Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24252369-20140116235811/@comment-24252369-20140117185258

Shadowunleashed13 wrote: I personally agree.

Except in SA2 he was practically a Sonic clone with different animations and a slightly different feel. Exactly! Sonic was getting a little boring to play as, and I thought it was nice to get to play as a new character with similar gameplay. This time though, instead of playing as the usual blue happy kid I got to play as a mature, aggresive, hard-core antihero with a mind set on destruction.

This is similar to why Blaze has now taken the place as my favorite character. I liked playing as her for the same reasons I liked playing as Shadow in SA2. Unlike Shadow though, playing as Blaze has remained just as good throughout all of the games she is featured in as a playable character. It's almost the same as playing as Sonic, but she has a different set of abilities (like hovering). And like Shadow, she's BA.