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[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Normal hedgehogs are great swimmers

Sonic is not a normal hedgehog.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, sonic wears shoes. That's not normal for a hedgehog

[–] FooBarrington 7 points 1 month ago

And he's far less green

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

It's not like he has an infamous segment where he swims underwater

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Once I was watching my sister try Sonic Adventure for the first time (got it on Steam from a bundle). I had never played Adventure myself but I knew the Megadrive/Genesis Sonics a bit, more than she did in any case.

She's just messing around, finds a small pool (more like blue transparent rectangle) and jumps in, laughing about the complete lack of physics or any watery effect.

Then "wait, what the fuck is that loud music, why is it playing now?"... And I'm like "Yeah, that's the sound of you drowning." "Oh."

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So as someone who grew up playing sonic on gensis, he seems to be preety damn good underwater and spends alot of time there lol.

[–] son_named_bort 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Wait... I just saw a bubble! How far back was it? Do I got back or try and find another one in front of me? AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

He’s a hedgehog who ate the fast-fast fruit

[–] Batman 21 points 1 month ago

Normal hedgehogs can't slam back chili dogs though.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

My daughter watches a video on YouTube called Sonic Retold, just an animation using in-game graphics from Sonic 1.

When it gets to labyrinth zone, Sonic stops and looks at the water - no matter where I am in the house she yells out to me “Sonic doesn’t like water!”

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Im playing sonic adventure right now and in the second chaos fight you can just walk on the surface of the pond

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You sink in if you take too long though. I always took it to be that Chaos's body was effecting the water somehow.

[–] MagnyusG 8 points 1 month ago

This is exactly why the pond is basically jello.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
[–] sulgoth 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No better way to wake yourself up in the morning.

[–] capt_wolf 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Ah, yes, what better way to capture waking up in the morning and getting ready another soul crushing, meaningless day at work than the musical interpretation of an anxiety attack!

[–] Sam_Bass 11 points 1 month ago

Yeah those gold rings are heavy though

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Fuck the Labyrinth Zone. Fuck the Aquatic Ruin Zone too, it's not even that they are hard, they are just so slow and unfun. With Aquatic you can try to avoid by staying up top but I always fall to water fairly quickly.

[–] warmaster 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fuck that music. The stress it made me feel was unreal.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

anxiety theme song

[–] Old_Yharnam 4 points 1 month ago

Couldn’t he just jump up and start running really fast on water like how Dash did in The Incredibles? I don’t get this