Well of *course* Sonic wouldn't be worried about a Zap Cannon and its 50% accuracy! EDIT: My theory is that Sonic didn't know Robotnik was running No Guard, his hidden ability, instead of Thick Fat.
@@brasilballs That happens if external pressure is higher than internal pressure. Since there is air (pressure) in your lungs but no pressure in space, you do explode if you try to hold your breath. This is the same phenomena that explains why opening a door at high altitude/space sucks everything outside.
But Sonic knows Tails, so this is after Sonic 2! He's been in space without a suit! At the end of Wing Fortress, he clings on to Robotnik's escape shuttle as it exits the atmosphere, and is perfectly fine when he reaches Death Egg zone!
14:26 Not only is Sonic dragged away to a lingering death, but the reader is personally told to just sod off. I can't think of a better way to break the fourth-wall and drive the point home than that.
I also had the mental image of the footage being from a camera down on the ground, so instead of it being a big explosion, there's just a small blip of light and that's it, which I found equally as hilarious and anti-climactic.
36:04 The computer probably assumed that emeralds missing=emeralds deployed by it. Maybe Eggman didn't code it to check if they were deployed properly (though I doubt it would've been helpful to the heroes if he did account for that).
22:37 You know, there's something that's kinda bugging me. When you get the happy ending, but then Sonic and Tails wake up, and realize that they're still in the Warps of Confusion... what are they going to do? They don't know the way, so how will they get out? They're just gonna be stuck there for all eternity... Quite terrifying to think about. Man, this section with the Warps creeps me out a little. And it even got to the point where Sonic had to say to Tails: "Don't let go of me. If you do, I may never find you again.". That's kinda dark... But still, cool content as always! I'm looking forward to the next gamebook that you cover for Creepy Bad Endings! Keep up the good work! (And some of the sprite animations in this video are kinda funny, tbh.) Also, I have to say, the bad endings with Robotnik and the Zap Cannon are really funny. "DON'T JUST STAND THERE!"
The way the Warps of Confusion seem to be...well, confusing, and how the book explicitly tells you to go back to section 1 feels as if they might have willed to "warp" through time back to where they were instead of falling asleep. As far fetched as it sounds, it might as well be it without an explicit GAME OER prompt describing them stuck forever into the warps (or dying in space gruesomely for not having a suit). But it makes sense to think that could have been one possibility. One that if it were a digital game, might have been usable halfway or even at the end ("all was a dream in the spaceship" Kaizo Trap; maybe not too long after the beginning or right as you make Section 1 choice if whoever made it felt merciful to not waste their time with a doomed run lol)
@@ArcadeStriker And with that end, I imagine you could actually carry your RINGS, lives and items (Not the Emeralds though because the Red bot took them and now you're back in time so time to try this again)
I'm redoing the thing I did last time with giving each ending a name. In order: 3:26 - Faker! 5:12 - Blue Sloth 6:40 - All Hail Robotnik... Addendum 1 - Robotnik *does* use mind control, but it tends to blow up in his face. Sometimes literally 8:53 - The Deep Woods 11:07 - Watery End 12:42 - SnowGrave 14:25 - Middle of Nowhere 16:14 - War Never Changes Addendum 2: start of the Red Robot Arc 18:51 - The Perils of Deep Space 20:10 - Fire Drill 22:34 - Breaking the Fourth Wall 23:47 - Too Slow 25:20 - Not Built for This 26:57 - Canoe Who? Addendum 3: end of the Red Robot Arc 29:08 - The Obvious 30:21 - Severe Skill Issue 31:41 - Poking the Bear 33:37 - Catastrophic Failure 35:27 - He Literally Told You 36:37 - Low-Budget Flight 37:19 - You Idiot 38:30 - Splat 39:06 - The End
The rocket fuel explosion ending feels more bittersweet than scary, Sonic and Tails still managed to save the world (and possibly kill Robotnik in the explosion as well) but at the cost of their lives.
I think Sonic and Tails standing motionless was a final act of spite towards Robotnik, as a way of not giving him the satisfaction of getting a reaction out of them.
