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You should consider that potential is maybe not the way to view how people expend effort or how that effort materializes but instead view it as how the circumstances surrounding the creation of something played out. Like for instance, sonic 06 had the POTTENITAL to be sonic adventure 3, the circumstances surrounding that game though? It ensured that it would never come to fruition. It's better to smile with what we have and understand the world as a cause/effect kind of deal rather than pine about what could have been and upset ourselves
I really love the creative ways TH-camrs say the word “kill” without saying the word “kill”: “According to the tape, the entity is going to shorten Luther’s life expectancy a little bit.”
It’s interesting how people are so inspired by the Mandela Catalogue and Everything at the end of time. With the eye balls and stretched out features, and the old timey skewed music. Been seein’ it around a lot of media nowdays
yeah, i may have even got a bit inspired by them in the making of one of my vids... i was a horror genre loving guy, when Mandela catalogue first started getting popular i ignored it. i've seen people strangely bash on this thing when it came out, but when i watched it, time by time I started growing a strong appreciation for it! then after i discovered Needlem0use my appreciation grew even more, man how i love these videos!!
but the Walten Files was a good one too, it was an EXTREMELY Popular Analog horror video along with the fnaf V.H.S tapes. sadly mandela catalogue gets way more attention now.
@@accursivevideos4337 For any of these to get attention I think is a good sign if you're a fan of these types of series. I mean it's not the same genre but it's in the general same ballpark of online horrors, but Dad was fighting in the Content Clash, hopefully spreading the idea of ARGs and then horror content after that.
Seeing how sonic.exe has transformed over the years is just amazing. From a poorly written and un-scary creepypasta to actually good fangames and THIS. All of this makes sonic.exe look like baby's play even more.
Maybe for you but the way i encountered Sonic.exe was on a school PC and accessed some random drive on their network. Rambled trough the folders a bit until i found Sonic.exe, thinking it was an actual Sonic game so i played it until i realized something was odd.
I enjoy the emotional conflict that the series makes people feel about wanting to feel bad for eggman, tails,and knuckles because they talk wanting to see their families but it reminds you that they killed Sarah. Therefore you feel torn about not knowing who to feel bad for because Sarah is tormenting her friends but they killed her
I like how everyone is in the shades of gray, how kids were selfish and hid a body, and the body came back for revenge but took it too far. It’s the sad tale of selfishness, regret, and revenge. No one is happy, and everyone is being tortured for what they did. No one is right, no one is wrong. It’s just ideas and sides of the story. Pieces of a twisted and torn puzzle.
I really hope they didn't, because if it really is as surface as that it's way too boring imo. But I'm so bored of humans are the worst monsters stuff too. I got bored of The Walking Dead and by the end of Home Sweet Home I actively wanted nearly everyone left to die. It's like wow people betray each other and suck, water makes things wet.
@@chaossmith3864 While I Agree that Overly Cynical takes are Bad, In This case, it was a Bunch of Teenagers being So Overly Stupid, they Killed their Friend, So, Fuck them, the Hypocrites.
Sonic.exe is a creepypasta from 9 years ago with a simple story that got a game, needlemouse is a video series inspired by sonic.exe. Sonic.exe doesn’t have depth because it’s a one and done story with a game that doesn’t really need to be expanded on
@@mypaldracunyan1223 True to some extent while needlemouse does have a better story it always will have a better story since sonic.exe has no follow up. the game(s) weren’t even created by the creator. Sonic.exe won’t ever be what needlemouse is but needlemouse will never be what sonic.exe has been
The virgin EXE Tails: *-Easily scared* *-Cries like a bitch* *-Unable to teleport* *-Trips and dies within seconds of facing Sonic.exe* The Chad Luther: *-Has awareness* *-Keeps his promise to be together forever* *-Can teleport* *-Forges a fucking diamond battle axe to fight an anime battle against Sarah to save his son*
Alan (the Tails of the original story) was a teenager with 0 control of the world during the events of the story, Luther was a grown man that had as much control of the game as Sarah and realized soon after seeing her trying to go for his son
Tails (you can call him Alan if you want to because that's technically the soul inside tails) really didn't have enough freedom, he could basically only run! Alan was a teenager and Sonic.exe is a God he couldn't really do anything about situation buddy.
20:43 It's not a crystal, that's a Chaos Emerald, one of the artifacts that Sonic must collect to turn into Super Sonic. This is really interesting, because it implies that the characters reborn as Sonic characters do still follow the rules from the games inside of them. And keep in mind, the Chaos Emeralds' power turns thoughts into reality. Also, Kyle seems to have been turned into Silver-Sonic, one of Sonic's multiple robot copies, like Mecha or Metal Sonic.
I feel like Sonic.exe could gave been two things: 1. What needlemouse created. 2. An AI program designed to study its players. If you lose a life, not much. Lose all of them, and you get seizures. Finish the game, and it will tell you the truth. But there's number 3, one I personally think is both pretty great and prefer: Metal Sonic wearing Sonic's corpse, and killing everything in its path with either no goal at all, or a very discreet one.
@@muttonchops2232 there are versions of metal sonic (such as that of heroes or to a lesser extent. the archie cartoons) that think they are the real sonic. i could see the mental strain of seeing all the times he was beaten by a fake making his programming go haywire and he goes on a killing spree.
24:20 Seeing that Kyle cosplayed as Mecha Sonic and actually became Mecha Sonic once he was captured makes me think that Tom will become Espio once he is captured by Sarah since he cosplayed as Espio in the image.
