The STELLAR State Of Sonic In 2023

2023 was able to carry the renassiance era for Sonic The Hedgehog started in 2022. However, SEGA still has room to improve to have this franchise be the best it can be. Let's talk about all of the big releases for the year, my hopes going into 2024, and the future of my channel!
0:00 What A YEAR
0:44 Sonic IDW Is Still STELLAR
1:17 The Murder Of Sonic The Hedgehog
1:42 Sonic Prime Season 2
2:06 Sonic Centrals And The LEGO Partnership
2:44 Superstars And Origins Plus
3:06 Sonic Dream Team
3:23 Sonic Frontiers DLC's
3:38 Where SEGA Can Improve
4:03 2024
4:35 The Future Of KaiZenAmen...
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[@mr.incredivenom]

For me I enjoyed dream team and the murder of sonic, and the eggperial city arc. Shadow finally getting some redemption. The final horizon was a blast and it shows that sonic team is capable of giving us hype. Overall, bring on 2024 looking forward to IDW content, movie 3, and shadow’s renaissance. Happy New Year, Kai.

[@TheZetoBlade]

This has been an amazing year. My top 3 in no particular order are Sonic Frontiers Final Horizon, a great expansion to an already great game. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog, having what I believe to be some of the greatest character writing and interactions this series has ever seen. Lastly, Sonic Prime, a show that's kept me on the edge of my seat from the start, and has me eagerly awaiting its conclusion. With 2024 seemingly positioning itself as the year of Shadow, there's potential for the franchise to reach even greater heights. Let's see what you got 2024!

[@Themasktrooper]

Sonic had a solid year let’s see what 2024 has to offer

[@SFproductions1]

Was definitely not expecting this year to be as big as it was

[@E123OmegaShow]

2023 was one of the best years for Sonic. My favorite release was Prime season 2, and I also really enjoyed Superstars, Frontiers update 3 and Murder of Sonic. Im sure 2024 will be incredible as well!

[@chillihog1543]

Favorite project of 2022: While the story is bit of a mess, still Movie 2 definitely improved on focusing more of Sonic n gang. Plus while the end credits was not surprising, still hype that Movie 3 will focus on my goat Shadow. The movie franchise carried not only Sonic but Sega as a whole financially. Thxs to the movies, finally Sega is bringing back the goats Crazy Taxi, Shinobi, Golden Axe, Street of Rage, and of course my favorite JET SET RADIOOOO!
(Sorry for the long essay but got alot to say got this year)
Favorite project for 2023: Murder of Sonic. For a free April Fools story side game, this is probably the only product that left me satisfied both beginning and end. While yes the game doesn't offer much replayability, still for what it offer, honestly I can't think of any downsides from the game other than the game just being a story base. Prime S2, downside is the season barely have screentime for Shadow, Egg Council being a thing, doesn't offer more interesting dimensions, and Prime plot overall being a disappointment for not exploring the cool concept of Sonic traveling through shattered alternate universe and not adding more Sonic cast characters and giving them interesting what if stories imo. Dream Team, downside is only Apple Arcade exclusive, story being mid, wish it gave more movesets, and missions being same/too easy. Superstars downfall is not being a 2d Modern Sonic game. Ok jk, but seriously Sega just left the game die imo but saying the lvl design would be like Sonic 1 n CD (Hate CD lvl design), multiplayer being a mess despite the company literally marketing the most out of it, and some bosses being a drag. And finally U3, imo it was a mixbag. Cyberspace was good along, but the other characters were rushed and dont even get to control them in other islands, some towers were either fun while others were not tested well imo (Until they patch it which now they're all good), Master Koco Trial was great (Just wish they cut the tedious climbing titans snoozefest) while other Koco trials were unbalanced asf, and ending while better than base Frontiers, still felt me disappointed since u only got to play as Super Sonic 2 (Which doesn't even feel like an upgrade imo) and don't even get to play as Cyber Sonic. Wish that form wasn't only shown through cutscene, especially since Sega/Sonic Team loves their one n done new forms so chances of playing as Cyber Sonic is next to 0 (Unless u got mods or if we're lucky, Sega announces Cyber Sonic being playable in Sonic Dash or something). Overall while 2022 have gave more of an impact for the Sonic franchise, still 2023 gave alot of good content for Sonic fans.
Probably may favorite project for 2024: Sonic Movie 3 but if Zippo is right about Sonic Team making a new low budget Sonic n Shadow but its great, then that might be my favorite Sonic project for next year.