{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "What's the official Kontextmaschine\u2122 take on Sonic the Hedgehog? You'll have to do for this stuff until Bloody gets back.", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/164230709338/", "html": "<div class=\"question\"><strong>Anonymous</strong> asked: What's the official Kontextmaschine\u2122 take on Sonic the Hedgehog? You'll have to do for this stuff until Bloody gets back. </div>\n<p>Of the platformer brands only Mario really nailed the transition to 3D; the focus on speed and constant motion (originally as a hardware demo) made Sonic particularly ill-suited. That as much as anything accounts for the fandom; God knows the <strong>games</strong> weren\u2019t bringing any new blood in, and as the normies evaporated it distilled down to the obsessive dregs</p>"}