Boom, Reboot!
Sonic the Hedgehog is one of the last properties in gaming that demands a reboot. It’s not like he’s got any tangible continuity that spreads throughout the games like say, Mass Effect or Halo, and one could understandably think that the games were largely unconnected overall. But someone at SEGA thought otherwise, which is why we got Sonic Boom, a reboot that was fully intended to get people interested in the character itself rather than the brand. (And for some reason, everyone’s hands are taped up). To that end, there’ve been two games that released at the same time: Rise of Lyric for the Wii U and Shattered Crystal for the 3DS, along with a CG show on Cartoon Network that has a second season coming later this year.
Weirdly enough, it’s the cartoon that’s done the best out of the three. Critics slammed both the games (Lyric more so than Crystal), and both are currently the lowest selling games in the franchise. Yikes. There’s another game coming out later this year called Fire and Ice, but no one seems to be looking forward to that…ah well, at least the toys are selling.
