Sonic.EXE

Sonic.EXE (or sometimes as Sonic.exe) is a video game creepypasta based on the original Sonic The Hedgehog, and it's being one of the infamous stories for influencing many cliches for both future Classic and Modern Video game Creepypastas and was published in 2010.

Why It's Intentionally Not a God

 * 1) It doesn't even qualify as a genuine story at all, as it is pure shock value with no real plot, lore or message to speak of.
 * 2) The protagonist Tom is incredibly stupid and shoves the Sonic.EXE without second thoughts. By putting the disc into his computer, even though the letter sent by Kyle his friend told him to destroy it!
 * 3) Another stupid character moment is that Kyle (Tom's friend) sends the disc to the protagonist because he expects him to destroy it because Kyle is going to be killed regardless, yet sends the disc instead of destroying it by himself, which the latter option would be the fastest and safest way instead of dedicating time to prepare the CD to be mailed, which it take an hour or two hours. Either way, Kyle is killed, and having this mailed to Tom made him a potential victim of the cursed object making the situation worse.
 * 4) Abundance of video game horror cliches, 666, distorted music and sounds, gorey graphics, and backgrounds. The game is unsubtly littered with all these things to the point it because too desperate to be edgy or shock the readers.
 * 5) The ending is just a Sonic plushie sitting on Tom's bed, with no horror twist.
 * 6) Sonic.EXE's design is incredibly lazy as it's just Sonic with black eyes and red pupils with blood tears and sharp teeth.
 * 7) Overuse of Hyperrealistic which is also used incorrectly.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Its Sequel has an actual plot and character development and expands on Sonic.EXE's lore.
 * 2) It later expanded into a series of video games and other media.
 * 3) * Some of the game series, such as Nightmare Beginning, and Spirits of Hell, have genuine and robust plots, lore, and character development.
 * 4) The pasta can be considered in hindsight as, "so bad it's good" quantity.
 * 5) * The pasta, along with the character Sonic.EXE himself most likely weren't meant to be enjoyed to begin with.
 * 6) Tom actually (and succeeds) to turn the cursed video game off, which is pretty rare in video game creepypastas.
 * 7) * Even the story's ending has no horror twist, unlike in other video game creepypastas for its time during the classical creepypasta era, this one feels has an original idea and a break of those bad horror twist cliche in the early 2010s, where all these creepypastas have to use one, for shock value.
 * 8) Remakes, such as Sonic.exe: Darkest Struggles, greatly improve the concept and actually made it far less campy.
 * 9) Also it spawned a hilarious parody called as Sunky.mpeg

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