They look great outside of his mouth which is not supposed to be naturally on the side of his face, but because he is smirking! Always more proof of Sonic Team's retardation, I suppose!
Really?... REALLY? fuck the sonic fanbase is just getting silly.
I'm pretty sure it was ALWAYS on the side of his face... In fact I'm pretty sure it looked a bit stupid when it was in the middle for a few years on games like Sonic Riders.
I'm not sure where 'fans' became the character designers.
basically all classic official sonic artwork from sonic team that i can find.
I think this is just highlights how hard people are trying to nitpick at stupid fucking shit that doesnt even make sense.
Wow, I was just saying I thought a design choice was stupid and you freaked out bad. Seriously, are you going to defend everything Sonic Team ever does while calling everyone else stupid or are you going to at least listen to any of their points ever?
It is not an artistic choice, it is a dumb change that Sonic Team never realized they fucked up. All of the images people used as a reference are poses. It is like saying Dick Cheney never once smiled because you base your information on basically every image of him in the negative press ever.
I have nothing wrong with him smirking. I think the toothy grin makes him look like a stupid annoying ass at times, but it is not a big deal at all, and certainly did not make me dislike any of his Dreamcast games any less than I did.
My point is that Sonic Team has changed his design in a retarded way. Look at Sonic CD, Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic Adventure, Sonic Adventure 2... Everything else he talks in before Sonic Heroes was released. His mouth moved properly and he would use the trademark smirk when he was in a specific mood or doing a specific action which should enable it. Going from a normal face to a smirk was one of the absolute most obvious thing that was ripped off from him constantly in the early 1990s, with all of those mascot-like games. You of all people should be able to understand this, even SUMO Digital does, but you rather freak out and call me stupid. Good game Sharky!