This is still harder than any of the recent 3D Sonic stages

Windmill Isle Act 4 stans, where are you at??
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[@Lana_305]

I made a follow-up. lmao kzbin.info/www/bejne/ipLFlmx3eZJretUsi=FLx7vFGnGl5W5DbI

[@GioGiotaro]

I imagine the engineer from Apotos thinking like "Ye man, let's just put some flamethrowers right in the middle of the street"

[@HuguitodaGlr]

My guy was so bored one day that he just put flamethrowers and spikes on a "regular" road of a pacific island.

[@Lana_305]

Don't forget the pit of spikes!

[@HuguitodaGlr]

@@Lana_305 Yeah, i always let my kids playing on the non-lethal-totally-safe pit of spikes. 🤣

[@mrsir8179]

Hell naw boyy why you pausing during the quick time? That ain't no quick time event no more😭

[@mawthesonicfan1877]

fr, OH and also don’t forget the spikes that come up and down :D

[@manorstation]

This stage is a fast paced memory test. That's true for a lot of sonic related things but there is no way anyone could get a good rank here first try.

[@Jordanlovellaussie]

I did😭

[@Tacoman0301]

Sonic can

[@ArthurBr1000Oficial]

Thats why I prefer Sonic Frontiers, is more a skill game than a memorizing the stage to get faster game

[@areakastudios6704]

That’s basically the fun of the boost games, especially unleashed.

[@quirozarriolaadrianleonel8839]

No

[@TheToppestOfNeps]

never in my life would i have thought to just… pause to ready myself for a trick ramp’s inputs

[@milesprower6110]

That's a little dirty ma'friend, I will understand pausing to wait for the levels to load fully. But I shall recommend doing levels without exploits

[@castlingsite]

​@@milesprower6110nah, F all that. This stage does not deserve my sportsmanship.

[@marthflores3515]

@@milesprower6110 not an exploit man just paused

[@_Hero_Link_]

​@@marthflores3515it gives him more reaction time for QTEs

[@TheGrammarNazi123]

What is a "nep"?

[@Terrano4]

"I can see myself dying to the spikes" "Which spikes?" *"Yes"*

[@Eichro]

imagine you wake up one day in apotos and somebody installed 2 mile-long obstacle course of death with flamethrowers and huge spike carpets

[@thenoobuhh6313]

bet it's an average Tuesday for them

[@lpfan4491]

Bro, imagine you live in china and there are spikes and homing missiles everywhere.(Yes, that other Unleashed DLC is pretty evil)

[@lorenzoreigada9681]

i cant believe i never realized you can pause during the QTEs

[@Lana_305]

Imma be real, I only learned this a few months ago and I was just as shocked as you.

[@lorenzoreigada9681]

@@Lana_305 i wish i found out about it sooner lol, this makes it so much easier

[@megadunsparce3672]

Pause buffering for qte is so real

[@darkspace1350]

ik by QTE you mean the ramp inputs, but what exactly does it stand for?

[@lorenzoreigada9681]

@@darkspace1350 quick time event

[@UltraNinja]

The unleased extra stages were on a different level and honestly I miss them

[@Nahtan123]

Pretty sure a couple made an appearance in frontiers' later stages, or at least the level design from some of them used

[@selassieaspen9940]

​@@Nahtan123Frontiers is more actually difficult to skill instead of memorization, which this still isn't as hard. Advance games are more challenging, too, if we are talking about all Sonic games that aren't glitched.

[@Beninator174]

The Forces-fan mind cannot comprehend such a feat.

[@drexos3622]

I can't comprehend there being unironic Forces fans to begin with

[@Beninator174]

@@drexos3622 lol

[@Lana_305]

Especially when you consider the fact that Unleashed has 75 stages WITH DLC meanwhile Forces has 39 including bonus stages and Episode Shadow.

[@drexos3622]

@@Lana_305 Most of these being mini-stages like the ones in Colors

[@jordancromwell]

Forces fans exist?

[@SaiyanGamer95]

I love Sonic Unleashed. It's the game where you really FEEL like you're going insanely fast! I don't seem the games after have given the same feeling as Unleashed.

