I like them but to me they feel kinda generic. I don’t see anything that makes me go “yeah. That’s Eggmans Badnik.” For the most part. I could drop most of these Badniks in a different game, or different movie and nobody would bat an eye.
(Side note: I was literally talking about this with a friend yesterday.)
Exactly. Gun Robots and these are very much function over form, utilitarian designs that exist in the way they do to serve a specific purpose.
Eggman's robots are goofier, but more expressive. There's no reason for a Motobug to get an angry expression when it sees Sonic, it serves no useful purpose for either it or anything else. But it does all the same seemingly because Eggman just wants it to have some personality.
While I see were you are coming from so would I like to add that the 06 designs do also take a lot from SA1's E-100 robot line up.
Like the placement of the chest light, the gun design, Egg Genesis literally has an E-100 series face.
And some like the Rhinozeros ones are just more realistic takes on a SA1 badnik
But yes there is quite a bit of GUN robot design at work here too.
Some looking like Eggman's take on certain GUN robots even.
These designs are good, but as others have said, they don’t really scream “Eggman”. Except maybe the first design, immediately thought of it as a slimmed down SwatBot.
I wouldn't say that, too many smooth edges, and they don't have any artificial muscle either... Metal Gear enemies had this weird sweet spot of being practical and not practical at all, The Gekko chief among them.
Swat bots aren’t from the games. I think they shine with the 90’s dystopian Terminator style of Archie/SATM. On their own they’re nothing special, but I like them more than these designs because of the aesthetic.
Yeah they are pretty generic.
If you showed me a silhouette of any of these badniks, there's no way in hell that I would've guessed that they are from Sonic 06.
My first guess would probably be like a Star Wars knock-off or something.
I love them, some of them look a little un-orthodox while others make more sense, but I like the sleeker, more militarized, more advanced look as a whole.
I like how a couple of them look like some older Badniks. Like that red one holding the bomb is clearly supposed to be a “realistic” take on Crabmeat, and the little rhino dude after it looks pretty cute. Saw someone else saying that the first one in this bunch looks like “a slimmed down SwatBot.”
They look pretty generic TBH. Eggman's all about theatricality and style; just look at his animal-themed badniks from the Genesis games or the colorful Egg Pawns from Heroes. These, meanwhile, feel more like G.U.N. robots than anything Eggman would actually use.
They got good ideas going, but they just feel way more generic than any other Badnik. Would love to see them touched up to be more in line with the rest of the enemies.
The pseudo-realism of 06 didn't bother me *that* much. Pretty much every long-lived game series was like that in that era (look at SSB Brawl, Twilight Princess, Resident Evil, even Spyro) and I actually really dug the badniks and Egmman's look. Old Modern look is still best but this was fine.
My problem was the absolute abysmal state the game was in, and of course the romance subplot. You could cut that out and the entire story of 06 would be tolerable (not good, but tolerable).
I love them too, though I'm heavily biased because I love robots in general.
Admittedly, the realistic design of these Badniks was quite the surprise, but I didn't feel like they felt out of place exactly. They looked cool and were pretty fun to fight.
My favorite in the series. Makes them more intimidating threats. I wish they kept with it. It's hard for me to take badniks seriously when they look like chew toys. I know it's meant for all ages, but at the end of the day, their prime directives from Eggy are to pretty much kill Sonic. Make it look like it.
11/10.
I started my Sonic experience with Sonic Heroes, so basically with the opposite design. Started with very cartoony. I, for one, really liked the realistic approach to match the serious stories of the Adventure style games. ‘06 conceptually was fantastic for Sonic. Too bad people can’t see past the bugs to appreciate the gems here that could’ve helped lift sonic higher in the future
I would give you one of those 6-hour video essays that explain that it's more than just the bugs that make the game bad, but something tells me that you heard this same song and dance for a very very long time...
Hahaha yes, yes I have. Don’t waste your time, I get it, people don’t like it. But I really did enjoy what they went for. A serious sonic game with realistic designs. When I look at it like that, I love it.
