[TAS] Sonic Adventure 2 "Hero Story A-Ranks" in

[@Pixiuchu]

Edit 11 (2024/09/17): If you do not know what a TAS is - please check this video out: kzbin.info/www/bejne/f5bXnGRjjMdqpbs Regarding Knuckles: I know where all the pieces are before the level even starts because I use save states to manipulate RNG and to scout out the level, and *then* I play the level. I must have at least a hundred comments about just Knuckles. Also please don't skip Eternal Engine, it's my favourite Tails stage and that is literally the only EE Skipless TAS that exists

[@shirohimayumikira234]

Take your time, I ain't in a hurry to see everything. As of posting this comment, I am watching this vid, and my oh my it's already really damn impressive! I love it so far!

[@samuelq618]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/bXrHqWqlopeclZI at this part would it not just be faster to have the tas go directly on the rail rather than homing attack all the way up?

[@Pixiuchu]

For the point bonus, it would not, because the game has certain triggers that need to be hit. That trigger is at the top of the rails.

[@samuelq618]

@@Pixiuchu nut if ur trying to go as fast as possible is it faster to just immediately jump on the rails?

[@supersonicspeedgamer995]

you're using hacking i want to see without hacking i'm not idiot and also i'm not dumb i'm smart

[@RSeph]

Knuckles: "This is gonna be tougher than I thought" Also Knuckles: *finds every piece in 14 seconds

[@MrOmegatronic]

Well, considering the first one only took _nine_ seconds, needing a full 14 is *technically* tougher. ;3

[@Pixiuchu]

@@MrOmegatronic yep, especially considering it can be done in 9 seconds... (Source: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mHOWfWRjeJeFqNk )

[@ghostlywindsChao]

@@Pixiuchu with or without knuckles getting the power up that helps him breathe underwater?

[@uzer141]

😂😂😂

[@Pixiuchu]

@@ghostlywindsChao without; in a speedrun and TAS that upgrade is useless, even when you cant go out of bounds for Cannon's Core Knux.

[@gittonsxv126]

Sonic running up the tree in green forest was so in character for sonic, thats amazing.

[@badbrisket]

After seeing that, I’m really wondering why Sega hasn’t put more sections like that in game where we have control running up a tree and stuff like that. I’m really hoping that Rangers has some acrobatic open-world mechanics where we REALLY get to see Sonic’s abilities more realized in the games.

[@Zonefire15]

Same with spin dashing up a rocket initiating instant takeoff 🤣

[@Zonefire15]

@@badbrisket not Rangers it's Frontiers

[@TarouMyaki]

@@Zonefire15 oh hey you're also watching this at a weird time

[@Zonefire15]

@@TarouMyaki weird?

[@PolarManne]

1:17 Music: "Trust me and we will escape from the city" Sonic: **escapes from the city**

[@khy6041]

But then he comes back LOL

[@mertBrix]

u mean world?

[@user-et3xn2jm1u]

33:13 Egg man: "Well done Sonic, but you'll never leave this room alive!" Sonic: HNNGH

[@Koishii1970]

He was able to do it because the player now trusted him

[@Metal_Sign-Friday_Patchouli]

Me: must be one of those “used death to save ti-“

[@Eight-Bytes]

7:32 - "Missile launch in 15 se- FIRE!"

[@Pixiuchu]

You should watch this beauty: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mGHRZWOVaqeCors :D (It is probably the most beautiful Metal Harbor TAS there currently exists)

[@Eight-Bytes]

@@Pixiuchu Hahaha, I like how the missile launch is even faster and the voice is more messed up. Thank you.

[@The7337th]

LAUNCH THE MISSILE NOW!

[@MiniMagi]

We all laugh, but someone definitely got fired that day.

[@OmegaRidley64]

@@The7337th WHERE'S THE GIANT MANSLEY?!?

[@timothykammerer7622]

9:07 Shadow: "hmm, I'm the coolest!" Sonic: "Aight, I'm gonna dip, let me know when you die." *falls into water* Shadow: "Darn, not bad for an imposter." *Sonic gasps for air and swims back to the platform, coughing up water, walks towards Shadow* Sonic: "Do you know who I am?"

[@Fulgore2005]

Sonic flexed on Shadow big time.

[@GTSRyan]

33:13 "Well done Sonic, but you'll never leave this room alive!" Well he wasn't wrong...

