So, what do you guys think about Sonic’s Character in Frontiers? Did you like it? Dislike it? Let me know in the comments below and I will do my best to respond to as many as possible!

You can thank Ian Flynn for doing a good job with the script

Can we talk about how cool Roger is when he isn’t held back by corny jokes, the man screams like a monster.

My favorite scene in frontiers was when sage asked sonic: "How can you still smile when you can barely stand?" And then sonic takes a deep breath, smile and keep walking. Shows how much he's willing to help

It’s nice to see sonic having his unleashed personality again his portrayal in that game was brilliant

Like Penny from Snapcube said "from character assassination to character necromancy". Having Ian on board was the best move possible. Now hopefully other characters in the games like Shadow can be fixed, made into something like his portrayal in Sonic Prime. I respect the fact Tails' development actually addressed the sour Forces moment instead of ignoring it like never happened. Also, big congrats on the 50,000 subs, PJ!

Sonic is the perfect example of writing a " flawed hero" without making him out as some incompetent moran or him having personal issues or mental issues he needs to work on. Not everyone in life is having personal issues they need to resolved, there are characters who has themselves together and are kind and want to help. His flaws are his inpatiences, reckless nature and his rebellious personality

I love how you included how Sonic's flat character arc plays a huge role in the story, because a lot of people tend to have a bad understanding of flat arcs. I think a big reason for that is that for flat arcs to work, you need supporting characters around you who aren't flat. It is the contrast between a flat character's undying convictions and a dynamic character's development that allows them both to shine brighter for it. The biggest flaw of a flat character arc was showcased in the 2010s, where Sonic was the only focal point of the stories and other characters were just there to serve as an ego-boost or as a meaningless plot device. However, that exact arc is what made him so compelling before the meta era, because he's the one who inspired Tails's growing confidence, Knuckles's desire to lay back and feel comfortable outside of his role as "Master Emerald guardian," and Shadow's break away from his "destiny" or stubborn attempts at pushing everyone away. I'm holding out hope for both the gameplay and the writing to come together at once so Sonic can truly revive into a phenomenal renaissance like with the Adventure games. With Ian Flynn at the helm, I know I only have to worry about one of those things. ...Also, bringing back a Chao Garden or two could help. It's optional, but also pretty please with a cherry on top.

Sonic in this game feels to me like the first instance of Sonic as an adult. The classic games feel like the latter part of his childhood: he’s rebellious but still has an air of innocence. The adventure/dark era seems like his teenage years where he becomes a slightly edgier symbol of freedom who defies tyrants, monsters, and even gods. Unleashed feels like the transition to frontiers with Sonic beginning to serve as a mentor and genuine friend who just makes other people better. To me, that’s kind of the final stage of Sonic’s growth: not appealing to kids as a silly cartoon character nor a perfect role model, but as someone cool enough to believe in you.

The whole reason Sonic is such a great character is because unlike any other character in gaming history who suffers from personal trama, Sonic always remains positive and keeps going with a smile on his face. It's like Sage said: He never stops, he never gives up.

Honestly wish my mum was alive to see frontiers. She would have loved it

Sonic Frontiers reminded me of Why I love this character so much.

This really feels like a Renaissance for Sonic the Hedgehog. For once I'm actually really hopeful for Sonic's future because it seems like Sega is *_finally_* understanding that having such tight restrictions and mandates aren't helping these characters, but rather hurting them. The meta era has done such immense damage to Sonic's legacy, but I think thanks to not only Frontiers but Sonic Prime and the films, these characters will really have a chance to shine once again. With Sonic the Hedgehog 2 really course correcting Knuckles, I actually have a lot of hope they'll fix up Shadow as well. The dark furred hedgehog deserves his own Renaissance alongside Sonic.

I was super happy with Flynn's work in Frontiers. It wasn't perfect, but damn, I enjoyed it. No stupid quirky lines that removed tension in tricky situations. Instead, we got great characterization and hope for a great future.

