Smith's favorite Sonic Boom episode is " Battle of the Boy Bands".in a miniskirt!" line as "Baldy McNosehair looks dead sexy in a miniskirt!" He was also requested to say a parody of Vic Mignogna's "Colonel Mustang looks dead sexy. During a 2012 panel, Smith was asked to recite a certain famous speech from Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie in his Sonic voice.In the interview, Roger Craig Smith revealed that he had to audition just like everyone else. During the aforementioned show, Smith was involved in the Sonic Stadium IRC chat room while being interviewed by Talk It Up! host, cdrom1019. Smith was also a special Guest on the Talk It Up! part of the 24 hour radio block. However, the popularity of Smith's voice for Sonic skyrocketed after Project 24 SegaSonic: Radio, a 24-hour chatroom held by fans. It was also thought that he was offered the role by Sega, which many fans felt was unfair to other voice actors, especially Ryan Drummond and Jason Griffith, who got their roles as Sonic through auditions. Some fans praised his voice for having a good portrayal of Sonic's personality and attitude, but others have criticized it for being too deep and anime-generic. His performance received mixed reviews from fans. Destructoid reviewer Jim Sterling criticized Smith as well, saying "Sonic seems to have had a personality makeover, now becoming an affable idiot with a terrible sense of humor." However, GameTrailers criticized Smith saying that he and the other voices in the Sonic Free Riders review were "laughable," and in the Colors review said "we would not object to Sonic being a mute hero". They had praised Smith by saying that Sonic looks cool "for the first time in a long while," and that he has a "less cringeworthy persona." IGN and ScrewAttack also praised Smith's voice work, saying that this is the first Sonic game in years where they could listen to the voice acting and not cringe. In Nintendo Power's review of Sonic Colors, it was written that the good thing about the story was Sonic because he was voiced by Smith. Roger Craig Smith has been met with mostly positive reception. Batman: Arkham Origins - Bruce Wayne/Batman.Avengers Assemble - Steve Rogers/Captain America.Ralph Breaks the Internet - Sonic the Hedgehog.However, on, Smith announced that he was returning to the Sonic series as the voice of Sonic. He said that he has no disdain towards Sega or the Sonic series and just simply wanted to move onto a better place in his life. He cited special neglect and sense of being undervalued as one issue as he was not invited to Capcom's Resident Evil 5 launch party despite voicing the main character, Chris Redfield, as well as loneliness from being away from his childhood family. On 28 January 2021, Smith announced on his Twitter that he would no longer be voicing Sonic, citing his frustrations and disappointments in an interview with ongoing trends in the modern gaming voice acting industry and general unhappiness living in California. Smith himself spoke out as to why the voice had undergone such a change saying that Sega had asked him to make Sonic sound "older". When a cutscene from Sonic Colors was revealed on the internet, the final voice for Sonic varied significantly from the Alton Towers' announcements, and sounded a lot deeper than Jason Griffith's Sonic voice. Later in August 2010, it was revealed that the audio clips of Smith performing as Sonic at Alton Towers were edited and slowed down, and some of the original unedited voice clips were released on the internet for download. When contacted via Facebook, Smith confirmed that it was his voice. Some thought that a commercial done for Alton Towers sounded better than the room's actual voice. When a video featuring the voice clips circulated, fans heavily criticized the Sonic voice saying it sounded too "surfer" and "cheesy", and wondered who was behind it. When the entry door to the room opens, patrons are greeted by audio recordings of Sonic. In early 2010 at the Alton Towers resort in the UK, the "Sonic Room," a Sonic-themed room, was opened along with the Sonic Spinball roller coaster.
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