The originalSonic the Hedgehoggames for the Genesis and Sega CD remain some of, if not the best Sonic games to date. So popular that they are still being bundled together and resold for the latest consoles via 2022’sSonic Origins. However, the trajectory of the hedgehog after his very first appearance might have been forever changed had a Sega CD follow-up starring a “sexy” female version of the blue blur ever seen the light of day.
Dubbed Sister Sonic,rumblings about the canceled RPG starring the hedgehog’s sisterhave been out there for years. However, in an attempt to find out if Sister Sonic was the real deal, not only has YouTube channelDidYouKnowGamingconfirmed the rumors, but it has discovered some concrete details about the canceled hame. Turns out while the rumor that the game existed and was eventually canceled was true, most of the other information about Sister Sonic was inaccurate.
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For starters, despite the game’s name, the star of Sister Sonic would not have been Sonic’s sister. In an early ’90s edition of Beep MegaDrive, Sega Falcom’s director confirms the studio had five titles in development at the time, adding that Sister Sonic was furthest along out of all of them. It’s in that same interview that the director confirms Sister Sonic would not have been Sonic’s sister, just a female relative of the hedgehog. No explanation as to why she needed to be a more distant relative than a sister, but there you go. It’s also in that interview that the director confirms Sister Sonic would have had “a flirtatious and sexy charm”.
The other rumor often connected to Sister Sonic is that it would have been a simple reskin of Nihon Falcom’s Popful Mail. A somewhat common practice at the time, it was the same treatment applied to Dr. Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine which was a reskin of Puyo Puyo. The video above has debunked that rumor as the same interview in Beep confirms Sister Sonic would have been a full-blown remake of Popful Mail, released in both the US and Japan, and not a simple reskin of the pre-existing game for Western audiences familiar with Sonic.
It’s also noted that even though it probably could have gotten away with it, Sega Falcom never planned to try and pass off Sister Sonic as an entirely original game. Despite the studio’s best intentions, that may well have been the wrong thing to do. When Popful Mail fans got wind of the Sister Sonic plans, they wrote to Sega asking for the original game to be ported to the CD instead. That may well be why Sister Sonic was eventually canceled as not even a screenshot of the game exists to this day, but Popful Mail got the remake treatment in 1994.
