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3. Rebooting Sonic The Hedgehog With Sonic 06

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Sega must have been quietly confident that their 2006 reboot of Sonic was going to be successful. After all, it had the simple title of 'Sonic the Hedgehog', implying that it was meant to be a bold new restart for the blue blur.

It very much was not. In fact, Sonic 06 was perhaps the worst game Sonic has ever starred in, and is considered one of the worst games of all time.

Part of an extremely rushed development to meet release date, Sonic 06 is full of bugs, incredibly frustrating to play (it'll routinely launch you off cliffs for no reason while you're fighting with the camera) and it also features a giant blue hedgehog being the love interest of a human female and they share a snog at the end. It's chilling stuff.

The story itself is also shockingly bad with a dark tone not befitting of the Sonic series, stuffed full of too many characters to play as (all of them not much fun) and ultimately the game resulted in Sega completely rethinking how the Sonic series would work in the future, and any storyline development since completely ignores the events of Sonic 06.

But did Princess Elise and Sonic ever have their happily ever after and have weird hedgehog babies? WE NEED TO KNOW (see DeviantArt for full answers).

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Dan Curtis is approximately one-half videogame knowledge, and the other half inexplicable Geordie accent. He's also one quarter of the Factory Sealed Retro Gaming podcast.