Sonic the Hedgehog is notorious for having a library of absolutely terrible games. The worst part is, whenever they run the risk of having something good on their hands, they throw it in the trash! That’s what we’re talking about today – why Sonic has so many bad games, and why Sega needs to stop going back to the drawing board.
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I just want a sonic with another Chao garden 😢
Sonic is a successful Cartoon/Comic character who has many tie-in games of questionable quality.
Literally got a Sonic ad in the video intro 😅
OH SHIT WARHORSE
10:47 Sonic Superstars doesn’t count as a “sequel?”
Youtube forced an ad for Sonic Superstars ahead of this video. Well done.
Preaching to the choir, here: Sonic was amazing until Sega completely fucked themselves over with a multitude of terrible decisions in the mid-1990s. The constant infighting of Sega of America and Sega of Japan gave us the 32x in the US, killed the Saturn in the US, and made the Dreamcast dead in the water by 2000. It’s not that Sonic was never good, it’s more that Sega could get their own head out of their ass after having a legitimate advantage over Nintendo. They had the ball, they dropped it. Doesn’t help that Yuji Naka was and is a prick, a guy who threw a shit fit when the Sonic X-Treme devs used the Nights engine on their X-Treme prototypes, killing the Saturn’s real chance at being relevant compared to Nintendo and Sony.
The fact that we’ve gotten stuff like Sonic Mania and Superstars is a friggin’ miracle compared to the absolute garbage Sega/Sonic Team has put out in the past.
Why does this editor keep throwing their business card at me every time hes done editing his bits like hes looking for work?! Realists its whatever but I’ve never seen an editor do it.
No thanks! Just another Sonic Mania…..PLEASE!!!
769000 subs already?
Great outfit.
SEGA really did pull a Sonic 4 again with Sonic Superstars, taking a clearly budget title that looks like cheap plastic and trying to act like it’s the next big game in the series lmao.
Ironically I got a Sonic ad during this.
I had to skip back in the video to double check if it was part of the video and lol
Nope
No mention of the price? The game is currently going through a blood-bath on Steam as Sega managed to snatch failure out of the jaws of success by putting a $60(!!!) price tag on a $30 game.
As a follow-up point: Superstars was only co-developed by Sonic Team, and Mania wasn’t made by them at all.
Thanks for the video 🙂
Sonic has always felt like the unreal asset platformer IP. The amount of genres and gameplay styles SEGA just throws him in feels like a budget choice. SEGA dev team has an idea for a creative 3D platformer and then gets forced to fit the sonic IP in there because Karl already did a 3D model 10 years ago that still works.
I TOO HATE SONIC COLORS. FUCKING METEOS ALIENS, GET BACK TO TETRIS!
But yeah otherwise a lot of good points, even if I don’t agree on every bit, like the Sinister 6 or whatever they were. Building on success would be great. 2D Sonic mostly has it down, but still doesn’t build upon its advances. 3D has been reinvented like 80 times and a lot of people have been calling for just better (insert favorite here) for decades – for me I want Sonic Adventure 3.
Had to dislike just for the disrespect to Sonic and the Secret Rings. That game is an underrated classic! And the soundtrack surprisingly is a banger.
(I’m kidding about the dislike)
Peasant Quest, heh.