Crazy to think how a creepypasta that was fairly bad in retrospect had managed to live this long and get so many good fangames unlike the other creepypastas.
And to think Sonic.exe out of all things still has this small horror community live is a miracle on it's own, guess Sonic.exe fans can have mostly the same passion as average Sonic fans
@@brunettebi4111 yeah, PC Port is actually pretty cool for an EXE game, like how it isn't just Lord X, and he has guardians to stop Tails from escaping his game, how Lord X is actually slowly dying because his vessel is a corpse. It's all suprisingly well thought-out for an EXE game.
@@LACKOFPERSON I feel like that is another genre of its own All the exes from those mods don't have actual games where they're introduced, do yhey? Lord x, for example, was from sonic pc port and then he was introduced into fnf modding
Spirits of Hell was my first experience with Sonic.EXE and Sonic horror games in general, I remember watching it when Round 1 came out when I was only 7 years old.I remember that my dad was upset with me how I was watching it at such a young age but I didn’t listen. I actually stopped watching EXE content when I was around 9 years old in 2020 but in 2021,when I was 10,FNF:VS Sonic.EXE and Whisper of Soul came out and got me back into the EXE community
I liked Friendship. I’ve always liked the Creepypasta/fan stories going into the character reactions to the worst-case scenarios. It gives more depth to the concept of “oh, you lost, here’s a cutscene to prove it”.
Yeah on top of that I also liked that Tails wasn't revived or anything, he's dead no matter what you do and it ends up kinda leaving a powerful reminder about death
@@aconfusedlacroix3965???? No, it's kind of just there. Not a lot of too much looking into it. It's an easy to see reminder. You die, you dead. Nothing else.
@@ForgottenChronicler Yeah honestly that subgenre of fanfic is really rad if you're into that sort of fanfic. I am not into that sort of fanfic. And I hate that niche of fanfic writing with a burning, unextinguishable passion. XP
a really obscure indie horror game you should cover is garfield kart furious racing. the sound design, atmosphere, and gameplay honestly shook me to my core, i could even say it was traumatizing
The Sonic EYX "we want to see you" part of the game gives me chills every time. Them trying to access your webcam, The twisted and mangled faces of the normally friendly Sonic characters, now smiling at you horrifyingly, and the corrupted casino night music. Peak creepypasta game right there.
@@eNCy. I mean, can relate. There is something freaky about seeing your favorite childhood cartoon character being turned into a literal demon. There's a lot of kids traumatized from My Little Pony horror
I think what makes Sonic.EYX so scary is the way the horror is done, being something akin to analogue horror, which is definitely one of the more scarier types of horror. Oddly enough, it’s not even the entity that’s the most scary. Sure, it’s creepy and weird, but most of the horror comes from the effects. Ray's death, Eggman's death, the tunnel chase, and even Tails burning all culminate into an effective experience. Maybe too effective, in some cases, but effective nonetheless.
suprised that spirits of hell was not covered in this video, it's a relatively good sonic.exe fangame with actual gameplay elements and a resemblance of a story
It's an impressive game for sure. but what I'm not so sure is if Bup will enjoy it's story or not Lol i'm not saying that it's bad or anything, it has got some neat ideas here and there but. i'm just not the biggest fan of how it was executed
@@AltKaxREAL to be fair it doesnt even have much of a story for it to be hated. It has a plot unlike the other sonic.exe games but its really simple. The endings and gameplay definitely is what makes spirits of hell a great fangame for me. The voice acting is also not bad either
@@stephaniejohnson5361aye its one of the few that gets a pass on my hate for not trying something new, Ive had the idea of being a captured freedom fighter deep in enemy territory with no wispon no super speed and only the enviroment to work to hurt robots. the bad ending/game over would be a closeup of mc being robotized and screaming. I dont mind exe games but the feeling of powerlessness could be explored in other ways besides possessed sonic is coming for you. the Archie comics amd even the newer comics come up with some good nightmare fuel to use.
@@blindedjourneyman yea but that's what exe games are. A possessed/Evil/demonic version of sonic killing the main cast. It wouldn't be an EXE game if it doesn't follow that formula. Sonic.exe Spirits of hell does convey the powerlessness well despite following that formula. The game shows in multiple endings just how powerful exe is with his cloning abilities, teleportation and being able to track anybody within his power(which is something a robot can't do). instead of just killing off every character they actually made it so the main cast has a chance to live which can really increase the stakes.
I really like EYX a lot. The art style seems to be taking notes from analogue horror stuff like Mandala Catalogue or Walton Files with the way the eyes in particular are distorted, and that sorta style actually gets to me in a way that most horror doesn't.
Agreed. Analogue Horror is definitely one of the more scarier types of horror media. Probably the only media that’s effective on using jumpscares, too.
@@ShockInazuma I mean that's largely personal. I've just built up a mild immunity to most horror stuff, and analogue is something new enough to get past that. Plus it's usually pretty fun even when it's not successfully spooking me, which is more than I can say for a lot of stuff.
When you think about it, SA2 had some spooky elements in it too. I mean jesus, Gerald's firing squad video, the ark being a literal mass murder on a ship, the entirety of the biolizard to go from that to ripping spines out of backs is crazy..
Amy's Story from Sonic Adventure has that House of Mirrors from Twinkle Park. While ZERO is by no means a threat, it was still an eerie place to go through, especially with that very exclusive track that plays throughout that segment.
