Make them Emo... Give them Guns

I've been noticing a pattern in the way video games develop.

You start with a classic game (e.g. Sonic the Hedgehog). Then you follow a two-step formula:

1) Make the main character emo or "dark"

2) Give the characters guns

Thus you have "Shadow the Hedgehog."

cf. Jak II, Jak III, Final Fantasy X, and Namco's upcoming game, Emo Packman Extreme: The reckoning*

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*Not a real game