The Development of Sonic Unleashed

[@Terminal_Apotos]

Unleashed set the standard in Production Quality and they’re yet to surpass it.

[@shiranui2844]

Pure truth.

[@UchennaEgbo]

Sadly true

[@sonsique]

you guys have never played sonic jump for the ipad 2 and it shows

[@sonicraft9996]

@@sonsique first funny sonic fan

[@joshuatokosi]

Because the game didn’t score well

[@-redde-]

19:57 i don’t think either of these were mistranslations but more just adding character to the scenes. the breaking all your toys line is just giving sonic some attitude and the festive line is making fun of him because werewolves are associated with halloween.

[@Cyanchicken1]

sonic unleashed by far had the most love poured into it

[@SonicTheHedgehogX15]

Fr, i hope they put this much in frontiers 2

[@shreyashishmitra6196]

8:25 that is IK foot placement this basically does is then the player is standing in a slope , aim IK to the ankle so that it's aligned to the ground. many AAA companies use this in there video game to make the body placement of player more realistic.

[@Your_LocalWizard]

To elaborate on your comment, IK stands for "inverse kinematics" and what it does is essentially reverse the priority of bone placement. So with regular kinematics the foot bone would follow the rotation of the shin bone, which would follow the thigh bone etc. but with IK however many bones you set will follow the end bone ok the IK chain

[@semechko91]

Aside from Soleana Hotel, you can also find Pachacamac Parking and Chao Beans lights in Skyscraper Scamper Night. I believe they appear in every stage of that area, but not sure if all are accessible at the same route.

[@tc3969]

17:49 - Not quite. If you read the text immediately before this part of the instruction manual, you'll see Sonic wasn't transformed by Dark Gaia's energy. It was actually exposure to the negative energy of the Chaos Emeralds that transformed him. Because it has mastery over all forms of dark energy, Dark Gaia was able to steal this negative energy from Sonic to accelerate its own maturation into Perfect Dark Gaia.

[@DeadPlayin]

Thank you for spending so much time remaking the bonus video for this game 🙏 it’s one of my favorite Sonic games

[@jordancromwell]

Sonic 06 with the hedgehog engine would look so stunning. It sucks we will never know what 06 would look like in Sonic Team's image if fully completed to what they wanted it to be.

[@nonameyethangonaminute]

22:46 not quite, both Boarder 70 from Ollie Rush and Windmill Isle Day use the same sample - Chords 3 from SoundScan

[@xXLSSKonaraXx]

26:30 bro really enabled "fuck it" mode

[@SonicTheHedgehogX15]

This is so cool i wish these people and style as well as direction comes back, i like how alive it is and hope frontiers 2 is alive like this, with people, smooth animations and good models and all

[@dragonick2947]

19:46 Neither of this are mistranslations. They're localisations. I think they do a good job of sounding natural while retaining a similar meaning in English.

[@Cifesk]

@@dragonick2947 I say they were localized as that. Even so, it sounds like a mistranslation because it completely spoils the original atmosphere of the scene

[@dragonick2947]

@@Cifesk I'm still not sure. They've never sounded out of place to me, they feel like they make perfect sense as quips. I still enjoyed this video, sorry if I came across as rude, but this is something I felt I had to comment on.

[@STICKOMEDIA]

I thank you so much for making all these Sonic Unleashed videos as of late. It is my most favorite Sonic game and I have enjoyed finding out more about it through these videos. Keep unleashing my friend!

[@swido16]

Loving the video! One thing I wanted to point out is - just because Unleashed is running on PC at 11:32, doesn't mean a PC version was planned! All games are created on PC, so naturally a build would exist 🙂

[@LowTierMarston]

*Unleashed is the GOAT* 🗿

[@FanicTheHedgehogYT]

That's @Unleash line

[@MatrixEvolution17]

there are no goats in that game 🐐

[@traviscunningham7062]

Twilight Princess has goats.

[@p5rsona]

Ok zoomer

[@snocavey]

3:45 Actually, this is a common misconception. Dimps didn't *fully* develop Sonic Unleashed's Wii/PS2 version, they were only involved with creating the level design for the daytime stages in that version, while the vast majority of development was handled by Sonic Team (and apparently some other internal SEGA studios).

[@bmonke2505]

Cool fact: In Dragon Road Act 1 Day, just before the interceptor chase, you are able to break down the door where he is hidden in and find him there just standing.

[@lynxzanimated]

I swear, Cifesk just knows the perfect time to upload.

