I played Sonic Chronicles, so you don't have to 

I noticed we look really sweet in this video.

While the music being deleted is sadly not true, there is something else about the music which is in my opinion even funnier: Apparently, the music had to be removed due to "legal reasons" and Bioware decided that the only logical thing to do was to steal music from Sonic Fansites. But they even fucked up that and because of time constraints they didn't manage to make some percussion instruments actually play.

This game also contains arguably the best "Timmy fell down a well" joke ever written: at one point an NPC asks you to save his son Timmy, who has fallen down a well. You go down the well and discover that 'Timothy' is a grown man who inspects wells for a living.

7:54 no way in hell he just silly walked, carpet bombed shadow, stood *in front of it* , then started dancing

you still can’t convince me this is how the game actually ends

I'm in absolute AWE of Rouge having the ability to "distract enemies with feminine wiles" forget furries, she was some bioware employee's sexual awakening apparently

You know a section is bad when the mementos theme gets busted out

I was in stream for all the crashes at the beginning, and he didn't mention it, but he bought an entire physical copy just in case it wouldn't work at all

I like how the devs just shill themselves at the end

Not only does it end on a cliffhanger but bioware had the balls to dickstroke themselves this is a masterpiece truely

I love how Bioware didn’t think that Cream being able to affect herself wouldn’t break the game.

What's funny is Penders' lawsuit didn't just prevent a sequel. It's a pretty fascinating read, he basically derailed the entire series, forced a giant reboot and caused Sega to create new restrictions and censorship rules.

Easily the best bad game I've ever played. Also Alpharad completely glossing over how if you play your dialog right you can get a romantic confession from Amy and state bluntly that yes, Dexter was obviously not real.

Loved this game as a kid, played it several times over. I have no recollection of the entire space plotline

1. Yes, they did delete the entire soundtrack. The entire soundtrack that is now in the game, took (I believe) 2 days, and was 90% free sound effects. 2. The emulated version crashes sometimes. 3. The Chao are incredibly broken. 4. It is cannon that Rouge can seduce robots. 5. Cream is broken. 6. Feroz is broken. 7. Super Sonic can die. 8. In the final fight, they both actually don't have a health bar, and instead have a hit count. 9. Shadow and Cream make you basically immortal. 10. Omega has the highest potential damage, (except for the final fight). 11. The space islands (other than the final island of the game) are the reason the game wasn't received well, which in turn stopped it's sales because it was really boring, which is the real reason it never got a sequel: because that combined with the Lawsuit, meant they would only lose money if they made a second.

I'll never not be disappointed by this game. This game had the potential to be Sonic's answer to the Mario & Luigi series, but a combination of unfortunate events coupled with a frivoulous lawsuit that not only killed any hopes this game had for a sequel, but also helped kill off the Archie Sonic comics and the Archie Megaman comics to boot, it really felt like everything that could've gone wrong, did.

Calling Omega Shadow’s robot boyfriend is so incredibly accurate.

15:21 Forcing someone into a Groundhog Day loop in Sonic Chronicles is a bigger threat than forcing someone into real life Groundhog Day Toby Fox had better look out, because this is absolutely one of the RPGs I've ever seen in my life

"Did you know this was made by BioWare, which was founded by two doctors?" I did not Tails, but I'm now reconsidering balancing my humors and bloodletting thanks to that!

I like how the game ends with a timeloop Since there wasn't a sequel, they'll just keep repeating their actions till the heat death of the universe

The worst part is that the story actually started with Sonic Battle, which introduced the Gizoids and added some actual intrigue and probably the saddest ending in a Sonic game, which then continued into Sonic Advance 3 with a replica Gizoid being part of the story.

Never thought we’d see Alpharad talk about Ken Penders lore on the channel 😆 such an insane rabbit hole. Curious what the sequel would’ve looked like if it wasn’t for the lawsuit.

dude this fucking game was my absolute SHIT as a kid holy fuck this and mario luigi partners in time made my fuckin childhood

getting a new alpharad video is always a good kind of scary cause u don’t know if he’s doing a “social experiment” or losing his sanity by playing bad games

Alphard: "That sounds like a threat!" Sonic Chronicles: "That's not a threat, it's a promise."

I loved playing this game as a kid and I would play it again XD

As someone that has played the new game + portion of this game, I can confirm the following: - you carry over all your gear and experience from playthrough 1 - all your characters will level up to the level they reached previously after just one battle on NG+ - None of the enemies scale in power or HP therefore you will quite literally be able to wipe out everything in one or two hits - No much to everyone's disappointment there is nothing else after beating the game a second time. It just loops again and again and again.

I want to see a sequel specifically so they can reopen the insane court case

This game gives off serious fan game vibes ngl, I can't be alone on this one

The white echidna from the comic wasn't created by Penders and was based off of another white echidna from the UK comic. The second one has little or no similarities to Shade, it was her sister named Julie-Su who also looks nothing like Shade and is pretty different in character aside from both of them defecting.

