WTF, how much more can they ruin Sonic?

[Dark Jaguar]

ABF, what do you mean exactly? I mean, sure watching it now I see a lot of the hidden innuendo of that movie, but as a kid I never noticed any of it as they made a pretty good attempt at hiding it all behind stuff we'd find funny, for example, patty cake. They wouldn't be doing stuff like that if they didn't intend it to be for kids. And besides that, every single kid did go out and see it, and they made a Nintendo game based on it (which sucked in retrospect).

I think he meant "Sonic Adventure 3", if not, then Sega screwed up with the naming thing...

Anyway, honestly I don't see the problem, as far as "THINK ABOUT THE CHILDREN" when it comes to a fire arm. The problem I see is it just doesn't really fit the mold very well to give The Flash a gun. Also, it's interesting to see that Sonic has been altogether removed from the series. I mean, the two could be related...

In other words, I agree with OB1 that this isn't exactly a good move on Sega's part, I just disagree on one of the reasons it's a bad decision. (I'm pretty sure little kids aren't going to be horrified or desensitized any more by a gun than by sheer beating the snot out of things like they did before. I don't think I ever had a problem with Mario punching his enemies to custard, another repeatable act since last I checked kids had fists and feet, and likely access to hammers.) Also, I at least acknowledge that adding shooting to high speed COULD be a new gameplay experience...

I only bring that up not to start any argument, but basically to make it clear that when I say "I agree", there are a few places I need to define where I don't exactly, but it doesn't really matter.