Forever Alone

As you all know, Sonic Adventure 2 was a massive success. The two stories are awesome, the stages have good exploration, especially City Escape, and oh boy, it's a bundle of fun overall. Released on the SEGA Dreamcast in 2001, promising, isn't it? But that's not why you're here. The reason is why you're is that there is a cursed version of Sonic Adventure 2, where Sonic is the only one in the game. His friends, enemies, and everyone is all an illusion, and Sonic was just going crazy. But before we get into more of it, let's just start from the beginning.
Back in 2001, I loved playing on the SEGA Dreamcast. It was one of my favorite consoles. I had a couple favorite games, but one of my most favorited game was Sonic Adventure 2, released for the Blue Blur's 10th anniversary. But in 2004, I lost my copy of Sonic Adventure 2, and I was sad to lose it. But, it didn't disappoint me that much as I have a Nintendo GameCube which I play Sonic Adventure DX and Sonic Heroes on.
A couple months later, I was going to order another copy of Sonic Adventure 2 to replace my lost copy. There was one result with one copy left in stock. I was one of the lucky ones and went and ordered it. It would take 3 days to arrive, so basically while I wait I would play Sonic Heroes so I would kill time.
When it arrived, I felt ripped off. The game had no cover, but the title “SONIC ADVENTURE 2” was written with marker. But I might as well give it a try, I paid for it anyways.
When I tested it, the game actually worked! The usual title and music popped up, and I was excited to play. After creating a new file, I went to the story select, because that's when you start the game, right? Anyways, two stories came up. Hero, and Dark. I liked the Dark Story better than the Hero Story, because I thought it was cool to play as Shadow. After selecting Dark Story, a split-second static appeared, and the Dark Story option was gone. The only story remaining was Hero Story, but something was different. The music stopped, Tails and Knuckles disappeared from the Hero Story preview, and the background was just pitch black. I thought it was just a glitch, so I just continued with Hero Story. Something was off though. The opening cutscene never played. It just took me to City Escape. And upon entering City Escape, something was definitely off. There wasn't the intercom message when starting the level, all the badniks and rings were gone, the background was nighttime, and no cars were nowhere to be found. But I kept going, and once I get to the escape segment where the G.U.N truck chases you and you have to outrun it, the truck didn't even appear. It was just Sonic running down the road. Eventually I reached the end, and the cutscene finally played, but it was different as well.
SONIC: Hm, no badniks, or people around here. What's going on?
After Sonic talking, the G.U.N truck went and just hit Sonic out of nowhere. But no one was driving it, so that would mean that the truck was moving on its own. But how? It won’t move if no one drives it, right?
The next stage was Metal Harbor, and now the sky is just pitch black now, as if it was nighttime. As always, no enemies, and no rings. I could just go through the level without anything attacking me. But then I finally encountered the first badnik. I was weirded out and decided to look back to make sure that area was still the same. After looking back at the badnik, it was gone. Where did it go? Is this game hacked? I kept going, and once I finished the level, the results screen displayed this:
RESULTS
You have no more results.
What could this mean? Next was Green Forest. Same as before, no rings, no enemies, and black sky. But now the level's textures were missing this time. Speaking of time, the timer that would display on the top right meaning how much time until the forest explodes didn't appear at all. I played through the level normally, and then I reached the end of the level. The results didn't even appear this time. Now I was sent to… Crazy Gadget, one of my least favorite levels in Sonic Adventure 2. Same as always. No textures for the level, black sky, no rings, no enemies, and so on. Now the HUD was gone, and the area around Sonic was just pitch black. It was like a never ending invisible maze, plus the black background, which was impossible to navigate. Eventually, I waited for a bit to see if anything would happen.
Something appeared right behind Sonic. It was a two tailed fox figure, similar to Tails, but he had red fur, and his eyes looked like a endless void. When I controlled Sonic to that figure so I could fight him, he disappeared. After that the entire screen became black for about 15 seconds. After that, I was at the same black void, only this time there was a trapdoor beneath my character with spikes in the bottom. No matter what buttons I press, Sonic wouldn't move. And then, the trapdoor opened, and I fell to my doom. After that, there was a dark screen for 30 seconds. After waiting, the final message appeared.
"Forever alone"
I understood everything now.
At the beginning of 1991, Sonic was suffering from schizophrenia, and he thought all his enemies, all the rings he collected, and all his friends he made were true. But in reality, Sonic was alone the entire time and everything he saw was just an illusion and all in his head. I couldn't escape that text box, no matter what buttons I pressed. Even restarting the game still greets me with this message. Eventually, I gave up and turned off my Dreamcast.
It's true. There is a cursed version of Sonic Adventure 2, and you better be careful and don't let it fall into the wrong hands. But 2 weeks later, I forgot all about it.
In 2007, I decided to purchase Sonic Adventure 2 Battle so I could relive the glory days back from 2001. After getting to City Escape, everything seemed normal. All the rings and badniks were there, and the game didn't have any hacks in the game. Until I finished the level, this message popped up. And it made me turn off my console.
It said:
"August 17, 2004"
"Sonic's Fateful Demise"
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Category:Sonic
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