Sonic Adventure: An Action Stage for Every Season
As much as I loved Sonic’s first foray into 3D gaming in the Sonic Adventure series, there were still parts that I wouldn’t have minded skipping. For example, playing through […]
Sonic Adventure: Finding and Equipping our “Lightning Shoes”
In the Sonic Adventure series we learned that while Sonic is exceptionally fast, the secret to making him exponentially stronger and faster was finding and applying the hidden gear that […]
Sonic: Gotta Go FAST
If there’s one thing that Sonic, Sega’s mascot, has become known for over the years it’s that no matter where he is going, he’s gotta go FAST. Speed is the […]
PlayStation’s “Mascot” Dilemma?
For years, Sony tried to make it happen… they did their best to find a mascot to identify gamers with their platform the way Nintendo had Mario and Sega had […]
Sonic: Keeping Our Heads Above the Water
I have noticed a strange issue with many of my favorite gaming characters… they are allergic to water. This same character can get struck by vehicles, scorched by fire, absorb […]
Mario and Sonic, Better Together
For years, Nintendo’s Mario and Sega’s Sonic existed in an adversarial relationship … as the mascots for their respective console platforms, the idea that we’d ever see them team up […]
It’s Never Too Late: Sonic and Moving Past Our “Ugly” Start (Dreams Interrupted: From Discovery to Destiny – Part 4)
If you had told me five years ago that the Sonic the Hedgehog game series would mutate into becoming not just one, but the top TWO highest-grossing domestic video game […]
Finding God in Video Games 