Personally, one of the reasons that Sonic doesn’t work in 3D is that often the third person perspective takes a quality away from Sonic games that is ever-present in the 2D installments: secret paths. Some blame needs to be put on the move to 3D, but I believe buggy, unfinished games being made that felt more like rush jobs to meet a deadline than a true labor of love would have resulted in a failure in any genre. “ Sonic ‘06”) left a decade-long stain that was referenced constantly. I suppose it speaks to how popular Sonic once was, but looking back, it’s profound how the franchise’s fall became almost a pillar of gaming culture in such a way that the bug-ridden Sonic the Hedgehog (i.e. From there the wheels quickly fell off the wagon as the franchise seemingly lost its direction and purpose. The Golden Age, as I see it, was mostly during this 2D side scrolling period, with the first two main series entries into the 3D gaming world, Sonic Adventure 1 & 2, being solid games that kept the torch burning into 2001. From there he went toe-to-toe with Nintendo’s well-known mascot, Mario, and won over a fanbase with his wicked speed, dope attitude, and sweet gameplay. But what was I going to do, build a Nicol Bolas deck? That felt like too much of a stretch in an already turbulent week when I could just buck trends and gush about video games.įor some history for the younger members of the collective audience who may not have played a Sonic the Hedgehog game before 1999, Sonic debuted as the title character of the side scrolling platformer Sonic the Hedgehog in 1991 on the Sega Genesis. It worked in a strange way, seeing as Nicol Bolas was masterminding everything and recently he gotten into the business of mechanizing people. The closest I got was my theory that original Zendikar block was a loose retelling of Sonic 3: Chandra being Sonic, Jace as our Tails, and Sarkhan guarding the Eye of Ugin as a stand-in for Knuckles and the Master Emerald. I toiled for the better part of a day last week and into the eleventh hour trying to figure out how I could tie Magic: the Gathering and Sonic Mania together to make this seem at all appropriate for my column. Because recently a new game -Sonic Mania-has come out, and in one quick shattered perceptions and recaptured some of the greatness. This week I would like to take a look at the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise for the point-of-view of someone who loved the series, but agrees with the majority of people who believe the franchise as a whole died a decade ago. Looking back to when I first started this column, it’s probably a good thing that I named the series Shattered Perceptions and not my original pitched name of Faithless Looting, because as an umbrella term it works out for me constantly.
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