 So we're gonna talk about the Sonic the Hedgehog movie and the supposed leak, now two different leaks, of the design of Sonic the Hedgehog. I, man, where do we begin with this one? We could begin with the creator of Sonic, Yuji Naka, not being impressed. He put on a tweet that roughly translates to, I think that the image of Sonic's movie design should come from the official film company. I think that this is a staged leak, but when it comes to things with a bad direction, it will be better to go to Sonic's IP, but it is not. There's also a possibility of a well-made fan markup, but I want him to be wearing gloves. It's shocking that his hands are white and bare. What is he talking about? Well, there's this leak of Sonic, and then there's this leak of Sonic, and then there's like this more artistic leak of Sonic. Oh my gosh, guys, I get it. I get why you're upset. I get why each and every single one of you are probably down in the comments laughing about this design and just writing this off as another bad Sonic movie. And I understand if you dig into like the producers and the directors and some of the writers and all this stuff, and you go into their past work, there's a bunch of films in there that critics didn't like and some fans didn't enjoy, and this movie has in many people's minds disaster written all over it, and the Sonic design was kind of the nail in the coffin. Although, to be fair, when we saw this movie poster, we kind of already knew that Sonic wasn't going to look, you know, like the Sonic that we grew up with with the disproportionate body and all that stuff. We knew it was going to be different. That being said, whether this design is a fan mock-up or is legit, and it looks legit because it really does line up with the movie poster. There's no real reason for it not to be legit at this point, and especially the second leak looks like it's coming from a media event that's going to be happening soon. I just I'm kind of left with this sense of I don't agree with some of the critics of this design. Let me let me explain because it feels weird to say that because let's go, I mean not let's go, but you know detective Pikachu movie coming out, the Pokemon that are in real life form, some don't like the designs, but the designs at least feel true to what the Pokemon are in the game. To me, my issue with a lot of video game movie adaptions is that the movies themselves try to stick too close to the source material. In my personal opinion, when you try to stick too close to the source material, both not only in the design of the characters and the movie and the costumes, but in the story telling, what ends up happening is instead of making a good movie, you make a poor telling of a video game story in a movie form. Video game stories only work in the interactive gameplay environment, and even then you know if you compare that story to say you know Game of Thrones or something like that, Game of Thrones obviously just has a much more compelling story compared to most video games. And video games that we remember with amazing stories, there are people that love the story like in Red Dead Redemption 2 or The Witcher 3, they're usually paired with something else in the game that makes it stunning and masterful. Red Dead Redemption 2, it's just the beauty of the world. And yeah, some people do like the gameplay of it, but you know the point is that there's something else attached to that great storytelling. The Witcher 3 has that amazing world and that gameplay and everything around it attached to the story. If you just take the story on its own and forget everything else, they're not actually super strong compared to say a typical Hollywood blockbuster movie. So when you're talking about this adaption of Sonic the Hedgehog movie, I don't want Sonic to look like Sonic from the cartoon series. I don't want to look like any of the Sonic designs from the video games because this shouldn't be a video game movie. This should just be a movie that stands on its own. And I'm going to say something that's a little controversial. You guys remember the Mario Bros movie, right? The Super Mario Bros movie that where King Koopa was a human and you know they went to this like steampunk underworld and it really strange movie. It feels nothing like a Mario game, right? Some people, you know, I guess it's a cult classic for some. I love that movie. I absolutely adore that movie. Like the little wind-up bomb. The little toy wind-up bomb. It's so awesome. I love that movie and I know maybe I'm just someone that likes bad movies and that's entirely possible that I'm just that person that loves bad movies. But I can't help it. Like I watched that movie. I just watched it yesterday to make sure that I'm actually saying here and actually believe this and it wasn't just my childhood brain just being so happy that this Mario thing exists. And sure enough I was laughing. I was loving it. I love the world. I love the story. There wasn't really anything I disliked about the movie and the thing about it is I get that people didn't like it because it didn't feel like Mario. But that's exactly why I liked it because it kind of just said look we're just gonna kind of take like the Mario characters and just do whatever the hell we want with it. And I loved it for it. It felt like one of those sci-fi flicks. Like it was so interesting to me. I loved it. I loved every bit of that movie. And when it comes to this like yeah Sonic doesn't look like Sonic. I don't really care. If it did I'll be even more worried about the movie. I don't care if they make a great looking Sonic you know CGI character. That's not gonna make the movie good or not. Like you can hate the design and I understand why people hate it. It doesn't look like Sonic or at least doesn't look like Sonic the way we know it. It looks like some humanoid, pre-bubescent teenager with lots of fur and spiky hair. I get it. I understand. But I just I look at this design and I'm like hey you know what they're doing their own thing with this movie. And I'm okay with that. I'm literally okay with them just