- Sonic originally was a normal-looking anthropomorphic hegehog, but was turned blue in an experiment by overloading the machine. You can read the original comic if you want to know more. - I don't know exactly what we mean by "you must make up your own lore", but I'm assuming either you interpret certain things in the games however you like, or you lie to yourself on what is and isn't cannon. - Shadow's origin story is in his game, Shadow The Hedgehog, and I'm assuming it's also going to be in the 3rd movie. It's just a mere coincidence he looks like Sonic. As for Shadow having his own stand-alone game, some other characters also have stand-alone games such as Tails' Adventure, Tails' Sky Patrol, Knuckles Chaotix (although the original Japanese version was just "Chaotix"), and... That's about it really. - SEGA assumed that Sonic Adventure 2 was going to be the final Sonic game in the entire franchise, due to the rough state Sonic was in due to the transition into 3D. However, as you can tell, Sonic is still around, and SEGA didn't really know where to go with Sonic, hense the poor writing in future games. They can't afford to mess up the writing in the 3rd installment in the Adventure games, so that's why there's still no Sonic Adventure 3. - Sonic Adventure is called Sonic Adventure because you explore around the zones, hense the _Adventure_ part of the name. As for why it isn't called "Sonic and friends adventure", it's not necessarily saying it's "Sonic's adventure", and it just rolls off the tongue easier than "Sonic and friends adventure". - Yes, we love the franchise, because during the genesis era, Sonic made groundbreaking innovations within the gaming industry, such as an actual plot, motives, unique gameplay style, and the characters had actual personality. However, after the adventure era, the writing took a turn for the worst, and the gameplay for a lot of future games (not all) was janky and buggy. Ontop of that, zones (and the characters) became bland with no personality. Due to all the prior games setting up such a high standard, we naturally heavily judged these games and compared them to some of the best games in the franchise. - We didn't like the original movie design because it rode that generic trope of "ugly but realistic cartoon character that strips all personality from the original design!". Sonic's design is just so memorable BECAUSE of the stylistic choices that give him personality. When you take that all away and replace it with basic humanoid features with minimal modifications, you end up with a bland and ugly design. There are many examples of this, such as the Garfield live action movie, The Smurfs (1 & 2), and even the live action Scooby-Doo movies butchered my boy Scooby. Hope this entire novel helps clear things up!
- Sonic originally was a normal-looking anthropomorphic hegehog, but was turned blue in an experiment by overloading the machine. You can read the original comic if you want to know more.
- I don't know exactly what we mean by "you must make up your own lore", but I'm assuming either you interpret certain things in the games however you like, or you lie to yourself on what is and isn't cannon.
- Shadow's origin story is in his game, Shadow The Hedgehog, and I'm assuming it's also going to be in the 3rd movie. It's just a mere coincidence he looks like Sonic. As for Shadow having his own stand-alone game, some other characters also have stand-alone games such as Tails' Adventure, Tails' Sky Patrol, Knuckles Chaotix (although the original Japanese version was just "Chaotix"), and... That's about it really.
- SEGA assumed that Sonic Adventure 2 was going to be the final Sonic game in the entire franchise, due to the rough state Sonic was in due to the transition into 3D. However, as you can tell, Sonic is still around, and SEGA didn't really know where to go with Sonic, hense the poor writing in future games. They can't afford to mess up the writing in the 3rd installment in the Adventure games, so that's why there's still no Sonic Adventure 3.
- Sonic Adventure is called Sonic Adventure because you explore around the zones, hense the _Adventure_ part of the name. As for why it isn't called "Sonic and friends adventure", it's not necessarily saying it's "Sonic's adventure", and it just rolls off the tongue easier than "Sonic and friends adventure".
- Yes, we love the franchise, because during the genesis era, Sonic made groundbreaking innovations within the gaming industry, such as an actual plot, motives, unique gameplay style, and the characters had actual personality. However, after the adventure era, the writing took a turn for the worst, and the gameplay for a lot of future games (not all) was janky and buggy. Ontop of that, zones (and the characters) became bland with no personality. Due to all the prior games setting up such a high standard, we naturally heavily judged these games and compared them to some of the best games in the franchise.
- We didn't like the original movie design because it rode that generic trope of "ugly but realistic cartoon character that strips all personality from the original design!". Sonic's design is just so memorable BECAUSE of the stylistic choices that give him personality. When you take that all away and replace it with basic humanoid features with minimal modifications, you end up with a bland and ugly design. There are many examples of this, such as the Garfield live action movie, The Smurfs (1 & 2), and even the live action Scooby-Doo movies butchered my boy Scooby.
Hope this entire novel helps clear things up!
Sonic is sonic simple as that😂