This game is definitely... interesting

2:53 Dandori issue

the reason the ark is set to collied with earth instead of firing is that this will ensure the ark is also destroyed and cannot be used as colony to survive in space since that was part of the original design

Which game is this?

You mean spines? 🧍‍♂️

Theres a non-zero chance that you're not the only person to experience this too lmao

In Sonic frontiers you can see his dreadlocks is spreading out a little bit

Aah yes Freedom Planet. 2D Sonic minus the genius of simplicity.

i think the worst part about knuckles, amy, and big's minimal involvement in sonic's story is that they're clearly only there so you can unlock them as playable characters because of the game's structure. it really should've just been that you can pick any character you want from the start without having to play through all of sonic's story to meet all of the characters

my personal thoughts on the different islands all being where the chaos emeralds are supposed to "rest" and all having a civilization that was wiped out for being too power-hungry, is perhaps it was four warring nations that all wanted total control of the chaos emeralds, including the echidna tribe (though knuckles would seemingly be the only one to have a tie to any of them)

Frontiers has his gliding work now

Shadows speed is effectively tied to chaos boost. Without it he actually feels kinda slow and awkward but with it you start teleporting like crazy using enemies to gain speed its awesome. Its genius to basically tie his combat to his speed moreso then just using a basic homing attack on enemies to get over a ledge or whatever

Guys hear me out! Prison Protest is a better stage musically than Prison Island from shadow 05. My opinion of course.

...bro thats not the games retconning the chaos emeralds thats just foreshadowing The japanese sonic 3 manual is foreshadowing the super emeralds that would come in the knucles expension a few months later

thok slander is so obnoxious

do you plan on making another video, re evaluating this game when that widescreen decomp comes out

Please do a video about shadows true too speed movement (sonic adventure 2) it was the greatest and now he just flys 😑

Will you ever get dreadlocks?

Sonic Battle mentions Elemental power of Wind...

Fang and Trip are peak Sonic characters, yet Sonic Team refuses to put them in any "modern" interpretations for no good reason. For Fang we got close with the Archie comics and his consideration for Sonic Heroes, but that was it. This is especially surprising considering how prominent he was for the series pre-Adventure. (Triple Trouble, Drift 2, Sonic the Fighters, etc.) *What a waste of creative potential…*

Thanks for piecing together a moveset tweaks mod that makes the base characters feel more like how they would actually play in the Classic games! I do kinda wish you would also share a link to download it off the SRB2 website itself too for more convenience, but that's alright. Though to be fair I'm not quite familiar with how that website works when it comes to uploading stuff. I'm sure there's a lot of rules regarding that. Anyways, I think it's fair to say that Triple Trouble 16-Bit and SRB2 are the only two fan games so far that feels like they would be official releases by Sega. I could easily see an alternate a timeline right now where we got 3&K and TT16B as releases for the Sega Neptune and Sonic Mania Plus Addendum and SRB2 with some mods on the Sega Saturn. Maybe if that happened we would've not only just got the two Adventure games, but also maybe a third one and some other games that are more closer to Utopia and GT. It's not like all the games after Adventure 2 couldn't exist in tandem either, especially the handheld ones. For example I can also still see the Boost games with Unleashed, Colors, and Generations also still happen more so as side experiments, and most other bad games like Sonic 06, Lost World, and Forces would never exist. And then the return to 2D with something like Superstars could've been even more colorful than what we got with it and even Mania. *Oh I wish so much that we lived in that world. If only both sides of Sega wasn't so incompetent with their marketing strategies and internal conflicts. The gaming landscape could've potentially been a lot more interesting and less strict…*

Now I imagine Knuckles spread the dreads like a frilled lizard

Galaxy trail will still exist but its like vannilaware without kamitani yeah the companies been around before him but it just ain't the same same thing for me for galaxy trail it aint the same without sabrina diduro and freedom planet

FYI you're never getting a freedom planet 3. game took I think 7 or 8 years to make. and the main squeeze the autourr Sabrina diduro spent most of the games earnings to transition to female this is it for her and the series.

Guys it’s probably time to go outside

This game is awesome when you’re not going for the 106%. The actual level to level gameplay is some peak platforming. But god, they can go f*ck themselves for these box placements

