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This is the place for long-form articles about Sonic. Opinion pieces, theory/lore, event retrospectives... anything that lights a creative fire in your belly. This is the blog for you to express yourself. Reviews of Sonic products (games, comics, etc) should be posted in the Fan Reviews Blog (or your own personal Sonic Stadium Blog).

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Classic Sonic The Hedgehog and Boss Design

Sonic The Hedgehog has a lot of games. And in these games, are boss battles. Boss battles are designed to be a test for the players skills with the game's mechanics, and controls. Games series' like Mega Man and Donkey Kong I believe have perfected this design philosophy. Such as Captain K. Rool, and Shade Man to name a couple examples. However, with Sonic The Hedgehog, it's always been two sides of a single coin: It's either Case 1: The Boss is too easy and goes out too fast due to Sonic's
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A Classically Modern Dilemma

Whenever you hear someone use the term classic or modern to describe video games, or just about anything pop culture, typically you would interpret that it would be associated with a specific generation. For instance, modern games are more current and advanced, while classic games are referred to as retro. That is, of course, unless you are talking about Sonic the Hedgehog.  The terms classic and modern in this community have a different meaning entirely, and have divided many within it as
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[Archive] The Sonic Canon & Timeline - Not Straight Forward

Hogfather looks at what's up with the games' timelines. There has been a long debate for now as to an order or a structured canon for the sonic games. Which come in order? Which are correct? And which should be discarded? Hopefully I can answer some of those questions. But I shall also aim to leave it open for others to take further in the future for future releases. Here I have looked at all the big sonic games and discovered that a single line canon is not the answer. The Sonic games are
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[Archive] The Spiral of Death and the Lamb of God

Hogfather draws parallels with Sonic and the Bible. Right let’s lay down some notes before I begin... I am not saying Sonic Team copied the bible.  Jesus is not Sonic. Anyone who hasn’t studied an academic subject at a college level (UK education since I don’t know what the US levels are) may not understand this, but those in their last two years of secondary school education may understand what I’m on about (especially English students). I am not 100% an expert
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[Archive] Are Recent Sonic Games Bad?

The answer is no. Sonic games have been on and off lately, but their position has been further worsened by groups of people who feel compelled to compare them with the MegaDrive games of yesteryear. The underlying flaws in this argument are: A. Comparisons are being made to games as old as thirteen years and bear no relevance with today’s market. B. The newer sonic games are not trying to imitate the gameplay of the originals The majority of fans continue to concern th
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[Archive] Rants & Rambles About Sonic Underground

ManicFanGirl expresses the good points about SU. Sonic Underground. This show came on very early, and it was up against Power Rangers. It didn't last long. Sonic Underground is hated by some people because it had nothing to do with games. So what? It's still Sonic the Hedgehog, and that's what we as Sonic fans are looking for, Right? Because it was on early, up against a very popular show, and didn't have to do with any other series, or any game, well,....it was taken off the air. Sure, in
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[Archive] Is Shadow so bad?

Can Shadow's new game be justified? Well… this new Shadow game has thrown are little Sonic community a little bonkers, huh? I know, the gun looks weird, but a lot of people are mad because Shadow gets his own game. Dread says he’s dull, other people say he’s just a Sonic clone, and he’s taking the spotlight. Let’s look at his history. Really, he’s only been in 3 games… Shadow bursts onto the scene in this game. He was an interesting character with a deep backstory. He was a big part of
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[Archive] Shed More Light on New Shadow

Sonicoman tells us not to jump the gun on Shadow the Hedgehog. Indeed, the newbies are very good at lucky guesses. In fact, I think I lost a few bucks because of this title being announced. Who could have known? The official Sonic Adventure 3: Shadow the Hedgehog featuring live ammo and weaponry. When I first saw this 2 days ago I thought it was an extremely early April Fools joke. Nay, it is true, and I was taken back in a shock that was last seen at the Zelda showing at last year’s E3. Di
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[Archive] "It Doesn't Matter" - SEGA's Musical Manifesto

Robert Frazer sees another side to Sonic Adventure's theme tune... Song! I doubt that all of the gruesome details of the great tragedy for the True Way of Gaming in the mid-1990s need be dredged up from the murky depths of repressed memories for the patrons of this website. Those heinous abominations that are Sony fans have abused us with lashes envenomed with the sorry saga long enough for each weary day to be ingrained in our backs. We can reluctantly concede that the person who desi
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[Archive] The Plight of Mobius, and the Politics of Gaming

Is Sonic a symbol for the *shudder* Conservative Party? A mere forty-two years – an astonishingly brief period of time when compared to the lengthy gestation process of some technologies and industries – have elapsed since the first computer games were conceived of in the oppressive, muggy heat of mainframe chambers, but during it the practice of gaming has mutated, morphed, adapted and altered at an almost coherency-defying pace, sprawling out in scope and evolving inconceivably rapidly in
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[Archive] Sonic Games Evolving

A discussion of the progression of Sonic over the years. Well, once again, we find ourselves reading an article written by me. However, today, I'm writing an article that will discuss the evolution of the Sonic games over the ages, what Sonic was, what he is, and what people expect him to be. From the fans who know Sonic from the old Genesis/Megadrive games, to the newer fans that know the blue blur and pals from SA:DX. Each fan has his/her own opinion on Sonic, and I'm here to express mine
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[Archive] The Downfall of Sonic Fandom (and back again)

Did Shadow contribute to the downfall of the community during 2001-4? It all used to be so simple back in the day eh guys? Sonic Team would dish out the goods, we’d enjoy it greatly. We had almost 4 cartoons to keep our Sonic tastebuds pleased, and to top it off, two or three comic books. We could do no wrong. We were the first generation of Sonic fans, the 90s were our utopia. We are known for our uncanny ability to stay loyal to a fandom. It was about 1995 when we realized that Sonic had
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[Archive] The Treatment of Cream

Defenders of Cream unite! Why should she get the pointy end of the stick? I am writing this article for the SSMB to express my awareness on the treatment of new characters in the Sonic Universe, and mainly Cream. I, like many SSMB members, read Dread's recent article, cleverly titled "Night of the Living Dead (and characters)" and found it to be a fantastic article, reflecting on the death of Shadow and how his return in Sonic Heroes and Sonic Battle (but mainly Heroes) spawned much controv
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[Archive] Sonic Websites: Stephen King, Start Screaming Now

Miles Attacca asks what makes a successful website. A good website needs several things to make it so. First, it needs to be well planned-out; its webmaster(s) should know exactly what they want to offer to people, and how. He/she/it/them should realize that part of having a website is constantly updating it with new stuff; if you don't want to put something good up even once a week, back off from the idea (at least for awhile). Thought should be put into its design, too. First of all, it s
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[Archive] A Brief History of SEGA and Sonic

A brief timeline of SEGA and Sonic, and how SEGA is perceived. Okay, we all know that the Sega Corporation and Sonic have been 2 key icons in gaming as well as many other things. So let’s recap. It all started in 1991 when the Sega Corporation released the game Sonic the Hedgehog. That was an excellent game and Sonic’s name became known throughout the world. Soon there was merchandise, comic books, and cartoon shows featuring Sonic. The game systems Sega released was the Sega Genesis as wel
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