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This Week in Games - Who Owns Sonic's Freedom Fighters?




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Ryuji-Dono



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 17, 2025 11:01 am Reply with quote
Sorry to break it up to you, but it's been said that Alex Hedgefox has been known to spreading some misleading things so... That document may be fake.
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Wyvern



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 17, 2025 11:01 am Reply with quote
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At the risk of sounding brusque, I think the best course of action is to move on.


Yep. The problem with bringing back the Freedom Fighters is that they're just the tip of the iceberg. There are literally hundreds of Sonic characters who came out of the same comics universe as the Freedom Fighters, some of which are great and many of which are embarrassing. The moment you bring back Princess Sally and friends, people will start asking when Sega will be bringing back such luminaries as Dulcy the Dragon, Sleuth Doggy Dog, and Locke, Knuckles' abusive father who microwaved him when he was a baby.


And those characters are mucked up with a whole different set of legal issues, because they might belong to Sega, or they might belong to Archie Comics, or they might belong to former Sonic writer Ken Penders, because Archie literally can't find the legal documents that say who owns those characters.

As much as I would love to see Sega bring back the Freedom Fighters so Sally can finally get gay married to the AI who lives in her phone (I'm only half-joking, those two actually have the best-written romance in the whole franchise) the can of worms it would open would probably be too much to bear.
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Beatdigga



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 17, 2025 11:07 am Reply with quote
One could make the case that the movies did well is because they specifically avoided the bloat of the latter Sonic franchise, keeping the focus on adding at most, one or two characters or concepts, and the Freedom Fighters represent everything they want to avoid, a lot of bloat.
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Blanchimont



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 17, 2025 11:45 am Reply with quote
Tales of Graces Remaster came out this week.
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