i liked this show tails is really cute and sonic is much nicer to tails in this show compared to sonic in sonic x who acts like a jerk to tails. the animation could have been better and i was disspointed with the absence of amy rose who was created by the time this show was made. and i thought robotnik was funny in this and i like him in this show because of it. even though this show was not made in japan i think its much better then sonic x.

There are so many things wrong with this series I don't know which to point out first. The animation is CR@PPY, the "stories" seem like they were written by a 2 year old, Sonic always proceeds the same way (by disguising himself with very obvious outfits), I could go on and on. The only reason I saw this is because I liked the videogame, but seriosly, if you like Sonic go see the SatAm version better.

Sega, fresh from its success with Sonic the Hedgehog 2 on their Mega Drive (Genesis) system, was keen to get their new mascot further into the public eye. DIC, ever a company to produce cartoons based on known franchises, developed two animated series. One dark and foreboding and one happy and light. This one was syndicated for the networks and the other was made into a network series which was abruptly cancelled after the second year.

Unlike its darker, superior, sister series; adventures is a bright, cheerful and overtly colorful affair. One that completely fails to take itself, or its source material, seriously. True it remains the most like the games in terms of the look, layout and character designs, the robots in particular, but it fails to have the sense of impending doomsdays that the games had in their plots.

The comic antics come of as flat, pale copies of the routines done by Warner Bros and other companies during the golden age of animation. It takes a brave company to try to do these kind of routines and to be frank, DIC hasn’t pull it off. Back in the forties then they were new fresh, exciting, with great writers and some of history’s best animators behind them. Here there is merely limited TV animation and muddled writing.

The plots in general are quite laid-back, and one never feels the need to worry so much about Sonic, or his sidekick Tails. Dr. Robotnik, and his band of robots, are incompetents of the highest calibre and as dangerous as a feather. Personality I found Scratch’s voice terribly irritating, and pretty much the rest of him.

While it had its moments and is quite harmless fun, the whole of this show is eclipsed by it sister series and is by itself, quite bland. In some ways the biggest kick in the teeth is the fact that only twenty-six episodes of it's darker sibling got made, were this one ended up with over sixty. In the light of all these aspects it is hard to recommend.

I know people who actually prefer this laugh-a-minute version to Sonic SatAM, and it actually has more in common with the videogames than any of its cousins. Tails can fly in this version, and Sonic still has that hip attitude. I liked this show during its early days, but once I spotted the dark and brooding SatAM, there was just no going back.