Sonic the Hedgehog's Recent Movies Deserve Game Adaptations

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Sega's iconic Sonic the Hedgehog franchise has seen some difficult years in recent history, but it appears to be turning a new leaf. For one thing, Sonic Team is hard at work on Sonic Frontiers, a new game with «open zones» that could let players run around and capitalize on Sonic's powers with unprecedented freedom, which sounds like a lot of fun. For another, Sonic the Hedgehog has managed to inspire a surprisingly successful movie adaptation. Simply called Sonic the Hedgehog, the movie broke multiple box office records, and it seems to have kicked off an entire Sonic cinematic universe, thanks to upcoming sequels.

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 will feature Knuckles as a secondary antagonist and finally bring the Chaos Emeralds into the movie series, meaning it has the potential to motivate a lot of other compelling cinematic Sonic content. Beyond movies and TV, though, one wonders if there's any hope that the new Sonic movies will ever return to their roots. Sonic the Hedgehog seems ripe for a video game adaptation, thanks to the unique story it tells using the Sonic series. Bringing the movie's story back to its original genre would be a great way to celebrate Sonic's newfound success in theaters.

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2020's Sonic the Hedgehog has a few important elements that could motivate a compelling video game. For instance, Sonic the Hedgehog features a ton of travel. Much of the movie is defined by a cross-country road trip as Sonic travels to San Francisco in search of his portal-generating rings, and near the end of the movie, those rings are used to quickly travel all over the Earth as Sonic battles Jim Carrey's Dr. Robotnik. Sonic the Hedgehog's many real-world settings could