And to think Sonic.exe out of all things still has this small horror community live is a miracle on it's own, guess Sonic.exe fans can have mostly the same passion as average Sonic fans

Sonic.EXE just can't die, no matter how much everyone in existence wants it to.

The concept is cool, but poorly written. Thank Gaia for takes like Lord X.

@@brunettebi4111 yeah, PC Port is actually pretty cool for an EXE game, like how it isn't just Lord X, and he has guardians to stop Tails from escaping his game, how Lord X is actually slowly dying because his vessel is a corpse. It's all suprisingly well thought-out for an EXE game.

Calling it "fairly bad" is an understatement, its horrible

For me, it has got to be PCport

@@AltKaxREAL yes, PC PORT is better than other shitty sonic.exe games

DID YOU SAY SMALL JUST LOOK AT THE FNF COMMUNITY Edit:I GET IT I KNOW OTS A DIFFERENT COMMUNITY BUT AT THE TIME ALL FNF STUFF WAS SONIC EXE RELATED

@@nobody..--. No

@@CrappealShaquille ol

sameeee. I loved TSOH as a kid and all those.

sameeee. I loved TSOH as a kid and all those.

same , and same with other creapy pasta

Spirits of Hell was my first experience with Sonic.EXE and Sonic horror games in general, I remember watching it when Round 1 came out when I was only 7 years old.I remember that my dad was upset with me how I was watching it at such a young age but I didn’t listen. I actually stopped watching EXE content when I was around 9 years old in 2020 but in 2021,when I was 10,FNF:VS Sonic.EXE and Whisper of Soul came out and got me back into the EXE community

So your childhood ruins your childhood?

Yeah on top of that I also liked that Tails wasn't revived or anything, he's dead no matter what you do and it ends up kinda leaving a powerful reminder about death

I agree 👍

​@@ForgottenChroniclerI think you reading into it too much kiddo😂

@@aconfusedlacroix3965???? No, it's kind of just there. Not a lot of too much looking into it. It's an easy to see reminder. You die, you dead. Nothing else.

@@ForgottenChronicler Yeah honestly that subgenre of fanfic is really rad if you're into that sort of fanfic. I am not into that sort of fanfic. And I hate that niche of fanfic writing with a burning, unextinguishable passion. XP

sally is such an underrated Sonic character, like why her???????

At least crimson made a good game with it.

Thankfully, there are plenty of good reimaginings out there (example- Sally.exe Whisper of Soul).

Fr

It was also made by a rabid Sally fantard, but JC (the author of Sonic.exe) made it canon.

EYX Goat

I can't even tell if this is a joke or not lmao

Garfield Kart is indeed very scary.

i nearly poopooed my peepees when you made me remember it

I shat myself after beating the first race.

Needlemouse: am I a joke to you?

NOOOOOOOO I MEANT SONIC ADVENTURE IM SORRY 😢

I mean you could stretch this to be correct if you ignore half of the Biolizard’s backstory

It's an impressive game for sure. but what I'm not so sure is if Bup will enjoy it's story or not Lol i'm not saying that it's bad or anything, it has got some neat ideas here and there but. i'm just not the biggest fan of how it was executed

@@AltKaxREAL to be fair it doesnt even have much of a story for it to be hated. It has a plot unlike the other sonic.exe games but its really simple. The endings and gameplay definitely is what makes spirits of hell a great fangame for me. The voice acting is also not bad either

​@@stephaniejohnson5361aye its one of the few that gets a pass on my hate for not trying something new, Ive had the idea of being a captured freedom fighter deep in enemy territory with no wispon no super speed and only the enviroment to work to hurt robots. the bad ending/game over would be a closeup of mc being robotized and screaming. I dont mind exe games but the feeling of powerlessness could be explored in other ways besides possessed sonic is coming for you. the Archie comics amd even the newer comics come up with some good nightmare fuel to use.

@@blindedjourneyman yea but that's what exe games are. A possessed/Evil/demonic version of sonic killing the main cast. It wouldn't be an EXE game if it doesn't follow that formula. Sonic.exe Spirits of hell does convey the powerlessness well despite following that formula. The game shows in multiple endings just how powerful exe is with his cloning abilities, teleportation and being able to track anybody within his power(which is something a robot can't do). instead of just killing off every character they actually made it so the main cast has a chance to live which can really increase the stakes.

OMG, NEVER NOTICED THAT

Source?

The idea of darn near everyone being killed in that ship with no way of escape, plus Maria being killed on screen, is really haunting.

Amy's Story from Sonic Adventure has that House of Mirrors from Twinkle Park. While ZERO is by no means a threat, it was still an eerie place to go through, especially with that very exclusive track that plays throughout that segment.

Agreed. Analogue Horror is definitely one of the more scarier types of horror media. Probably the only media that’s effective on using jumpscares, too.

