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Sonic The Hedgehog is confirmed to be in Super Smash Bros. Brawl

This rumour seems to have been with us longer than our own teeth. With Sega now out of the hardware race (unless that recent Dreamcast 2 story ends up on this list next year), the blue ballistic has for quite some time has been floundering with no stable home to call his own. His 3D games have felt increasingly like getting broken glass in your eye and trying to remove it with a power drill, while evenhis 2D games haven’t been a patch on his Mega Drive heyday. Watching Sonic in recent years has been like seeing an old friend fall in with a bad crowd and swap his university application for a dirty needle full of smack. Clearly Sonic needed help, and understandably fans looked towards Nintendo.

David Houghton
David Houghton
Long-time GR+ writer Dave has been gaming with immense dedication ever since he failed dismally at some '80s arcade racer on a childhood day at the seaside (due to being too small to reach the controls without help). These days he's an enigmatic blend of beard-stroking narrative discussion and hard-hitting Psycho Crushers.