Sonic Frontiers was a huge step in the right direction. Not perfect, but a massive improvement. Hopefully they continue in this vein.

I'm actually very glad that Frontiers actively decided to draw on Tails bad characterization from the last decade (I think it dates back to Unleashed, but whatever) and not ignore/decanonize it for two reasons. First, Ian Flynn has pulled this trick before with the Sonic Archie comics to great effect. He avoids handwaving bad characterization and instead uses it as a springboard for future improved characterization. If he comes back to write whatever big game comes next, I can't wait to see what he pulls off with Tails. And second, this makes the time spent experiencing those horrible stories feel like it wasn't a big waste of time, retroactively. As fans, we all spent varying amounts of resources to experience those awful 2010-2017 stories, be it money and effort on the games or just time reading wiki's or watching cutscenes on KZfaq. Decanonizing that, means it was a true waste, regardless of how much or little was spent on it. And besides, you KNOW that we'd all still be groaning about how bad those stories were regardless of if they were acknowledged in Frontiers or not. Better use it to the narratives advantage I say.

I love seeing how the individual aspects of Sonic's character come out depending on who he's interacting with; he's compassionate and understanding with Amy, he's more jokey and tough but still supportive with Knoucles, and he's mentoring and encouraging with Tails; a brotherly figure. Not only is he a guy that loves adventure, he's a character that understands the situation he's in and the individual needs of his friends; a small act of heroism that is easily overlooked but still effective. He's still a fun and interesting character, but we see his softer side when he's reminiscing about his friends, and I personally think that's beautiful writing. 10/10 interpretation, bravo.

Man, words cannot express how much I felt, when Sonic went Super Sonic 2! That was sooooo awesome, when Sonic snap his fingers bringing supreme/The End to the ground and when you parry, he simply just waved his hand. My favorite part was when Sonic transformed back after he got knocked down, man, people can say what they want to say with the Dragon Ball comparisons, but it genuinely reminded me of Goku and Vegeta in a good way,( but still Super Sonic 2 on his own finesse) Sonic Team went hard with the Final Horizon update! I was literally in awe.

I like how this game showed how much Sonic and Amy’s relationship has changed and matured since the early days, where before in games like SA1 or Heroes Sonic would back away or even run if he sees Amy coming his way, now he’s clearly much more comfortable around her because Amy herself has matured and gotten calmer, she’s not regularly throwing herself onto him, only doing that once in this game which even then was because of her excitement over Sonic’s victory over The End which he seemed to realize when he was initially taken aback by it but it quickly wasn’t a problem for him anymore since he still had a smile on his face and didn’t push her away, and she’ll even call him out if he’s doing something she doesn’t agree with meanwhile if this was the 2010’s Amy, especially Free Riders, I can guarantee that would not have been the case

Sonic Frontiers’ writing may not be perfect, but Ian Flynn’s writing in this game was a definite step in the right direction. Sonic was feeling like how he was in Unleashed which is a good thing, Tails finally realized how he has regressed back into Sonic’s shadow and wants to be his Adventure 2 self again, Amy wanting others to feel her growth as a person and Knuckles understanding what his people did was wrong, what happened to them was their own fault and how he may be the last echidna, he’s not alone anymore. I’m hopeful they’ll let Flynn stick around for longer to get the Sonic franchise back to its prime soon in terms of its writing potential! 🎉

Imma just say...this is peak Amy. I never liked her over obsession with Sonic. It was really creepy. Now...I adore her. And I still like that she still has this love for sonic showed in one of the Twitter takeover. It showed that Amy has definitely matured and I love that.

5:45 In fairness, Sonic was suspicious of the voice, saying “If they wanna start trouble? I’ll fight them too”. Finding his friends and the Emeralds are simply all he can do at the moment.

