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Search your feelings. You know it to be true.

Sonic the Hedgehog has died. Officially. As a character, as a franchise, as games... Dead.
Unfortunately, the people at Sega are master necromancers who have given him a sick, cheap imitation of life. They will always make money. So they're not going to stop pretending he's still alive.
The worst part is the way they go about it. They're intentionally trying to put some lame gimmick into every new game to keep things "fresh". Well, let me tell you something, Sega:
IF WE WANTED FRESH, WE WOULD MOVE TO BEL-AIR.
OR... SHOP AT... a vegetable market... or... something.
The point is that new things are OK, but that's not what you need to be doing. It certainly shouldn't be your priority.
Greatness should be. Just make something really spiffy.

But of course, Sega will never listen. So as far as I'm concerned, Sonic is gone, and he won't be coming back.
Somewhere out there, the real Sonic is hanging out with his old pals (yes, even Big the cat) from back when Sega actually had its own consoles.
They're watching Calvin and Hobbes pour them lemonade, as they all sit and laugh with the Baudelaire orphans at the stories Oliver and the Artful Dodger tell them.
Rest in peace, good buddy.
You will be missed.



...But no more than is reasonable.
There's plenty of awesomeness left in the world without you.