History VideoGame / VsSonicExe

#Fatality (Fatal_Error)[[note]]originally part of the cancelled build, the song was quickly removed at the request of Fatal_Error's creator[[/note]]

#Milk Encore (Sunky vs Sunkfriend)
#Too Fest Encore (Sanic.exe)

#Final Escape (Xenophanes)
#Manual Blast (Hog and Scorched)
#My Horizon (Chaotix)

** After beating after beating the main game, you unlock the Sound Test and get shown a number of codes. Entering these codes into the Sound Test has a number of results; most of them lead to simple joke images or videos, but several of them give you {{Bonus Boss}}es.
** One of Lord X's game over voice-lines is a weird techno frequency noise than dialogue, but putting it into a spectrogram reveals an image Boyfriend held limp by strings. The full image this originates from an artwork depicting Lord X puppeteer-ing Boyfriend by the strings.

* GimmickLevel: Compared to the rest of the game, "Black Sun" a ''much'' different way of handling HP; instead of gaining HP when hitting notes and losing HP when missing, EXE has a passive health drain effect that starts off nearly non-existent and gets progressively worse with each note missed, and you have no way to heal.

* JumpScare: This being ''VideoGame/SonicExe'', of course there would be one. Specifically, another Sonic.exe jumps out at the player near the end of "Too Slow", [[InterfaceScrew blocking the screen for a while.]] Oddly, it's the ''only'' real jumpscare in the mod.

** {{Inverted|Trope}} with Sunky.MPEG. While the other Sonics in this mod are nightmarish at varying degrees and want Boyfriend either dead or a part of them, Sunky just wants to play, dance, and eat cereal with him. His song also consists of leitmotifs from meme songs, making it still catchy, but endearing rather than creepy. A [[{{Justified}} justified]] case since he is based off a LighterAndSofter AffectionateParody of Sonic.exe.

** "Triple Trouble" has Sonic.exe put Boyfriend through a gauntlet of corrupted souls, with Tails, Knuckles and Eggman's zombified corpses providing the bulk of the song as Boyfriend fights through the illusion to see .exe's true form. It lasts ''eight and a half minutes'' -- the longest song in the original game, "Monster", is just under three minutes. The main counterbalance to this is that during this song, you can collect rings that protect you from one miss each.

* NothingIsScarier: ''Too Slow'' starts off... rather slow, with half a minute of the song consisting of nothing from Sonic.exe other standing and staring at Boyfriend while a theme very similar to "Hill Act 1" plays. When he does eventually start singing, unsettling animations and vocals aside, it stills carries the same calming yet foreboding tone beforehand. It's only when he suddenly turns to the player with his EvilLaugh does he take things up a notch, with the music switching to a rendition of the infamous Sonic drowning theme.
* OddNameOut: When being faced with various monstrosities, evil versions and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking memes]] of Sonic, Tails Doll and Starved stand out considering they're, obviously, not a version of Sonic, but rather Tails and Robotnik respectively.

** Fatal Error spends most of the song in his Sonic guise but during the last leg of the fight he shows his ''[[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever significantly]]'' larger true form.

** "Prey" is rendered entirely in sprites styled after ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog1''. Interesting, "Fight or Flight" goes back to the usual style.

#Too Slow Encore (Sonic.exe)

#You Can't Run Encore (Sonic.exe)
#Triple Trouble Encore (Xenophanes,Tails.exe,Knuckles.exe,Eggman.exe)
#Endless Encore (Majin Sonic)

#My horizon (Chaotix)
#Manual Blast (Hog)

%%While technically there's also You Can't Run Encore and Triple Trouble Encore, only Too Slow Encore is available due to Triple Trouble Encore getting scrapped before it could be finished, and You Can't Run Encore getting finished months after the mod's cancellation.

%%While technically there's also You Can't Run Encore and Triple Trouble Encore, those songs were scrapped before they could be finished and only Too Slow Encore is available.

** The original version of "Milk" contains a boatload of references to memetic songs such as [[VideoGame/{{Undertale}} MEGALOVANIA]] and [[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants Best Day Ever]]. The revamped version cuts down on the references, but does receive a new one in the form of [[Music/SiIvaGunner the Flintstones theme song]].
** During the section where "Personel" goes full StylisticSuck, one can hear a {{Leitmotif}} of the beta version of ''VideoGame/VsMouse'''s "Welcome", a song infamous for its utter lack of quality. Boyfriend's sprite also briefly changes to his sprite from [[VideoGame/{{Pico}} Pico's School: Love Conquers All]].

