Sunday, August 31, 2014

Mental Health (uncut)

Just a heads up because it's discussed in this post, I'm  a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of LDS or Mormon. I was emailing my friend on his mission, and during the process my creativity channels were opened and I received a lot of insights into mental health and other topics. It took a long time to write, and I'm winded, but I want to share it, so here it is. I'd say I might get around to revising it, but realistically I won't.

"I was thinking about something. I don't get sick, my mom doesn't get sick, my ESTP brother doesn't seem to get sick another ESTP guy I used to home teach said he doesn't get sick. Now, all of can get infected and sick or get diseases. You get sick easily and get allergies and so does your dad, but you personally, claim you aren't affected by anything, swearing, crudity, dark humor, etc. things that can be equated to mental germs, which cause mental sickness, poor health, and diseases. I think a person's type is genetic, considering it's basically the software-operating system, running inside of the brain, what else would it be; Resilence to germs and disease may be genetically greater for sensors; thus, sensors may be in part born resistentt to physical toxins while intuits may be resistent to mental diseases.  

I hypothesis we can compare the body to mind and say that the laws of physical health can be applied to the brain as well.
Laws of Health
1. Eat immune system strengthening  and cancer fighting foods which contain immune system and cancer fighting minerals vitamins and minerals. Vitamin c from Lemons, Limes, and oranges, vitamin A from carrots, vitamin E, K, Herbs and spices, orengano (Italian seasoning), etc.
2. Build up the immune system through gradual exposure to toxins. Pretty straight forward and explanatory. I would say using hand sanitizers, and washing hands and cleaning foods and touched surfaces too often hurts a person in the long run.
3. Exercise to release toxins from the body. It releases toxins through the pores and sweat. When overwhelmed with toxins, fat is stored and created in a body deal with the excess ive amount later to protect the body; to engulf and pacify toxins to the body such as chemicals, viruses, bacteria. When that fat is burned off the toxins should be burned off and exit the body throught the digestive track which the body can do now that it isn't overwhelmed with toxins to eliminate;  Also, the increased body temperature during exercise likely also helps kill harmful, viruses, bacteria, and microrganisms. This is probably another reason I like to take really hot baths so much. The high heat: first, kills the bacteria on the skin and surface of the body, then increases a person's internal body temperature killing germs on the inside, anf finally the high heat as well as the waters expands and loosens the pores to allow toxins and germs to exit into the water. So the water doesn't just deal with macro germs and dirtines (dirt and visible stains), but micro-germs and dirtiness.

So then the mental laws of good mental health are....

1. Strengthen the minds mental immune system with immune building and nutrious mental food. When thinking about what mental food is we have to understand how our minds work. First off, our minds are basically the embodiment of all the information we've taken in and how they are connected in the brain. So this makes the information itself the food and how it's connected is the digestion of the food. This concept that information, like nutrients, are the primarily source of nourishment for the brain that strengthens it. So, if the information is mental food, then it's we need to be careful about what we physically drawing from our environments as well as how we interpret it which is digestion. So what's healthy and opposingly unhealthy?

 Healthy mental food is, thoughts and ideas that are: positive, powerful, uplifting, motivating, and helpful etc. Imagination is the ability of man to see in his mind what is possible. If something is impossible, logically imposible, we can't even imagine it. A square circle can't even be imagined.

Here are some supporting examples for my hypthesis that exposure to information is literal food. There was this story I heard from a video with black and white pictures of the father and girl. The father kept the girl locked away inside away from other people with scarce and few interactions until she was around 10. When social services or someone, found her she couldn't talk, I'm certain of, or do basic things kids her age could do like walk, dress or feed herself, I believe.  Then, I'm pretty sure they, overtime, they were able to teach her these things; so, there you go; if a person does take in information: ideas, and thoughs, from the outside world, then there brain atrophies, and they become inept. Of course the properties and amounts needed are likely different than food and water. A person may be able to go longer without mental food and water than they can physical food, but as seen in people who develop alzheimers and other brain degenerate diseases in old age, the brain will suffer and break down, if a person ceases, to feed, nourish or exercise it. Social interaction seems to be an excellent way to feed and exercise the brain which is probably why I love and need it so much and frequently. I haven't looked anything up, but from what I can observe at all the churches I've been to as well what I know and have observed about the apostales, the development of alzheimers and other brain degenerative diseases is lower inside of the church than outside. There are plenty of super old high priests, bishops, stake presidents, and apostales their minds fail none of them. The information of the Gospel is very nourishing  studying it requires a lot of exercising, and system 2 thinking. So, there is inherent worth and value in the gospel afterall. It isn't simply about the reward in heaven to come. Living the gospel brings physical and mental health. 