People are making so much Sonic horror games and content in general, as if the canon doesn't have an untapped potential for being a nightmare fuel. In Semi-Hero-Hero ending in ShTH Shadow becomes so horrified that so many people died because of "Project Shadow" (people on the ARK+everyone who died in Black Arms invasion) that he calles himself a mistake that should never have been made and storms off, with Vector (prolly because he's the oldest of the heroes so he realized what Shadow was about to do to himself) screaming "DON'T DO THAT!" in his back. Then nothing. Shadow _commits suicide_ in one of the endings. Pretty fcking dark, huh?
6:35 I guess we can all agree that the scariest thing about sonic.exe (in fnf specifically) is the absurd amount of attention it got with all those mods And the really concerning background of some of the creators of those mods
Because usually it really is a lazy way of scaring the player. It's the same as if a comedian just tickled you to make you laugh. You don't need earrape and flashing images to scare the player, but game devs still resort to this because it's easier to do.
@@Kaghtaviy That's a nonsensical strawman comparison. Jumpscares are scary when used properly. They should ideally be used as a climactic payoff for the tension the game spent all its previous time building up. It's similar to a stereotypical "chase scene" in some horror games. Nobody would argue that being chased by a monster isn't scary, because the game usually spends a lot of time making you paranoid about said monster jumping out and scaring you, which is then shown to be an entirely rational fear when it does. EYX does this very well, especially given its incredible sprite work and audio design (a fatal flaw of bad jumpscares is using low-quality imagery and stock scream sound effects). I find it far scarier than any "psychological horror" games that were too afraid of being seen as a "jumpscare game" to do anything besides mildly creep you out. After a while, the tension falls off because the game never makes any attempt to make you feel unsafe. Even Coronation Day, a ROMhack people like to put on a pedestal as "a game that can be scary with no jumpscares", still has a jumpscare in it, with a loud glitched sound endlessly playing as Ghost Peach starts chasing you. Jumpscares are also more than just "flashing image with loud scream". Another great example of jumpscares done well is the more recent Resident Evil games. Like that infamous scene in RE7 where Jack Baker smashes through a wall in a narrow hallway. By that point, you've already figured out that Jack is a real threat, and now he's shown that not even the walls of his own house will protect you from him. And triggering that isn't guaranteed either, meaning there's less of a chance for you to get used to it on subsequent playthroughs even when you know it's a scripted event. Or in RE Village during Dimitrescu's section, where her daughters can suddenly appear in the same room as you and give chase, often when you least expect it and when your guard is down. I've had people straight up refuse to admit these even counted as jumpscares when I pointed them out, because to them "jumpscare = bad low-quality flashing image and loud noise".
My favorite part of the sonic.exe genre and fandom is it's connectivity,resilience and the ability to turn a character that beats goku into a horror subject.
And the Fact he can Beat goku is one of the most horrifying things about it,like if The Goat of anime himself would not be able to survive,what are your chances?
@@bread-bz3zh Goku is scaled to be past multiversal in levels of power, including various techniques he's learned like ultra instinct. If you put them both in a fight, Goku is coming out on top because of his insane battle IQ, endurance, and so on
if i can give a recommendation to a really weird set of "sonic creepypasta/horror games", it would be the spirits of hell/whisper of souls games. they're not amazing, but they clearly have a lot of passion and love put into them in a bizarre way
Is that the series that has an impressive amount of different endings? I remember one had several endings, of varying amounts of scariness and even sadness. I can't remember the name, though.
@@RedSpade37 From memory, Nightmare Beginning has around like 6? The Bad Ending (where sonic kills himself in suicide hill) and also the canon ending as well? Then there’s the individual survivor endings and then the Good and Best ending. Spirits of Hell has one for each character surviving on their own, and surviving as a duo, and then the bad ending where nobody lives and the true ending where they all live Whisper of Souls has like fuckin 30 or smth
@@gradiation Oh damn! Yeah, Suicide Hill messed me up for the rest of the night... But yeah, I remember an ending, in some area with a super dense fog effect, where Robotnik, clearly heartbroken over the whole situation, very bluntly gives Metal Sonic the order to snap .EXE's neck, and it was almost as brutal as the Suicide Ending. Whisper of Souls, though, I don't think I know. I will 100% have to check that one out! Thanks for the info!
@@RedSpade37 I’m fairly certain that’s one of the neutral endings for Nightmare Beginning. I don’t remember how to get them but they’re endings where only one of the characters lives and they kill off Sonic somehow
@@gradiation You're right! During our conversation here, I've been rewatching endings from all these games. It's wild, isn't it? Never in my literal wildest dreams would I have imagined this kind of "horrific creativity" for a game like Sonic!
The scariest thing in this video is the fact that someone saw eggmans face and decided to make a diamond necklace out of it. Who knew there was even a market for that? I guess anything sells. 😂
What's cool to me is that you mentioned sonic triple trouble 16 bit and sonic time twisted. These fangames are incredibly underrated and deserve much more attention.
