"Before we decided to release Sonic 5, we were adding some final touches, and then we noticed that the Sonic sprite did not look normal. This did not happen during a majority of the development of the game. We took a look at the game's code and everything worked fine. It looked like if someone inverted the colors, but also removed its eyes and mouth. I think it's creepy, honestly. Even if it didn't have eyes, I just... I couldn't shake the feeling that it was... watching me..."
Sega
