What's the Deal with Omochao? 

Have my baby.

Great work on this and the SpongeBob binge. Love ya Mark

@@gothicluxury8329 who the hell is mark this is splashidash

Man, I remember those Sonic fan-animated shorts. This particular one of Omochao at 10:37-10:46 was pretty hilarious!

Hey splashdash, has your opinion of sonic frontiers changed at all since all the new news in june?

are you also suprised that slippy toad of star fox fame is reviled in the west?

And this why I prefer Japan

I assume that's because nobody really knows Sonic exists.

@@parlinmains I'm talking specifically about the Japanese Sonic fanbase, not general people who don't know much about Sonic.

@@poteriukusu Also this is Japan we're talking about. I'm pretty sure many people over there definitely know who Sonic is.

Oh :/

All this time bro ALL THIS TIME I WAS THINKING ABOUT ROBOTNIK

Lies, its talking about Eggman clearly 🤧

@@TheReZisTLust not according to the Japanese version of the line

What fucking mustache? Omochao high asf!

omochao stupid

Thank you Omochao

The best part is that he wasn't even in SA1 to teach those things to you. Blessed be Omochao!

Your teacher asked you to make a 2 page essay?

@@longtomax2981 SplashDash did

thank you

No it’s Dr. Eggman

@@ShockwaveFPSStudios It is the chao professor, as proven by the line in japanese.

@@TheAuthorStudios Both the English and Japanese translations are two different versions. Stick to one.

@@ShockwaveFPSStudios ¬¬ moite, drugs are bad to you. stop using them.

Iizuka lost about 20 pounds if I remember correctly, and yeah it's because the other level designer was sick

Does that explain why Bingo Highway sucks major balls?

The girl from evangelion worked on sonic???? Wtffff

@Kian it was all his choice, he was just really passionate about the project. Also I found this out from some Sonic Frontier leak review video lol

So basically, like Sakurai went through when he worked on Smash Bros

"Them" as in neuter pronoun, plural or both? (For the record, I support Chaos and Cheese being nonbinary and consider the use of "he/him/his" in reference to them neuter.)

@@CarbonRollerCaco "Them" because omochao are mass-produced.

I didn't grow up with any games that he was in aside from the party mode of secret rings so I don't have an opinion on him one way or the other

There's a reason the omochao gun exists

@@CarbonRollerCaco Meet the Pronoun-er

That's how he's able to avoid the Time Eater and set up a shop in White Space

Funnily enough, Lego Dimensions makes a joke about Eggman's mustache being fake.

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How?!

Wait, he's not the doctor? So what he actually says?

How come the game was created in Japanese when it was developed in California?

He's more an outright Tikal ripoff. Unleashed's story in general is an Adventure 1 rehash and doesn't even do as good of a job covering it up as Adventure 2 and '06 do. Also the snapping sound of his wings. Chinese water torture.

@@CarbonRollerCaco*We don’t appreciate Unleashed slander buddy. Get out >:

She also voiced Sheeva and Sindel in Mortal Kombat!

Ashley Norton did a great video on the Nancy Drew games.

Same honestly but instead of Big I found Charmy bee the most annoying one.

@@sonicmaiden2871 i never really found any of them annoying

@@jdawson7877 Honestly, i would say that even Charmy is slightly annoying but bearable. To be fair, I don't really think that Sonic characters are annoying or at least too annoying. Gex and Bubsy the bobcat are more annoying than all the Sonic characters out there in my opinion.

Let me guess, despite these characters being the more hated ones, you all thought that Sonic himself, despite being the most praised character in the franchise compared to everyone else, was the only one that actually deserved more hate for pissing off his friends with his big ego by ditching them so he could do whatever he wants?

@@kieranstark7213 Literally never thought that. LMAO.

What?! Ew! He screwed over Cream and an ACTUAL Chao. And if you screw over Cream, you assault Tails as well. Fuck Omochao. Fuck him to fucking Hell. … actually, wait, TSR sucks. Cream was spared. But I'm still not forgiving Omochao. He's already bad enough in other ways.

To be fair it would make sense for Omo to assume a genius like Tails would aim well enough not to shoot the stationary omo.

@@TheReZisTLust it’s mostly when you activate him accidentally and then he flies into your shots

@@planetzach but still. You dont be patient and listen and he tries to keep up

@@TheReZisTLust fair. I still think he could have possibly been implemented a bit better in this situation though. Maybe make it so you actually have to lock on to him or something

Yeah, I think that’s why tutorial characters get hated on. They have no purpose or plot significance to them, they’re just there to teach you stuff, and nothing else. Say what you want about Elise’s flawed backstory, but at least you’re actually given substance.

“A tutorial character without personality” Omochao literally tells you to put him down when you pick him up in SA2, if he had no personality, he would’ve said nothing throughout all of that. Even the spinoffs show that Omochao CLEARLY has thoughts and an actual character. People just hate Omochao just.. because.

