Finding God in Video Games

Team Sonic is frequently pressed into service fighting one exhausting battle after another with the fate of the entire planet on the line, but if you were talking to Tails you would never know it. His consistently positive and cheerful attitude keeps his entire team motivated and encouraged even when they are facing incredibly uncertain times and fighting the most dangerous ...

In many ways Sonic and Shadow’s journeys run parallel to each other, as both hedgehogs have endured far more than their fair share of painful losses and unprovoked challenges in their lives. While Sonic took his obstacles in stride, letting these unwanted circumstances develop him into a heroic protector of others, Shadow allowed the darkness he experienced to completely twi...

One of the defining features of any Sonic game is the act of collecting rings as we race through the level… but no matter how many rings I pick up, all it takes is one misstep for me to lose them all. Whether I have one ring or one hundred, all the rings I’ve been collecting explode across the level as soon as I step on a spike or mistime a jump. This isn’t to say that the r...

As much as I loved Sonic’s first foray into 3D gaming in the Sonic Adventure series, there were still parts that I wouldn’t have minded skipping. For example, playing through the Action Stages as Sonic was always fast-paced and exciting, but when the story required me to take a break from the action and help Big the Cat fish for his pet Froggy… well, let’s just say those wer...

In the Sonic Adventure series, we learned that while Sonic is exceptionally fast, the secret to making him exponentially stronger and faster was finding and applying the hidden gear that would upgrade his abilities. Each member of the Sonic team had multiple options to grow their capabilities such as light speed shoes for Sonic, new fighting gloves for Knuckles, and a more p...