Part 2 will continue my counter argument about gamers giving Sonic a hard time than he deserves.

It's amazing how Sonic wishes to utilize and change up a few things. Build a world and believable fictional world where a mad scientist is constantly after the chaos emeralds.

But no matter how many gamers give Sonic a hard time. There is still something that doesn't seem right, almost unfair.

Mario gets away with anything.

Don't believe me? Keep reading.

Trail 1: Friends.

Over the decades since Mario and Sonic started to become a well known name throughout gaming history they have been through a lot of adventures and a very large library of games, this would include them meeting with other characters.

A lot of people wonder why other characters are needed in video games, especially with Sonic the hedgehog. The answer is quite simple: Progressing the adventures.

Let's take a step back here and look at the games in a simple bare naked truth: The majority of Sonic games has always been to stop Dr Robotnik/Eggman from getting his hands on the Chaos Emeralds and use it to rule the world. Majority of Mario games consisted of saving a princess who has terrible homeland security thanks to Bowser. Both Mario and Sonic have to stop their arch rivals before they are able to fulfill their plans.

Now the majority of games that consist of these plots. People don't realize but it's rather hard to keep people's attention to play a game with the exact same plot and point than the last game they just played. To balance this out they introduce other character's to make a old idea seem almost new again. Here's a list of examples to show you what I mean.
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Tails: Used to utilize the second controller so two people can play.

Knuckles: Made for a plot device to further the "Death Egg Saga". He becomes a playable character with different abilities to differ from Sonic allowing players to experience the games in a different perspective.

Amy Rose/Metal Sonic: Used for a plot device to lure Sonic to the tiny planet that appears once a year for a month over never lake. She was used as bait to get Sonic to rescue her so Robotnik/Eggman can use his newest villain creation: Metal Sonic to destroy Sonic once and for all.

------The point of Sonic Adventure was to have different perspectives rather than just Sonic to tell a bigger story and able to see how it all comes together. Different engines were introduced by allowing different characters to do things slightly different showing more diversity (either dumb to you or not) about a character's personality and different ways to play the game rather than simply just running to a goal.

Big The Cat: Used as a small plot device for Sonic Adventure. His frog friend swallowed a piece of Chaos (The major boss of the game) and he leaves his home in search for him. Also provided a different way of playing the game. (You fished for froggy for every level).

E-102 Gamma: Also in Sonic Adventure, E-102 is part of the E series robot Robotnik/Eggman creates and eventually goes haywire. He becomes so malfunctioned he instead goes after his "brothers" and destroys them to release the animals inside of them. He believes that destroying his counterparts is a rescue mission. He even goes as far as saying he "rescued" another E-100 series robot after fully destroying them. His game play was the first to introduce shooting in the game. He later on self destructs itself to "rescue" himself and frees the animal inside him.

Amy Rose makes another appearance to help E-102 Gamma's storyline after getting herself into trouble by one of the Robotnik/Eggman robot named Zero that seems to be almost invincible to Amy's attacks that's after a animal she just made friends with. Unlike Sonic, Amy's side of the story involved her trying her best to get away from ZERO in a few levels in almost a horror kind of feel to it like from Resident Evil 3 when running away from Nemesis.

------The point of Sonic Adventure 2 was to have multiple story lines that flowed at the same time in order to make the game more entertaining by surpassing Sonic Adventure's story telling by making 6 stories into just two simple storyline: Hero and Villains. Shadow was to be Sonic's Rival, Rouge to be Knuckles, and Eggman to be Tail's. The purpose was to make 3 main characters but making 6 by using the original 3's character's animations and copying them to the other three by making them seem more "true rivals". This also allowed the 3 on 3 characters to have similar levels and limit the space of the disk space by having three different programming going instead of making 6 entirely different character's level and animation.

Shadow the Hedgehog: Also known as the "ultimate life form". The main point plot that revolved around Sonic adventure 2 involved about Shadow and why he was doing the things he was doing. Started to appear not to be a bad guy but rather not understanding that not everyone in the world are as cold as he once believed.

Rouge the Bat: Used to be the rival of Knuckles The Echidna, treasure hunter that was helping Robotnik/Eggman. Her goal was to get the chaos emeralds for herself, also worked part time with the secret service that was to ruin Robotnik/Eggman's plan by trying to stop the eclipse cannon.

------During Sonic Heroes. Sonic Team figured a way to utilize the current cast of characters by putting 4 similar yet different story lines at the same time by having 4 groups of 3 having their own reason to have involvement of the story. Each group was also used to set the difficulty of the game. (Team Rose was for beginners) (Team Sonic was for normal difficulty) (Team Dark was for a harder Difficulty) and (Team Chaotix was for mission modes making the playing of the same levels completely different with different objectives.)

---- Sonic Rush went pretty much 2d meets 3d and introduced a new character Blaze.

Blaze The Cat comes from royalty as a princess from an alternate dimension. Appointed as defender of the Sol Emeralds,her role is similar to Sonic and Knuckles at the same time. The goes to Sonic's dimension to find the Sol Emeralds before her dimensional arch enemy Eggman Nega get his hands on them. Sonic decides to help out.

------Sonic Riders was the response to make another Sonic racing game. But everyone knowing Sonic could beat any race hands down, a different idea was presented. A race by using hover gear in order to win the race. Sonic is challenged by a racing pro team and thieves called the Babylon Rogues. Sonic, Tails and Knuckles get teased to the point they want to wipe the floor with the Babylon Rogues especially after Sonic finding out Robotnik/Eggman is involved. In order to find out what he is up to, they have no choice but to participate in the competition. The game utilized a style similar to Sonic Heroes making a certain character either speed,power or fly. Depending on the character type allowed them to take short cuts or advantages around the tracks that the other two types couldn't access.

------Sonic The Hedgehog Next Gen was to once again try and use the story formula seperated by Sonic, Shadow and a new character named Silver. With their combined stories it was to show the story to it's fullest. Sonic's levels were to be the rushing through the stage and avoiding danger to get to the goal. Shadows was to destroy things using any methods needed and Silver's was more of puzzle solving using things to his advantage.

Silver The Hedgehog was introduced to help the story. He was from the future and was tricked by one of the villains into believing Sonic was responsible of Silver's current time being in such ruin. He goes to the past to kill Sonic but later on finds out he was tricked. He then later on aids Sonic.

The point I'm trying to make is that people complain about the characters in Sonic's Universe and I think it's quite the opposite. I love the characters. I like different characters that isn't just Sonic and have their own way of doing things and makes Sonic's fictional world more believable and just even more interesting to be indulged in.

I'll continue this tomorrow. Stay tuned.