Sonic games introduced ... They functioned as partner characters alongside the unique group of Knuckles Vector, Espio, Charmy, and Mighty. Either Heavy or Bomb aren’t the best partners out ...

Sonic 3 became the first story where the human characters (save Robotnik) aren’t major players in the plot, letting Team Sonic take the lead. Not to spoil anything, but Sonic the Hedgehog 3 does ...