The Fascinating Development Of Shadow The Hedgehog & Rouge The Bat

Hey guys! Hope you all enjoyed taking a look at the creation and development of Shadow the Hedgehog and Rouge The Bat from Sonic Adventure 2! Shadow the Hedgehog and Rouge the Bat, in my opinion, have made a serious lasting impact on the franchise so I thought it would be kinda cool to see why and how they were added to SA2! I really enjoyed checking the concept art for these guys and Sonic Adventure 2...it's interesting how much SA2's concept art differed from Sonic Adventure's Concept art

Thanks for watching and if you have any suggestions let me know in the comments!
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Sources:
Sonic 25th Anniversary Artbook (book flip) - Parka Blogs
Creepy Sonic Adventure 2 Trailer - Solidus-Skully
Sonic Adventure 2 E3 2000 Trailer - Slashforce
SA2 Trailer Collection - Windii Gitlord

Introduction - 0:00
SA2 Development Background - 0:25
Shadow's Concept Art and Development - 0:48
Rouge's Concept Art and Development - 3:58
Bringing the Characters to Life - 5:17
The Reveal - 8:08

Outro Music: It Doesn't Matter v.2 -Sonic's Theme (From Sonic Adventure 2)

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[RiiViiMedia]

Also kind of weird that despite being advertised heavily, Shadow has the least amount of stages in spite of having arguably the most impact on the story.

[mayormaryam]

I know I'm late but this has been bugging me for weeks; 'Boku' is misinterpreted in the video, which is a shame because the way Shadow refers to himself already reveals a lot about him. So here's clarification of Shadow's use of the word for anyone interested: Besides the formal and gender-neutral 'watashi' (which is used by women more outside of formal context) the two most common masculine ways to refer to oneself are 'ore' and 'boku'. They're both casual, but 'ore' is somewhat crude and associated with the tough guy type--I can see a character like Knuckles using it. 'Boku' is more youthful and boyish, fitting a character like Tails. This is probably why Shadow's use of 'boku' is more popular with women, who most likely find it endearing as it characterizes a sort of innocence and contrasts with his appearances (compared to 'ore', which you'd typically expect someone like Shadow to use and is probably why the team was divided on this), hence the developer justifying his choice by saying Shadow 'is a very subtle and pure character'. I personally find it cute; it nudges him away from the edgelord role, if only by a bit. I don't mean to criticize such an impressively well-researched video, I just like the character as much as most here do and hate to see an interesting tidbit like that lost due to mistranslation! Hope this helps!

[groove.mp]

rouge the bat is such an underrated character. she deserves so much more. she’s super cool.

[nojolie]

IMO Shadow and Rouge have the most complex and fascinating relationship in the whole franchise, how they were forced to work together in the beginning even though they hated each other and from there kept teaming up only out of convenience which grew into a genuine friendship. Its like they try to act like theyre just business partners but secretly care for each other. And its also funny how rouge is so flirtatious with all the boys in the franchise and messes with them but not with shadow

[LostCourage]

Whoever decided to have Shadow's quills mirror Super Sonic was a genius.

[RadiantBlazeVA]

The cool thing about Beta Rouge's design is the concept that her wings were on her arms similar to irl bats than on her back like how you see in her final design.

[ZachaRicO]

Man...with how much love and care was put into making Shadow who he is in his earliest appearances, it's really sad seeing his character get reduced to oW ThE eDgE in modern Sonic games. At this point, they might as well give him the scar he had in his beta designs...because that's what's happened to his reputation.

[gnbman]

It's funny that the early concept art for Shadow and Rouge was very 90's before they finally became more 00's.

[brokenscart]

This is the sort of content growing 30 year olds crave.

[HG-vdhz]

the name “Nails” was definitely meant to be a mirror of Knuckles’ name since they share the same play style, considering the fact that both names are hand accessories that they use to dig with

[MicahBuzanANIMATION]

Original Shadow looks more like Knuckles. That would be kinda cool to have a shadow version of Knuckles.

[BWF_Official]

It's very interesting to see how these two fan-favourites evolved during the time of making the game. That concept art of Shadow could've inspired the creation of Mephiles as both look somewhat similar. Rouge on the other hand doesn't have as much concept art as Shadow but this can be explained by the fact that she was already designed well and unlike Shadow she wasn't created as a same species counterpart.

[fabianugalde]

Nails the Bat and Terios the Hedgehog were the newcomers in Sonic Adventure 2

[polyman]

Hard to believe some people prefer the beta designs for Shadow. I always liked how Shadow had his quills done like Super Sonic in his base form to indicate superiority. His final design actually makes me believe Sonic could be mistaken to be Shadow because at this point Sonic has had 2 separate transformations that caused his quills to spike up (this was before Hyper Sonic was struck from canon). His beta designs also pictured him with a sword which just makes them look even worse to me. I'm glad we got the final Shadow design like this and I could say the same for Rouge.

[katieee_llyn]

I said it once and I’ll gladly say it again- WE DIDN’T DESERVE Shiro Maekawa. What a legend

[razminfox]

I like how Lara craft prototype rouge was like a punk Laura craft

[Adamwinters]

If Knuckles is the Piccolo of the Sonic-verse, Shadow is its Vegeta.

[jackepong]

Sonic 3 and knuckles is why shadow exists. He was born based off the painting of super sonic in the ruins of angel island which is where gerald got the idea. Thats why he has super sonic's spines, and why people thought he was sonic. Because they know sonic can transform and saw him when he fought perfect chaos. So they thought this dark sonic is just another form of his.

[pooplenepe]

I absolutely adore how the prototype Shadows look like fan OCs

[caseyhoward]

This vid was so good! Yeah I agree that it’s a shame that there isn’t more rouge info out there but your analysis was still awesome!!