I really did love the reference to Fleetway sonic in that last boss. Most people wouldn't notice that

A bit more attitude from him like in the adventure games would make him a bit more better

AS someone who grew up in the '' dark age'' of sonic I bet you are happy with having a new super form in years

Ian Flynn is a freaking GODSEND for the Sonic franchise

I love how sonic was handled in frontiers I can tell the similarities between that and the idw comics. Despite the fact that the cutscenes are mostly them just standing around talking and there mouths not moving all the time, the dialogue is what remade me want to watch them all.

Roger Craig Smith's deeper Sonic voice suts him better than before.

Sage reacting to Tails' and Sonic's relationship was me and a good amout of other people seeing it.

I was replaying Colours yesterday and my god I forgot how good I had with Frontiers Sonic compared to Colours Sonic. His character in Frontiers is truly revived from the dead. Thanks to the great writer Ian Flynn course!

One of the things I've loved most about frontiers is that the titan themes are about the character you save on their island. i dont know much about the first two, but the third one is definitely about tails. The singer from infinites theme continues trying to get tails to doubt himself, which makes sense because tails failed to do shit against infinite. Infinites voice LITERALLY haunts him through the song. Then the louder more feminine voice from the main singer of frontiers comes in as sonic, reassuring tails. Auausgsha it's just so well done.

The Sequel we all been waiting for

good analysis, it seems like Sega has started taking Sonic's characters and universe more seriously , which is always good to hear. Hopefully, after the next big Sonic game the title of your next video will be, how Shadow is back to being the character he once was, a man can dream...

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They did a great job with fixing up the personalities of all the characters in Frontiers, and the writing was becoming serious like it should be for the Sonic games, instead of being too childish. The animations of what Sonic was doing during the Titan battles is very interesting to watch, and I very much hope this effects what Shadow will be behaving like next, have him be like he was in the games before the 2010s, (not including his gun shooting spin-off one,) instead of being an edgeloard, and especially not have the kind of rude personality that he was shown with especially in the Sonic Boom spin-off franchise. That problem might be coming to an end because he has been acting more like a smart older brother to Sonic in Sonic Prime instead of like an edgloard in that show so far. I hope that he continues to be like that in the upcoming games and whatever the next Sonic cartoon show will be. I do like that "Baldy Mc. Nosehair" nickname though, what a hilarious one.

The Final Boss in the 3rd Update made my life Literally Flash before my eyes and i loved it Feels your with sonic during all of that

I honestly couldn't be happier about Sonic's characterization in Frontiers. The only thing missing in the game is how contained everything is by the setting. Part of what makes Adventure 2 or Unleashed work so well is this feeling of unbound adventure that leads to Sonic having more interactions than just with Tails, Knuckles, Amy, and Eggman. In Frontiers however we're introduced to everyone Sonic will interact with fairly early on, and it feels very limiting. Eventually I started to feel desperate for someone unexpected to show up such as Shadow, Blaze, or even someone from the comics like Tangle and Whisper, just to give Sonic someone new to talk to.

It felt like we went back to the days of "Let's show that creep the Real Superpower of TEAMWORK!" 😊

If a person in real life had the same personality as Sonic in the Meta Era, everyone would consider them as an annoying and immature jerk, NOT a hero.

How many times is PJShow gonna talk about THAT scene from SA2! PJShow: Yes

Sonic Frontiers completely changed the direction of the franchise and I don’t think it’s appreciated enough. In a single game, SEGA, Sonic Team, and Ian Flynn were able to reinvigorate faith in the franchise and almost everything Sonic-related post Frontiers has been a success in some way. If the next mainline game is a smash-hit like Frontiers, we’re looking at an actual “Sonic Renaissance” era.

10:48 - I think sonic’s model got very slight tweaks compared to forces. Still looks similar to it, but Sonic is a deeper blue and his spines are back normal.

