"With Me", a rock ballad which serves as a Badass Boast from both Merlina - daring Sonic to even try and challenge her wish for eternal prosperity - and Sonic, who counters with his anti-nihilistic ideal that all worlds have to end eventually."Knight of the Wind", another amazing main theme from Crush 40 that combines rock with orchestra and explains Sonic's philosophy during the game's events. Note that only the Lady of the Lake, who is not part of King Arthur's court, is the only one who even thinks of how knights should treat commoners and innocents. Alternative Character Interpretation: Merlina and the knights of the round table, despite their various noble motives, are all capable of being interpreted as out-of-touch courtiers whose concerns with ethics are more about propriety than any actual virtue.As such, while Sonic's speech to her is about the value of living life to its fullest while you still have it, it can also come off as rather callous considering her world was just about to end shortly after due to the story ending. The real problem comes from the fact that while she may have jumped off the slippery slope, what she was doing was all in an attempt to prevent The End of the World as We Know It, due to her world being a story book that will inevitably end. Detractors of the game's plot often take Sonic's cooldown speech to Merlina to mean that since everything is destined to end, we shouldn't bother trying to stave off entropy and decay and just accept our fates instead of trying to strive for a better future and longer lives.Assuming that, the Aesop suddenly becomes a warning against losing noblesse oblige and that the nobility of a land, even with the best of intentions, are capable of ruining everything and oppressing their people even while trying to save them. unless Merlina (and probably the knights) are Sheltered Aristocrats blind to the subjects and their situation. Merlina's persistent idea that Sonic would somehow be seen as a villain, despite King Arthur being a blatant Evil Overlord and Sonic spending the whole game rescuing his subjects from tyranny and oppression, makes very little sense.
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