Sonic Clones - Austin Eruption

[@Conflict-ff5pi]

Freedom Planet: An example of how not to make fans cry like an anime fan on prom night.

[@rickmarr4478]

Ayy good one.

[@zokizoki9042]

Freedom planet sucks smh

[@rickmarr4478]

DutySpryte the OG Juiceman k

[@Cinko420]

DutySpryte the OG Juiceman You have an unpopular opinion then.

[@jaredgroebner8686]

Conflict1914 The thumbnail made thousands of Sonic and Lilac shippers squeal like little girls.

[@siphillis]

Playing Freedom Planet is like reading a great author's first book. It's very raw in a number of ways, especially in terms of pacing and narrative, but the passion, effort, and confidence jump out right at you. FP2 is going to be amazing.

[@Darlos9D]

Good way to put it.

[@_____8676]

SonicFuison Carty Sonictard

[@sparktheelectricjester2319]

Dont think it would be good trust the creator that it will be nice

[@Jack_Ss]

Did that ever come out?

[@siphillis]

@@Jack_Ss Still actively in development. Pandemic hit their production pretty hard.

[@melliemaster]

I was expecting Bubsy to be in here.

[@KesorodaBlk]

I'm just glad he didn't spoil Freedom Planet like he did with the other games in the vid. He keeps doing that!

[@arkaidov]

Dart Ix *E V E R Y T H I N G*

[@PiousMoltar]

I was expecting that and Crash Bandicoot.

[@cmspeckt]

Karl Selev well, did you know: Naughty dog named the original crash bandicoot, " Sonic's rear game " mostly because they were inspired by sonic and thought it would be funny to codename it that since it was an anthropomorphic animal, like sonic, and you see his back most of the times since it was in 3D. T H E M O R E Y O U K N O W !

[@thebandanadee8265]

melliemaster Same

[@bakubread9308]

I'm calling it "Cairostasis" from now on. DIO's never gonna know what hit him

[@depreciatednull]

Wrrryyyy!!

[@emiknightly]

I can't believe you photoshopped your hair purple frame by frame

[@austineruption]

+emiknightly damn ur right

[@kylescott2235]

u should seen live on stream! 'cept it was blue then.

[@Dannyboi115]

Just for sonic Video right?......right?

[@Verne105]

wait, really?

[@emiknightly]

yeah he's really committed

[@austineruption]

Yes I mispronounced cyrostasis

[@I_was_a_Bullfrog]

Cryo...

[@austineruption]

*continues to be terrible*

[@8bitpixelbreakin]

I had a mini mental breakdown when you said cyrostasis, then again this is coming from the guy who mispronounced marinara sauce as marijuana sauce so I guess my breakdown was invalid.

[@SteamPoweredFox]

Hey, maybe Socket was suspended in a vat of disembodied spines

[@nicholasreed5354]

You should have more subscribers dude. in fact you got a subscriber here

[@woooboboob]

Jokes on you,Austin dyed his hair to distract from the fact hes not wearing pants. Ever.

[@MakoMusicYT]

If you like Sonic, Kirby and Freedom Planet, check out the upcoming Spark The Electric Jester!

[@manuelalbertoromero9528]

I've seen t. Looks nice.

[@mr_indie_fan]

6 years later and now we have spark the electric jester 3, the developers made a 3d sonic adventure style game better then anything sonic team/sega has made in the past few years.

[@benlink202forever]

If you changed your hair color, then change it in the thumbnail. It's misleading and is definitely clickbait. I wanted brown hair for my video, not purple. (This is a joke)

[@BATCHARRO]

I understand why you clarified it's a joke, but it's still sad.

[@benlink202forever]

+Batzarro I'm pretty sad

[@pinapljuice731]

+Batzarro its sad that you have to put a THIS IS A FOCKING JOKE, RELAX YE ASSES to not get butthurts on internet

[@austineruption]

#wheresthedick

[@MagickFlavour]

I think the dick is out, for Harambe. (I'm sorry)

[@datguy8805]

it makes sense that at least most of the games didnt copy sonics giant hand gloves with body type of either, sonic has a good design but the original isnt very animator friendly, heck the 3d one maybe even less so, i feel bad for the people who had to animate them, although a little less on the sprites, id imagine that *might* be a smidge easier

[@mechashadow]

#perfectdicks

[@zdoggs1370]

Mario Kart Clones next?

