Modern Sonic Adventure 2: V6 Demo is Here!

This video showcases Modern Sonic Adventure 2 V6's Radical Highway Demo. Sonic and Shadow have brand new animations, model, physics and more to match Modern Sonic games! Radical Highway also got a graphical revamp. The demo is a sneakpeak of what will be at the Sonic Hacking Contest 2022.
Radical Highway (Normal) - 00:00
Radical Highway (Hard) - 03:07
Pyramid Cave - 05:44
Green Hill - 08:21
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[@sonicovertime]

Everything here graphically looks fantastic for SA2. Love the squishy animations on the characters. Also the slide mechanic handles really nicely. As for the physics I'm sort of mixed, like the characters feel really op, jump over things pretty easily, spindash feels underpowered and you can clip out of the geometry. I think the bigger thing is the stage doesn't really feel like it's made for it. They are fun to mess around with though and on the bright side you can turn off the physics. Overall this is pretty neat to see. Also the jets sure are loud lol. I know some of this is due to how SA2 handles audio but turning the jets audio down would help.

[@espurrseyes42]

Any chance this still suffers from the Same Button Syndrome of the original? Namely, Somersault being mapped to the same button as Spindash, causing the latter move to have input delay and neuter the extreme speed you could get off it in SA1?

[@sonicovertime]

@@espurrseyes42 it's still mapped to the same, light dash is on Y though

[@TheeMentorDex]

Glad ya like it! Either SA2 Volume Controls needs to be setup the same way I showed on the mod page, or I do need to lower the jets again lol

[@sonicovertime]

@@TheeMentorDex I made sure to follow your guide step by step, even including the other mod configs! I sent the volume to 100 on each set for SA2 Volume Controls and this was the results. I figured you might have set it this way to hear Sonic's footsteps easier, but yeah them jets are definitely louder than everything else. I will say though I should have lowered the audio in the editor so the jets didn't peak so much. lol

[@TheeMentorDex]

@@sonicovertime Ah so I need to fix the jets yet again. This is what happens when you're too used to work older than a year 😂

[@comicfan1324]

The animations look really good with these models. I think I honestly prefer this to the original SA2 animations

[@woag4974]

yeah, shadow's skate looks even better

[@bit_link1264]

sa2 animations aren't great by themselves too tho

[@sasook]

@@woag4974 I feel the opposite, his skating animation looks terrible here. He looks so stiff & rigid.

[@10RexTheWolf01]

The squash and stretch really makes this looks better, kinda want a full remake of the game.

[@bit_link1264]

@@sasook what the fuck

[@Zenos71]

I like how the speed shadows feet move is relative to the speed he's traveling. Good mod.

[@Shadowtron1221]

I am a sucker for good looking running animations, and that Shadow R.A is BEAUTIFUL to look at.

[@widerekxxanimations6842]

I'm a sucker for just good animation and this delivers

[@Codyiguess]

Not really. It looks good right up until they just sped it up for shadow going super fast rather than adding in a more consistent looking extra animation that’s makes sense for that speed.

[@Boneztoknivez]

@@Codyiguess hmm whaddya mean? Do you have an example of an animation that does this? Shadow’s animation is pretty spot on tbh

[@Codyiguess]

@@Boneztoknivez I can’t think of any particular examples, but with the way physics work it doesn’t make sense to just be moving exactly like that but faster, shadow is supposed to be sliding not trudging along, so his strides should be wider and longer the faster he goes along, and his body should be nearly stiff, the same could be said of sonic, his feet should be moving far more than his body when reaching higher speeds. Sonic adventure actually did this for sonic and it looked great but they immediately ruined it in the following game.

[@wlliamson53]

Except when he's super fast

[@atomic...]

I really like the light speed dash effect sonic and shadow have, This is all a SA2 remake needs to be, graphics brought up to modern standards, good animations ( Shadow's run animation is just perfect) new remixes for the music, bug fixes and some new features and for pc, steam workshop support, and the light speed dash to have its own button.

[@espurrseyes42]

Given how Colors Ultimate was, maybe don't remix the music. Or if they're going to, at least have the original OST available too. Also fix the Same Button Syndrome and scrap the Somersault for the Slide & Spin Kick. Maybe give Shadow a Stomp.

[@atomic...]

I'm pretty sure a fair few of the tracks have been given the sonic adventure music experience treatment, so just get those guys to do the music, and yes fix the same button syndrome.

[@CB-qg3yh]

This is exactly what I'd hope an adventure 2 remake would look

[@self-absorbed5269]

I like the effort given to this game , "Thanks a lot WALL." Kinda bothers that Shadow has red instead of yellow , I got use to it over the years. I know that it makes sense , but it still throws me. But what REALLY bothers me is how stress inducing the original level design can be. It's either claustrophobic , or a high wire act. I'm starting to see that "open world" was the way to go , you need room to run and jump. No wonder City Escape was so popular. It was saved by having no bottomless pits , a skyline , and those public park sections.

