Sonic Adventure - Hidden Details and Secrets

There's a lot of things in Sonic Adventure that are really easy to miss.
Here's a list I put together of some of the stuff I know.
I know a few things in there are rather common knowledge (such as teh Sonic statue), but I think everything has something interesting to point out.

[@SomecallmeJohnny]

Bah gawd, for YEARS I've wondered about that area in 12:19! This was a cool video! Learned some neat things today.

[@RetroWizard_]

I'm here from your liked vid playlist :3

[@IndigoOverdrive]

Still learning about things 18 years later, eh Johnny?

[@kjyes8045]

Holy Shit It Is You!!!

[@TBrizzle01]

Sonic building up the statue was extremely interesting! And I never realized how precious it is that Knuckles destroys it. 😂

[@JacobParanoia]

@@IndigoOverdrive Now where have i heard that b4...🤣

[@warioland523]

Well that explains why the Egg Carrier started to fall. Sonic caused it when he was on the ship's wing in the Sky Deck and damaged the wing. That's a nice attention to detail there.

[@gemstonegynoid7475]

and considering the other characters running around too. even just big releasing the water tanks isn't good, even on regular ships tanks filled with water are used for stabilization so the ship stays upright. same could be said for the egg carrier. also amy's hot shelter takes place here too. she herself isn't doing much damage, but ZERO crashing through walls to chase her cant be doing good.

[@publiccrown2382]

@@gemstonegynoid7475 the Egg Carrier got messed up during this adventure!

[@SpaceManRD]

@@gemstonegynoid7475 That part you fight Chaos 6 on looked pretty important and sustains some damage too, though it _does_ get mysteriously repaired if you visit the wreck, likely so Amy and Gamma can have a straightforward boss arena.

[@captainmidnightgaming]

@@SpaceManRD Maybe the cleaning robots that remained on board fixed it

[@alanbareiro6806]

@@gemstonegynoid7475 Maybe Eggman did actually take these things into account. Which is why he had a second Egg Carrier prepared for when Perfect Chaos went rogue.

[@Knuxfan24]

Wow SA1's level design actually was kinda ingenious when you stop to examine it.

[@1polyron1]

Know any other games that reward you for exploring.

[@elibonham4388]

Sa2 has lots of secrets too

[@glamrockbandit]

LMAO hi Knux didn't expect to see you here

[@gilbert64]

​@@1polyron1 sonic CD?

[@FierySprites]

So that's why there's a giant freaking golden statue of Sonic... Didn't know he had such a huge ego to do that.

[@Vitoamiibo]

IDLE BOSS VOICE LINES? IVE BEEN PLAYING THIS GAME MY WHOLE LIFE . DAMN. subbed

[@jahsehgravestone9899]

They really payed attention to detail, I'm amazed!

[@FlyingFman]

I would've added the biggest secret of them all in Final Egg, that there's actually two huge rooms where you just fall for a while, the secret one has tons of rings instead of a bottomless pit and you come out from it via a different tunnel (I first found out about it by running through this exit in reverse). There's also a room with two holes in the ceiling that have a secret corridor, only Tails can get there using a second controller. Sadly they didn't put any secret items in there.

[@raiverns9620]

I always thought the sky deck took place beneath the egg carrier so seeing all these details i never knew happened like the wing breaking off and the pre rendered cutscene is kinda really amazing

[@IAmGpro]

I'm surprised that there were things in this video that I didn't know about. Just goes to show that there's always something new to learn, no matter how much you know about one of your favorite videogames

[@aortaplatinum]

I only discovered this a couple hours ago, and it may only be in one of the 20+ mods I currently have active, but at the very start of Amy and Big's Hot Shelter, there's a corridor with 7 statues on wooden display pillars, but an 8th pillar is missing it's statue. In Amy's version, there's a Kiki on the pillar, but once you destroy it, you can actually jump onto the pillar yourself and Amy will perform this weird balancing animation I've never seen before, and you have to try to keep her steady using the control stick. It doesn't seem to have a purpose as a mechanic, and is probably just an easter egg. I thought it might be a stealth mechanic, a way to blend in with the surroundings to hide from Zero, but I tried to lure it into the corridor and it kept de-spawning, so Zero must have some sort of personalized kill plane right at the entrance to the hall.

