ForesakenFortres

Back in 1996, France made a bold attempt to take the Sonic series in a new direction with Sonic Underground.  Ambitious but utterly misguided, the show is widely regarded as the worst Sonic animated work in history (if X didn't beat it).  Now in 2014, just when we were starting to accept Sonic's boost gameplay, Adventure-esque design and new, if slight additions to the cast (Orbot and Cubot, for example), it was all thrown out the window as Sega has recently announced the new TV series and video game tie-in, Sonic Boom.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKuFzXOZwf0 According to Hiroyuki Miyazaki, Sonic Boom aims to "be at once familliar but al

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It's about time I've done another one of these. I originally planned to review themes from the Sonic Riders series in this journal.  I am, but then I realized that there's a miniscule amount of themes that don't count as "main game themes," so I merged it with a review of Sonic the Hedgehog 2006. Sonic Riders never hooked me.  Sure, the game looked cool when it worked, but it has such a steep learning curve that it'll only engage the most dedicated Sonic fans.  Add that with cutscenes with wobbly, unappealing character models and voice acting that sounds like everyone took every line out of context and recorded in one take, and you have a s