[@wille.2215]

XD

[@SuperLlama42]

Freedom Planet feels a lot like a 2D Sonic Adventure (with the multiple characters with wildly different playstyles thing), with a plot that feels like the closest thing we'll ever get to a Sonic SatAM game (it helps that the voice acting and dialogue feels a lot like Saturday morning cartoon dialogue.) Also, "Freedom Planet" is a play on the setting of the Sonic the Hedgehog movie, Planet Freedom.

[@Shiro7628]

Freedom Planet actually started out as a Sonic FanGame that became its own project in the end. In fact, the characters are all Sonic OCs (cringe)

[@XerKoro_neo]

Just because there are bad OC's out there doesn't mean that all are bad. People will do as they want to, and often times, they are super uncreative. Then you find the people like ZiyoLing who are actually really creative and find ways to show their own desires for a character. That is why the three main characters actually turned into their own beings pretty quickly. ALSO... only Lilac, Carol and Milla were fan characters at one point. I believe that everyone else is completely original. But even with freedom planet, people will be very uncreative. Take this for example. victinirus.deviantart.com/art/Sapphire-the-dragon-Girl-Biomeh-626492629 literally just a re-color.

[@Shiro7628]

+XerKoro_neo +XerKoro_neo Fair enough. I suppose the concept of fan-characters just doesn't sit well with me due to the excessive amount of utter garbage that many have birthed unto this world. I will admit, Carol, Milla, and Lilac all look rather unique (although Lilac looks NOTHING like a dragon to me...) and it makes sense that they would become their own thing. I'm surprised to see something like Sapphire the Dragon Girl, though... And I really wish I didn't.... My eyes are now bleeding.... God damn it...

[@XerKoro_neo]

Sanic Yeah, that's a very common thought amongst people who played freedom planet. Believe me though, she used to look even less like one. It's actually gross a little bit. This guy has plenty of other characters like this one. Some of his "OC's" are literally just pieces of different sprites that were already made from different games. And two of them who appear to have halfway decent animation that wasn't pre-existing were requested from me. xerkoro.deviantart.com/art/VictiniRus-s-Saturn-idle-with-a-new-tail-546629206 xerkoro.deviantart.com/art/Venus-New-head-animation-request-579000820 Both of these really categorizes a lot of the fan-character communities. Although, yes, not all fan-characters are grotesque recreations of things. Like mine for example: xerkoro.deviantart.com/art/Shou-the-Red-Panda-and-Zephyra-the-Fennec-Fox-FPs-544685289 As crappy as mine are, at least they are original. ^u^;

[@Shiro7628]

+XerKoro_neo I'm scared... He decapitated a Snivy and Zoroark and stuck their heads on a mech suit... >~< anyways yeah the sprites you made seen pretty good. The red panda one reminds me a bit of the emperor in the beginning cutscene (the one who was, ironically enough, decapitated by Lord Brevon) but that's just me. It looks good nonetheless.

[@SaiyanGamer95]

I'm surprised you didn't mention the fact that Freedom Planet originally started out as a Sonic fan game. Though it quickly grew into something more. Also, while Freedom Planet was fun, my three biggest issues are the lack of difficulty spike (at least for Lilac's story, since I haven't gotten far in Carol's story), the lack of invincibility frames when hit by a multi-hit attack such as a laser, one the mood. One minute it's fun and cheerful and upbeat, but the next, Lilac's torture that the hands of Lord Brevon!

[@blackstarfreeman34]

So glad freedom planet is still getting love,its amazing and if you look at the cut scenes like a 90s cartoon then they are just fine

[@sonicmario64]

Yeah, I actually enjoy the cutscenes of "Freedom Planet" because of them being a lot more entertaining than any of the unskippable story scenes from any of the Zelda and/or Final Fantasy games nowadays.

[@StriderOwO]

"Freedom Planet: The best Sonic Game in 22 years" Best. Line Ever.

[@txt5220]

Hey Arcadea, I just discovered your channel. I love your content, and can't wait to binge your previous videos. Keep up the god's work, man.

