Psycho the Frog

At the same time though, the Sonic series was always balanced in content, it's just that now, only the comics seem to follow that balance that made sonic so great in the precess, leaving it the only relevant example, of course, I'm mainly talking about content, gameplay is a whole other beast.

they tried in the nineties, but it ended up scraped with a good part of the gameplay put into another game.

I'm aware of that game, I really mean, if not adding the characters and plot, try to keep a balance of both light and dark moments, not just light like in the games now. People may think it should be like that since the game is for kids, but that's why kids don't play too many E rated games in the first place, they feel they're too kiddy.