Sonic Retrospective Part XII - Sonic Adventure

There was no real Sonic game for the SEGA Saturn, so it wasn't until the Dreamcast that a real 3-D Sonic title was made. There was work on a game called Sonic X-treme, but that got canceled and shuffled between systems. This is unfortunate, because Sonic's love interest in the game was planned to be a new character called Tiara Boobowski, which is ridiculous.

In making Sonic Adventure, the team redesigned the characters, making Sonic lankier and more cartoony. They also added a lot more characters, and decided that giving each one their own level types would be more interesting than each playing as similarly as they had in the past. They also took trips to South America for research on temples and jungles in order to plan the appearance of areas in the game like Mystic Ruin.

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Sonic Retrospective X - Sonic Blast

Sonic Blast is the last 2D main series Sonic game we're going to see for a while, and it, sadly, is one of the worst 2D Sonic games. Despite having a very similar name to Sonic 3D Blast and nigh identical box art, the games have nothing in common with each other. Instead they made the graphics look vaguely 3D and called it good.

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Sonic Retrospective Part VIII - Sonic Triple Trouble

Sonic Triple Trouble (Japanese title: Sonic & Tails 2) is a direct sequel to Sonic Chaos. However, unlike Sonic Chaos, Triple Trouble is much more reminescent of a Genesis title and contains much longer stages. It also adds a lot more vehicular sections.

Unlike the other Game Gear games, Sonic Triple Trouble has no Master System version. Despite this, the game feels more like a console Sonic game than the others on the Game Gear. Like its prequel, you Sonic has his Super Peel-Out and this is the second to last game it appears in. Tails can fly, but it again uses the awkward hold up and press jump while standing system instead of the much simpler jump mashing the main series utilizes.

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Sonic Retrospective Part VII – Sonic 3 & Knuckles

 After Sonic the Hedgehog 2 turned out so well, SEGA once again put STI in charge of the next numbered Sonic game. The game was essentially made by the Japanese half of the developer while Sonic Spinball was made by the other. Originally, Yuji Naka, the producer of the game, wanted to use a new chip to give the game a pseudo-3D isometric view, like the eventual Sonic 3D. However, the chip would not be ready in time so he had to scrap that idea.

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