Awesome collaboration!!! Im enjoying watching this.

Was great to collaborate with these guys! I highly recommend their stuff. HatStackMike does a lot of good Sonic-related content and AquaTwist does a lot of great content, good variety too. Always nice to see other fans of the Emio (and the Famicom detective club series of) game(s)!

I loved the animated shorts they had leading up to the game’s release. Are those in the game somewhere by chance?

This is remarkably a modern Sonic game that looks fantastic. I’ll give it a try.

Oh hell yeah! I forgot this was coming out. Thanks for reminding me!!

Sonic is so back! 🐶🎉

Sonic is certainly unique. This series is changing all the time to appeal to everyone. It's really cool and I appreciate it. Every piece of Sonic media has something good about it. It just has the style. I love the designs of all characters, and each of them are really memorable. And if there is some small issue, you can always fix it, especially with mods and the community. Even Sonic 06, which is my favourite. By the way, a little off topic, but I have a feeling the platinum hits version did get bug fixes, but only certain copies, as I think some contain the original version but with the platinum hits cover, whereas others contain a later, more stable and much less buggy build that was supposed to be released, but wasn't ready as it was too unstable at the time. I've heard it also has slightly shorter load times and improved controls. I think the devs wanted to fix bugs, but the higher ups didn't let them, and so they secretly fixed them without announcing. Of course, this is a wild statement, but there is some evidence that this is true from other claims and reviews I've seen, though obviously it's no p06 or even Legacy of Solaris.

If it makes you happy then yes. What makes me happy is emulating games.

Another reason why people think Sakurai hates the Sonic series is because there's no new characters.

Lol, yeah, that boss not very challenging in this game.

Wow!!!!! That didn't last long lol.

4. they made sonic so annoying to play against as a tribute to how annoying the sonic community is. this one is TRUE

Mortal Kombat 2 is the best because it is the most realistic of the series. In part 3, there's a robot that shoots you with rockets, a man has giant metal arms, and a guy runs so fast you become a tornado and then he scares you to death because he is ugly. That's is absurd. Mortal Kobbat 2 kept the realism of part 1 and upped it, like this is what would happen if you fell into green acid for real: skeletoned. I learned so much about life from this games

Mortal Kombat II is a solid title and you make so much sense

Excellent tribute hat stack! Crazy to think it's already been 8 years with the Switch! 🥹🐶

i feel like sonics moveset fits classic sonic except for the homing attack

Gotta say I didn't grab a switch til a couple years after it came out but I def regretted waiting that long. What a LEGENDARY console, the next console has a lot to live up to.

oh god Nintendo adding MinMin was the worst thing ever for me

You have some greet choices. Several I’d choose as well. Sonic games are super replayable. And yes, DKC2 is possibly my favorite platformer. I play the original Warioware from time to time still as well.

This is what you get with retro games that you can't get in modern gen games... Replayability. That's my opinion not a fact though

The last Smash Game I have played simply by virtue of it being the last game console I ended up owning next to the Xbox 360 was the Wii's SSB Brawl... And for the record I despite growing up in the 80's & 90's flat out liked the games coming out for the Wii hand over fist compared to the 360 that I rarely ever bothered using... I was never great at exploiting Melee in the way so many have managed to make it one of the most high bar to master games in competitions, but I had picked up enough to try several things with Sonic like running up to the opponents in online matches to tap the shield to reset him into a standing position followed by one or two taps of the A button then rence & repeat until I would use the shield to turn around and do a back air kick & or rotating turn grab on the side of the stage... So to me Sonic's movements always felt great & lightning fast compared to the rest of Brawls even with that stupid tripping system... The music on the other hand actually makes a lot of sense to me, Sonic Team for quite a while was practically dependent on the continued support of many older fans while trying to figure out how to draw in new ones with a lower bar of entry to difficulty for younger players... They unlike Nintendo who has always frequently told their fans what they should accept & want to play for themselves would't dare do the same especially since at that time they where already having copyright problems with some of their own music because of the Jackson Estate... Sonic Team looks at fan innovation and support as their lifeblood still after all... The last issue brought up despite it really being a nothing burger is the most relevant, every game creator is going to have their own ideas on what is good or bad game design & inspiration... But even if Sakurai legit didn't like Frontier's after getting it for himself he like most other artists probably shares a great respect for others creative differences & would want to broadened his own kit by seeing how Sonic Team would handle an open world concept even if only for how he might put his own spin on a similar project...

I have always come back to Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask as a set. I used to play through them once a year, not so sure why I stopped. Out of all the classic Sonic games, I weirdly find myself coming back to 2 more than 3. No idea why, I actually prefer the overall experience of Sonic 3 and Knuckles. Maybe it's because Sonic 2 is a shorter play, and I can more easily clear it in a sitting? I find this is a big factor for me in making a game replayable. If I can beat it relatively quickly, I'm more likely to come back to it more often. Some other honorable mentions for my list: Pokemon Red, Pokemon Crystal, Undertale, Super Mario RPG, Kirby Superstar, and Yoshi's Island.

