Worst Story in a Sonic game

Let's face it, Sonic games aren't exactly known for their great storytelling. Like most early games of the 8 and 16 bit era, the stories were usually minimal mostly boiling down to "Eggman kidnaps animals to make robots. Sonic goes to save the day." And most story was told mostly in a page in the game manual or a short in game cutscene.

Then around time of Sonic Adventure and gaming was going the more cinematic route, Sega instead of following Nintendo and continuing to focus on gameplay, decided to jump on the "epic story" bandwagon with the PS1 games and while there have been valiant attempts and interesting concepts, too often Sonic stories are plagued with bad writing, horrible dialouge and terrible translation. So I want to make a list of "Top 10 Worst Sonic storylines" well because it's been a while since I had something to really rant about. First a couple things.

I don't really hold anything against most of the early Sonic games. After all 16 bit era gaming was still pretty light on story and the games that did have a strong story like FFVI did it well and in those days game were trying to be GAMES not interactive movies.

The two Adventure games I also forgive because their stories weren't horrible. They at least tried though Adventure 1 still suffers from terrible dialouge and the fact the characters all talk like sock puppets except for Sonic who has weird facial twitches. Adventure 2 definitely had more realistic talking animations and voice work and most fans consider it the most competent story outside SatAM or the comics. Unleashed even was halfway decent not trying to be too goofy or too serious. Colors and Generations might not have strong storytelling but at least both are willing to make fun of themselves which gets them a pass as well. They knew their plots were contrived and silly and make fun of it.

But here are my picks for "Worst Sonic Story"

Sonic Labyrinth: Yeah I know, we shouldn't go after earlier games with nearly non existent plots but reading the manual and back of the box that "Robotnick stuck a magic pair of shoes on Sonic to make him slow." is so much fail. If Eggman was able to sneak into Sonic's house, put magic shoes on him, why didn't he just capture him or kill him. Why toss him into a maze world for him to escape from?

Sonic CD: While the original triliogy was "Robotnick kidnaps animals, Sonic goes to save them" this one got sort of weird involving Robotnick chaining a small planet to Mobius that has time travel properties and you can warp to another area with flying saucers to get magical time stones and Sonic can jump through time like in Quantum Leap and often like in said show he jumps when he doesn't want to and doesn't end up where he wants. And it's never explained why Amy (called Princess Sally in the US manual) is there or why Sonic would save her other than to introduce the "token female" to the Sonic series. At least Tails could fly a plane.

Sonic Rivals: According to Cloud: Eggman has a magical gun that turns people into cards.....-_- yeah. Why? I can only assume he's going to take these cards to the Yu Gi Oh universe and sell them to the duelers to convince them they're super rare duel cards and see if their stupid enough to buy into it. Any Yu Gi Oh! fans want to comment?

Sonic Riders...any: Seriously does anyone remember any plot to a Riders game other than something to get everyone to have a hoverboard race? This goes back to my question as to why racing games not called Mario Kart feel the need to have a plot to explain why they're racing. Modnation Racers and Diddy Kong Racing are offenders in this too. Anyway since the first one was the only one I played. 3 birds ride around on hoverboards and have a magical cube. Eggman wants to have a race where the winner gets Chaos Emeralds and the birds want to use it to bring back an ancient floating city with a mysterious treasure....*yawn* zzzzzzzzzz

Shadow the Hedgehog: Aliens come to Earth and start attacking. Shadow stands around brooding and being emo along with shooting guns and saying "damn" because he has plot convient amnesia. Shadow's caught between Eggman, Black Doom, a nutjob of a General and Sonic all telling him what to do while Shadow figures out why he was still around after SA2.

Sonic the Hedgehog 2006 for me the still top pick for "Worst Sonic Story" full of some of the most contrived s*** ever. Trying to be this Final Fantasy epic story with action, time travel and romantic beastiality. With our Mary Sue Princess who never cried her whole life despite both her parents dying as a child but will cry over the death of some blue hedgehog she knew for 3 days meanwhile Potleaf the Porcupine tries his best to kill Sonic. Shadow is slightly less emo and the rest of the game has plotholes big enough to drive a mack truck through.

So those are a few of my memorably bad plots. Anyone want to offer theirs?

Sonic Rivals: According to Cloud: Eggman has a magical gun that turns people into cards.....-_- yeah. Why? I can only assume he's going to take these cards to the Yu Gi Oh universe and sell them to the duelers to convince them they're super rare duel cards and see if their stupid enough to buy into it. Any Yu Gi Oh! fans want to comment?kbaily

Also,while I said before I hardly judge storys,Sonic 06,not because of "bestiality" or the like,but because of the dumb time-travel plotholes,like how Silver destroyed the series canon by giving Elise the chaos emerald.In my personal canon for the Sonic series(which somehow includes M&S in the timeline,showing how lol worthy it is),Elise somehow loses the emerald, Sonic 1-Riders happen,and then she finds it again. 

Still,it kept me interested enough to beat it,and had its moments(come on,that last cutscene with Shadow was way,way past cool).Better games like Sonic Advance 2 I yet to finish since..well..its a pretty common story.

Actually,it was a camera,and he try's turning the entire world into a card.The awesome thing about the story,however,is that it isn't Eggman,but *spoiler tag* 

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Which, if you've played Sonic Rush, makes no sense whatsoever.

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Actually,it was a camera,and he try's turning the entire world into a card.The awesome thing about the story,however,is that it isn't Eggman,but *spoiler tag* 

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Which, if you've played Sonic Rush, makes no sense whatsoever.

Either way,I suppose we'll never get an answer until someone important at Sega says something about it.

You know we all totally forgot about Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood though it's not a horrible story, just really really boring. And wouldn't be so bad except that Bioware, who are usually great storytellers were behind it. Seriously the game was so forgetable we often forget to talk about it. At least 06 was so memorably bad. But Bioware with the entire Sonic universe to work with basically came up with "Echidnas from space." Like I said, it's not even that it's bad, it's just boring.

I would have to say Sonic 06, Sonic Unleashed or Shadow the Hedgehog. 

They all have terribly written stories.