FIRST REACTION to the Shadow Generations DLC!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- I didn't stream over the weekend like I initially planned so here's a nice let's play style recording for my first playthrough of the Movie Pack DLC! I like it!!!!
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I love how Keanu rejects a bunch of marvel deals but occasionally appears on SpongeBob and said “Hell yeah” when voicing shadow in game and movie
TBF, he's done other game stuff, like Johnny Silverhand in Cyberpunk 2077.
because Marvel would own him for years. SpongeBob only needed him for five minutes.
I think you’ll find the bunch of Marvel ideas is a rumour. One role tops, but probably not even that for the moment. I know he rejected a star was role.
Keanu's very flat "hyah"s are so funny
Hyahnu Reeves
They're so distracting like WOW, I feel like I was too harsh about the delivery in Adventure 2 distracting me, cause this is somehow worse xDD
It really does sound like they got Keanu in that recording booth for like half an hour and had to do everything in one take
How Penny made 20 minutes out of this is amazing.
Shit I made 30
I made 40 on my shit
@@FirithPanda deleted comment 😢
I made it 7 hours because I was routing it for speedruns lmao
@ Godspeed, I wouldn't be able to.
It sends me how he says, “The Earth,” like an alien discovering English.
Keanu's delivery might be a little flat at times, but it makes those lines hilarious. And the cutscenes looks so cool. Overall, a fun addition.
I think something about Keanu’s voice for shadow just doesn’t really fit with a videogame setting like sonic the hedgehog. All of the little “hyah” and “hup” he has to do for all of the jumps n stuff makes his voice sound really bland and flat, but it is kinda charming and hilarious in its own little way. It’ll probably sound much better in the movie where things can be properly paced out and organised in order to add more weight to his words. The movie pack is an interesting addition to the game and a neat teaser for the movie, either way I’m totally hyped for what sonic 3 has to offer.
Also glad to see SEGA still understanding Shadow’s character and knowing that he’s not just some heartless edgelord that goes around doing as he pleases. Seeing him tear apart a helicopter and still setting time aside to let the solider escape is such a beautiful little moment that encapsulates Shadow’s character. He’ll rip and tear to get shit done, but he will not take unnecessary lives with him, especially considering what happened with Maria. It just wouldn’t make sense for him to be killing people for no good reason so I’m glad that they go out of their way to show his mercy and care for humanity.
Shadow is way more Sonic's batman than vegeta
amy rose jumpscare the best kind of jumpscare
How can it be a jumpscare when she specifically instructed you to "have no fear"?
@@loadeddice4696 im unfortunately very bad at following instructions
Amy: BE NOT AFRAID
@deniedred: AAAAAAAAAAA-
Biblically Accurate Amy Rose
Yeah the voice direction is definitely different for the movie especially in trailers and from early reviews this was probably a one and done take lol
Reminds me of Hugh Jackman in the X-Men Origins game. You get the vibe he was mostly doing the project for a paycheck since he doesn't regularly feature in games.
This also was recorded in total secret, so most likely neither Keanu saw gameplay footage, nor devs knew who was voicing this
Hearing Keanuu Reeves say "Chaos Control" is a gift
10:36 Him saying that means there might be more after the movie
I was thinking he means the new racing game? It got revealed the same day as this released and it uses the ring portals.
@@poppiaria The thing is this is technically "Game Shadow" especifically talking about how he has unfinished business with Black Doom so he'll back to this world at another point.
@@ashyunderscorealt95 Yeah but thats what I mean. Sonic Crossworlds the new racing game just announced has Game shadow driving through a ring portal. I'm wondering if Crossworlds is Modern, Movie and Classic Sonic worlds all mixed together?
@@poppiariathat doesn't sound too far fetched to me, the name of the game itself hints toward that
(though, classic and modern sonic's worlds are the same, just the past and present respectively, it was just the bad writing in forces that made it seem otherwise)
@@MirrorHall_Clay Yeah but for some reason they don't enjoy letting Classic Characters appear alongside Modern Ones. Maybe this is a chance to have characters like Trip or Mighty appear alongside Modern characters.