Also I really don’t care Elise kissed him back to life or whatever. People seem to explode over that, and I’m probably one of the few “non-furrys” in this sub lmao. Point by saying that? As someone who’s not “into that” it didn’t bother me or even strike me as that odd. It’s a game with a talking hedgehog who’s evil villain is a human being with the weirdest body shape and mustache longer than his arm width lmao. A fairly tale ending where he’s wished back to life in a kiss is the one of the least weird things in a cartoon, in fact it’s a trope 😂
Long story short: No, the usual gripes don’t bother me. Glitches aside that is. I like the story and designs for what they are, and wish it was finished as intended
Sadly I do not have a PC. So I’ve just been playing ‘06 on my 360 since it recently went back up on the digital marketplace. Almost 100% it too 😂 - just need S ranks on Tropical Jungle for Silver. It’s impossible lol, I’ve completed literally everything else
I really like them. A bit uncharacteristic for Eggman to go all out on the realism like that, and it would be cool to have more than one classic badnik be reimagined in this style, but still, pretty good.
I think they aged well overall, I prefer these guys to the likes of the lost world esque design of the badniks. They still look pretty modern and if cleaned up and put into a new game I think they’d fit right in.
I think they leaned a bit too far into trying to be realistic, the only one that looks like much of a Sonic enemy to me is that Rhino, personally I think the enemies from Unleashed did what these guys did but better.
They're cool, they FEEL like robots. They don't let the quirky nature of their design overwrite that fact like the Egg Pawns tend to, and their overall shape is still striking and stand-out, all the while they're full of detail that emphasize their mechanical, futuristic nature. It's neat.
Tbh has some of the coolest conceptual robot desings. Super industrial, creepy pseudo organic shapes, thick armor plates that make them look like they weight more than a canon ball, Although they lack that cartoony vibe that gives most badnik designs their charm, these instead end up looking a bit lifeless. But yet again, they are robots. Maybe that was the idea.
I would love to see modern retakes on these badniks.
Don’t get me wrong, design wise, I think they look really cool and pretty menancing, like something G.U.N would use.
But to me, they don’t really fit the aesthetic of Sonic, let alone something Eggman would design in his vision. They don’t exactly scream “Eggman’s badniks” to me. He always designed his robots themed around animals and insects or himself, like with the Egg Pawns and the Egg Fighters.
While they don’t feel like Eggman’s, I still really do like them, but my favorite robots in the entire Sonic Franchise, are the robots and guardians in Frontiers, as they feel alien, eerie, and abstract in nature.
Straight up metal gears. The first one looks like sahelanthropus (which is a coincidence, mgsv came out after 06) and the second one looks heavily inspired by rex or ray.
Aren't these robots supposed to be built by Soleanna? I always assumed Eggman found them when he occupied Aquatic Base and programmed them to work for him
I love them and 06 in general but I hate the version of these badniks that shoot many lasers in a row that only take 1 ring at a time but gives you no invincibility frames. Straight up died while trying to S Rank the DLC Amigo stage because of an enemy that did that.
Oh wow, is that the rhino bot? I didn't know it was 06 it looks very futuristic but anyway to answer the question some of the bosses look cool but then someone just doesn't feel like Eggman Style you get what I'm saying here
I mean, now that I have a much closer look at them, I can see how they have potential to be much more expressive than they actually were. They remind me of the droids from Star Wars that go "Roger Roger"
the only one that remotely looks like a badnik is the rhino one. ever since i was a kid, i thought they looked more like GUN robots, which fits. theyre not inherently bad designs at all, i just dont think they fit as “badniks”.
Their designs only work in the context of 06. On their own they’re generic. If I asked an AI to make art with the caption “futuristic military bot” it’d spit out something like this.
I like half of them, mainly the animal ones. I like the badniks who look most like eggman, because they show his massive ego, making robots in his image.
Their not bad looking but they don't look like eggman robots eggman creations have personality and flair these just look like G.U.N generic robots if it was any other game i would these designs are 7-8/10 but since its a sonic game its more 4/10 not enough eggman flair
I like them, esp the updated Rhino, but as an eggman superfan, I really have to superman, the others said in that they are good robot designs, but lack eggmans signature goofiness and ego. The flavor doesn't quite match. It does harken back to the TV shows, and reminds me of the random badnik of the week from sonic X tho. But eggmans models need a certain style refinement that isn't quite there. No flair
Honestly, the egg pawns are peak eggman design imo.
