Unsolicited feedback: You've got American lazytalking syndrome to some degree, which makes it slightly difficult to understand what you are saying. For future recordings, it would be better if you were to bring your voice away from your throat and try to mind your lip movement more.
Thanks so much for the feedback I’m trying to make sure my words are enunciated properly so people understand what I’m saying better which has required me to change how I speak a bit, still trying to get it right lol
Being a Sonic fanatic for 30 years, I had never played this game at the time, I didn’t yet have a PS3/360 when it dropped.. and I avoided it for years Kuz the internet was adamant on it being a bad game. But I just played it for the first time this week and ya it has A LOT of problems but it’s clear the problems are just due to it being unfinished. Underneath all that there’s actually a really good game. The level design is so good! I was shocked how much I enjoyed my time with it once looking passed all those issues due to it being unfinished. I’ve kinda been a bit obsessed with it since beating it 😹😹 I got a lot of issues with the story, and personally I never really liked the Final Fantasy tone they went with it, I always preferred Sonic to be more sci-fi like SA2 or like the tone of SA1, but I can’t deny the story had some of the COOLEST character moments! And it was nice as someone who misses when Sonic stories were more serious and epic, to experience a story like that again. Gaaaah Shadow’s ending inhibitor ring cutscene! I literally cried watching it! It was SO EPIC!!! Especially how badly they’ve butchered Shadow’s character these past years, seeing him done right felt so good! Hands down his best portrayal in a game post SA2!
Gotta blame Bethesda more. They decided helped these peeps get evil within 1 and 2 out. And when they wanted a passion project to get done, they screwed em over. That said, Microsoft WHY ARE YOU BUYING THESE COMPANIES IF YOURE GONNA SHUT THEM DOWN it's a miracle people still wanna work with them, after those two high grade closings...
I always felt a lot of story elements could probably work better if the time travel were replaced by another MacGuffin that lets you do it (like Time Rings that activate in tandem with two people, or just the Time Stones from CD returning). For Mephiles, while they could showcase more of how unrelentingly malicious he is, the writing staff could have just pulled off something like what Dragon Ball Super would eventually do, where Mephiles can only stay in a time period for a limited duration before being sucked back to the present. It would help establish why he wants to merge with Iblis specifically in the present rather than just simply time travelling to the era where he's literally free, as he's likely sealed in both eras and doesn't have the time to find the Scepter.
I really wish this game had turned out better. It was around the time I was becoming more passionate about games, so maybe this game could've been my "Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time" as successful and game defining the game was but instead it ended up being my Superman 64 of the gaming world. Ok, maybe that's a bit harsh, but it's up there.
i love this game to DEATH. sure its buggy in places and is missing 40% of the content originally meant to be in the game but, i dont care. i dont really blame the game, i blame sega being so money hungry. (also, 06 has Aquatic Base, the best level in the franchise and has the best ost in the franchise too) im actually going for the WR on Aquatic Base ATM.
So there actually is a reason why Tere is a sudden Day/night switch during the opening scene. See the game was originally supposed to have a Dynamic Day/night cycles where time would actually progress in real time during gameplay. But it was sadly dropped surprisingly late in developent as all the Files for them were left fully intact and working on in the files of the XboxLive Demo sega released. It was just disabled. So what was most likely the original plan was for the cutscene to play During night time. And then the Time cycle was to Kick off during night time and progress to day time. But since it was Scrapped the game just Throws you into day time. as the nighttime areas were completely cut.
Finally someone mentions the stiff controls of this game during the speed stages compared to the buttery smooth controls of Adventure 1 especially the one second delay spindash in this game after the button is pressed compared to the instant spindash of Adventure 1
Fun fact: during the scene where Sonic and friends arrive back to the present, you can see Knuckles' mocap actor sprained his ankles upon landing and they just left it in the game
I'm already 100% convinced to download P-06 into my family's newest PC when Chaos X gets that version of Sonic 06 completed! I'm very much looking forward to doing it. Also last summer Silver became my third favorite character in this whole franchise equal to the amount of interest that I have in Sonic and Shadow, so I can't wait to be playing as that cute telepathic hedgehog in the fixed quality that Chaos X has him in. It gets completely hilarious of the amount of times you can hear him saying: "It's no use...take this!" during the first boss battle that he has with Sonic, Lol. I really hope that he appears in the mid-credits scene of the upcoming Sonic 3 movie, and that Paramount makes the next movie be an adaption of Sonic 06 with some better writting so that the story can make sense in the universe that it would take place in. It is possible because I saw the list of Sonic games that Sega is allowing Paramount to adapt, and Sonic 06 is one of the games that are on it. In my opinion the whole game looks like a disguised Sonic Adventure 3 one!
