What Is The Best Sonic Art Style?

[@Brianycus]

Unleashed was the perfect blend of goofy characters and real world like setpieces. That is all.

[@seematahir5970]

In defense the 06 artstyle, I think it has its upsides. Like yeah, the humans look weird, but tell me Sonic dashing through gritty ruins and scaling a waterfall at mach speed as the ocean itself parts around him is not one of the sickest things to come out of this franchise. The aged up character models also pretty cool, it is probably Shadow's best look.

[@aytt565]

Yea along with crisis city and radical train which look amazing. Unleashed is my favorite artstyle but 06 is a close second for me

[@sonicmaiden2871]

I agree! The Sonic 06 designs look really cool in my opinion!

[@myakudoyoru]

P-06 did some real justice for those designs. Since that fan project fixes so many little things, the odd feeling of the artstyle is gone and everything feels fluid and pleasing to look at.

[@sonicmaiden2871]

@@myakudoyoru I agree! Also they look really cool and expressive in the renders that Chaos x made as well!

[@markofthewolvessucks8930]

The humans look weirder in unleashed lol.

[@ThatWolfArrow]

I'd wanna see a sonic game that takes some aesthetic queues from Jet Set Radio. I mean, Hideki Naganuma's music fit the series like a glove when he made music for Sonic Rush, and I feel the art direction of the series could be the perfect blend between the vibrant nature of the classic artstyle and the attitude of the Adventure era.

[@kevin_kevinson]

I'd love to make a adventure inspired jet set radio/tony hawk game. Someone's gotta get on that

[@corruptedteka]

Look up the Sonic Storm fangame ! It's got one of my favorite aesthetics out there. Very inspired by JSR.

[@kevin_kevinson]

@@corruptedteka yeah I guess your right. They just need to add more tricks. Sonic doing a Japan and method Air with his sneakers would be cool to animate

[@NiCoNiCoNiCola]

Well, to me Sonic Riders kinda feels like JSR, but without the cell shading graphics

[@Ninjacat25]

Dude, that actually sounds brilliant.

[@kirbygamer0640]

Sonic is meant to have different styles, because no matter what world he’s put in, he’ll always find a way to be the hero that world needs. I learned this from a video about Sonic’s leitmotifs, but I’m sure it’s the same with the art styles.

[@yellowstarproductions6743]

What was the name of the video? And what channel was it from?

[@responsibilitiesbegone1130]

Think it might be Leitmotifs in Sonic by Altheboi, might be wrong tho

[@muhammedbadjie1960]

I learned so much about the osts from that video it was cool as hell

[@pleaseenterausername9516]

I think the Sonic series thrives off of its varied artstyles, like I think the artstyle should be consistent throughout each individual game but as a series I want variation. I love the adventure art style for Sonic but if it was the only art style the series had I think it'd feel less distinct.

[@sonicmaiden2871]

I agree! All these artstyles offer some variety to the series and make it feel fresh!

[@Juan-bw3nd]

Actually, the realistic grounded in real life art style, already started in the classics. Going from Sonic 1 to 3&k, they'd progressively changed the art style from the classic colorful simplistic/minimalistic look, to an increasingly more and more detailed and realistic one. Up to the point where 3&k's art style, actually anin't that far away from the adventure games one. Although not all of them, I'ld say most of the zones in that game (3&k), really look like places that could exist in the real world, and have a surprising amound of detail. And I think maybe the reason why they didn't already adopt this more realistic style in the first games, wasn't entirely because they didn't want to, but because of limitations at the time of not yet having enough experience developing graphics for the genesis, and cause of being a smaller team, etc etc... So I think it could be the case, that having sonic running around realistic looking places, was always part of the developers original intentions.

[@Juan-bw3nd]

@@themc3140 Absolutely, the same applies to the story. When you think about it, the adventure games were not really that big of a thematic departure from the classic games, as people make it out to be. Maybe later games like ShadowtH or 06, did overcomplicate things a bit too much. But overall, I'ld say serius sonic stories are by far thematically more consistant with the classics, than meta sonic stories.

