Out of all the videogame characters that are leaders of the industry, I genuinely think that Sonic is the LEAST BENEFICIAL to it sue to his inconsistent atrocious legacy, used to have a fresh new style for platformers based on speed, but Sega defeinitely couldn't keep up it's identity due to going to bullshit levels of "ambition" making every game since the Dreamcast an insufferable identity-crisis line up to follow, and nowadays people want to act like Sonic was always one of the greatest franchises of all time ignoring these terrible facts, and I genuinely think that he's extremely overrated for the VERY few things he did right and still this headaching franchise couldn't live up to it's original purpose.
"Sonic is the greatest and coolest mascot of all time!" ALL I SEE IS A INSUFFERABLE ASSHOLE WHO THINKS ON HIMSELF FIRST AND HIS "FREEDOM" BEFORE ANY OF HIS OWN FRIENDS, DOESN'T EVEN CARE FOR AMY EVEN TOUGH HER AFFECTIONS, DOES SHITTY JOKES LIKE A UNLIKABLE BULLY, AND HIS HERO SIDE IS HEAVILY CARRIED BY "POWER AND AURA" AND MOST OF THE TIME HE SEEMS TO NOT CARE MUCH ABOUT HIS MISSION AND JUST ABOUT TO SHOW HIS POWER AND "COOLNESS" TO THE AUDIENCE IN THE PROCESS WITHOUT ANY EMPATY FOR HIS GOAL, NOW TO MENTION HIS UGLY SPIKY DESING WITH A MEANY FACE THAT IS NOTHING FRIENDLY AND SEEMS TO WANT TO LEFT ME LIKE A FOOL ON HIS SHADOW AND JUST MAKES ME FEEL BAD AND DISGUSTS ME EVERY TIME I SEE HIM! And people want to consider him the "greatest" when to my eyes he's clearly a bad example to the people's behavior (and the main reason of why Sonic fans are TERRIBLE and will forever despiste them and what they we're turned on) and just reminds me of bad memories when I was abused in my childhood.
"He's a much better representative to gaming than Mario" IN YOUR NONEXISTENT FEVER DREAMS THAT THE GENERAL WORLDWIDE PUBLIC WILL NEVER CARE ABOUT! Mario while not perfect at all, holds a significant advantage over that rodent with a much prefferable golden legacy that secures a much better future for gaming as a whole, unlike that "cool" BULLY, Mario has a genuinely lovable side of a very good man that appeals to me and to most people in general, he may not be the "most fleshed out" characters in history but his actions as a hero are genuinely more plausible and esteemed because he cares a lot more for the mission he's on, thinking first on securing peace and happiness for those who are in trouble that the hedgehog almost always puts in second place in favor of an UNLIKABLE actitude, and most importantly, Mario successfully evolved into a great video game franchise by expanding into many other genres instead of stagnating within the platformer category. Furthermore, platformers generally benefit immensely from mechanics based on standard movement rather than raw speed; this allows for level design that is far more creative, intricate, and full of secrets—exactly what a platformer *should* be. That foundation isn't "vanilla"; it is absolutely essential for having infinite level-design possibilities through diverse, fun abilities than Sonic and his reliance on speed 80%, resulting in levels that feel more like racetracks than proper platforming stages that are impossible to truly appreciate and just make me dizzy and nauseous as I rush through them, gosh his games truly cannot be a most influential example to platformers by any means due to this! Sonic will definitely never surpass Mario in the huge video game area, and that much is glaringly obvious.
"He has higher peaks than most platformers ever created" ONE OF THE LAMEST EXCUSES AND LIES TO TRY TO PUT HIM IN A PEDESTAL HE DEFINITELY DOESN'T DESERVE AMONG THE GREATEST WHICH HAVE MUCH MORE MERIT THAN SONIC EVER DID! Unleashed became one of the most overglazed games of all time ignoring the obvious and annoying flaw of the werehog that ruins a huge part of the game by how slow and desesperating it's acts can be! Both Mario Galaxy games with much more varied and creative ideas, and even almost the entire Crash Bandicoot franchise easily mogs whatever that identity-breaker game tried to be, Frontiers was a slight step on the right direction by making the speed more controllable THANK GOODNESS, but it's still FAR from greatness by how mostly unpolished the mechanics feels and not to mention that the entire open world looks so dead and uninteresting most of the time, the 2D games I let a pass due to genuinely like some of them despite also having some terrible stinkys, sad that most of them were the CLASSIC ones (and Manía) when that blue rodent still had an established identity before FUCKING IT ALL LATER! The "higher highs" Sonic is nowadays alluded from are actually ALMOST NON EXISTENT and definitely doed't leave a strong mark of how platform games can truly evolve which other mascot platformers do SO MUCH BETTER and some are understimated by how a good inspiration it can be by looking by other ways that is not always SPEEEEEEEEED, I'll take Mario's weird but really fun arsenal or Kirby's varied and colorful tranformations over anything Sonic DESTROYED his identity from any day!
Due to all of this I genuinely just see that Sonic has lesser good things than bad things to offer, and the few amazing things I can say about this series is the mostly banger music (Even if I think that it doesn't represent what Sonic REALLY IS to my sight) and some of the stories like from the movies that are interesting to follow (but even most of them are so insufferably overwelming to follow due to the unvearable excess of lore that stress me and is easy to forget) but overall I truly can't stand the mostly demolished legacy of this PUTRIT FRANCHISE THAT BETRAYED IT'S PURPOSE BY GOING TO LESS-FRIENDLY UNNECESARY RISKS THAT LEFT SONIC'S REPUTATION IN SHAMBLES MANY TIMES AND DESTINED TO STILL FALL ON IT FOREVER WITH AN NON-EXISTENT ESTABLISHED IDENTITY THAT IS DEFINITELY NOT A GOOD EXAMPLE FOR VIDEO GAMES TO FOLLOW! FUCK THAT BLUE SHITTY RAT, FUCK HIS INTENSE AND HORRIBLE VOCAL FANS, AND ALSO FUCK SEGA FOR NOW EMBRACING GENERATIVE *THAT* BEING THE DEVELOPMENT OF THEIR NEWEST GAMES! THEY TRULY FELL OF AGAINST NINTENDO BY FUCKING IT OFF THAT HARD! CONSIDER ME YOUR WORST ENEMY, CALL ME A PUBLIC DISGRACE FOR THE INTERNET, DAMN EVEN CALL ME A NINTENDO "DICKRIDER" IF YOU WANT JUST BY SAYING THE TRUTH ABOUT THEIR MORE HEALTHY LEGACY AND GOALS DESPITE THEIR NOTORIOUS FLAWS AS A COMPANY AND NOT CALLING THEM "TOTALLY EVIL"! BUT EVEN THAT NEVER WILL CONVINCE ME TO EVER APPRECIATE THAT MEAN SPIRITED RODENT "FASTER THAN LIGHT" AND I WILL NEVER PERSONALLY LEAVE THAT HILL, NEVER! SONIC CAN FOREVER SUCK MY ASS!