What about a exe joke game where it's a 1930's silent film and every time exe tries to kill somebody ink will splat all over him and each character will counter him in a goofy way
I really love how sonic exe went from an infamous and meh creepypasta story to a well liked, unique but severely overrated alternate reality like sonic series, it really shows how creative people can be when left up to their imaginations with a specific subject, especially since we're talking about something like sonic
Some suggestions: SONIC 2011: This is the official remake and slightly rewritten version of the original Sonic.exe made by the co-owner of the character (who also made Sonic PC). The main format is identical, but there are a few little changes to spice it up a bit. Though just like its predecessor, it’s mainly just an extremely long walk-to-the-right simulator (but if you walk to the left you get a secret stage oooo very scary). Though this time there is an actual in-universe reason for this, which is that X (Sonic.exe) is just terrible at making games. Though even then, the creator admitted that’s it’s a fair complaint. Also make sure to turn off your antivirus before you play, don’t worry it’s just scareware. SØNIC [UNL]: Something to note about this game is that the physics for the player character suck. Though according to the description of the game, this is _supposedly_ intentional. Though due to the creator’s previous games having the same issue, something tells me this was some sort of excuse, but it does sort of fit, like with the Bootleg Collection game. Also, while it isn’t a fangame, it like to mention Speedduo64. It’s a horror webseries that’s meant to give its own spin on the Sonic.exe creepypasta. It’s on the channel “ShutupJoJo” and there are currently only three videos out. The story’s kind of confusing at first but that’s because it’s meant to take a show-don’t-tell format, and you’re to put together the story as the series goes on. Though to give a bit of context, you should watch another video on the channel called “Love’s Crafts”, which is part of another series that’s connected to Speedduo64. Again, it’s not a fangame, but maybe you could make a separate video on it idk
Genuinely love how there's a CANON reason for the walking simulator gameplay and that explanation is literally just "oh yeah the alien god entity is just really shit at making games, lmao"
ngl it made my childhood and i still like how it was represented as fanmade OP version of sonic like sanic back then. definitely do not like how in today kids genuinely believe sonic is dead cuz sonic.exe.
sega when someone remakes one of their games and makes it free: "ah yeah! this is happening!" nintendo when someone is named mario in itali: "take the shot."
One creepypasta you should definitely check out is SONIC 2011. A lot of the team creating PC Port worked on it, and it's honestly my favorite EXE game. It's incredibly well made, and the ending had me genuinely thinking my pc was bricked (I remember some people complaining that theirs was ruined for a couple hours). If you do decide to make another video on sonic creepypasta games, definitely check it out!
Sonic 2011 is really just the same boring walking sim, it's just new visuals and tracks put into the game but still no gameplay. The game really deserves a 5/10 for me
I’m glad you noticed it about the challenges, although the creators got each exe game are very great, exe as whole wouldn’t get the popularity if it wasn’t for Luigi kid himself, he was the one who started it and would technically be the founder of exe as a whole, it’s cool to me
just once Id like a horror game as a disarmed freedom fighter unable to break eggmans machines, trying to get out of town and free your friends before theyre either tortured or roboticized. alas its all exe. one day I shall take matters into my own hands.
Neat fact: Chao Garden.EXE 's visuals and beginning part of the gameplay are based off the Chao Adventure games, specifically the versions you can play on the GameBoy Advanced through the Gamecube ports! Unlike the GameBoy Advanced games... The chao can not die when in Chao Adventure. I have no idea if that was you glitching something out, or if that's on purpose since it was a horror game though :[
Wanted to say I love your videos and I'm surprised you're a small channel with the quality of your content. Please keep making videos and I hope you become a popular youtuber!
4:40 Green Hill's lookin' a lot more like Scary Hill right now. 5:01 It's referring to the latter half of Angel Island Act 1 from Sonic 3, after a machine blows up the place, causing the island to combust.
When I was a kid, these horror games fucked me uuuup for a couple weeks. I literally couldn't sleep and kept hearing the reverse Green Hill music. Every time I would close my eyes, I would see his face and always imagined him charging into my room screaming at me. This shit absolutely terrified me.
Tbh one series of Sonic.exe games that I feel like are massively underrated is the Nightmare series by Jayzkois (I might've mixed up the i and y there, but I'm not sure). Even the original Nightmare Beginning (which is basically just a retelling of the original creepypasta, but a lot more expanded) already has at least 7 different endings that I know of, and it's generally considered to be the worst (take that term lightly, it's still really good) game in the series. Then you've got the original Continued Nightmare, Continued Nightmare: Eye of Three (which are separate games), the remake of Nightmare Beginning, and at least one more game that I know of. All of the ones mentioned have a _lot_ of different endings and a huge amount of content, and from what I've seen they're actually pretty good to play. The one that I watched the most content for while going through my Sonic.exe phase was Eye of Three, which already has at least 12 different endings that I know of, some of which are even secret/easter egg endings. The games also don't really rely on jumpscares all that much, though there definitely is pixel gore involved ^^'
I would genuinely love it if a more fleshed out version of Sonic.eyx let you play through all of Crystal Lake Zone normally after getting some sort of good ending.
17:23 this is actually a thing in the sonic universe in sonic 3 and knuckles theres a stage called doomsday zone when you try to beat eggman before running out of rings it so difficult but worth it!
the fact that tails isnt scared when angel island burns in sonic 3 the game, but he gets scared about angel island burning in sonic.exe games is mad crazy
one of my personal favorite sonic.exe games has to be Sonic 2011. it was made by the some of the same people who worked on PC port and even brought the composer from the original sonic.exe into the project! it is literally just a remake of the original sonic.exe, but it brings in quite a few new ideas, and a TON of polish!
i dont know why im on my third rewatch of this series (i havent watched since like, years ago but still) but horror always finds a way to seep into my brain, kinda like one of those mobile apps but less annoying
one of my favorite little detals is that after you come back from the sonic falling and then eyx popping up jumpscare sonics doing the animation that he does when near a ledge.
