Sonic the Hedgehog Appreciation Thread

[Gastrick]

Sonic 06 is actually one of the best 3D sonic games, as long as you avoid the buggy Xbox 360 port

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Maybe they're JUST BAD at playing games. I'd like to see a pro-run no errors.

 

[I eat frozen vegetables]

Maybe they're JUST BAD at playing games. I'd like to see a pro-run no errors.

Project 06 is that way.

 

[Ezekiel]

Saturday morning 1993 to '94 Sonic the Hedgehog isn't really Sonic. He's highly stylized, with only a few needles on his back and blue skin, while every other Freedom Fighter is just a regular talking cartoon animal. That's also why they all blink correctly while the white of his single eye is never covered. Animators didn't know what else to do with that. Sega's designs always had actual eyelids. The idea of Sally's former kingdom being turned into Robotnik's city, as illustrated by the opening, is cool, but when they're carrying out their operations together it kind of just feels more like Star Wars. Only regular enemies being uniform stormtrooper-likes doesn't help. They changed Robotnik's design and made Tails a minor character to distance it from the video game aesthetic. World is obviously much more realistic than in the video games and Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog.

At least he's not overpowered like in the other cartoon. His buzz saw roll with the saw sound is still there, but doesn't appear to cut anymore. Find the electric sound of his running overdone.

It's alright. I vaguely remember these first three episodes or can predict like I've seen it in the not too distant past, even though it's been a lifetime. Knew Uncle Chuck would lose himself again before they escaped. I remembered the theme that often plays when they're in Robotnik's city, partly because my big brother and I sometimes "sang" it, but it was more orchestral in my memories.

 

[lightbane]

It was indeed Terminator meets Star Wars with Sonic and Robotnik shoved in, but it was quite fun. The fact Sonic isn't as OP as usual, which forced him to follow tactics, is novel even today. He even learned to swim! And he had a stable relationship with Sally, which never happened ever, ever, again, not even with Sally, much to the dismay of the fans, as Sonic is now literally codified to be too cool for settling down (or having his own home). Sally's blatant fetish looks less so, and she changed a look from a preview pic that was posted before the show began.

 

[Ezekiel]

He's highly stylized, with only a few needles on his back and blue skin, while every other Freedom Fighter is just a regular talking cartoon animal.

This in the European comic was super cringey, by the way. Can't take seriously the westerners who have to take everything so seriously and explain all.

 

[Louis_Cypher]

 

[Nutmeg]

You can immediately tell it's made by white people. Also there's nothing Sega Saturn about it.

 

[I eat frozen vegetables]

Sonic Advance 2 is being decompiled and it already has wide screen. Here's hoping that the first and third games get the same treatment.

 

[Louis_Cypher]

Nice. The view distance and performance on GBA limited those games.

 

[I eat frozen vegetables]

Nice. The view distance and performance on GBA limited those games.

It will make getting the rings for the Chaos Emeralds infinitely easier.

 

[Ezekiel]

Never mind, Sonic overpowered in this cartoon as well, only not as much. Pushed a raft with the heroes on it straight up a waterfall by running fast and sawed deep through the ground twice so far, like Knuckles x10.

"Uh... Sonic?"

He can't be sleeping, right? His eyes are open.

Spoiler

Creepy, those eyes within eyes. Really not drawn for American animators, which is why all the other animals look so much more ordinary.

This dive was so Star Wars. The weird characters, the weird music. Yeah, and Terminator, this show. Good comparison.

It is entertaining.

 

[Ezekiel]

Yeah, I really hate the mohawk on orb head look of the American media.

Lol, I remember that godawful Sonic origin story of friendly Dr. Ivo Kintobor and brown Sonic in his treadmill experiment from Sega of America's internal document for potential licenses being used in my big brother's Sonic the Comic.

Edit: Just finished. Funny little video. The Japanese Mega Drive covers were so stylish.

 

[lightbane]

Lol, I remember that godawful Sonic origin story of friendly Dr. Ivo Kintobor and brown Sonic in his treadmill experiment from Sega of America's internal document for potential licenses being used in my big brother's Sonic the Comic.

Eh, that one was hilarious and was quite funny. The original idea was that a regular 'hog fell into radioactive waste and became Sonic. OG Japanese Sonic was meant to be a ghost, so it wasn't that strange in comparison.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

Creepy, those eyes within eyes. Really not drawn for American animators, which is why all the other animals look so much more ordinary.

Might have been their preference, they could give him eyelids in different styles if they wanted to.

 

[Ezekiel]

I didn't even remember the dragon with the nose ring, Dulcy, in the second of two seasons. She sucks. Terrible.

The two-parter "Blast from the Past" features a child Antoine. He's been unable to speak English for ten years. Should not have appeared in these time travel episodes. Should have left him out so that viewers could assume he was still a new immigrant.

Creepy, those eyes within eyes. Really not drawn for American animators, which is why all the other animals look so much more ordinary.

Might have been their preference, they could give him eyelids in different styles if they wanted to.

I searched for images and found that Archie Comics gave him eyelids as well. Most of the time. This early American commercial also gave him eyelids.



So the animators of the Jaleel White cartoons are almost alone in their failure.

 

[Taxnomore]

I'm coming here from the Veilguard thread, wondering who the fuck takes Sonic and it's characters seriously here considering how fucked up the fandom is...


... Then I remember Bioware did a Sonic RPG.

 

[lightbane]

I didn't even remember the dragon with the nose ring, Dulcy, in the second of two seasons. She sucks. Terrible.

She was made so there were more women in the hero team... But she indeed is worse than the cowardly Frenchie. Funny that the coyote got better in the comic while the dragon did not.

... Then I remember Bioware did a Sonic RPG.

One of the worst RPGs ever and, in typical Bioware behaviour, stole stuff from third parties, in this case from Penders' books the highly advanced techno-Echidna. This resulted in Penders suing and the would-be trilogy being cancelled. Oops.

 

[Ezekiel]

Dang, I forgot to post this one, and now it's so late that it doesn't MAKE the post anymore. Oh well. Sonic got some crap in his eye.

 

[Sukhāvatī]

 

[Clockwork Knight]

I didn't even remember the dragon with the nose ring, Dulcy, in the second of two seasons. She sucks. Terrible.

later in the Archie comics she loses the british punk look.