10 TERRIBLE Video Games (You Should Play Anyway)

10. Shadow The Hedgehog

In 2005, Sega decided to cash in on the popularity of Sonic's broody bro Shadow the Edgelord and give him his own spin-off.

How would they separate it from any other Sonic game? Why not slap a gun into his hands and see what happens? I'm sure we can all agree, the idea was staring us in the face this whole time.

Shadow the Hedgehog isn’t the most broken of the Sonic games, that’s for sure, but it definitely broke any semblance of sanity the series had at that point.

Shadow spends his one and only titular release firing a variety of firearms, driving in tanks and cursing like an angsty teen.

This one is worth playing for a couple of reasons. First of all, the game has a really cool system of morality-based objectives you can pick from on the fly in each stage. It plots out a course through the game’s many stages based on these choices, meaning there are a lot of different possible playthroughs, and that’s genuinely impressive.

Mostly though, you need to play Shadow the Hedgehog just to understand how absolutely nuts it is. If you can make it through the opening cutscene with Shadow sneering with an automatic rifle in his hands without laughing, you’re made of sterner stuff than me.