
Sonic remains, bloodied, but unflattened.Īnd so here comes Sonic Generations, a celebration of the past two decades of Sonic madness. The combination of Shadow the Hedgehog, the 2006 Sonic the Hedgehog 'reboot' and Sonic Unleashed would have destroyed lesser characters. Unlike Mario, who has sauntered through the past 20 years gathering plaudits at almost every turn, Sonic has stumbled and fallen, and gotten back up, then fallen again.įor every moment of genius (the first two titles, Sonic Rush, Sonic the Hedgehog Pocket Adventure) there is often something of a calamity. The history of Sonic is essentially a Picaresque tragicomedy – in the best possible sense of the phrase.
