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Genesis Days:


Classic Sonic the Hedgehog. This is his best look. This is Sega's true icon! This is what Sonic is supposed to look like. This is Sonic. You look at this, and you think, "Sega." It's perfect. It's retro. It's nostalgic. He actually looks good, and cool.

Dreamcast Days:



Sonic looks cool in this pose. He actually looks good. He looks different, but in this pose, he looks funky. I don't know if he looks as good, in this pose, as his old look, but it's pretty close.

Gamecube Days:


What is this? Seriously, what is this? Sonic looks like a girl. Put an umbrella in his hands, and put a dress on him, because Sonic seriously looks like a girl. He is so ugly. Why does he look so mean? I don't like this new look at all.


Why is he so ugly? I mean, the computer animation is great, but that doesn't take away his pure uglyness. Just look at him. He doesn't look friendly at all. Where's the classic Sonic charm? Sonic just looks like an asshole. Does Sega think this new "asshole" look is cool? I mean, look at him. You just get depressed looking at him. He doesn't even look like Sonic. He looks like some ugly, blue hedgehog. His quils droop down more, and he's skinnier, which just makes him look uglier. What was wrong with the original design?

Playstation 3 days:


Okay, that's it! I thought that Sonic could look no uglier, but this is by far, his ugliest design. His quils are even droopier, he's taller, skinnier, and just... Ugly! Look at him. He's so ugly, and stringy. Sega ruined Sonic. I mean, thousands of people worked on his new design. Did one person stop, and think, "Hey, Sonic looks uglier now. Maybe we should change his design back to the original?" No, they didn't. Why? I have no idea. Sonic looks so wobbly, and humanoid, and just... Ugly. It's as if he became more ugly, the more his games started to suck. I do not like the new Sonic look... At all. Sonic, Shadow, and Silver, all look horrible, in Sonic the Hedgehog. I mean, why did they use the same name? Sonic the Hedgehog already exists as a Genesis game, and Master System game. How hard could it have been to think of a new name? Anyways, I think Sonic the Hedgehog looks so ugly now. What are your opinions?


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I agree with you, that the GC era Sonic looks horrid. The move to a 3D artwork didn't worked at all.

But at all, my favorite will always be the Dreamcast one. That design is just so cool and full of win. I kinda like it's newest incarnation... but I don't like Silver at all.



His best look is his current one.

AKA the Genesis looking one he uses in SSBB and Mario and Sonic.

 

 

The SSBB look is a bit too similar to the Sonic the Hedgehog '06 look too.

Sonic sucks IMO

The ugliest design I think is the Dreamcast one.

Way to go Sega, you made Sonic look like a rat

 

 



Top 3 favorite games: Super Mario Galaxy, The Sims 2 (PC), The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker

He looks nothing like the Genesis one in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. He still looks weird. Why can't they just bring back his original look?



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I agree Sonic has been getting more horrid over the years. However, I think his appearance in Brawl is a definite turn in the right direction. Maybe it's because the unbeliveable concentration of win around Brawl makes everytihng related to it awesome by association? =P



Sonic failed because it's design started to appeal away from what Mario was appealing to.

The old Sonic just looks so much better when put up next to what it is now.



Parokki said:
I agree Sonic has been getting more horrid over the years. However, I think his appearance in Brawl is a definite turn in the right direction. Maybe it's because the unbeliveable concentration of win around Brawl makes everytihng related to it awesome by association? =P

Agreed.  The Genesis was the best IMO as it was the most friendly and the one most in touch with what Sonic's creator(s) wanted.

As an amusing note, is it just me or could one measure the quill droopage to determine Sonic's age in game time? 



"Cute" ages a lot better than "badass", or what they call the later looks.

And I don't really get it. From what I understand they could have kept the old "cute and nice" Sonic and let just the side-characters be "bad and mean".



NintendoTogepi said:

Way to go Sega, you made Sonic look like a rat

 


 Hey, in Sonic and the Secret Rings, the genie is always calling him a rat...  Maybe that's the look they were going for.