[@MrMbc77]

Props for covering games I've personally never seen before. Can't tell you have many times I've started to watch one of these 'lists' and it's the same games that have been talked about a thousand times over.Found your channel through didyouknowgaming and I'm glad I did.

[@sonicmario64]

About what you said for "Freedom Planet"... Best Sonic game in 22 years, huh? Well, what about the "Sonic Advance" trilogy, "Sonic Rush", "Sonic Colors", and "Sonic Generations"?

[@austineruption]

+Casey Decker They're still good! I just think Freedom Planet is better.

[@sonicmario64]

Arcadea Yeah, I would have to agree with you, since I absolutely love "Freedom Planet" after being able to download the game on my Nintendo Wii U just last year. :D

[@3e32b05]

Casey Decker I definetely enjoyed the real sonic games more

[@duffman18]

Yeah I grew up with sonic, born in the 80s, and sonic generations is the best one ever

[@jacobynoctis4825]

Sonic Rush is fantastic

[@WobblesandBean]

Ah, the 90's. What other time in history could you actually see a team of older marketing execs in a board room and go, "Okay gentlemen, the market's being dominated by a blue wisecracking hedgehog that runs fast. How do we top that?" "I got it, sir! What if WE have a fast animal, but it's a bird, and...and it's from the _future_, and it's also part robot!"

[@reaperofburgers]

Never heard of Freedom Planet, I'll have to give it a try.

[@TenshiCat]

It really is super good! And the bosses help soothe the pain of Treasure being basically dead!

[@SpitefulToast]

Freedom Planet is the best thing that ever came from Sonic existing.

[@HaydenX]

@SpitefulToast It's certainly up there...though the Sonic R and Sonic 3D Blast (Saturn) soundtracks are right up there with it.

[@zeoxdragon]

There are some pretty big bugs sometimes, but not really things that break the game or anything, is still pretty great, if you like Sonic you would love it.

[@reaperofburgers]

Harley365 Neither do I generally, if I can't get it anywhere else then yes.

[@HypercatZ]

Speaking of clones, you forgot to mention Lori Jackrabbit, whose special ability was to fly by her copter ears, like Tails, and whose looking was clearly inspired by Lola Bunny (whose movie was coming out in the same period). And that's probably why they changed her role from love interest to sister of Jazz and Spazz. Just to make the rip-off less evident. Oh! And another thing. Do you know Rocky Rodent for the SNES? It's not even a Sonic clone, but the box art makes so much effort in convincing you it is. That's absolutely slicky!

[@Lou-do7vp]

Eruption, you can talk to me. Tell me, who forced you to put up that life is strange box... Was it square Enix, did they hurt you?

[@Lou-do7vp]

Did they force you to dye your hair eruption, did they?

[@austineruption]

+Lord Farquaad times r changing

[@BboyDrMadison]

Awesome possum would yell "I'm playing possum!!! This'll fool those guys!" If you were some kind of magician, and could get his play-dead skill to activate. I always thought that was kind of... uh... counter productive.

[@QuartzIsAnOxide]

That Megaman Legends 3 joke hurt, like a lot xD

[@HyperKunoichi]

I know right?

[@Terashi]

Holy shit, Mohawk and Headphone Jack is the game I've been looking for! I remember a game based on gravity where you could run around a rock without falling on it and going so fast that you go into orbit, but I couldn't remember the name for the life of me, but THAT IS IT! Thanks, Eruption (or whatever your name is). You solved a long standing mystery for me, and I greatly appreciate that.

[@Terashi]

This video made me realize something else. Remember when Sonic games were about saving his animal friends? Well, he stopped saving them when they started trying to be like him and got their own Genesis games for it. Guess that's why Sonic started saving humans instead.

[@Negajoe]

1:22 - I'm more than a little weirded out that he has "Life is Strange" and "Legend Of Heroes:Trails of Cold Steel" behind him in front of his tv. Both games I'm playing atm...

[@thelastwindwaker7948]

I always saw Milla's play-style as the Megaman-ish one, since she's got that giant green beam attack that's useful for attacking enemies from a distance, much like the good ol' Mega Buster. She's also Cream the Rabbit and Yoshi combined on top of that.