@@ShockInazuma I mean that's largely personal. I've just built up a mild immunity to most horror stuff, and analogue is something new enough to get past that. Plus it's usually pretty fun even when it's not successfully spooking me, which is more than I can say for a lot of stuff.

I just *had* to drop a like as soon as he mentioned him

People are just jaded because they're used badly so often that now they just assume jumpscare = instantly lazy

@gotgunpowder green mage pfp based

Because usually it really is a lazy way of scaring the player. It's the same as if a comedian just tickled you to make you laugh. You don't need earrape and flashing images to scare the player, but game devs still resort to this because it's easier to do.

@@Kaghtaviy That's a nonsensical strawman comparison. Jumpscares are scary when used properly. They should ideally be used as a climactic payoff for the tension the game spent all its previous time building up. It's similar to a stereotypical "chase scene" in some horror games. Nobody would argue that being chased by a monster isn't scary, because the game usually spends a lot of time making you paranoid about said monster jumping out and scaring you, which is then shown to be an entirely rational fear when it does. EYX does this very well, especially given its incredible sprite work and audio design (a fatal flaw of bad jumpscares is using low-quality imagery and stock scream sound effects). I find it far scarier than any "psychological horror" games that were too afraid of being seen as a "jumpscare game" to do anything besides mildly creep you out. After a while, the tension falls off because the game never makes any attempt to make you feel unsafe. Even Coronation Day, a ROMhack people like to put on a pedestal as "a game that can be scary with no jumpscares", still has a jumpscare in it, with a loud glitched sound endlessly playing as Ghost Peach starts chasing you. Jumpscares are also more than just "flashing image with loud scream". Another great example of jumpscares done well is the more recent Resident Evil games. Like that infamous scene in RE7 where Jack Baker smashes through a wall in a narrow hallway. By that point, you've already figured out that Jack is a real threat, and now he's shown that not even the walls of his own house will protect you from him. And triggering that isn't guaranteed either, meaning there's less of a chance for you to get used to it on subsequent playthroughs even when you know it's a scripted event. Or in RE Village during Dimitrescu's section, where her daughters can suddenly appear in the same room as you and give chase, often when you least expect it and when your guard is down. I've had people straight up refuse to admit these even counted as jumpscares when I pointed them out, because to them "jumpscare = bad low-quality flashing image and loud noise".

@@leafytaffy7291 Can't wait for Everhood 2.

And the Fact he can Beat goku is one of the most horrifying things about it,like if The Goat of anime himself would not be able to survive,what are your chances?

goku can most definitely beat sonic, im pretty sure you have not watched or read anything about dragon ball

​@@ColoreFaiedhow could he?

@@bread-bz3zh Goku is scaled to be past multiversal in levels of power, including various techniques he's learned like ultra instinct. If you put them both in a fight, Goku is coming out on top because of his insane battle IQ, endurance, and so on

Is that the series that has an impressive amount of different endings? I remember one had several endings, of varying amounts of scariness and even sadness. I can't remember the name, though.

@@RedSpade37 From memory, Nightmare Beginning has around like 6? The Bad Ending (where sonic kills himself in suicide hill) and also the canon ending as well? Then there’s the individual survivor endings and then the Good and Best ending. Spirits of Hell has one for each character surviving on their own, and surviving as a duo, and then the bad ending where nobody lives and the true ending where they all live Whisper of Souls has like fuckin 30 or smth

@@gradiation Oh damn! Yeah, Suicide Hill messed me up for the rest of the night... But yeah, I remember an ending, in some area with a super dense fog effect, where Robotnik, clearly heartbroken over the whole situation, very bluntly gives Metal Sonic the order to snap .EXE's neck, and it was almost as brutal as the Suicide Ending. Whisper of Souls, though, I don't think I know. I will 100% have to check that one out! Thanks for the info!

@@RedSpade37 I’m fairly certain that’s one of the neutral endings for Nightmare Beginning. I don’t remember how to get them but they’re endings where only one of the characters lives and they kill off Sonic somehow

@@gradiation You're right! During our conversation here, I've been rewatching endings from all these games. It's wild, isn't it? Never in my literal wildest dreams would I have imagined this kind of "horrific creativity" for a game like Sonic!

He can also watch Needlemouse as well :)

you predicted sonic 2011

Surprised that he still plays them 'TILL this day!

🐲

Sonic 2011 is really just the same boring walking sim, it's just new visuals and tracks put into the game but still no gameplay. The game really deserves a 5/10 for me

Luigikid is practically the guy (or one of the guys) keeping sonic.exe alive.

@@SquidRumi and hey, I can respect that

dude, YES! that was very creepy back when standards for online horror were lower

sega when someone remakes one of their games and makes it free: "ah yeah! this is happening!" nintendo when someone is named mario in itali: "take the shot."

As long as they don't make money it's ok

nailed it