How to Play Sonic Riders

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00:00 - Intro
01:45 - Earning Air
08:21 - Utilizing Air
13:12 - Advanced Techniques
16:52 - Putting it all together
"How to Play Sonic Riders" is a common question I see concerning people wanting to try this game for the first time. Sonic Riders is one of the best and most enjoyable racing games I have ever played, but it comes with the burden of a very high barrier to entry. In addition, the game’s tutorial and manual do a poor job of explaining the game's mechanics, intimidating most players enough to turn them off from ever experiencing the greatness that lies within. This has resulted in many new players arriving at the conclusion that the game is simply bad, like other Sonic games that were rushed in development.
I personally believe that objectively speaking, Sonic Riders is actually very good, but the difficulty in the game welcoming new players with open arms has resulted in a disconnect. One where experienced players love it and see it for what it is, and new players do not understand why it is so well-liked. As a kid, I struggled to learn how to play this game with minimal resources, but overcoming that trial was an extremely gratifying experience. I guess when you're a kid you have more free time to spend figuring things out. Even to this day, I cannot find good resources explaining how this game is played.
I have created this video as a means to fill a gap within the community. I consider myself to be an expert at this game. I hope this tutorial video will provide a solution to this problem and attract more potential players. If you have any questions, ask down below! I will do my best to help you.
If you guys are looking for more from Sonic Riders, such as a rebalancing patch or online play, I highly recommend Sonic Riders Tournament Edition, which you can look into at the links below. This community has been extremely welcoming to me and I cannot thank them enough for their kindness.
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@abdilee4108 4 года назад

“Being on foot won’t win any races” Purposely drain the airtank to see if sonic can run faster than the board

@ikagura 3 года назад

Is there a lore explanation for why he's not faster? Because he likes fair games?

@plutonash2545 3 года назад

@@ikagura Yeah, thats why.

@AgustinHaacker1026 2 года назад

@@plutonash2545 i think it's actually beacuse the sonic from the "riders universe" is slower than canon sonic.

@Ego-Fiend 2 года назад

The boards are pretty fast on it's own Powerscaling speed btw

@Sydney_Angelyt 2 года назад

@@ikagura well that’s the canon explanation for the car racing games so I don’t see why not here.

@kindkooladult6684 4 года назад

What’s with this random surge of people wanting to play sonic riders? Including me

@PSPMan 4 года назад

from what I got told the movie release is making the algorithim go nuts

@chrishill4141 4 года назад

I'm here becuase I'm gonna have a "Gamecube Night" with my friends over spring break and one of them suggested Sonic riders.

@jcast1749 4 года назад

@BlueBlaze71 14 years late.

@HappehMasterChannel 4 года назад

PSPMan3000 Actually, I think it’s the release of the Sonic Riders Tournament Edition, and the beginning of this game’s competitive scene. But the movie probably helped a lot too.

@greenswamponion7330 4 года назад

It's really fun I played this game a ton as a kid. Definitely 1 of my top 5 most played GameCube games

@keystone5750 4 года назад

This is a very well put together tutorial and now I want a riders remake with the same amount of effort as Nitro Fueled. Come on, Sega.

@mr.kevin1209 4 года назад

A remake of The 1st two games with nitro fueled level quality would be great, not sure what we s him should do with free riders though

@MegaGlassguy 4 года назад

@@mr.kevin1209 Remade tracks in the same locations and with less boost pads? Free Riders has very linear design, but that's in huge part because of the fact it was made to accommodate the Kinect. Removing most boost pads so that you have to take the turns manually and adding a few extra curves and obstacles on each track would definitely make them good enough to be bundled with the others imo.

@keystone5750 4 года назад

BlueBlaze71 wouldn’t they also have to change the type-exclusive routes. To my understanding they’re not very balanced in ZG.

@KidAL0 4 года назад

I consider myself pretty masterful at Riders but I had no idea until watching this vid you can exit turbulence anytime with a tornado command... damn this game really was complicated

@NicoTheBear64 3 года назад

8:16 Something he forgot to mention (and something I just recently found out myself) is that you can exit the Air Pit at any time by pressing the jump button (A, X, etc.) This makes them more helpful instead of them being the death traps they were whenever people were on your tail.

