Sega Offers Online Mini Game for Latest Hedgehog Adventure

Posted on November 28, 2005

There is a cool online mini game available for the new Shadow the Hedgehog game from Sega which features a tough, gun-toting hedgehog. However, Kotaku questions Shadow's gun carrying ways:

There is something SO wrong about Shadow with a gun though -- on the loading screen, Shadow cocks his gun, and the sound is just so not something I want to associate with collecting rings and bouncing on platforms. Magic, slingshots, rotten tomatoes ... why guns??

The gun, which does seem a little out of place as a hedgehog weapon, is acceptable because the hedgehog character in this game has a dark past.

Shadow awakens with amnesia and is tormented by a dark past as he struggles to unveil his true identity. Was he created to save humankind or to do the evil bidding of the dark side? Only by collecting the seven Chaos Emeralds will Shadow unlock the truth. Caught in a complex battle between aliens, the G.U.N. army, and Dr. Eggman, Shadow becomes the very element that may tip the scales between good and evil forever. The epic is set - and the path that Shadow will ultimately take is completely up to you!

Sonic should never get a gun. That would go too far.

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