Yo, I've been steady watching your stuff ever since the Algorithm threw me a bone and it could not have done any better the moment you mentioned Joel/Vargskele. You my friend, have a new devoted subscriber. I love that dude, and even own a shirt from his band Scythelord. Keep the solid content coming
I'm surprised the company isn't throwing a hissy fit about how no one is allowed to make fan games about their ip considering how the copyright laws are pretty much made for companies to exploit
I'm guessing why tails gets murdered every time in exe games is because tails represents innocence. He is us when we didn't know any better and checking these games out only to be shocked by the game. But eh. I'm probably digging too deep into this.
Crazy to think how a creepypasta that was fairly bad in retrospect had managed to live this long and get so many good fangames unlike the other creepypastas.
And to think Sonic.exe out of all things still has this small horror community live is a miracle on it's own, guess Sonic.exe fans can have mostly the same passion as average Sonic fans
Sonic.EXE just can't die, no matter how much everyone in existence wants it to.
The concept is cool, but poorly written.
Thank Gaia for takes like Lord X.
@@brunettebi4111 yeah, PC Port is actually pretty cool for an EXE game, like how it isn't just Lord X, and he has guardians to stop Tails from escaping his game, how Lord X is actually slowly dying because his vessel is a corpse. It's all suprisingly well thought-out for an EXE game.
Calling it "fairly bad" is an understatement, its horrible
Sonic.EYX is what brought be back into the weird but small Sonic horror fandom, honestly. I'm excited to see what comes of it.
For me, it has got to be PCport
DID YOU SAY SMALL
JUST LOOK AT THE FNF COMMUNITY
Edit:I GET IT I KNOW OTS A DIFFERENT COMMUNITY BUT AT THE TIME ALL FNF STUFF WAS SONIC EXE RELATED
@@LACKOFPERSON No
@@WhoCrappedInThisShack ol
@@LACKOFPERSON I feel like that is another genre of its own
All the exes from those mods don't have actual games where they're introduced, do yhey?
Lord x, for example, was from sonic pc port and then he was introduced into fnf modding
"sonic horror games will ruin your childhood" sonic and sonic horror games WERE my childhood
sameeee. I loved TSOH as a kid and all those.
sameeee. I loved TSOH as a kid and all those.
same , and same with other creapy pasta
Spirits of Hell was my first experience with Sonic.EXE and Sonic horror games in general, I remember watching it when Round 1 came out when I was only 7 years old.I remember that my dad was upset with me how I was watching it at such a young age but I didn’t listen. I actually stopped watching EXE content when I was around 9 years old in 2020 but in 2021,when I was 10,FNF:VS Sonic.EXE and Whisper of Soul came out and got me back into the EXE community
So your childhood ruins your childhood?
I liked Friendship. I’ve always liked the Creepypasta/fan stories going into the character reactions to the worst-case scenarios. It gives more depth to the concept of “oh, you lost, here’s a cutscene to prove it”.
Yeah on top of that I also liked that Tails wasn't revived or anything, he's dead no matter what you do and it ends up kinda leaving a powerful reminder about death
I agree 👍
@@ForgottenChroniclerI think you reading into it too much kiddo😂
@@aconfusedlacroix3965???? No, it's kind of just there. Not a lot of too much looking into it. It's an easy to see reminder. You die, you dead. Nothing else.
@@ForgottenChronicler Yeah honestly that subgenre of fanfic is really rad if you're into that sort of fanfic.
I am not into that sort of fanfic.
And I hate that niche of fanfic writing with a burning, unextinguishable passion. XP
Fun fact: sally.exe is a ripoff of not only sonic.exe but another creepypasta called SONIC by chinelin.
sally is such an underrated Sonic character, like why her???????
At least crimson made a good game with it.
Thankfully, there are plenty of good reimaginings out there (example- Sally.exe Whisper of Soul).
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It was also made by a rabid Sally fantard, but JC (the author of Sonic.exe) made it canon.
a really obscure indie horror game you should cover is garfield kart furious racing. the sound design, atmosphere, and gameplay honestly shook me to my core, i could even say it was traumatizing
I can't even tell if this is a joke or not lmao
Garfield Kart is indeed very scary.
i nearly poopooed my peepees when you made me remember it
I shat myself after beating the first race.
"i apologize, johnathan"
-garfeldi
The Sonic EYX "we want to see you" part of the game gives me chills every time. Them trying to access your webcam, The twisted and mangled faces of the normally friendly Sonic characters, now smiling at you horrifyingly, and the corrupted casino night music. Peak creepypasta game right there.
EYX Goat
grown ass man getting scared by a blue cartoon rat
@@rampagedudesrb2 not scared, disturbed. But yeah that really isn't an excuse I can give.
@@eNCy. I mean, can relate. There is something freaky about seeing your favorite childhood cartoon character being turned into a literal demon. There's a lot of kids traumatized from My Little Pony horror
@@MF-nv4xo it's basically the entire reason the "Oh, that's gore of my comfort character" meme became popular
Iced-Out Eggmans is the best rating system I've ever heard of. Also, that bit of advice behind you at 18:11 is honestly true.
