User blog:UkantorEX/Sonic '06 Rewrite?

A pleasure to meet you at last, Princess of Soleanna. My name is Dr. Eggman. I've come to obtain the secret of the Flames of Disaster from you. And, to take the miracle gems that hold the key to its secret...the Chaos Emer-!

Wait, hang on a second.

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Nope, wrong line. My bad! ^_^" *ahem*

Ahoy, wikians of the Sonic Fanon Wiki! My name is UkantorEX (as you can see, but, formalities and all that), and I've been a follower of the Sonic series since about 2008 or 2009, when I picked up a cheap £14.99 copy of Sonic Unleashed for my rather new Xbox 360 (before any haters' memories start to rant to themselves about the Werehog, know that the Werehog is what drew me to the game. Lol). I loved it, still do, and went on to collect other Sonic/Sonic-related games available on the 360, namely Sonic Generations, SEGA SUperstars Tennis and...

SONIC THE HEDGEHOG.

That's where this blog comes in. I'd be beating a dead horse if I even bothered to talk about the actual game at all, so I won't bother. All I will say is that I actually don't mind the gameplay. So sue me.

Don't get me wrong, I'm fully aware of all Sonic '06's flaws, party due to having gained a couple more years since I bought it (I bought it when I was about 12 or 13, maybe 11, right  now I'm 15) and partly due to ClementJ462's (I think I got the numbers right) review-slash-rant. In fact, it was part 6, where the Great Clement talks about the plot, as well as being recently motivated to absorb tons of information about Sonic lore, that made me begin to contemplate the following:

What if I rewrote Sonic '06?

By "rewrite", I don't mean "change the plot entirely". What I mean is:


 * Make the dialogue more interesting.


 * Tidy up some of the implausible things, i.e. Elise not crying for 9 years.


 * Remove/improve on some of the contrived, forced, repetivite or lazy writing, such as Elise being kidnapped more in one game than Princess Peach, all the characters magically being in one place when Solaris screws up reality, Eggman explaining his evil plan to Elise twice for no reason, and the silly, superfluous "Solise" (as I call it) romance. And, yes, even Amy's uncharacteristic "I wud choose Sonic over teh world because tru luv" line.


 * Make Sonic act like Sonic, and care about what's happening.


 * Give Eggman a reason to be involved in the plot other than bait for the growth of Solise.


 * Possibly replace Blaze the Cat with a fanon character, probably of my own, just so that her backstory in Sonic Rush would no longer be in question.


 * Undo Eggman's plastic surgery, and make him more slapstick and incompetent (the latter of which he still is in '06 anyway) rather than keeping him darkly devisive. Give his speech its exaggeration back and return his insanity and narcissism, perhpas provide his staple robot servant, i.e. Orbot (seriously, Eggmanland/Robotropolis/Robotnikland wasn't even uttered once, that saddened me a little).


 * Give the red Chaos Emerald some screen time! XD

I could make this list far, far longer, but that's laborious.

Anyway, I really would like to rewrite Sonic '06's plot as I think that, if it's fine details were less contrived or unfeasable, the dialoague and character interactions (epscially for Silver and Sonic in the case of the latter) were better, and, overall, the execution wasn't so sloppy (seriously, Eggman was almost as irrelevant as Amy in this game), it could have been a fantastic plot. But because all those things stymied it, it was mediocre at best, with some good ideas thrown in.

Perhaps it's been attempted before, I wouldn't know. Seeing as this wiki has over 12,000 articles, I'm not going to even attempt to find out. But either way, it's something I'd like shot at.

It'd prbably take awhile, especially since I'd have to figure out a better "release command", so to speak, for Iblis other than Elise's tears, and I'd have to do a lot of dialogue editing and paraphrasing and the like, but that's okay. As a guy who wants to be an author someday, revision such as this is something I'd quite like to attempt.

So, what do you guys think?

Now the gate has been unlatched, headstones pushed aside. Corpses shift and offer room, a fate you must abide! (talk) 20:57, July 9, 2013 (UTC)

PS: Just to clarify, should I go through with this, it would be written the way any normal book would. Not in the fashion of a script or a sprite comic or a roleplay (definitely not a roleplay) or anything like that.