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Among the Sonic community, it’s widely considered that Black Knight is one of the most beloved stories in the franchise almost solely for its perfect portrayal of Sonic’s character.

Ok so to answer some questions. This game is an isekai, its the last game written by Shiro Maekawa. He is the writer who set the foundation for Sonic stories starting with Sonic Adventure in 1998. His writing was very inspired by anime and JRPGs so you’ll come to know that Sonic is a very Japanese action heavy franchise contrary to what the general perception is which is born from quality control issues and the harsh xenophobia towards Japanese mediums that this era of Sonic was most prevalent which is why for the last 14 years or so, Sonic has been made more comedic, westernized and softer narratively. As for the setting, this is an alternate universe set within the world of Camelot from the story of King Arthur where Sonic summoned to from the main universe. The Black Knight is “King Arthur”, heavy on the quotations for reasons I won’t spoil for you. Shadow, Knuckles and the character you don’t know, her name is Blaze. She debuted from Sonic Rush and she is Sonic’s counterpart from the Sol Dimension. Those three make up the Knights Of The Round Table. Shadow is Sir Lancelot, Knuckles is Sir Gawain and Blaze is Sir Percival. This game is universally praised as the greatest story in Sonic period due to not only being the game where Maekawa lets loose as his final contribution to the franchise but it’s also a character study on Sonic as a static character and his philosophy and idealism about freedom and heroism which Sonic isn’t necessarily a hero, he almost teeters on the boundaries of being an anti hero. He does what he believes is right from himself and not for any sense of lawful goodness, he doesn’t even like to be called or viewed as a hero. And it being paired with the voice of Jason Griffith who perfected his voice for Sonic by this point and is effectively the Kevin Conroy of Sonic by now. You have the perfect Sonic story. I think you should play this game or watch the cutscenes, it’s genuinely the best this franchise has to offer narratively.

I love how when being teleported away, Sonic wasn't upset about backing out of the fight or the bad guy being left alone but rather the fact his chili dog was ruined.

Man Jason Griffith. Yo he captured Sonic’s personality so well with his voice👏🏼

The chili dogs say a lot about Sonic. Extremely calorific (he needs those cals), two unhealthy meals in one (unsupervised kid), a party food (everything's a party to him), and there's two of them (wants to share what he likes with others). All hints for later.

This game is basically Sonic getting isekai'd into King Arthur's story. So you were right about it being the alternate universe. This black knight is King Arthur corrupted by the Excaliburn scabbard...at least that's what Merlina, the wizard here(and daughter or Wizard Merlin), tells him. The other knights, despite looking like Sonic's friends, are not them and share little to no same personality treats... The Knights are Knights of the Round Table, also from King Arthur stories. Blaze The Cat is Sir Percival, Shadow is Sir Lancelot, Knuckles is Sir Gawain (yes, I love this game so much)

Funnily enough it's the 3rd time Sonic has been isekai'd. Sonic Rush Adventure, Secret Rings, now Black Knight. And that's not counting the anime, SonicX.

This game is part of the Storybook games duology, in those storybook games, Sonic gets transported into different popular books, in the first game, Sonic and the Secret Rings, he's transported to the Arabian Nights from the 1001 Nights, in this game, he's transported to the lands of Camelot from the King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table In those games, the rest of the Sonic characters usually replace characters from the original tale, they are not the same characters as the real ones although they borrow Sonic's friends designs, they don't share the same story, they don't even know Sonic, but they have a simillar personality from the "real world" (in that case, Sonic's World) counterparts, Sonic even makes fun of that in both games In this game, as you see in this cutscene, Shadow, Knuckles and Blaze are knights, they are 3 of the Knights of the Round Table, King Arthur's knights, which acts as rivals to Sonic during the game, as Sonic fights them along his journey Shadow replace Sir Lancelot Knuckles replaces Sir Gawain Blaze replaces Sir Percival Amy replaces Nimue, the Lady of the Lake Tails is the Blacksmith And Silver and Jet are Sir Galahad and Sir Lemorak, but these 2 don't appear in the story mode and aren't relevant, they're just in the multiplayer mode along the real counterpart of those characters

Fun fact, Merlina when she runs up to Sonic saying "Being from a distant world", her mouth doesn't move one bit!

I'd really recommend playing through Black Knight since it's pretty wide regarded as one of the best Sonic stories (at least in terms of characterization)

Sonic and the black knight is a spinoff game where it has a few one time characters and existing characters are used as someone else Its great

It's interesting to know that the summon spell for Sonic is the same spell that summoned a demon in the previous game. Does this mean Sonic is considered a demon in this world?

i'd love to see you play frontiers. those anime boss battles are really special

Happy you enjoyed it man it’s honestly one of my favorite stories for Sonic it’s very earnest and fun

Unfortunately, this was the last Sonic game with a great story because after this game came out the series wanted to go for a kids Saturday morning cartoon type of tone since every Sonic game that had a serious story was poorly received by critics (thank Shadow 05 and Sonic 06 for that), but doing that meant they removed 60% of what made Sonic special.

By the way, all of the characters are from the King Arthur legend. Shadow is Lance-a lot knuckles is Gawain, blaze is Perceval, and the main villain is King Arthur.

It’d be super cool to have you watch the entire story of this game. It’s my personal favorite Sonic game and the best story in the franchise. It’s fairly short and shouldn’t take more than an our to watch everything

The chaos emeralds aren’t in this universe be once he collects all the sacred swords he gets a supersonic like set of armour and an overpowered sword

Nice, some Sonic and the Black Knight appreciation time 😊

This is probably one of my favorite opening and story from the series.

Sonic adventure or even shadow the game has a great story and trailer video as well.

This is the type of attitude and DRIP that I miss Sonic having

React to shadow the hedgehog cgi and sonic 06 cgi those two are some of the best of the series

black knight was not the first time human or humanesque characters have appeared in the games aside from the mad doctor but for the Longest time Merlina, miss royal wizard herself, was the last human character besides Eggman (and promotional media) to be seen in over ten years before the latest game instalment, Sonic Frontiers we had The United Federation and G.U.N Eggman's grandfather and cousin Gerald and Maria Robotnik The Sonic X anime that had a lot of human characters like Topaz and Chris Thorndyke The Princess Elise the third of Soleanna Sharha, Erazor D'jinn Merlina and the Dark Knight from the storybook games Sage, Dr Eggman's artificial daughter there are more that I have not mentioned but these are from the top of my head

Yessss more Sonic please

I love this game the music especially

I love this game

Sonic Storybook Series game. So Sonic has been teleporter to other world based off story books before that's why Sonic said like oh I know what's going on Yeah I done this before applying he got sent to other worlds and fighting demons. Sonic and the Black Knight there's a sequel to Sonic and the secret rings which is really based on the book called Arabian night. Now Sonic is in the books It changes the story world. The secret rings have legends of Blue hedgehog that decide everyone's fate in the book world. In the Black Knight there's a legend about a legendary knight that pops out of nowhere known as the Knight of the wind that will come when the kingdom is in crisis.

You should definitely react to the opening cutscene in Devil May Cry 3

would love to see you react to Xenoblade cutscenes and trailers

Don't listen to everyone saying we haven't gotten stories that good since then, lol. Back in 2022, starting with Sonic Frontiers the stories have been AMAZING. There's so much good!! That's one of the great things about the Sonic franchise, every game is unique and has its own feel and vibe to it. This one was, yeah, a separate universe. It's one of the "storybook" games.

Do sonic generations

She was expecting cloud and got a cartoon character instead

The last time Sega actually cared about Sonic.