I think what makes Sonic.EYX so scary is the way the horror is done, being something akin to analogue horror, which is definitely one of the more scarier types of horror. Oddly enough, it’s not even the entity that’s the most scary. Sure, it’s creepy and weird, but most of the horror comes from the effects. Ray's death, Eggman's death, the tunnel chase, and even Tails burning all culminate into an effective experience. Maybe too effective, in some cases, but effective nonetheless.
suprised that spirits of hell was not covered in this video, it's a relatively good sonic.exe fangame with actual gameplay elements and a resemblance of a story
It's an impressive game for sure.
but what I'm not so sure is if Bup will enjoy it's story or not Lol
i'm not saying that it's bad or anything, it has got some neat ideas here and there but. i'm just not the biggest fan of how it was executed
@@AltKaxREAL to be fair it doesnt even have much of a story for it to be hated. It has a plot unlike the other sonic.exe games but its really simple. The endings and gameplay definitely is what makes spirits of hell a great fangame for me. The voice acting is also not bad either
@@stephaniejohnson5361aye its one of the few that gets a pass on my hate for not trying something new, Ive had the idea of being a captured freedom fighter deep in enemy territory with no wispon no super speed and only the enviroment to work to hurt robots. the bad ending/game over would be a closeup of mc being robotized and screaming. I dont mind exe games but the feeling of powerlessness could be explored in other ways besides possessed sonic is coming for you. the Archie comics amd even the newer comics come up with some good nightmare fuel to use.
@@blindedjourneyman yea but that's what exe games are. A possessed/Evil/demonic version of sonic killing the main cast. It wouldn't be an EXE game if it doesn't follow that formula. Sonic.exe Spirits of hell does convey the powerlessness well despite following that formula. The game shows in multiple endings just how powerful exe is with his cloning abilities, teleportation and being able to track anybody within his power(which is something a robot can't do). instead of just killing off every character they actually made it so the main cast has a chance to live which can really increase the stakes.
Because its not really a "horror game" but focuses on having an actual game to be played
Tails: *Is walking in Green Hill zone*
Every Single EXE in existence: *
"And I took that personally."
Needlemouse: am I a joke to you?
Exes seeing sonic: *I can milk you*
S2:da fuq
@@Bonletmeoutthebasement the creator say one time that needlemouse was not a exe anymore right?
Every Sonic.exe:" Looks like Tails on menu again guys!"
I swear, these are one of the only videos that feel like a return to what made yt good back in the 2010's. perfection.
I didn't expect to get vibe checked by an eyeless chao tonight, but here we are.
Green Hill's looking a lot more like SCARY Hill right now
I can see how the Angel Island Zone on fire can be startling to a kid, so its cool it was used in a horror game
I really like EYX a lot. The art style seems to be taking notes from analogue horror stuff like Mandala Catalogue or Walton Files with the way the eyes in particular are distorted, and that sorta style actually gets to me in a way that most horror doesn't.
Agreed. Analogue Horror is definitely one of the more scarier types of horror media. Probably the only media that’s effective on using jumpscares, too.
@@ShockInazuma I mean that's largely personal. I've just built up a mild immunity to most horror stuff, and analogue is something new enough to get past that.
Plus it's usually pretty fun even when it's not successfully spooking me, which is more than I can say for a lot of stuff.
The scariest thing about this video is when he said: "Chao from Sonic Adventure 2".
Some of you will instantly realise what's wrong here.
NOOOOOOOO I MEANT SONIC ADVENTURE IM SORRY 😢
I mean you could stretch this to be correct if you ignore half of the Biolizard’s backstory
ToadBup really thinks he is playstore 😭
The timing is 11:12 btw
When you think about it, SA2 had some spooky elements in it too. I mean jesus, Gerald's firing squad video, the ark being a literal mass murder on a ship, the entirety of the biolizard
to go from that to ripping spines out of backs is crazy..
The idea of darn near everyone being killed in that ship with no way of escape, plus Maria being killed on screen, is really haunting.
Amy's Story from Sonic Adventure has that House of Mirrors from Twinkle Park. While ZERO is by no means a threat, it was still an eerie place to go through, especially with that very exclusive track that plays throughout that segment.
People are making so much Sonic horror games and content in general, as if the canon doesn't have an untapped potential for being a nightmare fuel. In Semi-Hero-Hero ending in ShTH Shadow becomes so horrified that so many people died because of "Project Shadow" (people on the ARK+everyone who died in Black Arms invasion) that he calles himself a mistake that should never have been made and storms off, with Vector (prolly because he's the oldest of the heroes so he realized what Shadow was about to do to himself) screaming "DON'T DO THAT!" in his back. Then nothing.
Shadow _commits suicide_ in one of the endings. Pretty fcking dark, huh?
@@alarmlessRiflemanI'm pretty sure there are MULTIPLE endings where Shadow "quits to title screen"
the mention of Joel made me happy to know that his humor isn't just an enigma to people
I just *had* to drop a like as soon as he mentioned him
6:35
I guess we can all agree that the scariest thing about sonic.exe (in fnf specifically) is the absurd amount of attention it got with all those mods
And the really concerning background of some of the creators of those mods
i love how everytime you get kicked out the game, squidward is just: "bruv"
amazing video toadbup!!
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Dragon @@ToadBup
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I like how lord X gets so petty for not paying attention he just locks you out of the game
not sure why people treat jumpscares like some inherent sin in horror games. EYX shows how they can be done extremely well and effectively.