[@turboshell]

That balance animation was actually in one of their other videos about unused animations. Is it possible this was a leftover from an early mechanic?

[@aortaplatinum]

@@turboshell maybe? Like I said, it seems like it was going to be some sort of 'disguise yourself as a statue so Zero doesn't spot you' thing, but it's weird that they left a trigger for it if the mechanic was scrapped.

[@Savage-k394]

I think this is leftover like how in bigs stage there is a hint tv thingy facing the wrong way because of an earlier version of the zone.

[@TroyFullwood]

I really got the impression from the design of Emerald Coast and Windy Valley, that they intended to have a lot more secrets and shortcuts in the levels, but didn't have time to add as many as they'd have liked

[@JackBz]

fuck yes I love this video and this channel. I thought I was an expert at this game, but damn this was amazing. The bit about the sky deck location and that tying into the FMV was particularly great

[@MegaDude10]

I new knew the Sonic Statue was built by sonic with 5000 rings... Makes you feel bad for wrecking it.

[@Dima064]

I don't know if you forgot or not, but you didn't mention in Sky Deck's Act 2, you can find Jump Panels, where you can jump through the destroyed cannon. Still awesome video through!

[@theultimategamer95]

This is *really* interesting! From all my years of playing this game, I didn't even know half these facts... It actually makes me feel kind of stupid tbh :P

[@mryoshi1221]

ohh youre not stupid!

[@TailsGaming1999]

You aren’t stupid

[@kylecampbell565]

Here's some more secrets in the last story! There are hidden recaps you have to trigger them by accessing one of sonics levels and competing a stage this will force the game to save there are two that you can access without hacking the first when you first boot it up, and after Tikal's vision you can also do this by holding off on the light speed upgrade however I don't recommend that method as I've heard reports that it can permanently lock you out of completing the story

[@Glitchy1988]

That last one is why adventure 1 is my favorite sonic game, I'm not knocking the others but I much prefer having a stage that has hidden goodies strewn about compared to just blasting down a on rails path, hell, I didn't even know about 80% of the stuff in this video and I've played SA1 for years, the only things I knew was big's hot shelter area(because unlike most "gamers" I don't automatically throw a fit and storm off when a game presents something different) and the idle talk, granted, I did not know about the boss idle talk. Thanks for showing me new things about an amazing game.

[@marble-q6j]

this is a very conflicting comment

[@Glitchy1988]

@@marble-q6j How so?

[@SacredFaerie]

I’m extremelyproud to say I knew like... three of these.

[@ACBlackJ0ck]

That elevator was a secret? I thought that was the way you were supposed to go! ;_;

[@TimGaukerToons]

I surely didn’t know about it.

[@arkaidov]

I heard that Sonic Adventure kept the locations of Sonic 3 stages as continuity. Ice Cap and Red Mountain (Lava Reef Zone) are close together, Red Mountain (LRZ) is also close to the Master Emerald. Sand Hill (The one with Tails) could also be Sandopolis. I don't knoq if there's more of these but you could do a video on this or look for more similarities.

[@whoeverest_the_whateverest]

But then there is a question - why Master Emerald is now outside, on the surface of Angel Island, while it was deep inside inner island's chambers, in the Hidden Palace? This looks like it was inside a safe deposit, and now outside, free for stealing by anyone

[@the-voyager]

@@whoeverest_the_whateverest i think it colapsed with sky sanctuary

[@whoeverest_the_whateverest]

@@the-voyager 😮🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@bensanchez8121]

Lost World is Hyrdocity and Marble Garden

[@AnthonyThings]

@@the-voyager it can’t be that because you see in the flash backs the area is the same

[@browneburbs5377]

4:44 "Old man offering movement assistance for heavy robot. Robot allows." "Old man is clearly strong, as he is holding him only be shoulders" "Away we go, old man."

[@gamesergeanthd]

I see Big's Hot Shelter was more than just find the switch and catch froggy, Interesting.

[@cloudycanine9682]

A couple Idle Talks in bosses I've gotten before include: Egg Viper: "You've had your fun! Now it's my turn!" Egg Walker: "I know I can do it all by myself!"