Yeah, that could well be it. Villians like Robonik like the acknowledgement or attention from the hero(es), as you can see when you choose to indulge him about how he tricked you and how the rocket works.
It would have been so cool if the "go back to the start" section in space unlocked secret endings that required items you had picked up later on. It never says anything about discarding the items, as you mentioned- that would be a neat way to do a New Game+ for a game book.
15:15 - I'm surprised that you didn't bring up the fact that at the 14:24 mark, that Ravis guy ends up breaking the fourth wall like Sonic did in one of the Bad Endings in the previous Game Book too. Guess such an ability isn't really limited to Sonic after all.
Apparently, according to Sonic in this book, it's a power only true heroes can do. Ravis must be a great hero to his people, despite what he did to Sonic in that ending.
Once again this did NOT disappoint lol! I swear sometimes this sounds like some fan made story with how dark it is. As far as the Mario CYOA, if it's the one I had as a kid then it's nothing like this. It's entirely G rated and even though you can technically die it's cartoony and reminds you that you are just out of 1-ups. I have to wonder if whoever wrote these Sonic books had even worse stuff taken out by the editor for being too graphic 😅.
I had a couple of the Mario CYOAs. YMMV as to whether any of them measures up to the Sonic bad endings, but there were definitely a few that were on the less tame side.
How they handled the Chaos Emeralds in this is super interesting because they did something sort of similar in the original British run of the Sonic comics with their version of Super Sonic- where it's a horrific mutant version of Sonic that can't control his impulses or powers and at one point splits off from Sonic to become his own being.
All of the endings of the previous book felt terrifying in it's own right (with 1 dud out there) here it feels like they can reach new levels of horror...or be straight up funny. This book adventures truly impresses me, I do wish the falling off without parachute was a proper bad ending tho. Would be really cruel but not out of nature of this book.
If you like these, iirc Nintendo has had their own "Choose your own adventure books" from the early 90s I believe called the "Nintendo Adventure Book" series that starred either Mario or The Legend of Zelda. They have the same point system structure as this book. I haven't read them myself, but I'm sure those likely have their own creepy bad endings! Don't quote me on this, but I believe one of the Mario books ends with the extinction of Dinosaur Land-
Yep, I still remember a Legend of Zelda CYOA where Ganon impersonates a handsome prince from a foreign country to infiltrate the royal court. Fittingly for Zelda was that there were some puzzles to guide you in the right direction if you could solve them, but other times it was just guesswork resulting in Link or the princess dying in lots of horrible ways.
@@baaliartifact7330if the writers had gotten their hands on a kirby game with dark matter in it, i wouldn't be surprised if the descriptions of dark matter got grotesque as this
@@SuperShirikibros13 It would actually be rather small ocassions, all things considered. Instead of the main franchise, take a drink every time Tails is abused/tortured/killed in any, ANY, fan-made related material, and you´ll die instantly, fly away onto neptune, and then land into eastern europe as you kill someone important whose death spirals into both World War 3 and 4.
I freaking love this adventure book series, they are so shockingly fucked up it's charming. The animations you did for (nearly) all the bad endings were so cool too! My favorite was the rocket one... indeed exploding. Short and hilarious. I can't wait for the next one! Please keep doing them 🙏
Sonic book: Don't go into space without wearing a spacesuit, you'll die and horrible and painful (though hopefully quick) death. Sonic in like....all of the games:
oh hey, the warp of confusion was a place in an episode of aosth that was *very* loosely based on the sonic 1 special stages (it had the fish). that's pretty neat that they brought that back
Honestly, considering that Sonic is more or less forced to deal with the equivalent of a terminal illness in Frontiers, it wouldn't even be surprising if a Frontiers gamebook had bad endings related to that. Which is pretty terrifying quite honestly.
I find it odd that Sonic is the one doing a lot of the technical stuff in this book (piloting the spacecraft, using the computer on Robotnik's rocket, etc.). I guess this was from before Tails's prowess as a mechanic and pilot was fully fleshed out.