@PSPMan 3 года назад

Yes, thank you for bringing that up. I'm actually aware that you can do that but I use it so rarely that I left it out of the video on accident.

@NicoTheBear64 3 года назад

@@PSPMan I just found this out like 13 years after I first played. It would’ve been nice to know this back then lol.

@pkmntrainerred4247 Год назад

Thank you for clarifying that, I thought you can`t get outta them unless the Air tank gets full

@rhondahoward8025 3 года назад

Things I did not know: - You can get off turbulence by pressing L+R at the same time. - Holding back on the control stick allows you to do a high jump and holding forward allows you to do a long jump

@PSPMan 2 года назад

@Daniel Long/High jumps are the first topic I discuss at 13:12 - Advanced Techniques looking back I did explain it kind of poorly, it's not the size of the jump, it's how close the next part of the track is after the jump. So, if it's a short distance away doing a high jump will get you up there and if it's a long distance away doing a long jump will get you up there. the first jump in digital dimension is also reversed so in order to get up there you have to do a long jump instead of a high jump

@lietz13 2 года назад

@@PSPMan the first jump is reversed, as in it seems like a bug?

@PSPMan 2 года назад

honestly I think it might have been done on purpose to make the track harder. is the last track after all, and that jump takes place during the hell graphic

@blockerton1778 Год назад

Same

@owenthebestjedi 4 года назад

I bet all of these new views are coming from people who watched Liam Triforce's video and were then recommended this by the youtube algorithm, thanks for the tutorial by the way!

@PSPMan 4 года назад

atm I'm unsure cause its labeled as external traffic (not youtube) but preceeding this huge spike, liam's video was suggesting mine a ton in my analytics I'm pretty pleased with that honestly I've seen Liam's video and it's very good.

@owenthebestjedi 4 года назад

That's strange! In that case, I'd have to guess that your video was linked in a Sonic Rider's Discord for newbies

@PSPMan 4 года назад

The Riders netplay Discord server got a hold of it, but that was forever ago. I just wanna know where itçs comming from so I can go interact with people haha

@itsOGP 4 года назад

Yooooooooo that’s exactly what happened lmaooo just saw Liams video earlier today and a bunch of sonic riders videos came up including ‘THIS’ one

@kisameh420 4 года назад

You say that like its a bad thing?

@falcons0267 4 года назад

0:26 Finally someone acknowledged that this game is amazing!!

@silverhand4458 4 года назад

It is a good game I just wish there was more levels!

@falcons0267 4 года назад

@@silverhand4458 Yeah, It was lacking in content. But it was really fun.

@mr.kevin1209 4 года назад

Zero Gravity is also pretty good

@falcons0267 4 года назад

@@mr.kevin1209 Not as good as the first one though.

@benknowsit9155 4 года назад

I like zero gravity better

@dufusbrigade 4 года назад

When I played regularly, I always liked to drop a tornado just before a white dash pad. Racers following me would hit the tornado and as a result hop over the dash pad. I however would hit the dash pad and speed off. Another prime tornado drop spot is the edge of a jump ramp (with a charged jump I would launch off the ramp and anyone following would fall to their deaths). That's just all kinds of devious, but who cares about AI racers anyway? For best results, wait until Level 3 as the tornados dropped are the largest.

@PSPMan 4 года назад

I did not know this and had never thought of it. Kind of ironic cuz I do that with the blowfish all the time in Sonic and All-Stars Racing Transformed.

@NoNeckKota 4 года назад

I am so glad that I am not the only one who saw the great potential that the Air system could have been built upon in the sequels if they went the same route. This game great unfairly shafted and I'm glad that there are some players that are finally getting that this game is hella fun.

@AlphaZylix 4 года назад

Honestly as a kid I never finished this game because I never knew what to do. And now, as an adult I was STILL wondering what to do. This video really helped! Good job!!

@PSPMan 4 года назад

Hey so this exploded in views the last 48 hours. All of the Traffic is external, so if any of you could tell me where you're comming from I'd appreciate it. Also, leave likes and comments lol, I wanna hear what you think!

