOL hack, but I think Shadow's an inherently flawed enough game to the point that it still can't rise into anything above plain mediocre in spite of it all.
But that's not to knock the attempt at all! On the contrary, I've got nothing but respect for the time, dedication and passion that the Sonic community put into these kinds of things! Whether fixing botched PC ports, creating badass original fan games, full blown reimaginings of existing titles, or just an attempt to make small tweaks to a game for an overall better experience, that's the kinda shit I love to see, and god knows there's plenty more coming down the pipeline! For something like Shadow Reloaded to exist at all, made, presumably anyway, by a person entirely on their own time, is commendable and then some, and I hope nothing but the best for anything they do going forward!
This is still Shadow the Hedgehog, and a lot of the things people (rightfully) take issue with are still here and wouldn't really be possible to get rid of. That said all of the actually cool things in that game are also still here, and the (many) changes this mod brings do make the game a lot more manageable.
I give this mod a full star above the vanilla game. It'd have been at least a half-star over just for cutting down the last story requirements alone, even before all the other gameplay/ mission changes
I give this mod a full star above the vanilla game. It'd have been at least a half-star over just for cutting down the last story requirements alone, even before all the other gameplay/ mission changes
This review contains spoilers
7.2/10
Decent game, my original complaints about vanilla shadow 05 still are here, like really slippery controls, the story being there and more but I'm glad I only had to play 3 routes instead of 10, The final boss kicked my ass a ton. I'm glad I was able to finish the game but I still don't think the game is some masterpiece.
Some levels take an eternity to complete like the hero mission of lost colony and more.
Decent game, my original complaints about vanilla shadow 05 still are here, like really slippery controls, the story being there and more but I'm glad I only had to play 3 routes instead of 10, The final boss kicked my ass a ton. I'm glad I was able to finish the game but I still don't think the game is some masterpiece.
Some levels take an eternity to complete like the hero mission of lost colony and more.
This is a mod for Shadow the Hedgehog, often considered one of the worst entries in the Sonic franchise, that attempts to turn it into a much better game. If you ever want to play Shadow the Hedgehog for yourself I highly recommend getting this mod for it. Reloaded features various quality of life changes that make for an overall better experience. This includes adjusting the game's physics to make it far more bearable to play, needing to beat the game only three times instead of 10, completely abolishing the secret door system and instead incorporating their contents as hidden paths within the levels, increasing the health of the Presidents blimp in Air Fleet, various music tracks being subbed in over others including apparent cut track Broken being re-implemented, and a whole lot more.
I ended up playing this mod since I still wanted to play Last Story for myself despite getting bored of the original game after four endings. At first I simply tried plugging in an "Unlock Last Story" cheat, but this didn't work. The Last Way was beatable but reaching the end would trigger a "LAST STORY Unlocked!" popup that would not go away no matter how much you mashed the button and heard the stock gunshot sound, preventing me from fighting the final boss. I couldn't figure out why it was triggering; there was a bug report on it but the fix didn't seem to work, I found out the popup would also trigger in other areas such as beating Westopolis and exiting the options menu, watching the final boss on YouTube wasn't going to be enough for me, and I sure wasn't going back to kill 50 enemies on Black Comet having a bad experience trying it on The Doom behind me and dozens of overdue games rotting in the backlog. I eventually stumbled upon this mod while looking for solutions, kinda wished I found out about it sooner but then noticed it slashed the amount of endings needed for Last Story from 10 all the way down to 3. I mentioned this game would’ve probably been more bearable if it only had 5 endings, but three was nothing, so I decided I could do a few more runs using this mod to get the true ending. It actually only took one ending for Last Story to unlock, since my save data transferred over and I didn’t even notice.
The game with this mod is probably still a 3.5 for me, but I'll bump it up to 4 stars because the mod makes tons of positive changes to improve the game and I want my score on its page to reflect that.
I ended up playing this mod since I still wanted to play Last Story for myself despite getting bored of the original game after four endings. At first I simply tried plugging in an "Unlock Last Story" cheat, but this didn't work. The Last Way was beatable but reaching the end would trigger a "LAST STORY Unlocked!" popup that would not go away no matter how much you mashed the button and heard the stock gunshot sound, preventing me from fighting the final boss. I couldn't figure out why it was triggering; there was a bug report on it but the fix didn't seem to work, I found out the popup would also trigger in other areas such as beating Westopolis and exiting the options menu, watching the final boss on YouTube wasn't going to be enough for me, and I sure wasn't going back to kill 50 enemies on Black Comet having a bad experience trying it on The Doom behind me and dozens of overdue games rotting in the backlog. I eventually stumbled upon this mod while looking for solutions, kinda wished I found out about it sooner but then noticed it slashed the amount of endings needed for Last Story from 10 all the way down to 3. I mentioned this game would’ve probably been more bearable if it only had 5 endings, but three was nothing, so I decided I could do a few more runs using this mod to get the true ending. It actually only took one ending for Last Story to unlock, since my save data transferred over and I didn’t even notice.
