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Super Replay – The Worst Sonic The Hedgehog Ever
When I decided to turn the 12.31 Super Replay into an annual event, I knew the focus needed to be on bad games. People enjoyed watching us suffer; that was the hook that stood out. We used Overblood as the foundation for the type of game we were looking for each year. Blue Stinger, Illbleed, And Martian Gothic were all games that delivered a similar stench. They were perfect selections for the annual Super Replay.
When Tim Turi left Game Informer to work at Capcom, I realized this Super Replay event wouldn't be the same without him. He played through all of these bad games, and, well, I don't think it would have been fair to continue on without him. Out of respect to Tim, we are moving away from the survival-horror angle, and are falling back on my original pitch: it needs to be a bad game period.
As it turns out, there are many different flavors of terrible video games, and I think we found another example in Sonic the Hedgehog that is every bit as enjoyable, campy, and unbearably bad as the original Overblood. The game is simply titled Sonic the Hedgehog, but it's often referred to as Sonic '06. It's developed by Sonic Team for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, and is another failed attempt to give the blue speedster new life.
The game is as bad as they come, and it won't take long for you to see why. It's an abomination of platforming and action, and the story also makes it look like two wildly different games were mashed together into one.
New episodes of this Super Replay will hit every Tuesday and Sunday on Game Informer and YouTube. I don't like to blow smoke, but I truly think this is one of our best Super Replays yet, perhaps because it's a new beginning and a different kind of awful. Enjoy!
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