Can You Beat Shadow The Hedgehog Without Attacking?

[@DonShnack]

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[@thedotgiver2820]

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[@rockinggamerdude]

You are the reason why they changed in generations script, dark presence to evil prisons from the purple guy

[@Leif776]

I say this a lot, but Don's video's are genuinely some of the most creative gaming content on KZbin. Every single video is something new. Documentaries about pikmin, and entire animated story about kirby with a gun, and now some Mr. Rogers shit with your friend Shadow the Edgehog. It's like... WHAT??? This guy deserves more attention then he already gets. You can tell he really loves what he does.

[@ByrneBaby]

Best part is that he doesn't shill for likes and subs because he knows his stuff is worth tuning into if you like the games or characters in them alone.

[@Marudream407]

That's why he Is probably...wait, MY favorite youtuber

[@Ballonbo1]

Truer words have never been spoken

[@SaintoftheHonest]

Helping Don work out which routes to take and find the one route where you don't kill Eggman was sick. Edit: Clarifying, since Don was clearly too distracted to recognise my point in the video. I wasn't saying "this level isn't so bad", my point was that his patience was worn down and destroyed by the rest of the game, so it was affecting him WAY worse than it should have. And the fact we didn't get to the misunderstanding until over 40 minutes into a 1h video massively reinforces that.

[@asrieldreemurr1988]

Yeah this is a good video

[@emperortoho]

26:57 what’s REALLY funny about this is that you accidentally went through the path that’s closest to being the “canon” one, since helping out vector, espio, and charmy allows them to use the discs you helped charmy obtain and the computer vector found in order to transmit gerald’s last words to shadow and break him out of black doom’s control in the true last story if vector could deal damage to black doom this could hypothetically be canon, with shadow only having to fight in the last way and devil doom

[@calemr]

It's one of the closer ones to being possible. A bunch of events are canon, especially given some scenes of Shadow remembering them in the Last Story, but it's not possible to have All of them occur in one playthrough. (EG: You cannot do Cryptic Castle Hero, which dialogue shows is canon, while Also going to Mad Matrix to teach Charmy how to hack cyberspace, which he does in Last Story.) Personally, I'm curious what the route would be if they just made the game linear, with every stage playing out in a way that fits canon where applicable. I'd love to see a mod of that concept.

[@msgameandcake628]

While the route as a whole is pretty good for a canon route, I feel like the ending he got on the Black Comet is probably the closest to an ending that leads into the true Last Story than any other ending in the game, given it ends on the Black Comet, doesn't involve either Black Doom or Sonic being defeated, and overall has the most ambiguous conclusion for Shadow's characterization, allowing the Last Story to pick up from there without issue. If we just assume that Shadow hurt Eggman rather than outright killing him, it leads perfectly into the Last Story. Either way, the game could conceivably have Shadow be a pacifist the whole time!

[@GamingTopTen]

Nope, not the canon route. Shadow becomes suicidal. I made a video about the most likely canon route (stealth shilling--my favorite!)

[@1stCallipostle]

​@@GamingTopTenAbout as stealthy as a teleprompter paired with a laugh track

[@ByrneBaby]

Don. Donny. Donovan. I have to tell you something. I suffer from severe depression and insomnia, as well as have legit PTSD. Every day is a struggle for me, and weeks can be whole entire wars sometimes. Your videos have made me laugh the absolute hardest on all of YT all year. That "me when I walk into a new restaurant" joke freakin' sent me, and I'm only 3 minutes in. Tysm.

[@UnpleasantNasty]

straight up a child

[@savageassassin8548]

fun fact on the egg dealer, even if you don't attack him for the negatives, the bombs eggman lauches will still hurt him, yes, eggman will litterally beat himself for you, what a nice guy

[@oscarwillimott9296]

Knuckles-Empowered True Pacifist Shnack vs Shadow.EXE was one of the most well-animated one-sided match-ups in Executable File History.

[@XSniper74184]

Consider that file... Executed.

[@PixleDust_1]

WIPPIE?!

[@CooperDooper38]

50:30 especially considering at this point in the timeline, Tails has canonically disarmed a nuclear bomb in Sonic Adventure 1, and Knuckles probably just learned what a bomb was yesterday. This video goes hard, I know it's not like, movie quality, but the special effects at the end looked pretty good, man!

