Someone on Twitter pointed out that the difference between Sonic and Detective Pikachu is that the pikachu in DP still looks like pikachu, with the “realism” dial cranked to 11. Sonic, on the other hand, looks nothing like any classic depiction of Sonic in any 2D or 3D medium, so we don’t have anything to which we can anchor our visual understanding of it. It’s like the design team got all their reference material by searching “anthro sonic” on deviantART.
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