[@Lana_305]

I remember when I watched gameplay of Frontiers and seeing people spam the boost button. Before the game released I said to myself "why do they keep spamming the boost button?" and then I realized that Frontiers is does NOT feel fast at all.

[@dayvonlouis5187]

@@Lana_305true but to be honest after generations they’ve dialed back the intensity a bit it’d be pretty insane to be on one side of an island and pop up on the other side in less than 3 seconds with unleashed or generations speed

[@spec2893]

"Modern games are boost to win!" This mf stage:

[@Hyp3rSonic]

Forces is boost to win, actually

[@thawkade]

Gens and Unleashed are both over a decade old, I don't even know if you can classify them as "modern" anymore 💀

[@aboutlo.2324]

This is the Sonic gameplay I miss... not the exact difficulty or anything like that, but the fast paced level design with the longer stages were the greatest

[@DreamerFromTheDepths]

I think every Sonic game should have challenging extra stages but thia type of difficulty should definitely be specifically for extra stages like that, though I do think the normal stages need to be amped up in difficulty it should not be to this degree.

[@vixtheexistent6390]

Some of the frontiers final horizon cyberspace stages I feel did a pretty decent job at this, the only thing I disagree with for those levels is there being no checkpoints in them.

[@KennethEvanderNJo]

This level requires insane reflexes dude

[@tl1882]

0:26 i recognise that snare sample

[@zackfirex1009]

Kamek’s theme from Mario and Sonic at the 2012 Olympic Winter Games is BASED

[@Lana_305]

Rest in piece the Mario & Sonic Olympics all because of NFTs...

[@lilsoonerfaninmo]

I gotta give credit where it's due, at least this stage doesn't have the huge mental stack as other stages to learn and S rank (yeah it throws a lot at you, but it's like a minutes worth of it vs several minutes of slightly less thrown at you)

[@captinsparklezremix]

S ranking something like Jungle Joyride is so satisfying because of it's level length. Love Unleashed and it's long ass levels.

[@ALloydRH]

It's hilarious how much harder the Apotos adventure pack was compared to the rest of the DLC XD

[@juwanhoward196]

This stage takes me back Unleashed in my opinion is the best of the boost games era

[@simeondavis5912]

Now this is a REAL sonic level

[@nemesisknight5017]

hell yeah i recently poster this level on reddit and damm you good try the qss speed glitch it adds heap of deapth to that level it took me 300 lives getting it with the glitch

[@Mazgid]

Wait this isn't hardest stage in sonic game have you saw my 1-2 level speed run??????????????? It's all sarcasm, unleashed to this day is best of boosting games

[@captinsparklezremix]

It's funny how Unleashed is the best 3D boost game and it was their first attempt. All the other boost games are so wishy-washy in their quality.

[@Raydnt69]

And yet Unleashed got so much hate... Damn shame.

[@snakey888]

@@Raydnt69 Having undesirable content such as werehog, mandatory medal collecting and unstable performance will do that.

[@Hyp3rSonic]

​@@snakey888yep!

[@Hyp3rSonic]

​@@captinsparklezremixother than generations

[@Robbay363]

Even as someone who thinks unleashed is pretty overrated, one thing I LOVE is the addition of these extra challenging levels. I think platformers should always have shit like this, especially for postgame.

[@Sleepyboi_U]

Seriously, who puts spikes in the middle of the damn road?

[@max-potato-muncher]

Ovoid people who dislike blue spiky mammals and their two-tailed vulpine companions

[@op_magee]

Still the GOAT

[@uc12341]

Unleashed levels were just built different

[@breadiscool22]

I love Unleashed's dlc levels. Theyre either these obstacle courses, wonderful new levels (jungle joyride 1-2 you have my heart), or harder versions of previous levels, usually really fun!