[@NeoDeXs]

21:55 Aditionally, the bassline is a 1:1 of a song in Driver 2, which is the Vegas Night theme, both are favorite games of mine so it was a cathartic moment for me back in the day.

[@Zomboy4313]

9:08, I’ve seen an early version of that image where sonic looks less edited and more like the earlier model

[@ozguy5196]

19:52 Sonic doesn't say Eggman isn't fooling anyone. The line (from Windii's video translating Unleashed) is "That's unusually honest of you, Dr. Eggman. Why don't you stop playing these silly games?" ...also, the boost debuted in the Rush games, so I'm confused as to why they don't get more attention.

[@Cifesk]

damn you right

[@zaynemiller2731]

Originally I played the Wii version as a child, when watching my friend boot up the Xbox version recently I noticed the game was different, then it hit me. "This game has a Hub world!?!" I shouted and we still laugh about it😭

[@Joshi_ForReal]

22:58 this sample in it's self is taken from a song called "Playing hard to get" by Bluecat. Which I think appeared in a few sample CDs

[@TheBytegeist]

Incorrect. "Playing hard to get" is NOT the original, it simply uses the same samples, which are from a 1999 sample CD "SoundScan 16: Bossa Brazil".

[@yousefslimani99]

Thank you so much for keep discovering my fav game of all time, keep up the good work 👍🏻

[@40kkidlock18]

you REALLY need to play more games if thats the case man smh

[@yousefslimani99]

@@40kkidlock18 I played multiple games but this one really peaked my interest than any other beloved games as a kid!

[@yousefslimani99]

@@40kkidlock18 Also what games you should recommend me to play? They are like billions of them and it’s not like I have only one game I played in my life, they are other games I enjoyed them as a kid you know.

[@40kkidlock18]

@@yousefslimani99 idk you'd better play something cause you obviously haven't played many games if you're saying THAT shit lmao "unleashed is my fav game of all time" OF ALL TIME HE SAYS lol

[@boymilk]

​@@40kkidlock18 genuinely, shut up lmao

[@MárioRubenMartins4]

this is one of my favorite sonic games ever, i am so sad that this didnt get any ports to pc with upgrated graphics and controls and all dlc levels

[@ryukoprop]

Another banger, just in time for breakfast. One of the best Sonic games ever, and one of the best video series ever.

[@Phamtheman69]

You never cease to amaze me uploading at 12:00 am 😭

[@Cifesk]

Uploaded it at 3 PM for me haha

[@spritvio639]

"Sir, what if we made a Sonic game? But instead of it being a Sonic game we made most of it a God of war clone? That seems to be doing well for sony."

[@lemonyanva1976]

It was great tho

[@dontseemyprofilepic3157]

While it’s the reason I’ll never finish the 7th Gen version of the game, I’ll say Werehog gets bashed on way too much. A lot of that is me being a sucker for the dark Gaia enemy designs and the classy music.

[@traviscunningham7062]

More like a Twilight Princess clone.

[@sikosonix901]

I personally like the werehog, but it had no reason to be in this game. Same for Knuckles, Gamma, Big, and the mechs. Having wildly different playstyles can NOT be good for the developers.

[@Damikketxiexie]

@@traviscunningham7062more of god of war as it’s very similar to the hack and slash in god of war

[@BkSonic]

you forgot the Wentos NPC glitches where you can buy and sell some items for extra rings ( repeating it a lot of times ) , like chocolate , hero sandwich and pizza ....

[@Robbay363]

22:10 Holy shit dude I can't believe I never noticed the lick there.

[@p5rsona]

Sonic team loves to fix what's not broken, rather than just improve it

[@ansemthetrueseekerofdarkne2730]

Hopefully we end up getting Sonic x Knuckles Unleashed within the next few years, with Angel Island as a Kronos Island level open area with Knuckles defending the Master Emerald from Dark Gaia monsters.

[@AnonymousC2218]

Sonic x knuckles & Knuckles

[@Lime-AID]

Sonic Unleshed & Knuckles

[@coolguydoesstuff7876]

With all new funky mode

[@SolidN8]

Another cifesk video, satisfactory

[@deanmoriarty6015]

honestly I think I prefer the translations, which I typically don’t. eggman going “FESTIVE!” to Sonic being a literal beast is genuinely funny asf

[@cashordeals3672]

Seen my favorite sonic game on the thumbnail and was immediately like yeah I'm gonna watch it

[@madhouse9330]

Well this is a niffty video to stumble across at work

[@Second_UNIT]

Noting for myself: Start of Trivia section has real life area references

[@galacticalspyral]

Dude! Those lenticular covers were so fucking cool!!! 🤩 I didn't even know SEGA had thought about doing something like that for Unleashed. I really wish they could've been a pre-order bonus for the game, I would have loved to have one...

