
This despite the fact that he has dramatically slowed Sonic the fuck down in Lost Mind for the sake of exploration, intricacies, fetch quests, and timed power ups for the sake of collectables, just like goddamn 3D Mario. Iizuka, being the chronic liar he is, would say “Mario and Sonic are too different from each other, so no”. But another one was if they would ever put Mario and Sonic into a platformer. There were some decent questions put up, like if Shadow could use Chaos Control with or without an emerald. A minority of normal people were in attendance, only to receive passive-aggressive fuck you’s. No one should give any fucks about small details such as Amy’s redesign being drastic from everyone else (because she isn’t nude). You’d be sitting around asking the question “who gives a fuck!?”. Never mind getting rid of Spiderman’s weaknesses, it just takes away from another element that made Spiderman “perfect” in their eyes. Spiderman have organic webbing? Peter Parker’s intellect is greatly reduced. Storm isn’t claustrophobic!? Death threats are necessary. Nerds only care about the least important details of any given franchise. Or “what happened to Froggy!?” or “Will we ever see Chocola Chao again?” Nerds ask stupid and pointless questions such as “does Tails Doll have any friends”.

When the loudest voices in a fandom are the hardcore nerds, you can stop hoping for the better. Iizuka is an even bigger prick than I gave him credit for.

Sonic fans are hopeless nerds which doesn’t bode well for the series.Ģ. Well, even though I’ve only watched the questionarre portion of Iizuka’s panel, I’ve learned 2 important things from the event.ġ.
