Sonic Defying Logic and Reality

A blog consisting of the logic used in the Sonic the Hedgehog series. It makes no sense, but it works. (If you want your ask/submission made into a picture, please make sure to mention that. Thanks!) ~Chaos

[greenyvertekins]

The DC version of SA2 gives Sonic’s model in the second cutscene of the Hero Story actual ear movement. One of his ears moves in Shadow’s direction when he hears him and then both ears flick with irritation when he sees the other Hedgehog.

The GC version as shown above completely lacks this animation.

[sonichedgeblog]

Tails steals Fang’s pop gun and uses it against him, from ‘Sonic The Fighters’.

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[spiritsonic]

holy crap Tails

[sonicpositive]

I…think I just found early concept art of what Sonic would look like as a Werehog. 

????? 

[toryinnismoved-deactivated20250]

thats not the only concept art we got

theyre…. something

[msfluffyninja7]

Meanwhile in Japan: Yuji naka visiting at hooters with his children, enjoying the promotion of sonic forces 

[mystery845]

I have been memed

[shirkerbx3]

I just had a terrible revelation. Because the Sonic comics and Sonic Boom are alternate continuities, the only main story relationship Sonic's ever had is...Elise.

[unitremover]

this exchange right here is the wildest shit to have ever happened in a video game before or since, just you try to disagree

[cryoganix-deactivated20191219]

Well that’s one way to get the achievement I guess

[sonichedgeblog]

On Sonic Adventure 2 Battle’s multiplayer character select screen, most character models are warped to appear normal from the perspective of the camera. By moving the camera we can see what Rouge looks like during this screen.

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[crusherthedoctor]

“Not really.”

“Again, not really.”

“Seriously though, it hasn’t.”

“We were talking with each other during the beginning of this game.”

“This is getting ridiculous.”

“Not so much the case, madam.”

“For the last time, NO.”

“NO.”

“NOOOOO.”

“NOOOOOOO-okay that one actually is justified.”

[sonichedgeblog]

In this brief cutscene at the end of Sonic Adventure 2′s Hero Story, you would normally see just Eggman’s arm. Pulling a little bit back reveals that Eggman is a little worse for wear.

Discovered by Boundary Break.

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[speeps-highway]

It sure is

[foxyfandoms]

I found out why Big was all over SA2 and it’s more than I ever could’ve hoped for.

[ashtwinproject22]

I don’t know how many other people really pay attention to this, but while I have a great appreciation for how they kept the “side-mouths” on all the Sonic characters during the transition from 2D to 3D, I feel like… there’s a really thin line between decentered 3D-model mouths that work, and ones that don’t? I think probably Shadow the Hedgehog and Sonic ‘06 did it best, because in the CG cutscenes their mouths would often switch sides to whichever was more visible to the camera, but if the camera was facing them head-on their mouths wouldn’t really stray far from the center. Basically their mouth position would move to follow the camera, and as such looked… not natural, but like, it worked? Like they weren’t really trying to keep an #aesthetic, they were just working with whatever looked best. Which meant a lot of diversity in where the mouth would end up on a character’s face:

There are more side-mouths than not, but like, even when they do go to one side or another, they might move upwards to be more visible, only move partway to the side, etc.

But man, in the more recent games I’ve noticed that they want to keep that #side-mouth #aesthetic 110% consistent. You never see their mouths in the middle of their face anymore. In fact there seem to be only two mouth positions - diagonal on the left, and diagonal on the right. It almost looks like they’re working camera angles around where the mouth is “allowed” to be in any given shot, rather than the other way around:

Like, see how their mouths are all in exactly the same spots, regardless of the actual camera angle? Not to mention Knuckles here, these are two adjacent frames in the same shot:

Before when a character’s mouth had to switch sides of the face for the sake of the camera, it would actually slide across their face to the other side, but they’re so determined to keep the side-mouth thing 100% consistent that they just swapped his mouth out between frames. You can see it happen in real time, if you know what you’re watching for.

Like, I get that animating a character whose mouth will constantly be swapping sides of their face on a 3D model is a little more complicated than a character who just has a normal, stationary mouth. Tails, Amy, and Blaze typically don’t have the side-mouth thing going on, for instance. But I loved the way the older 3D games dealt with it, before non-CG cutscenes also started implementing the side-mouth detail. It felt more, I dunno, organic, like they were really taking the time to make sure the character’s expression was being properly rendered at all times, playing to the camera rather than forcing the camera angles to conform. Like notice how the above pictures of Sonic and Rouge are at the same exact angle? That’s what I mean. I don’t want to call it lazy, because again, it’s a lot of work, but it doesn’t have the same charm when it’s so meticulously regulated like this. “No, his mouth can only be in one of these two pre-defined spots. You want to have a camera angle of him talking from behind? Well, just make him awkwardly dip his head and nearly break his neck so that you can still get his mouth on camera!”

Idk. It’s a super petty complaint, I realize, but it also still bugs me.

[gwyndor]

the dialogue box for loading a file in SA2 remains the most cryptic set of options in gaming history

[asutori-remade-deactivated20191]

by far my fave example of 4kids censorship is that one sonic x episode where knuckles goes to this shady bar but all the bottles on the shelves have been replaced with fries and burgers

[asutori-remade-deactivated20191]

[variouslounge]