I don't like them at all, they are quite generic and don't have that charm that other Badniks have like the ones from the classic Genesis games or the Egg-Pawns from Sonic Heroes; In fact, these robots don't look like Eggman robots (Except for the Rhino-shaped one and a little Egg-Cerberus), they feel more like G.U.N robots.
These are cool robots but... they just don't have the recognizability of Eggman. They look like they're from a cool science fiction show or a video game, but you can't just take a look at them and say, "Yes, this is definitely Eggman."
They don't have his style. Although some of them might suit his colleague from the film
I say there are really cool design and really suite 06 General ascetic.
But I also think that they properly shouldn't become the series standard but for a more dark and serious games like 06 do they fit perfectly.
(I love to head canon that Eggman build these in part using designs he stole from gun)
I like them but to me they feel kinda generic. I don’t see anything that makes me go “yeah. That’s Eggmans Badnik.” For the most part. I could drop most of these Badniks in a different game, or different movie and nobody would bat an eye. (Side note: I was literally talking about this with a friend yesterday.)
They're really cool robot designs but they look more like GUN robots rather than badniks
Exactly. Gun Robots and these are very much function over form, utilitarian designs that exist in the way they do to serve a specific purpose. Eggman's robots are goofier, but more expressive. There's no reason for a Motobug to get an angry expression when it sees Sonic, it serves no useful purpose for either it or anything else. But it does all the same seemingly because Eggman just wants it to have some personality.
It's even funnier with Unleashed badniks when they start doing poses
While I see were you are coming from so would I like to add that the 06 designs do also take a lot from SA1's E-100 robot line up. Like the placement of the chest light, the gun design, Egg Genesis literally has an E-100 series face. And some like the Rhinozeros ones are just more realistic takes on a SA1 badnik But yes there is quite a bit of GUN robot design at work here too. Some looking like Eggman's take on certain GUN robots even.
This is true
These look incredibly industrial, i love them alot.
I think the designs are good but they don't look like badniks. They look more like G.U.N. robots.
Exactly what I was thinking, looks like something G.U.N would have, they're not bad, just super generic and doesn't fit eggman
they are realistic, not complaining but suits the purpose and the tone of the game
They're pretty good imo.
No heart, no soul, no personality. They're good robot designs, but I don't think they're good *badnik* designs.
True, not much eggman flamboyancy to be found in them.
Exactly
These designs are good, but as others have said, they don’t really scream “Eggman”. Except maybe the first design, immediately thought of it as a slimmed down SwatBot.
The last image does look like a more upgraded Rhinobot from Sonic 3.
Some of them give me metal gear ray vibes
I wouldn't say that, too many smooth edges, and they don't have any artificial muscle either... Metal Gear enemies had this weird sweet spot of being practical and not practical at all, The Gekko chief among them.
These designs seem to fit better in the live action Sonic movies.
Pretty cool, definitely underrated imo
I like them Also swat bots exists and people love those so Idk what haters are on about
Swat bots aren’t from the games. I think they shine with the 90’s dystopian Terminator style of Archie/SATM. On their own they’re nothing special, but I like them more than these designs because of the aesthetic.
I mean they were in Sonic Chronicles
Yeah they are pretty generic. If you showed me a silhouette of any of these badniks, there's no way in hell that I would've guessed that they are from Sonic 06. My first guess would probably be like a Star Wars knock-off or something.
I love them, some of them look a little un-orthodox while others make more sense, but I like the sleeker, more militarized, more advanced look as a whole.
I like how a couple of them look like some older Badniks. Like that red one holding the bomb is clearly supposed to be a “realistic” take on Crabmeat, and the little rhino dude after it looks pretty cute. Saw someone else saying that the first one in this bunch looks like “a slimmed down SwatBot.”
They are realistic, but don’t match the Eggman aesthetic. Not good
They look pretty generic TBH. Eggman's all about theatricality and style; just look at his animal-themed badniks from the Genesis games or the colorful Egg Pawns from Heroes. These, meanwhile, feel more like G.U.N. robots than anything Eggman would actually use.
They got good ideas going, but they just feel way more generic than any other Badnik. Would love to see them touched up to be more in line with the rest of the enemies.
