

There are various modes to choose from which can help bring up the player's character roster and award dragon power when unlocked. It was Spanish dubbed and I recognized Sonic’s voice actor also did Dexter in Dexter’s Lab, which made the experience all the more awkward.Supersonic Warriors 2 is a 2D fighting game where the player chooses a team of three to fight against an enemy or another team. I eventually caught a re-airing on a channel called Sorpresa!(~2011), that channel strangely had some good line-ups like Static Shock, Batman Beyond, Megaman NT, Tiny Planets. It totally blew my mind when I eventually came across it thanks to having a compy+internet. I think if the first Sonic related thing I’d come across was SU, I would not have grown to like the franchise as much as I did (and still do, of course) thanks to Sonic X.įunny story, back in elementary school like, 2003-ish I had a friend who had told me about SU but the way he explained it made it seem like he was making it up, and when he mentioned siblings I always thought they would be blue. Who wants to see Sonic singing? It’s weird and I found it disappointing, more so than AoStH. The sibling thing didn’t bother me, to me it was the singing/band theme formula. Sonic Underground for me is almost right up there with Boom in regards to the worst Sonic cartoons. The Nintendo thing would have been interesting. Naka saw protecting Sonic’s image as being very difficult, citing Sonic Underground as an example of something damaging to the character’s image (making reference in particular to Sonic’s siblings)Ĭheck out the full interview translation, along with other Sonic Team interviews at Shmuplations.Sonic was purposefully made more of a “bad boy” for Sonic Adventure, so that his character didn’t become too cutesy like so many other character mascots (Naka stated that Hello Kitty already owned the market in cuteness).Tails was initially a Tanuki, modeled after a UFO catcher plush.Naka quit SEGA after finishing work on the first Sonic game with aspirations of joining Nintendo.Initial ideas for names for Sonic included “Raisupi” and “LS”, truncation and plays on the word “light speed”.Other revelations from the interview include: In a recent translation of an interview article from a Japanese gaming magazine, Sonic the Hedgehog creator Yuji Naka revealed that the 3D special stage (sometimes referred to as “Get Blue Spheres”) was inspired by the miniature world of King Kai’s planet, which featured in Dragon Ball Z. It is no revelation that Sonic the Hedgehog has drawn upon pop culture in its creation (the Death Egg probably being one of the more obvious tributes to Star Wars), but it appears that the influences from Dragon Ball extend further than super forms and collecting 7 powerful objects!
