The best Sonic fangame ever? - Sonic Robo Blast 2

[@MattMcMuscles]

LINK TO GAME - www.srb2.org/download/ Icarus's channel: kzbin.info

[@MotorRoach]

Definitely recommend downloading the mods for this game when you get more used to it. I do suggest changing the Play Style to Simple in the Options>Player 1 Controls, it feels way better if you're playing the game with a controller (you can even customize the camera tilting to your liking, in the camera options) I'm the guy who made most of the character sprites for the game, by the way!

[@SullySadface]

I can definitely tell the sprites got some work done since I played it last. Good stuff!

[@MonsieurBro]

For mods, I think Matt would really like Tortured Planet (or at least Drowned Downtown on it's own since it's still such a cool level even if it was designed before slopes existed)

[@bb010g]

Thank you for your work on SRB2! Been watching the updates since the mid-2000s.

[@KairuHakubi]

you are amazing.

[@IkinBBfromAnthologyOfTheKiller]

you're really good at making sprites,pal!

[@djhero0071]

I didn't really understand why the game is so fast until Matt said it was on the DOOM engine.... i swear. Sonic fans are some of the most creative people in any fandom.

[@ZONEsama]

Can't wait to get Burning Rangers back! LOL!

[@Serkel]

omgz it's zone

[@FahimKhaled]

Yeah, no kidding. Never thought you'd showed up.

[@MACHOLOR]

Wait hol' up. Zone Toons acknowledges SRB2?!

[@GLXY23]

Wow I'm surprised zone is here

[@fatyoshi1456]

its funni pron man!!!!

[@ICARUSLIV3S]

Thanks for the shout-out! Glad you had a fun time with SRB2.

[@Arrowned]

So I've been watching your videos for about a year now, loving all the What Happened? vids, super informative! This is the first Flophouse Plays one I've tuned into... and how ironic that you play a fangame that I originally composed about 30% of the music for. 😂 Most of my tracks in their original form are no longer in the game, because the work I did was 20-ish years ago, and so obviously does not sound so great nowadays. But I know the most recent releases of the game feature a lot of those old motifs as remixed by the modern composition team, which was awesome to hear, and I very much appreciated them using my old stuff as a leaping off point.

[@Arrowned]

Oh, and to reply to the comment you made late in the video on the game's music, the "main theme" of the game, the motif used in the title, stage complete, invincibility theme, etc, comes from a Sega produced album, about 1:43 into kzbin.info/www/bejne/rKjWqWudpruCj8U . There's also a few remixes used here and there as well. But the vast majority of the game's OST was completely original. (also, the original theme of Deep Sea Zone is probably what I'm most known for, so it drives me crazy that you stopped there, LOL)

[@clairebun]

Your themes hold a lot a lot of nostalgic value to me, so it's been a pleasure to arrange off of your works. I'm sure the rest of the current / 2.2 music team would agree.

[@IkinBBfromAnthologyOfTheKiller]

@@Arrowned it was a nice theme,indeed!It should have been kept as an extra level track,just like the old Orbital Hangar/robotnirock

[@keeby4]

Well your tracks were really good.

[@MrEandc4life]

This shows that different perspectives and gameplay styles can work when care and thought go into design and implementation

[@wgbee1242]

This also had 20 years of development behind it so do take that into account

[@granvell619]

@@wgbee1242 20 years of development with a team smaller than a company, also not getting paid for the sake of not infringing on the Sonic IP. It doesn't take 20 years to make a game like this with a company backed team.

[@wgbee1242]

@@granvell619 Well then I guess Sonic Team never wanted to make a game like this, remember Sonic Adventure was supposed to be an rpg, so yeah.

[@zorn2017]

@@wgbee1242 Sonic Team wants to make garbage, not good games.

[@georgefrankly]

I can't believe you're playing this for the first time! It's come a long way from the earliest versions- I remember getting the first demos of SRB2 on Usenet over 20 years ago. Good ol alt.fan.sonic-hedgehog for all your dialup Sonic needs.

[@poiberry8956]

I remember when the intro was about Eggman blowing up an entire city instead of a mountain

[@drobnoxius9483]

I think this fits more for classic sonic.

[@IkinBBfromAnthologyOfTheKiller]

same,and i think eggman just changing the shape of a mountain isn't much,It should have idk,turned all the animals there into badniks,or turn the mountain into techno Hill?

[@TomGallagherSuperboyBeyond]

It's my favorite fangame ever. Played the hell out of it back in the day.

