Shadow seemingly killing Eggman in one of the non-canon endings, as we all wish we could. Shadow unloading bullets into said president's escape plane. The president of the USA having a framed photo of Shadow and Sonic. Even back then I was taken aback by some stank on this monster. With all that said, I still recommend it to people simply because of its most ludicrous moments. If you were a Sonic fan back then, it must have felt like a bit of a bad joke. Having now played a bunch of Sonic games both old and new, it's impossible to ignore how sluggish the game is. Looking back now, I think the reason I and various other people of a similar age didn't mind Shadow the Hedgehog too much wasn't because it spoke to our edgy hearts, it's because we didn't really know what was lost in the transition from 150 miles-per-hour dashes to 150 dead-soldiers-per-hour clashes. Unless you were super down to clown with Shadow's unique brand of tomfoolery, you would be better served just looking up the game's endings. It was a shame then, that the gameplay itself lacked much of what made good 3D Sonic games so good.

In reality it was a great way of making few assets go a long way, but to an impressionable mind it represented new secrets to uncover. The game didn't shame you for doing so - in fact it presented you with new levels and varying paths through the story depending on how good or evil you wanted to be.Īs such, it was a game I played over and over again, going down every road it offered and taking a mental note of the differences this made to each run. From mission one you are given an option to gun down a bunch of American soldiers via an obviously evil floating squid. There's something to be said of the game's eagerness to tempt you into being the bad boy Shadow desperately wants to be. I knew what Sonic the Hedgehog was obviously, every kid with a computer and a vague interest in games did, but Shadow was so opposed to the bright colours of something like Sonic Heroes. That may be Shadow the Hedgehog's natural habitat to be honest, the place it always deserved to end up. I found Shadow the Hedgehog where all the great games of old could be found - gathering dust with a staggering discount on a shelf at GAME. I, tragically, was one of those kids, albeit on that fell victim a few years after the game's original release. To see this content please enable targeting cookies.

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