There was a lot of hype around a new Sonic the Hedgehog animated show, especially since it was supposed to be handled by Sega in a way so that it was game accurate. After Sonic Prime premiered a lot of that hype seemed to be gone. I didn’t begin watching until it was all over but even though I hadn’t heard much negative about it, the silence regarding the show didn’t give me tons of confidence going in.
So my first reaction is that it seemed like taking the premise of SatAM done with the video game designs. Some of the choices seemed odd but I liked the ideas. Robo Rose? Nine? Knux? umm..sure. Also while I kind of love the concept the Counsil of Eggman’s are too boring in the show for such a neat concept. I did like seein Green Hill Zone, the real one for the first time in a Sonic cartoon.
In general the whole show does not fit the game Sonic at all, unsure why people try to say it’s canon. Sonic Prime being in continuity doesn’t make much sense with the acutal games. The whole show is a bit silly although it does feel like an extended CG cutscene from the games at times, so I guess it has that going for you if you want it to be. Definitely not the best animated interpretation, that’s still oddly enough Sonic Boom.
How do you even make an alternate universes cartoon so boring? The comedy is lame, the drama is lame, who is this exactly for? Every other Sonic cartoon is simply more entertaining with the exception of Sonic Underground. It coudl’ve had so much fun with the concept of alternate universes but instead decided to give us pirate versions of the characters. Kinda mean since I did like Pirate Knuckles quite a bit. Robotropolis Island is neat but it’s not enough, the forest alternate universe is just a mid version of Sonic Boom characters.
The whole show is really short at 23 episodes, so that’s good but then again is that really something to praise? I do admit things get a little better as the larger plot unravels towards the mystery of the crystal shards in the multiverse. There are plenty of multiverse characters I enjoy Nine, Mecha Rose. I like that Orbot and Cubot show up. The chaos councel is ridiculous, the eggman clones… I do like Metal Chaos Sonic, Rusty Rose & Knuckles the Dread as well. Shadow is not that interesting here, so you know you’re messing it up if such an easy character to get is not doing it (dammit I still enjoyed him). The whole show could’ve been 10 episodes and be far more interesting with the story it had to tell. the other more episodes were not needed unless they expanded on more interesting universes. Imagine if they had only used Sonic characters from universes we already love.
The final 3/4 worlds interacting in the end is nice just not on their own to feature episodes on those universes. But overall a disappointment of a cartoon, the first one based on the actual game designs. I wonder why it was only a 23 episode show as well, odd decisions all around. Nine was wasted in this show, such a cool villain even if they messed up his arc by making it predictable. Oddly enough Sonic’s sacrifice worked. The endingn is a cliffhanger but at the same time it’s not, so it can work as an ending since we aren’t likely to get another season and it’s also for the best. I do ove the 2D sprite aniamted sequences we got from time to time, best part in the show.