Sonic The Hedgehog Would Like To Teach You A Lesson About Cheating

Cheat codes and glitches are a part of video games that isn’t going away. Take a quick look at gaming streaming and YouTube videos and speed runs are all the rage, with gamers obsessing over levels of retro games to find ways to get through the levels as quickly as possible.

Often those speed runs are aided by glitches that weren’t supposed to be there — a gamer somehow toggling a glitch that hurdles a character through a level or gives them some advantage they use to fly through what is supposed to be a series of challenges. From Game Gear to glitches in current-gen games, there will always be players looking to take advantage of the mistakes of those that make games.

But some games are just meant to be hard, at least that’s how the thinking goes. And cheating your way to a victory doesn’t always feel the best. That’s something the Sonic the Hedgehog Twitter account wants to remind you of, as it showed in a video it posted on Tuesday of Sonic glitching his way through Act 2 of Marble Zone.

So what’s happening here? The reference here is a gaming meme that’s crept up because of a story about Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. The game is hard — that’s kind of the point, really. But it gets easier later on, depending on how you get through the game as you progress.

A gaming journalist wrote about the experience of cheating their way through the game in order to finish, which drew a lot of attention from gaming Twitter and sparked this tweet, which the Sonic video is referencing.

That tweet has essentially sparked a meme of its own, which Sonic the Hedgehog is clearly playing into here. But it would be hilarious if Sonic’s end screen actually looked like that if you glitch to the end.

Anyway, this is a great reference to a Vine and one of the many great reactions to this post.

https://twitter.com/bohemiansapsody/status/1115674362303135745

The Sonic account is known to have a bit of fun, albeit a bit weird fun. Here’s a tweet of a painting of Knuckles.

This tweet got plenty of interaction from fans, too.

The point is that Sonic is always watching. And in the movie version of Sonic, he will weirdly have two eyes.