10 DESPISED Video Games You Should Play Now

9. Sonic Unleashed

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Releasing an infamous product doesn't just hurt that single product, it hurts everything adjacent to it for quite a while. Just as Star Wars fans took out their anger at Rise Of Skywalker on the significantly less offensive finale to Mandalorian season 2, so too did a pretty damn good game like Sonic Unleashed suffer because of its truly infamous older sibling, Sonic 06.

Look up any clickbait video or article involving Sonic on the internet, and you'll see the screenshot of Sonic writhing in abject agony from Unleashed's opening cutscene as a tired, cliched shorthand for "Sonic sux LOL". This game has been out longer than some people reading this have been ALIVE, and yet it's still one of the internet's favorite dead horses to beat.

But if you actually go back to the game today and, get ready for this, PLAY IT, you'll find one of the best modern Sonic games out there. Even the oh-so-hated Werehog segments control well and its more methodical approach acts as a nice counterbalance to the truly insane daytime segments. Sonic has never felt faster than in Unleashed, so if you've ever wanted to really FEEL like the fastest thing alive, hunt down a copy of this game ASAP.

Or you can make more tired memes that haven't been funny since 2009. That works too.

 
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John Tibbetts is a novelist in theory, a Whatculture contributor in practice, and a nerd all around who loves talking about movies, TV, anime, and video games more than he loves breathing. Which might be a problem in the long term, but eh, who can think that far ahead?