I remember when the first looks at (or poster of) the sonic movie came out, and it was ripped to shreds.
A prominent visual redesign of sonic went viral, and - credit where credits due - the studio reworked the movie to adopt the changes.
https://www.radiotimes.com/movies/sonic-the-hedgehog-design-changed/
Human teeth? I mean, really?
"We where on the shit 10 years ago, now we ARE The Shit"
interesting read. usually when people lay out the history of the series, they call 20 years ago the dark ages and 10 years ago as when things started to turn around. the thing for me is that 20 years ago we were still getting amazing side games that kept the lights on like the Advance series, and it was only when those stopped and Sonic Team had to stand on their own that things really fell apart. but now here we are with then collaborating with others and getting gold like Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog and Superstars, and meanwhile Sonic Frontiers is the first Sonic Team Sonic game i'd call genuinely good since... Adventure 2? Which speaking of which just got a brilliant movie adaptation. we're so back
I'll admit I'm very pessimistic they will continue the upwards trend but with the remakes/reboots/sequels due (hopefully) later this year I hope they do.
Basically Christian Whitehead and a rag-tag group of fans saved the franchise, and it’s been slipping back into old patterns since. Frontiers introduced interesting ideas, but the next game needs to build on that, which, let’s be honest, it won’t.
Just give the franchise to the fans at this point.
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