[@RomanTheGamer93]

Then Sonic teleports out of the Abyss

[@MatrixEvolution17]

36:46 "before this is over, I'll show you the true power of CHA-- 😵"

[@pika_blur]

THE definition of combat pragmatism

[@90matthews90]

😂😂😂

[@cliffturbo2146]

Game Over, Shadow!

[@someone19292]

☠️

[@TheCreationOfDread]

"Okay first of all, rude"

[@SaurusTheKing]

Mad respect for how tight these A-rank scores are. Even though it's a TAS, it takes some serious planning on these stages to get an A-rank so closely

[@Pixiuchu]

It does take a bit of planning but it's honestly not that bad. The worst part is not knowing about a few methods of getting points, lol. It is fun :) I say it a lot but one day I should really continue the Dark Story A-Ranks lol. (It is at Radical Highway right now with the planning already done, it's just that I'm a bit lazy)

[@Pixiuchu]

lol, while rewatching, I want to make a mention that in Green Forest I actually missed a score trick at 10:27, missing out on iirc 800 score.

[@indigothecat]

@@Pixiuchu Ooh, I can't wait for the Dark Story one! Then all that's left is the Final Story and you've TAS-ed the entire game except the bonus emblem challenges.

[@ZeldaFan940]

The real question why no S rank in SA2B

[@WillowPillowVT]

@@ZeldaFan940 Was never really thought up at the time, technically the first game in the series to have an S rank was Riders but the first to have an S on the results screen was 06, devs probably didn't think they needed to make up a new rank at the time but now that's what make S ranks so Special!

[@123jolak]

35:20 Omachao: "Try grinding up the steep incline, it's fun!" Sonic: *Sure*

[@theseculargamer3339]

My personal favorite is 35:17. Omachao: Try grinding up this steep incline. It's fun! *Proceeds to aggressively run up the incline of the nearby building instead.*

[@MegaNancyLover]

LOL! 😂

[@Skrulzie]

The green tree spin dash and the spin dash up the building were my favorite moments. Literally Sonic was so fast that half of the time he was standing still while sliding at Mach 5. Lmao

[@WC3fanatic997]

I love how Sonic has the actual Dev-endowed programming to move faster than even his own game can handle Gotta go fast, man

[@DarkFrozenDepths]

I never get tired of Shadow's face at 9:37 That's the same kind of "oh s**t!" face someone would make if they accidently had something "questionable" on bluetooth or a loud speaker

[@JontyLevine]

As someone who is used to seeing runners breeze through the mech stages with E ranks, it was kinda cathartic to watch Tails picking up all those Perfect 2000s in a run, epsecially Eternal Engine. Also, scoring two extra hits on Egg Golem instead of the traditional dive into the sand was exceptionally cool.

[@Pixiuchu]

You have no idea how happy I am to see someone appreciate Eternal Engine. Also, Egg Golem is a reason as to why I chose not to softreset lol. Thank you!

[@dunndorr5651]

Oh you mean Egg Golem formerly known as The Golem? Lol

[@Regent2203]

36:50, Shadow: "I'll show you the true power of..." *ding-ding-ding!*

[@Danmarinja]

Watching you take out the King Boo ghost so quickly was both really cathartic and frustrating because of the number of times it took me to hit it when it was weakened.

[@Zonefire15]

If you're quick enough, you can kill it one round.

[@gabethompson9538]

Final Rush was insane. Awesome job on these dude

[@Pixiuchu]

Thanks :) The new version of Final Rush that will come out one day will be even crazier though :eyes: If you want to be spoiled, here is why: kzbin.info/www/bejne/b4iykKGOeK2iaqs

[@Leandera]

21:16 Tails: "I did it!" ok.

[@Pixiuchu]

best part of the TAS

[@Ordnance_T]

This TAS guy is pretty good in any video game

[@Jake-jy5rr]

@@gottagofastfaster Awh someone's salty they suck so much

[@ColorsWasChit]

@@gottagofastfaster why would TAS cheat on his wife

[@AGZhark]

These are getting old

[@AGZhark]

@intersonality How mature.

[@AGZhark]

@intersonality Yes, actually. Although we _all_ are getting old, you practically pulled a “no u” on me.

[@harryc657]

1:38 "Sir, we have suspect in sight. Engaging persuit." 1:39 "Uh, we just lost visual contact."

[@gabrielallen6827]

I never knew there were grind rails above the tunnels in white jungle! Still so much to learn from SA2!