I've been planning to get a desktop gaming PC this year (I haven't found the right one yet) and the fanmade remake Project-06 from Chaos X is one of the games that I will be playing on it. I'm already aware that the final release won't have the story mode and the hub-worlds in it. (unless some other talented modders afterwards make downloadable mods of those parts, which is possible) I understand that I won't be able to try to emulate XBOX 360 version of that game into the PC that I'm looking for due to the recent shut-down of the XBOX 360 Store which made it clear that a used physical copy of the console version is my only choice of how to play it with the story mode and the hub-worlds, so I recently got into ordering one for the XBOX 360 that a friend of mine had helped me to get in August. The game hasn't arrived yet, so Sonic Unleashed is currently the only game that I've been able to play on that old console so-far.

06 shoulndt be remastered it should be remade a remaster is just where you update the graphics

The game sucks but the level design and the handle of playable characters were great

so while I got my start with SA2, the way I first heard of 06 was my dad bringing home a 360 for Christmas with 06 being one of the games he got alongside it knowing me & my brother were Sonic fans. Past me having no standards was able to beat Shadow & Sonic's stories (in that order) with not too much issue, but what broke past me was Silver's campaign having that required escort mission of protecting the one girl from robots. Never beat that town mission & thus never beat the game. I consider it a blessing in disguise now that I've seen other playthroughs & especially having seen End of Time & the insanely placed instakill eyes.

Not only did this game turn Sonic into a joke, it also more or less turned the Sonic fandom into a joke.

Istg if this game was finished properly the only thing people would hate is the story

I wish I could play it as an 8 year old again, i somehow beat it... I can’t get past it as a 25 year old.

I don't think it's lost on anybody who grew up playing this game just how big of an impact 06 had on the franchise. I was 5 when this game came out and played it for the first time when I was 7, it is undeniably a bad game. However, due to nostalgia and personal taste, I found myself really enjoying 06. I really like the concepts, soundtrack, and the level designs, and I can appreciate what this game was going for and what it would/could've been if it was 100% finished. On top of that, as a speedrunner of this game for many years at this point, the game is genuinely amazing as a speedrun BECAUSE the game is bad. The glitches make this game insanely fun to play fast, and the movement gets a lot more smooth and quick when you learn the techniques. (Side note, I think Project 06 has a lot to do with the opinion shifting on 06, since a lot of people play that version of the game now which is a stellar recreation of 06.)

Obviously sonic 06. The only reason being against it that I agree with is the fact that p06 already exists and is still being developed. Knuckles chaotix would also be nice as that is so obscure but is also a classic era game, and if you add more features, you can easily make it accessible for many gamers, like add a game mode without the tether. Though I think they'd have to include it in a collection or bundle and not as a standalone title. Origins was their chance to do this. Adventure games I think are most likely as they can just rerelease the 2010 and 2012 remasters and be lazy. Heroes would also be good as that game is janky and was also rush, and so was missed potential to be a worthy follow up to the Adventure games. I don't think they'll do unleashed because of the werehog, but it would be nice to rerelease it to make it more accessible to those who don't have an Xbox or PlayStation. Others are just either too recent or too obscure and unimportant. Off topic, but I would highly recommend Unleashed to any Sonic fan regardless of the werehog, since it has more Sonic stages than most other Sonic games when counting dlc and missions, and those are some of the best in the series, and you can keep replaying once you get through the story. Anyways, do you know if Sonic 06 ever got bug fixes or updates, or whether they fixed the action gauge to deplete properly? I've heard knuckles chaotix was on Gametap. Do you know whether that was emulated or a remake/port on PC?

Although your videos are cool, I would recommend cutting some of the dead air between lines. It doesn't have to be MrBeast quick, but it feels awkward in this state.

15 years or torment is a bit? :(

i mean the speedrunning community was the best part, waking up on time to see sonic speedruns and see who was gonna get a new record, good time

I wanted to like it, I could see the potential but the broken state it was in just made it impossible to really enjoy. It could have been great if it was just given more time in the oven, as P-06 is showing

I would remaster or remake sonic 06. I feel like if sonic team redoes that game it would be a banger. But hey I could be wrong

Unleashed on D? Mania on S? The meta era games on E? All the Classic slop on A? Don't let bro cook ever again💀

It's not a bad game tho by ANY objective standpoint. Yes, it ruined the franchise's reputation to the public eye but It's actually just a fun, flawed buggy mess of a game that wasn't given enough time at the oven and claiming otherwise is foolish. It's as wrong as claiming any Sonic game from the meta and Adventure era was bad, that the Warehog is a dumb concept or that Adventure isn't objectively better than any Mario slop.