As the continuity & world of Sonic continued to grow, back in the day, the more and more invested I became because, at heart, I enjoy how a game makes me feel. I like challenging gameplay and if a game isn't all that good gameplay wise, but still fine enough, I can still find some enjoyment if a game can make me feel immersed. Hence, why I can enjoy Sonic 06 and even the storybook games. I have a pretty high tolerance for jank in games and I find it it challenge to make it work so, none of that bothers me too much. What really drew me in was the ambition of Sega at the time, & those titles were able to immerse me into each game's world & characters. Fun times. Though, of course, I still see the flaws but I guess this just gives another perspective into how someone could like a game like this. And, of course, I'm not alone in that sentiment. Thanks for the video. I enjoyed it & I like the style & pace of it. Awesome job. Have a nice day everyone.
Sonic 06 along it both development and production history served as both cautionary tales and warnings about releasing games in anniversaries and holidays while still in development and production and not completed result in terrible gaming experience due many factors like glitches bugs technical issues poor hand and tanks controls graphical problems unpolished level design terrible loading rushed development wasted potentials horrible executions qualities and writings in hindsight theory concepts ideas and practice sonic 06 could have been the best sonic game and perhaps one of the greatest video game in video game history and one would helped redefining and revitalizing sonic franchises as whole being one of the most beloved iconic and popular gaming franchise but unfortunately due circumstances beyond anyone control and nether having time chance nor opportunity to polishing refining or improving on it qualities executions animations graphics visuals effects gaming designs levels tank controls writings production values gameplay and not realizing or reaching it full potentials resulting on not only the worst most tragic and despised sonic game but also one of the worst video game in history one that casted a dark mark tragedy and biggest waste in sonic franchise history which is really heartbreaking because I love this game in PlayStation 3 era
There is an explanation for Blaze for what was the plan in that she was originally meant to be from the future, but then ultimately her origin as we know hers to be from Rush. If you look google "Clearing up the confusion in the fanbase regarding Sonic 06" from spiritsonic tumblr. It's a similar situation to how in Battle it obviously takes place after sometime after Heroes and even arguably Shadow the Hedgehog due to Rouge noting that a Gamma robot looks just like Omega despite that Battle released before Heroes did by about a month for Japan, but for North America a literal day difference. Suffice to say tho the "blue hedgehog" translated lines did not help in the slightest (they're not in the Japanese version) as if Blaze knows their target is Sonic along with how neither of them interact with each other is knowing the other. At the end of the day her backstory is from Rush in being from another dimension, but she has that vague sense of familiarity that she has lived another life which is why games like Colors DS and Generations highlight that she and Silver were partners once in another life and what is likely inspired by the famous Japanese story of the lonely Princess Orihime and Hikoboshi, two lovers who get separated across space on opposite ends of the milky way and can’t see each other anymore.
