there was once a time where we thought
Sonic would always be the coolest
character around but these games proved
otherwise
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be counting down our picks for the top
10 worst Sonic games for this list we’re
looking at the worst games to feature
Sega’s speedy mascot main games and
spin-offs included number 10 Sonic the
fighters ever wanted to punch tails or
Amy right in the face then this little
played arcade fighter might provide you
with a few minutes of enjoyment besides
that this Virtua Fighter clone which
coincidentally was also made by the same
integral Sega studio showcases
incredibly detailed graphics and little
depth aside from pressing the same three
buttons to make your opponent bleed
rings if you’re really desire to test
out this gem of lameness you can find it
on the Sonic Gems Collection for the
Gamecube and be sure to relish the
appearances of characters like being the
dynamite and bark the polar bear because
you won’t be seeing them ever again
number nine sonic labyrinth you’d be
surprised how many Sonic games forget
that his main character trait is that
he’s the fastest thing alive
case in point this Game Gear puzzle
platformer that places the speedy blue
hedgehog in a series of mazes yeah we
know it’s a setup where you have to take
your time and not go fast
the gameplay is actually some of the
most sluggish you’ll ever see due to dr.
Robotnik replacing Sonic’s shoes with an
invention called slowdown boots if any
of your pitch meetings begin with hey
man what if we slowed Sonic down just
scrap it and fire that person number 8
sonic 3d blast
sonic has many darker projects but his
first took place in the later half of
the 90s when he was struggling to make a
transition to the third dimension so
instead of a proper 3d Sonic game we got
this frustrating platformer for the
Genesis and Saturn with an isometric
view much like the labyrinth above the
perspective seriously models what’s
going on and having almost every level
be a fetch quest to save creatures
called flickies didn’t make things any
better the worst part is that this poor
stopgap installment was the closest
thing we got to an official sonic
release during the Saturn era number 7
sonic shuffle unlike his one-time
corporate nemesis mario sonic hasn’t
proven himself as successful at jumping
from genre to genre one of the prime
examples of this is in this dreamcast
party game that tried unsuccessfully to
ape the mario party formula only
positive thing worth noting is about its
early use of cel shaded graphics besides
that the core game is boring the
minigames are lacking and the less we
say about the ludicrous in depth
storyline which features Sonic and his
friends venturing into a dream world to
gather the pieces of a jewel called the
precious stone the better this is where
the precious stone was it’s the crystal
that created this world
precious stone number six
Sonic the Hedgehog Genesis GBA version
how do you manage to screw up directly
porting a decade and a half old Genesis
game to an advanced handheld system one
of the many disappointments of Sonic’s
15th anniversary celebration Genesis for
the Game Boy Advance actually sounded
great on paper and even included
features like the ability to save
anywhere and the Spin Dash which wasn’t
actually introduced until Sonic 2 but
unfortunately sonic team merely included
these to distract players from the
constant slowdown issues clunky controls
loads of bugs and glitches and a
completely unacceptable version of the
ones iconic 16-bit soundtrack
number five Shadow the Hedgehog
if you look up forced darkness in the
dictionary and I don’t know why you
would but anyway chances are you’ll see
this game’s box art in place of an
actual definition
we’re not against darker sonic games but
this installment starring Sonic’s
morally ambiguous counterpart shadow is
a lazy and wrong way to do it
substituting legitimate darkness for
guns and swearing where’s that damn
fourth Chaos Emerald and it it’d be one
thing if tone was the game’s only
problem but players were also forced to
deal with awful controls in camera and a
long convoluted story with 10 yes 10
possible endings this is who I am the
even bigger kicker the game has a last
chapter once you get all those ending
making them all entirely pointless
number 4 Sonic free riders
in 2006 sonic released sonic riders a
hoverboard based racing game it was okay
two years later they released sonic
riders zero gravity
it was also okay two years after that
they released Sonic free riders it was
