SONIC DREAMS Is the Stuff of Nightmares
I'm not sure if you've been to the darker side of the internet, but if you've recently made it out alive, then I'm sure you have heard of Sonic Dreams. It is a bunch of lost (i.e. fake) games that Sega made but never got around to producing because of whatever reasons. If you haven't checked it out and want to know what the true meaning of the scary side of the internet is, please do. What looks like Sega's answer to Mario Paint or Pokemon Snap turns out to be something far darker.
There are three parts you can watch and a fourth that is unavailable. It looks and acts like something Sega might have produced at one point. The first part is a Sonic Maker. You are able to color and create your own Sonic original character. Nowadays, this seems like a fanfic's dream, but back when the game purports to have been created, Sonic had yet to become the video game equivalent to a creepy uncle who is always looking for a job and sometimes stays at your parents' house while he's working on the next big thing. Sure, he says he's got this big project in the works that will prove he can be successful, but all you really know about him is that he can't hold onto a job and you've heard creepy stories about what he does in his spare time. But that's for another day. So in Sonic creator you color and twist and name your own sonic monstrosity, something I can definitely see Sega at one point doing. Nothing too out of bounds.
The next part is a bit weirder. It's a Sonic Film Maker. You make eight second videos in a first person shooter style where the camera is the gun. You hit one button to record and can move things around on a small set. Nothing too out of ordinary. A little bit of an empty set, but it was an unfinished game, so maybe it's fine. As you film different scenes of the "movie" things get... darker. I won't spoil it for people, but let's just say that at a certain point in the filmmaking process you realize that there is no way Sega would ever let this thing get off the ground. It scars you in places you didn't think you could get scars. As I played it, I literally thought I was dreaming, because this couldn't be a real game. I doubted my own AWAKENESS thanks to this game, which isn't as dramatic as doubting one's sanity, but I lost that years ago.
Finally, the next part is a VR kind of game where you live as a person and interact in a room with Sonic, who's there with you. What happens next is just... I can't... I don't want... Let's just say, if I didn't lose my sanity years ago, I certainly would have by this point.
There are games out there which terrify, stupefy, confuse, and even Madden (not go crazy, I'm actually talking about Madden 2014), but this game — it makes you wonder if anything is real anymore. It is the "Too Many Cooks" of video games. So grab some "Oregano" and pop some popcorn, cause you're in for a bouncy time. Remember — gotta go fast!
The only way to get the download the game is to visit this obscure tumblr.