[@natyfop]

OH MY GOD I've played this game for 16 years and spent countless hours exploring both adventure fields and action stages (except sky deck because I always wanna leave that place asap), and I'm surprised I've never seen the gamma elevator, the egg carrier lights turning off, the sonic statue's feet being there after 200 rings deposited, the "The Man 3" poster and the city hall clock moving! The only secrets I knew were the extra rooms in Big's Hot Shelter (I'm not proud of that) and the idle lines for adventure fields. Something I'll always love about this game is the attention to detail. This game is full of personality because of that and it shows how much effort and care the development team put on it to try to make it a new experience (everybody must remember it's an early 3D game, so glitches, bad camera and bad english voice acting are to be expected). I remember being blown away by seeing stuff like the showers in Casinopolis, the pool and game rooms in egg carrier (as well as the robot maids), the men's and women's bathrooms in hot shelter, the emblems hidden in random locations like the grass in city hall, and so on. And I just recently found out you can walk up those "inclined-plane" buildings near the beginning of Speed Highway as Sonic! There are even extra lives there, and I always thought all those background buildings were just background and Sonic would slip and fall those steep surfaces! tl;dr: I love this game.

[@DASH596]

And I thought I knew almost everything about this game, great video! :D

[@omarkamil8043]

You deserve WAYYYYY more subscribers.

[@VisualMemoryBlue]

Great video! The work you've put in and shown on this channel is incredible. The attention to detail in this game was always very impressive in my eyes, especially for a near-launch game from 1998. These little touches are just another great feature of a game that seems to never get the credit it deserves.

[@WaterKirby1994]

Agreed sucks that the game doesn't get the credit it clearly deserves these days. Far more effort was placed in this game alone, than was placed in Generations & Forces combined.

[@QueenofSilence101]

That elevator for Gamma is a nice little touch. They wanted to teach the player the hover mechanic; the platform you're supposed to land on even has a targeting reticle printed on it.

[@SonikkuAtrue]

I miss Sega of Japan making the games....Rip Sonic 1991-2009

[@Oh-Ben]

Sega of Japan only made Sonic CD and Knuckles Chaotix. The rest was sonic team. The more you know.

[@SonikkuAtrue]

Oh Ben I meant the Japanese programmers in Sonic Team.They were replaced after Black Knight

[@Oh-Ben]

Well to be fair the Japanese don't care about Sonic. As much as I hate to say it Sonic might be better in American hands. At least we can get games like Sonic Mania.

[@SonikkuAtrue]

Oh Ben They care,but the problem is that Sonic doesn't sell well in Japan.Also,that doesn't explain why the Japanese programmers and writers were replaced after 2009

[@Oh-Ben]

There was multiple reasons they where replaced. It was stated internally members of Sonic Team where out of date on modern games because they did little than make and play Sonic games. However true that statement was is unknown. Another is that Sonic Team was poor at optimizing their games and have a track record for being lazy. The last was near the end they where trying to make Sonic games that appealed to Americans more, which they failed many times instead making bad sonic games. Shadow the Hedgehog, Sonic 06 (Adventure 3) and the storybook games didn't do as good as they hoped. In other words, they where out of touch.

[@tkayube]

I always like to do the secret area in Big's Hot Shelter, even though it actually makes fishing in the main room harder. At least you get some rings and Chao animals out of it.

[@SolidSonicTH]

Being able to jump on Burger Man's head was used as a way to get Amy into Casinopolis in the Japanese version of the game.

[@gilbert64]

you can use the z button (with mods) to make the idle talk, that will make more easy hear the idle talk when you're fighting a boss

[@alanbareiro6806]

I always liked this game, but I'm starting to have more appreciation for it. With all its success and flaws, you can tell SEGA put a lot of effort into it.

[@bigboomer1013]

And that's why its called sonic adventure. The game expects you to look around and find stuff.

[@Mazgid]

OMG FInally ! Now I know what was those ladders in Final Egg leading to!

[@metalmadness5851]

There are so many details in these levels that you won't see if you aren't looking around. Like the little crew bubbles on the leading edge of the Wing in Sky Deck part 2, each with a little shield box in front of it. Then there's the absolute laundry list of hidden nooks and crannies in Final Egg. I wish SA2 had this much detail!