People are just jaded because they're used badly so often that now they just assume jumpscare = instantly lazy
@gotgunpowder green mage pfp based
Because usually it really is a lazy way of scaring the player. It's the same as if a comedian just tickled you to make you laugh.
You don't need earrape and flashing images to scare the player, but game devs still resort to this because it's easier to do.
@@Kaghtaviy That's a nonsensical strawman comparison. Jumpscares are scary when used properly. They should ideally be used as a climactic payoff for the tension the game spent all its previous time building up. It's similar to a stereotypical "chase scene" in some horror games. Nobody would argue that being chased by a monster isn't scary, because the game usually spends a lot of time making you paranoid about said monster jumping out and scaring you, which is then shown to be an entirely rational fear when it does.
EYX does this very well, especially given its incredible sprite work and audio design (a fatal flaw of bad jumpscares is using low-quality imagery and stock scream sound effects). I find it far scarier than any "psychological horror" games that were too afraid of being seen as a "jumpscare game" to do anything besides mildly creep you out. After a while, the tension falls off because the game never makes any attempt to make you feel unsafe. Even Coronation Day, a ROMhack people like to put on a pedestal as "a game that can be scary with no jumpscares", still has a jumpscare in it, with a loud glitched sound endlessly playing as Ghost Peach starts chasing you.
Jumpscares are also more than just "flashing image with loud scream". Another great example of jumpscares done well is the more recent Resident Evil games. Like that infamous scene in RE7 where Jack Baker smashes through a wall in a narrow hallway. By that point, you've already figured out that Jack is a real threat, and now he's shown that not even the walls of his own house will protect you from him. And triggering that isn't guaranteed either, meaning there's less of a chance for you to get used to it on subsequent playthroughs even when you know it's a scripted event. Or in RE Village during Dimitrescu's section, where her daughters can suddenly appear in the same room as you and give chase, often when you least expect it and when your guard is down. I've had people straight up refuse to admit these even counted as jumpscares when I pointed them out, because to them "jumpscare = bad low-quality flashing image and loud noise".
@@leafytaffy7291 Can't wait for Everhood 2.
My favorite part of the sonic.exe genre and fandom is it's connectivity,resilience and the ability to turn a character that beats goku into a horror subject.
And the Fact he can Beat goku is one of the most horrifying things about it,like if The Goat of anime himself would not be able to survive,what are your chances?
goku can most definitely beat sonic, im pretty sure you have not watched or read anything about dragon ball
@@faizedfrhow could he?
@@bread-bz3zh Goku is scaled to be past multiversal in levels of power, including various techniques he's learned like ultra instinct. If you put them both in a fight, Goku is coming out on top because of his insane battle IQ, endurance, and so on
@@faizedfr depends on the version tbh, archie sonic can put up a fight to him
how the hell you taking anything that you do in Your pc seriously when your desktop is squidward looking directly at your soul 💀💀💀💀
I believe this man is a trolldier.
I kept pronouncing trolldier as "troll deer"
6:44 *”Enough talk about Sonic.EXE, let’s talk about Sonic.EXE.”*
if i can give a recommendation to a really weird set of "sonic creepypasta/horror games", it would be the spirits of hell/whisper of souls games. they're not amazing, but they clearly have a lot of passion and love put into them in a bizarre way
Is that the series that has an impressive amount of different endings? I remember one had several endings, of varying amounts of scariness and even sadness.
I can't remember the name, though.
@@RedSpade37 From memory, Nightmare Beginning has around like 6? The Bad Ending (where sonic kills himself in suicide hill) and also the canon ending as well? Then there’s the individual survivor endings and then the Good and Best ending.
Spirits of Hell has one for each character surviving on their own, and surviving as a duo, and then the bad ending where nobody lives and the true ending where they all live
Whisper of Souls has like fuckin 30 or smth
@@gradiation Oh damn! Yeah, Suicide Hill messed me up for the rest of the night...
But yeah, I remember an ending, in some area with a super dense fog effect, where Robotnik, clearly heartbroken over the whole situation, very bluntly gives Metal Sonic the order to snap .EXE's neck, and it was almost as brutal as the Suicide Ending.
Whisper of Souls, though, I don't think I know. I will 100% have to check that one out! Thanks for the info!
@@RedSpade37 I’m fairly certain that’s one of the neutral endings for Nightmare Beginning. I don’t remember how to get them but they’re endings where only one of the characters lives and they kill off Sonic somehow
@@gradiation You're right! During our conversation here, I've been rewatching endings from all these games.
It's wild, isn't it? Never in my literal wildest dreams would I have imagined this kind of "horrific creativity" for a game like Sonic!
“Tails is about to be attacked by a giant red tickle monster”
got me dying in laughter
0:33 rouge the hedgehog 💀
I JUST REALIZED IT SAID HEDGEHOG INSTEAD OF BAT
You said the game buy i Say the image shown
I don't know why, but the bit where he said "This, um... dabbing red Sonic gives you a bit of a spook." makes me laugh every time.
5:50
I can't believe they decided to make Sonic british, that's truly horrifying.
the chao garden one is actually based on the tiny chao garden in the gba sonic games
The scariest thing in this video is the fact that someone saw eggmans face and decided to make a diamond necklace out of it. Who knew there was even a market for that? I guess anything sells. 😂
What's cool to me is that you mentioned sonic triple trouble 16 bit and sonic time twisted. These fangames are incredibly underrated and deserve much more attention.
