Is Sonic for more mature audiences than Mario?

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I feel as if by taking the audiecnecs out of the audience, something irreplaceable has been lost.

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An anthropomorphic hedgehog runs around gathering rings in a colourful and bright environment is more mature than an Italian Plumber (Who worked in Brooklyn) that fights turtles and angry mushroom on a regular basis.

No, they're both for more mature audiecnecs.

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They tried making Sonic darker but it didn't go well for the hedgehog. That said, Mario went into dark territory too. Though it did pretty well.

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To be fair, Sonic has an "attitude" (which means he makes a mean face sometimes and is slightly conceited) and Eggman, Shadow and several minor characters have guns and stuff.

So no, I don't think Sonic is for more mature audiences than Mario, but I do think it's more prone to adopting a "Darker and Edgier" aesthetic on occasion in order to appear cool.

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Competent writing helps. I personally thought Sonic Chronicles handled "Darker and Edgier" well, too.

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Mario tends to make things "darker" (starting to hate that word) via Nightmare Fuel, rather than making everything blatantly OMGEDGYTHEMES.

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Isn't the entire character concept for Rouge "evil counterpart who can glide like Knuckles"? That's the long and short of it.

I guess this just means that TV Tropes isn't for mature audiecnecs. They just flat out aren't acceptable here.

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Ah, Sonic Chronicles... now that was a fun game. Little easy for an RPG and a little short, but fun and entertaining nonetheless.

Now if only Bioware would get off their butts and give us that sequel, everything will be just smashing. I miss the good ol' days when Dr. Robotnik was a halfway-competent villain.

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I don't think either Sonic or Mario is for Mature audiences; they've had a game or two for Teen audiences, but most of their franchise appeals to the Everyone or Kids to Adults audiences.

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He wasn't competent in Unleashed?

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Well, yes he was, but that wasn't what I was getting at. I was referring to the old days when he didn't get usurped by whatever ancient evil he happens to be harnessing in the current game.

It's my fault for not elaborating on that point; my appologies.

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More like "neutral counterpart", but yeah pretty much.

I need to finish that game (and Unleashed). Sounds like I missed one of Sonic's better titles.

edited 6th Nov '10 8:12:09 PM by Customer

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Yeah, I need to play Chronicles, too.

edited 6th Nov '10 8:31:14 PM by elemcee

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Sat AM and the Archie Comic definitely were, for a period of time.

Unlike Duke Nukem, I have no problems playing either Super Mario or Sonic around my four-year-old cousin, so no.

Now, both games have had somewhat dark moments:

Super Mario Galaxy: Bowser's plot to rule a galactic empire results in the entire universe being (temporarily)destroyed. Also, Rosalina's tragic backstory and Luma's sacrifice.

Super Paper Mario: The whole game. I mean, the Final Boss is a possessed Luigi, for cryin' out loud! And and all the main characters get killed off at one point.

Sonic Adventure 2: The story as a whole got pretty serious around the time everyone gets to the ARK. Prof. Gerald's speech recorded right before his execution surprised me.

However though, both series are primarily lighthearted affairs on the whole.

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Neither series have been "mature." And I hope they never will be.

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Eh, I guess Sonic's tried to go for the darker plots than Mario overall, so I guess if you count "dark" as "mature", I suppose. The spin-off media tended to tell more complicated storylines - aside from the insanity that was The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, the other spin-offs tended to tell more complicated storylines. Compare this to the very light-hearted and episodic Mario cartoons.

Regardless, Sonic's still aimed pretty squarely at the same audience as Mario.

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