One thing I really appreciate about Super Sonic 2 is how the form actually changes his fight choreography to emphasize the fact that he's holding himself back from going all-out. Regular flavor Super Sonic is basically a living projectile who rams himself head-first into enemies with overwhelming power. Meanwhile, Super Sonic 2 uses measured and effortless dodges and blindingly fast strikes with deliberate and focused bursts of raw power to make a mockery out of his opponent. His counter attack is a simple dodge followed by a lightning fast flurry of strikes that leaves his foe crumpled on the ground and even his big cyloop finisher merely has him create a torrent of energy around his opponent before casually snapping his finger to crush them within their chaos energy prison. I really like how this low-effort choreography works both as a way to communicate just how powerful he has become through his ability to unravel his opponent without exerting himself, while at the same time subtly showing that he is holding back.

"Careful? Where's the fun in that?" This is what I like to hear. This is the sonic I know and love. I'm happy someone new has taken on the writing cause I wanna see this in future games

This game was the CTRL+R the Sonic franchise needed and I'm really hyped where things go from here

Ian Flynn is the true writer of sonic characters

Also I like that some of the characters are having lower voices, it makes him more like an adult than just a teenager

Sonic Frontiers and its writing and story aren’t perfect. That being said, it’s leagues better than what we got in the 2010s. All the characters actually feel like real characters again. The story is probably the best we’ve gotten in years. And Sonic feels like himself again. One of my favorite moments in Frontiers was seeing Sonic slowly be consumed by the cyber corruption and Sage questioning him why he continues to push forward. And all he does is smile and keep going. That sheer determination to save his friends and the world regardless of the consequences is what I missed seeing from Sonic. Frontiers is not a perfect game and the writing has flaws. But what we got gives me hope that the future of the Sonic series is bright and that it’s only up from here. (Hopefully SEGA doesn’t prove me wrong in that regard.) I’m actually excited to see where the series goes next. Something I couldn’t say back when Forces released. All that aside I’m glad Sonic Team went back and patched the Final Horizons update recently. I like a good challenge, but some of the difficulty was straight up unfair at times. Especially the timing on the perfect parry. At least now it’s more fair.

Quick Answer: Because Ian Flynn understood Sonic's character far better than the writers for him in the last 12 years since Colors.

Never thought you'd post about characters' downgrade and upgrade u do a lot of research into their characterization

I love how the game shows how powerful The End is, with Sonic being unable to damage it, even with all the chaos emeralds. Even when he transforms into Super Sonic 2, The End is able to near instantly regenerate all of its health if Sonic doesn’t attack fast enough. Not only this, but it’s able to straight up knock him out of his new, far more powerful super form easily if it lands too many attacks.

I think Ian should just look over all writing in the series, forever edit: ayy 20 likes

God I'm so excited to see where the series continues from here with the rest of the cast and lore

I love Sonic’s character in frontiers I hope he continues to be this great or better in future games.

I do think that at times it's fine for sonic to essentially flip off a threat at the worst time, but the main issue is the excessive amount of the quips undermine so many things. Seriously thats the only issue with sonic doing that imo, though obviously the main issue is the extreme use of unfunny jokes being his only characteristic

I think another thing that really helped, was the voice actor for sonic deepening his tone, as it really helped add to the voice acting and cutscenes with sonic and his friends.

Finally, a video essay that makes rational sense and talking about that the problem was the story and not the voice actors

I honestly do like Sonic in sonic rush, trying his best to understand blaze and even challenging her morals with his own during their fight, only to later on help Blaze understand the meaning of friendship and teaching her how to use the power of the Sol Emeralds to stop Both Eggman's in the Egg Salamander mech that is infused with the Sol Emeralds power, I always liked how Sonic was shown in Sonic rush, just wished Sega would make a remake or remaster for it. Wrapped in black will always be my favorite Extra zone theme.

frontiers writing is just the prime example of what happens when big game company hires indie "person" as their lead. the game that goes out from this, just hits the current ceiling instead of new floor.

