Mario Vs. Sonic.

[Omegajak]

Oh, right a reason.

I played Mario before I played Sonic. Then 1994 happened and I got the SEGA Genesis and Sonic 2 combo for Christmas. We had a Nintendo but...Mario had pace I wanted raw unprecedented skill and dexterity. I turned Speed Running into a art at the tender age of 4. Mario couldn't provide what Sonic provided he didn't have the same attitude, free spirit devil may care attitude. The seed had been planted.


Enter me wanting to learn how to read because I learned that Archie had picked up the license for a Sonic comics adaptation. I was 4 and I could not read. So guess who started paying way more attention in school?

Archie Comic Adventure Series. A spin on the noble idea of a hedgehog who never needed a reason to do the right thing, just that someone needed to do it. Why not him? Then his games started to get better. I never owned a SEGA Saturn all I needed was a Genesis anyway. (I played the CD installation games on PC later on in life anyway.)

Mario is consistent, but that's all. His sense of justice stems from love. Sonic's stems from the belief that being good isn't something that even requires thought of judgement. Just do good things because they are good. Dash in, save the day, dash out. Sonic's friends were added to add more life to the world they live in, and answer if there are more creatures who are special for some reason. Humans were added to give the world populace an identity to Sonic as a hero who always swoops in to save the day because until they were added it was just woodland creatures who appreciated him freeing them.

Also, Popo?

Brawl was designed by people, and it's pretty obvious that sonic was never intended to be strong because they designed him to be that way. I don't think I have to even emphasize what a true speedster would be capable of in a fight, not just a supposed one who has grass roots in previous entries like Falco and Fox.