Eldritch Abomination: X himself is this.No guesses as to what Tom does right after reading that. Don't Touch It, You Idiot!: Kyle's letter tells Tom not to play the Sonic game.X: No one will ever notice what happened to him, not even his family. The note, supposedly from Kyle, was actually from X, and intentional Schmuck Bait to sucker Tom into playing the game out of curiosity. Dead Person Impersonation: Kyle's fate in this spinoff.Cosmic Horror Story: A bizarre attempt at one, given X's nature and what it does to people, not to mention the theft of souls.Apparently, they weren't the first to play it. Continuity Nod: Tom and Kyle are mentioned in the sequel.This means that you could be closing in on one of them, only for the game to warp you to the Dark World, causing it to vanish, and instead have you risk starting the whole act over again should you die from anything there. It is then played very straight in the Dark World, where both the checkpoint lampposts and the goal turnstile are gone. At first it's averted in the normal world, where all of the checkpoints keep their original spots. Checkpoint Starvation: An Ordinary Sonic 1 ROM Hack.Broken Heel: Tails slips when running from X in 'HIDE AND SEEK'.An Eldritch Abomination brutally and bloodily murders the characters before going after people in the real world. Bloodier and Gorier and Darker and Edgier: Than the main Sonic series.Black Eyes of Evil: The Zalgo-ified title screen.Black Eyes of Crazy: X has black sclera.Eggman plays the same role he did in the original game (conquering South Island and turning the animals into Badniks), while X appears periodically to drag Sonic into a Dark World and chase him. Big Bad Ensemble: X and Eggman in An Ordinary Sonic 1 ROM Hack.Big Bad: X is the demon taking the form of Sonic that, in-game, kills Sonic and his friends, and outside the game kills people in the real world.Outside the game, X has claimed many victims thanks to Shannon Goldman and the Cult of X distributing the game, and will go after anyone else next. In Derek's playthrough, he's killed Shadow and Sally, though Derek refuses to finish the game as Rouge. The Bad Guy Wins: In-game, X succeeds in killing Tails, Knuckles, and Eggman in Tom's playthrough.Psychotic, sadistic, and totally devoid of human compassion. Apocalyptic Log: The letter written by Kyle that comes with the package, as well as Derek's diary.And I Must Scream: According to the backstory for the titular character, this is the fate of all Sonic.exe's victims due to him simply taking their souls and placing them in bodies that look like Sonic the Hedgehog characters just so that he could 'make them his slaves', as well as killing their 'bodies' in gruesome manners.Once you enter the goal area in the normal world or defeat Eggman in the third act, the game won't switch to the Dark World in order to prevent a Kaizo Trap from occurring.There are also more monitors in general in the hack compared to the original Sonic 1, including in the fights with Eggman, because the author said that the game would've been Unwinnable by Design otherwise, but he also stated that the additional amount that was put in wouldn't end up making the hack 'too easy'. The reason for this is so that Sonic will always have a way to temporarily return his world to normal and prevent Sonic.exe from killing him. An Ordinary Sonic 1 ROM Hack allows monitors to respawn.All There in the Manual: At one point, the author to the original Creepypasta revealed X's official Backstory which, amongst other things, explains his nature, his personality, why he resembles Sonic in the first place, how he's able to steal his victims' souls, and what he actually does to his victims.If you wish to look at the tropes of the Sonic.exe remake, click here.Д¬urrently, following the aftermath of JC the Hyena's deplatforming after being exposed for being a sexual predator, Sonic.exe's ownership has been relinquished to Astranomiconx, who is working on a new canon. On October 31st 2017, the author of Sonic.exe posted a remake of the entire story. Since its creation, the game has also spawned many clones of it, including SuperMario.exe and Sunky.MPEG.

Completed sonic fan games