Wow, just wow man.
Every last minute and detail, that's been provided in the past 3 episodes of this series has given me hopes for this franchise so high, it's almost comedic
A hope that's even higher then what I mentioned prior in reaction to the first episode.
For years, this level of love and care was only given to fan-projects, fan-projects that were ran on shoe-string budgets, the same shoe string budgets that restrained them to becoming comics and or short animations that took year hiatuses after every new installment.
But this, this very short series is just on another level, another level of everything, from quality to writing and it deserves every ounce of positive feedback it recieves.
Ian Flynn, the often strange and unpredictable bastard has managed to make me care about the GUN Commander, now going under his Archie alias of Abraham.
I've never been a huge fan of Ian Flynn and his works, I often found his works to be misguided and based on head-canons more then game-canons, but this and this alone has changed my opinion on him entirely, it's just that kino.
God, every-time I re-watch the video it hits the exact same way, there's always another detail, another care given by SEGA and the Animation Team to pay attention too, it fills me with relief seeing that this franchise, often misguided and aimless, now has direction and even if may only be for a series of short animations I don't care, I love every second of it, it's all so concise in what it wants and what it wants to show, as an advertisement and as a genuine love-letter to Shadow the Hedgehog as a character.
The animation on display, it just looks so clean and so smooth, it doesn't seem real to me.
The way the characters move and talk, the body-language, it all just feels so right to watch and that's only the characters alone, the set-pieces are just on another level, especially in this episode even the small parts of the buildings, the vehicles and the individual wires within them, were all given such love and care and for who what and why, I wish I knew.
I genuinely do not know what happened over at SEGA during the past year and where this sudden quality came from, but I'm all here for it.
Sega does what Nintendont.