[@lamboking8able]

Need more modern sonic stages like this. Maybe not exactly but this with 3 or 3 routes would be peak boost formula. Or better yet finally go back and perfect the adventure formula

[@HaremArchon]

That's how you know your game is good, if it requires quick thinking

[@pedroking2262]

Puzzle games:

[@Ismayamelasranaid]

They gotta hire back the level designer from unleashed

[@coolguydoesstuff7876]

i feel like the only recent sonic stage with the same level of mind numbing as this one is the sky sanctuary cyberspace one from sonic frontiers. i spent an embarrassing amount of time trying to get an s rank on that one

[@Lana_305]

Oh you mean the one that reuses all the 3D sections from this game's Windmill Isle Act 2 and slaps them into a level we've seen from Sonic Generations and the only reason it's hard in the first place is because the S Rank requirement is 55 seconds even though that's a shit way to score because points are way more interesting than just "going fast"??? And that stage is the ONLY hard stage in Frontiers? Where it's the 2nd level of the whole game? Yeah not having it.

[@user-vw5qg9kk2m]

@@Lana_305 calm down now, hahaha

[@JohnnyDoorknob]

@@Lana_305jeez

[@Pyrodiac]

@@user-vw5qg9kk2m No no, let em cook.

[@Hyp3rSonic]

​​@@Pyrodiac(that was my other account) Anyways, 1-2 wasn't the only stage I found hard to S rank. Btw, I kinda hate the scoring system(based on score) in general in Sonic games, and i wont change my mind on that.

[@xProErax]

They peeked when it comes to difficulty for boost Sonic

[@BrockBreedingintheHoennRegion]

EXCELLENT RUN.

[@j.m.t.a9000]

This is the hardest sonic game ever made honestly

[@captinsparklezremix]

Nah that's Sonic Spinball😂 but Unleashed is definitely second just behind it.

[@goroakechi6515]

Sonic lost world was so difficult when I played it. Still the most hard sonic game out there currently.

[@Patty-ef2iv]

@@goroakechi6515 Although I feel like you're mostly fighting the controls in LW

[@lpfan4491]

​@@Patty-ef2ivAnd you're not in Unleashed?

[@Patty-ef2iv]

@@lpfan4491 For unleashed it's a combination of the two

[@hannahl4108]

MY JAW DROPPED THAT WAS AMAZING

[@Roze_aye]

this is why i love unleashed boost stages. from colors onwards they start gravitating more towards the platforming aspect of the level design. but the way unleashed, as well as the rush tril, played were more like reaction/memory games. the actually pathways in unleashed really arent that much different than forces, this stage is literally a giant straight line hallway with some 90 degree turns. most unleashed stages are. but the speeds we are running at, the set dressing, and the smart use of gimmicks throughout the stage make them so interesting you dont have time to notice, or really care. if you want more intricate platforming. ditch the hallways, ditch the boost. they just dont work together

[@windy3935]

Damn them dlc stages this good, huh.

[@ryan41226]

This Is Harder Than Eggmanland?

[@Lana_305]

To me, Eggmanland is my favorite Sonic stage so I would say yes AND no.

[@rmat9023]

they really went hard with this game. This song goes hard too. I'd say some stages from Sonic Forces had almost as much difficulty as this but they were like 30 second long stages.

[@Bmontepeque11]

Sonic Unleashed day stages have always been the peak of Sonic gameplay. I haven't played Colors, but I played Generations and it is indeed, awesome. But Unleashed level design being a little bit longer and more challenging gave it a little edge for me

[@spaceshipgozooooom5646]

I miss my homie. He's the only person I know who knew these stages like the back of his hand.

[@kumatorahaltmanndreemurr]

I already wanted to play Sonic Unleashed, but this increased my interest dramatically. This shit looks so fun

[@jacobpow9364]

i remember this taking me hours to s rank rip 360

[@Hyp3rSonic]

Even if i dont really like Unleashed personally, compared to most other sonic games(still love it tho), its still kinda fun(imo)

[@BurritoGarp]

The fact there's still so many people appreciating this masterpiece of a level makes me so happy

[@Nomad-vc6hx]

Bro these graphics are impeccable

[@ThrackerZ0d]

I'm not a big fan of this game, but it's a real shame Sega hasn't done cool levels like this anymore, maybe it's because they wanted to make the most newer games easier for ign or children?

[@MintyBoi8]

I have flashbacks of ExoParadigmGamer's review and how much he hated these stages.

