I am continually puzzled by the wild variety of music genres that the Sonic the Hedgehog series uses. A lot of people are made angry or even disturbed over the music selection.
Such is the case with Sonic R, which is, in my opinion, an absolutely terrible racing game. I, frankly, dislike racing games, by the by. I can understand that it might seem cool to make a footracing game with Sonic, but it's not. And to
add insult to injury, they had to have a (vocalized) European pop soundtrack! That's like shooting the deer head (which is already hung up on your door) a thousand times!
And then there's Sonic Adventure. Now, the first one was not so bad in terms of music. The pounding rock rhythms pulsate in your ears as you take down Perfect Chaos as Super Sonic. However, the second one suffered from musical misdirection. Sonic's theme was peppy rock (hmm... I'll let that go this one time), Tails' was sort of pop-ish (umm... no), Knuckles' was rap (sweet mother of Maria, they put rap in a Sonic game!!!), Shadow's was "emo" (emo + Sonic Adventure 2 = total annihilation!!!), Eggman's was industrial rock (better, but still...), and Rouge's was... sort of genre-defying (if I can't describe it, then it's probably not a good idea).
Sonic Heroes had more of the right idea, I think. It combined popular rock with conventional rock, and a little metal. It was still trying to adapt to modern children's musical intrests, something that looked good on paper but not so good up front. Still, it's better than rap or emo, that's for sure!
It's funny; I didn't think that children loved metal, although I enjoy it, personally. Older gamers like myself are okay with it, but it seems a tad extreme for the twenty-thousand-something little seven-year-olds who bought Shadow the Hedgehog because they thought it was SO COOL. It's getting kind of ridiculous that Sega thinks children just ADORE death metal. And guns. And cursing. Sheesh, Sega, get your musical act together! And your normal one, too.
As for the PS3/Xbox 360 Sonic game, I don't possess a next-gen console or the game itself. So far, though, I think it's not much of a difference from Shadow the Hedgehog.
Well, I must go now. I must go listen to death metal. I apologize to all who love pop, rap, and emo, but I dislike it, whichever one that you put in the blank. Thank you.
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