@vexzel5773 4 года назад

Recommended because I saw a retrospective video on sonic riders

@PSPMan 4 года назад

@@vexzel5773 thanks man, appreciated

@martinauld670 4 года назад

A bunch of sonic riders videos are being recommended for some reason, not complaining though 😂

@JTRockYT 4 года назад

@@martinauld670 yeah same lol. This game i grew up with so epic gamer moment

@Flake_Valentine 4 года назад

some random vid about the game pop up, watched it, now it was your videos turn to pop up on my feed

@ROCKCHOMP380 4 года назад

To people who've never played this game before that last track must seem pretty nuts.

@PSPMan 4 года назад

It's a bit of a nightmare because it reverses the way that very first jump works

@QuartzIsAnOxide 4 года назад

Ah yes, Sonic Hedgehog Pro Air-Skater. I remember this game, fondly.

@demonkingofvalor8162 4 года назад

I mastered this game and Zero Gravity ever since I was a kid. It's nice to see people like you teaching the rookies the steps.

@PSPMan 4 года назад

Its a job worth doing

@BeautyMarkRush 3 года назад

I remember getting this on ps2 when I was around 13 yo. My brother and friends would just go "meh" on this instantly while I tried to explain to them they should give this game a chance... I still got my old ps2 just to play this (along with the sequel, og SWBF2 and DBZ BT3) and it's so funny to find so many people now saying they were wrong about this game lol

@xInundated 4 года назад

this was literally my FAVORITE game growing up. im happy more people are getting into it

@George-zk4nv 10 месяцев назад

Myself included.

@Dredabeast95 7 месяцев назад

Im back into it 😇 steam deck is bringing my childhood favorite back!!! 😇😇 I did not know you could get out of turbulance tho.

@AidenTheKing99 Год назад

Very well put together. Much more concise than the in-game tutorial. I'm a veteran myself but I was curious If there were any tricks I didn't know about. Turns out there was one. That ramp on the 90 degree turn on the first upper path in night chase is a wall grind. In my 15 years+ of playing this game I never noticed that. Saying that, there is one advanced trick that I think ought to mentioned: In the rules settings while choosing a Grand Prix, YOU CAN TURN OMOCHAO OFF! Sadly I don't think you can do this for Story mode but for Free Races, it'll save your sanity. He says the dumbest crap constantly. "-character- has successfully jumped into the air'' WTF? It's a real bit of dialog, I'm not even kidding. Oh and if you're new to the game, you're gonna hear "Oh, he failed to land correctly" A LOT!

@SkyVoid 4 года назад

I really only watched this because it's astounding how many people remember this gem of a game.

@dreamcastdazia4753 4 года назад

Gem? Literally no one forgot about this game. It's always being talked about. I remember like 2/3 years ago the amount of people asking for sonic riders 4 in a sega stream was crazy

@AFrozenKitten 2 года назад

The nostalgia hit hard as soon as I heard the Hang On Bike music and it brought a smile to my face. That was my favorite as a kid. Loved the variant in Zero Gravity too

@dashi-musashi351 5 лет назад

Nice. My favourite thing to do in this game is getting onto all those short cuts by jumping off of the ramps. Never knew how to do it consistently at first but when I figured it out it was so satisfying and it kinda breaks the game if you ask me. I also never knew how to use the flight shortcuts when I was younger; I always used to waggle the control stick up and down rapidly as I thought that was what the game was telling me to do. 😅 Also never thought I’d actually learn something new here. Didn’t know you could get off of turbulences by pressing both L and R holy shit.

@PSPMan 5 лет назад

Yeah I think I only found out how to get off turbulence by reading an FAQ when I was a little kid? I tried to find the exact one again for this video because I remember it had ASCII maps of the tracks in it but apparently it's just been lost

@Kurisu545 4 года назад

I play this game to this day. Its really amazing, Sega should really remaster and release it for new plataforms, maybe even go all out and build a online mode? That would be epic.

@George-zk4nv 10 месяцев назад

Or maybe a tournament mode.

@NireFuster 4 года назад

I feel overwhelmingly happy to see a resurgence for Sonic Riders just as I'm re-discovering my love for Sonic

@MAveric215 4 года назад

This is wild, I actually 100%’d this game this summer, and had to use FAQs to learn most of the games systems again. Crazy how there’s new Sonic Riders content just popping up all of a sudden lol. Even though I already beat the game I’m still going to watch Incase there’s something I missed 😁

@sewer56lol 4 года назад

This is a very well done video. I'm surprised it hasn't got more views. Someone linked it in the Riders Netplay server and what can I say? I like it. If I see someone not familiar with the game I would totally show them this.

