Siobhan

On second thought, I'd imagine it is intentional as I don't recall her hair splitting like that at all before she lost her limb enhancers. It's inconsistent, but it's there.

nice theory but the hair thing is not at all consistent, even on the model sheet it's just a random aesthetic thing, like how lauren zuke gives amethyst crazy bed hair

It's distinct for sure but it's not like most of the characters look at all like the animals they're supposed to be, the species is usually completely arbitrary to the design/character besides maybe providing an initial source of thematic inspiration. The characters tend to share the same basic body/face construction anyways. That being said maybe a dolphin could be cute

heh

Dude the intent of Sonic Boom has always been less to create a series of games and wholly to create a new successful multimedia franchise aimed squarely at young kids ala Ninja Turtles 2K12/Ninjago/whatever. They just attempted to cover it up when doing PR for Rise of Lyric with claims of catering to older fans for the sake of not losing that periphery older part of the fanbase entirely. I agree that Sega doesn't know what they're doing though; I think Nintendo would do a better job of keeping the franchise in an consistently successful direction ala all of their active franchises; Sonic Team could even stay as the developers. They just wouldn't have higher ups telling them to jump ship on a gameplay style/direction every time a game reviewer spergs out about how much he remembers playing his Genesis as a kid. Actually in that case maybe we should just drop Iizuka and be done with it

Sonic Team if they could decide on anything related to the franchise for more than a game. But ideally I'd just throw it at Nintendo, or Arcane Kids (Dreams Collection aside.) Arcane has the Dreamcast/Saturn presentation/aesthetic down and they made Zineth, which was essentially Jet Set Adventure 2 pushed to it's logical extreme with it's momentum and skating mechanics; and speedy physics-based games being something the team excels at. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCr5twS6xc8 I can't imagine they'd ever take on such a straight-forward commercialized project based on a property who's internet community they roasted the shit out of, but it is a pretty perfect match, at the very least in terms of programming the core gameplay. Edit: aw jeez does this place not embed videos