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SEGA is showing everybody up for April Fool's Day 2023 by not only releasing an ambitious, impressive product, but doing it a day early. Earlier today, SEGA released The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog, a visual novel-style point-and-click adventure game. Drawing inspiration from Murder on the Orient Express, it places Sonic's supporting staff on a train (in period-appropriate attire), creating a locked room mystery when Sonic turns up dead. You play as a new character who teams up with detective Tails to interrogate everyone onboard and solve Sonic's murder.

There's more depth here than one might expect from an April Fool's joke. The game takes a little over an hour to complete, and while there isn't any challenge to the puzzles or brief platforming sections, the script, music and art direction show that this was clearly a labour of love. It may not be worth the time for anyone not invested in Sonic as a franchise, but there are some cute moments here for anyone already invested and there's a lot of fun to seeing them transplanted into a new setting and genre like this.

The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog is available on Steam now.

 

[Phearoz]

I'm pretty sure they already released The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog already:

Lol -

Hey Chary who is the female character in your signature? Not the guy from Danganronpa 3 ofc but the other one.

 

[lordelan]

Played a few minutes on my Steam Deck yesterday. Like the graphics, menu style and especially the music.

 

[CrAzYLiFe]

Doesn't matter, English tweet for the western audience with march 31st timestamp + on march 31st on the steam page for worldwide, lame April fool's. I'm in Japan btw...

I was in Australia when it came out, was April 1st here

 

[SS4]

For a free joke game it was quite well done.
Had fun playing it yesterday.
Hats off to SEGA!

 

[Chary]

Lol -

Hey Chary who is the female character in your signature? Not the guy from Danganronpa 3 ofc but the other one.

Rin, from Little Busters, a visual novel/anime.

 

[Halbour]

Yeah, played it. a Phoenix Wright ripoff... I guess?

 

[ShadowbannedAllstar]

Turns out the culprit is colon cancer from too many chili dogs.

Wait, chili dogs cause colon cancer? Where was he putting those chili dogs?

 

[Wish13]

Would it kill Sega to release Sonic Generation 2.

Generations was the first and last Sonic game for a really long time that was actually good and playable.

I agree.

 

[Xzi]

Wait, chili dogs cause colon cancer? Where was he putting those chili dogs?

Yeah eating too much processed red meat increases your cancer risk exponentially.

Surprised nobody has mentioned Nintendo's April Fool's prank, it's pretty funny:

 

[Phearoz]

Rin, from Little Busters, a visual novel/anime.

Okay awesome! I know I recognized but couldn't remember where - I had the all-ages version of that on PSP back in the day but never finished it.

 

[Shape]

Inb4 "Sega did it."

Oh no, I was too late...

 

[WiiDSXLandKnuckles]

It's time for you to look inward and begin asking yourself the big questions. Does this mean that we are officially acknowledging Chicken Kender's light mobius arc, will he whine about it online? (knuckles wearing a hat = grounds to sue)

(and associated "K'Nox" BS)

 

[SMNFXCN]

i love how you can't name the MC "among us", "monokuma", or "phoenix wright"

 

[SylverReZ]

This is probably another take on Mario's March execution.

 

[SonicRings]

i love how you can't name the MC "among us", "monokuma", or "phoenix wright"

You can't even name it "phoe". Probably not even "pho". I just kept removing letters from "phoenix wright" until it actually let me keep the name. I skipped from "phoe" to "ph" which is when it finally worked. Seems rather strange. What if my name is phoebe and I want to name myself "phoe"? Idfk, weird filter which shouldn't be so strict that it prevents the use of a 3 or 4 letter segment of one of the names.

 

[DoctorBagPhD]

You're actually defending Sega on only doing Sonic games than the wealth of franchises they have? You do you, I guess.

Sega could have ported their amazing arcade games to Consoles/PC, but who'd want to play that? Just give them more Sonic!

The free game is made by their social media team, it's essentially a fan game you muppet xD

 

[Bian_Zoldark]

what the....he's dead again ?