List of bad endings(for those who want to get straight into the animations) 3:25 - Bad ending 1 (Tails Bulldozed) 5:11 - Bad ending 2 (Sonic and tails get bulldozed) 6:39 - Bad ending 3 (Hypnotized) 8:52 - Bad ending 4 (Trapped in a pit) 11:07 - Bad ending 5 (Shark attack!) 12:41 - Bad ending 6 (Always help those in need) 14:24 - Bad ending 7 (Deserted) 16:14 - Bad ending 8 (Exploded) 18:49 - Bad ending 9 (In space, no one can hear you scream) 20:09 - Bad ending 10 (A deadly false alarm) 22:26 - Bad ending 11? (Return to the past) 23:46 - Bad ending 12 (The robot got away...) 25:19 - Bad ending 13 (Didn't think this through) 26:56 - Bad ending 14 (Knock knock) 29:07 - Bad ending 15 (Evil prevails if good men fail to act) 30:21 - Bad ending 16 (Zapped!) 31:41 - Bad ending 17 (You're toast!!) 33:37 - Bad ending 18 (The world is saved.... but at what cost?) 35:27 - Bad ending 19 (Emeralds delivered) 36:36 - Bad ending 20 (When curiosity dooms the world) 37:19 - Bad ending 21 (KABOOM) Bonus: 39:06 - Good Ending
Such grim endings. Sweet a track from Soul Reaver. I have a suggesting for an episode of bad endings, bad endings that you can choose the ending like for example Apollo Justice.
5:49 Sonic CD's 3-minute game over is proof enough of that! 36:00 It's probably just set to do that once all of the emeralds have been dropped - whether delivered or jettisoned.
After watching this creepy, bad ending episode makes me want to get Sonic Game books. I just gotta find where to get them. Finally, another episode to about these Sonic game books and how they take a dark turn by choices.
There's a page archived on the Wayback Machine that has download links for the scans of all 6 gamebooks (though I haven't verified how complete they are). Unfortunately, RU-vid doesn't like links in the comments, so I can't directly send you to it. :/
Sonic, Tails and Robotnik weren't the only ones who died after 33:38 to 34:06. This is a ghost typing this, who died of laughter. Spooooooky seeeeasooooon.
Funny thing about hypnosis: Junko used it in the Danganronpa 3 Anime to make literally everyone fall into Despair. A reminder that we do not talk about the Danganronpa 3 Anime. It's a really weird piece of media. Even for Danganronpa standards.
3:50 I'd argue that super paper mario has just as fast of a bad ending, since you can just tell the wizad at the start that you dont want to save Flipside/everything else.
I honestly thought for a minute that at the very end the book would add "However, if you fainted in the warp back at the spaceship, go to 299". Also, kudos for giving the explosive decompression the impact it deserves. No cutscenes, no fades, not even music. As blunt as the page itself. Well done, gave me chills
@@Angel-DJ-Gaming No idea! I just threw out a number to imply that it wouldn't reach the ending section. A sneaky bad ending just to mess with the reader one more time
@@juanpablolamas5335 Funny story, is that page 299 IS the one you go to when you escape Warps. So basically, with your variant, by living through imaginary version of events, Sonic figured out, where he need to go to get out of Warps of Confusion. That's some 999 stuff right there! If I ever get around to make fan game about Zone Rangers, I'm totally making this the true ending.
That ending where sonic tells tails to lie down and think happy thoughts is pretty fucking sad honestly. It's pretty much a game over without explicitly telling you; actually saying "GAME OVER" would make it too obvious. The two laid there for the rest of their lives. Sonic's just trying to comfort his buddy in their final resting place. Gruesome.
21:20 They actually put a Doctor Who and StarWars Easter Egg in this book. You can see the police box and Death Star (Assuming its not a Death Egg) out the hanger. So both Doctor Who and StarWars are canonical to Sonic the Hedgehog. Amazing,
I enjoy how some of these are cases where you have challenging decisions about what would be the best course of action, and then some of them are literally just "play stupid games, win stupid prizes." 206 especially made me bust out laughing - I can't help but imagine the gamebook as a DM giving the player the most exasperated look as he delivers that line in a tome of "are you seriously that stupid?" I'm totally down for more of the Sonic and the Mario books. These are entertaining.
My curiosity will get the best of me, probably. Because I'll likely end up searching for explosive decompression on google. Also, damn! The amount of bad endings you can get really is scary!