[@Velocity_YT]

It's more of amber but I see what you mean...

[@shadowopsairman1583]

Erm there are pits in City Escape

[@Velocity_YT]

Yeah, also I see what you mean by it should be more open than linear. I miss adventure 1 play style for Sonic

[@bottomtext593]

The fact Sonic Prime teased Shadows energy trail as Yellow tells us that THEY DID THEIR RESEARCH Cant wait for Sonic Prime

[@Velocity_YT]

@@bottomtext593 when is it coming?

[@AlyCatVR]

Duuude, this looks so pretty! Like, nostalgia glasses, this is what the game looked like to me as a kid. Also I LOVE that "Thanks a lot, wall!" line, omg.

[@Blackshroom]

Shadow goes reasonable speed, Sonic trying to out race the camera. come on! step it up cameraman, gotta go fast!

[@samueljones3668]

Finally Shadow's animations make sense, he's fast and moves with much more force than he does in the modern games.

[@ryozaki96]

That "thanks a lot wall" is everything

[@SonicGamingStation]

Models looking great ✨️

[@DawnSRC]

Woah this is an awesome mod! I didn't even realize this was still base SA2 at all and I speedrun this game LMAO

[@Emerldd]

TRUING

[@hunterfountain]

I understand why sonic doesn't have the soap shoes on but i am still sad about it

[@qra5200]

Sonics running animation looks a little jittery but overall this is really amazing!

[@ItzKayR]

3:23 Easily the best part about this entire video.

[@sethisevilone02]

nice touch changing the level completion music for shadow being the music from his game feels right

[@thechristianjamaicancoolie5712]

I absolutely loved it, you made sonic move so fast the camera couldn't keep up, I liked that. You actually put the speed where it's supposed to be.

[@Vmar0]

I like how the blimps have "maria?"

[@eggbreakerdotexe]

5:11 Plane jumpscare

[@Weemeyhutjrs]

Excellent work on the skating animation it is beautiful

[@CowVirus]

This is so much better than version 5 no that it was bad but now the animations are so much smoother the transitions between animations are now *really* good to be honest there's so much to love about this.

[@venomous0720]

I gotta say it’s much faster than the normal sonic adventure 2

[@joshuajordan6776]

THANKS A LOT WALL!!!!!!

[@sonicovertime]

stupid walls always getting in the way. ;p

[@darkstar_220]

This looks outstanding!! My only gripe was Sonic’s running animation. While it matches with his modern running animation, it doesn’t feel like he’s running but gliding over the ground But shadow’s exaggerated rocket boot skating animation and free fall animation was absolutely exquisite

[@sircuffington]

Tbf that's kind of intended. Almost all of sonic's run animations have him smooth out, in sort of a cruising sort of way. SA2 was the only one to mess it up, and make it look jittery.

[@alexrusty2012]

The running animations at high speed are fire!

[@davidxthecosmicgamer505]

Wait, when did Sonic say “Thanks a lot wall.”? Man that just made my day.

[@jayceallen6530]

I cant tell you just how much i love shadows running/skating animation, its so fluid and fresh

[@masterdails]

It's amazing how this looks. Is this the legendary Sonic Adventure Deluxe, but gone right?

[@wander7812]

Now we just need Shadow's aura to be Orange/Yellow instead of Red.

[@supersonicstyle5177]

Amazing video mate

[@SonicBalance]

Daaaaaang, new models and animations lookin' cleaaan.

[@hakimehamdouchi7468]

This is so satisfying to watch

[@dazaiWW]

3:23 "THANKS A LOT, WALL!"

[@TheBlueBlur14]

The mod is looking so Improved! Amazing!!

[@djmiller1129]

made sonic a little to fast but it looked great i love how you have shadow skate like that its beautiful and looks new keep up the hard work

[@TheeMentorDex]

Dw I’ll be toning down the top speed lol. Thanks for liking it champ!

[@philiphugh1785]

This is freaking incredible

[@itzik3536]

This is beautiful! Could you guys edit the low poly stuff of the stage too?

[@Demonic_Pulsar]

3:27 LOL

[@aidanshowers8366]

I love this mod. It fixed everything I hated about the original sonic and shadow actually gain and maintain speed instead of slowing down after a few seconds. I also shadows skating animation, the original SA2 one just made him feel weightless and isn’t how real skating works. It never made sense to me that they would animate snowboarding accurately but not skating.