@PSPMan 4 года назад

That's great to hear honestly. Upon release I had a hard time getting it out to the right people so i'm glad to hear it made it to a Riders Central server. I think it has so little views because the audio editing is bad cause i didn't know how to at the time, and i had blended frames turned on in Vegas while rendering, plus the fps is locked at 30 when the game runs much higher than that. Glad to hear it's useful to people!

@Protagulous 4 года назад

@@PSPMan You should join our server. We make a tournament mod of Sonic Riders for people to play with each other online. discord.gg/2FGAQEA

@looz727 4 года назад

Wait Sonic riders have net play? I want to try it!

@saveki2347 Год назад

Honestly, when it comes to the tornado (L1+R1) I use it a lot when I was just starting out, especially when I still don't know the maps too well and the races are too close for comfort. Whenever I know for sure that I am making turbulence and the CPUs are riding it, I would drop a tornado and boost immediately and it actually gives me a solid few seconds to gain distance cause it throws the other racers into the air. I found this out when I was playing this game with my friend and we made the tornado on accident, so I know what happens if you hit it. Of course after a while I don't really use it much but it's still a good trick to have up my sleeve. Also, love the tutorial. It definitely helps the people trying to pick up this game. And fun fact, if you do the story mode and all the challenges, you can unlock super sonic and challenge yourself to a race while managing ring consumption. Probably one of my favorite gear in the game

@plaguedoctorpal Год назад

I played this game all the time as a kid and just bought a PS2 to play it again. I never unlocked the special characters as a kid. Now that I have it, I'm determined. I'm having trouble beating the Hero/Babylon cup. So thank you for sharing all these tips! I never knew you could drop a tornado. Wish me luck! I really want Nights 😭 Edit: I have returned to share I finally beat the Grand Prix. Learning those ramps for those important skips saved me so much time.

@Sakixlover 4 года назад

Appreciate this man this game was my childhood My ps2 is now broken lol but i still watched this till the end

@RyneMcKinney 3 года назад

I just bought the game off ebay and this has helped so much. I can do X ranks with ease now that I know I can go farther when jumping off a ramp (holding forward) and going higher when jumping (holding back) as well as reaching certain shortcuts

@AsureyX 4 года назад

This should be included in the game. Good stuff for beginners since the game tutorial doesn't do much. I'm curious as to which one is the best version.

@dsrta645 5 лет назад

Wow. This is very impressive. You did a really good job explaining everything. This video gave my crazy nostalgia I’m going to find my copy and play this again!!! Great job with the video.

@emeraldsplash9880 4 года назад

I grew playing this and NOW I'm seeing guides and videos about it. Thank you this is great. This game's a classic

@Adamski- 2 года назад

This was one of my favorite games for the ps2.. It was so freaking cool, hover boards, the speed, the cutscenes, the music and the hwole high tech future aestetic was SUPER cool and the veriety and wildness of the tracks were NUTS!.. Police chases, high tech cities, sandy ruinds, lush forests, floating ancient cities (hardest fucking thing i ever did as a kid).. I had to learn everything on my own as i didn't know english at the time. So i fully masterd the game by simple trial, error & experimenting. God i really wish we would get a new riders game. The more recent regular cart racers i feel REALLY don't fit sonic and the cast at all.. Like why would the fastest thing alive drive a car?? If we're on hoverboards speed and everything is up to the imagination.

@PSPMan 2 года назад

The OST for this game is a straight banger

@OkayYito Год назад

This is a great video that really helped me get back on the track after many many years! Thanks a bunch for this comprehensive guide on the controls and mechanics!

@daniilbleak8082 4 года назад

aah, nostalgia~... Remembering my first steps in this game is so heartwarming, 'cause I really like Sonic games. And of course it was really hard to discover all of the secrets and techniques as a kid, especially in Russia :D (because I didn't have the Internet or even the manual for this game, just disk in a box). But now I'm very proud of myself for discovering all the things in this game in such a young age:)

@nicks4802 2 года назад

Blyat?

@Navezceru 5 месяцев назад

Fantastic video, I love watching guides to games that I loved as a kid to see what I knew and missed. Great job!