[@doomhikerproductions6883]

If you played it back in the day, you should definitely try it out now. Still is being updated, including a massive update in 2019.

[@sergiomendoza5165]

I recomend Sonic Robo Blast 2 Kart.

[@TomGallagherSuperboyBeyond]

@@doomhikerproductions6883 i last played about 2 months or so ago. It's incredible. My laptop is dying though (if it can't run the doom engine smoothly, you know it's days from death lol) but getting a new computer soon, can't wait to play it again

[@IkinBBfromAnthologyOfTheKiller]

my fav too,a masterpiece.The Sonic Unleashed of fangames.

[@TomGallagherSuperboyBeyond]

@@cosmothorpe2506 oh it’s old. I was a kid when I first played it, 32 now.

[@greenknight9000]

If you reacted like this to the intro, just imagine how you would've reacted to the original intro - it wasn't the Greenflower Mountain that was destroyed, but the Greenflower City. It literally said "Everything and everyone had been obliterated"

[@IkinBBfromAnthologyOfTheKiller]

i remember reading that when i downloaded it in my grandpa's PC when i was about 10,i was like "wow that's absurd"

[@SullySadface]

I still have an active account on the forum! And by active I mean 'exists' I wonder if this is a lead in to SRB Kart

[@vbonesy]

hope so, i like srb kart

[@emlyndewar]

If the Saturn had had a sonic in this style, I’d have owned one. Now it’s just a console I wish I’d owned.

[@rivalmindss]

if Sega did this I feel like we'd be lining up to buy Sega consoles still.

[@EpicB]

SRB2 is everything a Sonic game on the Saturn should have been. It's basically a Genesis Sonic game in 3D.

[@sauvagess]

9:24 Technically, that does follow the classic life-up fanfare. It's a short quip of the game's main theme, which is why it changed between games, and that is definitely the jingle of the SRB2 main theme.

[@Actual-Jesse]

Eggman stared at the Black Rock, and whispered to himself, "With that kind of power, everyone will be begging for an egging."

[@runix_dragoon]

I am so glad you are playing this, it's my favorite fan project. Did you also know that there is a seperate mod of this that makes it a Kart racer? its called SRB2K and both have impressive modding scenes

[@JonathanBaxter]

Oh man you really oughta see everything the game has to offer. Besides everything you get in the vanilla game like plenty of levels, doom style multiplayer versus, secrets and stuff, there's also loads of mods that change the game in a fundamental way. There is a metroid prime mod! Golf! Minesweeper! Warioware! It's insane. If nothing else, at least give the game's modding scene a look.

[@KaiserMattTygore927]

"This is what Sonic on the saturn should've been" 100% agreed.

[@GenerationWest]

Sonic Fan Games: Being Decent or Greater than actual Sonic games since... Forever?!

[@gabrielwebster7902]

My favorite sonic game is sonic time twisted. And that's not a sega game

[@3dipto]

Sega should just stick to making Yakuza games, and license Sonic to other developers.

[@DADA-yt1pt]

...Not really.

[@3dipto]

@@DADA-yt1pt sega used to make better games than the fans, but nowadays not so much

[@HazeX2]

😐

[@HazeX2]

I love listening to people talk about SRB2, one of my favorite games of all time I've been playing it since like the early 2000s

[@luckybeast1234]

This game also has an option to use Saturn style 3D models and its amazing. Also please try SRB2Kart

[@thetachi5]

Victoria Cakes + Tails reference! I knew there was a reason I loved this channel.

[@guitaristwilllane]

srb2 is even better with the 3d models by jeck jims, they come default with the newer versions of the game you just have to turn the option on. it's the saturn game we never got.

[@t.dmattocks6119]

Agreed. I wonder if he knows though and just prefers the sprites.

[@NerfPlayeR135]