[@Mumma-Miah]

0:30 bro hasnt even finished watching his own videos

[@DankHarvey-cw3hw]

13:15 the PS2 port also has these controls, they just ported the 8-directional movement to the PS2 version - no enhancements were made for the dualshock

[@omarnsouli1555]

can u do more videos in this format. I just feel its more concentrated a little bit. If u do continue doing videos in this format do it for sa2 or sonic 06 that would be super interesting. Also the amount of care and attention to detail put in this game is insane!

[@UchennaEgbo]

Also do a video on games like sa1 and heroes

[@omarnsouli1555]

@@UchennaEgbo agreed

[@jeroenboth167]

Awesome video and I grew up with the PS2 version of this game (I still love it) with this also been my first 3D Sonic game so I have a lot of nostalgia for it 😁

[@Zomboy4313]

This video makes me want to play some Unleashed, thank you

[@VTRcomics]

20:00 I'm sure that the main thing the script went for was Eggman being ironic or satirical, calling his foe's new dark and broody form "festive." But I gotta say, this is series and video highlights some of the absolute best documentation of one of my favorite games of all time. It's going to be great to watch over the Sonic Heroes videos that I didn't know about until now. Love watching these!

[@yoyooo2008]

10:54 this still makes my disappointment immeasurable to this day

[@possibly_ben]

22:20 yo this lick is in hit's theme from dragon ball fighterz

[@erics802]

In the final cut scene eggman’s sidekick robot chuckles with no audio, but on the wii you’ll hear the same chuckle as the Eggman blocks and Eggman Springs There is a menu overlap glitch where you can level up to the max at the end of dragon Road night kzbin.info/www/bejne/j3nVfXqMd5qqqa8si=jWq5g6lt2WqPCJ7n

[@mariovideos491]

Very detailed!

[@Cifesk]

omg mario videos

[@NebulonRanger]

22:00 Fucking Hell I never noticed. I CAN'T ESCAPE THE GODFORSAKEN LICK.

[@Aardie_Aardwolf]

22:55- 23:40 I did not know that good to know that.

[@SonicTheHedgehogX15]

Why arent these 2 people directing more sonic games? Their goated and understand sonic so well

[@Wippipippi]

Hashimoto left Sega after Unleashed, joined Square Enix and developed the now defunct Luminous engine, as for the lady I don't know.

[@SonicTheHedgehogX15]

@@Wippipippi hashimoto shoulve stayed, hes kinda goated

[@nightlydata2181]

Kawamura was art director for future games like colors/gens & wutnot. I believe she was part o frontiers in a similar capacity. TLDR She sill works at sega/st but her role isn't as impactful as wit unleashed since after that game most of the series kept a consistent look like she was attemptin to achieve initially

[@KingJJ2345LIVE]

I was waiting until I beat the main story to watch your unleashed videos and you did not disappoint, I love these videos bro!

[@Cifesk]

@KingJJ2345LIVE thank you man! :) I'm also waiting until I beat P5 to watch yours haha

[@Tromite]

Love Sonic Unleashed! Better than Generations! It was the peak of boost Sonic!

[@Sithedd]

Believe it or not, this is the only video on youtube that accurately shows how to do the spagonia skips. Every other video is either wrong or a troll.

[@boop53]

10:52 regarding the eggmanland internal names, has anyone else heard the name “Crimson Carnival” used for eggmanland? where did this come from?

[@thatguyknownaswill8180]

7:42 sonic goes to the real world dude

[@chuckymunsterstudios]

Such a great game

[@Rocket04]

YES!

[@TheBytegeist]