@edgiest-edgelord-that-edges 4 года назад

It makes me happy to see that this game is getting a random surge of attention. Hell, I suddenly got into it like a few months ago out of nowhere and realized how fun it was.

@tornadix99 4 года назад

I spent a lot playing sonic riders as a kid by hours, and i didn't know about the bomb capsule until now :O

@hypnosstratagem1277 4 года назад

This is an amazing game that I would play all the time when I was younger. It is great to see people talking about it.

@ddflames9564 2 месяца назад

Thank you so much first time playing the original especially when I grew up on zero gravity the skill gap was very different this helped so much! You should do more of these in depth gameplay deep dives I love it a lot!!

@FangAshford Год назад

ok i wanna start by saying that i respect the hell out of you for taking your time to do this, (Aside the fact ive been playing this game and its modded verient for years now) the reason i respect this is because dispite this is a Racing game with hand full of combat mechanics, the game has no tutorial and that can leave players confused, as for me i matched the colors and relied on my raging game knowledge from mario kart Double dash, Diddy kong racing, 1080, 1080 avalanche, SSX3, and the Nascar14 game for the Playstation for controlls. so 100% respect to you

@martinpato846 4 года назад

If i only had watched this tutorial 14 years ago... Tx

@GTracerskyler 4 года назад

out of all my years playing i never knew that tilting the stick when going off the ramp made a difference....

@harold5337 Год назад

Defo a game worth getting over the learning curve. Give it a fair chance and you’ll enjoy it. I managed to get the hang of it in a matter of less than half an hour.

@brandonk655 Год назад

Got a used Wii and found this game at the store that I used to play when i was a kid. Thanks for the in depth tutorial. Ill be sure to put it to good use when my friends come by and we relive the old days.

@Mr.Miniguy 4 года назад

One more thing is that you can press A (or X depending on if you're playing on PS2) to exit the air pit early. Great Video!

@shadowlord17762 3 года назад

Thank you for making a way more in-depth tutorial on tips and how to get better at the game easier. It helped me beat the Babylon story because of you.

@justindlc28 Год назад

2023 I was pretty terrible at the game as a kid and always got last place but i never hated this game. Now that i have a job and making my own money i can buy myself a GameCube and get sonic riders. Thanks to this video i know how to play better and enjoy the game. Thank you for explaining everything perfectly. Cant wait to play again.

@chancestankewich2968 4 года назад

made me sub. Sonic Riders is my shit, i wish more people would pick it up. awesome stuff bro.

@techlover1664 4 года назад

3 minutes in so far. . . Essential Flashback: *purchased Sonic Riders and Sonic Adventure 2: Battle for the Gamecube, sucked at both due to not having the instruction manuals included, returning them for Mario series games.* 2020, now: *after seeing Sonic the Hedgehog on Valentine's Day, repurchasing Sonic Adventure 2: Battle for the PS3, and searching for the Riders Soundtrack, gets THIS recommended. . .* I can't believe I returned it years ago! My sister and I would've duked it out as Shadow and Sonic by now!

@PSPMan 4 года назад

if i can make a recomendation, cause i've been playing adventure 2 on steam parts of the game initially seem horribly designed. the game has the same issues riders has where it teaches the player very little specifically i'm talking about adventure 2's ranking system. it's not static and the required score to get A is different on every stage, for every mission. A quick google search will explain more

@techlover1664 4 года назад

@@PSPMan I'll make sure to Google what you mean later. A-Ranks and their medals in Adventure 2: Battle are truly challenging to earn in that game in comparison to Adventure DX whenever I play them both. Knuckles and Rouge's stages are what I still struggle with the most due to the severely restricted radar compared to SADX, where I could glide as Knuckles and traverse Red Mountain easier, as my luck had the Master Emerald shards in the same radius whenever I replayed his campaign. Eggman and Tails' are what I can ace on my best days, and give up on on my worst. Sonic and Shadow's are whose stages I almost always replay the most, although I tend to speedrun their stages more instead of actually collecting rings, animals, GUN Robot's Chaos Drives, or performing tricks to score the best Ranks possible. Compared to 12 years ago, the most hindering thing that came to my experience was not having a memory card. My Gamecube is still in my possession, yet it sadly can't read the discs anymore.

