Nerd Mentality

Super Sonic used to be cool

Posted August 14th 2009 by Gareth Trinkwon.

When I was younger I always pictured Sonic's transformation into a bigger yellower spikier hedgehog as being something akin to the Incredible Hulk. He wasn't just changing his outfit, he'd gone freakin' insane with power and wanted to kick as much ass as possible. It may have been the limited graphics and story-telling of the original Sonic games, but even Sonic the Comic seemed to agree with my assessment: Super Sonic was badass.

Case in point:

Ignore Tails' Klingon forehead (as well as how crappy the image is) for a moment and observe at how totally awesome Super Sonic is here. He doesn't give a damn who his friends are. He had one thing on his mind when he transformed and now his sole purpose in life is to annihilate that one thing. And everything else along with it.

Now with the 3D generation and wave upon wave of almost-bad to pretty terrible 3D Sonic titles we've been dumped with a tame Super Sonic who'd rather pet bunny rabbits than explode them. He's pretty much just Sonic with some glow in the dark spandex! I say the Sonic series would be saved if Super Sonic were restored to his former glory.

And Amy Rose met her doom.

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