![]() If there’s any plus side to Sonic the Fighters, it’s in the visuals. ![]() Humorously, the two characters introduced here who were never seen again feel more in line with the look and feel of the Sonic franchise than the countless goofy animals who were introduced to the series later on and stuck around to this day. No, I don’t understand the name, either). ![]() Meanwhile, two new characters were introduced in Bark the Polar Bear and Bean the Dynamite (who is in fact a bird. The character selection includes the obvious choices of Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Amy, but also throws in more obscure Sonic characters in Espio the Chameleon from Knuckles Chaotix, and Knack the Weasel (here called ‘Fang the Sniper’) from Sonic Triple Trouble. And you should really only subject a friend to the two-player versus mode if you both have a great sense of humor about these things. Aside from the unfair Metal Sonic, the enemy AI is as mindless as the game itself. Eggman (the former being ridiculously cheap and can take you out in three hits, while the latter is hilariously easy). The arcade mode sees players go through the eight characters on the playable roster, before facing off against Metal Sonic and Dr. Sonic the Fighters even lacks depth in its gameplay modes, with only the standard single player arcade mode and two-player versus being available. “You might know everything I’m going to do, but that’s not going to help you, since I know everything you’re going to do! Strange, isn’t it?!” This is a fighter as thoughtless as it is basic. It’s a decent idea in theory, but because the execution of the game is so utterly mindless, you can basically just mash the punching button ad nauseam to wear out your opponent’s barriers and continue doing the same until you get a knockout. Barriers can’t withstand too many hits, and if all of your barriers break, you are defenseless, and need to get a few hits on your opponent in order to build your barriers back up. The one novelty the game tries to bring to the genre is that, in place of standard blocking, characters have barriers. There is no thinking to the gameplay whatsoever. There is no depth to the combat of Sonic the Fighters, and the game ends up feeling like little more than chaotic button-mashing. But these aren’t the refined combos of Street Fighter, not even close. Moves consist of basic punches and kicks, which can be combined with directional inputs and pressed repeatedly for simplistic combos. This is as bare bones as a 3D fighting game gets. The biggest issue with Sonic the Fighters is how insanely rudimentary it is. ![]() Suffice to say, even back then, it was easy to see where the war between Mario and Sonic was going. But Sonic the Fighters fails the concept at every turn. Elsewhere, Mario spent his ’96 revolutionizing 3D gaming with Super Mario 64 and starring in one of the best Role-Playing games of all time in Super Mario RPG. The series has plenty of colorful, distinct characters that could be translated into the fighter genre. Released in arcades in 1996, the concept of Sonic the Fighters wasn’t doomed from the start. ![]() Among the biggest of these missteps was Sonic the Fighters, which was not only the first Sonic fighting game, but also the first 3D title starring the blue hedgehog. That is to say, it sticks around because of its early quality and appeal, but it’s overstayed its welcome, and has been bad far longer than it was ever good.īut Sonic’s issues didn’t happen all at once, and even in the franchise’s heyday in the 90s, the series made some notable missteps. While Mario has had an unrivaled longevity, still releasing “best games ever” thirty years on, Sonic went the path of The Simpsons. *Review based on Sonic the Fighters’ release as part of Sonic Gems Collection for the Nintendo GameCube*īecause of the wild popularity of the series in its early years, Sonic the Hedgehog still gets frequent comparisons to Super Mario. ![]()
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