User blog comment:Kagimizu/Oh F*** No.../@comment-878100-20110427144949/@comment-878100-20110428150513

Going back to when you said: ""Save Sonic's life for a little longer"? His life was never in serious danger to begin with, its just that a lot of so-called "fans" and biased reviewers can't accept changes to their oh-so precious nostalgia even though Sonic has every bloody right to try out new things with itself."

I actually must disagree. I don't think the new stuff he's doing is really that good at all. After Sonic Adventure 2: Battle (and I guess Sonic Heroes... that wasn't too bad of a game), his games just became uninteresting and no good to me. Starting with the Shadow the Hedgehog game, which we all want to forget (I feel sorry for those who loved that game). And then came Sonic the Hedgehog 2006, which was scary because a human girl kisses a hedgehog (Stupid). And then Sonic Riders was too hard to figure out how to play right when putting the controller in your hands (it was one of those games where you have to read the whole instruction manual... the whole thing... to figure out what you're doing), and its sequel was even more impossible to control. Sonic and the Secret Rings had some of the worst controls in the face of the universe as well, making that another horrible Sonic game. We all obviously can tell I hated the spin-off games and such. And then Sonic Unleashed was great because its story got me excited and it truly was addicting and all (and even the werehog stages were somewhat addicting), but the werehog stages were overall a dud. I don't want to play a Sonic game that goes slow! Even Knuckles could go pretty fast in his "look-for-shards-of-emerald" stages in Sonic Adventure 1 and 2. Sonic and the Black Knight was fun... while it lasted. Sonic and the Black Knight was only fun for 4 days noticing I beat it in that amount of time. And the final boss was a piece of cake. Too easy of a game. And Amy Rose being Lady of the Lake...? Uh-uh. No. And then fans had been asking for a 2D Sonic game for a while, so they made Sonic 4. That was a dud, because it was practically just a HD version of Sonic 1 with slight differences (and fail music). Then FINALLY, they bring back the Classic Sonic. The one I've been waiting for for a long long time. I'm pretty sure this'll be Classic Sonic's only appearance for a very long time again (maybe even forever). But I almost want Sonic's gameplay to go back to Sonic Adventure gameplay.

Yeah I know, long message... but that is what I wanted to say. I said "It might save Sonic's life for a bit longer" because Sonic has been sucking so horribly for the past 5 to 6 years that it kicked the Sonic franchise to #8 on the biggest video game franchises in the world... behind Need for Speed (Need for Speed has more money made from its games than Sonic does... that is EPIC fail). And if they keep doing horrible games, then Sonic will end up disappearing. Mario is in practically no jeopardy because Nintendo is making good games and making games that are great just like everyone expects them to be. Mario right now is obviously winning over Sonic. But if SEGA can listen to their audience and what they want and work it into their games, Sonic may catch up to Mario again and become really competitive with Mario again.

And that is the end of this message.