It’s not everyday that a villain gets a game of their very own, but in Dr. Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine we found Sonic’s chief nemesis in a spin-off that honestly didn’t make a lot of sense. For no real apparent reason, Dr. Robotnik shifted  his strategy of collecting Chaos Emeralds and tormenting Sonic to collecting the citizens of a city called “Beanville” for the purposes of turning them into robots. If that seems a little strange (even for Eggman), it’s because it IS. The game was actually designed and released as “Puyo Puyo” in the East, but because the developers lacked the confidence to release it for what it truly was, it was given a “Sonic” coat of paint to make it more marketable for Western audiences, covering up what it contained on the inside.

There will be many situations in our lives that will present a more “successful” option to us if we will simply downplay our relationship with Christ, hiding our faith to gain wider acceptance. But any pursuit including friendships, relationships, careers, fame, or fortune that tempts us to cover up the presence of the Lord in our lives leads to a dead end… He can’t illuminate our path if we bury His light underground. We choose each day whether our choices reveal Him or conceal Him, so let’s walk unashamed of the Lord we love and serve today… Jesus is not a secret to be kept.

Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven. But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven. Matthew 10:32-33

For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. Romans 1:16

But as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, even so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God who tests our hearts. 1 Thessalonians 2:4

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