SonicVIEWS

Last year, I put out a post about what to expect from Sonic Movie 3. But... that was also last year. A lot has changed, and now there's a lot more info in about Sonic 3. But if one thing is certain about Sonic 3, it's that Shadow will be gritty. Sonic will have a tougher time facing his enemies than he did in Sonic 2. And Maria WILL DIE. While I've heard some argue that Sonic 3 won't stick to the letter of SA2 ("Sonic Adventure 2"), I'm hopeful that it does... to a point, of course. SA2 could easily make a great movie in itself. And while Sonic Movie 1 was exactly like NO Sonic game (I think the video game movies of circa 2020 all had very similar "trying to be original and make it like a realistic movie, not a video game" vibes), Sonic 2 had much more distinct callbacks to all of the very first Sonic games and SA1. Given that they got the most famous early games taken care of in that movie, what's to stop them from making several callbacks

Diehard Sonic fans are fully aware of how SEGA and Paramount Pictures tortured us with absolutely no hype, no trailers, no "leaked" secrets, no NOTHING for way too long. Many of us wondered if their claims a "Knuckles" show was happening were even coming to pass. A release date came along (without a teaser), and everyone waited on pins and needles... then the writers' strike happened, and the release date got pushed back, further making us wonder... is "Knuckles" really gonna happen? Then it happened. The trailer came out. And the Sonic world exploded. Hype reigned supreme. Chief Pachacamac from "Sonic Adventure" flashed onscreen at one point, and a mysterious mech that some of us (myself included) got Enerjak vibes from. (This notion was quickly shut down by other fans.) The Knuckles-Wade dynamic sounded promising, like an The release date was cemented. We were finally satisfied with the appetizer. Now all that remained was for the series to