Round Up: The Reviews Are In For Sonic Prime

Nothing can really beat the legendary Sonic Boom anyway

I watched the first four episodes, and I really like it so far. Sonic's funny and I kind of like Amy, Knuckles, and Rouge's voices more than their usuals. It's a fun adventure!

I’m gonna check it out. Looks like a fun show.

Hm, may buy a month of Netflix just for this. Awesome to at last see Rouge again in a Sonic show. Would be awesome if they also brought other Sonic characters, such as Cream, the Chaotix and the like.

Sonic Prime is the only reason I got a Netflix account (well that and also so I could finally watch the Cuphead show episodes in full). I'm only on six episodes right now but I kinda like what I have seen so far.

I really liked this show! I feel reviews for sonic things can sometimes deviate from fan opinions.

@SmileMan64 It amazes me people will fork over cash to Netflix instead of learning how to Google and be watching it faster than they could pay for a subscription.

Also they must suck at marketing, I thought they were pumping out another crap shoot game already, never even heard of this and I'm a huge television/movie buff.

the show is good but im very disappointed at how it uses sonic's world, its such a surface level bare bones use of everything. why do they just live in green hill. where is half of the characters. and all the shatter spaces are fun, but pretty generic aside from new yoke city. idk. its a fun show tho

I binged it all yesterday with my son. I had an absolute blast with it. Silly enough for kids, whilst also keeping it mature enough for the older Sonic fan. There's also a few nice easter eggs to keep an eye out for too. If I had to pick a fault with it, I didn't like the abrupt ending. I just hope that means we won't have to wait too long for more episodes

@SmileMan64 That's exactly what I did and it's so worth it. Probably going to cancel as soon as the month is up, lol, but the fact that I would pay the amount for a whole month JUST to binge this, and then use it for the rest of the month is just a bonus :3

Trailer looks very cool. Definitely gonna watch it someday.

@blindsquarel
Truth. It gave us hits such as
"This wall tastes like wall"
and "MEME! Approved."

I watched it. It is okay, but definitely something for younger people.

Here's my review, as a looooooong time fan of the franchise (ever since 1992).

The animations (especially facial expressions) get significantly better from episode 5 onwards. The direction could be better, some camera decisions and the overall pacing are weird at times. The models, character design, textures and lighting are excellent. The concept is interesting and fun. The script is not really deep, but it's entertaining enough.

And Shadow... Shadow is still a perma-angry unjustified jerk who punches first and talks later, which is a total disappointment, but SEGA gonna SEGA I guess.

7/10

@blindsquarel Sonic Boom was WAY funnier than it had any right to be. I loved it.

@Gitface @Marioman2022
Not gonna lie, the part where Eggman tries to get tails a girlfriend was pretty funny.

Thorn Rose and the Scavengers way overstayed their welcome. Worst part of the show so far. The rest was fine.

@theModestMouse Cool your jets, edgelord. Netflix is like $20 a month. If you can't even afford that, that's a you problem. Some of us will rather pay a small fee and legally watch hundreds of movies and shows than pirate the stuff like it's the early 2000's all over again.

@theModestMouse You know Netflix has had to shut down a lot of animation projects, right? Real people work on these shows and need to be compensated to make a living.

Do you really hate this show so much that you would scoff at the idea of someone wanting to pay people for their work? And before you say "those animators have already been paid", it's about job security. If they don't make their money back, we can't have nice things and studios can't stay open to continue employing people.

You want to "google" the show, go for it, but don't turn your noes up at the people who actually pay for the ***** you end up consuming for free.

Judging by that trailer alone i can confirm Sonic Boom was better

Certainly aimed at kids, but it has gotten me emotional a few times so far. There is a sense of loneliness Sonic has to grapple with that does hit me some.

@inenai I actually thought Shadow was actually in-character for once. He was trying to reason with Sonic (whom he had every right to be angry with) about that incident.

@TheMisterManGuy Shadow has been an angry Sonic-hater for a while now and it's annoying. He's been seriously flanderised as a character. And that's exactly how he is in Prime too. However, it actually works in Prime because Sonic is an insufferable douche that never listens and caused all the problems. That justifies Shadow's bad attitude (in Prime at least).

They fixed Shadow... By making Sonic worse.

I'm on ep 2, I can/can't believe they don't allow switching to the Japanese dub so I've had to watch it in Mandarin. It's the only language that doesn't make my skin crawl with these unfitting voices.

I was starting to like the Latam dub but they keep every single Sonic term in English, and sounds too awkward sometimes.

I strongly feel Shadow should not have been part of the generic Green Hill world Sonic is introduced in.

Leagues better than Boom, but doesn't hope to reach Sonic X's excellent storytelling and care for the characters.

@theModestMouse Some of us don't support digital piracy and would rather not risk downloading malware. Some of us actually are willing to pay $7 - $10 for one month to watch a cartoon, we're not that pathetic and miserable.

@GravyTrayn Awesome. Have fun.

I've only seen a couple of episodes, however, my boys and I are liking Sonic Prime so far.

Pretty average, a lot more video game references though. Feels like it was made for a younger audience. I’d give it a 6/10. a real 6/10, not this fakeass “6/10 or lower is a bad show” rot.

Really fun Anime! Finally some originality in story for a change! Was pleasantly surprised!
Binge watched all first 8 episodes in 2 days.

OK, but can we talk about how Ian Hamlin, the voice for the main antagonist of Cadence of Hyrule (Octavo), voices Shadow SO WELL.

I agree that the writing is rather poor, but everything from the lighting, the color, the animation, and the cinematography is downright fantastic candy to the eye.
What's unfortunate is that the visuals are so captivating that they had no need to dumb the writing down for a younger audience; kids would watch it anyway.

@TheMisterManGuy By punching first and talking later? What is Shadow's objective exactly, then? If he wanted Sonic to listen to him, why hit him first thing? Wouldn't that make things just more complicated for him? I think he should be smarter than that. As I see it, it was just an excuse to have them battle on screen. Which was cool, not gonna lie, just... felt unnecessary or at the very least exaggerated to me at that point, plot-wise.

I started watching this today the animation looks nice i do agree on writing is poor they should have dumbed it down too much for younger audience.
I do like New Yoke City dimension does remind me of Sonic Satam. Kinda wish they made more episodes into that.

Disappointed how Shadow is in the show he really doesn't fit the generic green hill zone world. The humor is better in Sonic Boom. Its not best as everyone says its will give 5/10. I hope writing improves for next season.

@Ruler-Of-All-Evil I agree as well. I thought that he wouldn't be any good since he also voices Big and that may affect Shadow, but he handles the two characters so well. He makes Shadow sound like Jason Griffith somewhat