Why not Princess Toadstool? Probably because Mario was never given a fully fleshed out second option as a love interest. The strange thing is that-out of the major mascot franchises from my childhood-she is the only damsel in distress I hate with a passion. She was kidnapped by Metal Sonic and subsequently saved by our hero-after which he took off in the end credits and wanted nothing to do with her. It’s this vision that gave us Metal Sonic (who is kind of cool) and created my biggest problem with the Sonic series (aside from not using the stories of Hurst or Flynn for anything): Amy Rose.įor those that don’t know about this character’s origins, Amy Rose was basically created as a damsel in distress. His vision of the series lead to the time traveling adventure known as Sonic the Hedgehog CD (or simply Sonic CD). Robotnik/Eggman, stayed in Japan with a separate team. Naoto Ōshima, the man who first designed both Sonic and Dr. Through this vision, we were introduced to sidekick Miles “Tails” Prower and rival Knuckles the Echidna. It was here that they developed Sonic the Hedgehog 2 as well as Sonic 3 & Knuckles. Yuji Naka and Hirokazu Yasuhara went to America after the first game to escape from Sega of Japan’s policies, bringing along a number of Sonic Team members to work at the Sega Technical Institute (which was run at the time by Mark Cerny, one of the leads of Sony’s PS4).
The creators of Sonic the Hedgehog didn’t even agree on where the story should go from the beginning. This really started to show with the video game Sonic Adventure when Takashi Iizuka really started to put his mark on the series.īut it wasn’t just Iizuka not wanting the stories of Hurst or Ian Flynn (currently head writer for the comic). Unfortunately, none of the main Sonic Team people really gave it much thought. While Adventures takes its inspiration from the first couple of games on the Genesis, the SatAM cartoon–with lead writer Hurst–was a completely original story.
The cartoons were in fact created by Americans. So, this time around, I’ll make up for it. While I did say that Sonic Team went with something different, I didn’t really go into too much depth about it. When I did the first of my trips down memory lane with Sonic the Hedgehog, I got some comments regarding how Sonic Team didn’t share the same vision for story as Ben Hurst’s Sonic the Hedgehog show or even Archie comics’ Sonic the Hedgehog comic. By Jeff Neuenschwander / October 18th, 2013
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