@PSPMan 4 года назад

@@techlover1664 yeah those stages are something youll need to look up. they seem impossible but they aren't. game just doesn't tell you how to play them

@techlover1664 4 года назад

@@PSPMan With. . ."this crisis" occuring, I hope you stay safe and be careful!

@truthful_liar13 4 года назад

Love this game big time, one of my favorite gamecube games that I always find myself going back to surpass my older times.

@zap_ning_punk1140 3 месяца назад

Wow dude, thanks so much for making this video, from someone who played zero gravity first, to know playing the original the skill gap was massive and I sucked but after watching this tutorial, I definitely have way more confidence!!! Thanks again 👍👍

@dracunyanyo-kai8324 Год назад

A very interesting fact to note is that the type shortcuts (it's what I call those rail grinds, holes and etc) never change positions in any of the maps apart from digital dimensions map which rotates the placement of them every lap

@ethanator611 5 лет назад

Very in depth! I like it.

@scorchbananas8939 4 года назад

Nimbus is best board , I personally love it !

@KKTunez 6 месяцев назад

Younger me would have never thought that my favorite PS2 game when I was like 8 would still be remembered and played by a community of new players several years later. I used to think people thought I was cringe because I liked music in video games and low and behold as I grew up it's a whole thing now that videogames try to have the best sound tracks.

@Mr2Secs 3 года назад

Amazing video. You didn't miss anything, at least this is everything I know, and this is surely going to help newcomers to get Riders' gameplay pretty easily. However, I disagree with Tornadoes being useless. You see, as soon as you get control out of an automated section, you can do an Air Tornado, which essentially lets you trap your opponents after they're done with said sections. One example I always use this on, is Babylon Garden's loop. When I'm done, I do the Tornado and almost always trap the 2nd place behind me. Really, the Tornado is a good technique if you know when to use it. But the most important thing, is having lots of air, otherwise, yeah, it's just counterproductive.

@DatFastBoi 4 года назад

Hey ! It was a really good video ! It helped me because i started playing TE ! I will link this video in case someone asks for some advices !!

@sonicrider321 4 года назад

I am so getting this game rn

@mondeezy7 3 года назад

Thank you so much, I got the game recently and it didn’t have a manual so I sucked at it, now everyone I race I get 1st 🔥💪🏽💯

@heroart110 4 года назад

Question have you heard of sonic riders tournament edition? It’s a mod that adds net play to compete online with other people which I think is where the depth of this game really shines they have a discord server if you wanna know more info

@PSPMan 4 года назад

yeah I'm in their discord server I just don't play. They actually found this video about a week or 2 after I made it.

@TechnoFlare 4 года назад

I like to think I'm good at this game, but I didn't even know about the different jump types or that you could just exit turbulence whenever.

@PSPMan 4 года назад

Hey I keep getting a lot of comments asking about an online version for this game. If that's what you're looking for, go here. I want to stress I'm not directly associated with or active in this Discord server, but I do have permission to share it. discord.gg/VW4pRKk Edit: if the link is expired, check replies. if you send a reply for a working link i'll grab one for you.

@PSPMan 4 года назад

You'll likely get most of the money you need by playing through mission mode. after i did that i played through grand prix ocasionally (playing the game casually) which lets you earn rings for each place up to a 500 ring bonus depending on how you place at the very end

@AblazeCorgi 4 года назад

I am your 200th sub yay

@AblazeCorgi 4 года назад

I think idk

@PSPMan 4 года назад

@@AblazeCorgi yes

@AblazeCorgi 4 года назад

@@PSPMan ye

@bluefalcon6356 4 года назад

Just got the game!

@Don0rom 5 лет назад

Loved the video!!

@zombieguy3000 2 года назад

This was so useful. Thanks

@KomaGamer65 3 года назад

An excellent guide! I've recently been getting back into the game, and was wondering why I was doing so poorly, then I learned a lot thanks to this video, and like magic I'm doing a lot better! Well done!

@PSPMan 3 года назад

Thank you! I love hearing that people are still finding this useful

@Darkshock25 6 месяцев назад

If any of you are having trouble completing the Story Mode because the Babylon Story is messing you up, use this tutorial to make it easier for you. Best Tip: LOOK EVERYWHERE FOR SHORTCUTS WITH THE CHARACTERS YOU’RE PLAYING AS AND MEMORIZE THEM. IT WILL HELP OR ELSE YOU’LL KEEP LOSING AND BE STUCK ON THE GOAL.