We have a good writer we just need good people that can animate cutscenes really well to make this feel like it is natural and not forced to look stiff

Seeing how well Sonic was portrayed in Sonic Frontiers made me SO happy as a huge Sonic fan since I was just 4 years old back in 2006. I was more than relieved to see Sonic return to his former self after a decade of his character being botched by awful writing. 😊😁💙

I honestly don’t think Sonic’s character (basically from colors to colors ultimate) was completely out of character for him. I think the quips were great, a lot of them sounded like Sonic like lines (I could totally see him call Eggman Baldy Nosehair). The issue with that era of Sonic was that was ALL of his character. There was no Sonic being nice, there was no genuine reaction from friends. It was all just stupid jokes, making fun of people, and never taking it serious. It just didn’t feel like Sonic.

I love you’re character analysis videos. The way Sonic and his friends interact, you can tell they’ve become more than friends, they’re like a found family. Sage says as much when she sees Sonic and Tails’ bond. Some people may have been a little put off by the noticeable change in voices, but that, and the new voice direction, and script that acknowledges the last and the cast’s relationships to each other, shows they’re all seasoned heroes and villains at this point. They’ve matured and grown through the years. It may be a while before the next big Sonic game, but I’m looking forward to Sonic’s future.

Tails in Frontiers: I'M wildly inconsistent. Kinda like this entire game franchise, amiright!?

The english writing and voice delivery is really good in frontiers. I think with a few adjustments it's could be as great as the japanese VA's. (They've really been rocking it since 1998.)

Something really cool I noticed also about frontiers is the lyrics to I’m here are tied to each of the four important characters “leave the life you knew before”-knuckles “See a new world worth fighting for”-Amy “Find the truth of who I’m meant to become”-tails “Another path I must now walk on”-sage When even the music is on theme you know you made something truly special

The newest update fixed the Perfect Parry in Normal Mode at least. Old Extreme Timing is gone, old Hard Mode timing is now Extreme Mode's timing, old Normal Mode's timing is now Hard Mode's timing, old Easy Mode timing is now Normal Mode timing, and Easy Mode was reverted to Vanilla's near-infinite guard

Sonic is canonicly one of the smartest characters in his verse. He has good understanding of robotics(being able to make a Plane by himself) And also fly it with no prior training. His iq is confirmed to he 178

I have issues with ian Flynn but he got lucky writing sonic as a protagonist for showcase of the character, sonic is like noble hero who trying to figure it out of the seriously scenarios like IDW for the most part. Yet it feels good to have sonic as a character in frontiers cause it feels genuinely perfection. He's not perfect compared to sa2 and black knight for decades with sonic, i enjoyed this version of sonic might be stick around going forward

Very mild detail that i thought was neat was sonic flinching when knuckles tells him to hurry to the next island while sticking his fist out, a neat reference to the intro of sonic 3. Its the little details like this that just show how much genuine passion was put into this game and flynn’s dedication to the franchise. Bravo

only good part about 2010s sonic was his genuine fucking cackle at 4:03 and a few good moments from sonic boom (the cartoon). other than that he truly got the internet treatment of being reduced to the most absolute basic, stand-out aspects of himself with 0 nuances or depth. loving this video dude 👍 keep it up

I was never much of a sonic kid growing up. I had some of the Wii games and Sonic Generations, so the majority of my exposure to sonic in general was his more generic and corporate stuff. But seeing all of the hardened OG sonic fans feel so betrayed and disheartened by Sonic’s mischaracterisation and then getting to play sonic frontiers with no spoilers?? That gave me a sense of satisfaction I never thought I’d have. I watched Penny Parker gush over the brilliant character moments and it made me feel like I’d just found something I didn’t even know was missing. Considering how amazing sonic content has been recently in 2023, I’m super excited to see where they go. The main storyline seems to be taking a really great path and it seems that we have a writer that really knows what he’s doing, so let’s stick it out and see whatever comes next ✨☺️✨

