Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-1290332-20131101200348/@comment-3999760-20131103163414

FlakyPorcupine wrote: I'll repeat myself of what I said earlier, for all intents and purposes, Sonic.exe is a major reason why the spinoff ban and appeals exist in the first place. After its surge of unsuspecting popularity and being read and played by popular YouTube channels such as Mr.Creepypasta, SomeOrdinaryGamers, Markiplier and PewDiePie, it hit big. Really big. It is almost unbelievable how popular this pasta got. Like, it's almost Jeff and Slendy popular.

But I am going to be frank here when I say that the story is not good, in the writing sense. Not only does it contain numerous typos and at times odd word choice, it uses just about every cliche in the book. Now, cliches CAN be a good thing to use, if done right, but Sonic.exe is a poor example of this. The whole pasta goes like this: My best friend is an asshat and sent me this obviously odd game telling me to destroy it. OH WAIT, IT SAYS SONIC. Obviously not suspicious at all, because as the first paragraph makes it clear that I LOVE Sonic games! Oh no, the game is suddenly different. Must be a hack. There are no enemies, only blood and dead things! oH NOES MY FAVORITE CHARACTERS ARE DYING. DREAMS THAT MY BEST FRIEND IS DYING! I AM GOD. ARAGAGRGR- and then suddenly plushie.

Despite having an entire list of cliches on the site that specifically guides people NOT to go overboard with, people still loved this pasta. I can... sort of see why, again it has to be popular somehow, right? It would obviously cater to Sonic fans and people who love "haunted game/file" pastas.

The only problem is that Sonic.exe set an example of "how to write a shitty cliched pasta without even trying".

Exhibit A: Lost Sonic.

Exhibit B: Sally.exe.

Exhibit C: ...You get the picture.

Again, it is not the original writer nor even the pasta itself's fault of why this type of writing got so popular. But this is, again, why the sequel shouldn't be posted.Because like the first, it will only inspire the wrong set of people to overpopulate the site with bad writing. Hell, I have to sit through and delete bad pastas obviously inspired, or unoffical sequels of Sonic.exe on the SomeOrdinaryGamers wiki, and I'm the only real active admin there at the time of writing this.

Now, one more thing I want to mention is that "Round Two" actually ENCOURAGES people to make spin-offs of Sonic.exe. There is an entire section where popular unoffical sequels are either mentioned or inspired to write this, including Sally and even your own pasta, Grey. That certainly doesn't help the clause. My point exactly.