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 successful on Metacritic. So it appears critics and followers alike agree: Killing Sonic was a terrific selection!

The Homicide of Sonic the Hedgehog is a visible novel-like murder-mystery recreation that has your cute, furry investigator working with numerous Sonic characters to unravel the “homicide” of the franchise’s iconic blue hero himself. It was simply one of many finest 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 may be very humorous, however as a result of it additionally ended up being a reasonably stable recreation that Sonic followers have largely embraced. In truth, it has “overwhelmingly optimistic” opinions 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 instances. 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 opinions from shops and that’s sufficient to provide it an general mixture rating on the positioning, which, as of this writing, sits at 87. If that rating stays the identical as extra opinions are available (or goes up, even) it is going to doubtless 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 numerous ports) have an 87 or larger Metacritic rating. If the rating goes up even simply two factors thanks to a couple extra optimistic opinions, 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. This can be a franchise with an enormous 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 huge Sonic hit was to kill its star character and ask gamers to unravel his homicide. Now, the place’s the Hollywood film adapting this spin-off?