Warning: Long Comment 2 more things I think you should have mentioned. You mentioned that Sonic is impatient and that some people would say that Sonic should be more sceptical of The Voice. There is a cutscene in the game that explores that very well in a short amount of time. The "What is your end goal" cutscene on Chaos Island. Here, Sage asks Sonic, "The Voice that commands you, what if it is leading you to disaster?" Sonic replies, "They want to start trouble, I'll stop them too." You could Sonic is acting reckless and irrational there, and he is, but he is also headstrong and levelheaded. He is focused on saving his friends and that is what he is most focused on in this moment, if a new problem does arise, he will deal with it then and he has the confidence in himself that he will be able to stop it. Sonic's relationship with Sage also showcases some great characterization for Sonic and Sage. Once again, it shows another brilliant example of how Sonic influences other characters. Sonic's personality makes him like a force of nature while Doctor Robotnik and his Creations are machines, and artificial. Sonic is always confident, tries his best, and does what he believes is right (just like in Sonic and the Black Knight) and he tends act and take descions based on his emotions and his way of thinking rather than making descions based on logic. An AI like Sage would make decisions based on Logic rather than emotions, especially since she is artificial and doesn't fully experience emotions. (Not intially anyway.) Sonic's way of thinking and living life is therefore confusing to an AI and that is why Sage takes such great interest in him and starts to learn more about life and experience emotions through Sonic, and she even cries expresses pity and Sonic continues traveling across Rhea island taking on more cyber energy. You did mention this cutscene a little, but I'm going to go into more detail. Another cut scene I think does a brilliant job showcasing Sonic's relationship with Sage is when Sonic is on Rhea island and his cyber corruption is at some of its worst. Despite the pain that he is experiencing, Sonic is still determined and continues to move to the other towers. Sage appears, and once again, speaking from a logical point of view, asks Sonic, "How can you smile when you can barely stand?" And Sonic being as cocky as usual, doesn't reply and simply breathes in, getting his strength back, continues moving forward with a proud smile, and Sage looks in complete astonish. Sage also starts to recognise Sonic's Talents and becomes sad that her and her creator, Dr Robotnik, are enemies, and she wishes that there would be a time when Sonic and Dr. Eggman would work together, believing that Sonic and Robotnik could have a powerful alliance with Sonic's power and talent combined with Robotnik's intelligence. This is then why she gets so excited when the opportunity finally does present itself when Sonic and Robotnik need to team up to destroy The End. Sorry, everyone, I probably spoke way too much there.

I’m expecting more upward character slope videos from you in the years ahead! Definitely won’t miss the 2010s, or Pontac and Graff

Honestly, i think we should keep Flynn as a writer. That way we'll have this Sonic for as long as possible

I remember getting Sonic Frontiers thinking that it was going to be another failure… I was deeply wrong.

Too bad Sega has this thing where Shadow "has no friends" and likes to be the lone wolf when in reality he considers Rouge and Omega as friends and trusted allies. Rouge possibly being more based on her dialogue from earlier games before the soft reboot. She was the only person to show genuine care for Shadow and even disobeyed direct orders just to help him and even Shadow acknowledged this.

Great video! We’re really in a new era 👌

I very recently just finished the New Story in Frontiers and was dying to watch this video afterwards, I also rewatched the original Sonic character analysis lol. I love the scene at 11:58 between Sonic and Knuckles, it’s the perfect balance between serious but also playful. Also HOLY SHIT THERE WAS A FLEETWAY REFERENCE?!? God I love Frontiers, despite how annoying it was sometimes to get through the game’s New Story I’m so happy I completed it! Great video as always PJ!

They brought back my Sonic!

Would you be reacting to the new Knuckles TV show trailer like you did to the prologue of Knuckles in Frontiers?

this video shows such a deep understanding of his character and a passionate love of the franchise. thank you thank you thank you!!

3:23 didn't expect it, and I love it.