[@BlackWeeeb]

YESSSS YESSSSS YESSSS. Now all we need is a constant stream of designers making levels and to streamline it. These physics are literally perfect, probably too op for these levels, so if we can get a streamlined modtool so people can design levels around this that would be perfect

[@mmystixx3285]

bro those animations are so good i thought it was sonic world till i read the description HOLY

[@KyProRen]

2:22 Oh MAN is that cruel!!! lol

[@JamesaSonicfan1457]

"Thanks Alot Wall!" - Sonic

[@sth5697]

This is exactly how SEGA should make a SA2 remake. Good Job!

[@shaunathenicehedgehog6740]

*It Looks Fantastic!*

[@xlro8f853]

Sonic looking clean asf!

[@oldsoulgarage2982]

This is a great demo. I have to say it looks very promising, however the camera and graphics in radical highway give me a sonic world DX vibe for some reason. Like it looks like the camera was moved back slightly and the graphics were dulled a little bit in certain spots. However overall amazing job to the creators. The biggest thing that makes me happy about this demo is shadows shoes going back to the way they were originally. Having the air shoes upgrade on the back of the soles of his skates makes it so much more authentic to SA2 roots. Kind of like how they brought back soap shoes in sonic forces as an unlockable for your playable character. I would hope to see Sonic get the same treatment and have an HD remodel of the soap shoes made or even just the model from forces pulled and plugged into the mod like they did for Shadow's skating animations last update. I have to agree the physics seem a bit exaggerated like the characters move way to fast for certain parts of the stage and can easily bypass and clip sections, lol kind of reminds me of playing sa2 speed stages with sa1 super sonic physics on(highly recommend for a good laugh). But there is one thing that urks me. Call me old fashioned or blinded by nostalgia but I still love Shadow's original animation for SA2. Its so fluent and his body moves in a way that seems lifelike. However what they messed up on was the fact that they made him take way to many strides when he is flying along at high speed. The original animation looks great when he is cruising along and having to take many more strides to speed up, however when he is just cruising at high speed he moves as fast as sonic does in his running animation. If they just made his final skating animation like it is in forces where he takes a few long quick strides to maintain speed it would have been perfect in my eyes, instead of moving at a million mph to look like sonic. Shadow's animation in this looks pretty good when he is cruising along however when he first starts out moving and his skates turn on it looks a little funky. like he is struggling to move forward a little and is swinging his arms outward like he is trying to grab onto something. What really strikes me as odd though is when he is moving along at a good pace you can see he bobs down a lot in between his other leg coming down for the next stride, like he is purposefully ducking downward slightly. If you play the video really slow when he is skating through the tunnel after the first loop, the way the camera pans down its very noticeable. This is something that does not happen in the original animation. Shadows original sa2 walking animation and transition to his first skating animation are a little clunky but once there he moves pretty fluently. And one of the reasons shadows original animations felt so real was because it was mo-capped from a real professional skater, idk who but that's how they got his animation. And as shadow increased speed in his original animation his body tilted forward a little more and his strides got a little wider as his body began to lean to each side more and more giving off the effect of picking up more speed. And his body may have bobbed a little bit but it was nowhere to the point where it felt cartoony and exaggerated like it does with the current model in this demo. It looks like in between each stride his torso, head, and quills shrink a little and then pop back out. Idk if they wanted to go for squishy and cartoony animations or not but more power to them if they want, these Dev's have given us one hell of a great mod so far and I can't wait to see the finished product. these are just my little nitpicks lol! Also Shadows animation that plays at the end of the level when he reaches the goal ring is good but that angry smile does not fit him in my opinion. It makes him look very edgy and angry like in the STH game whereas in sa2 shadow was more melancholic and filled with contempt toward others in his actions and demeanor. If anything his smile should be a light frown or a blank expression, like he is looking at the player with a serious expression and focusing his attention on the matter at hand. And I do think his original animation from sa2 and heroes are the best animations for him when completing the level. Seeing him spin around on his shoes and cross his arms was a really nice touch

[@K7TZ]

I really do miss seeing shadow do a spin dash and skate faster the more momentum you get.

[@ashketchum6585]

I thought this was Sonic world for a second until I saw the jumpball

[@captainrick4513]

I like how they kept the speedrun glitches.

[@Gooberz324]

this looks like its on the gomecube, and it's fantastic.

[@genevievebertolet2909]

So this is what perfection looks like.

[@morbid7927]

DEXTERITY and Revenir are gods!

[@May-hem]

This feels so needless. The original games were fine and this just feels like less a graphical polish and more fans shoe horning in modern boost era aesthetics including sonics miss aligned run animation start up which feels like he's walking on air for the first few steps or frames vs adventure feeling like he actually had traction on the ground he interacted with. It's taken the admittedly dated but polished and unique vibe of the adventure games away and replaced them with soulless model updates and homogenous modern boost sonic aesthetics and it loses all charm and personality. What categorised sonic adventure was a smidge of late 90s/early 2000s edge with a more mature tone and forcing modern (imo infantalised) sonic energy onto the games ruins them. Fair play to the creators they've put in a lot of work clearly so major kudos but stop trying to fix what doesn't need it.

