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I tend to love goofy but still semi competent characters, since there's something fully fleshed out about a character that manages to do amazing things and yet never quite keeps up a mystique for themselves (and sometimes doesn't even try). Full on dignified badasses tend to get boring for me, they're just largely positive aces (part of the reason I found Sonic kind of dull in X, where he only had a handful of minor comical or fallible fluctuations). I also tend to like those type of heroes that are underestimated, they're not serious or majestic, and yet when push comes to a shove they can be just as important and brilliant as any other hero. Intelligence and power come in all sorts of different forms, so I love when there isn't just a limit of 'competent' and 'incompetent' in fictional universes. It's the same reason I love when the lucid serious minded character is granted moments of acting like a complete buffoon. The Pokemon anime has recently been trying to spruce up Ash's character after being protagonist for so long and being considered dull by a few fans for example. The Black and White series infamously reset him and made him a bumbling idiot again, outraging fans of his progression, XY went the other direction and made him a respected ace, annoying other fans who felt his character had been diluted and became even more boring. Sun and Moon seems to be taking the middle route, making him buffoonish and wacky, but still rather clever and experienced, basically the best of both worlds. Another of my favourites (as visibly obvious) is Crash Bandicoot. Crash's personality generally comes off as simple, almost animalistic, and yet most of the time, Crash is conveyed as pretty reliable, if not rather crafty against his foes. He's expressive and sweet due to his buffoonish character, but actually pretty competent, and if his bonds with Coco and the Nitro Kart rivals are anything to go by, a pretty sweet fella.

Sad to hear another member of media as I grew up is gone. I mostly know him for his quiz show stuff in the nineties, he always seemed charming and he kept at it till only his final couple of years.

If she or another character DOES make it into a Mania sequel, I'd love for another element from Advance to make it's way in after so long. FOUR PLAYER RACE MODE.

Alternatively just do....

June Foray would have likely also made a great Wendy Witchcart.

Mel Blanc as Bean of course. But since he's sadly no longer with us....maybe Dee Bradley Baker, he does good high pitched looney voices, he tends to brought in whenever Daffy Duck is in 'screwball' mode.

Keep in mind nostalgia and style also come into play. Often when remaking the game, the style and aesthetics of the game are altered and often elements of gameplay are refined, and whether they do a better job or not is subjective, especially gamers who are used to the original. N Sane Trilogy noticeably has different feeling physics in places (eg. making all three games have uniform weight and tightness) and all of the cutscenes and models have been remade (some of the characters look quite different and a lot of lines, though identical, are delivered in a totally different manner) which makes it VERY divisive to many fans of the original games. I also remember some delivered complaints towards Super Mario 64 DS due to the translation to different consoles, believing the game didn't play as smoothly on DS touch screen and D-pad (the 3DS due to having a circle pad, makes it better received, though not universally), along with being forced to switch between characters with different move sets and physics at times.

This game is looking set to have nearly every big gimmick of the old Sonic games. And I've always wanted another 2D Sonic with split screen VS like Sonic 2 (sadly couldn't play upgraded VS on remaster).