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Sonic Fans Reanimate An Episode of Sonic SatAM in "Sonic the Hedgehog ReJuiced"
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TSS @ SAGE '23: Sonic SMS Remake 3: Timelines Demo Brings New Level Design & Characters to Sonic Chaos
Creative Araya’s latest project turns Sonic Chaos into a brand new game. -
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SAGE 2023 Has Officially Begun
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StarDrop Announces 'Sonic and the Moon Facility' Fan Game Sequel
And it's full of as much colour, style and animated action as Sonic and the Fallen Star. -
New Sonic Fan Convention Hitting Dallas, TX This November
Sonic Expo is the latest from the experienced 'Chaos Creators' events team. -
SAGE 2023 Trailer Gives Us A Sneak Peak Of What’s To Come
The fan game expo is returning soon, and looks as awesome as ever. -
Hesse Announces Non-Involvement in Sonic Superstars Intro, Amid Twitter Criticism [U]
Is this just Twitter being Twitter again? -
Sonic Fans Believe SEGA is Teasing A Sonic Heroes Remaster
People are picking apart the Sonic Central TailsTube animation for clues. -
YouTube goes after Balena Productions' Sonic Animations, Marking Them "Made For Kids"
Apparently even a Sonic video featuring a rotten corpse is for kids. -
Sonic Modding Community Legends Come Together for Retro World Expo
Retro Sonic Community will talk about Retro Sonic Games. -
Sonic Fans Bombard SEGA With Dreams of RPGs and Fighting Games
The fanbase is desperate for more Sonic! In any form! -
Community-Made Sonic Frontiers Mod Adds Picture-Perfect Emotes
A huge fan effort including over 130 poses, stickers and frames! -
Sonic Socials: Spruce Up Your Phone With Chibi Wallpapers for Sonic's Birthday
Knuckles is CLEARLY not happy about being a part of this. -
Android and Mac Versions of Sonic Triple Trouble 16-Bit Announced
Live reveal event for latest content update also dated. -
SAGE 2023 Details: Date and NiGHTS-Themed Logo Revealed
Runs 1-8 September. -
Latest Sonic P-06 Release Adds Silver Stages and New Cutscenes
Download the new PC build today! -
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Metallic Madness Community Tournament 2023 Currently Underway
Who will win the coveted popularity contest? -
UK-Based Convention Set to Celebrate 30 Years of Sonic the Comic
Your chance to meet the original team behind the Fleetway comic. -
Sonic 3K ROM Hack 'Hellfire Saga' Has Been Completed After Five Years
Putting a horror spin on the 16-bit series. -
Sonic Game Speedruns Are Making A Return To Awesome Games Done Quick
Charity event returns with a varied selection of Sonic games to play. -
Here Are The Winners Of The 2022 Sonic Hacking Contest
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Watch This UK Rock Star Cover Green Hill Zone With A Custom Sonic Designed Guitar
Get that Friday Feeling and check out a cool guitar in the process.
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By Kaotic Kanine · Posted
I personally believe that SEGA has always liked the cast and wanted to make use of them. Or at least, SEGA of Japan always wanted to make use of the non-main characters, what with Sonic Channel having always featured artwork and comics of the whole cast (including the Babylon Rogues and Marine), and the wholly Japanese-made Sonic Runners bringing back Mephiles of all characters. Not sure about SEGA of America, but I can assume that the only characters they didn't like to use were Big the Cat and Cream the Rabbit, strictly due to their respective personalities/archetypes having more Japanese appeal (though Big certainly turned that around by now). But of course, 2006 saw almost the entire Sonic fandom and even the gaming community in the West start calling the characters "Sonic's shitty friends" and blaming them for everything going wrong with the franchise at the time. Both branches of SEGA had to give the cast a break after that, and no doubt the use of the characters was further discouraged with fans making artwork of Classic Sonic being horrified with having to associate with his future friends, and certain reviewers docking points off of Generations for daring to include the cast. Like, you can't get a clearer message about how undesired the characters were than that nonsense. So, the main series games would only focus on Sonic, Tails, and Eggman while the rest of the cast could only be included in multiplayer spin-offs, and only because multiplayer spin-offs require additional characters to fill out the roster. Since then, though, attitudes towards the extended cast began to improve due to varying factors. Unleashed and Lost World effectively silenced the fans and critics who blamed the friends for "alternate gameplay" since both games were strictly Sonic only, with only two/three other characters involved in the plot (but not even by much), yet ended up having differing gameplay anyway. And indeed, the fact that the franchise as a whole wasn't actually improving with the complete focus on Sonic, Tails, and Eggman further proved that the extended cast were never really "everything wrong" with the franchise. Fans who complained about the cast simply because they preferred the Classic Era with its minimalistic cast were appeased with Mania. And of course, the fans who were children in the 2000's grew up and became the dominant voice in the fandom; bringing up how much they love and miss the characters that used to be major players in the franchise, and pointing out those characters' merits that were previously ignored. It also helps that the type of gaming journalists who contributed the most to the "Sonic's shitty friends" shit aren't taken seriously anymore, with stuff like "Too much water", "Sonic was never good", and the "Cuphead tutorial level" ruining much of their credibility. The hatred for the whole Sonic cast is practically dead and current fans are begging for them to return, so SEGA is more than happy to oblige. Especially SEGA of Japan for the reason I said in the first paragraph.
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