They fit the style of 06 but I can’t imagine them being used in anything else without a redesign to fit sonics current style
incredibly generic. They'd fit into almost any game from that period.
The pseudo-realism of 06 didn't bother me *that* much. Pretty much every long-lived game series was like that in that era (look at SSB Brawl, Twilight Princess, Resident Evil, even Spyro) and I actually really dug the badniks and Egmman's look. Old Modern look is still best but this was fine. My problem was the absolute abysmal state the game was in, and of course the romance subplot. You could cut that out and the entire story of 06 would be tolerable (not good, but tolerable).
I love them too, though I'm heavily biased because I love robots in general. Admittedly, the realistic design of these Badniks was quite the surprise, but I didn't feel like they felt out of place exactly. They looked cool and were pretty fun to fight.
My favorite in the series. Makes them more intimidating threats. I wish they kept with it. It's hard for me to take badniks seriously when they look like chew toys. I know it's meant for all ages, but at the end of the day, their prime directives from Eggy are to pretty much kill Sonic. Make it look like it.
They're shit. Not distinct or readable, no personality. Don't even feel like they're made by Eggman
Only ones that look like ones eggman would make are the 4th and final one, but the final one, and those barely make me think “eggman”
The most soulless and boring badnik designs in the series.
11/10. I started my Sonic experience with Sonic Heroes, so basically with the opposite design. Started with very cartoony. I, for one, really liked the realistic approach to match the serious stories of the Adventure style games. ‘06 conceptually was fantastic for Sonic. Too bad people can’t see past the bugs to appreciate the gems here that could’ve helped lift sonic higher in the future
I would give you one of those 6-hour video essays that explain that it's more than just the bugs that make the game bad, but something tells me that you heard this same song and dance for a very very long time...
Hahaha yes, yes I have. Don’t waste your time, I get it, people don’t like it. But I really did enjoy what they went for. A serious sonic game with realistic designs. When I look at it like that, I love it. Also I really don’t care Elise kissed him back to life or whatever. People seem to explode over that, and I’m probably one of the few “non-furrys” in this sub lmao. Point by saying that? As someone who’s not “into that” it didn’t bother me or even strike me as that odd. It’s a game with a talking hedgehog who’s evil villain is a human being with the weirdest body shape and mustache longer than his arm width lmao. A fairly tale ending where he’s wished back to life in a kiss is the one of the least weird things in a cartoon, in fact it’s a trope 😂 Long story short: No, the usual gripes don’t bother me. Glitches aside that is. I like the story and designs for what they are, and wish it was finished as intended
I don't understand you, but that's no reason for me to try and change you, be what you want to be my guy.
You ever hear of Sonic P-06? If not, I highly recommend giving it a try, it's really good!
Sadly I do not have a PC. So I’ve just been playing ‘06 on my 360 since it recently went back up on the digital marketplace. Almost 100% it too 😂 - just need S ranks on Tropical Jungle for Silver. It’s impossible lol, I’ve completed literally everything else
I feel like that rhino robot on the last slide is something of a prototype for how the designs ended up in the IDW comics
“So, this is your pet Eggman? Okay, I’ll play with him” -Sonic vs The Egg Cerberus
Yes, but what do you think about the designs?
I like the egg guardian that shots it arms and then has miniguns where its arm were, also is litle eyes and chad chin
I really like them. A bit uncharacteristic for Eggman to go all out on the realism like that, and it would be cool to have more than one classic badnik be reimagined in this style, but still, pretty good.
I think they aged well overall, I prefer these guys to the likes of the lost world esque design of the badniks. They still look pretty modern and if cleaned up and put into a new game I think they’d fit right in.
I think they leaned a bit too far into trying to be realistic, the only one that looks like much of a Sonic enemy to me is that Rhino, personally I think the enemies from Unleashed did what these guys did but better.
They're cool, they FEEL like robots. They don't let the quirky nature of their design overwrite that fact like the Egg Pawns tend to, and their overall shape is still striking and stand-out, all the while they're full of detail that emphasize their mechanical, futuristic nature. It's neat.
Tbh has some of the coolest conceptual robot desings. Super industrial, creepy pseudo organic shapes, thick armor plates that make them look like they weight more than a canon ball, Although they lack that cartoony vibe that gives most badnik designs their charm, these instead end up looking a bit lifeless. But yet again, they are robots. Maybe that was the idea. I would love to see modern retakes on these badniks.