Hey whoisthisgit, since it is October, I think I would like to see you finish the Zero Escape Trilogy creepy bad endings with Zero Time Dilemma, like your 999 and VLR Creepy bad endings, I imagine that Zero Time Dilemma would give you quite the Goosebumps if you ever played that game and got bad endings.
Man, I love how you used music from Aladdin in Nasira's Revenge. Disney Interactive games were my childhood: Tarzan, A Bug's Life, The Emperor's New Groove. Sweet times. 😍
Well, at least plot and ways to survive are not as excruciating as in second (or even third - I couldn't understand where, when and what is happening) Nonary Game. My brain still hurts from that time-travelling anti-human nonsensical bull... Even circus with Q in Star Trek: The Next Generation makes more sense! These adventure books are something else. I encountered one about Stainless Steel Rat and that run was really fun, with betrayal twists and singing pork-blues.
Here's a suggestion for possible Creepy Bad Endings: X-COM series - the original PC game from 1993, X-COM: Terror From the Deep, X:COM Apocalypse, X:COM Enemy Unknown from 2012 by Firaxis and X-COM 2 And for Creepy Moments: The entire Tam-Tara Deepcroft (Hard) dungeon from Final Fantasy XIV - everything from the atmosphere, the music, the enemies, the notes that are lying around and the bosses as well as the whole storyline of Edda is just... more creepy than anything else in the base game.
in one bad ending, the duo straight up falls into the collective unconcious, with eggman's mind control tech unknowingly being a piece to control humanity, and he never tought of that the shattered will defeat is quite unnerving once looked from another angle
I don't think the Emeralds reached their destination, I think the computer was tricked into thinking the Emeralds were delivered when the hatch was opened prematurely.
The Age of Empires 2 footage at 16:17 was going hilarious and yet perfect to describe what was going on at that moment Also I have to admit that I'm really enjoying the way you're covering these books. Makes me wonder how it wouldnlook like if someone did a "digital" adaptation (akin to a visual novel), but even like this its suprr intriguing to watch this story with its out-of-pocket grim fates visualized. Kinda feels like a mirror of most recent Sonic games before Frontiers having Sonic's new sleek design and ideas for workd ending situations played like a TV show (and Forces trying to be an E-rated resistance story) contrasting classic cartoonish Sonic character designs being l*eft to die at a stake.* Didnt expect a sequel to the original book video, but I'm all for it :)
The last time I've seen entertainment like this, I read 1000 ways to die and man, was it screwed, morbid oder plain stupid. But somehow I enjoy this kind of content. Wouldnt mind some more of it.
To be fair, I'm kinda of a mind control nut, and situations where the heroes themselves don't have "heroic immunity" to having their minds messed with like Play-Doh fascinate me, especially since it spits in the face of the "good always wins, evil always loses" thing that I've grown quite sick and tired of (even though it's a staple). So seeing situations like Sonic allowing himself to be (subtly) hypnotized by Robotnik (aka Eggman) to turn Tails into a two-tailed pancake (~3:30) or the two furry heroes letting themselves get their minds molded like the aforementioned Play-Doh in Robotnik's hands and give in to the hypnotic television set (~6:40) get a thumbs up from me. Too bad we don't see this kind of creative "evil wins via mass mind control" thing too often, but hey, beggars can't be choosers.
I wonder if you'll cover The Megaman Game that has a choose your own path. It has its own creepy bad endings i think you'll find interesting. Only problem is that is Japan only.
Yeesh. Good thing extra lives exist in video games amiright? Btw, whats the victory music at the end from? The one you played when you finally beat the story? 39:07.
Sonic: We can send the rocket to Ross an Space Station Eyrie Robotnik, some time later: WHY IS MY PRECIOUS ROCKET SHIP DRIFTING OFF INTO DEEP SPACE?! WHY WHY WHY?!
Remember all of this insanity and don’t forget about the fact that they are *kids.* Sonic is 15 and Tails is 8. Probably even younger here as this took place before the 3D stuff really took off. They were just *kids* being tortured and put through hell. Yeah. I agree with Git. I’m wrapping them up in cotton wool.