The Gospel gives us not only a physical health code, but also a mental one. This is a personal gripe that I probably shouldn't have and need to work on. My gripe is when a general conference talk, general authority message, or anything said at church, is critical, chastizing, and negative. Because and when I'm hungry and starving for mental nourishment, it can at times hurt a lot of be lectured and scolded at the dinner table. Well, hmm, vegetables don't always taste good. Perhaps positive thoughts are sweet and tasty foods like are fruits, nuts, and honey, that are good for the body in only in only if you don't each too much. On the other hand negative critical thoughts are vegetables, perhaps some forms of beans, fungus, and meat. They're foods that don't taste good, but are good for you. Huh, so maybe there is such a thing as eaching to many vegetables. Vegetables are high in fiber, so perhaps if you eat too many vegetables, and too much fiber, then the body won't be able to digest it. The fiber and the negativity block out the positive and physical nutrients. Hmm, so positive thoughts and ideas are fuel; they are sugar. All food in the body is converted into glucose which is sugar; however, if a person eats too much sugar they'll get fat. If a person is never constructively critisized they'll get mentally fat. On the flip side, too much negativity can block and prevent the sugar from being digested

2.  Build up the immune system. So, gradual exposure to harmful mental food with toxins makes a person mentally stronger in the long-run. Going to public school probably actually makes a person mentally stronger while home schooling kids, or even possibly really strict private or charter schools probably makes them weaker.

3. Mental exercise, solving problems, using creatively to build or create something helps expunge toxins as well.

I'd add the pure knowledge, sensations and definitions of words, compare to proteins and carbohydrates which seem to be the foundation and staple of a healthy diet. The common analogy of "It's my meat and potatoes," seems to be based on what conventional wisdom has discovered through experience; that protein and carbohydrates are the bare minimum, essential nutrients of a diet. My nutrition class at school I'm taking confirms this. Alright, well that's about it. 

In summary and conclusion

All people should be aware of what information and intepretations come into their mind if they want to be mentally healthy. They need to monitor, sense data, thoughts, and any form of communication.This shall bring all ultimate happiness and glory."

Hmm, I'd like to add to my thoughts, that information with no redeeming value will feed the mind, but's it is analagous to empty calroies. Cotton candy is pure sugar. The sugar probably could sustain a person's life for a while, but it has no nutrients.

The World that never Was; Org. 13 Why I love the concept of them; Dystopic Sensual Daft Punk World

"Organisation Xiii's homeworld, that I'm sorely missing the civilians on the streets"
I actually think it being devoid of people fits the theme of the world. Nobodies are empty shells and it's a big, empty, lifeless world. The only creature inhabiting it are the undead heartless and empty shell nobodies. It's the perfect setting for the homeworld of villains. It one of my favorite worlds if not my favorite. The mystical feeling it gives off is hard to describe. It's sort like a the feeling despair and mystery combined, but that isn't accurate enough. It's like the feeling of a daft punk or Gorillaz song. It's very somber and comtemplative. If for no other reason I like Organization XIII for feeling and impression they distill in me. It isn't precise, and I wish I could think of a better term, but they can be described as Cyber Punk. The feeling is like a good uncanny feeling, it;s like if the uncanny valley was flipped. At a certain range of oddity and mysteriousness the feeling you get exponetially increases. I love the look of their black coat, the concept of nobodies, their world. It all ties together with the theme of emptiness. It's gives the symbolism of a person who's alive, but might as well be dead. Somewho who has emotionally died. Someone who hasn't truly feel good and alive in years. Someone with a void who uses drugs and pleasure to attempt to fill the void, but it only temporarily eases the pain. This person like the nobodies can feign emotion and life, but it's hollow as they feel nothing inside. A dsytopic world where human emotions and flaws bring shame and disapproval, so these nobodies" dehumanize. They eliminate their heart and function only off of their body and mind. They turn into a machine one of million. As there perfect name implies, they are now truly a nobody. It's poetic and beautiful to think about. It's sombering and meditative.

