Blackdoom calls you a traitor for literally anything and then still relies on you to do his missions. Perfectly sums up that entire side of the game lol If anything Show the Hedgehog told me that everyone gets a second chance... or three. Or four. Or 7.
Your description did remind me this cartoon came out pretty much at the start of the emo craze in Europe. The memories! Still, even if it's tied to its time, it' still pretty darn funny imo, and a good parody.
Oh thank God you re-uploaded this. The original uploads were like watching animated polluted scummy water today, and it was such a startling revelation to watch it on Newgrounds in high quality I was considering recording and uploading it to RUclips myself just to do this fairly funny animation justice. Now I don't have to.
I tell you, for as odd/bad as the 4kids cast could be, they were the PERFECT voice actors to deliver this narrative the way it deserved (which is not to say it was the way it wanted to). I loved how of the wall goofy the story came across in its EARNEST attempts to be dark and edgy. Add that with Jason Griffith and pal's usual tonedeaf though passionate delivery, and you have the one redeeming factor of to come out of this game's mess of a tale.
Thanks for saying it was a mistranslation, because that line always made no sense to me. The Gun Commander tells Shadow that Maria was the only family he knew, and then later saids it wasn’t just Maria, but that everyone he knew and loved was killed. It’s like, Dude, you just said Maria was the only family you knew!
I always love how in Sonic stories, you can always point out some plotholes and make fun of them. I mean seriously, do the writers reread their stories before submitting them? If I do a story, I try my hardest to not make a plothole in it, not leave them out, because I think everyone is dumb enough to not see them.
I suppose a problem with videogame stories is that they want to set up the conflict as quickly as possible to go to the next level, so they can't afford to worry about the small details.
It's the same for movies too sometimes. Still, a writer is hired to write a good story, he or she has no other job than just writing. Okay, maybe sometimes they can have multijobs, but still if they want their job right, they have to imagine the story they wrote, question themselves about everything that seems out of place and fix it. Atleast Shadow the Hedgehog game had the other characters with you, they even helped you out, but in Forces, it's "Sonic, help me!" "Sonic, we are in danger!", they basically act like they can't fight for themselves or solve their problems themselves. Look how coward Tails became lately. I know it's Sonic's franchise and all, but look at MLP:FiM for an example. They have six main characters, but they focus on the side characters too, they even gave the side and background characters an episode, where the main characters are totally pushed away. I just say that a rushed story with bad characterizing is always a bad story.
Hun Lepto I doubt that you‘d be able to always successfully catch and avoid every single plothole within your work. But you don’t have to, minor plotholes aren’t too bad, you won’t even be able to avoid them when you’re f.e. writing a time travel story. As long as they fall under the category of Fridge Logic, meaning that things still make enough sense(no obvious contradictions/inconsistencies, etc.) and that there’s enough stuff going on to distract from them so the audience will most likely not notice the holes until they think about it afterwards, you should be fine. As the Nostalgia Critic once said: „Don’t complain that you could see the puppeteer during the puppet show, instead criticize that you focused more on him than you did on the puppet.“ That’s what in my eyes makes the plotholes in something like the SA games a lot more excusable than the ones from this one or the Sonic Rush games that definitely needed a proof read. But I guess there were just too many stories in ShTH to have enough time to make all of them logically tie into each other. Just like with time travel, I think with a concept like this is bound to have at least some plotholes in it.
Time traveling in Sonic stories is never explained fully and are sometimes badly executed, which is why I think Sonic games shouldn't have those. I never said minor plotholes are bad, they can be usually explained, but when a major plothole affects the main story, that's no good. Atleast SA games cared with all of the characters, even with Big the Cat. Even 06 cared with the characters as much as with Sonic. Well, maybe Knuckles had like 6 lines in the game that was in the cutscenes, but it didn't really affect the story, because the story wasn't about him. That's why I want a new 06 type of game with a better story that doesn't have time traveling and doesn't look like a fanfic.
I loved this back when it released it made me literally laugh out loud in the sense that in real life I went "HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHHAHHAAHAHAHAAAHAHAHAHAHAA" and not in the sense that I quietly said "lol". This parady is one of my all time favourites. A true classic through and through, worthy of preservation for future generations. What I like is that the game Shadow the Hedgehog itself is a parody of Sonic Adventure 2 by exaggerating Shadow's edginess and this video is a parady of the game Shadow the Hedgehog by exaggerating his emoness. I think that both the game and this video are great parodies.