[@Kintsugi23]

IIRC it’s because White Jungle’s level map contains an early/scrapped version of Green Forest

[@Pixiuchu]

@@Kintsugi23 I think they were talking about 10:25 where I grinded on top of the small tunnels in Green Forest, I grinded up there for points

[@Kintsugi23]

@@Pixiuchu Ohh gotcha

[@jacariwatsonallard8603]

Or grind vines as I like to call them in green forest

[@meta1429]

Never in my life would I enjoy watching a childhood classic of mine be destroyed with getting A ranks consecutively this way. Regardless, I had a big dumb smile on my face so far, and going to finish watching the rest. Have fun with Dark Story if you haven't done it yet! :D

[@Pixiuchu]

Glad you enjoyed it :) I was actually about to continuing TASing in like 5 minutes max lol

[@meta1429]

@@Pixiuchu Sounds like it'd be pretty fun to perform, mainly I've seen a lot of Hero Story speedruns, not that many Dark Story runs. Wonder if it's because preferences and, you know... Security Hall and all that other stuff. But that would mean I'm excited to see how Meteor Herd will be played, that's my favorite level in the game.

[@Pixiuchu]

There was actually a Dark Story tournament last month (which I didn't join because I had a poopy PC), and generally I would say that nowadays there are as many active Dark Story runners as Hero Story runners, which I do think is pretty cool.

[@thatitalianlameguy2235]

@@meta1429 probably because shadow doesn't have the bounce attack so he doesn't have the glitch bounce jump skips

[@sadriposting]

Tails after destroying billions in military property: Ok

[@ObiwanNekody]

That strength tails has in order to use the lift hooks is impressive.

[@Pixiuchu]

I think it was yesterday? That I saw a comment mentioning that they dont know which is more impressive, Tails or Eggman lifting their armor with one arm while the other arm grabs the pulley but either way its impressive lol I just hope that the comment I saw isnt a reply to this comment and that my app is just bugging out cuz thats going to look silly lol

[@Breakaway-ic5gj]

@@Pixiuchu It's more impressive for Eggman since he is a human, while Tails is similar to Sonic who can just rip off a helicopters wing with his bare hands

[@Pixiuchu]

@@Breakaway-ic5gj And Sonic needs Amy's help to get out of prison, hmmm

[@Breakaway-ic5gj]

@@Pixiuchu Must be a prison made for him

[@blackball2223]

Ok I think it's safe to say that Sonic speedrunners are the most hardcore speedrunners in the world. None of the things they do should be possible. It's awesome to watch though.

[@Pixiuchu]

Sorry to ruin the magic but I as a Sonic speedrun am utter garbage! This run was achieved with the usage of slowdowns, savestates and looking at the in-game memory. Now if you want the most hardcore Sonic gamer that actually plays without any of what I said, check out Katie4. She's insanely good at the game and is also about 50 seconds ahead of everyone else in Hero Story lol

[@killert41]

Also tas in tittle = tool assisted speedrun

[@SoniaSpectrum]

@@Pixiuchu agreed, Katie4 is a GOD at this game

[@iaxacs3801]

I feel like any game that's had enough time for Spoeedrunners to really get good at a game can be amazing to watch

[@SoniaSpectrum]

@@iaxacs3801 facts

[@AB-cj3mp]

35:19 "Get more speed using Jump Dash! Try grinding up the steep incline. It's fun!" Oh the irony Omochao.

[@Pixiuchu]

lmao this is why Omochao is good

[@vinesickle3383]

Yeah the steep 90* Incline

[@LatinaCreamQueen]

I love how this makes Tails look like an actual dangerous mad scientist. Dude was aiming onto EVERYTHING.

[@Pixiuchu]

Gotta rack up those points

[@Zonefire15]

You tore Eternal Engine apart 😂

[@nahnah390]

when you flew into the air to hit the golem I just... couldn't help but hear "TIRIYAAAAH!" in my head with every hit.

[@supersoniclink1]

Can't wait to watch your full 180 emblem TAS its going to be simply incredible

[@M0lot0v97]

This is what I imagine Sonic Adventure 2 Battle would play out if Archie Sonic were the one doing it. This was amazing!

[@Kendrick-o4b]

Running up the tree is hands down the most impressive thing I've ever seen in my life!