doing their own thing. Is it gonna be a good movie? We don't know anything about it to tell if it's gonna be a good movie. All we know is there's a Sonic the Hedgehog movie coming. We know some of the people behind it. And if you don't like their prior work you're kind of probably biased already to hate the movie. And if you don't like the design it's gonna make you more biased to hate the movie. And I'm just sitting back like I don't think this design is really as bad as people make it out to be. I think it looks like this alien transformative thing like Ninja Turtles where like the ooze drip down into the the sewers and got on the turtles and you know the rat and like it feels kind of like you know a mutation of a hedgehog. And I'm cool with that. Like that doesn't bother me. I honestly think that this is interesting to say the least. And I get it. A lot of you might hate this video. You're gonna hate my opinion on it. It is just my opinion. I don't know if I'm gonna like this movie. I do know I am going to watch the movie. I haven't decided if I'm going to the theater for it or not. But I am going to watch the Sonic the Hedgehog movie eventually. And I'll reserve my judgment for the movie at that time. But when it comes to this specific design of Sonic I get the outrage. I just can't help but be like I kind of like it. I think I put out a tweet on this earlier. You know I low-key like this design. And I'm probably alone in the universe with that opinion. I've seen a lot of people screaming on Twitter about it. A lot of YouTube videos. A lot of people in Q&A is just like you know screaming from the mountaintops from their soap boxes that hey this is really terrible lol. It's easy to make fun of this design. It's easy to make fun of Sega. It's easy to make fun of the people behind the movie. But I'd rather reserve judgment until I see the movie. And as for the design itself it's something new. It's something unique. It's something fresh. And it's probably not as bad as people fear it is. I'll give you a kind of one example. Now I mentioned the Ninja Turtles earlier. The original trilogy of Ninja Turtle movies, the real life Ninja Turtle movies are some of my favorite movies of all time. Now the third movie is admittedly a bad movie. But the first one and Secret of the Ooze are amazing. And the Ninja Turtles in that look really hyper realistic. Obviously we know the costumes for those turtles were made by you know one of the best costume and puppet makers of all time in Jim Henson. So like of course they look so amazing and it's like true to the cartoons but also kind of looks like this is what like an adult real life Ninja Turtle would look like. Amazing. Cool. It's like a realization of our dreams of what Ninja Turtles look like in real life. But then we got the new TMNT movies that had that there were again were real life TMNT movies but they had these really crazy designs on the turtles that look stupid. And I thought it was horrible and it ruined my childhood. And then you actually watched the movies and you know what some movies actually weren't half bad. There's a reason that there's a couple of them because they actually are decent movies. And the more you watch it the less and less I honestly cared about the design of those characters. And it felt less off putting the more I watched. So my thing is that like yeah this can be off putting for you but maybe the movie ends up not being as bad as you fear it is. For me I'm not off put by this design at all. I like unique designs like this. This is like the first big indicator to me that Sonic the Hedgehog the movie is forgetting that it's a video game series and they're trying to make a compelling movie. And this design choice I think clearly signifies a separation of movie and game. And that's what I think it takes to make an excellent video game movie is you need that separation of video game and like the thing that excites me I think the most about Detective Pikachu. If you've played Detective Pikachu on 3DS you could already tell on the trailer there's a ton of different locations a ton of different story elements that are completely different from Detective Pikachu the game. What they're doing with Detective Pikachu the movie is they're forgetting they're setting aside the Detective Pikachu game and they're just creating a compelling movie about Detective Pikachu you know the main character and you know this world of Pokemon. They're setting aside the game and creating their own narrative and their own world based on obscure side dish in Pokemon. They are setting that aside to do their own thing and that's what makes Detective Pikachu look so amazing. Now yes obviously you guys probably like the designs of some of the characters more I've seen some people that don't like Charizard's design or maybe they don't like Jigglypuff's design or whatever I get it but bottom line is that there's probably a design in there that you do like I'm assuming and it's got Ryan Reynolds which obviously gives it a little bit of clout because people are loving Ryan Reynolds I don't know that people ever didn't like Ryan Reynolds except in that one superhero movie that we shall not name. But yeah honestly I gotta say this is uh this isn't as bad as I think people are making it out to be so you guys let me know however I mean this is just my opinion you guys let me know what you think about it down in the comments below how much you hate the design maybe you're like me and you're low-key kind of like it and I'm not even low-key I literally just made a video about it like I like the design what am I gonna say I like the design I like that it's different give me something different don't give me something that reminds me of my childhood and then when the movie ends up being bad it's like I got this bad like vision of my childhood now I'd rather be its own thing so that's just me you guys don't know what you think down in the comments below I am to thank you RoboJance for this in our prime be sure to drop a like on this video subscribe for more content and I will catch all of you guys in the next video