He states to Rouge that even if his memories were fake, he is still Shadow the Hedgehog. Shadow possesses a strong sense of identity, as evidenced when after falsely being told that he isn't the Ultimate Lifeform due to a lab report. The canon ending of Shadow the Hedgehog showed Shadow willing to destroy anything in his way to get to Black Doom. In most games Shadow is featured in, he pursues his foes with disturbing determination. This can be seen when he would often have hallucinations about Maria's face, or through his numerous threatening speeches. On occasion, Shadow appears to have some degree of mental instability. He is shown to be highly arrogant and self absorbed one of many examples is in the 2006 video game, he (as Super Shadow) states that their battle against Solaris may actually be "a fair fight." He is also consistently serious, even when not on a mission, and he has no regard for silliness. He treats others in a very callous manner, throwing in his opinion no matter how cold-hearted it is and not caring for whatever the response is. At times, Shadow is the most violent and merciless characters in the series.Īlongside Shadow's dark and violent demeanor, he can be smug and stubborn.
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He has a ruthless edge in combat that all other characters in the series lack, and displays a natural "killer instinct". Shadow constantly refers to himself as the Ultimate Lifeform and thus belittles others as well as insulting their lack of strength. If Shadow makes a threat, he has every intention of carrying it out. He is usually soft-spoken, and only says what he needs to before a fight. He is rarely seen with others for an extended period of time, and distances himself from essentially everyone. But because of the reaction of the fans, we decided to bring him back in Sonic Heroes and eventually you saw him in his own title." Personality As you know in the story, Shadow was only meant to appear in that single title. When we were working on Sonic Adventure 2, we all did a bit of brainstorming and we brought this to the table and prepared the storyline for the Dark side and the Hero side. When creating that game, we had the intention of creating a rival character for Sonic Adventure 2 and we didn't really talk about it that much, but we were all thinking about it. "The Shadow character idea was something that we all had in our minds in the dev team when we were creating the first Sonic Adventure. This let Takashi Iizuka input Shadow as a playable character in Sonic Heroes and even star in his own game, Shadow the Hedgehog. There was a huge fanbase for Shadow to appear in more games, after being disappointed by his "death". In the end of Sonic Adventure 2, players get to see Shadow's "death" scene. Indeed, the push to build hype for the new character put other characters on the back burner Tails was not even announced for the game until a few months later. Once Sonic Adventure 2 was announced, the identity and nature of Shadow was a heavily-guarded secret his existence teased at the end of the first trailer for the game.
When being designed, the character's original name was "Terios," which translates to "reflection of," more than likely to play off of the hero/villain dynamic within the game. Though Yuji Uekawa was tasked drawing the final design of the character, it was Iizuka who came up with the idea to use a dark, anti-hero figure who was similar to Sonic in shape, but not in personality. Eggman and challenge the established cast of heroes. With the team in place, brainstorming soon began on what form Sonic Adventure 2 would take.Įarly on, it was decided that one of the main themes of the game would be the dichotomy between good and evil, and to help explore that, the creators came up with new characters that would both assist Dr. It was led by director Takashi Iizuka, while Yuji Naka remained back in Japan to work on other properties, including Phantasy Star Online. Hoping that the game would be for the Dreamcast what Sonic the Hedgehog 2 was for the Mega Drive, a portion of the team responsible for the first Adventure title was sent off to work at Sega of America. Shadow and Sonic in Sonic Adventure 2, along with a Hero Chao, a Dark Chao, and a Neutral Chao.After the success of Sonic Adventure, it was only natural to assume that a sequel would be produced.
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