Due to the stress it put on the developers, the mod as a whole was canceled on July 6th, 2022. To compensate, a build containing the content for the update that was finished prior to the cancellation was released to the public the next day. The build can be downloaded [[https://www.mediafire.com/file/fusjlp6exkaw4f8/exe2.5unplannedrelease.rar/file here]].

** "Too Slow Encore" turns the human Boyfriend into a rabbit, and Girlfriend presumably also would have been changed into an animal.

* ArrangeMode: Planned for the mod was an "Encore" mode inspired by the Encore mode in ''VideoGame/SonicMania'' and the original game's ERECT difficulty, which would remix the songs with spins. A few songs were completed before the mod was cancelled, though only "Too Slow" is available in the unfinished build.

** "Round-a-Bout" is in a lineless style mimicking the art from Needlem0use's work of origin.
** The revamped "Milk" depicts Boyfriend in Sunky in a flat-colored and much more toony style.

** "Fight or Flight" is framed in second person, behind Tails.

* OriginalCharacter: EXE was made for the mod by the mod's former director, Revie_03, rather than being a pre-existing character like everyone else. One of the scrapped characters for the 3.0 update was [=Sl4sh=],
who was created by [=MarStarBro=], another director for the mod as well as one of its composers.

** Sanic.exe and Sunky just have two red dots for eyes.

** During the section where "Personel" goes full StylisticSuck, one can hear a {{Leitmotif}} of the beta version of ''VideoGame/VsMouse'''s "Welcome", a song infamous for its utter lack of quality. Boyfriend's sprite also briefly changes to his sprite from ''VideoGame/Pico's School: Love Conquers All''.

** According to [[invoked]] WordOfGod, Sonic.exe's poses during "You Can't Run" appear as they do because he's actually taunting Boyfriend. His revamped sprites in the unfished build show this off more clearly, with him intentionally being over the top until he gets angry.

* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: During Starved's segment of "Prey", Furnace is seen flying beneath the bridge and past Sonic and Starved. The end of the song sees Sonic not paying attention and running straight into a waiting Furnace, leading to his capture.

Due to the stress it put on the developers, the mod as a whole was canceled on July 6th, 2022. To compensate, a build containing the content for the update that was finished prior to the cancellation was released on July 7th, 2022. The build can be downloaded [[https://www.mediafire.com/file/fusjlp6exkaw4f8/exe2.5unplannedrelease.rar/file here]].

* ArrangeMode: Planned for the mod was an "Encore" mode inspired by the original game's ERECT difficulty, which would remix the songs with a heavy focus on Boyfriend freestyling. A few songs were completed before the mod was cancelled, though only "Too Slow" is available in the unfinished build.

* NowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: All versions of the mod primarily have Boyfriend as the player character: however, in the unfinished build, Starved's songs see you take control of different characters, that being Sonic for "Prey" and Tails for "Fight or Flight".

** "Soulless" is a departue from both the usual game's style and the 3D models of "Sunshine", having a sketchy, flat color Tails Doll in reference to [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/exenightmare/images/a/ac/Screenshot_20220402_081118_com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox_edit_1246167099820786.jpg the piece of art]] commonly associated with it.

** "Too Slow Encore" turns Boyfriend into a rabbit, and Girlfriend presumably also would have been changed into an animal.

** In the DummiedOut[[invoked]] "Fatality", Fatal_Error and Boyfriend are both in sprites resembling those from Sonic 3 and Knuckles, a game Fatal had attacked in his storyline.

* BadassNormal:
** Both Lord X and Sunky don't have any form of InterfaceScrew in their song "Cycles" and "Milk", but still remain rather difficult to beat thanks to their tighter note density.
** Sanic doesn't have any sort of InterfaceScrew during "Too Fest" (at least, until the final build), but remains one of the hardest opponents in the whole mod for having a bigger note density and speed than the other songs.
* BassoProfundo: Sonic.exe's voice is ''so'' deep, in fact, that most of his singing is in [[https://www.classicfm.com/music-news/videos/oktavist-low-bass/ Oktavist range]]!

* BossBanter: Fleetway Super Sonic's ''very'' talkative during his song "Chaos", displaying his original self's cocky nature by [[YouFightLikeACow mocking]] and [[IShallTauntYou taunting]] Boyfriend constantly, but also getting visibly irritated near the end when Boyfriend still manages to keep pace with him.

* DamageOverTime: "Black Sun" has Boyfriend's health passively drain when he misses notes. Unlike the standard health drain of other mods, there is no way to gain health back after losing it.