[@TwilightCage]

There is another secret, the showers inside of casinopolis trigger a animation as sonic. I recall being able to trigger the sinks in some way too, but that was the dreamcast version

[@Freezorgium]

That's not really a secret, I think everyone sees that animation when they get a ring after leaving the sewers

[@pastellandscape4286]

Thank you for showing cool new things about one of my all time favourite games. All these years and I had no idea about things such as the idle boss lines, the hidden extra lives path in egg Carrier, etc. :)

[@superandroidtron]

I've been playing this game for 15+ years now, and never knew about any of this stuff. Great video!

[@sonicguyver7445]

That's really impressive. I had no idea about most of these. But yeah I had figured out the gold Sonic Statue thing a while back. Still glad you mentioned it though. But about the unused assets. I'm pretty sure this game was maybe 70% complete at launch anyway. I kind of wish Sonic Team would go back and make remake the game as it was planned and not just what they had to put out to meet the 09/09/99 launch date.

[@retronova_official]

Heads up, the echidna tribe pattern in the second part of Lost World are actually edited versions of Knuckles’ head from the cover art of Sonic Jam.

[@LBFMUSICA]

11:05 WHEN WILL YOU EVER LEARN. THAT YOUR ACTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES.

[@MegAmi24]

Seeing that title screen at the beginning of the video makes me want a SADX PC mod of it with the SADX branding.

[@Tazamo]

So wait, the area at 6:40 was a secret all along? I was just bored of failing to catch Froggy, so I explored. Man...I am GOOD at vidya gams

[@Sydney_Angelyt]

Taz_ same

[@AB-cj3mp]

Been playing SADX my whole life, and beat the game, I only knew about Big's Hot Shelter path (recently discovered), the idle talk and the rings shaped like Sonic's face (not gonna lie--I HAD to Google that, I spent years trying to find that spot with no luck.) Some awesome stuff in this game! I wish the modern games could've been made with this much love.

[@videotape2959]

Well Adventure 2 and Heroes are modern and they're pretty good as well. Even Shadow is fun, though it has no polish whatsoever and the story is really _out there_ ..

[@SoniMarSponge]

Your a Real Pro for finding these secrets! I've been playing this game for years and I didn't know some of these secrets!

[@pirajacinto4]

What a great video! I honestly didn't know about alot of these things (if not all of them), so it's really fun to see someone going though the Sonic games much like that guy going though the Mario 64 games and learning new stuff, many, many years later. You're doing great work! :D

[@NickOffline]

i love he inst remix.of it doesnt matter

[@hajimemightflex5185]

wow all this time i’ve been trying to go fast i never got the chance to look around the areas. Thanks for enlightening me.

[@poorsvids4738]

Those details they included in the Egg Carrier prerender blew my mind!

[@g45635g]

So, uh, how do you only have 145 subscribers? (definitely deserves more subscribers)

[@NonononJacuzzirayProductions]

SuperSonicFan411 now 5K!

[@Beagleman1996]

Wow; all of these are really neat! Fun fact, though; did anyone else remember an old LPer called "Darkersupersonic"? (Not to be confused with the speedrunner, 'Darkspinessonic') He did a playthrough of Adventure DX circa. 2009, and actually showed that slowly-moving platform at the end of Final Egg; he didn't show any of the other stuff in this video, though. God I do miss his videos; they were very good fun :)

[@Beagleman1996]

Or rather, *watched*; I think he stopped posting videos to KZbin in about 2011, and I haven't seen or heard anything from him since. It's a shame, really.

[@3timefelon576]

Link to videos

[@medicindisquise4271]

Apparently, in the steam rerelease, my brother with a switch controller managed to find a button that automatically triggers the idle talk. I think it was one of the shoulder buttons. That should make it a lot easier to hear the boss chatter!

[@Spelo1]

Hmm i think you just accidently installed the mod and forgot about it.

[@ciennaquidd6486]

If you glitch into Hedgehog Hammer through trial mode as anyone other than Amy and you turn the camera up, the outer shell of the light above you is gone and you can see what's underneath. Surprise surprise! It's a face you know well, but not one you'd expect to see here! EDIT: I know this for sure works on the GCN and Steam version of SADX, not sure if its in DC original.

