15 Mind-Blowing Facts You Didn't Know About Sonic The Hedgehog
4. The Series Was A Huge Comment On Environmentalism
In a 2010 interview on ThisIsMyJoystick, game director Yuji Naka finally revealed that the reason Robotnik's evil schemes revolved around capturing small animals, was to be his comment on mankind's effect on the world around us. He mentions it as such:
“Dr Robotnik is a slightly radical representation of all humanity and the impact humanity is having on nature. In 1991, it was a very sensitive subject to talk about the environment and while I had my viewpoint, I did not speak of it. With Sonic, I was given an opportunity to express my views in a different way and did so, showing Robotnik using pollution and creating machinery which desecrates the environment and it is down to Sonic to change his ways.”
You'll not think of the Oil Ocean level in the same way ever again.