The best credits of all time, can’t believe the two doctors at bioware got a sudden fear of hedgehogs and will never get close to working with sega again

If you think about it, Ken Penders is basically the world's most successful Sonic OC artist.

It's been a while since I've watched an Alpharad video in its entirety, I'm glad to see they're still as funny as ever.

I’m pretty glad this game didn’t get a sequel. The money and time that would need to be poured into something that could top a game of this caliber would be insane, and we’d probably lose the cartoony fucking death sound effects.

Imagine the emotional toil this ending had for a child playing the game, watching as it suddenly promises to self-restart your save like a directive in a spy movie, and not knowing anyone else who played the game who could possibly grasp the depth of your confusion or confirm that: yes, that really just happened. Thanks for sharing the Sonic Chronicles experience with the rest of your viewers, Alpharad

Im just glad to see people acknowledge this game's existence for the first time in years. It's not a great game, but I love it. Just hate that Penders killed the sequel

Glad to see both Alpharad and the comment section mentioning how, despite the game's technical difficulties, it being a hidden childhood gem.

As someone who has played this game more than once, the shadow fight in the toxic swamps is optional. If you chose the right dialogue options he will just leave without fighting you.

13:48 The fact this whole attack is so epic and still ends with the fucking stock cartoon sound effect is unbelievably hilarious. Like, imagine if Goku vs Frieza ended like that? Frieza gets cut in half and falls to the ground and you just hear the Nickelodeon splat sound effect?

I played the shit outa that game when I was a kid and the fact there wasn’t a sequel had me in actual tears. After watching this video, my feelings have not changed.

The funniest thing about the Penders Chronicles lawsuit is that he literally has no grounds and SEGA literally just ignored it. And because he already had a lawsuit going out at the time, it was thrown out. Multiple times.

The deeper Alpharad dives into the Sonic franchise, the more his mind unravels. I can’t wait for him to try and figure out the comics. That shit is borderline indecipherable

I love how Jacob looked at the game, realised its soundtrack was unbearable, and decided that the only solution was to swap in the best tracks from Xenoblade 2 whenever he could

Fun fact, if you keep the credits going, Omega finishes them because Tails gets tired, then Sonic falls asleep and Omega calls them stupid meatbags.

My first rpg game! :D Ah the traumatizing memories of not being able to progress through the game and not knowing how to do the qte's If you progress through this dark souls of a game you get cool lore tho

5:28 "Amy can smash." I'm surprised that nobody said anything about this

11:06 Won’t you coooome wash away the rain Black Hole Sun (Black Hole Sun, Black Hole Suuun) Oh won’t you cooome

As a kid, I REALLY wanted this game. I used to enjoy replaying it over and over. I even constantly borrowed (and then "kept") the official guidebook from the library. Nowadays, I can only play the first half of this game on a lazy day....

I was in Florida a couple years ago, and I shit you not, I found a copy of Sonic Chronicles buried on the beach after I asked for a game earlier that day. It was like a god damn monkey's paw wish.

There's a secret scene where after beating shade. If you have Amy on your team she'll try to break the boulders that shade blocked with and only ended up to get knocked out

Couple things 1. One simple clarification, the city that was destroyed in the prologue was actually eggmans city, they mention that and the city is still completely destroyed when you get to it 2. I unironically love the aesthetics of the Nocturnus Clan, a super technologically advanced race, leech tech that converts enemy life energy into their own personal health restoration, robots that become more dangerous from actual learning combat capabilities, akin to metal Sonic's actually, titles like Imperator and using Roman legionary rankings for their units, and fuck me they deserved so much better and just more in general, speaking as someone who enjoyed the game

It’s kinda cool to have a credits style dialogue conversation between characters

honestly didn’t think anyone knew about this game I’m glad to see it again 😭

this game could not have been brought to light in any better way than jacob's conflicted journey with it. perfectly conveys what this game feels like to experience

Fun fact: Apart from being a Sonic game with the worst music but also with one of the best stories, it also is the only one Sonic game that drop a clue about what a echidna on super form would look like. IX, the main villain was always on super form cause he was always using the energy from chaos emerald except at the final battle where player has gathered all chaos emerald and the master emerald, so he goes back to the normal echidna form (could do a fight with super sonic due game explains he used the energy of the citadel)

This is one of my FAVORITE guilty pleasures

I love how his reaction to the ending was basically just maniacal laughter

This is quite literally the childhood game, I wish they actually made a sequel to this masterpiece

What actually happened to the soundtrack is that that the songs were complete, but they forgot to put a bunch of instrument samples in the game, making the songs sound very incomplete. If you convert the soundtrack to midi, you'll see plenty of instruments that are there but aren't actually heard.

11:06 i love the one second sound clip of “black hole sun”

This is unironically the best part of today so far Christmas has low key been hot ass

I played this game many years ago, but one of the most hilarious things I discovered about it was that Big the Cat could stun-lock the final boss if you perfected the action command for his fishline attack. Just goes to show how well this game as made, am I right?