What I love is that (most of) the cutscenes are in-engine rather than pre-rendered - the models and lighting are just that good
very cool to me how those old sonic game cutscenes (such as 06 cutscenes or the shadow opening) are what the games look like these days
@@watcherwhowatches6725 I feel we're not quite there yet.
Characters need a bit more facial expressions.
But we're getting closer
@@DilHarkI still watch the unleashed intro quite often
Just one of my favourite pieces of animation in general :3
@@kirikatsu3 I hope we can get more cutscenes like this in the future with the increased budget given by Sega after the success of Frontiers and the movies.
To this day, the Unleashed opening is the best looking cutscene in the franchise.
Finally, Eastopolis.
my personal theory is that the voice direction team was too shy to say "Hey, can you take that again?" And left the delivery like that a bit weird. He almost sounds more sirene though, like shadow but more cold and less angry!
1:43 Same energy as "It's no longer possible to try for baby with the grim reaper" and "A civilian is trapped"
According to an interview, Keanu did multiple takes for the movie, so it is possible that for the DLC, it really was all done in one take per line. It's clear he's not super experienced in voice acting, but you know what? I'd say let's give him a chance. I do have a bit of hope he'll sound better when the movie comes out bc of that context that he had multiple takes on like the same lines. He seems very passionate about getting this right. Here's hoping his delivery pulls through in the movie ;a;
Also, as someone who has a ton of experience in live acting and less experience in VA work, it is DEFINITELY a hurdle for live action actors going into VA work. It's hard when the only thing you have to work with is your voice and not your actual body/facial expressions, which could play a huge part in voice delivery.
You are correct but I’d just like to point out that keanu is in cyberpunk and Toy Story 4 so it’s not like he hasn’t done voice acting before.
But yes he clearly was either not giving a lot of time to do these lines or he just simply wasn’t given good voice direction.
So obviously it’s not really his fault that some of his lines sound kind of bland or simply just lack energy.
@@oOSonicexeOo Righttt! I completely forgot he has done VA work before! It was late at night when I made this comment so my apologies! I will say given the proper amount of time and voice direction, he can be GREAT as Shadow! Again. Just gotta wait for the movie to come out!
Yeah, his version of Shadow is growing on me. I don’t think he sounds terrible in the trailers, actually he sounds pretty good. And he obviously has respect for the character. 👌
I thought Keanu's performance in Cyberpunk was really good, but they might have had him do motion capture for that one.
I thought I could trace the path Shadow has gone through, but was harder than I expected.
3:45 We are now at the Shibuya Scramble Crossing スクランブル交差点. Usually there are a bunch of people 24/7 but now it is pretty messed up and the signs say "EMERGENCY EVACUATION INFORMATION 緊急避難情報"
4:44 Shadow proceeds along the Kōen Street 公園通り.
5:40 Now Shadow hops onto a track of Yamanote Line 山手線, heading to Harajuku 原宿 station (6:16).
6:27 It says that Shadow is heading to exit D1, which I don't think actually exists?
---- the trail between, hard to tell ---
9:05 Shadow lands on the roof of a shopping mall, Soramachi ソラマチ.
9:07 And finally he slides up the Tokyo Skytree, the final destination of this act.
9:40 Mt. Fuji 富士山 on the back. You might actually be able to see it from here, but the weather has to be extremely fine.
Interesting! I assumed most of the areas weren’t accurate, aside from big landmarks and stuff.
@Jorbisold sonic team is based in tokyo so they probably know the area super well
Keanu's shadow grunts aren't the best, but I still hope he does an alright job in the movie
It really makes you appreciate Kirk Thornton, shadow's current VA for the games
Whenever I read something that implies Shadow is saying it, I hear Kirk’s voice.
Animation/games actors are pretty underrated in the industry.
I'd imagine the movie had a lot more time spent on the voice acting, and of course many more takes
Kirk has gotten so good now. In Boom I felt like he was too raspy but that was probably just the voice direction he was given. Not really his fault.
His voice is a lot softer in this game and it fits Shadow a lot better.
He sounds much better in that B-side footage they released recently
MY guess for the very, like, "flat" line deliveries from Keanu was i gueeessss time constraints?? y'know, i'm sure they had a tight schedule and they had to cram both this AND the movie recording sessions so they probably had time for a couple of takes from him. He's a busy man, i'm sure!