[@KyaHimiko]

- reach final boss of one of the time lines - look at video watchtime - 35 minutes left ohno

[@Juggernaut028]

The true pacifist path is named "Voyage of Reminiscence" (#185). That's a surprisingly fitting title for the ordeal you went through

[@Craft_Mesa]

I still think it's so cool that each individual story path is named something, that's like over 300 routes named

[@redshepherd32]

The fact that Maria has a fully animated punch with particle effects is wild. Kinda slightly changes the context of her death if she was actually throwing hands on the soldiers. 😂

[@edwardbo4666]

Damn-

[@M1ster_S1R]

I love your video editing style and philosophy (documentary style, edited and digestible, rewatchable, and big enough to binge). It's always a treat seeing you post something new.

[@gtcproductions4097]

17:20 Knuckles IS from a place called “Angel Island”

[@dimensionalproductionsbackup]

Technically hurting Black Doom shouldn't count since he's literally The Devil from The Bible

[@austerespace1366]

Snapcube reference!!!

[@GameBoyHamazing]

getting kinda sick of ppl misinterpreting the candy from a baby line, he's saying that it's stupidly easy to get the chaos emerald and that he's perfectly fine with how easy it is, not that he's ok with stealing candy from a baby (although he might still be okay with that, jury's still out)! personally i think that makes it a lot funnier when the alarm instantly goes off the second he grabs the gem but to each their own

[@Smasher-px2tk]

Paths taken: Tainted Pacifist (Part 3): 102 Arriving at the Ego True Pacifist (Part 4): 185 Voyage of Reminiscence

[@digitalgamer457]

I'm hoping the KZbin analytics blesses you with more visibility on this video cause this run was a joy to watch the vods for. Especially since Sonic X Shadow Generations released last week and that game is ZESTYYYYY

[@liammcintyre8826]

These videos are so fun and silly, like I'm genuinely hyped with gun kirby, pikmin documentaries and all that stuff, like this is some genuine peak content

[@GoodTato]

I can't even remember the last time I experienced 'the "random interesting sounding sidebar recommendation" to "subscriber" pipeline' but this video's done it

[@DustD.Reaper]

Alright lets me get this straight - Shadow, having seen the pain and suffering that violence brings after GUN raided the ARK, swore himself to resolve the Black Arms invasion without taking a single life, no matter how many times he had to go back - Sonic is just being a massive racsist dick to the Black Arms (which would also involve Shadow since he was created with Black Dooms DNA) - Knuckles, the GUARDIAN of the Master Emerald on ANGEL Island, promised to protect Shadow no matter which way Shadow had to achive his goal because he belives in Shadow to find the perfect pacifist way eventually, and politely asking that one GUN soldier to step away from the bomb so Shadow could defuse it (also he probably came in off screen to save Cream and Cheese in Cryptic Castle because hes that much of a GOAT) - Espio, being able to sense Shadows resolve through some weird ninja, may not know the full extend of Shadows reason, but knows that he has to protect him from Eggman - Charmy, seeing Shadow as someone to idolize, also wants to be as cool as him so he becomes a pacifist aswell - Vector tries to help Shadow with all his might to achive his goal, even if he strong enough to get him there - Amy, seeing her former crush turn out to be fucking bigot who just runs away from his problems while Shadow is a headstrong man facing his problems head on and sticks to his beliefs, decides to go with him because she can feel everything will just turn out fine that way (yea the Don somehow found a way to make the Shadamy ship happen in the game) - Omega is...yea okay hes beyond violent...but atleasts its non-discrematory violence...he doesnt hate you for what you are, he just hates you for what you did...and if you attack Shadow then hes gonna riddle you with holes no matter who or what you are - And Tails, being sick of Sonic Twitter hate rants, goes to help the actual hero achive his wish for peace...but we should probably take him off TikTok, seems like brainrot is already getting to him CAN WE PLEASE LET THE DON DIRECT A SHADOW THE HEDGEHOG MOVIE? THE MCU WISHES IT WAS THIS DEEP AND COMPLEX

[@edwardbo4666]

Eh, I'd personally want to change the amy and sonic stuff, but otherwise, I'm pretty happy with the characters

[@KinamOfMyth]

*sees him chained up* "Why is he Slay the Princess all of a sudden?" *Chapter III* "I WAS KIDDING!"

