User blog comment:Red Chevalier/PE Removal Proposal: Sonic.EXE/@comment-2059440-20191130212551

here's the deal, while there may be expanded media this is about the ORIGINAL work and I'm sorry to say this but come on people, you can't say the original wasn't intended to be controversial or shocking.. it's literally taking characters the author knows people will know from childhood or pop culture, then warping them into Lovecraftian Horrors - the problem is they use excessive gore and jump-scare tactics and it's pretty obvious they are trying to get a response.

now if someone made a .EXE that was truly psychological horror and Lovecraftian (in its original sense) maybe that could change matters but the truth is they didn't - they made it a gory tale to shock people : that's what exploitation is.

not all exploitation is on the levels of Family Guy or Cannibal Holocaust, if it is meant to shock you it is a type of exploitation (some may argue otherwise but whatevers).

also no matter if the entity possessing said character is an unnamed demon etc you have to remember stuff like Sonic.EXE could NEVER become a franchise itself and will ALWAYS be basically fan-fiction because Sega owns Sonic and they would easily shutdown these stories, they just don't care enough to do so (much as Hasbro etc doesn't care enough to remove similar gore-fics).