[@Type3Diabeto]

Freedom Planet was a gift from the fucking gods.

[@Racerman2001]

Exactly. This man gets it.

[@Type3Diabeto]

Have you beat Brevon yet? One of the best final boss fights period.

[@chillyblizz6952]

why can't you play as a boy tho? all the dudes in the game are portrayed as bad guys.

[@sleepyespurr2922]

Damn right it is. And yes I beat Brevon.

[@rickmarr4478]

Yep, with a painful smile.

[@CanalFreedomPlaneteAfins]

I saw your video because of Freedom Planet, very good, thanks for posting

[@CeschiArt]

this is the first video I see from your channel I love ya

[@CeschiArt]

and ya hair

[@r3n3gad33]

This channel already exists and it's called IGN!

[@captainmega6310]

Delphox 616 but here's the difference...this has humor.

[@PoisoNico93]

I've been looking for High Seas Havoc since the day I got my PS2. I cannot thank you enough for finding it. You and the game will have a place in my heart

[@pyxelbuh]

This is Brevon! (Slash) ...He's not a very nice guy...

[@KraziShadowbear]

Thx so much for giving a good shout-out to Jazz Jackrabbit 2!! It wasn't that bad of a Sonic Rip-off!!!

[@CBag23]

Funny how a clone is making a video about a clone but like he said being a clone doesn't mean you're an abomination =3

[@depreciatednull]

Lol I get a AntDude/ Caddicarus vibe from this guy

[@cirnosnumberfan6449]

Are you saying Sonic is a clone? About what? DBZ? No the creator of Sonic said he inspires the Super forms from the Super Saiyan form And the Chaos Emeralds from Dragon balls. Sonic Lost World is not a SMG rip-off because Sonic did in SA2.

[@radiokunio3738]

@@depreciatednull honestly his videos are much more interesting than most of Antdude's or Caddicarus's videos.

[@Safersephiroth777]

Congratulations on your 50.000 subscribers man! I first saw your FF videos. I even watched your Livestream playing the latest Star Ocean game. Hope you manage to climb even further.

[@vampmoneyihop]

i think socket's a dedede

[@LeilaRWilson]

This was a really good watch! :D Thanks for the kind words about Freedom Planet, too! Working hard on the sequel... hopefully you like it as much! Gonna subscribe to ya now. :D But seriously #wheresthedick.

[@seasonalspirit3045]

Might as well leave this STUPIDLY long explanation of Freedom Planet's history. The game started out as a straight up Sonic fangame by Strife (Stephen DiDuro, SpacemanStrife, GalaxyTrail) using three fan characters by Ziyo Ling (Sash Lilac, Carol Tea, and Milla), a Deviantart artist that you should actually check out. And when I said fangame, I mean it had sound effect rips from the Genesis games, items worked the same way (The health was given by rings) and Lilac was originally a hedgehog. Then as time went on, Strife decided to differentiate the game from a fangame, partly from the possible threat of SOPA at the time, and because the project was becoming bigger than planned. So some additional staff recruitment across the Internet, Kickstarter funds, Steam delays, character and story redesigns later, Freedom Planet emerged as what it is now. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to finish my second playthrough.

[@tyleradam4836]

Sparkster Sonic? My mind immediately gravitated to Pulseman and his Voltekker ability.

[@kitsunez]

wow you're right discount jontron!

[@angelfalon409]

same here...

[@Jy0000n-m2b]

this is what I thought off

[@unritardatoqualsiasi]

Might be discount jontron but hey, who doesn't want more jontron considering he never fucking uploads

[@Luke-mi6gb]

Damn it I was going to say that!

[@procyon7758]

+unritardatoqualsiasi Hey a lot of editing and production goes into his vids, that is why they take so long!

[@Pogiforce]

What's funny is that while Awesome Possum was overtly environmental, Sonic had it's subtle environmental cues as well. You rescue a capsule full of animals at the end of most stages, you fight a greedy machine based super villain, and as you draw closer and closer to the end of the game, and presumably closer to eggman's base, the peaceful forested environments turn more and more to urban and industrial settings. Sonic was subtly telling us about the dangers of industrialization to nature and wildlife.