Something that was made 10 years ago would become something big as the hedgehogs name would be changed to needle mouse to Sonic it surprises me how advanced everything has been coming this far for a game that released 30 years ago people who decided to make so much effort made it into so much of non-failure it’ll be such a surprise as they keep releasing the man and his new shows movies this legend might never end but how the storyline is made you have to literally think about how much work the Mandela catalog formed into this slow media that would game at the top of the hill of the dark side of TH-cam everything that’s been into this effort I got to say dude I can’t even see any more things like this is just too long but still like nobody ever got it would become this big from millions to billions to trillions everybody loves it fr bro.
What I think this story taught me was consensus of going down the path of revenge. Like Sarah over time it destroys you from the inside and over time you yourself has been consume by revenge until your not the same person anymore. But this is a good dive into Needlemouse series good vid.
@@uncroppedsoop Hmmm, According To Jojo (The Creator) That "Entity" Is The Personification Of Sarah's Rage And Madness, I Don't Think That There's A Entity Controlling Her. But The Last Episode Will Be Out In A Month And Maybe That Can Change Idk.
Unfortunately, source material tends to be more popular than works that are derivative of it, even if those derivative works end up being better than what they're based on.
I don't think I've yet seen people mention the clear Martin Walls-esque art style for all the drawings. I really love this, along with the Flash-style for the animation. It's a neat blend imo
As someone who has a Vendetta against the OG version. I feel like in a story aspect, Needle mouse/Sarah, would be less of a "kill this monster" and more of a "I'm gonna try to redeem her"
Analogue horror is amazing (if done right) as long as it doesn’t feel too repetitive and tedious, I think any analogue horror just needs something like that
Fun fact: The name needlem0use got is from when sega were planning to make sonic a bunny but didn’t have the cash to do so, so they chose between a armadillo and a hedgehog, which is obvious what they chose but they named the hedgehog needle mouse but changed it to sonic shortly after
Sonic.exe-esque style Analog horror? Count me in xD I love seeing this creepypasta I grew up with since age 10 be mashed with one of my favorite horror genres.
I think that “the stuck in here for 30 years” was slightly retconned to make it so that she was dead for 30 years instead of being stuck in the game for 30 years.
What i actually love about some people is they actually made sense kinda, of the story, games like nightmare beginning, spirits of hell, and whisper of soul, tied the story more and more together with fun endings, it honestly felt like an overall polished games
I love NeedleMouse so much, I've wondered if the basic plot could be adapted into another story? Like, a unique series with elements of NeedleMouse in it.
I really like the rephrase of the "i am god" line. The original line still leaves the idea of something changing in your favor, whereas the new line emphasizes hopelessness by implying that not even a god could change your circumstances.
I LOVE how you used the caretakers music in the background! I also heard the track (self esteem fund) from portal which is my all time favourite track from portal. Love the sound design!
Needlemouse doesn't need to be sonic.exe. It's its own thing and that's good. Maybe someday things will be referred to as "the next needlemouse" perhaps.
I feel like I'm the only person that finds Sonic.exe scary haha. I get scared easily though. The story is dumb as hell, but so are most creepypasta stories. I just personally find distorted faces terrifying. Altered, deformed, distorted features, or a complete lack of features (thanks Slenderman) just scare the shit out of me. Also Sonic.exe just freaked me out as a kid, so it's possible it's just those feelings influencing me.
yeah, distorted faces in the dark also gives me the heebiegeebies. that part in the first demo of sonic.exe PC port with sonic's mouth stretching downward and his weird, small eyeballs inside his sclera felt sooo uncomfortable to look at...
i think the theory of victims getting taken to the virtual world while being alive is cool ,and plausible. Because eggman's real counterpart seems in massive pain , panicked and distressed .Maybe the ghost can lure peole to the game and when they are inside it can do whatever it pleases to the unfortunate souls .They can feel the pain again and again and they can't do anything about it.
While I can't deny that a considerable amount of effort was put into Needlemouse that's yielded a really great project(so far) I can't help but feel it's lacking in some way. It reads/watches more like a fanfiction, rather than feeling like an actual creepypasta. Perhaps this is because Needlemouse breaks outside the creepypasta format but it didn't do a lot to chill me to the bone. Is it interesting? Hell yes. But in terms of being scary it leaves a lot to be desired. I was terrified of Sonic EXE when it first surfaced(I was also like, 13 and stupid). In my opinion the reader/watcher/listener needs to feel personally threatened for it to be a truly scary pasta and we just don't get that here. Not to say i'm a fan of the cliche "YOU'RE NEXT" that a lot of pastas do at the end, but still. It's Luthor that's in trouble. It's tom that's almost killed. Comparing it to a more traditional creepypasta seems unfair. Because it's so much more than that. And I think it should be treated that way.
I agree, since I feel like it was eerie at first. But as the series progressed, it diverged to being more like a shonen anime, which nullified a lot of the tension and atmosphere the first entries built up.
I love this! Both this video and the webseries you talked about! It reminds me a lot of Walden files and the stories it tells are so fun!! Also the video itself was great, I loved the making theories as you go thing, even if it wasn't intentional, felt more grounded.
Nah, nit should've been. Needlemouse has its own charm for being a well crafted story. Sonic.exe has a charm of a nostalgic sour spot in our fragic little child minds.
I used to be really into video game creepypastas in late elementary and through middle school. It feels like my childhood has come full circle that the fandom is rewriting these stories into something even better.
