Screenshots – Sonic & The Black Knight

The second in Sonic’s Storybook series and a follow up to 2007′s Sonic & The Secret Rings, Sonic & The Black Knight couldn’t have had a more auspicious start. Leaked thanks to Nintendo Power (proving once again they have the subtlety of a drunk rhinocerous), the community immediately took a gigantic dump on the title crucifying it then burning its remains whilst dancing around it and chanting “Ooh Ahh Not 2D! Oooh Ahh Not For Me!”

After AAUK stepped in and explained – somewhat angrily – that they were all being a bunch of irrational and immature asshats for hating a game before they’d even seen anything of it besides a title and a CG render things calmed down somewhat – so lets get this out the way. Sonic is pulled into the world of Camelot by a girl who looks suspiciously like Shahra, is given a sword (yes Sonic carries a weapon, deal with it) and has to take on the possessed King Authur and his suspiciously familiar Knights of the Round Table and save the kingdom from the tidal wave of darkness….