Dawg I read that whole tumblr post and man that’s the most concrete thing I’ve seen connecting these two games together and it was a very interesting read through! I wish these teams had more time back then to officially weave these games together and make it more cohesive cause it seems had their plans gone through we could’ve had an interesting trilogy of games. (If the poster is correct in their memory of that interview with one of the developers interested in making a silver the hedgehog game) everything else had good sources to back it up, thanks for the info 🙏🏾
This game being playable for more then a minute is like having 90-95% of the power scaling community be normal. stable and reasonable people, it makes NO SENSE. and i would know cause i pissed one off
@@sonicrayj6826 bad games always comes from good intentions really, both Sonic 06 and Sonic Boom Rise of Lyric were the victim of corporate greed by Sega
@@ICader7194Hello there! I'll knock the obvious ones out of the way first! Soundtrack is one of the best in the series, the level design is some of the best in the series (06, Adventure and Frontiers are the only games that truly feel open when playing them), the voice acting was the best in the series at the time excluding SatAM, it's probably the only game until Forces that doesn't have embarrassing acting. Soleanna as a location slaps. I adore the tone and atmosphere of the game, its characters are goofy and funny as usual but take the situation seriously, the bonds of the characters feel genuine and expanding, there is actual flow and thought put into their actions and you constantly understand their motivations (something that wasn't present in the older games except Heroes and Shadow, things just randomly happened and characters just randomly traveled to locations before). Now to my 2 favorite subjects of the game. One is the villain, Solaris, specifically its talkative half Mephiles the Dark. I ADORE Mephiles, Mephiles IS the best villain in this entire franchise, there isn't a figure more imposing, a voice more menacing, a goal more evil. Mephiles is him, he is the quintessential Sonic villain, he has it all. And lastly, the story. Yo, yoooo, I will never NEVER understand the hate for 06's story, it's lunacy. The scapegoat is plot holes usually and to that I'll just say are you kidding me people? Half of Sonic Adventure's events are plot holes, Sonic Adventure 2 is a plot hole generator (and Knuckles' side of things was always especially hole-y, the way his campaign starts, how he finds the pyramid randomly, how he escapes a random sewer and oh so conveniently bumping STRAIGHT INTO Tails and Amy) and this game might have the most of all, Heroes is mostly fine in terms of plot holes, let's not even get started on Shadow the Hedgehog lol. None of these games (except maybe Shadow) get 💩 for having an infinite amount of plot holes, why does 06? Why is this the exception? Its story comes together better than MANY others so why does this happen? I'll tell you why, cause people WANT to hate this game, especially around the 2009-2015 timespan due to RU-vid creators doing it with extrimism and over exaggerations 06 became a game people wanted to hate, the "glaring issues" are present in the entire series and yet only 06 catches the punches. So anyway, I adore it, Sonic's side is boring and repetitive but every other character has something interesting to do or say. It's the best use of the cast to this day, 06 should be the foundation of every game going forward in terms of cast usage. I won't yap any longer, I'll just also drop the negatives to not come off as a fanboy. Performance is bad on the PS3 (although glitches on casual playthroughs aren't as common as people say), Blaze's implementation is really bad, Mach speed sections are broken in design and only cool conceptually, how everyone landed in the time-space rift together is a convenience that doesn't make sense, Elise being given an Emerald so young makes no sense unless she lost it shortly after and reclaiming it prior to 06's events so the rest of the games can happen, Rouge and Knuckles' wall climbing is insultingly bad, loading screens are only an issue if you do the Town Missions, speaking of Town Missions mostly suck. So yeah, 06, 8/10 game 👍
@@AnarchoTak I adore 06 gameplay, it's the closest thing to Adventure 1 they've ever done since that game in 1998. The homing attack is the best in the Adventure Era for me, the spin kick looks cool AF and better than the SA2 somersault, Silver's gameplay is PEAK AF, I love most of it. Knuckles and Rouge are the only characters that genuinely play horribly and that's due to the abysmal wall climbing. And Amy, Amy's laughably bad lol. The game doesn't feel slow in the levels cause the level design is built around that speed, the levels have amazing flow to them. Only thing that feels slow is Silver in the Soleanna valley. And I love Unleashed as well like I mentioned in my OG comment! 06 is second place, I do think Unleashed is the best Sonic game of all time!
Just wanted to formally state my interest in on a slightly longer review of P06 from you as its a marvel and I've liked all of your coverage of prior games so far.
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Did not expect to see the Sonic Heroes review so soon!!! I agree that the whole game flawed and that there is little deviation between the stages and each team's playthrough. However that doesn't change the fact that this is still one of my favorite Sonic games. I think you simply had to be a kid during this time to be able to appreciate some of these titles Mechanically they are not the best. But there is a vibe and an aura about Sonic games that released during this time that I feel has yet to be replicated with modern titles. The last _Sonic-y_ game (in terms of characters, story etc.) that released was Generations.
