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Sonic SATAM is made by (err, for?) DIC studio's.
Powerstone is by Capcom.

Part 2 here:
[link]

Or coolape, I guess.

We're back at Sonic. Mid 90's Sonic in fact.
So forget about the too smug hedgehog with the too many pointless sidecharacters, and go back to the slightly less smug Sonic with too many sidecharacters that are better in hiding their pointlessness.

Old School Sonic fans probably saw this show, newer Sonic fans probably only know it from a Nostalgia Critic's rare positive review.
His complaints didn't come further then " Lol, furries",that Antoine is kinda useless and the cliffhanger ending, so now I'm here to give you the real scoop.

First I need to adress that Sonic Satam had 2 seasons, and while that's usually a pointless production detail, in this case the 2 seasons are so different, they're practically 2 seperate series within the series.

Season 1 was the darkest and most suspenseful, doing a great job in making Robotnik feel epic, Sonic and friend's situation very dangerous, and give 10 year old kids plenty of nightmare fuel with graphic scenes of cute animal characters turned screaming in fear into mindless robots.
They even had the most successful use of a red shirt character I know of, with Cat. Since he appears in the first episode, before you know who the real main characters are, and is handled and designed as an actual main character, him getting robotized is a pretty bold but great way to throw the viewers right into the whole war thing.
And it had a nice Side character circulation system, every side character, with exception of poor Bunnie, get's his or her own episode at some point.

Season 1 had a few little problems tough, mostly the complete lack of contuity. Despite the fact that Season 1 deals the greatest blows in defeat and victory, they never matter since everyone forgets about it after one episode. (Hey, remember when Sally got all these "metal destroying plant" seeds? Or how Sonic swore that he'd save Mutsky and Cat? Guess not.)

This is especially troublesome if you watched Season 2, which had a very tight continuity going on. Characters dissapear, from cool characters (Robotnik's robot bird pet) from plothole inducing characters (why didn't Sally ever try to recruit the underground city freedom fighters for their cause in season 2?) to even emotional impact characters, like Sonic's robotized dog or Cat.
Not to mention all the other plotholes caused by Season 2,like the king's hidden swamp message that doesn't make sense with his backstory that we learn about later.

And then we have Season 2. The story is much better since it finally progresses to a conclusion, victories and losses have a higher impact on the overall story, the soundtrack is much better and so on and so on.

But the season completely DESTROYS every sense of danger and epicness the first season had. In the first episode, THE FIRST EPISODE of season 2, there's a 1 minute sequence, not even the climax of the episode, or even a "cliffhanger before commercial" moment, where Sonic invades Robotnik's throne room, takes out all his elite robots and knocks Robotnik out, takes a part of the robotizer machine and escapes.
1 damn minute. In the middle of an episode. Bam, goodbye fear for Robotnik, goodbye little respect the swatbots had and goodbye for the untouchable aspect of the robotizer machines.

As a 10 year old I had many ideas about how epic and grand a showdown between Sonic and the untouchable Robotnik must have been, so seeing Robotnik just knocked out with sonic barely making any effort is quite destructive.

Fortunatly I never got to see the second season untill a few years later since I lost the TV channel broadcasting it after the first season, so I wasn't too bothered by seeing the lighter season 2 change my perception of the show, but still.

Most side characters are completely neglected, I think Rotor and Bunny barely got a cameo in the entire duration of Season 2. Every single side-plot, including 4 entire comedy half episodes focus exclusively on Antoine (and occasionally Dulcy). I accepted him in season 1, but here he's just untolerable. The writers are wayyy to much in love with his antics.

Not to mention, as I said before, Sonic is practically Superman in Season 2, smashing Robotnik and his swatbots around like flies. In one episode he can even turn into a Tornado, even without his power ring's help. Then add a ice blast shooting dragon and a karate robot rabbit, and you got a invincible super team. Why haven't they taken over Robotnik's base over in the course of 2 episodes? Oh that's right, because Bunny's always left back home and Antoine is sent to Robotropolis all the time instead, constantly forgetting his missions, spilling secrets, running away and still be smug about it.
Wasn't he supposed to guard the super ring generator? Keep him there and take the real freedom fighters on missions already, damn.

Woa, long introduction there, here's the 2 scenes:

Robotnik observation: Perfect sample of Season 2's pathetic action scenes. Remove the close ups and show the entire scene in one wideshot and all drama falls apart. Robotnik and all his swatbots got Sonic surrounded, Sonic shouts out exactually how he'll be escaping, with a giant, easy targetable dragon.
So what does Robotnik do? Nothing. Sure, in season 2, Robotnik is in full James Bond mode, refusing to just shoot Sonic, and I'm cool with that. But hey, what about handcuffs, tasers, megamuck, ANYTHING? At least shoot Dulcy down. Instead he stands around drooling for over 13 seconds. In case you think I'm overreacting about 13 seconds, here's an experiment:
Imagine you have a big gun in your hand, an army at your disposal, and your main enemy is standing perfectly still. Now, close your eyes and count to 13. What's that, you're already trying to pull the trigger after 3 seconds? Congrats, you're a better villain then Robotnik and even faster then the "fastest thing alive".

Swatbot observation: Ahh, season 2 swatbots. They hover around their victims, and shout " Surrender!" for 30 minutes, untill either their victims agrees with them and lets himself/herself to be volunteeringly robotized, or they shrug and just walk back home.
The only thing I changed on the audio clip is add one line of " surrender hedgehog!" while Sonic and Sally talk, the rest comes straight from the show.