This dystopic, Brave New World, Daft punk, dehumanized type of world is the PEFECT fit as the antagonizing force for a game called Kingdom Hearts. Organization XIII is the perfect antagonist and anthesis of the ever jublinant and emotional Sora whom is full of life and humanity.

Thursday, July 31, 2014

Why Open World: Linear Progression Sucks

  • "Hey why is this called a Sonic blog if you aren't gonna talk about Sonic!" Shut up, free speech. So because I was bored and for some reason topical events are SO amazing here's something inspired by Egoraptors, "gloriouis" Ocarina of Time video. I too tend to hate open world games with linear progression. Sly 2, 3, &4; Infamous games, and the Arkaham games, are all examples of this like Ocarina of Time. I owned Ocarina of Time on my N64 at one point, but got stuck at Death Mountain and never played it again. I did finally go back and beat it a few years ago, but only with the help of my friend Tom. If he didn't help me I probably would have needed to look a lot of stuff up. With Kingdom Hearts 1 being a sort of exception which I will explain, games should either have closed, confined, linear worlds with either linear or non-linear progression, or open worlds with non-linear, and NEVER open worlds with linear progression.
    Okay so first up, the games I mentioned (You could probably place the Jack and Daxter games and Ratchet and Clank along with the rest too, but I haven't played any of them much so I don't remember). Sly 1 was fine. Like you said it was basically Super Mario 64 except with linear levels; Great, fun, fantastic! But then we get to Sly 2 and it's an "Open World with a...very...specific...things...to...do.... " That's not the only problem though.
    The hub areas in Sly 2 and onward, are big, dark and everything in the environment blends together. Big: Needing to figure out a specific thing to do can become an overwhelming chore when the area you can run around in is huge. Dark: doesn't help me find and differeniate specific details in the environment now does it. Everything looks the same: Everything intuitely looks similar unless you really scrutinize it. Basically the only way you know where to go is if you follow the stupid arrows or the stupid map! How is it exploring and how is it fun if I need arrows and/or a map (*cough* Dream Derp Derpence. I'm looking at you Tron Legacy World!)?! So, it's hard to figure out what to do and where to go, but that's not the end of your problems, now you have to put up with the annoying tasks they give you.
    I have three perfect examples of beyond tedious and frustrating tasks that you have to do in this list of "open world" games. First, is basically the first mission after the intro in both Sly 2 and 3. In these missions you must slowly follow around an NPC who slowly walks around and take pictures of him while he does stuff! In Sly 4 the first mission is almost exactly the same except you at least aren't following some slow NPC. I get that it's supposed to be a stealth challenge, but who cares? From a gameplay perspective is it fun to slowly and tediously walk around and take pictures with an awkwardly controlled camera? Sorry, I didn't know I was playing boring tourist the video game. Good grief. My second example is Infamous 2.
    In it, you must accompany this stupid helpless NPC girl (not that that's why she's stupid) to the place where you need to be, and if you get too far away from her you have ten seconds to get back or else you have to start over from the beginning. What The Fruitcake!!!! What kind of bull crap is that?!! You have all this amazing climbs and ways to get around, that are so much fun to use and explore with, and you're telling me I have to slowly follow this stupid NPC around?!!! It's like having having a super fast and amazing dirt bike with nothing around you but miles of jumps and open land to ride around in, but just as you are about to leave your mom stops you and says, "Now, hold on a second young man. Take your little, 4 year old, sister, Suzy with you." Now Batman.