I also love how the story makes it so difficult to root for one side. For example, you wanna root for Luther and the others because they were killed and were taken away from their families but it’s really hard due to the fact that they killed Sarah, hid her body in a lake, and didn’t tell anyone about her death. And especially with Sarah since even though she killed her friends including Kyle who had nothing to do her death and trapped their souls in a game to torture them forever but she only did it because she was taken everything away from her and especially Lily which… (Spoilers for this next part) We now learn that she’s not only her girlfriend but Sarah’s wife and Kyle is Sarah’s son meaning that she could’ve had a family if not for that fateful day (Especially since we also learned that Sarah was the one that wanted to adopt a son) Overall this is one of if not the best analogue horror story I’ve ever seen and rightfully earns being called my favorite horror series ever, You’re right about this being what sonic.exe should’ve it takes the unscary story of sonic.exe and turns it into something that is so sad, so tragic, and especially something that isn’t so black and white.
I sometimes wonder how people call it like an "analog horror gem", "disturbing" and "terrifyingly awesome" because it's not scary nor disturbing. It's just "haha spooky sonic with your average vhs face distortion jumpscare" and the story isn't that interesting. It's quite overrated.
@@nicestguyyoullevermeet4436 Yeah, I agree. If people are looking for a "analog horror gem" based off a videogame, I'd recommend TMK. It's fairly new, and doesn't go through the same tropes as most other analog horror series on YT.
@@nicestguyyoullevermeet4436 Walten files was the only analog that made me unable to sleep at night the series showing actual fire and good jump scares, voice acting, and not just creepy text on screen. I also love the twist of fnaf on it has with making it motr gorey
@StrastTheFox I respect your opinion, I will admit that it’s not for everyone but I recommend watching a jumpscare compilation and film theory videos if it’s to boring to watch yourself.
one thing i disagree is the "building up tention" part i found pretty much every episode boring, mainly because of how much text, empty time, and repeated "scares" there were the story, editing, and animation is good sure, but everything else i found pretty weak
This feels more like a video game fever dream turning into an anime. It’s definitely an interesting story that’s more fleshed out than .exe, but it seems like it’s deviating from the analogue horror aspect.
I watched this while at my dad’s right before we went out for dinner. You have no idea how scared shitless I was when I saw “Kernersville NC” I instantly took out my phone and made sure I didn’t live near the location. Luckily I believe it didn’t exist so I was chilling afterwards. Bruh I’m 16, how the hell did that get me?
A couple predictions for who the characters will be reborn as: Tom: Metal/Mecha Sonic, just like how Kyle is Silver Sonic Sarah's Girlfriend (if she even appears): Amy, obviously.
It was the first scream and those few seconds of Tails death animation that scared me to my core. I hate the thought of having your head ripped off while you're still alive.
My theory on why the man has been trapped in the game for 34 years is probably because the man was a programmer for sonic and got trapped during the beta
0:14 "Arguably"? I thought Ben Drowned was the #1 most popular creepypasta? I didn't even know about Sonic.exe until after reading Squidward's "Self Deletion".
This isn't that much of a step up from sonic.exe The custom sprite work looks a little too goofy for my tastes, which was another problem sonic.exe had. Even when something like Walton looked goofy, it at least felt uncanny. I just don't know if something like analog horror can work for what is still a video game creepypasta. Like, i'm expecting something on par with NES Godzilla at least when it comes to presentation. The story is also rather uninspired, which granted, is a problem with a lot of video game creepypastas as well. The only stories that i remotely enjoy from the genre either do something inventive with the presentation (such as Petscop, Ben Drowned, or NES Godzilla), have some sort of ARG element to it (such as Catastrophe Crow or, again, Ben Drowned), or they convey an actual knowledge of the game they're covering and can thus write a somewhat immersive story (stuff like jvk1166z, MARIO, or Fallout 3: Numbers Station).
This series isn't scary at all,sprite work is mostly fine imo but yeah series is not good and there are way better game args than this,is it better than the original sonic.exe,not much but yea,is it good as its own thing,no mostly
Personally, I don't believe Needlemouse is good. It's miles better than the original pasta, but the pacing is so slow, with really unintentionally funny scenes that ruin the tone of the series and overall just really weird writing narratives. not to mention the really annoying cliches
so what you are saying is that sonic.exe is a spaghetti without the sauce and meatballs but needlem0use is a spaghetti without the sauce but with meatballs
i like how the song Just a Burning Memory is still known for being about dementia, but is also used for moments of loneliness as well as suffering and spooky shit.
I've said it to my friends when talking about sonic.exe, "i am god" is not terrifying in the slightest "there is no god, only me" "god can't help you now" those 2 lines are terrifying, as it implies that the situation is completely under the control of the speaker. "i am god" is what an edgy teen says to sound cool
I think sarah created the being we see in the video by using her anger as a way of wanting to kill her friends and using her so it can play with others lives
@@vickie-u5w yeah, I think the Creepypasta is unfairly hated at times. Like, is anyone gonna believe that some random disc is actually haunted? I know for sure I wouldn't believe it if I were in Tom's shoes. It's just people trying to be a smartass so they can tear into Sonic.exe in every possible way. The Creepypasta is still bad but some of it's ideas could've been really great and interesting if it wasn't executed badly. Sonic.EXE is bad but it deserves some justice, especially it's design. Idk about you but I love the design because of it's simplicity. It's why I prefer this more than any other EXE take because it doesn't have to be overly designed
It's really fascinating that the community has made some amazing things from one of the worst creepypastas ever. Needlemouse, sonic.eyx, sonic.exe pc port, etc. Are all pretty fantastic
When I was just watching this video I kept hearing sonic game noises even when the video was paused, closed the tab and it stop. Thought that was some weird shit
the fact how sonic and tails are best friends but in Needlem0use their enemies is just sad despite tails is my fav. And the fact her face is so CREEPY i think this was good if more comes out i want a part 2
4:07 the sega company was founded in 1960 which means that sarah was probably trapped in a piece of hardware that was later used to make the haunted sonic game.
