Thread:Roxasofmalice/@comment-10483040-20160624230058/@comment-11454852-20160627172134

Turns out the Genesis trilogy are available for cheap on the 3DS EShop and well... It's not bad, but I think I can see the problem Sonic games' been having.

Looking at it's backstory and the console he originated from, Sonic feels like he was targeted at cool kids in the 90's and the going fast theme was to make him cooler, which I think makes sense seeing what Sega's marketing tactis were back then. It worked well back then, but that demographic is long gone.

Playing the game now without any "childhood nostalgia", Sonic as a character comes off to me as rather chezy and the super fast gameplay feels like a gimmick that got old rather quickly, just like how "Genesis does what Nintendon't" comes off as a desperate marketing gimmick now.

Seeing that and how the newer games keep throwing in more gameplay gimmicks, it feels to me like the franchise keeps trying to reinvent itself to match new demographics, but since the whole point of the games is going fast with a 90's cool character, doing so is easier said than done. Actually, in general trying to redesign the core gameplay of a franchise is rarely well recieved, I felt that with Crash of the Titans and Banjo Kazooie fans did with Nuts & Bolts.