Here's a bunch of fun facts because I know way too much about this game: 2:49 It's been mentioned in the comments already, but before version 2.2, the intro showed Eggman vaporizing an entire city with his Black Rock-powered orbital laser. Including all of its inhabitants. As for Knuckles being ignored, this is because the intro and its music are synced, and this doesn't give enough time to allow Knuckles's role to be explained. The game's website implies that Knux is tagging along because Eggman could blast Angel Island with his new orbital laser. 4:10 SRB2's relationship with Doom is... complicated. The game runs on a _very_ heavily modified version of the Doom engine, and a lot of the game's resources can be accessed using Doom modding tools. However, this is also the case for other games made using the Doom engine as a base, such as Heretic, Hexen, and Strife. They're not compatible with each other or Doom, but they all share a common ancestor. 5:30 Controlling Tailsbot in singleplayer is just as worthless as it was in Sonic 2 and 3. There's splitscreen multiplayer if you want an actual co-op experience. 6:17 The dash attack is called the "thok," after the sound it makes. It always propels Sonic forward at the same speed (60 fracunits/second), which actually _slows him down_ if he's using speed shoes! 6:37 There's a setting to switch the 1-up jingle to a sound effect that doesn't interrupt the level music. 6:49 Somehow I doubt the Armageddon Shield would pass muster in Japan if this game were officially licensed. The Land of the Rising Sun has taboos against nuclear weapons. You know why. 6:57 Every shield in the game has an active and passive ability. For example, the Elemental Shield (the one that looks like a fiery water bubble) provides passive protection from fire, water damage, and drowning. Its active ability is the stomp that generates fire particles, and it also leaves a fire trail when you spindash. 8:16 That's an emblem! Collecting them unlocks secrets, and that's all I'm going to say. 9:09 If you've played version 1.09.4 and found a certain secret, you'll know who lives in that house. 9:33 Eggman monitors have existed in official games since the Genesis era. 11:15 Those golden tokens are Emerald Tokens, and each one grants you a Special Stage attempt after you finish a level. (SRB2's engine doesn't have support for persistent levels yet, so no giant rings.) 11:21 Pressing F1 brings up a NiGHTS tutorial, in place of the help images from Doom. Not sure why the game doesn't tell you this, though... 14:06 SRB2's soundtrack is fully original! You can listen to it here on KZbin via Sonic Team Jr.'s channel, or download it from the SRB2 website. There's also an older OST that was used before version 2.2 came out.

[@Torquenbeans]

*holding an empty bowl* "Please Sir, can I have some more?"

[@eternalux6343]

I've only ever seen screenshots or short clips of this game and thought "oh, that's pretty cool I guess, Sonic Doom" but after watching this video seems I have been underestimating it.

[@t.dmattocks6119]

Oh yeah. It's way more than that. SRB2 is it's own beast with decades of dev time behind it. It came out before the actual Sonic games went 3D.

[@ralphjeremy6590]

> using my fanmade JP style logo Yes

[@PrismaticAngel]

Oh good you already found out. Congrats Ralph!

[@HazeX2]

I totally thought you were gonna accidentally touch the blue slime after beating the Techno Hill boss

[@certifiednobody]

Fingers crossed for a Sonic Robo Blast Kart video

[@InfernoScorpion14]

I'd love to see more gameplay of this from you. If Sonic is too fast for you, you could just use Tails or Knuckles, they're noticeably slower which works fine for me.

[@ItsCenrryTH]

Not anymore 2.2 buffed them so they're as fast as sonic

[@InfernoScorpion14]

@@ItsCenrryTH After all these years? Well it's certainly a choice.

[@NightWindBR]

1:03 Do you know what's funny? Just yesterday some people were talking in the discord server about how Sonic and co thought that Eggman was dead in the older versions intro

[@MrLedhed123]

ahhhh remember matt original classic sonic official art did have his eyes like this before. you should be more worried about the fact that sonic has fur color eye lids which sounds like kinda bad and uncomfortable.

[@manfredicadelo9604]

I can't belive that this is the sequel to sonic robo blast

[@PrismaticAngel]

It's a good day when Matt plays SRB2.

[@HazeX2]

Would love to see how you feel about the rest of the game, and quite possibly the mods as well

[@RamboMVideo]

Now that you've ventured into SRB2's domain, there's no escape. The contract is sealed. SRB2 Kart awaits. (iunno refer to lythero if you require receipts)

[@jusstadude]

Im a beta player of srb2 and I can tell that there is more than 5,000 different with 3000 secrets that not many knows about and I can tell that even do I not founded everything so basicly doom sonic team jr did really great and crazy huge game :]

[@therighttrousers343]

Continue please? I also like Sonic Before The Sequel and After The Sequel, just also mentioning. Great ost to those, just stellar.

[@originalname1008]

The intro to the game used to be a lot darker. Before it had robotnik blowing up a whole town/city killing everyone in it.

[@Gusmed007]

This is my actual favorite Sonic game. The original Sega Genesis game comes close, but it’s mostly nostalgia there. Not this, this is… this is the stuff. This… this hits the spot.

[@aaronsarchive82]

"It should be Robotnick, you can't change my mind." I died! And I'm the same when playing the classic era games.

