Talk:Black Doom Saga

Let's face it. Shadow the Hedgehog, both the game and character, sucks monkey balls. All the more reason to not so much toss it aside as much as I do rewrite the whole thing from scratch.

In Shadow's game, Sonic and his friends have minor cameos, but no literally important roles other than to annoy players with their god-awful overacting voices and cliched one-liners. They don't even fight with the corrupt GUN commander to determine Shadow's fate. So, to improve on Shadow's game, or as I'd like to call it, "The Black Doom Saga", I gave Sonic and friends a more important role than just cameos. In my version, because Sonic and co. care for a monster in a world that hates him, Sonic and friends must contend with the GUN commander and his troops as much as Black Doom and his alien armies. By doing such a thing, I unwittingly made GUN more corrupt than they appear to be, constantly believing that if they kill any Shadow sympathizers like Sonic and his friends, the very heroes who protected their sorry asses many times over, alongside Shadow himself, they could foil Black Doom's plans. In turn, what they don't realize is that Sonic and his friends are the only ones with the power to defeat Black Doom and his Black Arms army, and by killing their only hopes for their survival just because they sympathized with and befriended Shadow, they serve themselves to the aliens on a silver platter. They're that ignorant.

As for Sonic and friends, originally they were not only there for the sake of being there, but were also cannon fodder to the Black Arms. So, by giving them their own side of the same story complete with choose-your-own-adventure elements like Shadow's story, do they not only gain a more significant role, but also become powerful enough to defeat even Shadow and Black Doom. After all, their ideals about friendship, teamwork, and courage can easily surpass even Black Doom's power over time and space, which is what Sega should've done in the first place if they ever wanted to create something as ridiculously bad as Shadow the Hedgehog's game. In turn, I also made Shadow weaker and so dependent on Sonic and his friends (or Black Doom, if he sided with him) that if Shadow were to fight Sonic and co., he'd lose because where he had Chaos Control, Sonic and friends had faith in themselves and each other, which in my opinion can surpass even Shadow's Chaos Control.

I mean, the Shadow the Hedgehog site said that not even Sonic can stop the Black Arms, yet by writing this page on the Black Doom Saga, part of the Sonic 2D All-Stars collection, I'm making Sonic the true main protagonist while Shadow is the weaker one that desperately needs rescuing.

As for why I'd make the GUN commander and his mech-suit, Diablon, a boss in Sonic's hero and pure hero routes, it's because, let's face it, the GUN commander is corrupt, haunted by Shadow's crimes and existence, and if Sonic and friends were to help Shadow rather than kill him as the commander ordered them to, the commander and his troops would deem them traitors to humanity and would hunt them down and kill them on sight alongside Shadow. Either that, or pit Sonic, Shadow, and their friends against Black Doom, then whoever wins will be heavily-fatigued enough to be finished off by the commander himself.

Sonic and his friends wants to save Shadow from Black Doom's temptations, yet they can't because that would mean betraying GUN, and if they kill their friend they'd lose a friend.