@hypersonic4562 3 года назад

This is probably the most useful how to play video ever

@AlexYardZone 3 месяца назад

Such a well written and presented primer for Sonic Riders! Thanks for making this, and I wanted to mention I'm going to feature this in an S-Tier writing seminar segment on a livestream this wednesday. The details are on my community page, don't mean to plug but wanted to let you know!

@PSPMan 3 месяца назад

Thanks, that means a lot since I consider my writing to be kind of terrible. It's the thing I struggle with the most when making videos

@AlexYardZone 3 месяца назад

@PSPMan well I'm glad I spoke up, since, I'm a particularly critical critic when it comes to writing, and this video blew me away! I give you full blessing to be proud of your writing lol.

@samuelmauldin9131 2 года назад

Thanks for the help, i never could figure out how to work the grind ability, and i loved how when you went to talk about the items, how you transitioned into the main theme of Super Mario Land 3 Wario Land (which is the ONLY Wario Land game i have physically)

@SHARDK2 2 года назад

I've 100% the game and have pretty much mastered everything but I'm still watching this just in case there's something I somehow don't know EDIT: Sure enough I had no idea you could manually leave turbulence this entire time. This saves me so many headaches from wanting to just hit a damn grind rail but I can't because I'm stuck in turbulence

@adriancervantes3629 4 года назад

To find out which jump is you just have to look at the ramp if it curve higher in the air hold back if it’s not as steep hold forward

@PSPMan 4 года назад

OK THANK YOU I DID NOT KNOW THIS

@RalseiSmokinAFatBlunt 2 года назад

this tutorial is a godsend. sonic riders is so cool but man its difficult to learn

@Hynotama 4 месяца назад

You forgot to mention that speed characters grinding rails, flight characters flying through suspended rings and power characters smashing obstacles also refill your air tank. And these are usually shortcut routes too.

@TheKiddingStar 4 месяца назад

this game is HAAARRDD I have seriously passed every single Gran Turismo License test in the series but this game is BRUTAL with the learning curve!

@angel_of_rust 2 года назад

I remember playing this with my cousin who had it on a PS2 when I was 7

@basherhamade122 Год назад

great video, by the way, the items isn't 100% random, the chances of getting invisibility is very much higher when you're in the last place, i tried this out and it worked

@redinahedge3073 4 года назад

I just want to thank you for making this. I’m getting this game soon and I was kind of scared because the game doesn’t teach you anything. Thanks.

@PauloVitorHMK 4 года назад

Thanks for coming up with this very well written tutorial. Personally, it would've been more usefull to me when I was ten or something, but who knows?

@KaiboStudios 4 года назад

Extra tip on AirPits: If ever accidentally run into one press the jump button to make a quick exit to keep going.

@mistah3687 4 года назад

Great video! This was my favorite Sonic game as a kid and I'm happy it's getting some love. Quick thing though, I don't think you need to press A the jump button again to grind, i think you just need to land on the rail after jumping.

@wehtawnikrap 4 года назад

At the very least for the PS2 version you need to press X in the air to land on the rail, even has it in the instruction manual. When my friends & I were trying to work it out we did try your method to no avail.

@mistah3687 4 года назад

@@wehtawnikrap Ah, my experience is on the GC version. Might be different.

@Thekoopaman1 2 года назад

You kind soul, I couldn’t figure out what to do on the Junk Missions with the short and long jumps 😅

@randomrandyphantom9824 3 года назад

Of all my years playing this game, even as a child. I never knew you could hold back and forward to get the shortcuts, I always thought they were random or you had to let go of the jump button at the right time.

@Comoghwin102 2 года назад

I recently acquired both sonic riders and zero gravity again and I *never* knew, until now, that holding back and forwards gives high and long jumps respectively. I knew that in zero gravity, holding either back or forward would let me execute an X rated jump but oh my God I can't believe kid me never figured this out. Thank you so much.