[@jackhumphries1087]

7:33 “missile launch in 15 sec--fire”

[@littleguystar]

My favorite thing about SA2 is that in order to get an A rank you either gotta explore to find every ring, be really fast or you have to be *stylish AF* And with a TAS that can do anything with enough love and care you can really make the last option shine

[@a.pulgar2300]

What is TAS

[@Gsrsesgs]

I usually find it necessary to get at least 2 of "find" "fast" and "fancy"

[@Pixiuchu]

@@a.pulgar2300 I find that this video explains beautifully what a TAS is: kzbin.info/www/bejne/f5bXnGRjjMdqpbs

[@kygomash2644]

That Final Rush run was incredible! Truly does create an accurate name to the stage!

[@MrX01011000]

When I watched the City Escape run, i was surprised when I saw the score screen; it was exactly 18000 and I was like “wow it’s exactly what it needs to be an A rank that’s like TAS” and then I look at the title of the video and realized I missed the part where it said TAS 😂

[@backlogrob8358]

What’s TAS?

[@MrX01011000]

@@backlogrob8358 TAS stands for “Tool Assisted Speedrun.” It’s when the runner uses various tools to make the game easier to speedrun, such as resetting, freeze framing for precision jumps, button presses, etc., and for manipulating things like random number generators in the runners favor. It is essentially a way to show the best possible way to play a game, but often only at inhuman levels of precision, speed, and reflex.

[@Sarucapture4fight]

13:11 The show off just to cross without it and then grab the jet booster pissed me off cuz it was so effortless. Brilliantly done!

[@Pixiuchu]

It is the fastest way to get to the jet booster, actually, because there's a bridge that doesn't fall if you go that route. It's also done by basically every speedrunner and TAS

[@ChouanB]

Seeing king boom boo getting rekt in one phase is cathartic.

[@YuriFirestone]

That was really fun to watch! Good luck with the rest!

[@Pixiuchu]

Thanks! ^^

[@potthegrunt]

I really enjoy TAS speedruns, I love how every thing could be done in like 2-3 frames

[@NTTofMistery]

I dont think im ever not gonna laugh at "Missle launch in 15 seconds. Fire."

[@Pixiuchu]

Then you will enjoy this TAS for sure: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mGHRZWOVaqeCors

[@NTTofMistery]

@@Pixiuchu hahaha i didnt know that was even possible thanks

[@flopontheregular7494]

Insane TAS, great job making it! I honestly don't know how people are this patient and skilled.

[@Pixiuchu]

Thank you! It's funny because in reality this TAS didn't take me thaaat long and nowadays I could easily beat this time in TAS in like a week if I wanted to (although I don't really TAS as much and I'm not sure how I could place TASing in my schedule (though I do plan to place it somewhere in my schedule as I want to finish the 180 Emblems TAS some time in my life). Truly, though, I agree. What I learned from making this TAS is that the 2014 Hero Story TAS is possibly the craziest TAS ever. Absolute insanity on how patient they were, and they didn't even have the tools we have now, making their TAS all that much more crazy. It's the TAS I respect the most because of it. Top notch patience and skill. My TAS pales in comparison.

[@Nick37376]

the green forest level had my jaw on the floor. incredible accuracy.

[@Pixiuchu]

Actually, I missed an 800 point bonus in green forest lmao (about 30 seconds in the run) thank you though!

[@OmegaRidley64]

I remember when I one phased King Boom Boo it was just microseconds before the timer ran out but it was the most accomplished feeling ever.

[@chiyo-chanholocaust8143]

It's been 20 some years...and I'm still shocked every time they actually used comic sans for this game

[@szymon6207]

That was cool

[@nicko7515]

The only gameplay where Sonic is moving at the speed of sound. Amazing!

[@megatennepster3833]

TAS is like a magic trick where you know what the trick is, but then you are just in love with the acrobatics too much to care

[@nicko7515]

@@megatennepster3833 if I'm being told it's a Tas rather it's being passed off as authentic gameplay definitely much better.

[@XxDevilxKingxX1]

I love this so much. I really enjoyed seeing my all time favorite childhood game get demolished! Thank you for your hard work

[@PhantomAarantula]

That King Boom Boo fight was so savage. You up and baited him into laughing at you before then blowing him up for it.

[@triforce9286]

Stage: Hurry and -- This guy: Wanna see me do it again?

[@TsuNaru]

36:51 lmao that was rude as hell

[@cslack813]

One of the favorite games of my youth. I could never beat my older friend who introduced me to it but just the high speed fun was enough to keep my trying. Love this game!

