Even if Sonic 3 was only half the game it was intended to be when it wasn’t played with Sonic & Knuckles, it outclassed its predecessors and would continue to foment the Sonic frenzy that would inspire the rest of his games in the 1990s, with or without Jackson’s help. Sonic and his trusty companion Tails were given enhanced movesets, levels were fleshed out to provide alternate pathways, and the visuals received a noticeable upgrade, both in terms of character detail as well as the use of pseudo-3D. It raised the bar from its predecessors, both subtly and not so. But whether Jackson’s creativity impressed upon Sonic 3 and its development is wholly unimportant. Sure, a handful of tracks are spot-on remixes of Jackson’s hits, and Launch Base Zone features what can only be some of his vocal samples. As a life-long Sonic fan, the MJ co-sign only further justified my preference for The Blue Blur over Mario.īut in the years since the game was released in 1994, I grew increasingly less concerned with Jackson’s influence on the game. The fact that the king of cool (Sonic) earned a head nod from the king of pop (Jackson) validated the hedgehog in my eyes. Is it strange to say I don't care whether Michael Jackson worked on Sonic the Hedgehog 3? For a time, I took solace in the possibility he might have worked on the game.
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