[@dbzenthusiast8152]

I honestly think sonic with an anime aesthetic can work. I’m not saying that he should look like an anime character or anything like that, but make the humans at least look like that. In sonic adventure, if you looked at the humans in that game, the textures on their faces have an anime look to them. By that I mean the hand drawn textures clearly were drawn with an anime look in mind. It makes sense too, since sonic team was making it in Japan at the time, and any western influences in regards to art direction wasn’t as prevalent (aside environments of course). I think going for the approach that unleashed took with the Pixar realistic backgrounds but have the humans look like they’re from an anime would be a good step in the right direction in my book. But I’m happy with whatever art direction sonic team takes for the next game. As long as it’s not like sonic 06 or sonic colours

[@bahamut1169]

Sonic adventure, riders and unleashed are the best

[@Jay_18697]

W

[@fathirboientertainment7362]

📠

[@hammerbro2833]

Was waiting for this comment

[@makhaiwilbert2716]

What about sonic frontiers

[@hammerbro2833]

@@makhaiwilbert2716it looks pretty. It doesn’t look like sonic

[@buttered_n]

what i like is the adventure style CAN include both the colorful and realistic from other games. i can see a slightly more realistic green hill in the adventure style as well as a more exaggerated cartoony kronos island. i think you could include most zones from generations to fit a more sleek and polished version of the style and if you look it has seaside hill right next to crisis city and it isnt really jarring

[@NeoPotato98]

06's character design + Rider's settings would be awesome

[@Nic_2751]

It’s hard, for me, it depends on Sonic’s design, like Junio Sonic is perfect in almost every way, but I also love the adventure and modern art style/character designs, but I also love how the characters sprites or models look in game as well, there’s also fan interpretations and my own art style, but I genuinely love this discussion because in general, Sonic has always looked fucking rad

[@NotSoGenesiz]

if we are gonna have humans in sonic games then they *definitely* need to be stylized and cartoony. i mean, the main antagonist is so stylized he’s named after the shape of his body. that’s why whenever you take eggman and put it with realistic humans, he’s out of place, but if you try to redesign him to be more realistic (like 06) it STILL doesn’t work

[@WaterKirby1994]

Unleashed Humans were disgusting & the worst in the series. What we need are Anime Style Humans, as Sonic looks great next to Nights & Hatsune Miku. Stylized, yet not cartoony is best & keep in mind that Eggmen aren't supposed to be normal for humanity. 06 & Unleashed are both guilty of going too far in opposite directions & I believe Sonic looks better next to Elise than he did in the same cutscene with Unleashed People. Even Eggman felt off when he was attacked by Unleashed Villagers. Sonic Adventure got humans right on the 1st Attempt & the series has struggled to maintain that balance as it went in HD.

[@windy3935]

Top 5 art-styles Sonic should commit too - Sonic Adventure - Sonic Adventure 2 - Sonic Unleashed - Secret Rings/Black Knight - Team Sonic Racing (does a similar style to Lost World, that actually looks good, but notably better)

[@mr.thumbsup8335]

If/when Sonic Team makes a sequel or spiritual successor to Frontiers, I think the best choice will be to combine the realist graphics and tone of Frontiers, with the whimsical settings and level design of the Adventure games. Your idea of an open-zone Windy Valley is exactly what I would like for a future Sonic game. Imagine controlling Sonic in an open-world city, casino, or space shuttle with a similar game cycle to Frontiers. That would be sick!

[@SoranotRoxas]

Sonic Adventure era was peak art 👌

[@nacklesk]

The best Sonic Art Style is the one from that Sonic X Flash game truly a masterpiece!

[@guilhermefernandes9094]

My favorite art styles are the adventure series and 06. 06 is definitely my favorite probably because of the aesthetics although adventure gives off huge vaporwave vibes and I love it. So nostalgic.

