I’m a fan of Sonic.exe and the games that spawn from the community. Most have the same gameplay and general qualities as Crimson’s first game, so I’m mostly into the games for the variety of entities in them. From Exetior to Sonic.eyx, I enjoy them all, but there’s one in particular I will never forget…
I was browsing Game Jolt for any new games to try, and one in particular caught my eye: The Gift of God. I never heard of that one before, so I gave it a look. I opened up the game and a flashing lights warning came up. I ignored it and continued on as usual, seeing a graphic resembling a piece of paper slightly torn up with writing on it.
Obviously Biblical references are gonna play a big part in this game, I’d look up the Bible verse but I wanna get on with the game, I’m excited to see what waits for me. Proceeding led to a title screen on a similar level of quality as the one in Sonic 2, featuring Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles. Pressing enter opened up the character select, there were 3 slots but all of them had giant question marks over them with blacked out silhouettes of Sonic. A notice came up on screen.
I never expected something like this to be in an exe game, I assumed it would maybe customize which characters I’m forced to play as, so I continued on, choosing answers I hoped would result in having the original cast of the original creepypasta.
After completion, my plan worked, the character select positions were taken by Tails, Knuckles, and Eggman. I played as Tails first of course, and I was taken into Green Hill Zone, the normal music and level layout present. At the end of the stage I passed the goal post, and it ended there. I expected to be taken to Hill but the regular Act 2 was there instead. I beat the stage and again I wasn’t taken to Hill. Act 3 opened up and Eggman was waiting at the end as usual, however instead of the wrecking ball coming out of the Egg Mobile, Sonic.exe came out, pulled the Egg Mobile down to the ground, and threw it full force at Tails as if it weighed nothing. The screen cut to black with Tails screaming.
Out of the darkness, Sonic.exe emerged; well, that’s what I’m calling him for now. He doesn’t resemble the original, the main differences being his completely white eyes and red shoes.
Hide and Seek finally opened up, this is what I’ve been waiting for. Tails’ name on the live counter switched to Ayden, and the rest was exactly what I was expecting. A flat level, everything’s on fire, and Sonic.exe was chasing me. I kept holding right until he caught me… except he didn’t. He stopped in his tracks moments before catching up to me, and Tails stopped as well, staring in fear.
Sonic.exe left, the chase ending on the bridge that drops down to Hydrocity Zone. I flew up to the switch, which did nothing upon being hit, so I kept going right until I found a variant of Sonic with his back turned, he resembled Ashura with his colour pallet. After approaching him, he turned around, grabbed Tails, and pushed his head into the waterfall behind them, holding him in place until he drowned. The game over jingle played before cutting back to the character select. Of course, Tails’ mutilated corpse was in the first slot, now a dark grey, implying he was tossed into fire after drowning.