unplayable ok balance on it thank you
ready to jump what the heck
releasing as a launch title for the Xbox
360s Kinect peripheral being able to
control your racer with your body sounds
kind of cool in concept but works
horribly in execution ok God look at
this crap man I hate this game so much
seeing as a racing game depends entirely
on being able to move this is a pretty
big hindrance and a good reason of why
this game was forgotten shortly after
its release number 3
Sonic are speaking of Sonic’s racing
games here’s one of the worst at its
core this one should have worked better
than any other but gamers fact his
character and his friends in foot racing
competitions
it’s just too bad that sega also decided
to take away the characters ability to
move more than an inch to the left or
the right lacking completed textures or
detail on its paltry selection of only
five stages worst of all you can
complete this game a hundred percent in
less than an hour
number two Sonic the Hedgehog 2006 patch
a pretty snazzy performance there for
Sonic’s 15th anniversary and for his
first outing on the 360 and ps3 Sega
decided to go big and buy big we mean
transfer half of their development team
to Sonic and the secret rings for the
Wii and rushed the game for a holiday
2006 release
because of this Sega put out one of the
most legendary despised games ever
created and don’t worry I’ll rescue you
I know sonic 2006 introduced reviled new
characters like silver and princess
Elise it controlled abysmally had
intolerably long load times and was
backed by a wretched plot that ended
with Sonic sharing a kiss with the
aforementioned princess
and yet this actually wasn’t Sonic’s
biggest fail I always keep my word
sonic before we reveal our top pick here
are a couple of dishonorable mentions
you really got in joining this timing
man Sonic
that’s a good look for you testing
knuckle slam
number one sonic boom rise of lyric
let’s just say he won’t be bothering us
again unless he comes back as terrible
as sonic 2006 is it still has a minority
of defenders but rise of lyric alongside
the abysmal 3ds counterpart shattered
crystal is so awful that not even the
most dedicated fans of the once-proud
hedgehog can bear to defend it you know
how much I like punching things be my
guest
set in a new continuity connected to the
cartoon of the same name and featuring
laughable redesigns of Sonic Tails
knuckles and Amy the game combines every
problem that Sonic has had since he
jumped to 3d and multiplies it
exponentially framerate issues loads of
bugs and glitches and unbearably bad
dialogue are all present here adding up
to the worst selling Sonic game ever
released
look ramps we can use these ramps sonic
boom more like Sonic but I didn’t mean
that literally it was a taunt
it’s villainy 101 do you agree with our
list I have no idea what you’re talking
about but I’m pretty sure it’s a bad
thing which sonic game do you think is
the very worst okay with your help this
should be a piece of cake for more way
past cool top 10s published every day be
sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com if
you have time to worry then run
you
Sonic would always be the coolest
character around but these games proved
otherwise
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be counting down our picks for the top
10 worst Sonic games for this list we’re
looking at the worst games to feature
Sega’s speedy mascot main games and
spin-offs included number 10 Sonic the
fighters ever wanted to punch tails or
Amy right in the face then this little
played arcade fighter might provide you
with a few minutes of enjoyment besides
that this Virtua Fighter clone which
coincidentally was also made by the same
integral Sega studio showcases
incredibly detailed graphics and little
depth aside from pressing the same three
buttons to make your opponent bleed
rings if you’re really desire to test
out this gem of lameness you can find it
on the Sonic Gems Collection for the
Gamecube and be sure to relish the
appearances of characters like being the
dynamite and bark the polar bear because
you won’t be seeing them ever again
number nine sonic labyrinth you’d be
surprised how many Sonic games forget
that his main character trait is that
he’s the fastest thing alive
case in point this Game Gear puzzle
platformer that places the speedy blue
hedgehog in a series of mazes yeah we
know it’s a setup where you have to take
your time and not go fast
the gameplay is actually some of the
most sluggish you’ll ever see due to dr.
