While his shell would've provided as a strong defense, he was still quite vulnerable and would've been more dependent on Sonic than Tails would be in the final.
One interesting thing to note is that the concept art follows the internal stage IDs quite well, even more in the Simon Wai build ( italic means the stage is unused, bold means its name was changed).īoomer the Turtle (also named Boomy and BoomBoom in the concept art), made by Craig Stitt, was one of many early submissions that were part of an internal competition for who would be Sonic's sidekick in Sonic 2.
