When Shadow the Hedgehog launched in 2005 as an edgier tackle the Sonic sequence, it was lambasted for together with firearms, autos, and swearing in what was usually seen as a family-friendly franchise. Certain, it by no means fairly went the route of the M-rated Conker’s Unhealthy Fur Day, however he’d let loose a “rattling” upon getting hit or exclaim “rattling, not right here!” when he fell to his loss of life. However from the sound of it, at one level Sega was contemplating making Shadow the Hedgehog an M-rated sport, and meaning there’s audio someplace at Sega of Shadow voice actor Jason Griffith saying “fuck” in character.
Griffith, who voiced each Sonic and Shadow from 2005 to 2009, lately gave an interview with GameLuster at Momocon in Atlanta through which he revealed that Sega was initially a minimum of contemplating aiming for a a lot stricter ranking with Shadow the Hedgehog than the E10+ it in the end acquired. Throughout recording classes, Griffith was advised to do a number of takes for traces, one that might go into the sport that was finally launched, and one other that would go right into a hypothetical M-rated Shadow the Hedgehog. In consequence, Griffith recorded “hours” of Shadow traces that dropped f-bombs left and proper.
“They have been going for an M-rating with this sport and so they hadn’t heard again from the company in the event that they have been going to get it but,” Griffith advised GameLuster. “So they’d me file two takes for each line, and I swear, the model that was for the M-Ranking, they’d me say f*** in each single line. It was simply each sentence, I’d be yelling ‘Sonic, give me that f***ing Chaos Emerald!’ or one thing like that. I had no concept what was occurring however I simply went with it, and I had enjoyable. There’s a tough drive someplace with hours of recordings of Shadow yelling f*** at Tails and Sonic and stuff.”
As an grownup, this alternate-universe model of the sport is a hilarious hypothetical, however I’d have been devastated in 2005 if I wasn’t allowed to play Shadow the Hedgehog as a child as a result of the man was dropping f-bombs with reckless abandon. My mother and father already weren’t thrilled by Shadow utilizing lower-tier swear phrases. I nonetheless keep in mind once I was having a tricky time with a boss battle and my dad was visibly aggravated at what number of occasions Shadow stated “rattling.”
Whereas Shadow the Hedgehog is extensively considered one of many worst video games within the sequence, I nonetheless have plenty of fondness for it as a Shadow stan. I’d wish to revisit it this 12 months, since it’s the Yr of Shadow, in spite of everything. I can’t assist it. I’m simply nostalgic main as much as Sonic the Hedgehog 3.
