The Sonic Boom franchise is definitely one that's divided opinions. While it may be that the TV show is fairly well liked, the games left something to be desired. Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice is still set to release sometime this year, opting to follow in the footsteps of the slightly better received portable entry in this sub-series by releasing exclusively on the 3DS.
It's interesting to note that the Sonic Boom series is considered to be a separate entity from the 'Classic Sonic' that most are used to. Bearing this in mind, take a look at all the potential logos that were considered before this new spinoff franchise was launched. Henry Gray – the Senior Designer for the Sonic Boom project – recently revealed them to Sonic Stadium, and it's interesting to see how it changed.
What do you think? Which logo is your favorite? What did you think of the Sonic Boom games? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
[source sonicstadium.org, via sonicstadium.org]
Comments 38
I would make a stupid joke like "I like the one that says Sonic Boom." But... no. I want nothing to do with this dreck. And the irony that I took the time to log in and make this comment to express my disdain of Sonic Boom has not escaped me, thank you very much!
Shoulda spent a bit less time on the logo and......
I like the ones with the zig-zaggy sound-effects shape behind it/incorporated into it. I think ideally, though, "Sonic" would be as large if not larger than "Boom."
They should scrap Sega and give their assets to Nintendo. Don't verbally kill me.
"Dudes VS Evil"...that sounds stupid.
@Zach777 saying don't won't prevent the verbal killing.
@Dezzy More time on Sanic memes?
The one on the bottom right at the very top doesn't look too bad. They just need to fix the first "O" in Boom which seems to bother me a lot for some reason. I'm glad they didn't use the rest of those though.
They need an apostrophe and an s after Sonic, and then replace the b in Boom with a d, and then add an 'ed' to the end of that. Then it accurately represents Sega and Sonic Team accurately.
Do you guys get some sort of sick pleasure out of reminding us of this game's existance?
Lol....
@Zach777 Someone hates Sonic 😂
Some of those are really bad and some just look outdated. I think the very last one is my favorite.
Lets all say Sonic Boom was a crap game because that's what everyone else says. Yay.
So bloody sick and tired of hearing that bullcrap. The game was good.
I like the fourth one from the bottom middle. You know, the 'blank space'. 'Cause this game doesn't exist. What game, though? ¯(ツ)/¯
(Actually like the two bottom left ones just b/c of the more cartoony style. Not that it helps the game any...)
@MitchVogel Classic Sonic refers to all games before Sonic Adventure, so the Genesis/Megadrive, Master System, Saturn and Arcade. Modern refers to all Sonic games starting on the Dreamcast to now, sans the Boom games. However, if you were to break the games up further, a Dreamcast Era would be Sonic Adventure to Shadow, and Modern being from Sonic the Hedgehog 2006 to now. Boom is a timeline in and of itself.
"Dudes vs. Evil"
...Seriously? (sound like Sticks and Amy where not going to appear originally)
Go dudes!! lol
Are we playing to the lowest common denominator or to the serious Nintendo gamer?
So, they had a bunch of perfectly Sonic-esque Logos done that all looked and felt professional and went with the one looking most out of place and cheap ?
I'm curious, did Sega also have a bunch of variations on the game produced, one per logo? Because if they did then I'm betting at least one of them turned out better than the one chosen for release. 😛
maybe they should have considered 'unusing' the game itself
Sonic team isn't even doing boom, don't know why they're being brought up here. Boom is more or less fine. I don't like how stupid knuckles is but otherwise the show and games are ok for what they are, with the 3DS game being superior as a sonic title.
Sonic 06 is still the most infamously bad sonic game ever. Rock bottom was hit long ago, but at least everything since has been "better". I can't speak for the Wii U version of boom of course having not played it, but the 3DS version wasn't really bad, just a tad boring at times.
@GreatPlayer
Where is this retaliation even coming from? What are you, twelve?
@Zach777 It's for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK_0jXPuIr0
Tacky. But I guess this series was aimed at very young kids so they're not going to feel the same way. It's too bad the Sonic series didn't evolve to reach it's true potential. But if they had to restart the whole thing, for the sake of all that is good, let the Japanese handle it!
Third logo from the second set of colored images.
Dudes vs Evil?? Lol, oh my... It could have been worse.
Well they say that for every good idea there's a hundred bad ones, so thank god that one was considered bad.
Onto the logos though, i really like the black and white one in the top middle, it's got a lot of personality.
= o
Dude; one of my relatives just spammed everyone and everything I hold dear. Thank you for deleting it
@GreatPlayer
I'm not sure a JB song would help your case.
I'm in the minority, but I actually really really liked the Wii u version of boom. It's definitely my favorite Wii u game.
Dudes vs. Evil, hell yea.
It was worth just for the Game Grumps take on it. But that's all.
Protip: Focus on title designs once you have a complete, fun, bugless game.
The only thing good to come out of the series was the portrayal of Dr. Eggman in the show. Eggman carries that show as Sonic is too full of himself for his own good, Tails is the same person he's been, Amy is an improvement, Sticks is crazy but not in a funny way,and Knuckles is a buffoon which saddens me. Shadow had a brief appearance as did Metal Sonic but the episodes didn't have the epic buildup or punch that should accompany the 2 closest characters that come to beating Sonic (outside of Mario).
@Miles_Edgeworth I don't think that @Zach777 hates the Sonic franchise, just the Boom games. I downloaded the free demo for Rise of Lyric the day they released it, and I was so disappointed with the quality that I only finished two of the three demo levels.
Realized that McDonald's forgot to put salt on your fries? Go to this comment section, there's a ton of salt here.
That's all well and good but all you really need to know about Sonic Boom is that SONIC'S ARMS ARE NOT BLUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Show Comments
Leave A Comment
Hold on there, you need to login to post a comment...