What about a exe joke game where it's a 1930's silent film and every time exe tries to kill somebody ink will splat all over him and each character will counter him in a goofy way
Fun fact: potatoes
OMG, NEVER NOTICED THAT
Source?
No way
2 LIKES AND ILL MAKE FRENCH FRYS! 🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO KNOW THAT?! 🤯🤯🤯
I really love how sonic exe went from an infamous and meh creepypasta story to a well liked, unique but severely overrated alternate reality like sonic series, it really shows how creative people can be when left up to their imaginations with a specific subject, especially since we're talking about something like sonic
Fun fact: "Sodor: the experiment of engines" despite being a Thomas the Tank Engine horror game has Sonic.exe characters
Some suggestions:
SONIC 2011: This is the official remake and slightly rewritten version of the original Sonic.exe made by the co-owner of the character (who also made Sonic PC). The main format is identical, but there are a few little changes to spice it up a bit. Though just like its predecessor, it’s mainly just an extremely long walk-to-the-right simulator (but if you walk to the left you get a secret stage oooo very scary). Though this time there is an actual in-universe reason for this, which is that X (Sonic.exe) is just terrible at making games. Though even then, the creator admitted that’s it’s a fair complaint. Also make sure to turn off your antivirus before you play, don’t worry it’s just scareware.
SØNIC [UNL]: Something to note about this game is that the physics for the player character suck. Though according to the description of the game, this is _supposedly_ intentional. Though due to the creator’s previous games having the same issue, something tells me this was some sort of excuse, but it does sort of fit, like with the Bootleg Collection game.
Also, while it isn’t a fangame, it like to mention Speedduo64. It’s a horror webseries that’s meant to give its own spin on the Sonic.exe creepypasta. It’s on the channel “ShutupJoJo” and there are currently only three videos out. The story’s kind of confusing at first but that’s because it’s meant to take a show-don’t-tell format, and you’re to put together the story as the series goes on. Though to give a bit of context, you should watch another video on the channel called “Love’s Crafts”, which is part of another series that’s connected to Speedduo64. Again, it’s not a fangame, but maybe you could make a separate video on it idk
He can also watch Needlemouse as well :)
you predicted sonic 2011
Genuinely love how there's a CANON reason for the walking simulator gameplay and that explanation is literally just "oh yeah the alien god entity is just really shit at making games, lmao"
I feel like a good creepypasta SHOULD ruin your childhood.
I love how knuckles in EYX just is just like "screw you, asshole"
Ever since i watched M80marc i cannot take sonic.exe games seriously anymore. I LAUGH at these jumpscares
Surprised that he still plays them 'TILL this day!
13:21 I like how chubby Sonic exe is on the background
ngl it made my childhood and i still like how it was represented as fanmade OP version of sonic like sanic back then. definitely do not like how in today kids genuinely believe sonic is dead cuz sonic.exe.
Why did I notice that at 10:39 one of the squares looks like travis scott apology video? 💀
EYX felt like more of a troll game than a horror game
Sega when someone created a great fan game: oh great, wanna join our company?
Nintendo when someoen created a good mario fan game: COURT
sega when someone remakes one of their games and makes it free: "ah yeah! this is happening!"
nintendo when someone is named mario in itali: "take the shot."
Why do I keep watching horror stuff when I’m terrified of it and it’s not even 5AM yet
One creepypasta you should definitely check out is SONIC 2011. A lot of the team creating PC Port worked on it, and it's honestly my favorite EXE game. It's incredibly well made, and the ending had me genuinely thinking my pc was bricked (I remember some people complaining that theirs was ruined for a couple hours). If you do decide to make another video on sonic creepypasta games, definitely check it out!
Sonic 2011 is really just the same boring walking sim, it's just new visuals and tracks put into the game but still no gameplay. The game really deserves a 5/10 for me
Welcome to sonic.exe, walking sim that got remade and should've died @@0000randoom
found this channel like a week ago from the Irisu video, so i just wanted to say keep up the good work!
"Sonic is rarely scary" the comics would like to speak with you
I’m glad you noticed it about the challenges, although the creators got each exe game are very great, exe as whole wouldn’t get the popularity if it wasn’t for Luigi kid himself, he was the one who started it and would technically be the founder of exe as a whole, it’s cool to me
Luigikid is practically the guy (or one of the guys) keeping sonic.exe alive.
@@SquidRumi and hey, I can respect that
just once Id like a horror game as a disarmed freedom fighter unable to break eggmans machines, trying to get out of town and free your friends before theyre either tortured or roboticized. alas its all exe. one day I shall take matters into my own hands.
"Oh no! Eggman! I guess I have to engage in a boss battle against hi-. AHHHHHH!!!!. Welp, that's one way."
Yet another incredible toadbup video to watch while sewing
19:50 damn whats john ward doing here
Something that hasn't been approved by the Vatican.
I love how Sonic.EXE, of all things, has become this creepypasta project equievelant of: "Well I can do better!"
like
“Look what I made!”
“Ha! I can do SO much more!”
and over and over again
like a battle except there’s really no end to it
Neat fact: Chao Garden.EXE 's visuals and beginning part of the gameplay are based off the Chao Adventure games, specifically the versions you can play on the GameBoy Advanced through the Gamecube ports!
Unlike the GameBoy Advanced games... The chao can not die when in Chao Adventure. I have no idea if that was you glitching something out, or if that's on purpose since it was a horror game though :[
*Takes evil ciao to court*
"Your honor, he said on god"
I don't know man. Just seeing a bloody blue blur on your screen is just SO entertaining! More sonic.EXE please!
