What videogames would the sonic characters enjoy playing?
This is a little outside my wheelhouse, but I’ll play along.
I don’t think Sonic plays video games. Sonic’s a symbol of nature, and he’s always been very much about traveling the world. He wouldn’t inherently be against video games, and I think he’d try to play along if somebody like Tails asked him for a co-op buddy, but he’d never touch them in his own leisure time. Would probably get frustrated easily by the limitations, both in terms of operating the controller and what games would allow him to do. He’s too athletic and free spirited for all of this.
Tails is probably the one who plays the most games, and the most of everything. He’s right at the age where things like Fortnite probably appeal to him a great deal, and he’d be one of those people who goes viral on Youtube after showing a fully working version of Pokemon Blue he built using Redstone in Minecraft. He’d also love strategy games and simulations, particularly racing simulations, because deep down he thinks they help him understand Sonic better. And he gets way in to gear ratio tuning and weight balancing.
Knuckles is far too isolated to even know what video games are. He’s basically a monk, but dumber and angrier. He’d need to be introduced to them slowly, starting out with very simple games like Pac-man. About the time Tails handed him a controller with an analog stick, he’d become totally confused by the open-ended nature of most 3D games and just moving characters around 3D space would be a little too much for him to comprehend (I’ve seriously known people like this). Knuckles would also be the type to ragequit games that frustrate him and break controllers. He might get way in to watching eSports, particularly fighting games, but the jargon would probably be over his head.
Amy would play lots of very light games, like Animal Crossing, but every now and then she’d find a franchise that would totally hook her, like Skyrim. When that happens, it kind of becomes “her one game” that she replays over and over and over for years. Since her priorities are so different from most people that play games, she’d probably end up saying something like The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword was one of her all-time favorite games, completely oblivious to its divisive qualities. Tails thought she’d probably like point-and-click adventure games, but she played the first episode of The Walking Dead after hearing about its critical acclaim and it drove her away from the whole genre.
Cream, sort of like Knuckles, gets confused by most video games easily. She’s generally too young to grasp the concepts of most games, and she doesn’t own any video games of her own. While she was over at Tails workshop once, he showed her how to load in to a game of Mario Golf and she had lots of fun doing that, but that’s about as far as it went for her. There could be some fun in her and Knuckles having to team up to figure out a new game together.
Shadow literally does not have time to play games.
Rouge used to play puzzle games on her phone, but ever since her favorite version of Bejeweled stopped working on her newer devices, she hasn’t been very interested.
Eggman is a total retro gamer and never really graduated on to anything newer (he was too busy with other projects). He once launched a scheme where he started a Youtube channel where he reviewed his favorite games and creatively destroyed the ones he hated using death machines of his own invention. It was pretty successful for him, and he started making a considerable amount of money, but eventually his growth began to stagnate after his audience grew tired of the gimmick. Jealous of other people being more successful than he was, he began manipulating the video recommendation algorithm and eventually even kidnapped a Youtuber to pick his brain for strategies until Google disabled his Adsense account temporarily for violating the terms of service. By the time they re-enabled his monetization he had lost all interest and moved on.
Since then, Orbot and Cubot have begun using the old account to start a Let’s Play series, but they mostly get comments from people complaining about the shift in focus and how neither of them know how to play games (and to be fair, Orbot’s only in it for the money and Cubot has the enthusiasm but is too clumsy to be any good).
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