[@kunghwanshimramos3800]

Thats why sonic adventure is one of the best games of sonic

[@gilbert64]

yep

[@sonysakura_Raukven]

Honestly, there are so many hidden item boxes in this game, I'm still finding new ones (googling is no fun, but I suspect someone would have made a guide by now?), and it feels like I will never have enough of this game =D

[@levthelion71810]

I found another in Final Egg! Right before Sonic enters Gamma's segment of the stage (The last room with the enemies that blow up) If you manage to jump into the lower entrance tunnel (You enter from the higher one) and climb up it, it brings you to a room with a bunch of rings and ring capsules!

[@SpeedyTheHedgehog45]

Wow, nice facts, some of them didn't know at all.. I was especially amazed by 5000 rings statue you can build, so much time of playing this game and didn't even notice at least built Sonic's shoes at 200. Nice!

[@RarefoilB]

Came here thanks to SomecallmeJohnny, and I found this really interesting, for someone who's played Adventure over and over. In fact, I think I'll sub.

[@Vitoamiibo]

this music.... i wish sonic was like this today....

[@WWelvisWW]

Sick vid :) I'm surprised by how much stuff I hadn't noticed after all these years

[@shadowstrike64]

I've been playing this game for a decade and I didn't know about some of these

[@Hazelduff]

I knew only the Hot Shelter's plug secret and that characters spoke suring idle animation. (except for the bosses of course) The details about Sky Deck were cool!

[@xela12345]

Really interesting!! I am looking forward to watching that clock next time I play!! Personally I would have also mentioned the commercials for NiGHTS into Dreams above the Golden Sonic Statue but hey :P

[@yellowmello1223]

11:05 THAT YOUR ACTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES

[@Sonicfalcon16]

this was awesome. only one I did was waiting for the platform at final egg. keep up the good work

[@SolidSonicTH]

I actually learned of that second Final Egg secret area from a strategy guide back in the day. Kinda neat.

[@RickySama240]

My god so many things i never knew about all these years.. Amazing analysis video!~ :D

[@brianpso]

I only knew about the secret on the upgrade room, Hot Shelter with Big, and Final Egg's room with 4 lives, everything else was new to me, so cool!

[@WaterKirby1994]

Hot Shelter with Big was never a secret, it was intentionally made to trick players into thinking Froggy or 2000g fish were there. Also unless you plan to have Tails do the dirty work to avoid waiting you're probably better off passing those 4 extra lives.

[@emylucie]

SA is my childhood game on PS3 and still love it😍 Thanks for showing this :) BUT THE FACT THAT AFTER MORE THAN 6 YEARS OF PLAYING IT I LEARNED HOW TO CATCH FROGGY WITH BIG AND DON'T TELL ME HOW BUT YOUNGER WITHOUT EVEN KNOWING HOW I DID I CATCHED FROGGY YOU HAD TO MOVE THE L JOYSTICK 😭😭😭 Btw the Casino move is totally normal, sometimes the view does that It's like Cream being an easter-egg in the game, on levels you can see her The 2 times where i saw her is: At the beach, at a light, when i played Big The Cat, the day, in front of the Hall train place And at the Casino while trying to remember how to use a key stone lmao The fact those gameplays you show are form the Dreamcast game, so the original game and with the sketches, or whatever I have the PS3 version, and since before remakes were real remakes, it looks super alike, i nearly couldn't recognize it would be the Dreamcast version without looking at the 3D model of Sonic That is when you don't pay attention to the normal gameplay, butonly at the 3D model Because if you pay attention, you see the 3D's not the same and textures too For example, at 13:35 , the black balls with the needles or i don't know, well, on the PS4 version, it's darker, with better shading, and the needles too

[@MykonosFan]

This was a really cool video.

[@QuadFactor21]

At the beginning of Hot Shelter, there are a bunch of pedestals with some small statues on them. One of the pedestals has a kiki badnik on it, and when you destroy it, you can jump on it. When you're playing as Amy, she loses her balance and falls off. Not sure if this is a secret, but it's a funny thing I noticed when I was playing the game.