[@Evnyofdeath]

"Kyrostasis" ... CRYOstasis. R before Y

[@charlesroudabaguh4777]

except after G.

[@supervirtualboyshow]

I don't want to take anything away from all the effort put into the actual video, but that ending may have been the best part. That was freaking hilarious!

[@ShadowLady1]

The best Sonic clone is my OC Seelkadoom created from both the DNA of Sonic and Shadow

[@SuperPiposaru]

My OC named Jacob The Cool Radical Badass Hedgehog who is faster and more powerful than both Sonic and Shadow COMBINED is better!!!1!111!

[@IYamJayJay]

disgusting

[@flyingtoast27]

you just unearthed a few memories from my middle school days

[@Petronia911]

Coldsteel is still the best OC.

[@azurealx2241]

But isn't he just... Shadow? With blue stripes?

[@flashman7b]

For people who liked Freedom Planet, check out the demo for Spark the Electric Jester. It's out early next year.

[@oculttheexegaming2509]

That dog is Chip and Dale Cream Tails.

[@KoKuTanLuFi]

Im shocked you talked about Freedom Planet and mentioned gunstar heroes but didn't mention Ristar.

[@Shift_Salt]

Uh... 3:44

[@unonametome8577]

Ristar was made by sega

[@radiokunio3738]

Ristar really doesn't play anything like sonic, even nights plays more like sonic.

[@crazye639]

**Goes to Wii U Eshop to buy Freedom Planet** **Forgets what is doing** **Buys Shantae and the Pirate's Curse and then realizes they were going to buy Freedom Planet**

[@captainmega6310]

CrazyE was it good?

[@The4thLaw]

Don't like the purple hair on you but the actual video was really good so good shit overall

[@lukaheylo]

Same

[@LAZY-RUBY]

I like the hair, but the problem is that it doesn't match with the beard.

[@jareddroll8846]

maybe a blue beard ?

[@homestuck_official]

+Jared Droll (unpleasant childhood flashbacks)

[@luigifan2438]

Austin, you were the only one to introduce me to Freedom Planet. You are awesome. Keep on saving Avalice!!

[@VoltaVoid]

Please do a video on something JoJo's Bizarre Adventure related, I'm obsessed and no one talks about it please help me. Thanks

[@Lou-do7vp]

OH MYYY GAD You haven't heard of the super best friends, have you.

[@VoltaVoid]

+Lord Farquaad no what is that? Is it like JoJo

[@ultanoka]

They're best friends that talk about JoJo sometimes. They have an EoH Let's Play going on right now.

[@VoltaVoid]

+★ULTANOKA★ OH MY GOD!!!!

[@ViralCrush1]

They're a youtube group who just gush about JoJo and even have an ongoing LP about it right now.

[@jonmichael6746]

To this day, I will be at work doing my job, minding my own business and I'll hear echoing in my hazy childhood memories, "AWESOME OPOSSUM! KICK DOCTOR MACHINO'S BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTT!!!"

[@lillian4057]

Austin your hair no longer matches your beard and it's killing me

[@wschippr1]

didn't he just digitally alter it?

[@Mr.Kef_art]

+Wade Schipprack he really did dye it. Go to his twitter.

[@SpookyBoogie7]

Purple hair really fits you man! Oh and great video as always Austin, love this channel and everyone participating in it!

[@all_late_gamer5695]

socket is skinny dedede

[@GrabShiny]

I can't believe Seth Rogan dyed his hair for his upcoming anime "Sausage Party." That's dedication.

[@RednekGamurz]

14:50 Who's that fucking idiot in the middle? Nah, but for real good episode. I'll definitely have to check some of these out. One game I would recommend that wasn't talk about here is Spark the Electric Jester. It's coming out in February of 2017, but there's a demo available to download and it's so much fun. The best way I could describe it is Kirby mixed with Sonic. It's made by the same guy who made the Sonic Before and After the Sequel fangames as well.

[@sasdagreat8052]

Wait, it's made by Lakefepard? *hold on I gotta check it out*

[@RemyRaccoon]

The second I saw the hair colour I thought "Uh-oh, we've got another Caddicarus situation on our hands." Not that that's a bad thing - I like purple. It's a cute colour. You're so cute, Boku.

