i think shadow the hedgehog can work and be unironically really cool while using a Real Actual Gun, he just needs to use it alongside normal sonic combat and chaos abilities and other ultimate lifeform powers
like think about it. think about shadow john wicking around, teleporting behind robots when theyโve locked onto him (nothing personnel), throwing a sweep of chaos spears pinning a group of them to the wall, and then using CHAOS CONTROL to stop time and jump up and fucking unload dual wielded machine guns into a really big robot and getting blown back by the recoil as the robot explodes when time resumes and he lands a fucking sick backflip jumping away from it DO YOU UNDERSTAND MY VISION
