Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24553409-20140429164602/@comment-9340689-20140520202243

Daylight Shadow wrote: PyroGothNerd wrote: Sonic with a human just doesn't work... Maybe it would have =/ At first Sonic was supposed to have a human girlfriend afterall but due to all the SonElise haters out there SEGA will probably never think about something like that again. Actually, originally he was going to be this tough rocker dude who had a human girlfriend, but then a woman in America was like, "KIDS WOULD NOT LIKE THIS, AND GIVING HIM A HUMAN GIRLFRIEND WOULD CAUSE CONTROVERSY" and adjusted him to the Hedgehog we know and love today.

I think Elise was an attempt to bring that old idea back...that, and it looks like they tried to make everyone look like Final Fantasy characters.