Shadow The Hedgehog (2005, Gamecube, PS2, Xbox)

Maddie Blaustein's in it as the voice of the president.

Also, I Am All Of Me is a trans anthem now. It just is! Fuck you!

Holy shit, that's the Maddie Blaustein (rest in peace). I don't know how I didn't know she voiced the President.

For context, Shadow the Hedgehog is a direct sequel to Shadow's story in Sonic Adventure 2 Battle and Sonic Heroes (with a lot of Bush-era war-on-terror themes that just kind of existed in every 00s era game by cultural osmosis). The President has a framed photo of Sonic and Shadow together.

This is funny, but what's even funnier is that this couldn't have happened in canon, even if you consider Sonic Battle as coming before Shadow the Hedgehog and not after. Almost every moment of Shadow's timeline is accounted for, from his introduction, to this moment.

Here are the possibilities:

1. Shadow fell to Earth, amnesiatic, but posed with Sonic in front of the White House before being eggprisoned in his egg-recuperacoon.

2. One of Shadow's clones from Sonic Heroes went on a totally separate adventure as a good guy, and posed with Sonic

3. (prevailing theory) The President himself photoshopped this image of Sonic and Shadow together.

It's really funny to imagine him hunched over a computer, clicking around in Photo Shop.

i made a word search when i was in primary school once

This is nice :)

I think grouping it by person and then chronologically would make more sense to me than alphabetically, though

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shoutouts burger becky. the page linked to an interview with bad game hall of fame, but honestly the main article bghof did on doom 3do is worth reading as well

(aside: bghof has since stopped writing for the time being and moved on to greener pastures (streaming on twitch). the streams are fun but man i miss their writing)

(more aside, more on-topic: googling "kotori yoshimura" pointed me to this talking-time.net thread about non-men in gaming that looks kinda neat)