Could this be the oddest of all promotional game posters?
It's a poster announcing/promoting the Shadow the Hedgehog game. It is also co-promoting the Japanese rap duo group "M-Flo". The rappers are shown in front of a random large fireball photo, while holding some kind of large or automatic guns. Shadow is in front of them, skidding toward the game's logo while holding his own gun. The headline (in English, somehow) says "M-Flo Loves Shadow the Hedgehog" and " will he good...or evil?"
Yes, they DID wreck the grammar there, and the whole thing (at this point) comes across as super rediculous with "dark grim edgy fire/explosions guns irl rapping prickly logo cartooooon hedgehogs!" The grammar error doesn't help it at all. M-Flo did a song on the game's soundtrack, is why they're there, helping to co-promote.
The bottom has what's got to be a blurb about the game (2 lines of small white writing) the sale date, and several screen shots so you'll know what the graphics look like. The bottom red bit is about the songs/game sound track.
*Sure, Shadow can be dark and edgy in the Sonic environment.
Sure, he can be taken seriously about his quest there, there's nothing about being a cartoon hedgehog that precludes one from serious storylines, actual emotions, or good vs evil. However, the whole thing kind of melts when you throw in photos of IRL rappers pretending to be gangsters (or whatever they are?) into the background. The game gets a lot of flak, and it's likely this poster didn't help.
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- Region: Asia