I'm not exaggerating when I say that 2006's Sonic the Hedgehog for the Xbox 360 remains one of the worst titles on the console. The game's release was a bad time for the Xbox 360, for Sega, Sonic and the idiots who believed in him (myself).
The controls for the game are inexcusably atrocious, but it's not much of a loss anyway since the gameplay is as stale as last December's bread. More, people get squicked when they think of the implied romance between Sonic and Elise, a human princess who's literally pregnant with Mary Sue attributes. Doubtlessly the internet's automatic disdain for the furry culture has worn away at our tolerance, but even I have to say "Ewww." I do not envy the woman who has to give birth to spiky hedgehog-hybrids.
As it happens, I can't fault Sonic Team for giving Sonic a human love interest. As it happens, he was always destined to make it with a homo sapiens. Just...not an underage one.
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