Shadow: I have a quick question Black doom: Uhm sure Shadow: Those are your men right? Black doom: Yes Shadow: Guarding all 3 generators? Black doom: Correct.... Shadow: You are in contact with your men right? Black Doom: Of course...
Looking back at Shadow’s game, it easy to see that this was Sega jumping on the “edgy” bandwagon games were on at the time. It would’ve been cool if the game had been like this video and been a parody (see Conker) but that would involve clever writing. Something Sega can’t do for shit. Seriously with Sega it’s ridiculous melodrama or grade school humor and no in between.
Guess Sega saw how much cash Capcom was making off of Resident Evil 4 and Devil May Cry 3 and decided, "HEY! THEY'RE PRODUCING SMASH HITS FILLED WITH EDGE! LET'S RIDE ON THEIR SUCCESS!"
Aaaah my favourite of your parodies! Loved this one! Thanks so much for re-uploading it! Any chance of you making another Shadow the Hedgehog in minutes at any point?
I'm looking forward to the Forces and Mania parodies :). I know I'd love to see another Shadow parody, I'd be interested to see how different it would be from these ones, given it's now over 10 years old and a collab. And of course, it's my favourite Sonic game. Btw, is Evildoc still a thing? Or have you gone separate ways now?
I relate to this Shadow, everyone is stupid and wants me to do their work and then tell me how they're useless and I want to kill myself but it just doesn't happen. Also I listen to high speed emo chipmunk music.
Oh god,holding all of the world's SORROW!! SHADOW YOU'RE TOO MUCH!! XD 10:25,XD Also,the chase music of Chris and Shadow was from the GI Joe Arcade game by Konami. 'Yo Joe!' kinda gave it away.
OMG THIS WAS MY CHILDHOOD LMAO!! It’s even funnier watching it as you’re older cuz you finally understand the sarcasm. 🤣💀 All the jokes meant to poke fun at the plot holes & poor character illustration are genius but when we were kids it was just funny because of the randomness & funny voices. I hope this re-upload is by the original creator! Thank you for the memories!!!!
1. Yeah we did. 2. Probably the classic and GBA ones, there's not enough plot going on for things to go wrong. But hey, that's why I love the Sonic series. Also I over exagerate everything.
Кирилл Иванов If you’re talking about the plot, yes, there are plenty of Sonic games where the plot makes sense. If you’re talking about a story that has no inconsistencies whatsoever on the other hand, you‘ll have a much harder time finding it. But then again, you can find plotholes in pretty much every game story that doesn’t consist of pantomime cutscenes, even in games like Mario&Luigi: Paper Jam Bros. Keep in mind that Roger loves to exaggerate things, it’s what makes his videos funny. Things usually aren’t actually this bad, but having the characters just point out the logic flaws exactly as they are would be nowhere near as funny to us nor fun to him.
Rainpooper This seems like more of a let's play from that point of view. Roger, as Shadow, pinpoints the holes in story and tries to break them. It would be interesting, if every solution was thought out within the plot.
This was the coolest shit when I was a kid. The art was so awesome! I was too stupid to realize that both this series and the "Sonic in Minutes" series were made by the same guy.
![FNAF vs TF2 - Episode 2 [SFM]](/img/1.gif)
I remember this one, ancient gold right here.
“Shadow, I’m pregnant and you are the father.”
“We spoke to each other twice.”
“They were very sexy words.”
Shadamy in a nutshell.
Also Silver the Hedgehog origin story/Shadamy child confirmed in a nutshell
As a Shadamy shipper, I found that joke funny.
Ironically, compared to the mainline games, it feels like Shadow is more true to his character here than he has been in the past 10 years.
"SHADOW! HOW DARE YOU ATTACK MY SOLDIERS?!"
"COULD YOU TELL YOUR MEN NOT TO ATTACK ME FIRST?!"
"...No.
Blackdoom calls you a traitor for literally anything and then still relies on you to do his missions. Perfectly sums up that entire side of the game lol
If anything Show the Hedgehog told me that everyone gets a second chance... or three. Or four. Or 7.
Your description did remind me this cartoon came out pretty much at the start of the emo craze in Europe. The memories!
Still, even if it's tied to its time, it' still pretty darn funny imo, and a good parody.
Really eh. Tell me all about it when you remember it's name
"My father died when he faced a little girl!" Yes, that does seem to be GUN's hiring policy.
