Well, I loved 3. Then Sonic Adventure was really cool. Then Sonic Adventure 2 was alright. The Sonic Advance series was okay. Then Sonic Heroes was horrid. Shadow the Hedgehog had an interesting concept, but ultimately the various mechanics didn’t function together and resulted in a lousy, clunky game. I never played another one.

But I always loved the characters! I loved Amy, and Tails, and Cream. And Big! Tikal and Chaos! And Rogue was awesome! Which is why I look at things like Sonic Generations and Sonic Boom and shake my head.

And that’s the problem. Different people like different things about Sonic. I liked the incorporation of different play-styles and storylines. Different perspectives and different characters. I don’t want to play as just Sonic, and I don’t want the characters rewrote into caricatures.

I don’t really pay attention to the series anymore. It’s lost all direction. But once upon a time… I mean I still have 75 pages, at size 10 font, of an unfinished fanfic that I ran as a game for years.

Hey, wanna see something I’ve never shown anyone before? I made a few of these, but I never got around to finalizing/using them. This was the best one.