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Which version of Sonic is the best version of Sonic?

From Sonic 1 to the Black Knight, which spiny avatar is best?

Words: Justin Towell, GamesRadar UK

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At first, he was a blue hedgehog sprite with feet that blurred because he ran so fast. But that was 18 years ago (yeah, where's the time gone?) and he's been redrawn over and over again to fit new technology. In fact, unbelievably, Sonic the Hedgehog has appeared on our screens in some 50 guises. Don't believe us? Take a look down there!

But it's not enough to just show you them all. The internet needs to know which is best. It's purely subjective opinion, of course, but we'll show you our least liked immediately over the page, followed by our favourites and the ultimate version of Sonic. Which will it be?

That's a lot of Sonics, huh? Some of them are great, others... well, let's have a look at the ones that went wrong...

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Monkey - 8 months 2 days ago

Sorry people I have to...First.

Sonic 2 FTW

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Juriasu - 8 months 2 days ago

Well, I can't say the werehog is the best one...

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symphonicdeathpop - 8 months 2 days ago

My fave is probably the Sonic Shuffle one... I miss that game.

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TheWoolyMammoth - 8 months 2 days ago

Crappy 3D Sonic games be damned, I still love the lil blue guy. Pretty much defined my spare time as a child =)

Although I think I'm possibly one of the only few who actually has nostalgia for Sonic 3D, lol.

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GamesRadarJustinTowell - 8 months 2 days ago

@symphonicdeathpop: Wow, someone who likes Sonic Shuffle! Nice cel-shading, you're right :)

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deathrebellion - 8 months 1 day ago

i must say sonic wuz at his best in 2D and my 2D favs r - Sonic CD and Sonic Advance and his best 3D appearences has to be in Soinc Unleashed (Hedgehog not the Werehog) but the Werehog wuzn't the worst in appearence u guys just hate him cuz he became slow strechy and came out in the worst Sonic Game yet.

U guys also 4got to add the Golden Sonic (the one where he absorbs all the chaos emralds. i can't quite recall his actual name now)

and i just Knew u guys wud give Mario the same treatment when i read the 1st line of this Feature (^^)

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ClusterShart - 8 months 1 day ago

I loved the redraw for Sonic 1, on the iPod. Am I the only one that played it?

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GamesRadarJustinTowell - 8 months 1 day ago

@deathrebellion: It was a conscious decision not to include Super Sonic because that's a powered-up state - these are all the standard ones you start as and spend the majority of your time playing as. And to be honest, I never really enjoyed Super Sonic anyway, for me it just unbalanced the game in Sonic 2.

And @ClusterShart - I've got that one too! Though I can't play it now as it won't run on iPod Touch. So much for upgrading, eh? Though he didn't look redrawn to me... are you sure it isn't just the lower screen resolution making him look different? I have no means of checking now!

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