Talk:Everyone Talks/@comment-26268104-20150426125529/@comment-25021327-20150426144916

Sonic.exe was just compared to The Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum is rolling in his grave...

I see where you're coming from, and due to its popularity, Sonic.exe does take quite a bit of shit from creepypasta writers and readers. However, just because it was fairly original at the time of its inception, doesn't really mean it was very good. There wasn't nearly the volume of gaming pastas there are now when it was written, so it was like a big fish in a small pond, its flaws were ignored more because it still felt kind of fresh and interesting.

Personally I've never thought the story was very good, I feel the same way about Jeff the Killer, and that story has tons of adoring fans. It is a bit unfair to complain about things in Sonic.exe that were copied by scores of others and later became clichés.

I don't care if people enjoy Sonic.exe, or if they just have a soft spot for it. I have soft spots for all kinds of things (books, music, movies, artwork, etc) that are frankly not very high quality. But something about them, and maybe moreso the time at which I saw them, and how I felt then has endeared them to me. Many don't actually stand up well about things I enjoy that are of good quality.

So without rambing on too much, I can see why Sonic.exe gets a lot of hate. It's not really a good story, and people who read it after they have read more recent, and better written gaming pastas probably aren't going to see it as original, fresh, or very scary. It is an important story, but not necessarrily a good one.

In other words, take your pick;