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22. Sonic and the Black Knight (2009, Wii)

I can feel my brain melting the longer I stare at this combination of images and words.
I can feel my brain melting the longer I stare at this combination of images and words. Screenshot: Sega / FCPlaythroughs (YouTube)

Remember when Shadow the Hedgehog showed up with a gun? Sonic and the Black Knight attempts to redress the unfairness of Shadow having a weapon by giving Sonic a sword. Too bad the sword, controlled by the Wii remote’s unreliable waggle, is terrible. In fact, everything about this game is terrible: controls, story, sword combat, everything. Sonic and the Black Knight also has the infamous distinction of getting “delisted” in 2010 as a part of Sega’s strategy to “defocus” attention on games with poor Metacritic scores (i.e. the shitty ones) in favor of higher-scoring games.

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