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SONIC’S CHARACTER DESIGN AND PERSONALITY HAVE LONG BEEN PART OF HIS APPEAL – HERE’S HOW SEGA KEEPS HIS IMAGE FRESH
» [Mega Drive] Storytelling in early Sonic games was silent, with character animations wholly responsible for conveying personality.
» Early art for Sonic shows him as rather carefree, brushing his hands off here as if to show his heroism is no big deal.
» [Xbox 360] One area that Sonic’s character isn’t well-versed in is romance – though it has been attempted.
Sonicis a character that is rarely caught standing still, both in a literal and conceptual sense. That’s always been the case, too – just check out the original story comic that ran in Japan’s Mega Drive Fan magazine, which is full of oddball concepts from the game’s development period. Sonic comes across very differently there, sporting some wild-looking fangs and acting as the frontman of a rock band, but it makes a lot of sense if you still think of Sonic as the “hedgehog with attitude” that he was always said to be. Really, from the moment that he turned to you with a scowl and started tapping his foot if you left the controller alone, that’s what he always was.