Sonic the Hedgehog: Soleanna Edition (Johnsonverse)

Sonic the Hedgehog: Soleanna Edition is an upcoming 2021 action-adventure game developed by Sonic Team and published by Sega. It will be a large-scale redo of the 2006 video game Sonic the Hedgehog, better known as Sonic '06, and will be personally supervised by Tim and Chloe Johnson.

Set to be released on the 30th anniversary of the franchise, it will be released on November 14, 2021, exactly fifteen years after the release of the original game, for Xbox One, Xbox Series X, PlayStation 4, PlayStaton 5, Nintendo Switch, PC, Linux, Macintosh, and Mandatum.

Premise
The premise will be almost completely changed from the original game.

Soleanna Edition
When the Johnson Twins played Sonic the Hedgehog for the first time on December 29, 2006 on their Xbox 360, they hated the game so much that they never played it again after finishing all three campaigns and even wrote a fifty-page review; Chloe's half of the review called it "the worst Sonic game of all time, and a really bad omen for the franchise and Sega in general. It's such a shame because we've been fans all our lives, and this is how they reward us", while Tim's half was much more critical, calling it "pestilence" and "diarrhea", and saying that "if I had the means and time, I'd go back in time and prevent the idiots at Sega who forced those poor souls to rush out this unholy abomination from ever being conceived!".

On July 31, 2019, when Johnson Industries' acquisition of Sega closed, Tim pegged a large-scale redo of the game as the first project to begin development, saying that "the fans deserve a product far better than what they got about thirteen years ago, my sister and myself included". Much of the voice cast will reprise their roles such as Lacey Chabert as Princess Elise, the exceptions being Jason Griffith as Sonic, Amy Palant as Tails, Kathleen Delaney as Rouge (they had been replaced by Ryan Drummond, Colleen O'Shaughnessey, and Karen Strassman, respectively), and Maddie Blaustein as E-123 Omega due to her 2008 death, being replaced by Vic Mignogna. Tim estimates that "only about 15-20 percent" of the original story will remain.

Reception
The game's announcement has been critically acclaimed. Magazines