11:08 Hello from the guy who first discovered that renderer in the PC verison of Sonic Generations, and made it available for the Generations Unleashed Project mod. There's nothing "uncompleted" about it. It's the original Unleashed renderer, which was replaced in Generations with another one, most likely for the support of stereoscopic 3D. 3D TVs were a brief fad between 2010 and 2013, perhaps spurred by the success of Cameron's 2009 Avatar film. Not surprising that stereo 3D was a big feature point for 2011's Sonic Generation. 22:46 No, one is not based on the other. The audio samples used by both are from a track called "Chords 3" on the 1999 sample CD "SoundScan 16: Bossa Brazil". People sometimes bring up a track called "Playing Hard to Get" by Blue Cat, which can easily be found on KZbin. But that is not the original source, it simply uses the same samples from SoundScan Vol. 16. 15:50 No, "werehog" is not a misnomer! People who bring that up have no clue how languages work. Languages and the meanings of their words change all the time. Just take the word "clue" I just used. Originally it meant "ball of thread or yarn". Also, the English word "hedgehog" is a compound word already, so if you think that "werehog" means "half man, half pig", then you surely must also think that "hedgehog" means he's "half bush, half pig"? :P I could go on about how Sonic has always been a "werehog" in that sense anyway, being an anthropomorphic (literally "man-shaped") character, but let's just end it and say that Sonic Team's usage of "werehog" makes perfect sense. There's precedence for it (it was used before, they didn't invent it), and even if you've never heard the word before, you can easily guess its intended meaning. If it gets the idea across, it's a good word - language is for communication, after all. Anyway, nice work, I've enjoyed your videos on Unleashed!

[@shy_doge]

very cool

[@Santy7893]

3:46 Unleashed on Wii/PS2 weren't actually developed by Dimps, they were developed by SonicTeam, since when you boot up the game, after shows the Sega screen, it shows the SonicTeam logo and if you look in the credits, you'll see that the game was created by SonicTeam and never shows Dimps at all, the only member from Dimps that was involved heavily in Wii unleashed was the lead level designer of the day stages Masaaki Yamagiwa, the same thing applies with the handheld games being developed by SonicTeam, not just the Dimps members

[@TheBytegeist]

Yes, Unleashed Wii/PS2 was developed mainly by Sonic Team, but Dimps did contribute. Yamagiwa is not the only person affiliated with Dimps and credited in Unleashed Wii. There's also Yuka Kobayashi, for example, and certainly others. Wikipedia cites two sources: "Sonic Team is managing the Wii development, but the coding and some of the design is being handled by some of our external partners in Japan. Fans of Sonic Rush and Sonic Rush Adventure will be pleased to hear that Dimps is involved in designing the Wii stages!" - Patrick Riley, producer at Sega of America, in an interview with Play Magazine "Although Sonic Team is solely responsible for the PS3 and 360 versions of the title, software house Dimps is providing backup support with daytime level designs for the Wii and PS2 versions." - IGN article "Eyes-on Sonic Unleashed"

[@Santy7893]

Oh okay, I was almost certain that SonicTeam was also responsible for the secondary unleashed since I did search up some of the other names of the credits for the people who worked on the level design though I forgot the results I had, I did know that the Dimps members did work on the other games such as advance all the way to the rush games, just that a lot of people claim them as them being the only people to work on the games when SonicTeam were still heavily involved in those projects

[@Mr_Ultimate]

ngl man, you should have just called this the sonic unleashed bonus video

[@damianporter942]

commenting for engagment!

[@GlitchSpeedrunnerTrevor]

I knew Mazuri was based off of Africa, but I did not know they had structures from the original game looking like the exact same one. That impresses me on enjoying this game even more. Bonus Trivia here: When I was looking though the Ambient Sound files for the game, there are files for Mazuri/Savannah Citadel of the Zebras having filenames for a Horse (*amb_ambsn_afr_horse*). I'm no expert, though may be similar, I don't remember there being any horses in Africa. I'd thought I'd share this interesting fact.

[@ErickBergamasco]

You're just like "Planeta Sonic" only somehow better :)

[@Cifesk]

I'm planeta sonic if they were good

[@gayborb5166]

i absolutely love this video but i cant find the link to the dopamine store you mentioned and i couldnt search it up

[@SkylarAlexander-e1s]

1:09 How do you have 100 lives?!

[@jaymakers2682]

He js good

[@erics802]

If it’s not surprising, my favorite NPC is Eric

[@mayoat.y]

22:46 weirdly enough I still see nobody ever mention that this intro is directly inspired by Bluecat's song "Playing hard to get"

[@TheBytegeist]

Because that would be incorrect. There are many, many sample packs/libraries that contain all sorts of audio samples for music creators to use. Both "Blue Cat" and Ohtani simply happened to use the same source: a 1999 sample CD called "SoundScan 16: Bossa Brazil". So, "Playing hard to get" is NOT the original.

[@bunsmasterbunny]

Will you make one of these for 06 please?