[@sasook]

Agreed

[@Lwille559]

I can’t wait until the Full gameCome out

[@Haku1201]

I'm loving what I'm seeing so far, but I can tell from the physics that the level layout needs to be adjusted to work with their speed. As it is, both Sonic and Shadow are just too fast and mobile and the level itself can't keep up with them. If that makes sense. Looking forward to more of this though.

[@mmdmodernzack3823]

SOOOOO GOOD!

[@smoothwiththegroove1]

i need this whole setup and also i seen guys that have created their own characters from scratch also i want to do that as well lol super hyper form and everything

[@SpicyPunkRockerOfficial]

Love it

[@TheRetroSpeedster]

YES

[@THENAMEISMEGAMAN]

It'd be a nice touch if during Green Hill Zone, it switches to the Classic Sonic model from Generations.

[@christopherstanley4837]

There's something wrong with using the 4K voice cast in the dreamcast era. :/

[@Galactic.Scoonie77]

Is sonic moving faster ? loving the graphics! shadows dashing looks much better! sonic though still prefer the original running animation ones on top of the speed up song. though definitely excited to see more

[@RealAnswerTalker]

awesome

[@Xxblade17]

Awesome

[@neenurr]

I love your videos and I’m gonna sub to you some time soon

[@nycegeye6916]

This is the Ultimate!

[@serjohnnyt]

Whose voice for Shadow did you use?

[@SeigiVA]

Looks cute... wheres the chao garden. Its the only thing that matters from SA2

[@nonameuser2006]

Wow this mod improved a lot from the lsst update

[@shadowopsairman1583]

The Rolling, Spin Attack should use SA1 styling

[@jedijoe84]

This takes me back. I wish I could get adventure 2 to work on my laptop, but the game is too old for my modern gaming computer. Either the video moves too fast out of sinc with the audio or the whole game just crashes on load up. Can’t figure it out.

[@Sir_GrimReaper]

after i played this demo i realised how slow sonic and shadow are in the original

[@raion3266]

How can I keep the original sound effects and music?

[@the_gratefulgamer]

4:16 Big the Cat trying to save Big the Cat?

[@kevin-cy3cf]

Question does anyone know where that voice clip for thanks alot wall came from I don't remember there being a clip of that?

[@Rexuhnt]

Are the animations from Sonic Omens? Shadow’s run animation looks like that at least

[@TheeMentorDex]

Omens uses Infinity Engine made by Oban. Oban uses a combination of vanilla Unleashed, Gens and Forces animations for Sonic and Shadow. You can add your own animations into IE I think? My animations for Modern SA2 are edited versions of SU, Gens & Forces so they look nice and lively. Some animations are original too!

[@giiotm8272]

My only issue is Sonic not having his SOAP shoes, besides that looks great.

[@16bitgenesis2]

This IS the real sa2 remake unlike other sonic channels who use generations mods and call it Sa2

[@VongolaXZax]

Interesting

[@TheJobberHunter]

Looks great but I'd like to hear the original voice actors

[@izdatbOi]

3:23-29 hmmm maybe things aren't so neat yet lmao

[@OmegaChase1002]

how come when i downloaded it, it spawns 2 of every enemy and there's a checkpoint floating in the air?

[@calyixlook6851]

when full coming out

[@ClutchboyzHQ]

hopefully get some custom levels

[@MegamanElric16]

ThAnKs A lOt, WaLl!!!

[@kaz-kb]

I've been having trouble making it work, as all I have is the required mods enabled and codes too. It just doesn't work.

[@nebulazz9298]

SA2's about to become the Mario 64 Pc Port of Sonic games.

[@her0880]

3:12 did he just fuckin' dab?

[@alaaaljrrah3777]

I loved the graphics and effort but i prefer the original game, cause this game seems way so far from the normal gameplay those levels needs and it makes it complicated 😅 but your work is awesome 🔥

[@Parooka]

Thanks a lot WALL!!! 🤣🤣🤣

[@LeftyPlushTrap]

Bro why do I look so beautiful in this game than Sonic I just every time when I look in the mirror I always think that I am Miles Morales thank you so much for showcasing this mod 😃👍

[@crimsonth]

Almost a 100k

[@VannsTHeir]

Shadows animation 8s he'll of smooth heres hoping this get finished

[@shresthasengupta8984]

Is this a sonic generations mot or an actual game.

[@jakethesnake0192]

Did this guy increase the speed and improve the control

[@200zero]

Sonic is perfect i just prefer Shadows run animation in SA2 over this modern one but still looks great

[@Sadako2602]

I really like this, it just seems a bit too fast at times.

[@datCjboi]

Looks a lot like Sonic World (the fangame) now lol