[@Pixiuchu]

This game is awesome to speedrun and TAS, so I have to agree. This game is probably my favourite of all time lol, too bad my laptop is t e r r i b l e so I can't really play it rn... @Sega when SA2B Switch rererererelease?????? (no remake but if they do that would be awesome too) :(

[@woag4974]

35:20 only now noticing how cool sonic running up walls is in adventure 2

[@Pixiuchu]

Fun fact: this is my least favourite wallrun of the entire game, because it skips my favourite section of Final Rush, lol. Without the wallrun if done well it looks incredibly fast and good... I should do a TAS of this stage without the wallrun

[@WigWoo1]

How can you program a TAS on the knuckles stages if the emeralds spawn in a different place every time the level starts? How can the TAS predict the random spawns of the shards?

[@Pixiuchu]

Two things: first, once you spawn in the level the 3 pieces have been chosen, so I can just check what pieces are there and then do it optimally. Second: since it is all programming, the randomness is not actually random but rather pseudo-random. It looks random to any regular player, but in reality it is all predictable. So each time I reach this stage using these exact set of inputs, I get the exact same pieces every single time. Oh, also, third: because of this, I can just delay entering the stage to get more favourable pieces. The pieces have 1024 combinations the first time you load into stages, so they can be predictable if you know where you are in the 1024 sets. In this TAS, I do restart the stage for Meteor Herd, so this would be a second load. In this case, it would have hundreds of thousands of combinations. First load always has 1024 sets because the rng value is set to 0xDEAD0CAB always when the stage loads in, so the only thing that affects rng is the frame counter. When you restart or die, the RNG seed is completely different now, which allows for many more sets. RNG standing for random number generator, of course. Hope this helps !

[@WigWoo1]

@@Pixiuchu ohhh alright. Thank you for the explanation.

[@jackhumphries1087]

“Missile launch in 15 second- fuck it, fire”

[@jackhumphries1087]

Didn’t even realize I made the same comment half a year ago, I’m leaving it

[@ShanePhillips21]

Dude watching you blitz through some levels that took me many many tries just to get a E rank is both impressive af and disheartening. Good job

[@JP-24]

Shadow: Before this over I'll show you the True Power of cha- Sonic after cutting him off: Idc

[@yoshifan-n4n]

37:06: Shadow: I am the ultimate live fo....... Sonic: Game over Shadow

[@hanschris1001]

This man deserves a bunch of likes and subscribers, THIS IS REAL HARD WORK AND DEDICATION!

[@alexanderyt4610]

If he did ONLY sonic, i wuold consider subscribing

[@andr3artist]

It's just amazing how you got the fragments of the Master Emerald so fast. That's just really hard to me

[@MultrakSin]

A TAS is like knowing everything about the stage and to make each and every move accordingly, so it's litterally making the perfect optimal run like editing a video, only with input commands. Hope that clears it for you.

[@BigT.Larrity]

@@MultrakSin I think they mean because the emerald locations are random, I'm assuming he made the optimal run for possible emerald spawns and just reran it until that scenario happened, tho I'm probably wrong

[@courage_the_cowardly_cam]

@@BigT.Larrity that is most definitely extremely close to the truth

[@KickTheKitsune]

@@BigT.Larrity I'm assuming he found the emeralds normally, reset to the beginning of the level so he knew where the emeralds were, and then optimized the path.

[@Pixiuchu]

I guess I was going to explain how I choose my sets in a video later this month 👀 edit: that neer happened lol

[@PikRave98]

Perfect timing 1:16

[@PokekaiPJArchives]

You take Rolling Around At The Speed Of Sound to another level.

[@BluecoreG]

6:36 Fun fact, You have to grind this rail at the beginning or you can't get enough points in this stage to get the A rank on your first playthrough

[@Pixiuchu]

Well, you need to only get 20,000 points, it doesn't matter where the source comes from. If you don't get the rails here, you can choose to go for planes, giving you 1000 points instead of 600, or you can get to the top of the rocket, giving you 1500 points instead of 600. So in reality you don't need this rail at all, but it's fast so I grab it :) Getting A-Rank on your first playthrough is incredibly hard though lmao I often struggle with it

[@BluecoreG]

@@Pixiuchu Oh cool didn't know about the plane points

[@lazeHD]

i missed out on you holy crap, beats the og tas by almost 2 minutes with all a ranks shows how much this tas has progressed