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@@javawas-here agreed
@@yousmelllike5082 a milisecond
If you want a funny Creepypasta, there’s a Seinfeld one called “The Mason”
Hearing about wasted potential really makes me sad sometimes.
You should consider that potential is maybe not the way to view how people expend effort or how that effort materializes but instead view it as how the circumstances surrounding the creation of something played out. Like for instance, sonic 06 had the POTTENITAL to be sonic adventure 3, the circumstances surrounding that game though? It ensured that it would never come to fruition. It's better to smile with what we have and understand the world as a cause/effect kind of deal rather than pine about what could have been and upset ourselves
@@TheKiddingStar yeah that would be cool, but for some reason, people just love to be upset and complain about things. It's just the way we are.
" I hate wasted potential, that s*it crushed your spirits"
Imagine jerry being dissapointed in you
I swear I just saw u in another comment section
I really love the creative ways TH-camrs say the word “kill” without saying the word “kill”:
“According to the tape, the entity is going to shorten Luther’s life expectancy a little bit.”
thanks youtube
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@Phil&Mind this video is probably the most creative avoidance of demonetization in the history of COPPA
It’s interesting how people are so inspired by the Mandela Catalogue and Everything at the end of time. With the eye balls and stretched out features, and the old timey skewed music. Been seein’ it around a lot of media nowdays
yeah, i may have even got a bit inspired by them in the making of one of my vids...
i was a horror genre loving guy, when Mandela catalogue first started getting popular i ignored it. i've seen people strangely bash on this thing when it came out, but when i watched it, time by time I started growing a strong appreciation for it!
then after i discovered Needlem0use my appreciation grew even more, man how i love these videos!!
but the Walten Files was a good one too, it was an EXTREMELY Popular Analog horror video along with the fnaf V.H.S tapes. sadly mandela catalogue gets way more attention now.
pretty sure most of that stretched contorted face shit came first from the fnaf vhs series and the walten files..
@@accursivevideos4337 For any of these to get attention I think is a good sign if you're a fan of these types of series. I mean it's not the same genre but it's in the general same ballpark of online horrors, but Dad was fighting in the Content Clash, hopefully spreading the idea of ARGs and then horror content after that.
Don't mean to be a smart-ass but it's everywhere at the end of time
Seeing how sonic.exe has transformed over the years is just amazing. From a poorly written and un-scary creepypasta to actually good fangames and THIS. All of this makes sonic.exe look like baby's play even more.
@Azal 423 Don't forget PC port.
Don't forget spirits of hell
I mean it still is.
Well no shit, it was made during the lazy creepy pasta trend. It’s not a baby game, it’s just evolved into something greater.
Maybe for you but the way i encountered Sonic.exe was on a school PC and accessed some random drive on their network.
Rambled trough the folders a bit until i found Sonic.exe, thinking it was an actual Sonic game so i played it until i realized something was odd.
Exe has evolved from a joke that everyone laughed at to a joke everyone laughs at but can also be God damn terrifying if it wants to
and if it's on the right hands, can't forget that.
Can relate personally
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I enjoy the emotional conflict that the series makes people feel about wanting to feel bad for eggman, tails,and knuckles because they talk wanting to see their families but it reminds you that they killed Sarah. Therefore you feel torn about not knowing who to feel bad for because Sarah is tormenting her friends but they killed her
But she's also going after tom who did nothing, so I think she's in the wrong
I like how everyone is in the shades of gray, how kids were selfish and hid a body, and the body came back for revenge but took it too far.
It’s the sad tale of selfishness, regret, and revenge. No one is happy, and everyone is being tortured for what they did.
No one is right, no one is wrong. It’s just ideas and sides of the story. Pieces of a twisted and torn puzzle.
Wait, I thought they just hid the body, but no one knows who actually killed her tho...
I really hope they didn't, because if it really is as surface as that it's way too boring imo.
But I'm so bored of humans are the worst monsters stuff too. I got bored of The Walking Dead and by the end of Home Sweet Home I actively wanted nearly everyone left to die. It's like wow people betray each other and suck, water makes things wet.
@@chaossmith3864 While I Agree that Overly Cynical takes are Bad,
In This case, it was a Bunch of Teenagers being So Overly Stupid, they Killed their Friend,
So, Fuck them, the Hypocrites.
Needlemouse is a different kind of Sonic.exe. This one actually has depth to it.
Sonic.exe is a creepypasta from 9 years ago with a simple story that got a game, needlemouse is a video series inspired by sonic.exe. Sonic.exe doesn’t have depth because it’s a one and done story with a game that doesn’t really need to be expanded on
@@T1A9TY ok
You could say maybe inspired to make something better then sonic.exe
@@T1A9TY You missed the point buddy, they were talking about Needlemouse. Needlemouse is everything Sonic.exe wishes it could be
@@mypaldracunyan1223 True to some extent while needlemouse does have a better story it always will have a better story since sonic.exe has no follow up. the game(s) weren’t even created by the creator. Sonic.exe won’t ever be what needlemouse is but needlemouse will never be what sonic.exe has been
The virgin EXE Tails:
*-Easily scared*
*-Cries like a bitch*
*-Unable to teleport*
*-Trips and dies within seconds of facing Sonic.exe*
The Chad Luther:
*-Has awareness*
*-Keeps his promise to be together forever*
*-Can teleport*
*-Forges a fucking diamond battle axe to fight an anime battle against Sarah to save his son*
FR
Tails is a child, Luther is a grown ass man
Alan (the Tails of the original story) was a teenager with 0 control of the world during the events of the story, Luther was a grown man that had as much control of the game as Sarah and realized soon after seeing her trying to go for his son
Tails (you can call him Alan if you want to because that's technically the soul inside tails) really didn't have enough freedom, he could basically only run! Alan was a teenager and Sonic.exe is a God he couldn't really do anything about situation buddy.