[@t.dmattocks6119]

@@Gatorade69 I mean they have had his real name as Robotnick in the west since Adv2. Down to his extended family havingvthe name. He should really be Robotnick in something like this tho don't know why not. Still not a big deal of course.

[@josephjennings3146]

Saw this at one of the sonic fangames expo. I forgot what it was called, but people were playing and making videos of the levels it had out and people were praising it for being really good. Some kinda i think didnt like the story, no idea.

[@ElionMars]

"Life's short, do...something to a bagel." Brian Foster.

[@thegodofalldragons]

Y'all heard of Sonic Boom... Now get ready for Sonic DOOM.

[@CzBacklash]

You should try the Kart Mod. Its SNES Mario Kart with mods upon mods of content, the ride never ends.

[@rohankishibeandpinkdarkboy8853]

Have we unlocked "Matt playing a bunch of Sonic Fanmods Route"?

[@alishegamer8490]

Your ears are gonna nut when you get to arid canyon

[@HazeX2]

The reaction to the special stages were pretty funny

[@Nelkhael1]

I recommend Sonic GT. I really loved it when I played it a few months ago.

[@Baffle145]

Wait till he sees the mods

[@StoicForce]

Should I be concerned?

[@Baffle145]

@@StoicForce Nah. The mods are great

[@davidromeroblaya7920]

I was skeptical about this mod but I have to say that it's pretty solid.

[@blackmegaman]

This makes me wish we got some sort of Super Scaler Sonic game back in the 90s

[@benjaminmichael6461]

If I had seen a Kotaku article titled Fans Mod Doom Into A Sonic Game, I would have ignored it. But this is so much more incredible than I ever imagined.

[@tomazod]

PLAY MORE OF THIS!!!!!!

[@MonsieurBro]

Would love to see you play the rest of SRB2! Getting lost and losing where forward even is made me nostalgic for when I first played it. You get a feel for how progression through levels looks like after like Deep Sea Zone or Castle Eggman though

[@fearnloathingingeneral]

My wife has a crisis anytime he's not called Robotnik

[@alexstone5410]

My wife calls him Ro-Butt-nik and it annoys the shit out of my son, who calls him Egg Man for some reason.

[@IkinBBfromAnthologyOfTheKiller]

hey Matt,if you double jump when you don't have a shield/power-up,you'll use the speed thok,it's like the homing attack but it doesn't hoam.It gives you a lot of speed and you can skip quite a lot of stuff with it.

[@Darkogazza]

Wow. This game looks incredible. As a fan made game I'm genuinely impressed. Good work folks. Now make Sonic Adventure 3.

[@BrownieEXE]

yes, play some more my guy or just finish it at least there's also Sonic Kart that runs with the doom engine as well

[@wgbee1242]

There’s a pretty good fan remake of sonic 06 that plans on making Sonic 06 an actual finished product, at the moment it only has the Sonic Stages but there actually pretty good to play this time without all the glitches. Second best fangame(might change with full release of Sonic Galatic) to the first best fangame SRB2. Edit:The fangame is called Sonic P06

[@backspacer92]

Liam and Matt played that and another one iirc. It's on the channel.

[@Haysey_Draws]

Oh to be as determined as Tails!

[@thisisasupersayin376]

"I haven't heard any music that really gets me tappin my feet" my favorite song in the game is from Arid Canyon act 1, I'd replace every track with it if I could

[@BeeNitsua]

Wait until you see the Sonic kart racing game (that is also a Doom mod)!

[@NatonJolyBotogoske]

This is the best Sonic game. Mouse controls give precision, so it is fast, challenging and really fun.

[@punkypony5165]

Just started playing this game this week and I'm addicted.

[@EpicNerdnessyt]

Great game I spent 600+ Hours in game as a lonely kid. Played Mystic's Mystic Realms addon and spent a good portion of time in Multiplayer Deathmach. I still go back every once in a while for nostalgia's sake and to see how the game progresses. I used to frequent the forums and met a bunch of cool people I didn't understand at the time. (I was 11.) Messed around the SRB2Doom Level Editior a little. (Made 1 horrific DM map.) It was my childhood. Maybe I should back sometime....(Oh yeah. Forgot about the hidden Mario Level.)

[@sauvagess]

14:06 Oh, trust me. You will. This soundtrack goes hard, especially on the final level.

[@m1stq933]

Even If This Video Was Before 1 Year Its Still Nice See This I Remembered My First Time Playing Srb2 In 2.0 It Was The Best Thing Ever A New Experience Form The Fans To The Fans Is Tbe Best Thing Ever

[@bartkorol611]

6:35 should wait till I finish for the comments... but was going to say Doom? haha so awesome, great vid, gg

[@TimGaukerToons]

Man, this game looks a whole lot different from when I first saw it over 13 years ago... I love it!