[@luigisuperluigi7272]

One of my favourite art styles is probably the advance series art style which man I wish advance wasn't so underrated well anyways another good video made by matthasnocuts

[@crestofhonor2349]

That embraced the uekawa designs

[@danteshollowedgrounds]

Man, I love every style of Sonic minus Sonic Boom and that latest new show from Sonic Prime... They really did mess up my boy in that one and I feel like the only one who notices it.

[@k4tzxbeel0vedz]

sonic prime artstyle is really good in my opinion. hes very expressive there and i think its a great thing

[@windy3935]

The whole internet made a big deal about Sonic's characterization in that show, so im not sure how you "feel like the only one". Sonic Prime's art-style is decent but good in New Donk City. Obviously the Shatterverse and literally every other location is subpar. Part of that is also due to subpar graphics but it's also the artstyle, so they need to improve on that front. The models and animations are good though, fortunately.

[@danteshollowedgrounds]

@@windy3935 Hmm that's really interesting because I haven't seen it yet in any videos besides people saying "Oh I really like that show and I find nothing wrong with it at all" or besides the least mention on Sonic's character or design. This may seem like a nick picky of an issue now and I know but I'm just saying maybe my examples will get brought up in a meme now and then.

[@thegeth4293]

Sonic boom the tv show had a great art style to me at least, and sonic prime is nothing to complain about so far, except maybe green hill being too bright

[@King_Cisco]

I disagree with discarding the Classic artstyle. Classic Sonic is the roots and foundation of this franchise and moving too much away from it eventually doesn’t make it Sonic anymore. And Lost World is a terrible depiction of the Classic art style.

[@mahrezmahrez6104]

I like unleashed and SA2 but I love the pixel art so much

[@SirPanikalot778]

I think that generations, generations and generations have the best art style, but that's just my opinion.

[@TheSilvershadow200]

Definitely the Adventure to 06 era for me. Those designs of the characters as well as art style of the world will always be the definitive version of Sonic to me.

[@CrustiiDustii]

In my opinion, the next Sonic games, while realistic should be stylistic. Take Puss in Boots 2 or Spiderverse for an example, while you can tell yes that these are realistic environments, you can also tell that there is a painterly style to it too. For Spiderverse, it was more of a comicbook art style with harsh shading and extra effects to bring out that comic book aesthetic. For Puss in Boots, it was a painting esc style, like a storybook. For Sonic, it should have more of an artstyle of a comic book. The backgrounds should be softer until you get upclose where the shading is sharper and more prominent.

[@utagawashi1656]

I pretty much agree with you. But I think all artistic directions can be mixed. For example surreal environments like South island, Westside island, Lost Ex exists because it was transformed by magic or radiation from chaos emeralds or other mystical stones or certain gods or cosmic/magical entities. According to Yuji Naka Sonic was born on Chrismas Island, an island that is home to intelligent animals and robots. In our world this island exists and it is an island which has undergone radiations accuses of nuclear tests... The theory of the islands transforming by radiations would remain coherent. Why choose one style when you can have it all! And then in the world of Sonic we can travel to other dimensions: Secret Rings, Black Knight, Sol Dimension, Special Stage. Or even Radiant Emerald in Sonic R which according to the booklet is a dimension inside emeralds. Imagine a real level in the Special Stage dimension, that would be amazing. And then we could travel to other planets as we have already seen the Black Arms, the Wisps the Elders of Starfall Island, the alien races of Chronicles (Voxai, Zoah, Kron, Nrrrgal) And don't forget that there was civilizations on Little Planet which is mostly extraterrestrial the majority of the time. Maybe the ufos that we saw in the special CD stages are part of the inhabitants of Little planet... I digress sorry 😅 And for me the best Charachter design for Sonic and his friends its in between Sonic 06 and Riders. The characters are more mature like that and its more coherent for moderne interpretation. And for humans manga/annime style like Maria in SA2 the human in station square or the humans you can see in the first Sonic 1 manga for exemple.

[@Angie2343]

Sonic Underground's is one of the best! The digital coloring was amazing for its time!