[@hades6354]

I love the shadow puppet bit

[@jacobruby2237]

6:25 wasn't expecting to hear Mechonis Field. I wonder what Eggman would think of it and Mechon. Then just slaps his face and mustache on them.

[@wsurviver8376]

I genuinely really love this games in concept, multiple paths determined by the players actions in gameplay explored through a character who both has the potential to be an great hero or terrible villain, I love that concept. The problem is that almost every single aspect of it in exucution is horribly flawed

[@Shockwave-mb8ew]

The words pacifist and shadow the hedgehog don’t mix but Don somehow does it

[@Kimarnic]

Your editing is so amazing, you deserve so many subs

[@AraleNorimaki-b1c]

14:49 The joke is "black people evolved to outrun bullets" or something like that. I remember this from a Baguette Ace Attorney video.

[@1stCallipostle]

So that's why they miss so much when they get into shootouts!

[@SuspiciousScout]

Bro, your editing and presentation is some of the best I've seen on KZbin. Keep doing what you're doing, you're becoming one of my favorite KZbinrs on the platform.

[@sorio99]

Literally, as soon as he realized Vector couldn’t hurt Black Doom, I was like “Okay, but what about the dark mission for that level?”

[@zachpro5475]

Now you don’t have to fight sans

[@dwango138]

Damn, not here

[@Shockwave-mb8ew]

“Where’s that DAM fourth chaos emerald!”

[@anyderrosek9272]

"You're going straight to HELL!"

[@percher4824]

"This is like taking candy from a baby, which is fine by me!"

[@Astronotter]

Okay but 14:08 Don sounds so much like Albert. That was such a good eggman impression haha

[@tonycalderon2776]

You have some of the most entertaining content in the challenge video department. Honestly well done!

[@MythicalDogLover]

19:42 Ay, don't be shittin on green apples that shit goes hard.

[@mebreevee]

With caramel.

[@SpectraVolta]

Finally. After watching all the vods, I have acquired the DonShnack emeralds

[@cecilofthesea]

the production quality on your videos has always been insane, but this one brings it to a whole new level. the entire ending sequence had me in awe

[@Agent4Ever]

The Dons back with more peak content (genuinely though, each video you post never drops in quality or charm, so props to you Don, glad to see more uploads from you, can't wait to see what else you have cooking up in the future)

[@danielwolf4196]

42:36 fun fact: Omega’s height is in fact accurate, he’s 4’10”

[@DonShnack]

BRO THERE IS NO WAY HELLO?!?!? I THOUGHT THIS GUY WAS LIKE 6'8?!?!? I THOUGHT HE WAS DUNKING IN THE NBA My world has been changed forever...

[@Kappy0]

As someone who 100%'d Shadow The Hedgehog when I was a kid, this video really brought me back! Loved the Shadow doll bits LOL

[@SomeGuyNamedDezecra]

1) This video was a peak Halloween special 2) I am so brainrotted I started singing Find Your Flame when it came on.

[@alexcsere]

Don, my guy, my homie, even when you make content about games I couldn't give two douces about, you make entertaining editing and content that you truely put your soul into. You're the real youtuber we need.

[@Sean_Bird]

Ah Shadow the Hedgehog, what an absolutely fascinating game in so many aspects. I can't wait to see the Don make it even more fascinating.

[@flamezard]

Where’s that DAMN 4th Chaos Emerald

[@zinkpopovitch9519]

Only real fans know this took dozens of hours.

[@digitalgamer457]

Oh I know. I watched the vods, he was indeed tweaking

[@A_Surpluss_of_Stupidity]

I know it by heart

[@graysonproductions6227]

I was there live and can confirm that it took a WHILE.

[@mysticdigital5936]

It was super fun catching some of these streams. I hope this video gets the views it deserves because Don went through it at times. It was a wild ride, but this Shnack always cooks up a way

[@thatoneguyyouthoughtyoukne62]

Shadow the Hedgehog? Move over its time for Don the Shnack

[@nightmareriddenlibrarian2924]

Time for me to Shnack on the Don 😈😈😈😈😈

[@littledom7592]

36:13 Are we not gonna talk about Maria just moon jumped here?