The game with this mod is probably still a 3.5 for me, but I'll bump it up to 4 stars because the mod makes tons of positive changes to improve the game and I want my score on its page to reflect that.
Eu tinha um amigo no ensino fundamental que se chamava Pedro Paulo. Assim como eu e todos os garotos da nossa sala, ele emprestava seus jogos de PS2 em troca de outro jogo emprestado pra ele. Afinal, toda vez que íamos no camelô tínhamos que rezar pro jogo que a gente queria estar lá, o que nunca acontecia, e essa era a única maneira de jogar muita coisa.
Eu, fanático por Sonic desde criança. emprestei Need for Speed Underground 2 pra ele em troca de Shadow The Hedgehog assim que soube que ele tinha o jogo. Era 2011, final do ano, e eu tinha acabado de me mudar pra cá. Num entardecer meio nublado, com a televisão de costas pra porta da varanda de maneira improvisada em cima da parte do meio da estante da TV que hoje uso como mesa também improvisada, eu coloquei o jogo no meu console um pouco depois de chegar da escola, lá pras dez pras 6.
Eu tava muito animado, pulando sentado no chão ansioso pra jogar esse jogo do Sonic que eu mal conhecia, mas meu amigo falou muito bem e tinha uma capa e contra capa esteticamente maravilhosas pro meu gosto até hoje.
Tela com a logo do console. Ok, funcionou.
Uma mensagem do jogo mostra que eu não tenho memory card, ok, vejo isso todo dia quando tenho que recomeçar os jogos do zero toda vez que vou jogá-los. Aperto X pra confirmar e escuto esse efeito sonoro com a tv num volume bem alto: https://youtu.be/wxsZmmxUgkM?t=120
O negócio já fica assustador aí, mas depois vem aquela intro que é linda até hoje. Eu assisto, gosto, mesmo estando bem desconfortável, e amo a música. Só tem um problema...
Na última cena dela, Shadow, armado com uma arma da vida real, mata Sonic e voa na direção da câmera. Na minha direção.
Meu coração fica extremamente acelerado, e eu morrendo de medo, desligo o console imediatamente. Pego o jogo, ponho de volta na capa e afundo ela na minha mochila da escola pra ficar fora de vista. Eu tava apavorado, não dormi bem e o devolver foi a primeira coisa que eu fiz na escola no dia seguinte, dizendo que não gostei.
Essa é a minha história com esse jogo.
Depois das férias eu já sabia quem era Shadow e não tinha medo, aliás, eu era viciado naquela intro. Só tinha um traumazinho com a experiência, como dá pra perceber pela quantidade de detalhes que me lembro.
Agora finalmente o joguei, depois de 11 anos, nessa versão melhorada acompanhado da doce @cellerepe que me deixa sem medo de qualquer coisa. A versão Reloaded ajuda em bastante coisa, mas o jogo é basicamente tudo o que dizem só que um pouco menos pior, e absolutamente perfeito nos aspectos fora da gameplay e história. Foi uma experiência sofrível pra nós dois que vale a pena só pros fãs mais hardcore ou pros interessados nessa pérola que é 1000% produto do seu tempo, o que me faz ter um carinho enorme por uma parte dele, e isso usando saves e esse mod. Mesmo assim, valeu muito a pena pra mim.
Depois das férias veio o quinto ano, e com ele um Pedrinho sem medo de intros com violência cartunesca, pelo contrário, ele amava isso. Ele tava pronto pra pedir Shadow The Hedgehog emprestado pro amigo e finalmente ver como o jogo era fora de vídeos 240p de partes do jogo no Youtube que só o deixaram mais interessado. Ele tava pronto!
Pedro Paulo saiu da escola e nunca mais o vimos. Na época procuramos muito por ele, e até hoje amigos que mantenho contato falam sobre isso, e volta e meia procuramos por ele em redes sociais, por amigos de amigos e por aí vai. Até o telefone da casa dele tinha mudado, e ele era um cara legal demais.
