I will now rank the Sonic games.

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(originally streamed on Jan 29, 2023)
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[@Minihood31770]

The Sonic Animation video being used like that is rad as hell! You should be proud of yourself Dan, it's a damn fine piece of work.

[@ahandsomefridge]

Absolutely. It's a very good, well-explained analytic video and it's both smart and awesome the devs picked up on that.

[@wearwolf2500]

Dan's sonic animation video is required watching at the academy

[@braveothello1896]

I rewatch it every few months. Always more to learn

[@imveryangryitsnotbutter]

That Sunday, Dan woke up and chose violence. 3:26 - Dan starts talking

[@rippedbarny]

Lol right, thanks for the timestamp!

[@PangolinMontanari]

"mean" dan is more like "frank and direct" dan and I don't hate it

[@believe2000]

I would love a Sound byte of carrie saying coffee coffee coffee that, if we donate bits, you will recieve enough of a cash amount to buy a coffee. Edit: Yes, it needs to sound like she is sitting across the room, as per usual

[@saint23thomas]

They could do multiple levels that change how close she sounds like she is.

[@finngswan3732]

Bits are basically pennies (500 bits = 5 dollars), so it's going to be some high bits.

[@thiscat4426]

3:25 Dan shows up

[@gothblin]

I like that you quickly realised you needed an F tier part 2 - an F Tier & Knuckles, if you will.

[@KingOfDoma]

Cuz I was curious - they don't use the letter E in grading because in the '30s, parents were interpreting it as standing for "excellent". A bit silly, but honestly? I can see it...

[@Reeblecks]

A = Awesome B = Brilliant C = Clever D = Delectable F = Fabulous

[@LuxurioMusic]

34:50 I'm getting like a side-on Jojo pose from that sprite

[@andy4an]

56:08 the rant about sonic '06 is delightful! "everyone it's time!" "there are a lot of bad sonic games... of all the bad sonic games to play, this is the one most likely to make you laugh" "you can have a rifftrax good time with sonic '06" "there are a lot of bugs... you can die for no reason...not because it's your fault... just because the game isn't up to the task" if you'd like to hear the silver "it's no use" quote dan is referring to, it's queued up here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iYG8nKOPgsyDr6c

[@pedroscoponi4905]

Love watching these vods on slow work days, the chill vibe is great

[@Landis963]

There's a new Sonic game out. Released early this month, in fact. Seen its animation yet?

[@chaheezor]

Interesting that you put Lost World so high because I also feel the same. There is a lot of great ideas and execution in there despite the community not rating it high. I think some of it should come back. Otherwise, some of your choices align with mine (like I would have rated Sonic Adventure at a high B personally), but I respect it. I love hearing your thoughts and comparing them with my own.

[@foursideseven]

Re: Letter grades, in most school districts (at least during the time I was still in grade school), conduct is also graded, which gets its own grading scale. Though it's seemingly fallen out of use, E was considered Excellent and to avoid confusing it with a failing grade, we skipped from D to F. Conduct grades mostly now go from S (Satisfactory) to N (Needs Improvement) to U (Unsatisfactory), but we kept a failing letter grade as F for consistency.

[@MarkerMurker]

Because of this, I'm curious about what you think of Spark The Electric Jester, especially 1 and 3.

[@Edranair1]

I'm in my late 20s now, but when I was at school in the UK, we had letter grades and it went A*-A-B-C-D-E-F, then U for 'Ungraded', which was the only unambiguous "You failed" grade we had

[@TJ-vh2ps]

I learned from the “Starting Soon” screen that some recent Sonic games have great music.

[@pixelbomb97]

The curse of any youtuber who doesn't like sonic games, always talking about sonic games.

[@timothymclean]

8:45: Oh my god. That must have either awesome or terrifying, depending on the mood Dan was in when he heard. 17:20: Whatever else you can say about Sonic, it always puts its best foot forward. 33:25: I thought Dan was talking about Sonic _3D_ Blast and was not prepared for an even worse pose. 1:40:20: I googled it. Apparently there were concerns that people would think that 'E' was short for 'Excellent' and not 'the letter between D and F'. 2:28:09: I'd object, but I'm doing exactly what people would expect me to do. 7:20: Oh boy, por que no las dos! 12:22: Perfect cheer timing. 16:25: That his hilarious but understandable. 22:00: Dan doesn't like Sonic very much, but he seems to find the hedgehog fun to discuss. And you know what? Same. 31:50: I did not. Thanks, Mark Brown! My pixel art studies would be a lot tougher without it. 38:50: To be fair, expectations for a 3D game were also a lot lower in 1998 than in 2006. ...I guess that's more "being fair to the fans" than "being fair to the game". 56:50: Mission failed successfully! 1:08:10: Yeah, that sounds like a fun character design challenge. It would probably need to be a minigame world, but super-fast footraces would be far from the worst minigame in Kingdom Hearts history. 1:16:25: It's a shame that Lost World will probably be remembered as "the Super Mario Galaxy ripoff" and not "the un-janky one". 2:06:30: _nods_ Single Vegeta Mickey Mouse. 2:09:06: _nods_ Double Vegeta Mickey Mouse? 2:17:55: Not every Sonic game with "Sonic" in the title is a mainline title, but I'm pretty sure no games _without_ Sonic in the title _are._

[@ScruffKerfluff]

Getting to listen to Dan critique Sonic games more is always a fun experience

[@markfurlong9542]

for gameplay, I am totally with you on Forces and Lost World being some of the most fun 3D Sonics.

[@christiancampbell4114]

I maintain that the best Sonic game is actually Rayman Legends

[@ericamaya2467]

So true, and the best 3d sonic game is crash 4 and the best sonic movie is puss in boots the last wish.

[@sayi50]

Oh hey, *content!*

[@TalonOfoalain]

Hey, if it’s confirmed the Sonic team has eyes on Dan, maybe they will hear the idea for a Chao garden mobile game. I’ve been wondering for a while why that isn’t a thing yet.

[@Finvaara]

1. Smash Ultimate is the best Kingdom Hearts 2. Dan is the most Tsundere of Sonic Fans.

[@fll42]

Why do you keep doing this to yourself Dan?

[@PaladinGaymer]

Whenever I see the Sonic Dan in a thumbnail, I know, as a lifelong fan of Sonic games, I am in for a ride. Lol. I want to claim that the games are better than people give credit, but I truly cannot argue with most of his points. XD I will disagree with the Sonic Boom redesigns. I really dislike them conceptually. They just look and feel wrong, imho. XD

[@Nosgoroth]

Immediate guffaw as soon as I saw the video title. Party time let's goooo

[@samuelturner6076]

Me wh skipped to the end without audio: This is based on animation right … right Oh thank goodness. Even still dang, SA 1 facial animations are right there, I guess Dan really disliked the jittering in SA2 (personally I liked what someone else said because every character felt they had a sense os speed). At least he gave it a C tier game wise. I can live with that T-T.

[@Finvaara]

He ranks by gameplay first, then by animation 2nd. If you skip to the end, you missed one of the rankings.

[@samuelturner6076]

@@Finvaara I should’ve made it clearer in my edit that I checked after so I saw his game wise rating and his animation rating.

[@Suxinn]

Ah, I see that Dan is still trying to claim that he's not a Sonic fan in the year 2k23.

[@Ronin11111111]

Pizza Tower is early contender for best animation of the year.

[@saint23thomas]

33:27 Sonic Sez: Phuck You!