[@sheikaejulius4441]

This is some canonical ass sonic gameplay

[@justanactualrealbear]

My god, you LOCKED TF IN

[@lukas2.036]

I thought I was the only one who pauses the game to see the QuickTime events buttons

[@333z]

The way i remember this is crazy

[@elibonham4388]

This is actually a good side step sections in most sonic games quick step sections are brain dead but this is what im talking about. I love getting am S rank in this level

[@JUMPYCOOL]

I will say this looks way harder then Frontiers, I decided to play Frontiers for the first time on Hard difficulty and it was so easy (I still haven’t beat it yet.)

[@bokimalou]

Sonic can be a rythm game if you design a stage around it

[@dayvonlouis5187]

Now that’s a level to pump some adrenaline into ya

[@Djammin14]

The pausing made me laugh, you had to make SURE you got those button presses!

[@Lana_305]

It's all fun and games until my thumb accidentally fat fingers the B button when I meant to press the Y button.

[@yibby7]

-400 aura when you used pause buffering to complete the qtes

[@yoshileespade]

Sonic as it should be

[@cafequente8252]

This is one of the reasons Unleashed is my favorite games to this day. It has some of the longest stages conceived for a Sonic game and perfectly avoiding every obstacle and getting every shortcut and QTE as you go feels way too satisfying. I'll probably go ola some levels after writing this comment

[@milesprower6110]

It's so satisfying to have levels that challenges your mastery after having everything, unlike other games that makes you unlock everything and have nothing to test with other than going back to the easy levels making it easier... _I will laugh if someone brings the Sonic Generations mod "hell levels"_

[@KitsuneShapeShifter]

Ok, who was the clowns who used to complain about this game for having werehog? Certainly wasn't me, I always said this was the BEST Sonic game

[@nicolasbernasconi7228]

I didn't complain about it on the internet but Hi

[@gunman8452]

This is harder than any boost stage after Unleashed lmao

[@zachattack1279]

Forces ass level design (it is a literal hallway)

[@aprettyfunnyperson4516]

This reminds me of that segment from SMBZ where Fire Sonic dashes forward while dodging enemies and sometimes delivering a homing attack to them on Bowser’s Doomship

[@tsyumamatsuthehavenofguard32]

...debatable, some of those special koko are a genuine pain in the quills

[@Hyp3rSonic]

I forgot about those koko. 😂 Don't think I completed any of those. Cyberspace is the real deal, tho. It's the only part of the game I actively play now

[@invaderlava]

man sonic unleashed is my favorite game of all time

[@jovani6044]

Hence why Unleashed is goated for difficulty and only for the skillest

[@ThePokemonKage]

"Straight lines and only holding the Boost button? What is this, sOnIc FoRcEs??!!!111!!!??" - average Sonic fan on Twitter

[@sonicadv27]

Kek no it isn’t. Some stuff like the fourth tower climb and a few challenges in Frontiers are way harder. At least you don’t have to put up with shitty controls, poor collision detection and dropped inputs in Unleashed.

[@Hyp3rSonic]

LMFAO

[@snakey888]

Unleashed does suffer from dropped inputs though.

[@Lana_305]

At least Unleashed looks like an actual Sonic game with art direction and not like you just plopped Sonic in an Unreal Engine 5 tech demo with a hyper-realistic deer.

[@Hyp3rSonic]

​@@snakey888I wonder why not enough people bring that specific issue up

[@bluequills80]

Sonic Unleashed DLC: I'm The hardest DLC in the franchise! Sonic Frontiers final horizon: you *were* the hardest DLC.

[@ItsNaylen]

It’s not even hard. It’s just terrible level design

[@snakey888]

Nah, S-ranking Unleashed DLC is still much harder than anything in Frontiers or its dlc.

[@Dektoonics_inc.]

​@@ItsNaylenSkill issue

[@ItsNaylen]

@@Dektoonics_inc. “skill issue” 🤓

[@lpfan4491]

​@@Dektoonics_inc.Design issue.

[@SUDDENROCK]

This looks solid fun! And then 0:40 appears....

[@Lana_305]

Before anyone else comments "But Frontiers DLC was harder" I would like to clarify I never played the DLC for Frontiers. I beat the base game, didn't like any of it, and I sold it to a friend for free. If I ever get it back and beat the game on extreme difficulty, then I'll tell you if I had fun or not. And Frontiers to me is not fun.