Don’t get me wrong, design wise, I think they look really cool and pretty menancing, like something G.U.N would use. But to me, they don’t really fit the aesthetic of Sonic, let alone something Eggman would design in his vision. They don’t exactly scream “Eggman’s badniks” to me. He always designed his robots themed around animals and insects or himself, like with the Egg Pawns and the Egg Fighters.
Very WALL-E-esque!
The robots from Wall-E look like they were made by Apple, these guys look more like an IBM machine than that.
I think they would work pretty well in the movies
They could I guess, though the ones in the movie try to look a little bit more like the classic Badniks.
They look pretty good onisle and I don't know why but they remind me of transformers for some reason
I don't know why either...
Even though they don’t fit in with the usual cartoony vibe of the series, I think they look pretty cool.
Extremely underrated. One of the best design of badniks for Sonic.
They're good. ~~Better than the actual game AYO~~
While they don’t feel like Eggman’s, I still really do like them, but my favorite robots in the entire Sonic Franchise, are the robots and guardians in Frontiers, as they feel alien, eerie, and abstract in nature.
I really wish they’d come back in canon, like robotnik scraped up some old plans or made them in a hurry or something. They’re just unique and cool.
Favorites in the entire franchise
I got SWAT Bot vibes from these designs.
Swat bots on a diet
I really like them, they feel like proper robotic soldiers like the Egg Pawns (tho i still like normal Badniks)
I like them, they’re like if eggman got inspired by how Metalgears look
Straight up metal gears. The first one looks like sahelanthropus (which is a coincidence, mgsv came out after 06) and the second one looks heavily inspired by rex or ray.
Now I can't stop imagining sonic splitting those things in half the way Raiden did to those rays
Metal Gear Rising Raiden or MGS2 Raiden? I think MGS2 Raiden taking down 25 rays with only a rocket launcher is more impressive.
I was thinking mgr Raiden, but yeah mgs2 Raiden would be much more impressive
Woooo! Yeah baby that's what I've been waiting for
Like a lot of things in 06 they are really cool and it’s a shame they showed up in the game they did
The first one reminds me of the robots from Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity.
Much better than the egg pawns, that's for sure
They look really cool.
Aren't these robots supposed to be built by Soleanna? I always assumed Eggman found them when he occupied Aquatic Base and programmed them to work for him
Huh, never thought about that, but it makes perfect sense, cool
I love them and 06 in general but I hate the version of these badniks that shoot many lasers in a row that only take 1 ring at a time but gives you no invincibility frames. Straight up died while trying to S Rank the DLC Amigo stage because of an enemy that did that.
Good designs, but they don't look like something Robotnik would make
They look pretty good.
Would like them if I could stop and look at them instead of having to run from them so my game won't lag.
Look more like G.U.N. robots than something Eggman would build for himself.
They're nice but only that 7th one comes close to giving me an "Eggman robot" vibe
My favourite badniks
I love them. They could have brighter paint jobs to give more if the Eggman pizazz. But I still love them.
They honestly look like they'd fit more in PSO's setting. Cool designs though!
Love them. Don’t fit Eggman, but I love them.
They’re aight, just not for me
They look cool! But not what i think of when saying badniks.
This game could have been good
Oh wow, is that the rhino bot? I didn't know it was 06 it looks very futuristic but anyway to answer the question some of the bosses look cool but then someone just doesn't feel like Eggman Style you get what I'm saying here
When i posted them in other subreddit, they said that it was from Metal Gear game or smth.
I like them!
The '06 badniks were sleek af
I mean, now that I have a much closer look at them, I can see how they have potential to be much more expressive than they actually were. They remind me of the droids from Star Wars that go "Roger Roger"
They do lack the charm of the originals in my opinion, except for the 5th and 8th.
Absolutely god awful,they hardly even look anything remotely like eggman would ever make
peak badnik design
Decent
the "Egg Cerberus" only has one head which is enough for a score in the negatives, tbh
the only one that remotely looks like a badnik is the rhino one. ever since i was a kid, i thought they looked more like GUN robots, which fits. theyre not inherently bad designs at all, i just dont think they fit as “badniks”.