Eu queria muito não ter tido medo, ter jogado e com certeza curtido, ou invés de ter passado o resto da infância inteira querendo muito jogar e vendo AMV sem parar. Queria que fosse diferente e a nossa amizade continuasse até hoje. Mas as coisas são do jeito que são, e eu não posso mudar, então obrigado por essa história, Pedrão. Não esperava que me emprestar aquele jogo fosse me jogar numa saga de mais de uma década, né? Espero que você esteja bem, e que tenha curtido o Need for Speed Underground 2 que eu troquei pelo seu Ultimate Spider-Man, que não funcionou.
Eu, fanático por Sonic desde criança. emprestei Need for Speed Underground 2 pra ele em troca de Shadow The Hedgehog assim que soube que ele tinha o jogo. Era 2011, final do ano, e eu tinha acabado de me mudar pra cá. Num entardecer meio nublado, com a televisão de costas pra porta da varanda de maneira improvisada em cima da parte do meio da estante da TV que hoje uso como mesa também improvisada, eu coloquei o jogo no meu console um pouco depois de chegar da escola, lá pras dez pras 6.
Eu tava muito animado, pulando sentado no chão ansioso pra jogar esse jogo do Sonic que eu mal conhecia, mas meu amigo falou muito bem e tinha uma capa e contra capa esteticamente maravilhosas pro meu gosto até hoje.
Tela com a logo do console. Ok, funcionou.
Uma mensagem do jogo mostra que eu não tenho memory card, ok, vejo isso todo dia quando tenho que recomeçar os jogos do zero toda vez que vou jogá-los. Aperto X pra confirmar e escuto esse efeito sonoro com a tv num volume bem alto: https://youtu.be/wxsZmmxUgkM?t=120
O negócio já fica assustador aí, mas depois vem aquela intro que é linda até hoje. Eu assisto, gosto, mesmo estando bem desconfortável, e amo a música. Só tem um problema...
Na última cena dela, Shadow, armado com uma arma da vida real, mata Sonic e voa na direção da câmera. Na minha direção.
Meu coração fica extremamente acelerado, e eu morrendo de medo, desligo o console imediatamente. Pego o jogo, ponho de volta na capa e afundo ela na minha mochila da escola pra ficar fora de vista. Eu tava apavorado, não dormi bem e o devolver foi a primeira coisa que eu fiz na escola no dia seguinte, dizendo que não gostei.
Essa é a minha história com esse jogo.
Depois das férias eu já sabia quem era Shadow e não tinha medo, aliás, eu era viciado naquela intro. Só tinha um traumazinho com a experiência, como dá pra perceber pela quantidade de detalhes que me lembro.
Agora finalmente o joguei, depois de 11 anos, nessa versão melhorada acompanhado da doce @cellerepe que me deixa sem medo de qualquer coisa. A versão Reloaded ajuda em bastante coisa, mas o jogo é basicamente tudo o que dizem só que um pouco menos pior, e absolutamente perfeito nos aspectos fora da gameplay e história. Foi uma experiência sofrível pra nós dois que vale a pena só pros fãs mais hardcore ou pros interessados nessa pérola que é 1000% produto do seu tempo, o que me faz ter um carinho enorme por uma parte dele, e isso usando saves e esse mod. Mesmo assim, valeu muito a pena pra mim.
Depois das férias veio o quinto ano, e com ele um Pedrinho sem medo de intros com violência cartunesca, pelo contrário, ele amava isso. Ele tava pronto pra pedir Shadow The Hedgehog emprestado pro amigo e finalmente ver como o jogo era fora de vídeos 240p de partes do jogo no Youtube que só o deixaram mais interessado. Ele tava pronto!
Pedro Paulo saiu da escola e nunca mais o vimos. Na época procuramos muito por ele, e até hoje amigos que mantenho contato falam sobre isso, e volta e meia procuramos por ele em redes sociais, por amigos de amigos e por aí vai. Até o telefone da casa dele tinha mudado, e ele era um cara legal demais.
Eu queria muito não ter tido medo, ter jogado e com certeza curtido, ou invés de ter passado o resto da infância inteira querendo muito jogar e vendo AMV sem parar. Queria que fosse diferente e a nossa amizade continuasse até hoje. Mas as coisas são do jeito que são, e eu não posso mudar, então obrigado por essa história, Pedrão. Não esperava que me emprestar aquele jogo fosse me jogar numa saga de mais de uma década, né? Espero que você esteja bem, e que tenha curtido o Need for Speed Underground 2 que eu troquei pelo seu Ultimate Spider-Man, que não funcionou.