Here's the thing: There will never be a balance between both story and just people wanting to have fun anymore because they've been butchering some stories so badly after the Adventure games to the point where it lessens the positive reception. Take Colors for example, yes it's simpler but the story it *does* have is mostly bad thanks to the writing. On the flip side of that though, the gameplay is generally well received, maybe not as much as the Adventure games but it was still seen as a fun to play game. Of course you can have a mix of both as proven by the Adventure games, but the *real* reason why we don't see stuff like that before is because writing stories for both an audience of hardcore fans and casual fans is extremely difficult. With something like a movie or show that's already a big part of the appeal since those things already focus on narratives. Why else do you think, I dunno, The Amazing World of Gumball is seen as a masterpiece by most whilst people like me also dislike and have many problems with other stuff like Adventure Time and Steven Universe? It's because writing good stories, characters, humor, and animation is very difficult, so whenever you have films and shows you realize you don't like they just stand out all that more negatively. It's why there's some people out there that likes to complain about these sorts of things all the time. Sonic on the other hand is primarily a video game series about spectacle and gameplay, that's what its been like since day 1 and even when bigger stories were being made they still followed that trend for the most part. You still see lots of people complain about the gameplay of some newer titles too though because a lot of them like the Boost titles are no longer momentum based since that was a core part of Sonic's game identity. Sonic Rush is often brought up in these discussions because they point out you can do both, but Sega doesn't. Truth be told though, *nowadays* I don't think most people would care since all they see is a weird radical blue cartoon character going fast. That's all his character amounts to these days after all the failed story attempts and gameplay changes, and many people now prefer him to be more static because of it. (Granted he often already was, but he is even more so now) I know it's a hard pill to swallow, but the truth is that story in Sonic games just doesn't belong there anymore ever since they gave us Sonic 06. The shows, movies, comics, etc. sure, but the video games? Honestly I think the less stories the better. If Sonic Mania had a deeper story than the other classic games then I don't think it would've been received nearly as well. And you know what? Mario isn't well known for his stories either, most games just follow a simple formula just like what Sonic used to do with the classic series. And that's not always a bad thing! I still like other much "newer" Mario games as well such as Odyssey and Wonder as well. The most that Sonic should ever get out of stories is with RPGs, just like Mario, but otherwise it should be more straightforward imho. It's for the benefit of everyone. Would I want to see a proper and official Sonic Adventure 3? Yes. Will it ever happen? Unless a herculean amount of effort is being put into a fan game, no. Funnily enough the best fan game we have gotten in terms of reception and pure quality is Triple Trouble 16-Bit, which is another classic game. I know there's also P-06, but that's less of a pure fan interpretation and more like trying to fix the gameplay of the original, and I don't think anyone would doubt that the story still sucks too. Trying to make an all new compelling story even for that is just way too hard even for that, especially if it has to be very close to Sonic 06 with the same, style, characters, and everything else. I want to emphasize though that I *do* want them to make great stories again, but with how Sega and Sonic Team keeps treating their games, I honestly don't think it will happen ever again to nearly such an impactful extent. If even the live action projects struggle at some points, what hope do games have under an official release? Unless there's some serious restructuring, I'd say the chances of the situation improving for that are basically zero. *TL;DR: I hate to admit it, but I think newer official games are better off having less emphasis on stories since they're just way too hard to make them appeal towards both casual players and diehard fans at the same time. It's why Mario still works (I'm not counting RPGs) since they focus more on creativity. It's an overrated example, but it's true.*

I always thought knuckles was a sugar glider until I saw the sonic 2 movie which confirms he’s an echidna

can you not be such a SA2 hater? geez. I still love you content though

The werehog wasn't terrible, just felt like it was missing something.

finally finished watching this whole series, and definitely gonna go into the story videos now that i'm done with the gameplay review videos, and i love how often these videos give me new perspectives on these games, make me think more about them, and even get me to think differently about games that i felt like i've already made up my mind on (a big example being colours). a fresh perspective is just something i think everyone needs every once in a while. i feel like too many people demonize watching reviews because it gets people to act like they know more about a game than they really do or that they "get their opinions from youtubers", when for me it's just nice to see a different perspective, and maybe i'll come around on games i used to not like. i didn't know heroes had such deep and thoughtful combat, for example, and while i'm probably not going to end up enjoying heroes itself any more than i usually do, it is still one of my least favourite sonic games, i can at least appreciate that some genuine effort went into its game design.

So your telling me my dad could've glided and not broken his arm?

His nonchalant dreadhead powers actived

i think my favourite thing about this game that i never played in my life (as well as final horizon but i don't think it's as fun as dream team simply _looks_ ) is that all the characters can boost. i felt it was pretty arbitrary that it was an ability that so far only sonic and shadow could use, though to be fair no one else has gotten to _prove_ that they can use it _at all_ , so just making it a universal mechanic just makes much more sense

To be fair, i think the team forgets because they arent autistic

I honestly never knew this

The reboot of Archie was disapointing. Too many connective threads had to be severed, and I just wasn't into it at all. Honestly, start from issue... 150, I believe? I hate to say, because I love the world Ken Penders made, but I do like what Ian does with them so much more. The best depth of every Sonic character is around that time in its history. The stuff before it is fun, just so much needless bullshit happens... way too ADD...

Seeing sonic 06 just gave me so many forgotten memories

Im glad i didnt bother replaying the game for the alternate ending. I would die inside if i played through that slog of a game for that

I have came back to this video and I’d like to inform you that there’s a secret rings remake called project reignition

28:46 when knuckles knocks the chaos emeralds out of super sonic he hides them around the island in safe spots where it would be hard to find them

in multi player, one plus i found was that when you lose, and queue again or if you are in private lobby and just rematch, it doesn't feel like you are punished for losing and having to start again or load check point, as each match is going to be different even in miss matches i have had opponents try to mix it up and some really fun opponents who were a lot better than would lose neutral on purpose to mix it up, but i mean single player how do i word this, "have you ever got stuck on that one check point, where the start is tedious, boring and repetitive and the choke point is just before the next check point" so each death you have to do that same thing at the start of the check point over and over until you pass the choke point. Though i am lost for what to play, I finding i do not like long slow neutrals and recovery or more so healing, recovery to a good position seems good but undone damage feels annoying, I played doom eternal battlemode modded and vanilla for about 2 years. 1 year with the same team mate. fighters as hard i heard they are, seem appealing, especially because ill be able to just log in and play no team mate, but i have very little exp with a controller, to point i forget where each button is (i look at the controller to much rather than the screen and this is not even going against the hardest ai yet)

AWESOME!

PEAK

I feel so fucking stupid rn

*looking at my dreads in the mirror* Hmm...

the reason sonix r is so short is because of time restraints. They get under 1 year to develop it, I guess they couldnt just do it and keep the same quailty.

Sonic 1 forever isn't letting me download the exe file. It's giving me a black screen. I copied the data, save data and settings. Is there something i'm missing?