The Year of Shadow isn't over just yet: alongside the release of the Sonic the Hedgehog 3 film later this month, Shadow is set to be added to Sega Hardlight's excellent mobile game Sonic Dream Team.

However, to say anything more would be revealing too much, so here's your warning: the following contains major spoilers for the Sonic the Hedgehog ... It goes boom, seemingly killing Shadow ...

The algorithm is cold and uncaring, and will very likely show you screencaps or posts about them if you’re at all close to the Sonic community ... As a lifelong Shadow the Hedgehog stan ...

Specifically, it shows in full the first interaction between Shadow The Hedgehog and the crew of Sonic, Knuckles, and Tails. Naturally, the first thought of the four is the question of why Sonic ...