    Arkahm City has many of the same problems as my previous examples: Darkness, big open area, need map or arrows, tons of fun to explore and climb stuff, but you need to go to a specific spot and way to trigger a specific event. I'm interested in a story centered around batman and I'm interested in an open world, but it's like blending pizza into a smoothie. The two on their own are great and fine, but put them together and you get someone horribly nasty. That analogy sumes up all the problems with open-world-specific-task games, but there is a way you can have booth your shake and pizza, and eat it too.
    Kingdom Hearts is an Open World game with linear progression and the need to trigger specific events in specific places to progress. As we've discussed, normally this is a problem, but the good old designers at Square soft thought ahead and got into the players mind. First, they segmented the worlds into rooms and areas, a brillant and necessart idea. Added up and it' just as big as the open areas in the others games, BUT not we
  • BUT now we have focus. Now have the ability to grasp and logically exclude areas. "Alright, I'm suck and don't know where to go. Hmm well I've checked everything in the "1st and 2nd Districts, so maybe I'm supposed to go to that there 3rd District. Do do do walking along, Hey! What do you know?! It worked. Thanks Square Soft!" See, segmentation and area titles (another brillant idea), give the player, an easy way to conceptualize the world and understand where they need to go. It's a very helpful organizational tool. Like, instead of having this big open plate where your mash potatoes and peas mix together, you have this perfect wonder microwavable dish tray or bowl with different segments that can be used to hold different things. The mash potatoes and peas can be all cozy in there own bunker without there personal space issues being violated. You can really appreciate the individual tastes of the foods when they have touched and their juices mixed. Another example I thought of is the difference between Sonic Adventure and 06.
    Sonic Adventure uses similar desgin philosophies to Kingdom Hearts and Mario 64, while Sonic 06 has similar design philosophies, if you can call it that, to the other games. In Sonic Adventure 1, the areas are segmented and thus kept small there are: Set-pieces (Tails Workshop, a casino), an excellent use of bright and dark contrasting colors, titled areas, and theirs even a guide to tell you where to go in case you get lost. Sonic 06 on the other hand, has 2 or 3 big open areas, that are either filled with too much pointless open space, or has building that all look the same and blend together. I got lost and couldn't figure out what to do the first time I played it. Huh, what a weird coincidence. As soon as Sonic moves away from Nintendo it's plagued with bad open world design. All the other games I talked about were for the ps2 or 3 so it's as if those developing for those consoles are cursed to make bad decisions. It's like developers for the man's gaming console are encouraged to misplace their values and design money and time. It's like they are putting all there efforts into the wrong things like pixel perfect graphics and realistic design. Huh, what an odd thing.
    Oh well, NINTENDOMINATION!!!! except I hate Nintendo now too. PC MASTER RACE!!!! No, I hate PC gaming too. READING RAINBOW!!!! Uh, not quite. WORKING! I don't have a job. SCHOOL! Just ended. Drat, it appears everything sucks and I'm all out of options. I guess it's the meth lab for me.

Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Random Argument Extra Credits, "Beyond Fun" "Differeneces in Kind" Sonic Heros SA2.

The point I'm supporting is what I said. Games don't have to be narrow mindedly be limited to light-hearted pleasure, and arcade-like gameplay. Actively doing something while taking in the story is something movies nor books can deliver on. It's arguably the best way to experience a story.

As defined in this video and by me Engagement does mean the same thing as fun. Engagement is having your interest kept and mind stimulated. Fun is light-hearted, thrill based pleasure. Are puzzles fun? Is a mystery novel fun? No, but they keep your attention, and thus engage you. Something that's only fun is not even a tenth as rewarding as something deep and meaningful.

When I think of games that had the cencept of "fun" in mind, I think of the every Mario game Nintendo has made since Super Mario Galaxy 1. I think of Sonic Colors, and Lost World. By focusing on "fun" as the only and core objective, developers end up making a game that provides a shallow experience, and often isn't even that engaging.

Extra Credits makes a lot of keen observations, and puts a lot of abtract concepts into easily understand terms. The writer for the show James has actually spent many years as a developer and observing other developers. Whether or not they accurately sum up individual franchise is not important. Those are just examples and opinions. The design priciniples they establish are far more important, and that's where they excel.

The principle of "Differences in Kind" in this video explains why Sonic Heroes is boring, yet SA2 is fun. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlBR1z-ue-I)
In Sonic Heroes everything in one level feels the same, visually and indiviual action wise. There are almost no set piece moments  and few dynamic camera angle shots. Mechanically, you're doing the same tasks in the same way over and over. Punch blocks and enemies with Knuckles, switch to tails to slowly platform, switch to Sonic on straigh aways and to spin around poles. The music is flipping repitive too which only makes the experience worse. Shadow's game basically has the same problem.  Unleashed and even Colors are less boring then Heroes because at least in Unleashed the visuals and tasks are dynamic and diversified. One of  Color's problems actually is that it put too much diversity into a single level which resulted in a severe lack of flow.

In City Escape of SA2..I start with.boarding down a city street while jumping off jumps and avalanching cars. Then, I'm running around normally, then I'm running on the side of a wall, then I need to go up stairs where I hace to be careful because enemy are blocking my path and shoot at me, then I'm rail grinding done a corridor, then I'm in a park that I can explore and run around in, then I'm doing tricks off of pull up bar, then a giant truck is chasing me with a backwards facing camera. Each moment feels different  Unlike in Heroes.

Wednesday, June 18, 2014

History, Sega's Tactics, Sonic Boom, The Return to Sonic Adventure, and Hope for the Future of Sonic

Beginning in 2010 with Sonic Colors and Sonic 4, Sega has been trying to multitask by simultaneously designing for the long term fans while attempting to attract new ones.  Sonic Generations was a smorgage board as it cotained everything that everyone from all sections of the fanbase, even Adventure fans, could enjoy. After Colors a few team members began working on Lost World while the rest worked on Generations so the general plan for it had been decided by in 2010 or sooner.  After the abysmal sales of Lost world, Sonic Team took note of  the increasing demands and complaints from people like Roger, SA3, Tails Channel, and others; So, now, The next game is a traditonal Adventure Sonic game not like Colors, Generations, or Lost World. Sonic Team hasn't been ignoring their fanbase just misunderstanding it.

Sonic Generations was a love letter to the long time fans as well as an attempt to appeal to new fans acquired by Sonic Colors. It's more so they assumed that their long term paying fans consisted of mostly gensis fans who only cared about gameplay. Sonic 4 didn't sell very well, and SA3/ SA like games are increasing being demanded, so they seem to be aware what their long term fans truly want.

Their new approach is to Sonic games is to hire developers like BRB to make a new type of Sonic for new users, then they themselves make adventures games for the long time fans which is great! They no longer have to try and make one alternating contuity to satisfy all the different type fans by themselves. Casual, comedy seeking Sonic fans don't care what the games are like, so they've feel satified while niche Sonic fans can get their traditional games free of experimentation and poor humor.  It cannot be emphasized  enough how much of an improvement spliting up Sonic Colors,  Generations, and Lost World into two continuities is.

So long as the execution and vision of  returning to Adventure, Retro Sonic turns out well. Yes, Sonic Boom doesn't contain the type of story or perhaps even gameplay we adventure fans want, but it's a spin off series. So we don't really have a good enough reason to be pissed off at this point. The future of Sonic looks bright not dim.