No way people are still bullying this game even 18 years after it’s release

I grew up loving Sonic. My first game was OG Sonic the Hedgehog , but in 2006 I was 17 years old and my attention was towards to more mature games, so I skipped this game entirely, pretty lucky for me I guess

Second best Sonic game of all time right behind Unleashed. Peak OST, peak level design, peak characterization (everyone except Knuckles is at their peak here), phenomenal character designs for everyone except Tails (yup, you're all tripping about Eggman, he looks raw AF here) and ESPECIALLY Sonic and Shadow, those 2 in 06 look better than ever before or since, legit the 06 renders for the cast are to these day the best we've ever received. The presentation is great for the most part, peak script, the chemistry and dynamics of characters are once again at their peak with a few exceptions (Knux and Tails feel kinda lifeless here), directing is peak. The lore is peak. Each Episode focuses on a specific message ut wants to get across, broadly determination and finding one's true self through misfortune for Shadow, how naivety can cloud judgement and the moral ambiguity of sacrificing one to save the many for Silver and learning to occasionally let go of your duties and lower your guard to live life free for Elise through Sonic's core philosophies and all 3 episodes EXCELL at delivering those points across. The story is absolutely epic although I won't argue against the plot holes and inconsistencies cause they are objectively there, I do however wanna point out how hypocritical it is for the fanbase to bush 06 for it and not literally every other game in the franchise that suffers from the same issues. Whether it's Station Square getting completely destroyed but having 0 casualties in SA, Knuckles going from Pumpkin Hill to some random flooded mines and emerging to the surface through a random sewer access and conveniently running into Tails and Amy by pure chance or the moon blowing up having no consequences whatsoever in SA2. Just the way SA2's Knuckles side of things starts is just a mess to, with him and Rouge just standing there bickering about the Master Emerald, you legit feel like you've skipped a dozen cutscenes. The whole existence of Team Rose in Heroes is a giant plot hole in and of itself, with a super contrived reason for Big and Amy to be there and ESPECIALLY Cream. Every single Sonic game falls apart if you start pointing out plot holes and conveniences unless you ignore them. The fanbase does so... Except for 06. Infuriating doesn't even begin to describe it, especially since thematically snd story-wise in the end 06's narrative comes together much nicer than A LOT of the other mainline entries. Solaris is a great villain, with Iblis being cool but of course Mephiles stealing the show entirely, the spotlight is his to command every time he is on screen, best Sonic villain ever, hope he returns for SxS Gens. Then there are things I adore about this game that people hate and I legitimately can't wrap my head around. Why are y'all hating the motion capture? "It looks weird and bad!" No it... Doesn't? Are we even watching the same cutscenes? Aside from occasional lack of eye movement which I agree is a flaw this is the best posing, the best and most expressive body language and the most dynamic and realistic movement these characters have ever received with the exceptions of some Unleashed scenes and Sonic Boom. Like legit, I have no idea what the entire world is on about, they're aninated to nicely, the motion capture truly shines, it's one of these cases where I truly can't comprehend how people think it's bad even when I try my hardest to understand. No copium tho, issues are here. Loading timed are an issue if you're doing Town Missions (not for casual playthroughs tho, they're fine), performance on the PS3 is dreadful (I recommend the 360 version to anyone that hasn't played it, it runs great there), the implementation of Blaze is unfathomably messy, aforementioned plot holes, conceptually phenomenal Mach Speed sections but completely butchered in execution, the occasional mandatory Town Missions interrupt the pacing of the narrative and while NPC dialogues always guide you the right way it's still pretty easy to get lost in Soleanna (peak location btw forgot to mention, love all the lore people give you about the culture there). Definitely a flawed game but s REALLY really good one. I'm not even gonna pretend to be one of the "Yeah it's bad but it's fun" guys I think y'all are coo-coo, game is great. Sonic Man alone elevates it to a 10/10 but I'll be fair snd ignore him for the sake of non-biased integrity, 06 is a turbo solid 7,5/10. Sonic Team wanted this to be the foundation for Sonic going forward, THIS is what they wanted the products to be. The fans rejected it, I will always hate the fans for it because just like Sonic Team 06 is what I wanted the franchise to be as well. As it stands, it ended up being one of the best burgers you've ever eaten at a restaurant but the restaurant shuts down right after, so you'll never get to taste that delicious meal again in your life and the recipe is lost to time. THAT'S what 06 is. PS: Zero nostalgia for this game, I hadn't played a single Sonic gamer prior to 2021 and I'm an adult, I played everything chronologically so not only do I have no prejudices about 06, it straight uo lander right in the middle of my Sonic journey, it wasn't the first, it was the last, this take is not biased infused whatsoever.

I swear i keep seeing people saying unleashed needs a remaster and I'm just going to say this tell me what needs to be fixed the game ain't buggy the story is good were hog was always intentional there's absolutely nothing it needs just eat the pc port when it releases

I agree that Sonic Rush could use a remake with minor tweaking. It was popular and would probably sell well since Blaze is so popular. I would love to see the Sonic Adventure games remade! And you're right, Sonic Adventure needs love more than SA2. I could even see them modernizing the Chao Garden with phone app integration to make a new Mini Chao Garden. This way, you can take your buddies with you just like back in the good ol' days. Pokemon does something similar with Pokemon Home, and I think it would be an awesome touch to top off the experience. It'd be fun if you could race and fight your Chao with your friends online, too.

Sonic Mania isn't mentioned here? (Forces is, which is far worse and came out the same year. Mania should NOT be forgotten!) (Also I don't consider Mania Plus to be a remaster, more just a quick testing ground for some ideas that didn't make it into the base game. The new Encore Act 1 in Mirage Saloon is definitely the big highlight.)