Language! Jason Griffith Reveals Shadow The Hedgehog Was Originally Rated M?

So you're telling me that one of Sega's most infamous Sonic games was almost even more infamous? I don't even want to think about what an M-rated Shadow game would've done to the brand as we know it.

R.I.P. M rated Shadow game, I would have loved you even more

Ooooooooohhhhh.... Shadow said the F-word...

GET READY FOR THE F-BOMBS....

hehehe...

We could have had the FUCKING fourth Chaos Emerald!? Though I dunno, the fact that they place emphasis on perhaps the mildest swear word there is might make it a funnier meme.

The way I held my head with both my hands and yelled "NO WHAT"

We got the TAME version???

Absolutely reads like an April Fool's Day headline.  Simply laughable prospect.

Oh, so not only was the idea of getting T rating somewhat valid, but actual undershot what they were really aiming for.

Probably a good thing they chickened out, although I was interested in a T-rated Sonic game.

12 minutes ago, CrownSlayers Shadow said:

Probably a good thing they chickened out, although I was interested in a T-rated Sonic game.

To be fair, a Sonic game with more mature themes wouldn't necessarily have been as objectively terrible as, well...

As Shadow the Hedgehog actually turned out.

I don't think it's the content rating that was the root problem, although with the way they handled it, it was definitely an offshoot of the main problem. Said main problem being that whoever was in charge of the project clearly had no idea what they were actually doing.

Lol, it sounds like a script full of memes before memes existed. I can just imagine the following:

"Who am I? I'm Shadow the Fuc**ng Hedgehog, Motherfu**er!"

"Black Doom you say? more like Black Fuc**ing Gimp, with that head"!

"Get your fuc**ing hands off her, you fuc**ing GUN cu**t!!....she's only Fuc**ing 12!"

Lol

Mr. God of Company Data Security, if you're up there, I see what you've revealed in those Nintendo gigaleaks and I want you to do the same for us. Let these recordings appear someday. It would fix the entire world.

please god please let these voice lines leak so somebody can mod them in

Hey, miracles are everywhere.

Feels like we always knew this but it's cool that it came from the horses' mouth,... which needs some soap.

Ok, someone needs to get ahold of these M-rated recordings and post them online. I want to hear them so badly. XD

I don't think Shadow dropping F-bombs would have suited him. Using some milder words like the d-word are one thing still, but Shadow doesn't strike me as the kind of person who would resort to that level of explicit language. Even at the more troubled points in his life, he was a little angry and rebellious at times, but I feel he also had a little more dignity to him that would find him avoiding overly foul language (I'm sure Maria taught him better than that). I mean, this is the guy who, in Japanese, uses the more polite "boku" pronoun even while Sonic and Knuckles use "ore." That doesn't seem like a guy who would lower himself to using the F-word.

Still, the mental image of Shadow using M-rated-level curse words is hilarious. I will forever wonder how things would have played out if the Shadow game had gotten this rating. 

I could've sworn that I heard that the English writing team did wrote swearing for the characters in this game. But I guess the higher-ups at SEGA wasn't pushing it because the franchise was supposed to be for kids, hence the creation of the E-10 rating for ESRB.  Though, they let this game made anyway, thanks to Iizuka "admiring" GTA series.

I am...very glad they didn't go through with this. Given how polite Shadow is in SA2, it always seemed strange to me how they chose to have Shadow of all characters swear. I mean, he doesn't even call Eggman anything other than "Doctor" most of the time! He's formal. I just can't imagine him saying "fuck" every second sentence after presenting himself so carefully and formally in SA2.

That said, I desperately hope these files leak. It's a hilarious near miss on Sega's part and I want to hear Shadow tell Black Doom to fuck off.

... WHAT?! Shadow swearing!! I'm glad that game didn't get an M rating. Well- if it did- then people would meme the heck outta it. 

Hahaha, Shadow dropping the F-bomb all the time makes me curious (During bossfight: Die, mother****, die). Unless he really uses it every 2nd sentence, that would probably be too much.

But even more interesting; how do the other characters react to Shadows language. Does Sonic do a new Sonic says fragment about swearing. Is Cream asking Vanilla what F**** means? Does Knuckles adapt his language? Is Amy asking him to stop using foul language? Does Tails burst out in tears upon hearing Shadow speak like this? Ohh man. Now I want to know how the M-rated dialogs were supposed to be.  

Now I can picture Vanilla either giving Shadow the cold death glare, or whacking him like the "Penguin" in the Blues Brothers. 

Well, I think I kind of saw this coming. Whatever the case, it was said that dark and edgy games, and games with guns were popular around the time Shadow's game was being made, was it not? That said, Sega and Sonic Team did NOT have to go this far with the guns, let alone have the game M-rated with bad language.

I guess you could say this game was not 4KIds.

Sorry, but I had to.

My god, it's so weird to think of that it's so funny to think of that.

1 hour ago, Shiny Gems said:

I guess you could say this game was not 4KIds.

Yo ho ho, I'm gonna be the motherfuckin' pirate king, bitches!

Where's that *Ring noise* Darn Fourth Chaos Emerald?

Now I understand why some internal stuff stated this game is in a parallel universe.

Also this game has so much dialogue, you telling me there's like double of what's already there?