Part 2 of my review of "Sonic Underground":

Here's part 2 of my review of "Sonic Underground!"  Another thing I appreciate about "Sonic Underground" is that that show tried to do world-building, plus some of the episodes are really interesting.  For instance, I love this episode called "The Price of Freedom" where Sonia meets up with this friend of hers named Mindy LaTour and Mindy's dad, and you may think Mindy is just a spoiled rich girl, but she really isn't.  She's actually pretty sweet to Sonia and she wants to be a Freedom Fighter like Sonia and I love Mindy for that as well as being the subversion to the snobby rich girl stereotype.  Sonia met up with Mindy in that episode after kind of getting fed up with Sonic and Manic teasing her about her appearance.  

I actually kind of felt bad for Sonia in that episode because I think at least SOME people in real life would probably want to be clean like she would.  Fortunately, after spending some time with Mindy, Sonia patches things up with Sonic, and after Mindy asks for an explanation of WHY her dad was making spy watches for Robotnik, Mindy's dad actually wants to turn the tables on Robotnik!  There's more to the episode, but I won't spoil it.  In case you can't tell, I DARN LOVE that episode!  But I do agree with Mindy's dad that it wasn't a smart idea to let Sonia in their house (or maybe it was a mansion?) because Mindy and her dad did lose their home, and you think those two would be infuriated at Sonia, Sonic, and Manic for pretty much inviting danger to their home.  

Another favorite episode of mine is this one where Sonia meets up with a guy in a desert city whom ends up getting cyborg legs near the end of the episode.  Fortunately, he appreciates getting the cyborg legs instead of being UNGRATEFUL like Bunnie is at least sometimes in the Archie Sonic comics.  Another one of my favorite episodes involve Sonic and his siblings coming across a guy whom uses a powerful energy sword, and while he was partially roboticized by Robotnik, he DOES help Sonic rescue Manic.  I also love the fact that Sonic and his siblings have magical instruments that can be used by using their medallions; for example, Sonic has a guitar that can shoot lasers, Sonia has a piano that can create pink smoke, and Manic has drums that can be used to create earthquakes!  In addition, Sonic's medallion can even allow Sonic to fly. 

I also like that Knuckles makes an appearance in at least one episode, plus unlike SOME games, he's not a total doofus like "Sonic Boom," "Sonic X," or "Sonic Advance 2" can show him to be!  In "Sonic Underground," Knuckles is actually SMART and sympathetic.  When he tells Sonic, Manic, and Sonia that he can’t leave his island to help them and that he has a duty, he’s sad and worried, not angry and stubborn.  THAT'S how you can help make a likable hero, ladies and gentlemen!  

The only real complaint I have about Knuckles (and this applies to other people like Sonia and Manic as well) is about their voices.  I can understand WHY people don't like Sonia's voice from "Sonic Underground," I REALLY can, but I don't think it could ever sound as bad as when CINDY ROBINSON voiced Amy or when Cream was voiced in "Sonic X" or "Sonic Heroes!"  I think even Roger Craig Smith had some pretty terrible voice performances that would make Sonia's performances from "Sonic Underground" sound like they're from a voice actor who knows what he or she is doing!  No, I don't really hate Roger Craig Smith or Cindy Robinson as people, but I do think that their voice-acting needed serious improvement.

I do like that Robotnik was a competent engineer, but I don't understand why Sleet and Dingo are so incompetent.  I do think it's clever, however, that Sleet has a machine that can transform Dingo into many different things and even people.  If Sonic in "Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog" had such a gadget, something like THAT could help justify where he's getting disguises!  That said, though, you think that maybe Sonic, Manic, and Sonia would be suspicious of something that's ORANGE, but sadly, "Sonic Underground," much like "Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog," had the same problem of people not recognizing some people in disguises.  And while "Sonic Underground" does have Sonia, Manic, and Sonic using disguises, I'm willing to at least go a little easier on it than I did with "Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog," and I'll explain why.

The plots of "Sonic Underground" tend to take place in areas with people around the heroes, and it’s a world where the civilians look like anthropomorphic animal people.   Usually, the disguises cover enough that the general shape of the heroes is hidden so that you can’t tell they’re hedgehogs, and they can disguise their faces.  So it’s easier to swallow that someone would see them and think they’re some other Mobians in the city who just happen to be of the same coloration as them.  In "Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog," though, Sonic is the only one who could’ve possibly been in that time and space, and yet they always think he’s somebody else, and the civilians of his world look nothing like him and Tails who stick out like a sore thumb.  Well, I guess I've got more to cover about "Sonic Underground" than I thought, so stay tuned for the finale of my review of "Sonic Underground" in the next post; see you all then:)