Description
Sonic SATAM is made by (err, for?) DIC studio's.
Powerstone is by Capcom.

Part 2 here:
[link]

Or coolape, I guess.

We're back at Sonic. Mid 90's Sonic in fact.
So forget about the too smug hedgehog with the too many pointless sidecharacters, and go back to the slightly less smug Sonic with too many sidecharacters that are better in hiding their pointlessness.

Old School Sonic fans probably saw this show, newer Sonic fans probably only know it from a Nostalgia Critic's rare positive review.
His complaints didn't come further then " Lol, furries",that Antoine is kinda useless and the cliffhanger ending, so now I'm here to give you the real scoop.

First I need to adress that Sonic Satam had 2 seasons, and while that's usually a pointless production detail, in this case the 2 seasons are so different, they're practically 2 seperate series within the series.

Season 1 was the darkest and most suspenseful, doing a great job in making Robotnik feel epic, Sonic and friend's situation very dangerous, and give 10 year old kids plenty of nightmare fuel with graphic scenes of cute animal characters turned screaming in fear into mindless robots.
They even had the most successful use of a red shirt character I know of, with Cat. Since he appears in the first episode, before you know who the real main characters are, and is handled and designed as an actual main character, him getting robotized is a pretty bold but great way to throw the viewers right into the whole war thing.
And it had a nice Side character circulation system, every side character, with exception of poor Bunnie, get's his or her own episode at some point.

Season 1 had a few little problems tough, mostly the complete lack of contuity. Despite the fact that Season 1 deals the greatest blows in defeat and victory, they never matter since everyone forgets about it after one episode. (Hey, remember when Sally got all these "metal destroying plant" seeds? Or how Sonic swore that he'd save Mutsky and Cat? Guess not.)

This is especially troublesome if you watched Season 2, which had a very tight continuity going on. Characters dissapear, from cool characters (Robotnik's robot bird pet) from plothole inducing characters (why didn't Sally ever try to recruit the underground city freedom fighters for their cause in season 2?) to even emotional impact characters, like Sonic's robotized dog or Cat.
Not to mention all the other plotholes caused by Season 2,like the king's hidden swamp message that doesn't make sense with his backstory that we learn about later.

And then we have Season 2. The story is much better since it finally progresses to a conclusion, victories and losses have a higher impact on the overall story, the soundtrack is much better and so on and so on.

But the season completely DESTROYS every sense of danger and epicness the first season had. In the first episode, THE FIRST EPISODE of season 2, there's a 1 minute sequence, not even the climax of the episode, or even a "cliffhanger before commercial" moment, where Sonic invades Robotnik's throne room, takes out all his elite robots and knocks Robotnik out, takes a part of the robotizer machine and escapes.
1 damn minute. In the middle of an episode. Bam, goodbye fear for Robotnik, goodbye little respect the swatbots had and goodbye for the untouchable aspect of the robotizer machines.

As a 10 year old I had many ideas about how epic and grand a showdown between Sonic and the untouchable Robotnik must have been, so seeing Robotnik just knocked out with sonic barely making any effort is quite destructive.

Fortunatly I never got to see the second season untill a few years later since I lost the TV channel broadcasting it after the first season, so I wasn't too bothered by seeing the lighter season 2 change my perception of the show, but still.

Most side characters are completely neglected, I think Rotor and Bunny barely got a cameo in the entire duration of Season 2. Every single side-plot, including 4 entire comedy half episodes focus exclusively on Antoine (and occasionally Dulcy). I accepted him in season 1, but here he's just untolerable. The writers are wayyy to much in love with his antics.

Not to mention, as I said before, Sonic is practically Superman in Season 2, smashing Robotnik and his swatbots around like flies. In one episode he can even turn into a Tornado, even without his power ring's help. Then add a ice blast shooting dragon and a karate robot rabbit, and you got a invincible super team. Why haven't they taken over Robotnik's base over in the course of 2 episodes? Oh that's right, because Bunny's always left back home and Antoine is sent to Robotropolis all the time instead, constantly forgetting his missions, spilling secrets, running away and still be smug about it.
Wasn't he supposed to guard the super ring generator? Keep him there and take the real freedom fighters on missions already, damn.

Woa, long introduction there, here's the 2 scenes:

Robotnik observation: Perfect sample of Season 2's pathetic action scenes. Remove the close ups and show the entire scene in one wideshot and all drama falls apart. Robotnik and all his swatbots got Sonic surrounded, Sonic shouts out exactually how he'll be escaping, with a giant, easy targetable dragon.
So what does Robotnik do? Nothing. Sure, in season 2, Robotnik is in full James Bond mode, refusing to just shoot Sonic, and I'm cool with that. But hey, what about handcuffs, tasers, megamuck, ANYTHING? At least shoot Dulcy down. Instead he stands around drooling for over 13 seconds. In case you think I'm overreacting about 13 seconds, here's an experiment:
Imagine you have a big gun in your hand, an army at your disposal, and your main enemy is standing perfectly still. Now, close your eyes and count to 13. What's that, you're already trying to pull the trigger after 3 seconds? Congrats, you're a better villain then Robotnik and even faster then the "fastest thing alive".

Swatbot observation: Ahh, season 2 swatbots. They hover around their victims, and shout " Surrender!" for 30 minutes, untill either their victims agrees with them and lets himself/herself to be volunteeringly robotized, or they shrug and just walk back home.
The only thing I changed on the audio clip is add one line of " surrender hedgehog!" while Sonic and Sally talk, the rest comes straight from the show.