The fact about Keanu is that I think he is pretty good at acting, but he is just not experienced in the realm of va work. Its a completely different environment, and the voice director probably did not take a lot of time to help with that, and if the idea that he only had one take for every line is true, thats something idk even the best voice actors can do, tbh.
Yeah, he did a lot better in Cyberpunk because it was practically just normal acting. Game directing of va is also very different then animated movies.
you say that but hes done cyberpunk and toy story 4. I think its simply just a matter of "we've not much time, give us some grunts and a few lines"
Someone noticed that the logo sign for the mean bean cafe has the AOSTH Robotnik, meaning this is technically his first appearance in 30 years.
Whoa whoa WHAT???
Fun fact: if you have Japanese voices on (which I did bc I didn't want to have any thoughts on Keanu's Shadow performance before the movie) it just doesn't have Japanese dialogue recorded which I thought was hilarious.
vodhead only content? you spoil us ms penny 💜
Finally, Kingdom Hearts 4
Shibuya Mission & Knuckles
Keanu was not into it for the game and honestly that's pretty funny to me. A flat bored-sounding "hup, hyah".
Music goes hard tho
Glad to see Penny had the same thoughts, almost used the same phrasing even.
He sounds so fucking weird i kind of love it lol. It’s objectively pretty bad voice acting but there’s a strange charm to it.
Hope in the movie Keanu sounds more convincing in his role
I've always said I would rather any of the Shadow's VA voicing him in the movie than a celebrity, and it really shows. As someone who thinks Keanu is awesome, this DLC just makes me appreciate Kirk Thornton even more than I used to.
This is frankly exactly how I expected Keanu to sound in this game, lol. In the early 2000s he was known for having flat line delivery in everything, and he's probably not well-suited to this type of voice acting anyway.
fr i watched point break this morning and he sounds exactly like this
Yeah, he's well famous for being a better person than an actor. He really got good at stunts and fighting, but VAing isn't the best deployment of him
oh boy a sort of early Penny video,
In all seriousness, I love the DLC, I think Keanu did great work doing voice work for a confused but caring Shadow, not understanding the new world he was in
This DLC was so much fun, just wish there was an act 2 as well
Vodheads we are so back! Thanks for the bday gift Penny!!
5:05 ITS A FIRE REMIX OF WESTOPOLIS
Keanu is good, but he's no Ryan Chongo
I’m actually surprised at how many people struggled to find the portal.
Like yeah they could’ve made it a little more obvious I guess.
But they literally tell you where it is on the map with a giant pulsating effect.
Also even though there is definitely a few lines that I feel like keanu could’ve done better if he had the time.
Overall I just wish his lines were louder because they get drowned out too easily sometimes.
I deducted it'd be near Space Colony ARK since it directly said I needed to beat it first, I'm not sure how people could struggle like that
It really feels like the videogames meant to promote movies from older times, but thankfully it's just a DLC for a great game now.
I was not expecting the Westopilis remix
Chaos Spear remapped to LT, that's how you know she played this game a lot
Yeees! I was hoping see More Sonic content on the channel! Specially the new level of the movie!😊 Is amazing!
17:49 Shadow when he sees me at the function
it looks like how maria described… da earf
Close enough. Welcome back, movie video game tie-ins
They really sent Shadow into Unreality/Quadratum.
I know Keanu's VO is the selling point of this DLC but I'd be so much more likelier to buy it with the game voice actor 😭 I've rewatched scenes from Shadow Gens quite a few times because I found Kirk's voice work so evocative, meanwhile this is just so unflattering to Keanu. I hope he fared better in the movie!
The dlc is fantastic. Sega really has been on a Renaissance lately.
it could just be me but keanu’s delivery here reminds me of sa2 shadow
24:58 i love how there's the Chaos Bank at the bottom right
7:26 I might be seeing things but that G.U.N. Soldier looks an a w f u l lot like the concept art for the one from Shadow the Hedgehog.
Three vertical pouches on either side of the vest, the blocker glasses, he even has a sidearm. Like, in all but name, this is Westopolis.
