10 Video Game Trophy Stats You Won't Believe

4. Over 50% Of Players Have Never Got Past Sonic's Green Hill Zone

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Now we come to what might actually be the most inexplicable piece of trophy data on this entire list.

Trophies and achievements obviously didn't exist when Sonic the Hedgehog was first released in 1991, but when it received a digital release for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, that all changed.

While it's not remotely unexpected that just 6.5% of players have nabbed the trophy for beating the game given its punishingly old-school nature - at least compared to more forgiving modern platformers - it's absurd just how few players have even pushed past the first Zone.

Sonic kicks off with Green Hill Zone - the franchise's most iconic setting by far, and one which even the most casual and un-skilled of Sonic players should basically be able to cruise through.

And yet, among the 100,000+ players tracked for the game on PlayStation platforms, only 44.4% of them have cleared Green Hill Zone.

This is a Zone which, to be clear, can be comfortably beaten by most players in around five minutes, yet hasn't even been finished by half of the people who started playing it.

Could it be that players en masse bought the game for the nostalgia-fuelled fun of it, but never got back to it after quickly testing out Green Hill Zone's first level? Truly, truly baffling.

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