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Sonic the Hedgehog
A longstanding game franchise, known for its dramatic ups and downs through the years, but these days there do look to be more ups than downs.
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Also, Pokecapn's Let's Play Sonic 2006 and Docfuture's Let's Play Sonic the Hedgehog 2: Special Edition are some of the funniest things I've seen on the entire internet.
It was easier, I guess, in the 2-D games. Have the level designs get gradually more menacing, have a final boss fight in space with really dramatic music, and BAM, it's serious. While the later games suddenly had to have dialogue and an explicitly spelled-out plot. The more stuff you throw in, the more possibilities of messing up...
Ever see that 90s anime Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie? (I think the whole thing is on youtube. That's where I saw it.) I thought it got the tone just right.
I have fond memories of the Genesis games, but little desire to play them anymore. I still dig the music, though. And I am more than willing to steal the graphics for my own use
that's another good one for the forbidden love thread
I've heard a rumor that Shadow the Hedgehog and Sonic the Hedgehog 2006 were supposed to be the first two parts of a trilogy—part three would have been titled Silver the Hedgehog. Which just makes the basic structure of Sonic 2006 all the more baffling. Shadow had his own game, and Silver was going to get his own game, so why did each of them also take up a full third of Sonic's game? And that bit in the Final Story where they hype up Sonic as the ultimate hero of the setting by having Sonic get killed like a punk, and then rest of the cast laments that he was the only one who could have saved them from the universe-eating mad god. That's the level of writing I'd expect from someone's first self-insert fanfiction! Then when the cast brings Sonic back to life with the chaos emeralds, he still enlists Shadow's and Silver's help to beat Solaris.
So yeah. Sonic Team fundamentally had no idea what they were doing on that game.
Not like that damn commie plumber, Goddamnit
"We're ruined, ruined!" Robotnik wails. "Replacing five of those machines in one year would be barely possible. Replacing over 200 at once? Impossible! There just isn't enough money." He turns to glare at Sonic. "This is your fault, you know."
Sonic, his sneaker-clad feet resting on Robotnik's desk, leans his chair back as he answers. "Oh, really? Those hunk-a-junks couldn't go fast enough and somehow that's my fault?"
"It's precisely your fault! Your Gotta go fast! initiatives pushed the machinery past their operational limits! You neglected routine inspections and maintenance! You couldn't have destroyed those machines better if you were... trying..."
Sonic smirks as realization finally comes to Robotnik, and with it, rage.
"You miserable blue bolshevik! You did this on purpose!"
"Gotta go! Time to update my resume!" Sonic shouts as he zips away.
"Come back here, or I'll retroactively strip your Manager of the Year award!" Robotnik pounds his desk impotently, then screams to the heavens, "Curse that hedgehog!"
Currently, Robotnik is trying to sue Sonic, but none of is lawyer-bots can catch up to serve him the court orders.
THEY ARE CALLED SUPER SPEED SECTIONS. I CHECKED THE MANUAL ONLINE TO CONFIRM THEIR NAME.
it is a wiki
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