[@kitchenpotsnpans]

Dang I gavr instant like, I guess the werehog is just that powerful

[@funofgames500]

I will say that: for xbox we finally get a god of war game🎉

[@nightlydata2181]

The trilogy is complete. I don't think I've EVER seen a pic of Kawamura so that surprised me. I liked that u added a good amount of trivia even tho u didn't need to like the speedrun strats or story related explanations like Y sonic goes werehog. Wut would make more sense to call it, hedgewolf, wolfhog? I feel so stupid for NEVER realizin sonic runnin from Amy was ALSO a reference to CD🤦‍♂. Great vid once again

[@Kingring3]

Well 👍

[@cliffturbo2146]

Thank you once again for going in-depth for this amazing game. It's easy to tell a game with so much heart and these people involved in the development did a damn good work. I sincerely hope a re-release will become a reality😁

[@MaverixWondrs]

So what is he a Hedgewolf?🤨

[@Safalmao]

werehog, doesn't really make since but a blue talking animal doesn't make since either.

[@Ganymede2076]

10:43 to me eggmanland reminds me of north korea if six flags was put in like the middle of pyongyang

[@Mahdi12]

Because Sonic Unleashed is peak, that’s why.

[@Typotypes]

When you mentioned the rooftop run reference I literally got giddy over it for no reason other than it’s cool

[@superkekimovil1226]

Pero se arreglaron los Bugs con la actuación?

[@mandjoka_]

bro your game is too dark, change the gamma settings into xenia

[@MaverixWondrs]

At 18:19 that gotta be a smash bros reference

[@Bonnerproductions]

Are you from Italy?

[@That1One-Guy]

I’m pretty sure he’s Portuguese

[@AnotherNikoPfpOnYoutube]

He is portuguese

[@Cifesk]

Portugal

[@That1One-Guy]

@@Cifesk YESSSSSS AVERAGE CIFESK WWWWWWW

[@Milesdash25]

When I first played Sonic Unleashed and I was shocked that Adabat was Inspired from Southeast Asia Including Indonesian. The music in Hub world even using Gamelan And seing Tongkonan house exist in Sonic Games, that was amazing. Felt like home hahaha

[@rdg_pt]

Cifesk❤

[@Cifesk]

amo-te

[@thymecrafter]

I laughed for a solid minute when he said that the forces model was better quality i know it _techincally_ is but DEFINITELY not visually 12:04

[@That1One-Guy]

Can you make a compilation of all three video without the intro and maybe those transitions you usually have in your bonus videos? It would make rewatching this much more enjoyable.

[@Blankzer0000o]

Awesome game.

[@Ender-kk7gg]

IIRC Dimps did not work on Unleashed Wii/PS2, it was made by members of Sonic Team who made Secret Rings, Black Knight, and Colors

[@TheBytegeist]

While Dimps might not be mentioned by name, looking up some of the names in the credits confirms that they contributed. They weren't the main developers, however, that was Sonic Team, like you said. Wikipedia cites two sources: "Sonic Team is managing the Wii development, but the coding and some of the design is being handled by some of our external partners in Japan. Fans of Sonic Rush and Sonic Rush Adventure will be pleased to hear that Dimps is involved in designing the Wii stages!" - Patrick Riley, producer at Sega of America, in an interview with Play Magazine "Although Sonic Team is solely responsible for the PS3 and 360 versions of the title, software house Dimps is providing backup support with daytime level designs for the Wii and PS2 versions." - IGN article "Eyes-on Sonic Unleashed"

[@goncaloborlinha9899]

1 swag puh-lease !! perchance......... i love sonic unleashed

[@Cifesk]

O que é que tu QUERES

[@gabriel.centeio]

salve from rio di djanerow 🥰

[@Cifesk]

@@gabriel.centeio gente...

[@BiggieWoo]

My brother's play this game

[@chaoraiser2338]

Well yes and no actually, because werehog in a human case would be someone turning into a hog or a hedgehog, in sonic's case because he's already a hedgehog, he's technically a hedgehog turning into....well a hedgehog, oddly enough an even more unrealistic one lol.

[@lucaf3255]

First

[@superkekimovil1226]

No sabía que la ps3 tiene los FPS desbloqueados 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

[@KellanGDM]

I vote for the werhog to become the Hedgewolf.

[@foxxoice]

It was .only. called Dark Era Cause fans(ANDcritics) .hate. experimentation And Differences And Would Rather Kiss Nostalgias [HOOCHIEMAMA]

[@dissonanceparadiddle]

Three four words "copy God of war"

[@Safalmao]

more like inspired by or parody of, keep in mind sonic is parody of mickey mouse, dragon ball, star wars and of course mario.

[@mrtimtom2631]

your information is great but your voice is hella annoying. would've been better to use ai and have pauses between your sentence breaks. I have to breathe for you

[@deanmoriarty6015]

preferring an AI over an actual person because they have an accent is crazy lol