Shadow's Dark Beginnings: Episode 2 - "Finding the Way" debuts today



The 2nd part continuation in the short animated trilogy of Shadow's "Dark Beginnings" series has been released today in the Sonic The Hedgehog official YouTube channel.

This 2nd episode serves as the prologue continuation for "Sonic X Shadow Generations". "Finding the Way" continues with short flashbacks to Shadow's past during the Ark events 50 years, and this time we get to see a small glimpse of the G.U.N. commander (as a child) from the 2005 game "Shadow The Hedgehog", in a quick interaction between him and Maria, with Maria shouting back his name and then talking to Shadow, who's in front of a medical pod with a Black Arms alien larva, thinking about what it means to him to share the same DNA as the Black Arms alien species. We then switch back to Shadow in the present day storming one of Eggman's desert bases with some pyramids (an obvious reference to Sand Ocean from Sonic Adventure 2) to seek a spacecraft to reach the Ark, he then encounters both Omega and Rouge while they're on a GUN mission. All the members of Team Dark fight off against Eggman's robots. At the end, Rouge offers Shadow a access to a ship by raiding a GUN base.

As an additional tidbit of information, the name shouted by Maria, "Abe" (short for "Abraham" in English languages), to the child who will grow up to be the GUN commander confirms one small bit of information that was previously considered non-canon. While minuscule to some, this specific scene seems to confirm that the actual name of the GUN commander is the one that was given to him from the Archie comics, "Abraham Tower". Before this, the character at hand was only mentioned as "G.U.N. Commander".
 

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If Sega keeps posting all the FMVs of the game online it kinda takes the motivation out of actually playing the game.
 

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Oh yeah, I forgot that Shadow didn't get Black Arms DNA directly from Black Doom, but rather from one of his larvas.

Also confirms that the prologue AND Shadow Generations both take place before Sonic Generations. I guess Shadow will forget most, if not all of the game's events due to the Time Eater.
 

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Oh yeah, I forgot that Shadow didn't get Black Arms DNA directly from Black Doom, but rather from one of his larvas.

Was the larva DNA stuff mentioned at any point in Shadow 2005?
Iirc it was a direct arrangement between Gerald and Black Doom, Gerald would get Doom's DNA in exchange of Black Doom getting the Chaos Emeralds.
But it was Doom's DNA the one implied, not a larva's.
 

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Was the larva DNA stuff mentioned at any point in Shadow 2005?
Iirc it was a direct arrangement between Gerald and Black Doom, Gerald would get Doom's DNA in exchange of Black Doom getting the Chaos Emeralds.
But it was Doom's DNA the one implied, not a larva's.

Maybe the larva was there to hide the deal? The deal being Discovered is why Maria ended killed after all.
 

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Maybe the larva was there to hide the deal? The deal being Discovered is why Maria ended killed after all.
I want to imagine the larva was there for research purposes, either scientific or for mankind's betterment.

Maria's death was a sad turnaround of events due to Gerald's involvement with Black Doom and also his many research into powerful war-like entities, like the Gizoid and Chaos, and of course, after she chose to aid towards Shadow's escape, GUN saw no other way to deal with it than to shoot her with the plausibility of her not triggering the escape pod.

Maria did it knowingly, more so knowing that her life was already at death's door, and Shadow's heart and powers would be the best aid to humans as a whole.
 
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Shadow's heart and powers would be the best aid to humans as a whole.

*Looks at SA2

Yeah that almost turned into yet another tragedy.

Also nice for Sega to finally acknowledge that yes Doctor Eggman fucked up the moon as every game after SA2 just ignores it.
 

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*Looks at SA2

Yeah that almost turned into yet another tragedy.

Also nice for Sega to finally acknowledge that yes Doctor Eggman fucked up the moon as every game after SA2 just ignores it.

I blame that on GUN getting their hands on Shadow instead of letting him go, that's how he got the whole amnesia stuff going on.
 

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