Robotnik replacing Sonic’s shoes with an
invention called slowdown boots if any
of your pitch meetings begin with hey
man what if we slowed Sonic down just
scrap it and fire that person number 8
sonic 3d blast
sonic has many darker projects but his
first took place in the later half of
the 90s when he was struggling to make a
transition to the third dimension so
instead of a proper 3d Sonic game we got
this frustrating platformer for the
Genesis and Saturn with an isometric
view much like the labyrinth above the
perspective seriously models what’s
going on and having almost every level
be a fetch quest to save creatures
called flickies didn’t make things any
better the worst part is that this poor
stopgap installment was the closest
thing we got to an official sonic
release during the Saturn era number 7
sonic shuffle unlike his one-time
corporate nemesis mario sonic hasn’t
proven himself as successful at jumping
from genre to genre one of the prime
examples of this is in this dreamcast
party game that tried unsuccessfully to
ape the mario party formula only
positive thing worth noting is about its
early use of cel shaded graphics besides
that the core game is boring the
minigames are lacking and the less we
say about the ludicrous in depth
storyline which features Sonic and his
friends venturing into a dream world to
gather the pieces of a jewel called the
precious stone the better this is where
the precious stone was it’s the crystal
that created this world
precious stone number six
Sonic the Hedgehog Genesis GBA version
how do you manage to screw up directly
porting a decade and a half old Genesis
game to an advanced handheld system one
of the many disappointments of Sonic’s
15th anniversary celebration Genesis for
the Game Boy Advance actually sounded
great on paper and even included
features like the ability to save
anywhere and the Spin Dash which wasn’t
actually introduced until Sonic 2 but
unfortunately sonic team merely included
these to distract players from the
constant slowdown issues clunky controls
loads of bugs and glitches and a
completely unacceptable version of the
ones iconic 16-bit soundtrack
number five Shadow the Hedgehog
if you look up forced darkness in the
dictionary and I don’t know why you
would but anyway chances are you’ll see
this game’s box art in place of an
actual definition
we’re not against darker sonic games but
this installment starring Sonic’s
morally ambiguous counterpart shadow is
a lazy and wrong way to do it
substituting legitimate darkness for
guns and swearing where’s that damn
fourth Chaos Emerald and it it’d be one
thing if tone was the game’s only
problem but players were also forced to
deal with awful controls in camera and a
long convoluted story with 10 yes 10
possible endings this is who I am the
even bigger kicker the game has a last
chapter once you get all those ending
making them all entirely pointless
number 4 Sonic free riders
in 2006 sonic released sonic riders a
hoverboard based racing game it was okay
two years later they released sonic
riders zero gravity
it was also okay two years after that
they released Sonic free riders it was
unplayable ok balance on it thank you
ready to jump what the heck
releasing as a launch title for the Xbox
360s Kinect peripheral being able to
control your racer with your body sounds
kind of cool in concept but works
horribly in execution ok God look at
this crap man I hate this game so much
seeing as a racing game depends entirely
on being able to move this is a pretty
big hindrance and a good reason of why
this game was forgotten shortly after
its release number 3
Sonic are speaking of Sonic’s racing
games here’s one of the worst at its
core this one should have worked better
than any other but gamers fact his
character and his friends in foot racing
competitions
it’s just too bad that sega also decided
to take away the characters ability to
move more than an inch to the left or
the right lacking completed textures or
detail on its paltry selection of only
five stages worst of all you can
complete this game a hundred percent in
less than an hour
number two Sonic the Hedgehog 2006 patch
a pretty snazzy performance there for
Sonic’s 15th anniversary and for his
first outing on the 360 and ps3 Sega
decided to go big and buy big we mean
transfer half of their development team
to Sonic and the secret rings for the
Wii and rushed the game for a holiday
2006 release
because of this Sega put out one of the
most legendary despised games ever
created and don’t worry I’ll rescue you
I know sonic 2006 introduced reviled new
characters like silver and princess
Elise it controlled abysmally had
intolerably long load times and was
backed by a wretched plot that ended
with Sonic sharing a kiss with the
aforementioned princess
and yet this actually wasn’t Sonic’s
biggest fail I always keep my word
sonic before we reveal our top pick here
are a couple of dishonorable mentions
you really got in joining this timing
man Sonic
that’s a good look for you testing
knuckle slam
number one sonic boom rise of lyric
let’s just say he won’t be bothering us
again unless he comes back as terrible
as sonic 2006 is it still has a minority
of defenders but rise of lyric alongside
the abysmal 3ds counterpart shattered
crystal is so awful that not even the
most dedicated fans of the once-proud
hedgehog can bear to defend it you know
how much I like punching things be my
guest
set in a new continuity connected to the
cartoon of the same name and featuring
laughable redesigns of Sonic Tails
knuckles and Amy the game combines every
problem that Sonic has had since he
jumped to 3d and multiplies it
exponentially framerate issues loads of
bugs and glitches and unbearably bad
dialogue are all present here adding up
to the worst selling Sonic game ever
released
look ramps we can use these ramps sonic
boom more like Sonic but I didn’t mean
that literally it was a taunt
it’s villainy 101 do you agree with our
list I have no idea what you’re talking
about but I’m pretty sure it’s a bad
thing which sonic game do you think is
the very worst okay with your help this
should be a piece of cake for more way
past cool top 10s published every day be
sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com if
you have time to worry then run
you
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