User blog:WaterKirby1994/Sega & Sonic Team's Biggest Mistakes

Ok these days we know that both Sega & Sonic Team have made tons of mistakes over the years. We're all aware of how mistakes related to the Saturn's western release led to Sega ultimately dropping out of the console wars. History ended up repeating Saturn with WiiU, both systems were released too soon & were overshadowed by their predecessors. Fortunately plenty of good came from Sega releasing it's games onto other systems rather than competing with them.

Now for the mistakes that would harm the Sonic Series itself, the mistakes Sonic Team made that had a lasting effect on the series. Sonic 06 being rushed to be a launch title & having half of Sonic Team work on another game instead. Then if that wasn't bad enough, they blamed the Adventure Formula for their own poor development practices. In 2010 Sonic Team would make mistakes when replacing certain Voice Actors such as Jason Griffith & Lisa Ortiz. For Sonic's case it's notable that they actually hired a VA who could have done a far better job as Sonic than Roger Craig Smith. Sonic could have sounded like Edward Elric, if Sonic Team had the sense to have Vic voice him instead of Omega. These mistakes are just the start of the problems the Sonic Series faces.

The same time the voices changed, Sonic Team hired 2 writers who knew absolutely nothing about the Sonic Series, Pontac & Graff. The decision to overfocus on Sonic would backfire because of how unlikable the combination of Roger's voice & the writer's jokes made the blue hedgehog. We should have gone back to having other characters playable than Sonic by Generations, & should have gotten better writers years ago. I'm not even going to go into Sonic Boom, although Classic Sonic really needs to stay out of Modern Games. We really should have the Adventure style return with its serious quality storytelling, chao gardens, & several playable characters.

Sega's made several mistakes over the years when it came to not releasing certain games to western players, such as the newer Phantasy Star Online games & tons of games for Saturn. Still Sonic Team has probably made Sega's worst mistakes over the past decade.