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Ryven posted...

IMO the issue is the speed gimmick. While it seems cool, there's only been a handful of actual good Sonic games. It's kind of limiting. Take it away and suddenly you've pissed off the fanbase.

Whereas Mario has the freedom to do whatever because there isn't a gimmick tied to him that HAS to be in every single game. So he's more versatile, and so are the games, and they're more fun because of it.

I think they could actually lean into the speed gimmick more. Like in the lore, Sonic is supposed to be able to run at the speed of light in short bursts. It's a ridiculous piece of lore, but I could see some fun segments being created around Sonic basically covering vast distances in an instant.

Or they could do more segments where Sonic rides on something. Like Sonic Adventure 2's opening level had Sonic snowboarding through a city. In Sonic 3 on Genesis, there was a segment where he was on a snowboard as well. They were short, but they were fun because it was different than his usual running.