[@spider13593]

very hot take there

[@markofthewolvessucks8930]

Latin America agrees with you 👌

[@Angie2343]

@@markofthewolvessucks8930 Even Jaleel Whie and Manolo Rey like the show!

[@gekko3592]

I think my favorite style of the Sonic franchise and any art in general is the fantasy with touches of realism. This is something that classic Sonic really has done pretty well in his 3 Genesis games and most notably Sonic CD, which is one of the reasons why is my favorite Sonic 2D game

[@arjunmenon1796]

HOLY SHIT YES FINALLY SOMEONE WHO UNDERSTANDS THE ADVENTURE AESTHETIC. It's so much better than the classic aesthetic imo. I wish they stuck with it.

[@aahiljcat]

I kinda like the storybook games art style. I looks great in my opinion

[@CSTH1]

Personally, I like where there's more of a colorful art style of as opposed to a dark and realistic one. Art style matters to me because if it doesn't have much color in it, I'm sorry, but I'm not motivated to buy or play it. I don't know if I'm too much of a kid to appreciate a mature art style, but I just find the colorful and wacky art style to be eye-catching. I hope the next game, which will probably use the Open Zone formula, has more colorful environments for my eyes to get attached to because that's what I really like to see in games.

[@MrAdoggS]

All I want is a 2D sonic with hand drawn Animation (like in the way cup-head works) but drawing heavy influence from sonic mania adventures.

[@thesadbread]

I like it when the sonic pops out from the environment because of the darker background. This is why we need sonics fur to be darker, and his quills more exasperated. Games which perfect this are Unleashed, the Adventure titles, Etc. I feel Frontiers would have looked better if sonic stood out from the background more, instead of blending in with it.

[@lilsquirt6842]

Perhaps Sonics most natural, lively, and timeless art style is one that he’s always been closely associated with in every version of him and that’s expressed his character and world beautifully with an Anime art style that’s been interpreted through sonics CD opening scene, Sonic X, and even with origins plus. I feel like a 2D game in that style could be the one way they can put themselves in the best position to make an innovative classic sonic formula by opening the possibilities in even gameplay with the limitless ability in that anime art style. Just look at Super Mario Wonder, it’s taking a comic like animation to make a familiar expressiveness to Super Mario World that translates that classic game’s seamlessly to a modern style. For Sonic outside of just making the characters and environments finally truly feel alive like in the original game you could have more cinematic moments within casual gameplay, boss fights, and even cutscenes fully animated when it makes sense ofc

[@Lucian1012]

My man got sponsored by a whole ass University

[@adammyers7383]

It shouldn’t be the norm but Sonic Battle had a super underrated aesthetic

[@Mr.MR2111]

Sonic Fans nowadays: Sonic Lost World is bad because trees don't have branches, and are made out of cubes.

[@Taktaagic]

I think something that makes the Adventure art style look even cooler is that it's in a low/mid poly style. The more angular stuff that comes from that amount of polys on models really adds to how good the games look... or that might just be me loving low/mid poly stuff LMAO Also I agree with the ending; an Open Zone game with areas that have the same style as the Adventure levels would genuinely be jaw-dropping. I really hope that a future Sonic game could have something like that

[@ShadowXeldron]

I actually like Sonic Advance's art style the most, at least for the 2D games.

[@thehouseofwhatkivanders]

This is just my opinion-I don't know if anyone agrees with me-but I don't think Green Hill translates all that well into Generations and Forces. If you look at Green Hill Zone in the Sonic Movie, it looks good-great even! It looks like they took Green Hill and put it into a proper realistic 3D environment, while with Generations and Forces, it doesn't quite have the same effect. And, yeah, I know, it's a movie and therefore they have a slightly bigger budget, but surely they could still do something good! In Forces, the checkerboard dirt of Green Hill looks more plastic-y than anything, and the green doesn't pop that much. Now, you could argue that the desaturated green is because they were trying to do a grittier art style to work with the whole war story theme, but even Adventure 2 gave Green Hill Zone vibrant colours! To clarify, I'm not saying that Green Hill doesn't translate well into 3D at all. I think if they try hard enough, they could do something great! Again, look at the Sonic Movie. I'm just expressing my opinion on the way the environment was incorporated into these two games. Do you agree with me? Do you disagree? Feel free to exact your unbridled rage towards me as a SammyClassicSonicFan in the reply section! :) (try not to be _too_ antagonistic though, okay? thanks.)

