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Walter Robinson’s Gamer’s Corner–Sonic the Hedgehog vs The Black Knight
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Written by Walter Robinson, The Eagle Columnist
Sonic the hedgehog is back but in a new place of scenery. Sonic and The Black Knight is a game where you first play as Sonic and learn how to be a knight (sounds like the renaissance fair). With you being sucked back in time to fight King Arthur who happens to be a bad guy and if you’re not confused yet your sword happens to be Excalibur. So you pretty much travel the land fighting bad guys but the first boss is the bad guy King Arthur himself. So when the fight begins, Sonic fights but he’s not strong enough (was he ever strong to begin with) and inevitably loses with his sword telling him he’s not a true knight or strong enough and keeps talking down to Sonic. With that defeat, he sets off to get stronger, traveling the land, fighting, saving, and defeating giant monsters. When Sonic goes on he meets a knight of the round table, Lancelot, who looks a lot like Shadow the hedgehog. The two then face off in an epic battle with Sonic coming on top as winner and stopping Lancelot from killing himself. Later on after all the knight training was down and you defeat and save the other Knights of the Round Table who look like Blaze, Percival, and Knuckles, Gawain.
Later on the fight with King Arthur begins and he has a horse and a lot of powers (I still don’t think he’s strong enough), but Sonic defeats the guy saving the land. Though it’s not over (Sonic stop having false main bad guys) yet as true bad guy was an ally and she (Merlina) was behind it all (plot twist). With that revealed Sonic, Lancelot, Percival, and Gawain all aid him in stopping the evil keep the kingdom last forever. With Sonics sword destroyed the three knights use there swords to fix it and start the beginning of the end of the game (of the big boss fight). Now with all four swords ready they head out to the pillars to stop the evil from spreading and he begins to battle the last two bosses (yeah there’s another boss in a different part. Now fighting a really huge dragon and having to defeat it to get to the pillar and stop the evil from spreading. With all of that finished Sonic goes off and in the fight with Merlina becomes Excalibur-Sonic (he really looks like Super Sonic).
While fighting her she speaks to you and tells about how it should be forever and Sonic argues with her that they it shouldn’t be forever. After the fight and Sonics victory The Knights of the Round table plan to split up but Excalibur tells them that the one who pulls him out of the rock is the true king. Leaving everyone believing Sonic is the king and after all is said is done the game ends with Amy yelling at Sonic for missing their date (huh) and Sonic trying to explain what happened (and they all lived happily ever after the end).
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Jordan McDonald’s Living on the edge: The other 17 worst celebrity names
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Written by Jordan McDonald, The Eagle Columnist
1. Pirate – You can tell this kid is a rock star’s son, but that’s still no excuse for this disgrace of a name.
2. Fifi Trixiebell – This one takes me back to those baby doll commercials on Nickelodeon. Never thought I’d see a human with it, though.
3. Peaches Honeyblossom – Paula Yates’s other daughter. You can tell she didn’t hold back with this one. Can you imagine her first job application?
4. Pixie – This is the third Yates baby in a row. You’d think she would learn from her mistakes.
5. Speck Wildhorse – Sounds like a cross between Star Trek and Toy Story.
6. Rebel – Robert Rodriguez has a reputation for giving his kids weird names. Particularly using the letter “R.”
7. Seven – I don’t know who’s been watching too much Sesame Street; Andre Benjamin or Seven himself?
8. Camera – The least Arthur Ashe could do would’ve been to use a brand name like “Kodak’ or “Canon.” Camera is so general and generic.
9. Free – David Carradine’s father must’ve fought in the Revolutionary War, or some other fight for independence.
10. Kyd – Tea Leoni has a weird name herself. I guess it runs in the family. This proves that a) she doesn’t care enough to give her kid a real name and b) she can’t spell.
11. Mars Merkaba Jay Electronica’s parents must’ve been celebrities. Another example of generations of weird names.
12. Buddy Bear – I’m sick of seeing parents confuse their kids with cartoon characters or animals. It’s called an education people.
13. Diva Thin Muffin – Kind of a contradiction, don’t you think? Too many muffins can lead to obesity, not anorexia. If she lives up to that name, she’ll be anything but a diva.
14. Dweezil – Diva’s brother. What does this tell you about their father? What a bully-proof name – a cross between “dweeb” and “weasel.”
15. Moon Unit – I’m starting to think that Frank Zappa was probed by aliens. After Diva and Dweezil, I didn’t think it could get any worse. I guess I was wrong.
16. Bronx Mowgli – When 2 celebrities have a kid, this is what you can expect, especially from Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson.
17. Hero – Myleene Klass is a woman who is very proud of her daughter, and you can’t blame her. But “Hero” takes things a bit too far. Why not “Heroine”? Oh, wait, nevermind….
We can only hope that these children grow up to do something meaningful, or maybe form an organization dedicated to the fight against stupid names. But most of all, I hope that these children don’t make the same mistake their parents did.
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Aziaha Robinson–Grinding her gears:Pittsburgh
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Written by Aziaha Robinson, The Eagle Senior Writer
You know what really grinds my gears? Pittsburgh. Not just the city itself, but the stupid trends and ways of thinking that people allow themselves to get caught up in. It’s getting so bad to the point where people are no longer individuals, and it seems as though it only happens here. If you leave and go somewhere else you’ll see that almost every city is different, with a different population of different people with different personalities and different ways of thinking and different dress and just all together, well …. different. However the word “different” isn’t used too often around here.
Now don’t get me wrong, it’s okay for people to have things in common with other people; I’m not saying that being the same as others in some ways is a bad thing. After all, nine times out of ten, having a thing in common with someone else is how you will make the majority of your friends. However, when everyone is walking around looking, and talking, and acting like one another, people begin to lose sight of who they really are.
Take the way people in Pittsburgh dress for example. EVERYONE LOOKS THE SAME. I believe this is so because people allow others to tell them what is considered “swag” and that if they even so much as switch it up ever so slightly it’s the end of the world as we know it. And what makes things even worse, is that people’s idea of dressing different is just simply going back to the old style that was just in last Tuesday which was before the new trend that is currently happening today. Confusing, isn’t it?
Another thing that people in Pittsburgh do that irks my soul is the way people categorize each other. As soon as someone decides that they want to be their self and not keep up with the latest trend, that person is automatically considered a lame. It’s as if individuality has suddenly become a crime. It doesn’t make any sense for people to really have to think twice about what they do and say in order to fit in with the crowd. It’s just not fair. Under these circumstances you’re giving people one of two options: be the same or be an outcast. Which would you choose?
Some may ask why I care so much. Why should it make me any difference about how people act and what people wear? Well, the answer to that question is simple, I don’t. I’m speaking up for all the people who won’t because no matter how much people say that it bothers them, nobody ever says anything about it. Does it grind my gears? Sure, or else I probably wouldn’t be writing about it. Do I feel as though it’s a problem? No, because at the end of the day whether or not this is the most inspiring column you’ve ever read, people are going to do what they want, and honestly I’m ok with that. However I do feel as though people should focus more on being their self, after all, everybody else is taken.
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