A Fortnite Sonic collaboration is an exciting prospect; my mind was swirling at all of the possibilities when reputable leakers revealed that a partnership between Epic’s battle royale game and Sega’s mascot was on the way. Well, you can imagine my disappointment at it culminating in nothing more than shoes.
I have nothing against shoes. I love a comfy pair of trainers as much as the next person, and I certainly love customizing characters and what they wear in games like Fortnite, but getting nothing but two pairs of shoes – each costing 1,000 V-bucks – is lackluster, to say the least. The Sonic games are exciting for a multitude of reasons, and the Sonic characters are most definitely one of them.
Many collaborations result in Fortnite skins, so why isn’t that the case for the Blue Blur? Instead of blue trainers for Sonic and black trainers for Shadow, Sega and Epic could have brought the actual characters to the game. I feel robbed, to be honest. One of my favorite action games is 2005’s Shadow the Hedgehog, and as my chances of getting a remaster or port for current consoles are slim to none, I would love to equip Shadow with an arsenal of weapons for some battle royale action.
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