Sonic X Shadow Generations is a platforming video game developed by Sonic Team and published by Sega. The video game came out on October 25, 2024. The game's sexuality was toned down and the game was made more politically correct, but this has led to major controversy and very mixed reviews among fans, criticizing Sega and Ian Flynn for these changes to the remaster and was given a negative reception, notably from fans of Rouge the Bat, SonAmy shippers and fans of Amy Rose herself.
Censorship[]
International censorship[]
- Rouge's outfit is censored. The skin on her back is now fully covered. Breast size and breast cleavage is even further reduced.
- Sonic holding Amy back by putting his hand on her face was altered, he now doesn't touch her face at all and instead it shows her offering cupcakes.
- The Amy character card in the game removes any mention of her claiming to be Sonic's girlfriend. This is not the case in the Japanese version, however.
- Amy no longer flirts with Sonic and all dialogue where she did so in the original game was removed. She does flirt with him in the Japanese version, however, in the Chemical Plant scene, due to said version's script remaining unchanged.
- The line where Knuckles asks Classic Sonic if he's gained any weight (not realizing that Classic Sonic was not Modern Sonic) was removed. The Japanese version keeps this, due to their script remaining unchanged from the original.
- Curiously, the same animation of Classic Sonic sadly looking at his stomach has been left in.
- The scene near the end of the game where Amy knocks Knuckles and he hits a tree was changed to her just lightly touching him.
- The scene where Eggman says "Take a good look at yourself, Sonic! It's the last look you'll get, before I close your eyes forever! Hohohoho!" was changed to "It's the last thing you'll see in this world! Hohohoho!" Nothing changes in the Japanese version's script, however.
Where to find it uncensored[]
The original Sonic Generations is completely uncensored. However, in the Japanese version of the remaster, it keeps the 4 lines in above of the scripts. There is a PC mod that reverts some of Rouge's censorship.