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Silver the Hedgehog
First Appearance: Sonic the Hedgehog (2006)

IT'S NO USE!

Silver is a silver-furred hedgehog with a more futuristic vibe with "hair" coming out in five points from his forehead. I actually like the design a lot, but I feel like if he were literally any other animal, it would be a better design to adopt and change around.

That's sort of where a lot of my issues land with Silver: he was created as the bastard third playable hedgehog in the very bad Sonic 2006 with a completely different playstyle where you just toss boxes around mostly. Havok Engine yay. Thematically, I think the psychic concept is fine but holy hell was it ever jank in Sonic 2006, and trying to put him on equal footing with Sonic and Shadow was a mistake too when his combat is so much more different.

Not to mention his character is batty. He's from a destroyed future? And I guess his story is that when something big happens in the present it fucks up his future, so he has to come back and... man, they need to figure out something with this dude that isn't just popping back and forth through time. Like just have him be locked out from the future and instead just trying to live in the past and trying to figure a way to the future again. I dunno. Time travel gets weird.

That's basically all of his appearances though, starting from Sonic 2006 onward. He comes across at kind of whiny sometimes and incredibly naive, the latter of which is fine. It's just that he doesn't seem like he fits sometimes which sucks since he does bring something different to the franchise. I like that there's some kind of psychic weirdo forever chucking boxes. But it doesn't give him a lot of excuse to be around.

What I do like, however, is that they've kind of leaned into treating Silver like an absolute fucking dork. Because he is, and he's best played as one. Everyone should be dunking on him and teasing him, mostly in a good-natured way. Because he's this fish out of water weirdo who mostly just wants to do what's right and is relatively jovial, but he's just... not from this world. It works. I hope they keep leaning into that.

I don't know that we need to see his gameplay again unless they can really think of a way to make it work, but I like the idea of him being a buddy who can help out. I like seeing Silver, overall, even with his kind of dopey entrance into the franchise. I'll gladly take more of him if they can figure out how to make him work.

Rank: C

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