[@tacobelldumpster1538]

Not based

[@darkeye457]

Is ok to be wrong Frontiers is peak

[@s-dew]

​@@darkeye457its not peak... Its okay but peak? Hell nah, sonic is even slower than he was in 06 in that game

[@cirnosnumberfan6449]

Bro woke up and decided to have a trash take 💀

[@darkeye457]

@@s-dew Spindash

[@SoranotRoxas]

And yet you did it in 52 seconds 🐐

[@EVERARDEDGaming]

Good job I’m thinking about getting this on Xbox 360 version, and played it till the end of August.

[@tyroneallen5791]

Nah this stage Gave me problems but this dude fucking nailed it s rank goes to you

[@cj_bluethunder]

When the only things that are recent are Forces and Frontiers’s cyberspace levels, of course this is gonna be harder. Even Colors is harder with that low of a bar, barring 1-2.

[@Lana_305]

The thing is, 1-2 isn't hard because it's a difficult level. 1-2 is hard because it has a tight time limit.

[@cj_bluethunder]

@@Lana_305 true

[@Hyp3rSonic]

​@@Lana_305I find a couple of other stages from frontiers hard to S rank, at first

[@Samoldshit-o9k]

bro these graphics ❤❤❤

[@Lana_305]

2008 was ahead of it's time.

[@Beamo1080]

Look man. Keep doing your thing. It’s just, I’m always disappointed every time I click one of your videos expecting the kickass Sonic Unleashed ost but instead I get some random replacement track. Why do you do that?

[@Lana_305]

Keep in mind, I also play the Werehog levels a fair bit. (I just don't make videos on them as much) And as good as the Werehog battle theme is, I ain't gonna want to hear it several times because of the sudden jazz band that apparently follows me around.

[@mooganify]

They never did anything like this again

[@Lana_305]

I miss DLC stages like this too... (I didn't get the DLC in Frontiers FYI, so take that with a grain of salt)

[@just_an_elli]

​@@Lana_305 The DLC had the best levels/platforming in Frontiers without debate. It wasn't jaw-dropping or anything (I'm not dying to replay it), but it was certainly better than base Frontiers. If you're dying for Sonic content but don't feel like replaying a game you've already beaten, I'd say give it a try! Oh, but only if you've unlocked the spindash 😅

[@tbonegrady]

"Everybody agreed that segregation was the b-(0:39) WORST thing this country ever did"

[@madgentlemen6662]

Bro used choas control

[@artistanthony1007]

Sonic's speed in that game is absolutely stupid high, anyone who tries to say it's not needs to think again and get their eyes checked, HD Unleashed Boost is faster than legit Gens.

[@kornweed]

I love this stage lolz

[@scrubfiji4691]

We need fast sonic back

[@IndiGrey17]

i remember this bullshit when i was S ranking all of unleashed

[@Vivacy_Editzz]

the rush of the stage is so Sonic like.

[@yousefslimani99]

It looks kinda like a kaizo stage when you’re about to react quickly or else you’ll be dead for sure

[@Alex-pl2yr]

Reaction speed test

[@dennisjohnson1937]

Your reflexes have to be top notch in order to get an S Rank. Nice time btw. I got 1 minute, so you were 8 seconds faster than me.

[@mattybutler1985]

I never bothered with the Unleashed DLC because I'd heard it was hard but this honestly looks fun as hell!

[@MB-zv2zl]

sonic dash on steroids

[@MegaBYSON]

man has to pause to do the quick times lol

[@CosmicSponge2004]

I never once considered pausing to do QTEs correctly

[@drrockstar4040]

I forgot how hard unleashed was

[@longlivetheblackmamba2-8-24]

You know I don’t think that’s a bad thing, cuz those unleashed stages used to piss me off 😂😂😂

[@loxsik7330]

My fastest is 47 seconds on this stage

[@monotone5059]

No way we have to pause the QTE LMAO

[@SJtheMFZB]

At least he didn't drift with his feet. 🙄

[@chrange9714]

Master Koco's trial would like a word