[@Kraiglyndor]

I’ve got two questions: 1. Do the robots really need to count for pacifist? You have no qualms about destruction in missions. With the exception of Omega I don’t think any of Eggman’s robots, G.U.N.’s robots, the artificial Chaos, or Shadow Androids would be counted as anything more than property damage that you’re already doing (Shadow Androids maybe because they could potentially be sentient). 2. Would the piloted mechs count either? Eggman’s and G.U.N.’s mechs are what you’re damaging. It’s like taking a baseball bat to someone’s car. You aren’t technically attacking someone so even if Eggman’s mech gets destroyed and he has to abandon it have you really attacked him?

[@LuigiMaster4]

Always happy to see when you release a new video Don.

[@Rundy975]

I wasn't expecting to click on a random shadow video and find it to be this awesome. I love the editing, great job completing the challenge

[@pigglesgoomshby7249]

The Don's docuseries always hits different idk what it is, but every time a new vid like this is posted it's such a treat

[@firebird64dd22]

I’m surprised how much quality comes out of these videos! Great job!

[@SpectraVolta]

59:31 WE WOOOOOON'T BACK DOOOOOWN

[@JuliaJulia-vh4xc]

37:03 okay so I’m wine drunk and this sent me down a rabbit hole: hedgehogs don’t actually have quills on their penis. It’s just skin like ours, but in a sheath and the head kinda looks like a calla lily. Also learned that the underbelly of a hedgehog is called “fleece” which is super cute and cozy sounding. Anyway idk if anyone else will find this interesting, great video btw

[@lotrdude13]

Makes sense Vector didn't know it was a 4090 and not a 490

[@Chaos_Vergil]

I mean, there's ACTUALLY 326 pathways, but let's just say there's now 327 considering your new pacifism route lol

[@freezoice8284]

Peak content Im so glad Vernias sent us to your stream a while ago.

[@NOUH-my9kq]

13:20 you weren’t kidding when you said you were going to make this about puppets!

[@danielferrieri7434]

Future Ideas: Can I beat Sonic 06 without Taking Damage Can I beat Mario and Luigi: Dream Team with only Luigi Can I beat a Pokémon Nuzlocke with only my Starter

[@furiouscorgi6614]

Can I beat Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam without Mario or Luigi

[@ivanquote1807]

For each of the paths you take in this game, you get a unique title on clearing it. For the True Pacifist route, it is called “Voyage of Reminiscence”. I’d say that is a fitting name for this video.

[@GingusBingus666]

1:00:49 rip to whatever poor soul in mauritania that just got a shadow the hedgehog puppet launched through their skull at near light speed

[@Navycrewposter]

Whenever don attempts these challenges some evil entity personally goes out of there way to encourage don to fail and do the challenge wrong. Bro never gets a break from this shit 😢

[@nikolaibeckel1071]

This was a really fun vid, glad to see you've got lots of creative juices flowing :)

[@BulldogPCs]

There is one way you could actually make this slightly more of a pacifist ending but I'm not entirely sure if it's possible in the Cosmic Fall fight. There is at least one Egg Dealer fight where player 2 can attack Eggman (whenever he stops they've got a second to jump up and hit him for a tiny amount of damage), but I'm not sure if Vector can do it; I know Omega can and since he and Vector are similar in size then Vector can probably also hit Eggman in that fight, meaning Shadow can avoid even landing a single hit against any bosses if Vector can hit the Egg Dealer. I learned this from a video by Wumbodorf of him and a friend trying to beat the game with only player 2 completing any mission objectives.

[@pyro4817]

"shadow the hedgehog? no, I'm shadow the story of undertale"

[@antos7039]

You're video's always make my day and they are really amazing like i love every videos espacially the pikmin video's i even sleep to them. keep up the good work

[@Hauntwrk]

straight up another banger, fucking loved watching this series unfold live and its never not amazing to be able to pick out what specific moments were from what stream. The Don just dont ever miss.

[@boomfanfic-a-latta8996]

THE ARLO MENTION XD

[@ophiuchus_kin]

Regardless of quality this is one of my favorite games ever, and Cosmic Fall marked me forever cause it's so hard and so cool. The fact that you used music from my favorite game ever Transistor specifically for that level is fantastic.

[@Appl3sandgrapes]

Your stuff is always so fun to watch; always look forward to a full Don vid

[@MageoftheTower]

55:07 Canon accurate Shadow’s mindset in a nutshell

[@jonathanfrank9207]

These videos always have such high replay value because of how well put together they all are. It always feels like instead of watching a video, I'm watching a movie.

