The narrative explanation for this turbo-charged sprint down memory lane is that a mysterious new enemy is warping space and time new Sonic has somehow gone back in time and met 2D Sonic and the two agree to join forces to defeat their new foe – hopefully without creating any apocalyptic space-time paradoxes or Shadow the Hedgehog 2.Ĭleverly, the game revisits favourite stages and environments from hedgehog history and presents each to us in classic 2D and modern 3D forms. Sonic remains, bloodied, but unflattened.Īnd so here comes Sonic Generations, a celebration of the past two decades of Sonic madness. The combination of Shadow the Hedgehog, the 2006 Sonic the Hedgehog 'reboot' and Sonic Unleashed would have destroyed lesser characters. Unlike Mario, who has sauntered through the past 20 years gathering plaudits at almost every turn, Sonic has stumbled and fallen, and gotten back up, then fallen again.įor every moment of genius (the first two titles, Sonic Rush, Sonic the Hedgehog Pocket Adventure) there is often something of a calamity.
The history of Sonic is essentially a Picaresque tragicomedy – in the best possible sense of the phrase.