Oh thank God you re-uploaded this. The original uploads were like watching animated polluted scummy water today, and it was such a startling revelation to watch it on Newgrounds in high quality I was considering recording and uploading it to RUclips myself just to do this fairly funny animation justice.
Now I don't have to.
I tell you, for as odd/bad as the 4kids cast could be, they were the PERFECT voice actors to deliver this narrative the way it deserved (which is not to say it was the way it wanted to).
I loved how of the wall goofy the story came across in its EARNEST attempts to be dark and edgy. Add that with Jason Griffith and pal's usual tonedeaf though passionate delivery, and you have the one redeeming factor of to come out of this game's mess of a tale.
This is definitely a classic.
THE BLOB STILL EATS US
hedgehogsonic11 yeah
Jub
Thanks for fulfilling the request, happy 2018~!
It has aged but some scenes, like the"I won't be a Luigi anymore" speech, are still hilarious.
18:47 I like the reference you made of the mistranslation from the original Japanese dialogues.
Thanks for saying it was a mistranslation, because that line always made no sense to me. The Gun Commander tells Shadow that Maria was the only family he knew, and then later saids it wasn’t just Maria, but that everyone he knew and loved was killed. It’s like, Dude, you just said Maria was the only family you knew!
Aaaaah, good old classic 2000s humor. Thank you so much for reuploading this so we appreciate it all over again in its full glorious quality!
Holy cow, I remember watching this a decade ago!! oh memories. :')
7:46 Alright, calm down, Butthead.
2006 consensus on shadow; emo, brooding, pretty well rounded overall
2019 post edgy the hedgy consensus on shadow; “OW THE EDGE VEGETA HUEHUE”
That's right, Jim! Artificial Chaos are indeed beneficial to mankind. They're definitely not THE MOST FUCKING ANNOYING enemies in SA2 and STH.
IT TOOK ME YEARS TO FIND THIS AGAIN OMFG
"DIE YOU EVIL FLOOR" TF2 Soldier rocket-jumping be like.
I always love how in Sonic stories, you can always point out some plotholes and make fun of them. I mean seriously, do the writers reread their stories before submitting them? If I do a story, I try my hardest to not make a plothole in it, not leave them out, because I think everyone is dumb enough to not see them.
I suppose a problem with videogame stories is that they want to set up the conflict as quickly as possible to go to the next level, so they can't afford to worry about the small details.
It's the same for movies too sometimes. Still, a writer is hired to write a good story, he or she has no other job than just writing. Okay, maybe sometimes they can have multijobs, but still if they want their job right, they have to imagine the story they wrote, question themselves about everything that seems out of place and fix it. Atleast Shadow the Hedgehog game had the other characters with you, they even helped you out, but in Forces, it's "Sonic, help me!" "Sonic, we are in danger!", they basically act like they can't fight for themselves or solve their problems themselves. Look how coward Tails became lately. I know it's Sonic's franchise and all, but look at MLP:FiM for an example. They have six main characters, but they focus on the side characters too, they even gave the side and background characters an episode, where the main characters are totally pushed away.
I just say that a rushed story with bad characterizing is always a bad story.
Hun Lepto
I doubt that you‘d be able to always successfully catch and avoid every single plothole within your work. But you don’t have to, minor plotholes aren’t too bad, you won’t even be able to avoid them when you’re f.e. writing a time travel story. As long as they fall under the category of Fridge Logic, meaning that things still make enough sense(no obvious contradictions/inconsistencies, etc.) and that there’s enough stuff going on to distract from them so the audience will most likely not notice the holes until they think about it afterwards, you should be fine. As the Nostalgia Critic once said: „Don’t complain that you could see the puppeteer during the puppet show, instead criticize that you focused more on him than you did on the puppet.“ That’s what in my eyes makes the plotholes in something like the SA games a lot more excusable than the ones from this one or the Sonic Rush games that definitely needed a proof read. But I guess there were just too many stories in ShTH to have enough time to make all of them logically tie into each other. Just like with time travel, I think with a concept like this is bound to have at least some plotholes in it.
Time traveling in Sonic stories is never explained fully and are sometimes badly executed, which is why I think Sonic games shouldn't have those. I never said minor plotholes are bad, they can be usually explained, but when a major plothole affects the main story, that's no good. Atleast SA games cared with all of the characters, even with Big the Cat. Even 06 cared with the characters as much as with Sonic. Well, maybe Knuckles had like 6 lines in the game that was in the cutscenes, but it didn't really affect the story, because the story wasn't about him. That's why I want a new 06 type of game with a better story that doesn't have time traveling and doesn't look like a fanfic.