Sources
http://www.lazygamer.net/general-news/sonic-team-working-on-new-sonic-game/
http://www.tssznews.com/2014/06/03/working-prototypes-of-next-sonic-allegedly-in-existence/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPiAuPl7h9g&list=UUUNYWmlvdPYcFlrs3a1EfPg
http://www.licensemag.com/license-global/sonic-new-generation-sonic-boom

Thursday, June 5, 2014

Sonic Boom Footage Leak and First Hands on Impression

So, we got our first glimpses of how Sonic Boom will actually play and a hands-on impression for both the Wii U and 3ds versions
Wii U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNkDV_e-t0k
3DS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nxgDyPlTTQ

My prediction was right, it's going to have the same problem as Sonic Heroes. Too much slow-paced combat, but I also get the feeling there will be more battle feedback here. The speed level looks really cool though, except is the whole level a speed thrill with no challenge or freedom? Even Unleashed made you platform and you could stop and explore around everyone once in a while. I mean, don't get me wrong, I should still like it because I'm entertained by visual spectacle, but it'd be frustrating if the highly automated levels are the only time the game feels fast paced. Of course it's a small amount of footage, but it gives cause for alarm none the less.

And ah, the humor. It cracks me up that right as the guy says, "There are jokes, funny ones too." The person who edited this puts in an incredily stupid joke. The Sonic eating rings joke did get a shock value laugh out of me, just because of how unfitting and absurd it is, so whatever. The humor in a game isn't important to me. I have shows and movies for that. Good, refined, and tasteful jokes isn't what I come to Sonic for anyway.

The 3DS version, actually comes off a lot like Sonic and Knuckles 3. The exception being that it seems to be made with modern design skills and wisdom in that you can switch between characters whenever you want and such. The guy who played it seemed to really like it so that itself is a good sign. But oh I almost forgot. 2D explorations, /sigh. Actually though, I'm pretty optimistic with it because: The goal is still to just get to the end, you can switch to tails or knuckles, or sticks at anytime, the control is claimed to be good, and it seems optional and not in your face. I just hope they will leave clues as to where the collectible will be rather than make you scratch through the level inch by inch to find anything. 3D exploring can be just as bad if there's no clues to give the player a sense of direction. The 3D sections remind me of Sonic Dash. Again, I'm easily excited, so that should be satisfying. The only chance of it failing to entertain me is if it becomes really cheap and expects you to have the reflexes of a God.

I couldn't help but notice, that Knuckles is now the not-the-drill wisp and Tails the not-the-hover wisp; So, Good job Sonic people, you're actually making use of Sonic's friends again, Hooray!

More information will be avaible at E3 soon, so this is a bit premature, but hearing from someone who has actually played it is a big difference because of course they're going to try and hide the flaws and make it look cool in a big, eventful release. So this is valuable stuff.

TTFN, my loyal, imaginary audience.

Saturday, May 24, 2014

Classic Love Shenanigans in Sonic

Watching some other cartoons I used to watch I realized how much fun is to have a plot based around characters suddenly falling in love. There's some great chemistry between Sonic characters already, so there's tons you could do with this concept. Ah, I can exactly how'd it'd go...../thought bubble....

Sonic, a world famous hero, is attending a seminar to inspire children, when Amy crashed the party. She does something that embarasses him, and the children laugh. He's angry, but he doesn't want to let it show in front of the children so he suppresses it, and endures the shame until the events over. Then rather than directly confronting Amy out of fear she'll overreact, he instead goes to Tails for the solution.

Sonic tells Tails that Amy's obession with him has gotten, "Out of hand," and mocks, "Where's the off switch?" This gives Tails gets an idea.

"What if we could 'Turn off' Amy's love for you?" He then sets to work making an invention to do just that.
He gives him a special spray to use on her.

Sonic goes up to Amy reaching his arms out for a hug intending to spray Amy behind her back, but because Amy is so overjoyed by this, she squeezes him harder than Sonic expected and he ends up spraying himself and he falls in love with Amy. Amy is overjoyed that Sonic is finally expressing his love for her, and they go out on a lot of dates at amusement parks, restaurants, running across land and seas while Sonic carries her, and more. This makes Tails worried.

When Sonic finally gets around to visit Tails again, Tails is astonished to find out how Sonic has been acting. He tries asking Sonic what happend, but Sonic is too love struck to recall the details. Tails deduces Sonic must have sprayed himself, and after making Sonic take some tests, he realizes that his potion not only does his potion make some one fall out of love, but it makes a person fall in love too, as it reverses the love emotions of what the person naturally feels. Tails goes about making an antidote, but first he needs to test the love reverser again, So he calls in his good buddy Knuckles for some help.

