Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog

Ok. So alot of people have problems with this show. I for one love the show. This episode was great! It was like a SEGA Genesis videogame in cartoon form. They had classic enemies like (my personnal favorite) Caterkiller which is a robot that's like a caterpiller. Get it?



Anyway, This episode also showed how Dr. Robotnik (a.k.a. Dr. Eggman) built the brain-dead robots Scratch and Grounder. Scratch is a chicken and Grounder is like...a tank person.



Now this really isn't part of the review, but the enemies in the new Sonic games like Shadow the Hedgehog and Sonic Riders aren't as creative as they were back in the 90's...that's too bad.

This is the pilot episode for this children's series. For the die-hard fans of the Sonic Adventure era, let's rather call this nostalgia.



This first episode tells the birth of Scratch and Grounder, the two "twin robots" who are going to become the two main minions of Dr. Robotnik. The arrival of those two new robots doesn't please Coconuts who is forced to stay at the Sewer Patrol. In order to improve his condition, Coconuts will attempt to capture Sonic and Tails himself and thus prove his potential to his creator.



As we might suspect, there are going to be some sequences of fraternal fighting between the two newcomers and also with Coconuts. This looks like some civil conflict.



However, I've been disappointed by the lack of a real story. Once the two robots arrive, the rest of the episode is only a series of chases, captures, traps and escapes. That's the kind of thing you will find in the "Road Runner Show".



For the newcomers who discover this show, you find out what the whole show is all about. Thus you discover an intelligent and smart Sonic, with his spicy and derisory humour. And let's not forget his knack for disguise. As for Tails, he is far less developed in this episode and if you don't already know of his use in the upcoming episodes, you could doubt of the relevance of his very presence in the show. Fortunately, this mistake will be corrected.



The animation and the sets may appear mediocre, but it's not realized with great ambitions. Honestly, this is not a show that you watch for its visual quality, but for its characters and its gags.



For a premiere, we could have had better, but we could have had worse.

This is the best episode of The Adventures Sonic the Hedgehog. I love it so much because it shows all the robots that Robotnik ever created, and most of them are your opponents in the 1993 Sega Genesis game, Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine! This episode is also the pilot for the the entire show, I also love it alot because its funny how Sonic tricks the robots so easily into doing something, (you think Robotnik would've been smart enough to give them a brain). Also we learn how Scratch and Grounder were created.

In an attempt to escape from a trap set by Scratch and Grounder, Sonic tells the story of when Scratch and Grounder were built, and when Sonic and Tails first battled them.



After Sonic ruins Dr. Eggman's Bounty Hunter's convention by destroying all of the robots, Dr. Eggman is so fed up, he Builds Scratch. Unfortunately, Scratch isn't very smart. In Scratch's cloning process, Scratch accidentally pulls a lever that he wasn't supposed to pull, thus creating Grounder. The two hate each other and fight with each other until Dr. Eggman tells them that they are supposed to catch Sonic. (You think he would be smart enough to put brains in their heads.)



This episode shows all of Dr. Eggman's earliest inventions, who also are your opponents in the 1993 Genesis game Dr. Eggman's Mean Bean Machine.



Now to the reviewer DizzyDennis, I agree that the enemies in more recent Sonic games (Shadow the Hedgehog and Sonic Riders) aren't as creative as the AoStH/MBM robots.