[@chaos06984]

I always felt so attractively to yuji uekawa’s manner art style because, I’ve been drawing sonic for 12 years, but I keep improving, people do admire me and felt so inspired by me as a 16 year old who likes making story’s and my own oc’s it’s timeless no matter how many heights I manoeuvre to, I mentor people how to draw characters like sonic, crash, mario etc, but enough about me, adventure 1 sonic’s design does give me under the impression of creativity from roadrunner, by that dynamic overhaul ability to sonic’s in depth’s personality by being cool and edgy, as time uekawa’s continues to progress it becomes more modern from making the heads a bit short such as the bangs being a little thicker therefore in my opinion, nevertheless, his display from drawing the sonic channel with that spider-verse type comic vintage is well overwhelmingly distinguish, but overall this was a long commentary exposition and now I’ll leave it up to you piece✌️

[@DeftestAphid2]

Sonic Unleashed felt like the Pixar of Sonic games to me.

[@calistusjay60]

You randomly avoided talking about the best sonic art style… SONIC GENERATIONS! Pixar-Realism textures and detailed environments but used in whimsical and colourful level designs. Perfection.

[@dominiquesantander469]

Yes

[@DDoe6237]

Thank you for calling it Hydro City

[@BUBBLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE]

I honestly think one of the best art style concepts would be a cel shaded styled sonic unleashed style

[@hmmmm.........]

8:27 is when my I started looking for my pichfork.

[@hmmmm.........]

jk

[@trevinodude]

I kind of miss the days when Sonic games had a different art style based on the tone of the game. I loved the fact that Sonic’s sprite slightly changed in the classic games, or the realistic yet exaggerated edge of the Adventure games. I loved how cartoony and exaggerated Heroes was in response to how lighthearted it was. I miss feeling like each Sonic game looked as unique as the games were. Now a days (thanks in large part to Sega never truly straying from the Unleashed model in the last 10 or so years, for example) each and every game looks like they try to do the same thing, even when they AREN’T trying to do the same thing. I kind of wish Sega would go back to the days when each game had it’s own art style and flair to make each experience unique. Sonic games were distinctive back then, and they should continue to be in the future… and it’s like they haven’t been since the failure of 06.

[@timpize8733]

Honestly it's the first time I see a channel make so many good points about Sonic. 😆

[@waypastcold]

0:47 JESSE PINKMAN WTH???!!?!

[@tuna6747]

10:15 the moment when Matt turned into Jesse.

[@sometf2player752]

5:35 sonic colors art style is still realistic but its brighter

[@emanchi8403]

Eggmanland is proof that the Unleashed style can work with obscure places. I also think Riders and the storybook games were good too art wise.

[@kharmachaos667]

For me, the best sonic is a balance. I think the combination of cartoony/sonic the hedgehog1/2/3/ak elements with realism is important to his identity- you can mesh these two seemlessly with more time and production. For example, there's a reason why sa2 set it's more darker/edgier plot points in areas that were dark/at night/alien in appearance. The set matched the plot that matched the theme. It's movie production for the cutscenes! Sa actually used rain, which was next used... in frontiers! (I'm ignoring forces because that was a bloody disaster)

[@samuelpierce2.088]

I’m kinda torn between the art style of the Adventure games and the art style of Unleashed, tbh. I feel like either art style would be more than capable of portraying both semi-realistic environments and super fantastical environments. (For Unleashed specifically, I think locations like Apotos and Eggmanland showcase this versatility really well.)

[@rollinroby4920]

The only thing I like about the 2006 art style was the way the hedgehogs in the CGI cutscenes.

[@34r343]

What is whimsical and cutesy about classic sonic? I swear the generations and forces version of him has warped him into a new character.