@@hunlepto2239 Plotholes are like glitches in a videogame, they're inevitable.
The Part with Amy were so funny!
Funny thing is, I remember watching this when I was 11.
Lunataari same omg
I love how this one is almost 24 minutes long. A video can never be long enough if it has your animation style and humor:D
"Hey kids! Gee, I really wonder what happens if I put my finger in this power outlet??"
"DIIIIIIIIEEEEEE!!!!!"
I will always fuckin lol at that part
_Oh, Shadow, How can I be so Edgy as you?_ **Shows Hybrid Theory Disc** **Sounds Crawling**
_Beautiful_
9:53 What? What the fuck?
Rediscovering this as an adult and realizing Dead Can Dance, currently one of my favorite bands, is in the soundtrack is so beautifully bizarre
Shadow the hedgehog Dark Beginnings needs to live up to this
not gonna lie, this is probably my favorite of your older stuff.
I loved this back when it released it made me literally laugh out loud in the sense that in real life I went "HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHHAHHAAHAHAHAAAHAHAHAHAHAA" and not in the sense that I quietly said "lol". This parady is one of my all time favourites. A true classic through and through, worthy of preservation for future generations.
What I like is that the game Shadow the Hedgehog itself is a parody of Sonic Adventure 2 by exaggerating Shadow's edginess and this video is a parady of the game Shadow the Hedgehog by exaggerating his emoness. I think that both the game and this video are great parodies.
It took me a while to realize that this is a parody of Shadow the Hedgehog for PS2/Xbox/Gamecube.
21:41 0_o Shadow is wagging his tail
I love how Shadow is literally the only one with common sense in this animation LOL!
the part with the guards and the doors is fucking hilarious
Pretty great video... I do remember that it was my introduction to your art and parodies....
It bring so much memories.... :3
Why do I feel like Amy and Shadow would be a good couple cause every time she talks to him he seems to feel peaceful and not upset
7:04 Someone invented the 🤔 back in the days.
Took me forever to find this, but my nostalgia trip is finally complete!!
First 2018 video I've seen
Cool Kid95
No. It's a 2006 video.
TripleJump the video I saw in 2018
Shadow: I have a quick question
Black doom: Uhm sure
Shadow: Those are your men right?
Black doom: Yes
Shadow: Guarding all 3 generators?
Black doom: Correct....
Shadow: You are in contact with your men right?
Black Doom: Of course...
Thank you for reuploading a wonderful piece from the good ol days. Bless you.
Duuuuuuuuuuuuude, that sure brings back memories... I miss when I was a teenager...
When the GUN Commander eats the trooper, I lose my shit.
Looking back at Shadow’s game, it easy to see that this was Sega jumping on the “edgy” bandwagon games were on at the time. It would’ve been cool if the game had been like this video and been a parody (see Conker) but that would involve clever writing. Something Sega can’t do for shit. Seriously with Sega it’s ridiculous melodrama or grade school humor and no in between.
Guess Sega saw how much cash Capcom was making off of Resident Evil 4 and Devil May Cry 3 and decided, "HEY! THEY'RE PRODUCING SMASH HITS FILLED WITH EDGE! LET'S RIDE ON THEIR SUCCESS!"
Man. This thing's a relic.
Doom is Dr. Claw from Inspector Gadget, apparently.
Aaaah my favourite of your parodies! Loved this one! Thanks so much for re-uploading it! Any chance of you making another Shadow the Hedgehog in minutes at any point?
Possible. For now I got my hands full on Forces and Mania, but I'd love to go back to Shadow.
I'm looking forward to the Forces and Mania parodies :). I know I'd love to see another Shadow parody, I'd be interested to see how different it would be from these ones, given it's now over 10 years old and a collab. And of course, it's my favourite Sonic game.
Btw, is Evildoc still a thing? Or have you gone separate ways now?
Let's all have a moment of silence to G.U.N. commander's bullet
wohoo it's year of shadow baybeee I can't wait to see black doom again
Same, I love Doomy.
I think we all are
I relate to this Shadow, everyone is stupid and wants me to do their work and then tell me how they're useless and I want to kill myself but it just doesn't happen.
Also I listen to high speed emo chipmunk music.
That recap in the middle was better than the actual game.
Also, you shut up, Shadow.