4:05 this music fucks holy cow why am i transcending
Bruh, when Penny started talking I legit thought it was Shenpai for a second.
Considering how many assets they made for this pretty short DLC i hope we get more movie levels or even a movie game.
I'm gonna be honest, with the crunchy textures...he looks like PS2 Werehog.
huh, just noticed he has an extra spine on the back of his head, seven instead of six
Yay
I've been waiting to hear this Westopolis remix in game since it was revealed at Tokyo Game Show. Worth the wait.
i cant believe i wasnt the only person who forgot to remove the Amy mod when going to try the DLC 😭😭
Honestly, the best birthday gift I gotten yesterday
I don’t think it’s Keanu’s fault for some of the lines. Like what you said Penny, it might be that they couldn’t get Keanu to stay for the recording for too long, or it was the fault of the voice direction.
Still, love this DLC and can’t wait for the movie!
Tbf, Keanu always sounds like this
Lol got an ad for the new Sonic movie with Jim Carrey sitting in a chair telling me who Shadow is before this.
Can't wait for SECOND REACTION to the Shadow Generations DLC!
That second challenge is Shadow the Tax Collector. You better have paid your taxes because he's on his way right now, and there's nothing you can do to stop him.
They gotta make more DLC stages for this game because one 2 minute 30 second level ignoring the cutscenes for $6 is so disappointing imo
so glad penny finally played neo twewy ☺️
i think it's also worth considering that the movies & games have completely separate voice directors; on top of VERY obviously (and understandably) skimping out on cost i think that's proly a significant contributor as to why there's a disparity in the deliveries :p
I wonder if, for the dlc, Keanu was trying to copy the other va's tone with Shadow
THIS IS AWESOME ACTUALLY
Keanu's delivery in this makes me wonder if he read the character and came to the same headcanon I've got: Shadow has massive chuuni edgelord energy because He Was Socialised Among Nerdy-Ass Scientists Fifty Years Ago, and he presents himself the way movies at the time would portray an antihero in his position. It's all a facade because he's also got fifty-year-old social conditioning about repressing emotions and it's hard not to wear the mask.
It's very clear that Keanu recorded these voice clips during a movie recording sesion without the presence of the game director.
OMG loved seeing your reaction and opinions of the dlc
Feels good to be a Vodhead today
It kinda shows Keanu doesn’t have the greatest experience voice acting in a video game, but I like to think he gave it his best with what was provided.
11:04 "Next Big Game"? Every Sonic (Or Shadow) game should be a big game. I hope the next game immediately after this is a big game.
*Cough* Sonic
Crossworlds *Cough*
This is a budget game, shadow generations is half new half old. Said new content is amazing, but the budget for it is not as high as frontiers.
Y'know for some reason I doubt the racing spin-off will be a "big game"
@AshyMuted sega's president said we'd get a glimpse at their big new approach at the game awards so weirdly I think it might be
I love Keanu’s take on this, but others are saying that it’s bad. I say to each their own but Keanu did a fine job. I don’t understand the hate but can’t satisfy everyone.
Just like how Maria described the *URTH*
Gods I am not feeling Keanu as Shadow. He feels like he’s half asleep for his line deliveries
yo mama
Movie has different direction they 100% got him in for one take
Right? It's funny considering his lines we've seen for the movie so far are fairly solid but these game lines are not great lol
yeah, tbh i didn't fw the trailer ones either 🫣 like not to be too dramatic but i think even kirk thornton had better delivery in shadow gens
@@Y-E-R-I the first trailer where we heard keanus voice, i always notice that voice crack and it drives me insane.
The only thing I disliked about this was that this model wasn’t able to be equipped from the menu… unless I didn’t do something right🤷♂️.
Dude I'm so excited to see the movie lol
1:41 CALLIEMACN LET'S GOOO!!!
shadow's model atop the tower looks like Jump Force Yugi
I didn't need a Final Horizon for Shadow Generations, but I was also hoping 100%ing it first try would've lasted longer than a speedrun of the original Sonic 1
While a lot of the voice acting here is kinda eh, in Keanu's defense he may be going for a more SA2 sounding Shadow and the contrast between his calmer delivery and Kirk's more aggressive delivery might just make it sound a bit more jarring than it would otherwise. It could definitely be better but overall I think it's fine.
