Hello to the people reading this! If you are, then you probably are a fan of my music or Funkin'-related stuff. I wanted to make a news post as some dev log/ asset review thing to let it be known that one of the levels from the mod had to be canned recently...

SONIC.RAW WAS SUPPOSED TO BE WEEK 8

(Initial Raw design passes by Me and Meatku)

Ever since I began planning out the kind of levels I wanted in my mod, I knew for a fact I needed something related to Sonic.exe. The creepypasta has been synonymous with the Funkin' community for years! It would seem like a disservice from my point of view NOT to have one as a level.

This mod is about taking the trends and ideas from the base game (or mod culture) and switching it up to either A: to make it cooler, or B: to make it feel more like me. I've had loads of "If I did that, I would..." and they culminated as ideas, lore, and other secret things I can't talk about yet. A lot of the mod is gonna be references to the base game, will tweaks to make it my own.

Because of that, I focused on looking for characters related to Sonic.exe, but they were different enough to be their own thing. That's when I landed on Sonic.RAW...

(Raw's idle dance)

I'm not going to explain his story since there's a wiki for that, but just know that it resonated with me. I'm a sucker for underdog stories and the way RAW dealt with his lack of strength with intellect stuck out to me. He wasn't scary like Lord X or Xenophanes, and I don't think he was supposed to be. He was a character who was able to make the best out of a shitty situation with his skills alone, but sometimes he failed. We (mainly I lol) sympathized with his pain and always wanted him to succeed within the video game hellhole known as Sonic Jam.

There was something so powerful about this one guy going against basically satan and his legions and somehow making it out alright (not without scars tho). His entire storyline was something that fit perfectly into the mod and flipped back to the internal hardships Kid had and would eventually face, AND NO ONE MADE A MOD OF HIM YET, WHICH WAS INSANE TO ME.

I knew I had to do this character justice, so after a back-and-forth convo with Randidesu (the creator) on Twitter, I had the go-ahead to give this character justice through my mod...

(Raw's idle again but with an additional Right pose)

The music for the level has been completed for a couple of months now, excluding the final song, as that was going to be a remix of my initial Sonic.RAW song. They were all very fun to work on, since they allowed me to combine my love for hip-hop and pop music with Sonic the Hedgehog and the beautiful sounds of the Sega Genesis to make something that's pretty cool! The order would've been "Jam", "Blast!", and "Power (initially Savage before I began production)". They all have their inspirations, but I'll get into that in each song I post from it. I'll probably release them soon, but I'm not really gonna focus on it for now...

(Initial level bg inspired by the Mystic Cave Zone of Sonic 2)

It's kinda a bit of a Cassette-Girl situation if that makes sense. Randidesu was caught drawing some pretty nasty shit that I couldn't rock with, so sadly it the level had to be canned. It's a shame, really. There were so so so many things I had planned for this character, and it hurts my heart to know that even if I did release it, it would be tainted by the actions of another person.

I'm always thinking about level stuff and cool shit that would be fun to see in an FNF mod and anytime I had a cool mechanic or idea for a mid-game thing to happen, it was usually happening to RAW. A lot of the themes in his story flow near PERFECTLY with the themes I have in the lore of the mod, so I kept a lot of my focus on him. It's not like the world has come crashing down or anything, I'm just crying over spilled milk, is all. The levels will still be as cool as I want them to be, and thankfully, there are enough level ideas to where it doesn't completely ruin everything lol.

If not for the fans, I'm kinda just typing this out for my own sake. I'm still trying to wrap my head around what I've been feeling these last few hours as it fully hit me what was going on. I'm glad I was at least able to have fun creating ideas and making songs for this lil dude. I'll probably have a video showcasing everything I had planned but this is where I'm gonna shut my ass up and get back to work...

Aight, I'm out✌️