@@metaknightjudgesyoursins4710 just beau se he says one line in sa2 doesn’t mean he’s a full-fledged character

I like Marine as well, but I think the reason why she gets flack is she is kind of a nuisance for a lot of Rush Adventure, being in over her head and ends up getting into trouble because of it up until the end when Sonic calls her out on it. And while she is kind of annoying for that, it wasn't enough to make me hate her. I also think it might be due to Rush Adventure being her sole appearance (outside of the Archie comics), so she hasn't been able to do anything that could improve people's opinion on her. Since I doubt SEGA has any interest in going to Blaze's dimension any time soon in the games, I'm at least hoping at some point she'll get to appear in the IDW Comics at some point. Maybe then she could make a better impression on some fans.

I hated Marine because she was immature & the same joke of her being reckless & annoying with Sonic & Tails reacting to it got old, really, really fast. Combine that with the amount of text cutscenes in the game & you got something repetitive.

I love tails, and all characters

I think she appear in the comics and she talked way too much. Marine the Raccoon is one of those characters that suppose to be funny but end up being annoying and don't when to stop talking

People tend to hate annoying kid characters, for whatever reason. I really liked her.

He’s also incredibly annoying, so I don’t think it matters how realistic his character is, if he isn’t enjoyable to watch.

I think we can blame 4Kids' dubbing for at least some of the hate. Supposedly, the original/Japanese portrayal of Chris was done better. But I can't attest to that since I've only seen the Englished dub when I was a kid when it first started airing in the US. However, I can state that 4Kids _did_ remove/alter some of the more mature and emotional scenes of the show since they thought it was too much for kids to understand or handle. This could possibly impacted how characters like Christ were portrayed. Also, 4Kids (I think they were the only ones) used _way_ too many musical like sound affects throughout _every_ episode, like an aggressive violin piece whenever Sonic would attack something, or brass instruments being used whenever something wondrous was happening (like panning over an open landscape). It makes rewarching the dub unbearable for me. It's worse than sitcoms that use laugh tracks... okay, maybe not that bad, but it's a close thing.

I had plenty of issues with Chris, but by far my biggest problem with him was how he essentially usurped Tails's role as Sonic's best friend.

I feel like that would've landed better if they didn't also give him three friends, and do an episode where he gets a cold and his parents immediately upend their lives and the everybody else in their general orbit to rush to his side the moment they find out about it.

Bruce had all of that too, but everyone still liked him. There's a difference between Chris Thorndyke and young Bruce Wayne as characters, similar background and concepts, different executions. Look, I'm normally a Chris Thorndyke apologist, but there was *one* episode of Sonic X that made all of Chris's past minor issues in the show blow up dramatically. It didn't help that the narrative blamed it on his parents being absent, despite the fact that not only were his parents living constantly stressful work lives that prevented them from seeing him as often as they liked, but whenever they catch a break, we've seen them break necks to see their son, and it's not as if the marriage has been on the rocks. It was the presumed ungratefulness that rubbed people the wrong way about Chris, and that episode solidified it, and I'm sure you know which episode I'm talking about. There was even an episode where Cream blasts Chris for it.

I would want to read that

Ikr. If Omochao is telling me something I already know, I just ignore him. Or her? What even is he. Anywho, and when he is telling me something useful, my dumbass is thinking thank god for this guy. He’s not that bad. Also when you accidentally (or purposely) hit him in SA2 and he gets pissed and says he’ll never help you again, that’s just great

If he WERE just the standard Sonic Tutorial-san, that'd be the end of it. But some of his advice goes beyond mere tutorializing, and he knew how annoying he was back in Adventure 2, and that's seriously unforgivable.

@@EmmaxoOCE He knows how annoying he is, baiting you to hit him so he'll have an excuse to stop giving you vital info. Only the cruelest pull stunts like that.

do these people not understand that maybe a game like sa2 is maybe a person first sonic game and may not have clear understanding of what to do that what's omochao is for.

@@jdawson7877 We-do, understand. It's-just, why, does-it-HAVE-to-be-someone/something-specifically, like-Omochao, who-talks, really, slowly, and-with-these-awkward, robotic-pauses, and-can-even-refuse-to-help-you, if-you-take-out, your-frustrations-on-him, instead-of, something-like, later-games'-question-mark-icons, that-teaches-you? That, doesn't-sound, "player-first", to-me. Hell, I'm-willing, to-bet, he-planted-the-dynamite-on, the-Eternal-Engine-space-doors, just-to-force-Tails-to-listen-to-him, and-screw-him-even-more, than-he-already-was. Maybe-that's-why-Tails's-voice-actor, and-by-extension-Tails-himself, talks-like-him-in-Adventure-2; Omochao's-one-of-the-things-putting-them, in-grumpy-moods.

Good point

And Amy's hatred

@@skeetermagee2487 i think you mean Amy's sonic obsession

@@charmingmagican9821 Yep! Like ppl are overhating! Amy's more than a fangirl! Till everyone understands that then you're a true fan then! Why? Because you know a lot of Amy's personality then!

@@skeetermagee2487 honestly she always seemd like a useless gag character

That’s not Sonic fans, that’s the games themselves having poor writing for the past 20 years

Yeah, she kiss Sonic once and she's gotten hate since.