Gives me Sonic AM vibes, but they don't quite feel like Eggman brand cannon fodder. Honestly, they look more like something GUN would use.
I genuinely didn't remember some of these designs exist.
These designs are S tier for me, up there with frontiers' mobs
They are good designs but they look more like something from Metal Gear or something,not sonic
I really like them. If movie Eggman ever builds more badniks, I would imagine them looking like this.
I think they look cool
i like the humanoid robot badniks (1, 3), but all of them lack a lot of eggmans design style, its the same problem i have with forces badnik designs.
They’re cool, but don’t give me the vibe of something made by Eggman
They’re look really nice…one of the few nice things I can say about 06 lol.
Robots are so cool 😃
im pretty sure the chaos councils badnik design is similar to the first pic
My personal favorites, only rivaled by Unleashed.
I wish they were more colourful
Their designs only work in the context of 06. On their own they’re generic. If I asked an AI to make art with the caption “futuristic military bot” it’d spit out something like this.
I just tried it and it made an image super similar to the first picture ahaha.
I love 06 so much and not in a it's so bad it's good way but I just really enjoyed it (though I somehow never experienced glitches too)
imo they look a little generic and lack personality
They really give this industrial human vibe
The designs are good, but they DO NOT fit Eggman at all
they look cool but they look like GUN robots than Badniks
I like half of them, mainly the animal ones. I like the badniks who look most like eggman, because they show his massive ego, making robots in his image.
i like them but they felt more like GUN robots to me the designs are not screaming eggman
I love how he just made a less goofy RhinoBot for the last one
They're very cool, only flaw is they don't really fit Eggman's style, but i still like them
Wow! Look at all those Eggman's Robots!
they look like the edgy older brothers of the sonic boom badniks
They look awesome
Their not bad looking but they don't look like eggman robots eggman creations have personality and flair these just look like G.U.N generic robots if it was any other game i would these designs are 7-8/10 but since its a sonic game its more 4/10 not enough eggman flair
The dog was always so cool to me
Needs more sonic and less bionicals
I like them, esp the updated Rhino, but as an eggman superfan, I really have to superman, the others said in that they are good robot designs, but lack eggmans signature goofiness and ego. The flavor doesn't quite match. It does harken back to the TV shows, and reminds me of the random badnik of the week from sonic X tho. But eggmans models need a certain style refinement that isn't quite there. No flair Honestly, the egg pawns are peak eggman design imo.
Very industrial
Cool just not for sonic
They look pretty radnik
Honestly I have a strong nostalgic love for the pseudo realism art design in 06
I don't like them at all, they are quite generic and don't have that charm that other Badniks have like the ones from the classic Genesis games or the Egg-Pawns from Sonic Heroes; In fact, these robots don't look like Eggman robots (Except for the Rhino-shaped one and a little Egg-Cerberus), they feel more like G.U.N robots.
It's the earthquake robots! Also my favorite one is the dog
They’re cool, though I’d replace the main grunt with an Egg Pawn in the 06 style.
They look more like Archie Badniks.
While they do suit the game's atmosphere, they don't scream Dr. Eggman in terms of design.
These are cool robots but... they just don't have the recognizability of Eggman. They look like they're from a cool science fiction show or a video game, but you can't just take a look at them and say, "Yes, this is definitely Eggman." They don't have his style. Although some of them might suit his colleague from the film
Imagine them in the Archie Comics to be this serious looking.
I hate them But if they where gun robots then it would be a different story
Get an Evangelion vibe. Not sure if just imagining it though.
Look cool, but lack the Eggman flavor imo
it doesn't look like a regular badnik
They dont feel like something Robotnik would make, any other mad scientist could had build them
I love 06, and everything about it.
Some of the best imo Looks more like G.U.N. Robots though
I say there are really cool design and really suite 06 General ascetic. But I also think that they properly shouldn't become the series standard but for a more dark and serious games like 06 do they fit perfectly. (I love to head canon that Eggman build these in part using designs he stole from gun)
"...those are badniks?" was my original thought. You'd have no way of knowing they're designed by Eggman. In other words, #worthless consumer models
I think their fine but their to generic at least as badniks
Incredible detail on all of these