8 Things Sega Wants You To Forget About Sonic The Hedgehog

Ah, the good old "Dark Age Of Sonic", the period in which Sonic was truly in the doldrums of his career, chucking everything at the wall to see what stuck but in place of good ideas was just a load of dog feces.

The amount of sup par titles that came out in the mid to late 2000s was utterly shocking, and for many, it seemed like the blue blur was just becoming a tad too desperate to stay relevant.

There was no gimmick Sonic would pass up, from turning into a were-hog to kinnect racing games, and of course, the time in which he jumped into fantasy storybooks in order to battle medieval knights. Of this slew of slop, one title stuck out, but not for the right reasons.

Sonic Lost World, despite its cutesy aesthetics, actually earned itself a much higher ESRB rating than nearly every other Sonic title, all thanks to the questionable language that was used within. Classic quotes like "You're going home in a box", "I'm going to skin you alive" and "As long as I can strangle a Zeti, my hands are fine" littered the game and audiences reacted as you'd expect.

It felt totally out of place to have these edgy lines within a very kid-focused title, and it's something that Sega has been keen to avoid ever since.