[@gideonvanleeuwen6857]

bro youve got the longest sponsor name

[@Terminal_Apotos]

Yoo Matt got sponsored by a whole ass University daaaamn

[@thesonicgod55]

My favorite art style is the really realistic sonic frontiers and 06 it's why I love wave ocean, crisis city, kingdom valley, and aquatic base they have very little cartoonish stuff but when it is there they add it to be more realistic than say the adventure games it's why I really loved chronos and ares island not as much chaos but it was at least visually appealing to me I would say the best way they do things is make it realistic but make things far more colorful like imagine instead of oranos island being just like chronos we could of had a island that was far closer to the ocean having half the island be a beach with the lopty loops from 06 or get a reallistic version of chun-an from unleashed better yet having a open zone experience with the feel of sky skraper scamper I think that would be both fun and amazing while there would be a challenge of making them all look unique I think sega and sonic team could pull it of

[@PhilBo-fp9mz]

I agree with you to the extent of the humans in the adventure games. They should be in a unique Sonic exclusive art style yk?

[@ranque3817]

Wish that SEGA hear more creators of content like u

[@XPool]

0:47 BRO YOU ARE LITERALLY TODD FROM BOJACK LMAOOO

[@محمد-د9ث1ض]

Premydaremy : Ohhhhhh matt lets talk about midroes.

[@محمد-د9ث1ض]

Matt:sonic 06 is realstic Kingdom valley in The corner

[@GetemNewellRules]

I think a mixture of the classic style and the realistic modern styles will work great, Generations had places like speed highway and green hill in the same game and it meshed together perfectly

[@enclosedgranddad1715]

C'mon, everyone knows that the best Sonic artstyle is CLEARLY Ken Penders'! Nothing even comes close to his creepily humanoid proportions and gross obsession with feet.

[@ЮрийКашкабаш]

I would argue about Sonic beeing thought in realisting environment only. Sonic Prime has classic Green Hill with checkerboards and all

[@Mythril_YT]

0:47 Jessie? I thought l told you to focus on cooking dammit!

[@windy3935]

Sonic Frontiers does have loops, with rails and on the ground. Cmon how can you overlook that after more than one playthrough...

[@senorchucke.cheese2028]

Man doesn't want sonic killing a bunch of people in a hospital to save his daughter smh

[@kevin_kevinson]

This is kinda a problem. With the Zelda Series it kinda works given link exists in different timelines and what not. They do waaayyy too much experimenting in the sonic franchise instead of sticking to classic 2D mania type games and adventure like 3D games

[@chaotixsolution5057]

I thought he was going to go into spin-offs

[@aggromango534]

Well, Kishimoto Has Red a doc saying that Environments like Planet Wisp would be cool in an open zone Game. So maybe there is hope?

[@lukegamerzw]

To bring back Madonna Garnett Sonic the Hedgehog needs official Sega Genesis port.

[@fidgetyjester2399]

10:56 Only game I know that let's you stack your currency as a mountain are Sonic Adventure 1, and Fable. And that was one of my favorite part in both of those games. Wish more games would do that, lol XD

[@goldenyoshi924]

Can We Please Get A Cell Shaded Sonic Game Where Everything Pops Out With Black Outlines.

[@sirkroomie]

I think the number thing the entire sonic fandom can agree on is that the music is the best.

[@sometf2player752]

8:58 yeah but the lack of bright colors works with the games story more

[@wonderingminds4676]

sega: classic sonic is the sonic bible literally everyone else: n-no...

[@T0xic_TrioX]

Ngl, Sonic CD's Artstyle is 2nd, behind Tyson Hesse's Classic Sonic Design in: Sonic Mania, Sonic Origins and soon to be released Sonic Superstars' cutscenes. This is something u probably don't agree with Sonic Speed Simulator did Classic Sonic and Classic Tails good. FIGHT ME

[@NiCoNiCoNiCola]

My man is dressed up as Jessie Pinkman in this video

[@JustDoIt_739]

I think after awhile, the art style for Sonic has to change. It can’t just remain the same one for years on end, otherwise the design becomes stale.