@@IND3648 real
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Exactly how I got here
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Same
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20:43 It's not a crystal, that's a Chaos Emerald, one of the artifacts that Sonic must collect to turn into Super Sonic. This is really interesting, because it implies that the characters reborn as Sonic characters do still follow the rules from the games inside of them. And keep in mind, the Chaos Emeralds' power turns thoughts into reality.
Also, Kyle seems to have been turned into Silver-Sonic, one of Sonic's multiple robot copies, like Mecha or Metal Sonic.
Damn so they're THAT powerful LMAO
Plot device, the collectable
@@SAOarmyVID XD
@@SpectacleSpark yep... sonic once stopped an asteroid bigger than earth.... with simply 4 of them, imagine what luthor could do with 7
@@thalezito-4990 is gine 91
I feel like Sonic.exe could gave been two things:
1. What needlemouse created.
2. An AI program designed to study its players. If you lose a life, not much. Lose all of them, and you get seizures. Finish the game, and it will tell you the truth.
But there's number 3, one I personally think is both pretty great and prefer:
Metal Sonic wearing Sonic's corpse, and killing everything in its path with either no goal at all, or a very discreet one.
I think for number 3 you could change "I AM GOD" to "I AM SONIC"
@@magicfishhobo381 Sure, makes sense.
Not gonna lie, but 3 would actually be a great story.
@@muttonchops2232 there are versions of metal sonic (such as that of heroes or to a lesser extent. the archie cartoons) that think they are the real sonic. i could see the mental strain of seeing all the times he was beaten by a fake making his programming go haywire and he goes on a killing spree.
metal sonic DOES want to kill sonic, so whats stopping him from killing the rest?
24:20 Seeing that Kyle cosplayed as Mecha Sonic and actually became Mecha Sonic once he was captured makes me think that Tom will become Espio once he is captured by Sarah since he cosplayed as Espio in the image.
I like to be think of him as mighty or ray
Or hell even fang bc he’s the more important
@@ValentinaMQuetzal what do you mean by that?
isn't Kyle now Silver Sonic
@@terrancebloxlore3209 yeah, I just call the robot Sonic from Sonic 1 Mecha Sonic, I guess you call him Silver Sonic
Honestly, the entire fandom lately has gotten very creative. There's all kinds of designs and reiterations that are genuinely pretty cool.
Needlemouse really went from analog horror to a shonen anime.
I mean it doesn't seem like a bad thing here
@@Azusashusbandfr
Fr but it goes hard af
Something that was made 10 years ago would become something big as the hedgehogs name would be changed to needle mouse to Sonic it surprises me how advanced everything has been coming this far for a game that released 30 years ago people who decided to make so much effort made it into so much of non-failure it’ll be such a surprise as they keep releasing the man and his new shows movies this legend might never end but how the storyline is made you have to literally think about how much work the Mandela catalog formed into this slow media that would game at the top of the hill of the dark side of TH-cam everything that’s been into this effort I got to say dude I can’t even see any more things like this is just too long but still like nobody ever got it would become this big from millions to billions to trillions everybody loves it fr bro.
Where's your periods bro 😭😭 that shit is unreadable
dude. punctuation. PLEASE.
@@LasagneAlForno8297 agreed. I can't really understand this person.
Use punctuation, also use spaces every few sentences-
-like this, because otherwise your comment is unreadable :/
People still like you guys comments even though I literally did what you asked!
What I think this story taught me was consensus of going down the path of revenge.
Like Sarah over time it destroys you from the inside and over time you yourself has been consume by revenge until your not the same person anymore.
But this is a good dive into Needlemouse series good vid.
To be fair, there are healthy ways to take revenge, and she's also being manipulated by whoever-the-fuck
@@uncroppedsoop Good point
@@uncroppedsoop Actually It's Her Own Rage And Anger That's F*cking With Her.
@@KaroshiSalad2000s then why does it literally speak in first person?
@@uncroppedsoop Hmmm, According To Jojo (The Creator) That "Entity" Is The Personification Of Sarah's Rage And Madness, I Don't Think That There's A Entity Controlling Her.
But The Last Episode Will Be Out In A Month And Maybe That Can Change Idk.
Honestly, how a Sonic.exe that came out of nowhere ended up being more popular then a Sonic.exe with lore is what disappoints me.
I don’t think it’s more popular then sonic.exe
I think the story of a dead girl's revenge is more interesting than an interdimensional demon surrounded by weebs
@@T1A9TY exactly
Unfortunately, source material tends to be more popular than works that are derivative of it, even if those derivative works end up being better than what they're based on.