I played Colours, Generations, Lost World and Forces in one year in preparation for the release of the Final Horizons DLC and I can safely say that Frontiers blows the preceding games out of the water in terms of writing Love or hate Sonic Frontiers, you must admit, Ian Flynn did Sonic and the others justice and Sage is a welcome addition to the cast To paraphrase Tenacious D: This is not the greatest game in the world, this is just a tribute

Hey ! Sonic in the 2010s was awful, I agree, but the cutscene before the final fight in Generations was incredible ! Well at least until Sonic's friends show up just to tell him he can do it instead of doing something themselves. That's not just bad writing for Sonic, that's bad writing in general. Okay I admit that the "you and what mustache ? I already defeat you on my own, and now there's two of me" was a bit weird, but I played the french version where it's a bit different and he says something around the lines of "Destroy me ? You and the other mustached idiot ? I already defeat you on my own, and now, let me point out that that there's two of us !". The "two of us" instead of "two of me" feels less annoyingly arrogant. I don't know what the original in japanese says, but it's probably not an annoying and arrogant joke, and the scene probably feels cool like in the french version I experienced. And hey, outside of this one line (and Sonic's friends showing up to do nothing), the interactions between the two Eggmans are funny and great in both english and french (which is the biggest reason why I love this cutscene). I just wish the game had more moments like this.

I'm super glad that Roger finally has a good script to work with. He's a very talented voice actor, and it always rubbed me the wrong way when people said he was awful. Everyone complained about the writing in the 2010, but there was a lot of complaints directed straight at Roger's performance. Frontiers proves that it was never a "Roger Craig Smith" problem; it was a "writers and director" problem. And I'm glad Roger stuck around long enough to show that.

Sonic and Knuckles giving each other the bedroom eyes constantly was one of my favorite parts of this whole thing with their interaction it was hilarious

I would like to hear your thoughts and speculations on the upcoming Sonic Movie 3. The fans went NUTS not too long ago.

Honestly. I think the biggest accomplishent here was how Ian didn't just ignore the last 10 years of writing, he tried to retroactively fix them. That legit takes some dedication. I don't think anyome would have been mad if he just took the easy way out and ignored what happend in those games, but the fact he actually took the time to integrate them into the story and make them make sense with how the characters are written now is an accomplishment. I'm really hoping he stays on board.

After watching a video on the character development of Sonic in the Archie comics (also written by Ian Flynn) and how Sonic matured towards the end of those compared to his younger self, your explanation of Sonic's character in Frontiers made me realize that Sonic's character here seems to be Ian Flynn's continuation of that matured Sonic from the end of the Archie comics. The new Roger voice, his "unnecessary gestures" conveying his deeper emotions and thoughts...all feel like they're continuing that. Hopefully this is a new great direction for the Sonic franchise.

Man everytime pj mentions how amazing black knight is a portytaying sonic’s character i hang on to the hope that we’ll one day get a full analysis of black knight sonic and how perfect it is

Now they gotta fix Silver.

If only he had a VA that could do the emotions better

An underrated moment of PERFECT characterization of Sonic was in Unleashed. The line was: Do i need a reason to help out a friend?

I like how sonic in his super form and knowing knuckles cant hurt him, he flinches when knuckles swings at him because he remembers getting knocked out of super by him in S3

Good analysis

BLACK KNIGHT ON TOP RAHHHHHHHH

I noticed the fangs on super Sonic cyber but I didn't realize it was a sort of reference to fleetway

nice vid keep up the good work!

I’m not all to excited to see Flynn on board, as I think he nails every Sonic character except for Sonic. Flynn prefers a more quippy and American version of the character, which I just don’t really care for. I prefer Sonic to be written closer to his more Japanese version from the original concepts, say Sonic X, Unleashed, somewhat 06, and the Storybook Games. I don’t think Frontiers did Sonic that bad, he was pretty good, but that is also because Flynn was not the only writer, and came on board much later in the game’s development. So going forward, I think Flynn being in board is good, but he should not have full writing control, and should work alongside other writers