Reviews VideoGame / Sonic Dreams Collection

Great satirical Art from people that are obviously Sonic fans

I've only played a few Sonic games so I don't get most of the injokes/references in this work, but still I can't help but see it as True Art.

All Art is contextuale, this game is only worth mentioning with the frame that is the sociocultural history of shitty, modern Sonic games. If those 3D Sonic games weren't so hideously edgy and "realistic", this collection wouldn't be nearly as hilariously uncanny. If the actual games weren't filled with so much weird sexualization of talking animals, the strange fetishes here might seem legitimately transgressive instead of just par for the Deviantart course.

My point is that this is both a "love letter" to Sonic fans, detailing how and why their favorite hedgehog is regarded so poorly these days, and is also a well crafted mocking of the games' design choices. This sort of simultaneous criticism of the people that ruined Sonic/cheeky dialogue between snarky fans is what elevates these simple interactive jokes into Greatness. Did anyone expect that the best Sonic game in years would be a satirical, avant-garde "alternate reality game" filled with straight faced representations of Freudian fetishes?