Dissecting Sonic prt.1 by Rogerregorroger

The difference between Sonic and the games you mention is how they handle their big casts.

In a fighting game, every character has a few friends and rivals among the cast and only those matter to their personal story. The rest of the cast are just obstacles they have to overcome. The personal endings contradict each other. Some characters might arrest the final boss after defeating them, take over their empire or walk into the sunset explaining they only fought for kicks.
In that sense Sonic Advance has a fighting game story.

With Super Mario, most of the characters have their own spinoff games like Wario Land or Donkey Kong Country. Or they are part of the RPGs, which tell their story in a different way than an action game.

So unless there are games like Chaotix Investigations or Silver's Explosive Golf, the cast is not gonna become more manageable.

floating pipes!

I...completely agree with this!

You know, I actually think they should add a few MORE characters, not as support cast or even main characters, but as some generic characters that you see wondering around the streets in hub worlds, background characters who you only ever pay attention to when a side-quest involving them. In almost all Sonic games with a story, even the Adventure saga, the generic side characters are all humans. In my opinion, mixed species games that basically mix two different species into one planet or town, should have a certain balance. In Sonic games, they don't, they only ever show furries when they are directly involved in an adventure, either as a main character or supporting cast. I don't like that, it confuses me in the exact setting of the planet, was Earth always a mix of furries and humans in the Sonic games, and if not, where exactly did Sonic and his friends come from? Were they an experiment gone wrong or artificial lifeforms like Shadow? And if Sonic and co. are the only ones of their kind in that entire planet because there from an entirely different world, there should be backstory to it, an explanation of HOW they got there. That's actually something I like about that Sonic X show, they show how Sonic and his friends actually got to a world full of humans with no others of their kind besides Shadow, even if they never fully explain it, the viewer knows they didn't just suddenly pop out of thin air! The Genesis Saga understood this too, there is always a host of smaller furries and animals that can you rescue!

could you make one which onvlolves of who owns the "Tornado"? i thought that was sonic's plane

I've never seen it that way off Sonic colors

I know the story wasn't really much
But yes the plan off Eggman was spoil at almost the beginning off the game

You have provided very valid points.

You make some really good points... I think this forces people to think more deeply into the subject and they'll remember it when playing through the games again. Definitely interesting and insightful.

I think yo are right at all, classic sonic is a bit overrated and the fans are the hater at the same

I think this entire series deserves to be faved.

How the heck did this get on my deviant watch?

If you post this, then you might be interested in this topic enough, to think of what I had to say in two of my journal topics. I am lazy to write about all of that over again. I also talk about my idea of Sonic Adventure 3 or another Sonic story but don't let that discourage you from reading. I think I have also some points about the subject without ragequiting.

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I even resigned on demanding to have my own personal requirements fulfilled in any other upgoing Sonic game, since I realized that these game are really not designed for persons like me (if there even are persons like me).

wierd guy that looks like tails : THIS IS MADNESS
*Leonidas appears*

i guess u know what will happen

thank godness! Finally someone who can put this "Cast" problem down right!" I agree till now

This is actually very intelligent.

Huge props for mentioning Trails in the Sky there xD

So much truth spoken in these words.

I noticed the Angrish underneath Megaman Legends. Clearly, it seems that you're not as neutral and rational as you seem...Nah, I'm kidding. But still, was that your actual reaction to MML3's cancellation?

Amys and Knuckles flaws made me shit bricks XD

I still don't get the constant criticisms of Colors' plot. It was literally built as "a day of the life of Sonic and Tails" and I always liked the angle of that story.

nice work so far.

nice work mate

what about the characters from the Sonic comics?