Plus I think it was a one and done. He's a busy man.
Happy iwth Keanu as Shadow, not disspointed at all. However, I saw someone put a clip of Robert Pattinson's Batman over Shadow and it fit so damn well, like he sounds like his Adventure 2 version
goddamn this looks so good
14:58 except on console lol
You could’ve just double jumped from the road divider onto the top of the box to get that last poster.
I love movie Shadow so much i love him
The mid-level voicelines in general are all just weirdly quiet for some reason. I had mine all the way up my whole playthrough and could never hear the lines very well
Think my two biggest disappointments with this dlc is that its basically only 1 stage so its all done in around 15 minutes and that you can't use the movie shadow skin on any of the main stages, that to me seems crazy considering the extra skins already in the game for both Sonic & Shadow generations
apparently the skin just doesn't work with the in-level cinematics because of the different mouth, so that's probably why you can only use it here
@@scrunkore that kinda makes sense, but with the skins for classic and modern in sonic generations they still use the regular models during the cutscenes, guess the difference tho is that they arent played mid level
PENNY! YAY!
yipeeee thanks for the vid penny!!! ♡♡♡
I will go on the record saying that raw vocal deliveries have never been keanu's strong suit; I don't want to put him down, he's not talentless or anything, but even when he gets multiple takes, he just can't voice act all that well; he's never any better than tolerable imo
after his showing in cyberpunk, I was not thrilled to see him cast as shadow, but eh, ain't the end of the world I guess
As a celebrity pick, you can do worse, I suppose
I agree but overall he was pretty good in the movie, there were only a few lines I thought were weirdly delivered. It helps that shadow is a pretty overdramatic character anyways
@@TheSonicBros1 I'm not saying that he's bad, just that for the amount he probably charges, he doesn't excel at it, like, unless you're seeing his face, he ain't worth whatever money you're paying for him
Yea these lines had to have been done in one take or something 'cause like: 16:49 "A beautiful-- city..."
Shadow almost forgot the word for city for a second there
it looks like how maria described de earth
This videos just a huge reminder for to me fucking watch the sonic movies 😭😭
I never even knew there was an Amy mod
Why does it sound like keanu is trying to do a hank hill impression during the level? it keeps making me giggle
So hyped for Sonic 3, wanted to cosplay Maria, but things going to slow TwT
6:46 I know exactly what sounds shes talking about. and oh my god! it really dissapoints me that none of the official westopolis remixes include that, just the baseline and lead guiatar. like sure those are groovy af melodies but the synths (or whatever you would call them) from the '05 version of the song? iconic. Tokyo's OST kicks ass but if its missing those og synths, its simply not a remix of westopolis
They're loop samples from AMG - 160db The Drum And Bass Interface. The Forces remix does keep 3 or 4 of them but a lot were taken out.
ur the goat man. So for anyone curious its track 30-43 and 58-71 (some timestamped comments mention them). havent found the specific samples I'm thinking of but that'll take time. ngl, now that it makes perfect sense why none of the future covers use those samples, I'm deeply saddened to know they will never appear again. I never considered that those sounds would be samples, they sound so good to me I thought they were produced by sega
The VA really feels like just poor direction.
You can actually find stories of the devs saying they didn’t even know Keanu was cast as Shadow when they started developing this level. So the recording could’ve happened way earlier than we think, probably before Keanu got comfortable with the role.
I’m a firm believer that Keanu needs good direction for his performances because he’s had a rough history with acting when he was younger. But early reviews from Sonic 3 are praising his portrayal of Shadow. It makes much more sense he was rushed to get this out in time before the film.
Ok rant over
It's not that poor. He clearly has other things going on so it makes sense everyone would want to get this done as quickly as possible, especially in one take.
Plus his delivery here makes sense since he's not playing _his_ version at that point but a different version who happens to look like him.
14:04 I think you’re thinking of Stelmo98
i haven't watched snapcube in actual years and her voice is so different.
ooo vodhead exclusive, lucky us
Love that we're keeping with the classic Sonic Adventure theme of not hearing the characters super well over the music. I mean that in a good way