Knuckles, who was guarding the Master Emerald, agrees to use the spray on someone so long as Tails takes his place while doing such. Knuckles asks who he should spray, and Tails tells him, "It doesn't matter so long as you know for certain that the person has love or a lack of love for another." After a brief moment of thought and a sigh, Knuckles takes off with a communication device Tails gave him, as he heads for GUN headquarters.

At the GUN HQ Knuckles meets up with Rouge, whose happy to see him as she's been stuck in her office all day. Knuckles then attempts to spray her, but Shadow Chaos controls in the way to inform Rouge of her next assignment and intercepts the blast. He's stuck dumb in love for Rouge.

Back at the scene with Amy and Sonic. Sonic's constant love and affection is starting to bore and annoy her, and she realizes that it was more fun when she was the one chasing him. Having no where else to turn she calls up Tails for advice as to what she should do.

Tails, being an absent minded blabber, lets it out that Sonic's in love with her because of his invention. In a fit of confused emotions she at first expresses relief, but then half waythrough her sign she bursts in to a rage. She then scolds Tails and demands an explanation. He explains, "Sonic was sick of your obsessive behavior so I invented a spray that would make you fall out of love with him, but as it turns out it actually reverses how someone feels, so Sonic..fell...in...love...with.....you." He then mutters, "Oops, as he realizes he's again revealed too much, and he's right as Amy breaks down in tears, having connected that this means Sonic doesn't truly love her at all like she had always imagined.

Back at the scene with Knuckles, Shadow, and Rouge things have escalated. Shadow, struck with Rouge, has taken her hand, kneeled on the floor, and begun uttering poetry. Rouge being confused and weirded out, but also flattered, attempts to ask Knuckles what's going on, but as she tries to do such Shadow is offended that she's giving her attention to another guy, and starts deriding Knuckles, "Back off, she would never be into a dim-witted, inferior lifeform such as yourself."

 Knuckles is offended and retaliates, "Who says she wouldn't?! The whole reason I came here is because I knew she liked me." *Rouge lets out a shocked, "Oh my!"

Shadow, unaccept to even stand the possibility of this, lunges at Knuckles and a brawl comences. As the brawl is going on Sonic zooms in and hides behind Rouge, followed by a crazed Amy who crashes through the ceiling with Tails's hijacked Tornado, with him sitting in the back seat cowering and freightened. She then nose dives into the ground yelling, "SOOOONIC!" She crashes into the spray Knuckles brought along, and a cloud of dust and love potion perfume engulfs the room.

Coughing, and scuffed up, everyone gets up, and it quickly become apparent that Sonic and Shadow are turned back to normal, as Sonic looks startled and bothered by Amy's presence, and Shadow looks gruff and unexpressive again.

Everyone meets back at Tails Workshop to be tested to make sure all traces of the love potion are gone.While this is going on Sonic musters up the courage to state how he's been feeling and convess to Amy that he's been embarassed by her behavior recently, and he brings up the event with the kids. Amy then tells him that she wished that he would have just told her rather than put her through all the embarassment she's gone through. It would have been much less hurtful to find out that way. As she looks insecurly downward and away from Sonic while reaching over and grabbing her upper arm to comfort herself. Then feeling like a dirt bag, hints that, "But, hey, you never know, maybe someday when we're both older I'll genuinely like you. So don't lose hope!"  He then gives her a reassuring, winked eye, grin and a thunbs up.

This makes Amy perk up, and says, "So, does this mean you're asking me to marry you in the future?!" having leaned in towards Sonic with a big toothed grin, and her hands clasped and held up to one side. Everyone looks over, and a shocked moment of silence occurs. Then Amy closes her eyes while remaining in the exact same pose in every other way, and says, "Just kidding!" To which all the characters in turn and round, begin to laugh. The camera slowly rises up and away from the characters, showing the sky with the laughter still being heard, as the screen fades to black and the credits play.