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The Very Bizarre Development Of Shadow The Hedgehog 2005

Eldarin

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Hey guys! Hope you all enjoyed the concept art and development of Shadow the Hedgehog. Shadow certainly had such an interesting set of concept art and a crazy development cycle! Shadow the Hedgehog is honestly really fun in my opinion and seeing the evolution of its development and the little details that went into this game is insane! Anyways, thanks for lock n' loading into the concept art and development of Shadow the Hedgehog! ;)

Thanks for watching and if you have any suggestions or thoughts about the video let me know in the comments!

Want to give a HUGE shoutout to Codelack for making this GORGEOUS thumbnail! She is an incredibly talented artist and make sure to go show her some support and check her art out! Thank you so much Codelack :DD (Instagram: codelack.art)

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Intro - 0:00
Shadow's Development & Inspirations - 1:05
Traditional Concept Art - 9:51
CG Concept Renders- 15:44
Concept Mock-Ups & Cut Content - 22:36
Miscellaneous & E3 Related - 24:09

Profile Picture/Outro done by Jonni Salazar, check him and his gorgeous art out on IG: Instagram: jonni_salazar

Outro Music: All Hail Shadow - Magni-Fi (From Shadow the Hedgehog)

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Profile Picture done by Novika (imarusama)
Outro/Sub Button done by Jonni Salazar, check out his gorgeous work on IG: (Instagram: jonni_salazar)

20 Comments

@Eldarin Creator 4 years ago (edited) Pinned

Hey everyone! WE SOLVED THE MYSTERY!

Huge thank you to marvelfannumber1, destroyer toyz2, and Asiro1 for pointing me in the right direction regarding the "branching storylines for SA2"...well according to Iizuka himself it turned out to be FAKE!

Here it is being discussed on p.64 of Official Dreamcast Magazine US #7
https://segaretro.org/index.php?title=File:ODCM_US_07.pdf&page=68

And here Liam Robertson (Journalist/Youtuber) asked Iizuka who said the submarine thing was false:
https://twitter.com/Doctor_Cupcakes/status/658329651589304321?s=20

Last thing I want to be doing is spreading misinformation, I could not find this for the life of me so I'm happy we were able to get to the bottom of this.
Big thank you for the clarification and that's very interesting, will be shouting you guys out in the next concept art video!

Thank you all for watching and hope you enjoyed the video :))

@Blu_Moon_VA 5 years ago

"I'm at my limit, I have no choice! PINGAS!!!"

@Someguyhere111 4 years ago

Dunno if you mentioned this in a previous video, but in SA2, during the cutscene where Eggman wakes Shadow on Prison Island, there are two yellow inscriptions, which read: "ASTRONOMERS ARE CONCLUDING THAT MONSTROUSBLACKS"

Given the fact it mentions astronomers and 'monstrousblacks'/black monsters, it's likely the Black Arms were conceived during SA2's development to at least some extent, at the very least the concept of them exisitng.

Also, the thing about Iizuka later saying that they were able to bring Shadow back due to popularity, I don't think it's a COMPLETE contradiction. The story I've heard is that Iizuka had wanted to use Shadow again after SA2, but Maekawa wanted him to be a one-and-done character, so they compromised and left Shadow's supposed death ambiguous. IF Shadow proved to be popular enough, there would be a chance for him to come back, having survived the fall to Earth.

@rwby900 4 years ago

The dark age will always be the best age of sonic. no 🧢

@OmegaSon 4 years ago

I will always like this game for what it is, it just screams early 2000’s and I love it. I really think if they did a remake of this game it would be pretty awesome. Maybe streamline the morality and progression system to give 3 good sized play throughs instead of like 10 short ones. Maybe rework the story here and there so it’s not as convoluted. Idk I just feel most of the ideas they had here could’ve worked so well. But uhhhh yeah, nice work once again

@Creature665 4 years ago

"We were getting letters from kids. They wanted Sonic to have a Gun."
Yeah, calling the authorities would have been the right step but SEGA said
"Nah.. We gonna do it homie, Give this hedgehog a fuckin' rocket launcher."

@ChaddyFantome 5 years ago (edited)

I largely consider Shadow The Hedgehog as the Sonic Adventure CD of the Adventure era. Just like CD, it has tons of elements that were meant for the second entry repurposed into its own thing. Absolutely based, Eldarin. Absolutely Based

@123stinko 5 years ago (edited)

Joggers gonna jog

@inkchariot6147 4 years ago

I wonder if 06 has concept art, besides Prototype Silver.

@SonicHubYT 5 years ago

Fire video, love the deep dive into a character that has not been shown much love lately.

@haruhisuzumiya6 4 years ago

You can shoot sonic in the boss battle.

@BWF6_Official 5 years ago

Very epic concept art for a very epic game. I enjoyed playing Shadow the Hedgehog more than Sonic Heroes.

@sirlagsalot1050 4 years ago

You're for sure not alone in loving this game. I genuinely think that if Sonic team tightened up the controls a bit and put their effort into polishing three good runs with three endings instead of making a ton of levels with like 10 endings Shadow would have ended up better than the adventure games

@cedarskull 4 years ago

I remember reading a magazine back then promoting this game just before release, possibly a GameInformer or something. Sega was originally going to receive a T-rating from the ESRB for this game, and they didn't feel comfortable with a Sonic game being T-rated and wanted to push for an E10 rating instead. So they cut back a few things, like you mentioned, the alien blood being green instead of red, and Shadow using fewer curse words. In addition, the scene of Maria being shot by GUN on the ARK was originally in the game, and they replaced it with the solid white screen with just the sound of a gunshot. All those changes qualified the game for the E10 rating in the end!

@v4603 4 years ago

I love so much of the world that ShTH gave us, and as a huge Shadow fan, I of course have mixed feelings about the game, but am SO invested in the story, the Black Arms, and everything that means for Shadow’s origins and character - and I’ve enjoyed all of your videos so far - so I’m really looking forward to watching this!

@apostlenik809 8 months ago

4:54 I can only assume Dr. Eggman: Out of Control would've been an Unleashed-style character action game about Eggman finding a Guyver unit and going on a bloodthirsty rampage.

@AAAAAMMM 2 years ago

woah woah woah, the part at 8:16 where they mentioned that the film Constantine was an inspiration for the video game is so crazy now that Keanu Reaves was announced as the voice of Shadow in the upcoming movie!!!!