VIDEO GAME: Sonic and the Black Knight (2009)

Sonic and the Black Knight Year: 2009 Rating: E10+ Time Played: ~3.5 hours I’ll admit that playing Sonic Dash was enough to get me interested in the Wii game, Sonic and the Black Knight. I had seen these familiar characters put in the traditional roles of the Knights of the Round Table, and that seemed like an interesting enough concept to me that I wanted to play it. After purchasing the game on eBay, I finally had the chance to experience this Sonic game that I had missed years ago. Unfortunately, the gameplay itself was quite lacking, despite having an interesting premise. For a game as short as it is, Sonic and the Black Knight has a lot of cut-scenes. I understand there’s a sort of mini-sub series of Sonic games where the settings are almost storybook in nature, but at that point the Sonic developers just needed to either make an animated movie or a graphic novel (considering the fully voice-acted cut-scenes aren’t really...
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