No way you mentioned Outlaiks sonic.exe's model at 1:10
That's probably the most used model of Sonic.EXE, at least in the Roblox games.
Recently discovered your content, reminds me of an horror PBG. Good stuff!
Wanted to say I love your videos and I'm surprised you're a small channel with the quality of your content. Please keep making videos and I hope you become a popular youtuber!
4:40 Green Hill's lookin' a lot more like Scary Hill right now.
5:01 It's referring to the latter half of Angel Island Act 1 from Sonic 3, after a machine blows up the place, causing the island to combust.
When I was a kid, these horror games fucked me uuuup for a couple weeks. I literally couldn't sleep and kept hearing the reverse Green Hill music. Every time I would close my eyes, I would see his face and always imagined him charging into my room screaming at me. This shit absolutely terrified me.
Yup, there’s a reason why most horror media is 15+ or 18+
"Enough talking about Sonic EXE, let's talk about Sonic EXE" -*ToadBup* 2023
No
Tbh one series of Sonic.exe games that I feel like are massively underrated is the Nightmare series by Jayzkois (I might've mixed up the i and y there, but I'm not sure). Even the original Nightmare Beginning (which is basically just a retelling of the original creepypasta, but a lot more expanded) already has at least 7 different endings that I know of, and it's generally considered to be the worst (take that term lightly, it's still really good) game in the series. Then you've got the original Continued Nightmare, Continued Nightmare: Eye of Three (which are separate games), the remake of Nightmare Beginning, and at least one more game that I know of. All of the ones mentioned have a _lot_ of different endings and a huge amount of content, and from what I've seen they're actually pretty good to play. The one that I watched the most content for while going through my Sonic.exe phase was Eye of Three, which already has at least 12 different endings that I know of, some of which are even secret/easter egg endings. The games also don't really rely on jumpscares all that much, though there definitely is pixel gore involved ^^'
7:18 I refuse to believe that Sonic.EYX was getting popular 2 years ago. It feels like it's not been very long at all.
I would genuinely love it if a more fleshed out version of Sonic.eyx let you play through all of Crystal Lake Zone normally after getting some sort of good ending.
I caused a glitch in friendship where I got to play as knuckles.
17:23 this is actually a thing in the sonic universe in sonic 3 and knuckles theres a stage called doomsday zone when you try to beat eggman before running out of rings it so difficult but worth it!
how companies handle fangames
sega: cool games, come work with us
nintendo: waiter waiter! more lawsuits please!
Another ToadBup video? LET’S FRICKIN GO BABY! BOOYAH!!
"New rule: never trust how you feel about your life past 9pm👍"
-toadbups computer
Crazy to think that an fnf mod bringed back the whole (almost) fnaf.exe creepypasta
Very nice video toadbup. Excellent work. I give it 9 iced out eggmans out of 10
i love the squidward background. i ponder if you put it there on purpose
i love how creative people became with the original .exe game
2:50 please don't tell me about that game cause im scared of Sonic dreams I DON'T WANNA KNOW ABOUT IT
14:09 The art for that game is literally taken from an official Chao game. So is literally everything else bar the horror aspects
the fact that tails isnt scared when angel island burns in sonic 3 the game, but he gets scared about angel island burning in sonic.exe games is mad crazy
9:57
Metal sonic killed the animal in the capsule! BRUH! 🤣🤣🤣
Idk why it's funny to hear "it fell off, it fell back on"
The second game was my by an ex friend of mine! We lost contact but we used to play Roblox a lot, geez... I'm so happy for his success!
12:41 BRO IT PUT ME IN THE ZOOMED-OUT MOED!
one of my personal favorite sonic.exe games has to be Sonic 2011. it was made by the some of the same people who worked on PC port and even brought the composer from the original sonic.exe into the project! it is literally just a remake of the original sonic.exe, but it brings in quite a few new ideas, and a TON of polish!
This was a really good video! Sequel seems good!”
2:51Excuse me. WHAT
Freaky ahh sonic fangame
Mhm, that can only be described as an experience.
@Thatsongguy-e4p Hopefully you'll play/find the game and find out for yourself.
Why are some sonic fan games and fan arts like this😭😭😭😭
All i got from this video is that i really need that eggman necklace
10:03 he was forced to change to the mandela catalogue / walten files art style
i dont know why im on my third rewatch of this series (i havent watched since like, years ago but still) but horror always finds a way to seep into my brain, kinda like one of those mobile apps but less annoying
1:53 if I saw that then I’d be horrified
I would turn him into the plushie I throw when I lose a game instead of the controller
True
Green Hill Zone is the scariest place in Sonic games because there are so many of them how many green hills can one place have?
Bro I just got a sonic superstars ad💀💀💀💀
one of my favorite little detals is that after you come back from the sonic falling and then eyx popping up jumpscare sonics doing the animation that he does when near a ledge.
I would totally be up for a part 2
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I'm surprised the company isn't throwing a hissy fit about how no one is allowed to make fan games about their ip considering how the copyright laws are pretty much made for companies to exploit
As long as they don't make money it's ok
I'm ngl the Sonic Omens joke was actually really funny
I'm guessing why tails gets murdered every time in exe games is because tails represents innocence. He is us when we didn't know any better and checking these games out only to be shocked by the game. But eh. I'm probably digging too deep into this.