i love sonic sonic is the best

picture this: you've never played a video game before, but have just received a nintendo DS along with 2 games for your birthday: new super mario brothers, and sonic classic collection. which do you play first? this was the dilemma i was faced with at 6 years old. i eventually decided to choose sonic, and i loved it. i thought it was the coolest thing ever! the visuals, the music, the gameplay, everything was the best to me! and each game was better than the last, i couldn't stop playing.

i had officially decided at the age of 6 that sonic was the best thing in the world! i remember begging my mom for 3 things the next christmas: an xbox 360, minecraft, and a sonic game. i remember being the happiest child who had ever lived that christmas when i received an xbox 360 along with a copy of minecraft, and more importantly, the infamous sonic the hedgehog (2006).

you might have just recoiled upon hearing the name of that game, understandably so, it's known as one of the worst sonic games and one of the worst games of all time period. but i didn't know! and i didn't care. it was the awesomest, most epic adventure i had EVER experienced!! throughout the next couple months i think i played sonic 06 more than any sane human being ever should. was i any good at it? no! but i loved it anyway. each cutscene i got to watch felt like its own reward, and i adored seeing a new piece of the story unfold. it truly was my favorite thing in the world, ahaha.

and so, i quickly grew to adore all of the sonic universe and it quickly became my biggest obsession, and i guess it stuck! i did go through a little phase where i thought i was "too old and mature for sonic" like a little idiot but i realize now how stupid that was. i love sonic, and i think i always will.