Because people have poor taste lmao
the horror is well written but i cannot get over how cute all the art is, it kills the tension so much
It makes it more scary
I mean the author of the series did remove season 2 saying she wanted to revamp it so your wish may come true
From afar your profile looks like something else
I don't think I've yet seen people mention the clear Martin Walls-esque art style for all the drawings. I really love this, along with the Flash-style for the animation. It's a neat blend imo
really? i just thought it was the artist's art style
As someone who has a Vendetta against the OG version. I feel like in a story aspect, Needle mouse/Sarah, would be less of a "kill this monster" and more of a "I'm gonna try to redeem her"
Well it also seems that in part she's being manipulated by some mystery person
@@uncroppedsoop ..... I FEEL like I can guess... But I really hope I'm wrong
Analogue horror is amazing (if done right) as long as it doesn’t feel too repetitive and tedious, I think any analogue horror just needs something like that
Fun fact: The name needlem0use got is from when sega were planning to make sonic a bunny but didn’t have the cash to do so, so they chose between a armadillo and a hedgehog, which is obvious what they chose but they named the hedgehog needle mouse but changed it to sonic shortly after
Sonic.exe-esque style Analog horror? Count me in xD
I love seeing this creepypasta I grew up with since age 10 be mashed with one of my favorite horror genres.
I think that “the stuck in here for 30 years” was slightly retconned to make it so that she was dead for 30 years instead of being stuck in the game for 30 years.
What i actually love about some people is they actually made sense kinda, of the story, games like nightmare beginning, spirits of hell, and whisper of soul, tied the story more and more together with fun endings, it honestly felt like an overall polished games
Fellow spirits of hell enjoyer detected
@@nameman9997 my man 💪
@@carlosmunoz6952 My Man 💪
I love NeedleMouse so much,
I've wondered if the basic plot could be adapted into another story? Like, a unique series with elements of NeedleMouse in it.
Mr hedgehog, would be needlemouse if mark was the one who died
I really like the rephrase of the "i am god" line. The original line still leaves the idea of something changing in your favor, whereas the new line emphasizes hopelessness by implying that not even a god could change your circumstances.
pretty sure the original creator of sonic.exe was a roleplay kink furry, now thats the scariest part of sonic.exe
groomed a kid too 😕
Yeah...
It’s nice to see this red eyed blue hedgehog made into something actually good for once
I LOVE how you used the caretakers music in the background! I also heard the track (self esteem fund) from portal which is my all time favourite track from portal. Love the sound design!
Needlemouse doesn't need to be sonic.exe. It's its own thing and that's good. Maybe someday things will be referred to as "the next needlemouse" perhaps.
That will be mine...soon -Channel 9 slncg-TV
One can hope.
they really hooked us in with interesting vhs horror only to just make us watch some weird shonen flash animations
kinda reminds me of Godzilla NES Creepypasta's ending
@@Garbo_trashcan That's the best comparison tbh
I feel like I'm the only person that finds Sonic.exe scary haha. I get scared easily though. The story is dumb as hell, but so are most creepypasta stories. I just personally find distorted faces terrifying. Altered, deformed, distorted features, or a complete lack of features (thanks Slenderman) just scare the shit out of me. Also Sonic.exe just freaked me out as a kid, so it's possible it's just those feelings influencing me.
yeah, distorted faces in the dark also gives me the heebiegeebies.
that part in the first demo of sonic.exe PC port with sonic's mouth stretching downward and his weird, small eyeballs inside his sclera felt sooo uncomfortable to look at...
if you find distorted faces scary, you will absolutely LOVE mandela catalogue
@@throbbing_moist No I fucking don’t 😭😭😭
SAAAME FR
That scene in the matrix scared me so bad that I'm scared of humans lacking facial features
“The suffering is *infinite* ”
Majin Sonic: “HEY THATS MY LINE”
My only complaint with needlemouse is that after luther gets dragged into the game it’s not really an analog horror and turns into a super hero story
True
God this is so true
......
*Lip smack*
You're not wrong...
i think the theory of victims getting taken to the virtual world while being alive is cool ,and plausible. Because eggman's real counterpart seems in massive pain , panicked and distressed .Maybe the ghost can lure peole to the game and when they are inside it can do whatever it pleases to the unfortunate souls .They can feel the pain again and again and they can't do anything about it.
While I can't deny that a considerable amount of effort was put into Needlemouse that's yielded a really great project(so far) I can't help but feel it's lacking in some way. It reads/watches more like a fanfiction, rather than feeling like an actual creepypasta. Perhaps this is because Needlemouse breaks outside the creepypasta format but it didn't do a lot to chill me to the bone. Is it interesting? Hell yes. But in terms of being scary it leaves a lot to be desired. I was terrified of Sonic EXE when it first surfaced(I was also like, 13 and stupid).
In my opinion the reader/watcher/listener needs to feel personally threatened for it to be a truly scary pasta and we just don't get that here. Not to say i'm a fan of the cliche "YOU'RE NEXT" that a lot of pastas do at the end, but still. It's Luthor that's in trouble. It's tom that's almost killed. Comparing it to a more traditional creepypasta seems unfair. Because it's so much more than that. And I think it should be treated that way.
I agree, since I feel like it was eerie at first. But as the series progressed, it diverged to being more like a shonen anime, which nullified a lot of the tension and atmosphere the first entries built up.
the quirky "really stretched out face and BIG scary eyes" cliche
I’m really disappointed so far
People still used VHS for home recordings up until the early 2000's, well into the lifecycle of the DVD.
Maybe that's the true horror of it all.
I love this! Both this video and the webseries you talked about! It reminds me a lot of Walden files and the stories it tells are so fun!! Also the video itself was great, I loved the making theories as you go thing, even if it wasn't intentional, felt more grounded.
I hold the original Sonic.exe story (and the original game too) so close to me, he was one of the scariest things to my 7 year old brain.
