Alright, last night I was pondering, and I actually dreamed I was a Lawyer telling SEGA what to do with sonic to make him the hog he used to be. The problems I found about the newer 3D sonic games is that there's way too much crappy story getting in the way of the gameplay (Which wasn't too thrilling to begin with) kind of like Heroes of Mana.

*Paces* So what SEGA needs to do is ditch the whole crappy story, get rid of all their extra "Unique gameplay" crap and make a Sonic game like the old ones where you just drop Sonic in a level and race to the finish where you fight Dr. Robotnik. It would be simple, fun, and just like the old days; the better days, when the characters didn't speak. Or, Even better, they could do it like sonic adventure 2.

The big difference between SA2 battle and the games proceeding it you ask? Well, first off, Tails sounded loads better, but if you look at the beginning of SA2's story, There is no buildup you see sonic jumping out of an airplane as authority figures chase after him. As you get deeper in the story, you find that Sonic was framed by a lookalike hedgehog who's looking for the Chaos Emeralds to power a huge space cannon to blow up the Earth. The usual take-over-the-world thing. And you know what? It was good enough.

Now look at the beginning of, say, Sonic and the secret rings. Sonic is sitting in front of a fireplace doing absolutely nothing when some random Genie comes down and tells him "You have to save the dimensions, Sonic! Some evil Genie named Erazor Djinn is collecting rings to take over the universe, Sonic! Here, have a few hundred Tissues for comic relief, Sonic!"and then after a painful storybook intro you hop straight into... The Tutorial. (Which you probably need anyway because the gameplay sucks so much) And don't even get me started with Sonic Unleashed. Zero Punctuation already says that better than I can.

All this is probably Obvious to Serious Sonic fans like some of you out there, and some of you have more Ideas of your own. Maybe if we come up with enough, we can mail this to SEGA and have them... Neglect/Ruin our ideas!

Now I kind of wish they would do that as well, but the problem is, it just doesn't appeal to anyone nowadays. A good example of the old gameplay is Sonic Heroes. Now I haven't played much of it, but I haven't seen much storyline, and it's the same old thing, just with 3-D and three characters at the same time.

I bet everyone knows how huge a Sonic fan I am, the only thing that dissapointed me in Sonic Heroes was that they didn't really explain the characters and that they needed different levels. Sonic Heroes in my opinion is a great game and actually the last good Sonic game after a while.

Then, of course Sonic & Sega All Stars Racing blew my mind and after playing it, I never back to fat itlian plumber racing wii EVER again.

I think the Sonic franchise is doing just fine. However, people think Sonic has died. WELL LOOK AT THIS!

I feel SEGA knows what is going on. Heck, they're even bringing out Sonic 4! Sonic Colors(Colours in other places) is just a Sonic Unleashed without the so-called "abomination" Werehog. If people just gave it a chance, I think people would like it! When SEGA announces a new game, they some people super byasit and say," 0H TH1S G4M3 W1LL SUCK BIG! TR0L0L0LL0L0L0LL0L0L0L0L0L0L0L0L0LL0L0L0L" They need to give these games a chance. If they made a SA/SU daytime stages game, it'd be great! Then some stupid genisis fanboy, like aknotholeresident, will say "GR33N 3Y3S WILL 4FF3CT G4M3P14Y!!!!" I think people just already hate the game due to the excsive hatred from trolls and genisis fanboys.

Sonic Colors seems good enough, but two things: What's up with those powerups, and how does the story effect the gameplay? My least favorite thing about Unleashed was that you couldn't get to the actual action without going through a painful flight around the world looking for professor Pickles and talking to random strangers through just pointing at them with the Wiimote. If they're going to make you talk to random people before you get to the actual game they should at least make it a sandbox game.

Well, My point is I won't believe that SEGA has turned around until I see some honest-to-goodness reviewing of all of the game's aspects.

What SEGA needs to do is not make Sonic games. They're basically pushing this franchise too much with gimmicks and it's becoming shoveled down. Yes, the games are good; yes, Colors and StH4 look amazing, but there have been previous failures on their part. (For one I hated SA1 due to over-reliance on the other character's stories, and although SA2 was good they still focused too much on other characters and they removed the hubworld- on top of that Unleashed didn't do very well with the Day/Night gimmick and the Sonic Storybook games were balls)

What SEGA should REALLY do is make new characters and bring back old ones that had a lot of oomph in them. Apart from that one random NiGHTS reboot and Super Monkey Ball they hardly come up with new characters.

Two franchises in particular I think SEGA could bring back to life are:

1. Jet Set Radio/Jet Grind Radio: It's like Katamari Damacy, only with roller blades and J-pop. Cel-shaded graphics in a futuristic Tokyo combined with fun gameplay and a good soundtrack equals awesome. I'd especially love this on the Wii, or if they're daring enough the 3DS.

2. Billy Hatcher: OH COME ON DON'T TELL ME THIS THING WASN'T AWESOME. This was also very Katamari-esque, since you had to roll an egg around, but it was also a good 3-D platformer and I'd love to see it rebooted.

Personally, what I've come to believe is that rabid Sonic fans will always find ways to complain about the latest Sonic games, even if the game is fun. (and of course, in some cases the complaints are valid and justifiable enough) I think it's best for people to look past the fanbase and just look at the games themselves. Some suck, some are good. At least the Sonic team at Sega is trying.

BILLY HATCHER FTW!

When everyone saw Mario farting out clouds: OMG SOOOOOO OZZIM ITZ LIEK OZZIMMMM!!!

When everyone saw Sonic drilling through the ground and other stuff: GIMMICK, THE GAME AUTOMATICALLY SUCKS EVEN THOUGH I HAVEN'T PLAYED IT YET.

My point is that they both have gimmicks. I just can't understand why it's just perfectly okay for Mario to have gimmicks but not Sonic. Don't give me the typical "'cause it's Mario and Mario has been having awesome games lately and Sonic hasn't." because that's invalid and has nothing to do with gimmicks whatsoever.

I personally never played Billy Hatcher. Although, what I am interesting in is Super Monkey Ball 2. I always thought it(the series) looked interesting, and from reviews, Super Monkey Ball 2 did the best so I shall be renting that.

Sega added an option to Sonic Colors which allows the player to choose whether or not Sonic can use power-ups. People are complaining about THAT being a gimmick now, which is stupid.

On a serious topic, I'm just going to say this, neither Mario OR Sonic should be flamed. EVERY video game franchise has had their dud. So, really can't we just agree to disagree, people. lol Do we really need to go as far to complain about one gimmick Sega has added in a Sonic game. That's like saying "Oh look! Mario has a rock suit! Looks like crap! Nice job *eff*ing up, Nintendo" Now, that would get someone angry wouldn't it? It's like the majority of people on youtube. They always post stupid hate comments on a video game saying "This game sucks!" and etc. What my point is, every game is gimmicky. You really can't flame on a game that hasn't came out for one gimmick or that's just your negative opinion.

On topic: Well, Sega needs to have more franchises keeping them alive. Or even bring some old ones back.

Does anybody else here watch the Game Overthinker? He did a good 2 part special on this problem. The first part is on what's wrong with Sonic, and the second part is suggestions to help Sonic get back on his feet.

Sonic Schoolhouse is ****ING AMAZING.
I say to hel with both of them, because Klonoa is amazing.