[@Pixiuchu]

I did not beat the OG TAS actually -- I guess this isn't very clear at all now I think about it and I'm sorry about that. The OG TAS had a 18:02 IGT, while this TAS had a 23:25 IGT. The difference between my title and the other TAS' title is that I used IGT while they used RTA. That's over 5 minutes slower. I estimate a good 180 Emblems-Hero Story TAS would be MAYBE a 21, but probably a low 22. I'm 9 seconds ahead leaving City Escape currently in a new version of the TAS. There is an extremely low chance the old 2014 TAS can be beaten while getting all A Ranks, and the only reason there is a chance to begin with is because the current TASers of the game have advanced a lot since then and because there is a trick in Eternal Engine called Bofa (for the fact you hit bofa (both of) the boxes) which saves about 32 seconds in TAS, but even then you'd have to spend half a minute whistle glitching and only save like 5 seconds. We'd have to be lucky to get sub 20 lol I guess we'll see when Hero Story is done... ...Except Hero Story won't be done until the end of Dark Story because of a new route that requires you to do Dark Story after half of Hero Story lol. So by the time Hero Story is done, Last Story will be done very shortly after :) Also this comment is long sorry

[@lazeHD]

oooh im dumb lol sorry, still crazy tas tho great job

[@InkubozuNikki]

Eggman not saying his Sonic is too slow line in Crazy Gadget is telling me THIS is the intended way of playing this level...

[@Pixiuchu]

With some experience it's not too hard to beat the level in under 2 minutes (which is when he says it), although of course with skips you can beat the level in 40 seconds. Crazy Gadget (skipless) best level

[@SamsungGalaxyA34Gaming]

The best Sonic game I could play on my GameCube, rest in peace

[@tiagolopes2591]

This is the true Sonic - so fast that even the game is bugging!

[@infiltratewithme]

Geeeeze I used to always play this game! And seeing you do this so fast, I'm literally amazed

[@Psymecoleesis]

Hey Sonic, you'd better go around. You don't have enough physics to get up to the Egg Golem. Sonic: Physics? Where we're going, we don't need...physics.

[@katd8502]

TAS runs can truly be terrifying and awe inspiring when spectating…. The levels are mere suggestions… I swear I’ve lost count on the amount of times I said “wait you can do that?!” in this video.

[@doctor_ozone]

7:31 "There's a launch in 15 sec-FIRE!"

[@BlueBlur86CP]

Seeing Final Rush was my favorite of all this. Excellent job. I can only imagine what the number of attempts.

[@Pixiuchu]

About 17,000 savestates for the entirety of Hero Story. For reference my newest City Escape in 1:12 has about 20,000 savestates, more than the entirety of Hero Story. This is one of the few reasons why I put the project on halt, lol. Thanks though :)

[@ZackXa]

It's cool how much of it is the same route as most speed runners take. As far as tas only tricks I could see, mostly the bounce bracelet stuff lol

[@seelenmayer2]

It took me until 1:10 to realize this was a TAS. True City Escape fans know that feeling of hitting every ring on the way down.

[@Pixiuchu]

I'm not nearly good enough to go this fast I heard that Katie4 is actually really, really, really, really, really, really good though. If you want true skill, check her channel out :)

[@henrriquetordoya1637]

I really find interesting the TAS if the mech stages had those physical by default the complaints about them would have been really low

[@TheBluntist619]

The movement in green forest is pretty nuts. Always have love for this game. Hearing city escspe always get me hyped

[@CardboardFoxAnimations]

I like how every time you play as sonic the game is like “wait what”

[@dunndorr5651]

You’ve earned a subscriber my friend. Love it! Definitely learned a lot from this video

[@andresrodriguezMX1990]

Shadow-Before this is over I'll show you the true power of... (beat) I am the ultimate life... Sonic-Game Over Shadow!

[@wevegottrouble5891]

Speedrun Sonic scares me. He forsakes the enjoyment of loopings in favor of a few extra seconds. He's cold, calculated and probably sees the world and its people around himself as obstacles rather than living beings.

[@Pixiuchu]

Touching. I like this comment.

[@youraveragebeepbooper]

36:56 Good idea, Shadow. Just walk directly into Sonic bouncing

[@Pixiuchu]

Fun fact: Shadow's AI was not programmed to detect bouncing, so this is completely doable RTA to just bounce off of him :) now you can get easy 30 second fights

[@thenumberquelve158]

35:16 There's something amusing and cute about a TAS actually getting help from Omochao along the way. At least Omochao can rest easy now that the one who needs his help the least actually did use it for one shining moment.

