Sonic’s a Racer Now???
Sonic goes fast, that’s literally his entire shtick. You would justifiably think that this would endear him to racing franchises, which is what we got with multiple series over the years. Nothing wrong with that, but the weirdness comes from the late 2000 era of racers starring the Blue Blur, where he ends up having to use boards and cars to do the racing instead of his own two feet.
It makes some amount of practical sense; if you can run super fast, you probably want a break to give your legs some rest, and you also want to make the races fair for the other people who aren’t as fast as you. Let’s face it, if anyone that’s not already a hedgehog joins the race, they’re gonna get extremely creamed. But not helping is that the quality of all the racing spinoffs have been all over the map–the Sonic & Sega All-Stars titles have received mostly positive reviews, while the Sonic Riders trilogy, not so much. Though to be fair, everyone in Riders also looked like dorks with their stupid goggles.