[@xylouser]

I want a game looking like the Yui Karasuno art style (Rise of wisps style)

[@erwinljungberg6318]

I agree much with what you said about the Adventure games but this might be a hottake but the Adventure games also took away a little to much from the Classic games San fransico in a sonic game is a good idea but the location is not going to be as popular as Green Hill zone for example and I think that a city can be fit in Sonics world better and that new locations can be more memorable in the sonic series but then you'll haft to mix Adventure with classic a little

[@orangemario]

sonic schoolhouse had the best sonic art style

[@somaricraftbros6283]

Personally I prefer the sanic artstyle. It gives just so much more personality to all the characters

[@DrDeez-do9zo]

Sega has changed sonic throughout the years so much that there will most likely be nothing sonic related every side can like anymore. But with that aside my favorite art styles have gotta be toei and Tyson Jesse's sonic.

[@Cinnamoroll842]

I think i prefer a more anime or the adventere style for sonic

[@joelbarraclough6689]

What about a video on which is the "true" dark era of Sonic?

[@techspider9517]

To Me Is IDW The Art Style It Just Look So Good And Each Cover Art Is Spot On

[@crestofhonor2349]

I disagree that a sonic game that has a cartoony art style needs a less serious story. Personally in terms of art style SA1 with its more anime style humans and sonic unleashed had the best art style with lost world right behind it. Not a fan of the human style of SA2 and Sonic 06. Sonic heroes turned me off with its character designs and in my opinion looked worse graphically than SA1 and SA2. Sonic forces is fine but I hate it’s lack of humans in its world. Sonic riders also had a really nice art style, especially for its character art and the opening 2D cutscene. Now for 2D stuff the advanced series did such a great job blending the modern uekawa art. I also love the art style of Sonic X and Sonic Battle too. I was not a big fan of the more American designs in Sonic Underground, Sonic SatAM and, the Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog. They looked great for eggman/robotnik but I just don’t like the way sonic and his friends look. Sonic 4 episode 1 looked terrible and really shouldn’t of released in the state that it did. I’d also love to see a return of the art style in the Sonic OVA and the Sonic CD stuff. It was my ideal look of sonic during the classic era. I also enjoy the way Saturn sonic looks and his appearance in Sonic R as well.

[@LilTimmy555]

Does anyone know what the name of the song is that plays on the background of his sponsorship segment? I always hear it but I don’t know what it is.

[@jamariwhite949]

Diabolical screensaver in the bg

[@obnu]

I really love sonic runners artstyle

[@englishgiraffe2124]

3K and Adventure 1 have the best artstyle imo. A perfect mixture between the surrealism and the realism. That said, Unleashed is also amazing with its Pixar-like direction.

[@BlueEyedVibeChecker]

As long as Sonic Team avoids the shiny plastic look of Heroes, DX, and to a lesser extent, Shadow, I'm for any. I do love 06's art style, forget the humans, Sonic and co look great in 06.

[@JustJohn43]

So you want wacky and lots of colour, but nothing cute and cartoony? And adventure's art style is best because 1, you're not biased towards adventure and 2, it has fun level design? This video confuses me as it seems contradictory. I was expecting points to be made about how the art style doesn't matter when it's in service of the game.

[@OhMyPoBoy]

i like the art style of 06. I think it tries to fall in line with the adventure games but ultimately failed because of the crunch. P06 realizes it, and it’s gotta be my favorite. And yes. I am very defensive of Sonic 06

[@NemXX2]

I disagree. I think Lost world is underrated and nails the art style. It was the best one at realising 2D sonic ascetics in 3D. They just need to lose the whole galaxy gravity thing. The adventure style is ok though.

[@FlashBiduan]

Sonic Adventure Is the best sonic art style ever

[@lukegamerzw]

To bring back Sally Acorn from Mobius and Tiara Boobowski from Micromobius Sega needs to do even right now Sega Saturn port and Sega Game Gear as soon as fast as possible.