* EasyModeMockery: Attempting to beat the main week on Easy or Normal will end the game after "Too Slow", telling the player they were "too slow" and asking if they want to try again.

** "Milk" has artwork of Sunky occasionally hover across the screen, which are likely to block the player's view of the notes.

* ImposterForgotOneDetail: Sonic.exe's Sonic disguise during "Faker" is very convincing… save for his completely red shoes, blue arms, and lack of a mouth in his idle.

** According to [[invoked]] WordOfGod, Sonic.exe's poses during "You Can't Run" appear as they do because he's actually taunting Boyfriend.

** Unreleased song "Manual Blast" is a little bit behind this, lasting ''almost seven minutes'' in total.

** "Milk" contains a boatload of references to memetic songs such as [[VideoGame/{{Undertale}} MEGALOVANIA]] and [[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants Best Day Ever]].
** During the section where "Personel" goes full StylisticSuck, one can hear a {{Leitmotif}} of the beta version of VideoGame/VsMouse's "Welcome", a song infamous for its utter lack of quality.
** The song for upcoming opponent, Chaotix, known as "My Horizon", is a rewording of the song from Knuckles' Chaotix called "This Horizon".

** The 3.0 update introduces another joke Sonic, the infamous [[MartyStu Coldsteel the Hedgeheg]], and with him another song drenched in this. His sprites are intentionally poorly drawn, his up pose turns him into a recolored 16-bit Sonic sprite (notably one from [=SRB2=]), and he constantly spouts out random rants straight from the mouth of a [[{{Chuunibyou}} typical edgy teenager]]. Unlike the others, however, his suckage bleeds even into the song itself, with the middle section devolving into a discordant mess of off-key sounds that even takes a {{Leitmotif}} from ''[[VideoGame/VsMouse Old Welcome]]''.

* TheSmurfettePrinciple: WebOriginal/Needlem0use is the only female opponent in the mod. Had she not been scrapped, Sally_ALT would've been this as well.

** The song "''Slay''bells", a Christmas song involving Sonic.exe and Lord X, both of which are {{Serial Killer}}s.

It would later be announced by one of the former directors of 3.0, [=MarStarBro=], that the new update would've been split into two different mods, one that focuses on pre-existing characters such as Sonic.exe, Tails Doll, and Coldsteel and another that focused on .exe takes known as ''Vs. Sonic.exe File Extensions'', such as Fatal Error and Requital that could've been added onto the main mod as DLC.

* AdaptationalSpeciesChange: "Too Slow Encore" turns Boyfriend into a rabbit. Girlfriend likely would've also been turned into a Sonic-styled animal had the update been finished. The canned song "Forestall Desire" would've also had Pico as a hedgehog.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Unlike the other opponents presently showcased, Boyfriend seems to take Fatal_Error way more seriously than the rest, as his sprites show possible frustration or anger towards the being. The likely reason for Boyfriend's anger is that at one point in the background, what appears to be Girlfriend having been turned into one of Fatal Error's puppets can be seen.

* PerpetualSmiler: Majin Sonic, in all his poses and even his [[ExpressiveHealthBar losing icon]], can't change his expression of sporting a really huge smile. On a similar note [=Needlem0use=] and Sarah don't stop smiling throughout [=Round-A-Bout=] with the closest to a change in expression either make is Sarah's smile changing in how she does it depending on her pose.

* AdaptationalSpeciesChange: "Too Slow Encore" turns Boyfriend into a rabbit. Girlfriend likely would've also been turned into a Sonic-styled animal had the update been finished.

** "Fatality" fills the screen with pop-ups that obscure the arrows and need to be clicked with the mouse.

* OneWingedAngel: .exe's true form in "Triple Trouble", Xenophanes, is ''much'' larger and lankier than his normal state, with an x-shaped scar on his chest like Lord X, and purple crystalline tips on his quills, ears and eyebrows.

* PerpetualSmiler: Majin Sonic, in all his poses and even his [[ExpressiveHealthBar losing icon]], can't change his expression of sporting a really huge smile.

** Sonic.exe himself used to downplay it; they're white in his original idle animation, and several times he's shown without eyes at all. ''Round 2'' gives him red eyes in all his poses for "Too Slow", and flips between that and no eyes in "You Can't Run" before going back to permanent red eyes "Triple Trouble".

#Substantial (X-Terion)[[note]]needs a workaround to actually play

#Substantial (X-Terion)[[note]]This song can't be played by normal means but a workaround can give it a somewhat playable form