[@SplotchTheCatThing]

Might just be the casinopolis music you've got in the background, but that "The Man 3" poster gives me a James Bond vibe...

[@yourehereforthatarentyou]

there’s just something so fucking funny about “The Man 3”

[@aatroxvaux]

wonder why these rooms in big's version of hot shelter are so oddly hidden. maybe sega wanted to give some sort of reward for the curious people?

[@SuperPichuChan]

It's really too bad this video doesn't have more views! It's very nicely made and informative. The presentation is wonderful :)

[@АлександрКорнеев-ф7б]

It's genius! CA2 is not even close!

[@videotape2959]

They must have been in a rush when developing Adventure 2. Or, the team simply didn't want to put as much effort into it.

[@skatemo100]

@@videotape2959They only spent a year developing Adventure 2 plus 6 months of localizing. They had to downsize the dev team from 120 down to 11.

[@BradTheDead]

Holy crap, and here I was thinking the casino's giant sonic statue was a knuckles-only thing.

[@Jackrost01]

I palyed DX so much and I can say one more thing. You can achive twinkle park card for every character after you clear half or maybe more missions. This card just left in corner near to speed highway stage entrance. Now everyone can ride on this funny cars.

[@YujiUedaFan]

I thought the Camera went up when you were at the entrance to the casino, to show you where the switch to open it is for Tails. As for the Sonic Statue, I think the collision data remains for Knuckles after he destroys it or there's collision data for it when you moon jump up there as Sonic.

[@adf8186]

Maybe the idle sounds for perfect Chaos imply that there was originally more to the boss, after all the final boss of the game does seem a bit lackluster to me. I was super surprised to learn about all the hidden features in Skydeck, it really made me appreciate this stage a lot more being that it gave me mad anxiety as a kid, great video SPEEPS :)

[@keiyakins]

I knew about the back 3/4 of Big's hot shelter, it's still there in SADX. I always thought it was weird that there was nothing there.

[@SolidSonicTH]

Huh, I never knew the Twinkle Circuit theme sampled "It Doesn't Matter".

[@lemonadesnake]

9:17 i think this was originally used to show you how to get into the casino, but the trigger is too far inside.

[@nicoledin7091]

This game doesn’t get enough credit I don’t understand why people say it was a bad change to 3d

[@videotape2959]

2D diehards.

[@LiquaFusion]

I just discovered this Sky Deck shit myself today and I went to look up to see if anyone else had figured it out, turns out you even noticed they show it in the pre rendered cutscene too! x)

[@bobthebusbuilder2478]

Never see anyone talking about the area under the conveyor belt room in final egg act 1. It's probably not as good as other fairly hidden areas but strange that no one really mentions it

[@videotape2959]

Because that area is punishment for falling off.

[@flakrimar739]

Very Nice and Entertaining Video Enjoyed it a lot Keep Up the Good Work :) ;)

[@shelster374]

looks like ive got a new channel to vibe to.

[@Noah-vm7yl]

I've been playing this game for years and I only stumbled upon Big's secret Hot Shelter Route by happenstance recently.

[@F1areon]

There's also the whole Egg Walker thing where, if you press Y, it starts moving without the AI's input.

[@elveninsanity2602]

Man, the Egg Carrier is WAY bigger than what the overworld portrays it as.

[@CaveFlag0]

Never knew the racing minigame from twinkle circuit was really Sonic's theme song

[@Haalyle]

Brilliant video! Really liked it.

[@glitchhunter09]

I think you forgot the secret area in Dilapidated way in Casinopolis. well it's not actually secret, but there's no reason to go to it, other than some extra items.

[@SirBlackReeds]

All these details and yet there is one that was sadly not mentioned, the most overlooked detail of this game: Amy Rose is pigeon-toed.

[@Crunchynote]

The main deck in the distance thing is something I never noticed at all. I'm fucking shook.

[@bluehedgehog123]

Fighting Chaos 0 was so easy and fun 😀

[@Neo_charmy]

5:31 My Biggest nightmare.. 4 HOURS CONTINUOUS PLAYING JUST FOR FINDING A 50gr HEAVIER FISH!!!

[@videotape2959]

Great video. Only problem is that it's 16:9. The side art is nice, but I would have preferred the game footage to take up the entire screen instead.