[@JackieKog]

I actually didn't enjoy Freedom Planet, it's a bit of a clusterfuck, the story is kinda obnoxious (The voices kill me on the inside, some sound like they were LITERALLY phoned in), some of the bosses walk the line of being stupid but manageable to boring, long slogs. Also, even on my monster computer (and console versions) the game had sudden framerate drops which I'm usually not bothered by, but I mean CHUUUUGING along for no reason. One could even say I hate Freedom Planet.

[@wheeledtank]

I myself have not had any sort of Frame-Rate or Slow-down issues with Freedom Planet on either PC or Console, and my PC had a 10 year old graphics card when I first played. With the voices, that was because they were all recorded in different studios with different equipment, which could be partly why the voices are horrible at times (I myself don't mind them (except Torque), but that may be because I have heard much worse on a more regular basis)

[@JackieKog]

wheeledtank That's what I found odd. Though I did play it (and play every storyline) day of launch and barely touched it since. Perhaps that issue is gone.

[@wheeledtank]

Might have been the early versions; I first got it in March this year. The only place I had any real/noticeable slowdown was Pangu Lagoon with the flying tops, and that was only when enemies were being hit.

[@JackieKog]

wheeledtank I meant the game would chug whenever there was anything going on, if you stopped moving it'd be fine, Pangu Lagoon was almost unplayable and I had to brute force it, was completely impossible to enjoy. Perhaps it is different now, but I just have no reason to go back to it anyway.

[@DrachenKaiser]

Some slow downs are on purpose like boss fight against Battle Glacier. Because it should feel like a real Sega Genesis with genesis slow downs.

[@GrizzlyGuernseyGamer]

My word, that purple hair! It's very eye-catching.

[@AIB-xx6bn]

oh yea sonic is the dbz rip off? Sonic's "chaos sonic" form was introduced before the DBZ's was even close to.

[@illford]

Silver is trunks

[@Mr.Kef_art]

What? I suppose that by "chaos sonic" you mean Super Sonic, and what you said is not correct. Super Sonic appeared for the first time in Sonic 2 in 1992 while the first time Goku transformed into a Super Saiyan was in chapter 317 of the Dragon Ball manga in 1991. Plus, the fact that there are 7 Chaos Emeralds mirrors the 7 Dragon Balls. It's not that Sonic is a rip-off of Dragon Ball, they are both completely different, but those two elements were likely used as a nod to Dragon Ball.

[@Kathrynerius]

Super Sonic was in Sonic 1. Source: I still own my original Sega Genesis and Sonic 1.

[@Mr.Kef_art]

Nef You're right, Super Sonic is in Sonic 1... as a hack. Super Sonic didn't appear until Sonic 2. Source: I also own both of them.

[@Kathrynerius]

Alberto Fluxá Go and collect all 7 emeralds before the final stage. If you're good enough, you can probably get 4 of them in the first stage.

[@Guilmonhero]

Freedom Planet is basically the Shovel Knight of the Sega games.

[@akba666]

Nah, classic sanic wasn't great neither. It's a little bit of high speed and a lot of terrible, slow, awkward platforming.

[@yuyu8918]

ahhhh egoraptoritis

[@akba666]

DarkCloud1267 and nintendo won

[@akba666]

Doesn't mean the games were great. They were mediocre games riding on "attitude" marketing.

[@akba666]

Sales figure doesn't mean quality. Twilight had great sales, bayformers had great sales, 50 shades of grey had great sales. Sonic was a mediocre series running straight on attitude marketing. They should just let him stay dead like the relic that he is.

[@akba666]

DarkCloud1267 unlike sanic, those series actually have merits

[@marcellosilva9286]

When I was a kid I used to be a HUGE Sonic fan, played every single game I could and had this huge obsession with the cartoons and the franchise in general. But at some point, I stopped for reasons I can't quite remember, and then revisited the classic titles, but they didn't seem to be as fun as before. You see, I never got past the second zone in ANY of the classic trilogy games (Marble Zone? Never got past it. Chemical Plant? Drowned every single time in Act 2. Hydrocity? Same deal. Flying Battery? Always fell down bottomless pits) as a kid, but I was always having so much fun playing these games that I just didn't care, but as a teenager revisiting them, even after beating all 3, they felt like something was missing. Enter Freedom Planet. A game that I instantly fell in love with, it is currently my favourite indie game and GOTY 2014, the combat is fun as hell and the bosses are fucking incredible, soundtrack is amazing and the story, while corny, had a SOUL. I left Sonic behind because FP fit my current tastes more, and I'm still looking forward to playing the sequel.

