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Sonic 3♑ takes more than a few cues from Sonic Adventure 2, the 2001 Dreamcast title that helped cement the Blue Blur as a 3D platforming icon while simultaneously unleashing Shadow the Hedgehog onto the world.

While the live-actioꩲn threequel follows Sonic Aꦇdventure 2's story beats and broad narrative brushstrokes, one of the key differences involves the character of Gerald Robotnik (Jim Carrey).

Namely, he is still alive and (somehow) kicking in Sonic 3, despite being a 114-year-old man. That's a marked change from Sonic Adventure 𒁏2's use of Gerald Robotnik via flashbacks and old recorded messages.

"The biggest change, really, was making it so Gerald is still alive; bringing Gerald into the present instead of only being a flashback villain who e𒆙xists only in the past, because there's just a limit to how many flashbacks we want to have," Sonic 3 co-writer Pat Casey re﷽veals to GamesRadar+.

"We wanted to make him more of a present danger, giving us a real villain, because we knew from the beginning we wanted to find an opportunity to get Sonic and꧙ Ivo more stuff together. So the idea of them teaming up was a big thing on the to do list, even though obviously any such team up was always temporary."

Fellow co-writer Josh Miller says that bringing Gerald Robotnik into the fold teases out new dynamics for Jim Carrey's other Robotnik, Ivo (a🏅lso known as Eggman to his eꦅnemies).

"It became such a big thᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚing in the Sonic movie franchise that Ivo is an orphan, so it was just hard to resist the idea of what would happen if he suddenly found out that he has a family member," Miller s🍸ays. "Since the Sonic movies are all about found family."

Casey adds, "I mean, to me, the Sonic movies are about crushing loneliness. I remember🐼 people making memes about that after Sonic 2 and it is a little true, and Ivo is a part of that. So it☂ was what happened to him if he thought he wasn’t alone anymore."

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