There's this hedgehog that has saved the world countless times over from a murderous genius madman. The President authorises all available force (including crashing a gigantic monstrous truck through a busy urban center killing thousands and infesting the area with robots) to pursue the hedgehog, while the murderous genius madman who has threatened all life on the planet on countless occasions, and recently unleashed a water monster onto a city killing millions, is allowed to act without any response.
In the past, the grandfather of the murderous genius madman invented a giant space lizard for unknown reasons. The government sent special forces in to subdue him, causing a small girl to be killed as collateral damage, her death is not the subject of any investigation. The grandfather was chained, suffered a mental breakdown, allowed to film a threatening message of vengeance and summarily executed without trial and any consideration for his mental health. The laboratory of the grandfather is allowed to remain intact, so that any evildoer can use it in the future without the slightest difficulty.
The hero hedgehog chases the President's limousine with minimal response from its security escort, while the murderous genius madman blows up part of the moon. The government needs to send a discrete covert operative to follow a red echinda mystery man, and naturally sends a Bat with Tits.
A black hedgehog of indeterminate origin makes it his sole quest to murder the hero hedgehog and wipe out billions of people due to him misinterpreting the dying wishes of a little girl. The hero hedgehog goes into a pyramid and fights ghosts. Then they all go up to the space station, turn magic super, and fight a giant space lizard for indetermined reasons. The black hedgehog dies for some reason. The animals, the secret agent Bat with Tits, and the murderous genius madman celebrate saving the day by "working together".
YOU CALL THIS A GOOD STORY?
Yeah, you are absolutely right, its up there with other good gaming stories, like Legacy of Kain, System Shock 2, Majora's Mask and Portal.