Nah, nit should've been. Needlemouse has its own charm for being a well crafted story. Sonic.exe has a charm of a nostalgic sour spot in our fragic little child minds.
Have I seen you somewhere before?
is fragic a word?
@@ospreysstuff fragile + tragic I guess.
12:20 I think this conversation between the two happened in the past and it's giving us more information on their opinions of Sarah before her death
Hell yeah, i love this analog horror series
I'm the 50th like
I love this series
Needlem0use is a masterpiece!
10/10
I'm the 50th like
I used to be really into video game creepypastas in late elementary and through middle school. It feels like my childhood has come full circle that the fandom is rewriting these stories into something even better.
I want to take this seriously, But the art style is so f*cking hilarious to me.
Yeah, the cutesy artstyle makes it shit
24:20
This confirms that if he gets turned to another Sonic character, he’ll be Espio.
i honestly love the art style of this series, its so visually pleasing
I also love how the story makes it so difficult to root for one side. For example, you wanna root for Luther and the others because they were killed and were taken away from their families but it’s really hard due to the fact that they killed Sarah, hid her body in a lake, and didn’t tell anyone about her death.
And especially with Sarah since even though she killed her friends including Kyle who had nothing to do her death and trapped their souls in a game to torture them forever but she only did it because she was taken everything away from her and especially Lily which…
(Spoilers for this next part)
We now learn that she’s not only her girlfriend but Sarah’s wife and Kyle is Sarah’s son meaning that she could’ve had a family if not for that fateful day
(Especially since we also learned that Sarah was the one that wanted to adopt a son)
Overall this is one of if not the best analogue horror story I’ve ever seen and rightfully earns being called my favorite horror series ever, You’re right about this being what sonic.exe should’ve it takes the unscary story of sonic.exe and turns it into something that is so sad, so tragic, and especially something that isn’t so black and white.
Thanks for the lore drop my friend.
@@AceDust420 YW 😁✌🏻
Wait so you are telling be Sarah killed her own so since he was Kyle and did she know this or?
God i love essays like this, im really hyped for when it gets new videos so people can cover it, your channel is really good man
ngl, I think Needlemouse is alright, but it's definitely a tad bit overrated imo. Still good but def not the best. Nor is it that scary either.
I sometimes wonder how people call it like an "analog horror gem", "disturbing" and "terrifyingly awesome" because it's not scary nor disturbing. It's just "haha spooky sonic with your average vhs face distortion jumpscare" and the story isn't that interesting. It's quite overrated.
@@nicestguyyoullevermeet4436 Yeah, I agree. If people are looking for a "analog horror gem" based off a videogame, I'd recommend TMK. It's fairly new, and doesn't go through the same tropes as most other analog horror series on YT.
@@mmgmagic i watched the TMK vids, they're really well done
@@nicestguyyoullevermeet4436 Walten files was the only analog that made me unable to sleep at night the series showing actual fire and good jump scares, voice acting, and not just creepy text on screen. I also love the twist of fnaf on it has with making it motr gorey
@StrastTheFox I respect your opinion, I will admit that it’s not for everyone but I recommend watching a jumpscare compilation and film theory videos if it’s to boring to watch yourself.
Seeing this makes me sad that we didn’t get needlemouse, and instead we got a flopped opportunity to make a great story. We need NeedleM0use.
Glad my boy Silver Sonic is finally getting some much needed love.
one thing i disagree is the "building up tention" part
i found pretty much every episode boring, mainly because of how much text, empty time, and repeated "scares" there were
the story, editing, and animation is good sure, but everything else i found pretty weak
"Sonic.exe is arguably the most popular gaming creepypasta ever made."
Ben Drowned: Thems fightin words.
on a much more light note, good art! It's very well polished and the animation is smooth
This feels more like a video game fever dream turning into an anime. It’s definitely an interesting story that’s more fleshed out than .exe, but it seems like it’s deviating from the analogue horror aspect.
I like how it just stops becoming scary
I watched this while at my dad’s right before we went out for dinner. You have no idea how scared shitless I was when I saw “Kernersville NC” I instantly took out my phone and made sure I didn’t live near the location. Luckily I believe it didn’t exist so I was chilling afterwards. Bruh I’m 16, how the hell did that get me?
A couple predictions for who the characters will be reborn as:
Tom: Metal/Mecha Sonic, just like how Kyle is Silver Sonic
Sarah's Girlfriend (if she even appears): Amy, obviously.
The og story was shite, just like the person who made it. But admit, for some of us, the game spooked us a little bit.
yeah. sonic.exe, lets all agree, was shit. but that “one jumpscare” traumatized the hell out of me
It was the first scream and those few seconds of Tails death animation that scared me to my core. I hate the thought of having your head ripped off while you're still alive.
Yeah that shit gave me nightmares when i saw it in fernanfloo's channel
What did he do BTW? I've heard that the creator is controversial, but why?
@@humantwister9209 Jc was a pedophile I think
sonic starting screen with needlemouse looks so goofy i love it
The faces of the characters were really nightmare fuel.
Yea Sarah's face fucked me up a little bit, I can't use my laptop in the dark YIPEEE
Needlemouse has to be my favorite interpretation of sonic.exe (next to lord x, devoid, cyclops, and EXE)
i love the fact that the blood sprites from sonic.exe were directly ripped from mortal kombat.
My theory on why the man has been trapped in the game for 34 years is probably because the man was a programmer for sonic and got trapped during the beta
Analog horror for some reason never scares me because they are rarely subtle about the subjects.