[@kitrium]

hearing mirror magic mix had me paci-fisted god i love that song

[@penguinimptheinsane774]

53:23 is my favorite part of the whole experience Viva Piñata is my life bro

[@ThatGuySleepyMiles]

52:55 The way this spooked me. I was like "??? Yes Don??"

[@TheBlazingBronzeBro]

Don's videos always suprises me with what to expect, and it's amazing.

[@shadowsnake5133]

wait, woah hold on, I haven't heard this 1:47 in years, god, i miss cobi man, was not ready for that.

[@sarcasm-aplenty]

I wonder what the "genocide" run is? Which path maximizes your required kill count? Whatever it is it would have to involve avoiding eggman miniboss because it's implied you kill black bull and the gun mech operator (or 50 years kills him)

[@inaccurategameplay5766]

23:34 this level was notorious between my brother and I when we played for all the reasons you said, it took me 30 minutes to get the hero path on that stage💀 I hated it so much as a kid

[@zeldapersonaluigi]

I love the editing in this and the Mormon intro to shadow is amazing

[@Astronotter]

Such a sick video. The ending sequence got me hyped up man. I get hooked on every one of these haha.

[@Squincy.B]

Finally, the cannon run of Sonic the Hedgehog.

[@sirboogie8853]

The Don casually bringing my enjoyment of KZbin back to life

[@noskillrequired9532]

ill be honest, was not expecting a cinematic experience about a man fighting his inner demons telling him violence is the only way when clicking on this shadow pacifist run video. The don strikes again

[@jaberan25]

Don does it again - incredible and wildly creative video per usual! Hardest I've laughed from a KZbin video in forever

[@chilidog5230]

I WAS JUST BINGING YOUR VIDS AND ALL OF A SUDDEN THERE'S A NEW UPLOAD. THE DON HAS BLESSED ME ONCE AGAIN

[@levthelion71810]

The spindash is actually really helpful in cosmic fall, you have to jump right after releasing it to control it better

[@sassybandit]

How the hell do you keep upping the bar on your vids?! Legitimately you make some of, if not THE, best vids on youtube, and I've been around since the damn site launched. Absolutely stunning work. I've been looking forward to this since you've been talking about it on your streams, and it did NOT disappoint. Keep on rockin' with this stuff, Don man.

[@Blue2Pran2907]

My phone started ringing during the last bit where you escaped to beat up the shadow puppet, and my ringtone is the ultimate battle ost from dragon ball super, and I legit thought it was just part of the video and you used that as the music lmao

[@Hazard1007]

6:20 MECHONIS FIELD MENTIONED

[@GamingTopTen]

8:20 This happened to me once, but I had Chaos Control on standby and saved my life. Shit was so cash and clutch. Video is pretty entertaining so far. Gotta keep watching, though.

[@dudledot]

decided to see what path was done for paci, its Voyage of Reminiscence NNHHN(D) the false one before was Severed Chains NDDDN(H) just got curious so yea

[@AustinOnSugar]

Hitting the first two slots still damages the Dealer without risking hurting Eggman, if this still isn't pacifistic enough for you. And if any violence isn't the answer, there's a glitch in the Egg Dealer fight where sometimes Eggman's own Bomb attack can damage him. It would probably take an hour of waiting around to get it to happen enough times to kill him, but you can win against the Dealer without throwing a singke Homing Attack!

[@Jeksignup49]

This vid, honestly peak editing, philosophy and Dontent, it’s a good day to watch some Dontent!

[@Lylac_T]

59:42 dude braking the handcuffs is insane, a criminal could have been put away with those.

[@emred4653]

"does your mom know youre gay?" lmaooo how do you come up with these

[@Hugelag]

16:52 caught me off guard because it sounded so accurate.

[@mebreevee]

More quality Dontent! Heck yeah! Thanks for making a crappy time of my life less crappy, and inspiring me to take a step potentially towards content creation myself. Seeing how you put so much effort into it all, gives me a quality of content to aspire to.

[@pietari218]

your videos are peak youtube everytime, really glad I found the channel

[@draketrench9089]

*gathering air* IS THAT DA DON

[@Magekhight]

13:39 DDS2 MENTIONED!!! WHAT THE FUCK IS A THIRD GAME!!!! (Fr tho, goated song choice for a goated video)