New Sport That Kills Sonic Now One Of The Greatest Rated In Collection

On March 31, the day earlier than April Fools’, Sega launched an official (and free!) Sonic recreation on Mac and PC that straight up killed the blue bastard. Now, every week later, the sport is blowing up on Steam and is even a success on Metacritic. So it appears critics and followers alike agree: Killing Sonic was an incredible alternative!

The Homicide of Sonic the Hedgehog is a visible novel-like murder-mystery recreation that has your cute, furry investigator working with varied Sonic characters to resolve the “homicide” of the franchise’s iconic blue hero himself. It was simply one of many greatest jokes on April Fools’, not solely as a result of the concept of Sega killing Sonic in a online game and releasing it as a playable product could be very humorous, however as a result of it additionally ended up being a reasonably stable recreation that Sonic followers have largely embraced. The truth is, it has “overwhelmingly optimistic” evaluations on Steam and the Sonic franchise’s social media supervisor confirmed on April 5, via a tweet, that the sport had been downloaded over one million occasions. Spectacular stuff! However not solely do followers prefer it, critics dig this new recreation wherein Sonic will get unmade.

Over on Metacritic, The Homicide of Sonic the Hedgehog has racked up 5 scored evaluations from retailers and that’s sufficient to present it an general mixture rating on the location, which, as of this writing, sits at 87. If that rating stays the identical as extra evaluations are available in (or goes up, even) it is going to possible imply that The Homicide of Sonic the Hedgehog will go down in historical past as one of many highest-rated Sonic video games ever launched. Solely about 5 different Sonic video games (not counting varied ports) have an 87 or increased Metacritic rating. If the rating goes up even simply two factors thanks to some extra optimistic evaluations, it is going to wind up the third-highest-rated Sonic recreation ever.

And it’s not like there have solely been a dozen or so Sonic video games over the previous few many years. It is a franchise with a large variety of entries, together with spin-offs, ports, sequels, and now bizarre shit like video games wherein Sega murks its personal mascot. So attending to the highest of all that may be a real feat for Sega’s surprising new visible novel.

Certain, it’s not shocking that any recreation is healthier than the terrible—[notices an angry group of Sonic ‘06 fans outside, cracking their knuckles] uh—the terrible…Sonic Shuffle. Nevertheless, it’s wild that each one it took for Sega to get its subsequent massive Sonic hit was to kill its star character and ask gamers to resolve his homicide. Now, the place’s the Hollywood film adapting this spin-off?