A while back, I came across The Gameover Thinker, an avid video game fan and amateur filmmaker also known as Movie Bob. He recently partnered with ScrewAttack.com after winning their “My Videos Don’t Suck” contest, and has been reviewing movies for the Escapist for some time. Before this recent partnership with ScrewAttack, Movie Bob made a video two part commentary about Sonic The Hedgehog called, “Sonic In Crisis“.
Wait, wait, I know what you’re thinking “What does this clown have to say about Sonic that hasn’t already been said by a 100 other people?“ What was sure to be nothing more than a ten minute YouTube fanboy rant turned out to be a very clever and well thought-out retrospective on the Sonic franchise as a whole. In part two of the video, he even provides solutions on how to save Sonic and turn the situation around.
The ideas he suggest are excellent. Many of the story idea coming form classic mythology, or Joseph Campbell’s The Hero’s Journey. These basic story elements could be implemented by Sega, at very time and cost. None of which would interfere with Sega’s current plans to bring back a 2D Sonic.
If Sega cares about Sonic, it will make those changes and see them through. I’d love to see Sonic The Hedgehog back on top again, instead of his current position of being cracked-out in the gutter.