[@SadistSerpent]

furst ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[@100billionsubscriberswithn4]

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[@DEWGGaming]

（╯°□°）╯︵ ( ͜。 ͡ʖ ͜。)

[@SpyHunter89]

"At least Mohawk & Headphone Jack exists, which is more than I can say for Megaman Legends 3"? DUDE, NOT COOL!! ...Or maybe it is, I don't know. My point is, it still cuts deep.

[@wielku]

Why the crappy hair color? Are you trying to find new audience in SJW community...

[@austineruption]

Because I like purple dawg.

[@benlink202forever]

+Arcadea very true.

[@DickbuttDirk]

More like gayple.

[@mariopikaman1]

Good, man, just don't become sour man.

[@thefoxoflaurels3437]

Having dyed hair makes you a SJW? Uh...what?

[@PaqAttax]

Major props to you for using sound effects and tracks from *Phantasy Star Online*. Speaking as a PSO vet myself, it sure brings back a lot of memories.

[@misterknite]

Hahaha I had quite a few genuine belly laughs in this one! More importantly, you sold me on Freedom Planet, and BOY is it good. Instant favourite.

[@darthmix]

That mohawk game or whatever seems like kind of a cool concept at least, I wonder if there's some clever indie dev out there who can take that idea of freely rotating stages, apply current tech, and make it work and not be nauseating

[@ObsidiusFan]

oh I love Freedom Planet! I agree, it is the best Sonic game in years! I'm glad you talked about it and I can't wait for the sequel :D

[@TwisterTH]

Love it! Absolutely love it. You sure made my day, Austin, great job! And yeah, the ending makes me giggle ))

[@pizzadragon1122]

The purple hair makes you look even more like a hipster now. Haha, jk. (Not really!) This video is awesome. I might check out Freedom Planet sometime because of you. You've got one of the most well presented styles and video structures on YT. Keep up the great work!

[@peanutismint]

This was great! Nice to see some games I missed back in the Mega Drive era, tho I still remember being absolutely mind-melted by Mo Hawk & Headphone Jack....

[@GameJames-Arkveveen]

Wait, you TALKED about High Seas Havoc all those years ago?! This is a game I remember renting as a kid and loving. I come back to it time and time again, I just wish time hasn't forgotten it. I'd argue it's more like if you took One Piece and combined it with Sonic. The main character isn't really a hedgehog as it is, he's clearly some kind of otter or a sea lion. I also just love the SPINNING DROP KICK attack, or more like a spinning heel drop? There's some seriously epic bosses, and it gets to the point of One Piece power levels, especially fighting a certain admiral wolf ~

[@SethVermin]

Freedom Planet is a fantastic game. It's biggest Sonic-like feature I think is the character design though. These are cleaned up fan characters in appearance. Also bad voice acting (tho I think its fine) would just give it more in common with Sonic. Also fuck yeah JAZZ JACKRABBIT.

[@Failpapa]

That moment you find out that aside from making awesome gaming videos, Erution is also an amazing drummer! You are awesome man!

[@MoonSpiritChannel]

I gotta keep an eye out for High Seas Havoc and Socket now. Thanks for that. And yes, YOU MUST GET FREEDOM PLANET!!! The final boss theme alone is well worth effort to listen to.

[@GCVazquez]

Super excited for the Austin the Hedgehog Sega Genesis game.

[@failurestates]

There's gonna be a Freedom Planet 2? What a time to be alive! Freedom Planet was my personal GOTY for 2014 (seriously, most fun I had all year). I need this in my veins now.

[@sonicmario64]

The good news is that "Freedom Planet 2" is now finally released after seven years of development. The bad news, however, is that it's only available on PC and Steam and not on consoles.

