Thread:Mystic Monkey/@comment-2202259-20191010124259/@comment-2202259-20191023175548

Still the decision to hire people known for writing some morbid animal cartoon, despite them having absolutely no knowledge of the Sonic Series was a stupid decision. Sega cared more about pleasing the critics (& Gen1ers) than actual fans who were loyal to the series. Of course the critics don't care about the series & suggest things to hurt Sonic's reputation because they see it as another silly cartoon animal series.

Personally I think Eggman lost his edge as a villain after Adventure 2. Teaming up with the heroes to stop his grandfather softened him, which is probably why Metal Sonic held him prisoner. Sure he still wanted to take over the world & regained some of his villainous nature as a result of Sonic Heroes, although he wasn't as evil as he once was. Sonic Forces seemed like it was his big return to the terrorist he was in days of old.

In a way Eggman is kind of similar to Fuhrer King Bradley from Full Metal Alchemist (mangahood) in that both have a silly side & an intimidating part of their personalities. I still think Vic Mignogna's Edward Elric voice would have fit Sonic way better than Roger's voice. Speaking of which it's really unfortunate what happened to Vic over the course of this year. Back to Eggman, I don't see anything wrong with him being intimidating at times.

There remain plenty of intimidating villains in kids shows. Sure we can't have anyone as sinister as Myotismon these days, although MLP had Tirek & Chrysalis as intimidating villains. The Kirby series in the past 5 years has had an omnicidal supercomputer as a final boss. There's no reason games can't have serious villains & actual stakes & still be E or E10+. The real problem is simply that the Sonic games don't take themselves seriously at all in the 2010s.