[@solknuckles2408]

Haven't seen an SA2 TAS since a hero story run from like 5 years ago I think? Shame there aren't more crazy TAS things between both Adventure games considering how much you can break the physics and how much freedom you have in movement

[@TheOmegaDragon]

This was the peak Sonic experience. I also love the music in this game.

[@therealbaconguy788]

Shadow: Before this is over, let me show you the true power of cha- Sonic: I’LL MAKE YOU EAT THOSE WORDS

[@meroku0010]

Cool as heck, looking forward to seeing the full run!

[@Gamex-Frontiers]

Most Powerful Sonic Adventure 2 gamer ever!

[@peepoclown1]

Those Final Rush runs were unbelievable. I just finished my first all-A-rank 100% of SA2, and I’ve been playing the game since I was young, but this makes me look like I’d only just picked it up. Great stuff!

[@elibonham4388]

Its super fun 100% for this game

[@Pixiuchu]

@@elibonham4388 The best speedrun category! I love 180 Emblems

[@pimpjuice192]

7:32 15 seconds. Fire.

[@jolliestjustin]

Congratulations, your 1,000th subscriber is here!!!🎉🎉🎉

[@Pixiuchu]

Thank you :)

[@MysttheHedgehog]

Never realized how fun some of these levels seem to be to speed run, especially Pyramid Cave.

[@AdvancedSonicPlayerSG]

Sonic TAS videos are what shows Sonic's actual speed.

[@Spironic]

25:47 Now that's what I call physics.

[@devonm042690]

Not sure if anyone ever bothered to read and/or record the scrolling specs of the mech bosses, but this is what I got for Bigfoot. It was hard to make out a few characters here and there. F-6t Bigfoot Ground/Air Combat Walkers General Characteristics Combat Weight: 100.600 lb Dimensions: full length-16.0 ft, width-19.2 ft, height-18.1 ft Power Plant: GUN F-series Diesel Engine, Two GUN R-series turbofan engines Speed: road-45 mph, air-96 mph Armament: One M-32A1 22mm Gatling gun, Two four AIM-120c Advanced Medium-Range air-to-surface Missiles Crew: One Protection: Chobham-type armor on glaois and turret amd armored bulkheads between turret and engine. Depleted uranium armor in production. Automatic fire detection and suppression. Chemical(NBC) protection. G/VDR-1A radiological warning device. It's interesting to me that they chose to use real world military tech, but got two things wrong in the weapons department alone. The M-32A1 is a grenade launcher, and the AIM-120C is a medium-range air-to-*air* missile.

[@Pixiuchu]

I have no knowledge of weapons nor have I ever analyzed this thing, but this is pretty cool tbh lol

[@Pixiuchu]

I noticed two days ago you can actually read the info much better on the HD version, which is pretty cool.

[@WailordLover69]

11:11 I jokingly said “8 minutes? All I need is two” when the level started, I’m shocked to see that he didn’t even need 2 minutes

[@Flashguy4826]

That's WAY too fucking funny, because I was thinking the same thing!! "8 minutes? I can finish in two!" XDD

[@konstantinosntelirabakas7340]

maaaaan.... that trick u did on the robot golem, the one where it ends with sonic flying and the camera on him... that was so fkin cool. like, peak stuff.

[@FZZVShorts]

16:21 am I the only one who got jumpscared by black Tails and Amy?

[@dunndorr5651]

You’ve earned a subscriber my friend. Love it!

[@notme8232]

Is no one going to point out that all the cutscenes are skipped frame perfectly, but the "faker" one is allowed to play in its entirety?

[@Pixiuchu]

You can not skip the faker cutscene due to being embedded straight into the boss fight. You gotta watch the cutscene 4 times when going for the boss emblems :')

[@notme8232]

@@Pixiuchu Wait, really? I just never tried to lmao, didn't realize you couldn't.

[@raaaaaaayden]

You could tell me this was Katie4 gamplay and I'd believe it lmao Great tas!!! Amazing job

[@jpa5456]

That Final Rush was awesome

[@khy6041]

Ikr 😂😂😂

[@vivy-nx]

very fun that one of the few cutscenes that doesn't get skipped is the iconic cutscene before fighting shadow