It's always the year of Luigi!
Oh god,holding all of the world's SORROW!! SHADOW YOU'RE TOO MUCH!! XD
10:25,XD
Also,the chase music of Chris and Shadow was from the GI Joe Arcade game by Konami. 'Yo Joe!' kinda gave it away.
3:37 I was eating pop tarts while watching this and I started feeling awkward about the very fact that I was eating at this point xD
OMG THIS WAS MY CHILDHOOD LMAO!! It’s even funnier watching it as you’re older cuz you finally understand the sarcasm. 🤣💀 All the jokes meant to poke fun at the plot holes & poor character illustration are genius but when we were kids it was just funny because of the randomness & funny voices. I hope this re-upload is by the original creator! Thank you for the memories!!!!
This takes me back holy shit. Remember, Collecting rings will give you...rings.
Best joke was totally: "...I'M AN EGGMAN ROBOT!"
ten years later and i'm still cracking the fuck up at this cartoon
13 years later and nothing has changed
Wow. This takes me back.
SHADOW HOW DARE YOU TO ATTACK MY SOLDIERS?!!😂 well they attacked him first
I'd love to see a remake of this.
One of my childhood favorites from newgrounds :).
21:41 THAT TAIL WAGGING!!!!!!!!!!! 😱💞💞💞💞
Never saw this before. What the burns weeds you take Roger Van?
I'm autistic, I don't need weed.
Roger van der Weide I don't knew this fact and RUclips should enjoy more yours videos. Save from Portugal
Holy bananas, I don't expected you answer my ask. Nobody usually don't asnwer me. Thanks
1. Do you think you have relied too much on "EDGY" jokes?
2. Is there a Sonic game, where the plot makes sense?
1. Yeah we did.
2. Probably the classic and GBA ones, there's not enough plot going on for things to go wrong. But hey, that's why I love the Sonic series. Also I over exagerate everything.
Кирилл Иванов
If you’re talking about the plot, yes, there are plenty of Sonic games where the plot makes sense. If you’re talking about a story that has no inconsistencies whatsoever on the other hand, you‘ll have a much harder time finding it. But then again, you can find plotholes in pretty much every game story that doesn’t consist of pantomime cutscenes, even in games like Mario&Luigi: Paper Jam Bros. Keep in mind that Roger loves to exaggerate things, it’s what makes his videos funny. Things usually aren’t actually this bad, but having the characters just point out the logic flaws exactly as they are would be nowhere near as funny to us nor fun to him.
Rainpooper This seems like more of a let's play from that point of view. Roger, as Shadow, pinpoints the holes in story and tries to break them. It would be interesting, if every solution was thought out within the plot.
13:07 This is the part i remember from childhood lmao!
When vector killed charmy and the people chanted YAY! I lost it XD
Old but gold!! 🤩🤩🤩
I feel like a kid again~
This was the coolest shit when I was a kid. The art was so awesome! I was too stupid to realize that both this series and the "Sonic in Minutes" series were made by the same guy.
I remember watching this in 2014, good times.
Knuckles is crazy 6:20
“Fascinating, Now GO” 😂😂😂😂😂😮💨
must kill with car had me cracking up
im getting old miss thos times earlie 2000s
I'M AN EGGMAN ROBOT still gets me all these years later. X'D
Me too! XD
"Darnit why dont her clothes burn off? That would be cool...uh...huh..." -Shadow the H *edge* hog
I MISSED THISSSS
"For damn's sake" - StH summed up in one sentence.
Lol chris at the end.
Ahhh~ never gets old
These vectors look exactly like the artwork....
oml
ah thanks for bringing this back
Great edgelord. This was a classic.
Nostalgic.
This one was a good flash parody
The childhood memories
Ah yes. Shadow the hedgehog in minutes.
Shadow: I am shadow, the ultimate hedgehog.
Sonic: No your not.
Shadow: What? HEEEEUUUUUAAAAHHH
And that’s sonic adventure 2
17:18 ah yes Unreal Tournament 1999 Sniper Rifle sound. Didn't know that you like that game too.
Old but fun the watch
Who saw this because of characters in depth besides me?
I saw this in my childhood lol
This is nostalgic as fuck.
"They were very S*** words" -Amy the .....
this is really funny and is so true
"As he eats a flicky"
nostalgia
21:25 Vector kills Charmy for no reason
I am amused.
Happy new year Rofer!
Same to you.
this is so cool