@PSPMan 2 года назад

you're welcome, I literally didn't understand it till I looked up a guide on gameFAQs back in the day so I feel you

@bewsket Месяц назад

16:42 i think you are really really missing out if you dont use special equipment that gives you abilities of other classes, like the witch broom which can grind on rails. Use that with Knuckles or Tails and you can both knock cars/fly through hoops and grind on rails. Or magic carpet which gives you ability of an air class, so you can pick knuckles or sonic (knock down cars or grind on rails) plus fly through hoops. Its too OP for multiplayer, but its cool as hell. I remember my cousins gave me their PS2 for 3 days and i had to learn and figure out everything this game had to offer in just 3 days. I rememeber i unlocked every character except one, and found out all the secret mechanics and also the ability to jump into secrets by holding back. Didn't know i could jump to other ones by holding forward!!! Also the air trails were driving me mad, never knew that i could hop off them by pressing L1 and R1 that would save me a lot of headache back in the day!

@obsessivefrog 4 года назад

My brother got me this game when I was little and it was my first Sonic game until I looked up Sonic on youtube and found a whole world

@DemonDethchase 4 года назад

Managed to get Riders again for PC and having a good time with it. I can mind having it for either the Gamecube or PS2 back in the day. I think the first thing that really reminded me of Riders again was that Project Hero fan game, which really does feel like a throwback to the classic Adventure style featuring Sonic, Tails & Knuckles. The fact alone that its got that Adventure thing going is fantastic, more so for Tails being true his SA1 incarnation, meaning he can stretch his legs and run again, rather than being confined to the mech like SA2. But then after showing off what the game can do "press F3 to pull out a Gear from Riders." WTF!? And just like that even with the Adventure style game, and SA1 Tails, it went up massively in how great it is, even if you couldn't actually do tricks. Hopefully the guy can get an actual game made, and/or gets picked up by Sega for another Mania like independent game from the fan community like Taxman and Co.

@Joelr719 2 года назад

Honestly I’ve mastered this game and I see how hard it is to play this game 😭

@PockitGames 4 года назад

using the tornado is a lot better than you think m8 ;) amazing vid btw

@PSPMan 4 года назад

I had a feeling honestly, But I've never been hit by one myself so I don't quite know how they work

@michaeldavid1566 4 года назад

Probably with online mod, we'll see the tornado making play?

@dashinxkatchin Год назад

I had no clue people were confused on how to play riders until a couple weeks ago

@red5robb1 3 месяца назад

played this game as a kid around the time the game came out in 2006, was terrible at it yet somehow slowly beat the game over the course of....probably well over 100 hours. i just didnt understand how to do things properly. im 28 now, felt an urge to play the game, was having some trouble but still beat all the races in the first story on my first attempt (except the last one....) which caused me to look up a video, found this one. i then went on to beat the track after a couple more attempts....it took me about 90 minutes to finish the first story set which is just crazy when it took me hours PER TRACK back in the day. game is extremely fun when you know what you are doing and kinda trash if you dont. i never knew why i would get so much airtime or distance off ramps as a kid i just figured it was random

@PSPMan 3 месяца назад

Yeah, I feel like that's the big issue with the Sonic games of this era, a lot of them have polishing issues, but underneath that they're usually pretty deep mechanically but do a terrible job relaying that to the player. It ends up being a "if you know, you know" type of situation

@ThatGuy-zw4le 4 года назад

This game is one of my childhood

@maremare9366 4 года назад

I am really good at this game since I have about 500 hours of experience and can confirm that this video is very good but idk why you would play on an unlockable stage the first time(even if its the easiest one)

@Kj_uchiha 10 месяцев назад

Thank you my friend

@KyleEvra 10 месяцев назад

I already beaten this game soo many times and I learned everything on trial and error.

@keybladexemnas8439 4 года назад

It blesses me when you get the row of rings every time

@etherealhatred 4 месяца назад

I'm not entirely sure because i haven't tried out but i have seen people getting out of turbulences by just drifting without doing a tornado, this doesn't launch you out of the turbulence and actually gives you more freedom on how yo get out of it

@SuperSolaris666 4 года назад

4:58 I've been regularly playing this game for months on end and I literally never knew you could do this.

@SuperSolaris666 4 года назад

@Abraham Lincoln High School Huh?

@Dredabeast95 7 месяцев назад

Holy shit!! You can exit turbulance???!!! I really hate turbulance sometimes, but ill try this out and see how it goes! Also the holding up and down on jumps is pretty clutch, I never knew that. Maybe mission mode wont be so rough on me now.