[@envynoson]

I honestly can't understand how sonic fans can complain about how bad voice acting is in freedom planet like it's the the first time they saw an anthropomorphic animal with terrible voice acting. Sonic adventures 1 & 2 were completely full of them.

[@austineruption]

+Envy Noson I mean, both exist as things that aren't great. - Austin

[@apex2000]

freedom planet started life as a sonic fan game, with a female protagonist but them altered into own IP and kick started

[@luisoncpp]

I was always a fan of Jazz Jackrabbit, it's good to see it here, but I think you forgot to mention 3 things: 1. In jazz jackrabbit it feels right moving slow (unlike Sonic where the character feels clunky and heavy when moves slow), and that's a way to prevent random hazard ahead. 2. In jazz jackrabbit 2 if you choose a low resolution, the sprite doesn't look tiny. At the beginning is tempting to choose a low resolution because of that, but after playing a while everybody ended choosing the high resolution to have a larger field of view. Right now that's the only aspect of Jazz Jackrabbit 2 that I feel dated, in the modern platformers usually the camera zooms in and out automatically depending of the level design. 3. In the first Jazz Jackrabbit the first chapter(the first 6 levels, i.e. levels included in the demo) is awesome, unfortunately the rest of the game lacks that level of polish.

[@Cali4niaCondor]

freedom planet actually started out as a rom hack of sonic 2 before the stand alone game was made

[@JaidynReiman]

Honestly, I thought the Freedom Planet storyline was surprisingly good. I wasn't expecting it to be that great... but it was actually kinda interesting IMO. And yeah, I wasn't expecting to like Freedom Planet that much and ended up loving it. Definitely looking forward to Freedom Planet 2.

[@winterzephyrr]

It was really bizarre to see Freedom Planet pop up. Lilac is literally an old Sonic OC I recognize from DeviantART years ago. The other characters look a bit familiar too. So that adds another layer to the whole Sonic clone game.

[@GenesisSDG]

I get chills down my back hearing alot of PSO sound effects in this video. 10/10

[@TechGuyWiz]

Love how your background music bringing me back to Phantsy Star Online

[@Portly]

Omg I covered Awesome Possum in a video a few months back. That's so cool to see it here because I hadn't heard of it before I did the video

[@Portly]

Also, I hated it

[@NeutroDevice]

Aparently you didnt find Spark the electric jester from Lake Feperd. Its ok, its rather difficult to find if you look for "sonic clone" directly in google. Great video. ;)

[@taffyistrashy]

Coin glint noises doesn't mean rip off, the only similarity between the havoc sound effect and the sonic sound effect is that they're both high pitched. Art style is definitely a rip though, there's no getting around it.

[@thatrandomguy12123]

I wasn't sure if this channel was for me, but when I saw the Naoto thing, I knew that you were perfect.

[@TheRetroPerspective]

Nice! I want to play all of these games. =D Punky Skunk for the PS1 could probably fit your criteria! It's also an amazing game.

[@athrunzala75]

Tbh I'd love to see an HD remake of Jazz Jackrabbit one day. I think it'd be really suited to hand-drawn graphics

[@flutterdrive4286]

not to forget, but freedom planet is getting an update to include torque and spade as playable characters.

[@luisoncpp]

It's weird, Jazz Jackrabbit 2 and Freedom Planet are 2 of my 3 favorite platformers of all time, and no Sonic game is on my personal top 10 of favorite platformers.

[@ToxicAtom]

I'm glad to see you didn't go the route of "It's a clone so it's automatically bad" Subbed.

[@Felix.Fictus]

also they didnt miss the opportunity to call the planet Freedom. it WAS a game called Planet Freedom back when it was just a humble rom hack of sonic 3! thy changed the name of the game and the planet so they could sell it on steam.

[@amirgarcia547]

Freedom Planet is an amazing homage to old-school Sonic games though, and I'd recommend it to anyone who wants more of them when Sega's apparently stopped doing that (except with Sonic Mania which I'm excited for.) It's like Mighty No. 9...except done entirely right.

[@KaiserMattTygore927]

Mode seven? more like TERMINAL SEVEN. YOU HAVE TERMINAL SEVEN, LUIGI

[@Xenolis]

I was hoping to see "spark the electric jester" on here, but I guess since there's only a few (quite long) demos, it makes sense