I'm a Princess Elise fan👍

I'm not a fan but I also don't hate her at all.

The only annoying thing about her was having to save her a lot throughout the game. I think that she looked nice, her voice wasn't annoying and she didn't do annoying things as well (except the kiss but that was more of a weird thing). I'm mostly neutral towards her. I don't mind her but I don't like her either.

@@mechajay3358 it feels like i'm the only one who not bothered by the kiss scene

Crash doesn't have a lot of characters though? Like, the main cast consists of just Crash, Coco, Crunch, and depending on the game Tawna. Everyone else is a straight up villain, that either gets redeemed or doubled down on the villainy. Mario has a lot of characters, but they rarely ever stick around past the game they were introduced. Mario always resets to the default of the Mario Bros, Peach, and Toad, so it always seems a lot less than it actually is. Neither is the case for Sonic. He has an absolutely massive cast for the games, and they're constantly reused so you can't forget about them. You can have Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, but that soon builds up to Amy, Rogue, Big, the Chaotix, Cream, Mighty & Ray, etc. Not to mention the amount of characters gets even BIGGER once you include spin-offs, comics and cartoons, and they have to be included because fans insist that they're just as important as the games. As a result the Sonic franchise has a roster bloat that would give the X-MEN a run for their money, with many of these characters either being redundant, annoying, pointless, or a combination of the three. It's fine to defend these characters, but don't pretend like this is anywhere remotely comparable to other franchises. It's a disingenuous strawman that hurts your point.

@@felixdaniels37 Waluigi was so wasted man, dude was introduced in a Tennis game and stayed in sports games

@@felixdaniels37 in true, there's a lot of characters in Mario games that started to be more useless, like Rosalina or Wario. Don't compare as if JUST Sonic had "useless characters".

@@elmemearana Wario is FAR from useless. He quite comfortably sits in the niche of being the lazy, crass anti-hero, something no other Mario character can claim. Plus he has MULTIPLE spin-off franchises under his belt. At this point, Wario is no more a Mario character as much as Mario is a Donkey Kong character. He has very much carved his own path. Rosalina serves as an entire representative for the Galaxy. She has tons of gameplay gimmicks that are more than enough to keep her from being just a Peach recolor. And even then, she pretty much sticks to spin off titles, with the only exception being Super Mario 3D World as a secret character.

Mario has has loads of characters because the IP has been running for so long and encompasses dozens of genres. Mario games didn’t try to salvage mediocre to bad games by trumpeting the arrival of increasingly samey and irrelevant characters. Nor did Mario games lose focus of the titular star, when they wanted to give the spotlight to someone else they made proper spin-offs.

Fun fact: issue 160 also happens to be the debut issue of writer Ian Flynn. Coincidence?

@@benraven9087 definitely not.

Scourge is still pretty lame, nothing changed.

Dont kill tails pls

I think Marine is overhated, but I get why people don’t like her. The writing of the Rush games had a nasty habit of being overly enamored with whatever new major character they introduced at the expense of the established cast, but unlike Blaze in the first game who was playable and had her own story that could actually make you care about her, Marine just kept barging into story scenes drawing attention to herself without actually adding anything important. Her being revealed to randomly have a completely unexplained superpower where nobody knows what it is and that is never elaborated on in any way was just another slap in the face. I really want better writers to give this character another shot. Don’t hide her powers until the very end, explain what they are and give them a purpose, preferably to the plot so she has a reason to be there. Maybe she can’t control them yet and Blaze can help her get a hang of it. Blaze can still act as a big sister to her, but allow Blaze to be herself doing it instead of forcing her to constantly mom this kid against her will only to have everyone give her the stink eye when she puts into words what the player has been thinking all along. Don’t have the other characters adjust their behavior to accommodate Marine, instead have her work hard to keep up with the heroes and prove herself useful, even if the heroes are occasionally annoyed by her antics. This character doesn’t require that many changes to work, just better writing.

People hate Marine? I just played Rush Adventure and I thought she was great

@@OneAndOnlyDanky People get annoyed with her constantly bragging and boasting but never actually doing anything herself. She usually just needs to be saved by Blaze or Sonic. Kinda all bark no bite.

@@yepsilon2898 Idk I thought it was charming. She’s clearly just a kid who’s trying to impress everyone

@@OneAndOnlyDanky Yeah, I don't hate Marine myself. I'm kinda indifferent to her, but I like her design. And I've also seen her character type done before. I've also seen it done better. I think people would have liked her more if she contributed to the team in her own way more than just bragging.

It still exists

@@wishbonefan yeah, it’s just that no one uses it again. I really love the site, it gives a lot of help around basic tropes and it doesn’t treat using one as bad, just the context of its use as good or bad

@@NotRay1995 no a lot of people still use it honestly

@@wishbonefan sorry. I guess what I meant was no me cares about it that much

But he doesnt have a mustache...? Unless you're talking about the principal but that would be an odd translation error to make lol

@@ekubo954 oh yeah, the principal, sorry lol

I know right ?

Elise is Hot ngl....