I am glad to have found someone discussing creepypastas who's voice doesn't sound like it's trying to seduce me
0:14 "Arguably"? I thought Ben Drowned was the #1 most popular creepypasta? I didn't even know about Sonic.exe until after reading Squidward's "Self Deletion".
The caped tails with a chaos emerald hammer made it impossible to take this seriously. That's straight out of a webcomic fanfiction.
The only scary thing about sonic is the caterkiller hitbox
6:23 I accidentally paused on that frame and thought that the picture was funny as hell
reminds me of that one image of a girl being dragged into darkness by something
oh i really wanna see the series, it looks so nea-
*13 unavailable videos are hidden*
something tells me the author ended up not liking how the series turned out after a while
@@arlisbloxer05kinda? It had more to do with the fanart of the series. But there is a reupload of all the videos including the ending.
Author hid those videos cause they wanted to revamp it
This isn't that much of a step up from sonic.exe
The custom sprite work looks a little too goofy for my tastes, which was another problem sonic.exe had. Even when something like Walton looked goofy, it at least felt uncanny. I just don't know if something like analog horror can work for what is still a video game creepypasta. Like, i'm expecting something on par with NES Godzilla at least when it comes to presentation.
The story is also rather uninspired, which granted, is a problem with a lot of video game creepypastas as well. The only stories that i remotely enjoy from the genre either do something inventive with the presentation (such as Petscop, Ben Drowned, or NES Godzilla), have some sort of ARG element to it (such as Catastrophe Crow or, again, Ben Drowned), or they convey an actual knowledge of the game they're covering and can thus write a somewhat immersive story (stuff like jvk1166z, MARIO, or Fallout 3: Numbers Station).
This series isn't scary at all,sprite work is mostly fine imo but yeah series is not good and there are way better game args than this,is it better than the original sonic.exe,not much but yea,is it good as its own thing,no mostly
10:36 Jesse, I seem to be stuck inside of a Sonic CD.
this sonic.exe feels just a cheesy as the og, but done in much better quality.
21:25 I think the being is saying "not them". it would make the most sense given the context of what its saying to Sarah.
"go check out needlem0use its really cool"
meanwhile needlem0use: you're too slow *content unavailable*
I have the series now friend
Personally, I don't believe Needlemouse is good.
It's miles better than the original pasta, but the pacing is so slow, with really unintentionally funny scenes that ruin the tone of the series and overall just really weird writing narratives.
not to mention the really annoying cliches
You're goddamn right
i agree but the animated cutscenes are very gud
Agreed
@@batatolol9867 yeah, shutupjoseph is a very good artist, though i believe they could work on their writing skills.
so what you are saying is that sonic.exe is a spaghetti without the sauce and meatballs
but needlem0use is a spaghetti without the sauce but with meatballs
i like how the song Just a Burning Memory is still known for being about dementia, but is also used for moments of loneliness as well as suffering and spooky shit.
I've said it to my friends when talking about sonic.exe, "i am god" is not terrifying in the slightest
"there is no god, only me"
"god can't help you now"
those 2 lines are terrifying, as it implies that the situation is completely under the control of the speaker. "i am god" is what an edgy teen says to sound cool
Dude this story started off as creepy and immediately turned epic and fun to watch
I think sarah created the being we see in the video by using her anger as a way of wanting to kill her friends and using her so it can play with others lives
Man, Needlem0use has to be one of the best ever retellings of Sonic.EXE ever.
I’m not sure cuz it’s been awhile but I’m pretty sure needlemouse was originally the name of the old version of sonic, explaining the year.
kyle: don't play this game it's cursed
tom: how bout I do anyway?
Which Tom and Kyle though?
To be fair nobody would believe a disk is haunted
@@vickie-u5w yeah, I think the Creepypasta is unfairly hated at times. Like, is anyone gonna believe that some random disc is actually haunted? I know for sure I wouldn't believe it if I were in Tom's shoes. It's just people trying to be a smartass so they can tear into Sonic.exe in every possible way. The Creepypasta is still bad but some of it's ideas could've been really great and interesting if it wasn't executed badly. Sonic.EXE is bad but it deserves some justice, especially it's design. Idk about you but I love the design because of it's simplicity. It's why I prefer this more than any other EXE take because it doesn't have to be overly designed
In the og exe creator’s defense, it was made A LONG TIME ago. These ideas weren’t common back then.
Unfortunately, Needlemouse fell into a classic case of "good series/game, bad fandom" thanks to Twitter.
so basically a pasta where kids fight each other with sonic ocs... Thats rad.
I like how it goes from “scary” to epic anime
It's really fascinating that the community has made some amazing things from one of the worst creepypastas ever. Needlemouse, sonic.eyx, sonic.exe pc port, etc. Are all pretty fantastic
Fnf kinda fucked sonic exe up now it's just gay demonic hedgehog vs rabbit femboy twink
When I was just watching this video I kept hearing sonic game noises even when the video was paused, closed the tab and it stop. Thought that was some weird shit
After watching the full series so far, I have to say, I liked it initially but around the end it started to get a bit too “DBZ anime battle”ish for me
the fact how sonic and tails are best friends but in Needlem0use their enemies is just sad despite tails is my fav. And the fact her face is so CREEPY i think this was good if more comes out i want a part 2
These guys are asking for freedom. BUT NOBODY IS ASKING FOR FOOD
watch this video you get an answer th-cam.com/video/T8x5EM1CxLw/w-d-xo.html
It is genuinely sad all she wanted was a good friendship again so she had to make it possible
Michael don't leave me here
4:07 the sega company was founded in 1960 which means that sarah was probably trapped in a piece of hardware that was later used to make the haunted sonic game.