These Video Game Villains SUCK!

Poor old Sonic, it seems that whenever any content is made on video games from a negative angle, the blue blur is never far away. To be fair he brings it on himself when he goes around turning into were-hogs, cringing up a storm by kissing humans and of course battling enemies so utterly rubbish that it's no wonder that the IP became seen as smelly garbage.

Thankfully things seem to be on the up ever since Sonic Mania reminder people what Sonic was actually meant to be about, however, before this, we got the lowest of the low in the form of Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric. Beyond the abysmal code that seemed to break just by looking in its direction, and level design that looked like it was randomly generated on 3d Maze Maker was the titular villain of the piece Lyric, who bombed so hard the game left a !*$% crater in the Earth itself.

Where to begin with this sweaty piss-soaked mattress of a villain. His design stunk up a storm looking like Bob The Killer Goldish had lent his bowl to Dingodiles crackhead cousin, and this cobbled-together appearance clearly influenced his villain motives as he clearly just scooped all the scraps that better villains had spat out together and said "yeah this kinda works"

Time travel, world domination, the reliance of machines over nature, chaos emeralds, it's everything you've seen before but this time in a much less interesting way. At least with many of the other over-the-top and cringe villains, you can laugh AT them because they're so edgelord supreme, but with Lyric it feels like he's from a completely different game and takes things way too seriously to even be so bad it's good funny!

In a world of scenery-chewing hams, the worst thing you can be is boring, and my god is Lyric boring.