It's been 10 years since the first trailer was released on YT. A project that began as a mere college project, has evolved through the years. Many stuff were added, other B.S. removed and here we are now. From Round2.exe to Sonic: The Second Round.

You may be asking "why did you rename the game?", right?
As the development carried on, the project felt much more like an actual Sonic game, rather than a generic creepypasta bloody mess. No jumpscares, no horror stuff, no excessive blood and gore, no realistic clichés. Platformer elements, boss fights, and most importantly, playable.

As for the older releases, I feel REALLY embarassed when I look at some elements of them. For example, the boss fights... Just a static sprite of the fake Sonic flying around the screen while some negative spheres bounce around and two walls of spikes at each side... And these poorly made dialogue arts, daaaaaamn! What was I thinking???

At that time I feel embarassed, I take it as evolution. I improved my game dev skills as time passed and managed to make something MUCH better than what it was before, with the aid of my great friend ShidenGaster, who's credited in the opening.

Storywise, I decided not to follow the original Sonic.exe story faithfully, the opening says it all. Besides claiming himself a God, this incarnation of the Fake Sonic is neither a demon, nor any kind of entity. He is an organic clone, created with Sonic's DNA and the Chaos Emeralds' negative energies. A concept inspired by Sonic Adventure's Perfect Chaos.

Tails, Knuckles and Robotnik didn't die, but rather got corrupted by the faker's influence. Prior to corrupting the trio, he sent Sonic to some sort of dark world. It's up to you to take him back to his world, save the trio and get rid of the Pink Eyed faker.

About his second form, I ran away from clichés like giant forms, cthulhu like quills, turtle mouths (full of teeth inside), just something simple.

When we began developing this new update, many changes were made. Example:

-Last Chance Act 0 monitors were replaced with the Chaos Emeralds. At least, six of them. And the level layout changed from a straight line to a two floors stage.

-Sonic will fight against the trio to save them from corruption, then run to the final battle against his clone.

-A new stage was added (No More Hiding), which took place where the Fake Sonic got Tails.

-An unexpected ally to help Sonic.

-A new name to the project. Sonic: The Second Round was chosen, and eventually became the Blue Blur's line in a moment of the game.

If back then I didn't feel any proud of this project, now I really feel it.

Thank you very much!

Muito obrigado!

Muchas gracias!