4:02 is the most wholesome part of the video. A true antiperspirant moment!

2:13 bro they brought out the meme soundboard for this one

Man, I used to play an unhealthy amount of Sonic Chronicles as a kid. It was my first Sonic game and it just feels like a feverdream in retrospect

I remember having this game on my DS flashcard as a kid. I'm glad to know that this game actually exists and wasn't just some part of my imagination.

Played this game as a kid and I know it's aged horribly but it still holds a special place in my heart

sonic chronicles was so fire, one of my actual childhood memories, being a sonic fan as a kid and seeing a dark themed rpg was perfect timing for a kid like me

I played NG+ in this game so many times as a kid, I can’t help but have a big cheesy grin when I see it again. I also remember how excited I was to see a sequel for the game…

7:00 WAIT?! One of the chao you can get, removes the touch screen bullshit? I might be willing to retry playing this game at some point if that's an option.

Uh-oh, someone rediscovered the ace attorney soundtrack.

8:00 lololololol i died watching eggman waddle over to shadow and dance like a toddler 🤣🤣🤣💀

I love that that lawsuit not only made it so that this game didn't get a sequel but also made it so that this game stopped being canon to the Sonic universe.

As a kid, Shade was that one character that made me question: “Am I attracted to fictional characters?” The answer was yes, but I wish it wasnt

Had this game as a kid, got mommy bat thing, got lost, stopped playing.

5:22 That’s the crunchiest sound effect I’ve ever heard.

I still can’t get over the goofy kill sound

i actually really liked this game when i played it as a kid, but now, as a nearly 26 year old adult, i can't believe this game is the way it is 💀

I played this back in 2012 on a dodgy R4 my friend gave me. It broke before I got far. To this day, along with the Blackberry Sonic Unleashed demo, it remains one of only 2 Sonic games I've ever played, and the only Bioware game I've ever played.

5:52 Predicted the murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

I unironically love Sonic Chronicles, its a BAD Sonic game, but, i see the potential it had, and despite certain moments like arriving at the Kron Colony without equiping Shadow and Knuckles, the fact the hub music is unfortunately halfassed, and those damn robots that auto revive after praying they just effin' die, i still enjoy playing it from time to time. And the fact its getting the 06 Treatment and getting a Fan Remake fills me with so much Copium that makes me feel justified for my feelings

8:08 Eggman was before the times huh

5:13 Fun Fact: this robot is actually a reference to Sonic SAT AM

Dark Brotherhood is by far my favorite sonic game, I'm glad it finally got the recognition it deserved. You can make fun of it but it's far better than boom and I think we can all agree on that.

if I had a nickel for every time Cream the Rabbit was the most broken character in a Sonic game, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

This game feels like it's a collective fever dream that we've all just decided to accept as part of reality.

4:02 Altrive Altrive is here to help

10:08 lol the way he said rouge😂

14:09 And that's how Sonic Chronicles is the Prequel to Sonic Forces, you're welcome for this horrible realization.

RIGHT THERE!!! 11:46. That blue crystal golem looking dude is where I got my username. They are the Zoah. I was stuck on that planet forever because I was a dumb kid and forgot about over world abilities. I grinder away and over leveled on random encounters. Frustrated, I put the game away for a few months to come back and accidentally walk into the final boss room I stomped him to bits and declaimed myself “The King of the Zoah” I have had that same username basically everywhere for years and I am glad it came from one of the sonic games of all time.

That ending sounds insane with the three boss fights in a row and random bioware shilling, but... would you believe he isn't even doing justice to how insane that ending is? Look up the final cutscene if you haven't already seen it. It's a treat. Heck, watch Raocow do a full blind playthrough of this game with minimal guidance. It's insane.

4:08 - This is actually a MIDI version of a track from Sonic 3D Blast. Not only did they manage to lost the original soundtrack, what they replaced it with was in part composed of MIDIs presumably downloaded from VGMusic.

THIS GAME WAS MY CHILDHOOD

Sonic chronicles is genuinely one of my favorite sonic games and ds games in general I've played through it so many times

YO YOU MEAN THIS GAME WASN'T A FEVER DREAM??? I swore I had this game but I could never find any proof of its existence, yet I had explicit memories of playing it when I was a kid. Thank you Alpha for at least confirming its existence to me once and for all

We will never forget Shade.

Jacob can't complain. His videos tend to end the exact same way this game did. The difference being that he does it for comedy. The game does it for pity

7:26 13:58 The Looney Tunes sound effects make this experience way funnier than it should be, so well done to the developers for putting it in 😂😂

"Are you uh....seeing a resemblance?" No, frankly. I'm not. Ken being able to force a lawsuit to go on for that long on such shaky grounds is wild to me.

Legend has it that Alpharad is still trying to get the game to end