[@HaxDotCombo]

Just wait until you hit the Metal Sonic race

[@chasewolf]

Def be down for more of this

[@finalunusedname]

"That's a face you don't fuck with!" Yo, nobody fucks with us!

[@cameronurban7989]

Oh man, if this guy does a full playthrough, that'd be the best

[@ChrisTheSaiyanhog]

the funniest thing about the story is that in earlier versions of the game instead of blowing up a mountain, Eggman literally committed genocide and blew up a city

[@tweakPTCG]

This is what Sonic on the Sega Saturn should look like

[@intheneighborhoodtv]

THIS GAME LOOKS AWESOME!

[@randybutternubs1209]

Sonic Before The Sequel and Sonic After The Sequel are also great fan games

[@seanprice3436]

Fuck, this one's impressive. I only made it to the first few minutes of gameplay in the video, then I got ridiculously intrigued and had to use the link in your description, download it and play it myself. I spent a few pretty solid, concentrated hours on it. I then took a break and came back to watch the rest of your video. I had a lot of similar thoughts and reactions during my own playthrough so far. I've played some other pretty cool Sonic fan games but this one instantly shot straight up there above most.

[@pauldanielvergara8710]

*Me and the boys opening Srb2 playing as Sonic to spam the spacebar*

[@MetaBro]

Sonic Robo Blast 2 feels like what Sonic Xtreme would’ve been if it didn’t have a fish eye lens and wasn’t… *canceled*

[@Yozzaxia]

hot take: 1st person with mouse + keyboard is the best way to play this. Edit: also enabling 3d models!

[@ChrisHominski]

its Doom engine so yeah

[@Tom-jw7ii]

True. The game isn’t designed for controller at all, especially with how the air dash works.

[@HazeX2]

@@Tom-jw7ii Simple mode

[@JetsetStealth]

i cant believe we're in an age where fan projects are consistently better than what sonic team can accomplish...

[@cedarIsNotbook]

Matt do you have a podcast somewhere?

[@MattMcMuscles]

No. Don't really have any interest. Although the occasional Mumbling With Matt videos, kinda serve that purpose.

[@thisisasupersayin376]

I just can't believe the plot of Sonic Robo Blast 1 predicted cryptocurrency

[@pocketciabatta654]

BURNING RANGERS WHA HAPPENED LET'S GO

[@amazingbeardo]

As incredible as the base game is, the mods that turn it into a Mario Kart style game is even better

[@YoshiONE2ONE]

Now do yourself a favor and look up Sonic Robo Blast 2 Kart (SRB2K) for one of the greatest kart racers you will EVER play

[@bartkorol611]

2:27 gotta believe more in the fan made stuff, that detail would not even be shown in a comic, just the swiggly lines and poof, flying in the air :)

[@AzuretareLPs]

You should see what this is a sequel to from the 90's xD this game has come a long way itself too! A lot and a long time of love went into it. Btw you can play this in widescreen if you go to the options and the game install directory has an opengl launcher that has 3D models (I forget if you have to toggle it though it's been a while since I played this)

[@josephjoestar4978]

If you think this looks cool, check out this indie game called Demon Turf, It does the same thing with 3d environments+2d sprites. Its not out yet but it looks good

[@LagrimaArdiente]

This looks genuinely wonderful.

[@Nyanlathonep]

Dunno if you've heard of it, but there's a mod for this game, that turns it into a full blown racing game. Hope you play it someday, the name's Sonic Robo Blast 2 Kart, or just SRB2K for short

[@FurryRedCross]

Would love to see more of this

[@Sniper_T_2x]

There is also an egg man box in ice cap zone in sonic 3

[@mineboom7377]

I'd love to see a part 2!

[@thisisasupersayin376]

Seems like you were having a bit of trouble keeping yourself straight at times. There's a control mode reccomended for playing with a connected controller, which is what I use, and it feels great, even if the limitation to 8 directions means the air dash sometimes sends me north when I was trying to point the joystick northwest

[@fatyoshi1456]

What would he do if the black rock just disappeared while he was in the station

[@thisWinglessAngel]

That water effect at the end tho.

[@HonkG.Womblatin]

If you play more,you should definitly know that you can press space to drill and shift to brake on nights mode Also getting all chaos emeralds is hardcore especially if you play like that