Is Sonic X Shadow Generations ACTUALLY Worth Buying? 

And of course the Sonic Jam skin gets confirmed the second I drop this video LOL

I really don't understand why so little people are aware of this. Sonic Generations and Shadow Generations are in 2 different engines, Hedgehog Engine 1 & 2 respectively, and the same frameworks built with it. This is why Shadow can't drift, and he has the double jump. It's built of of Sonic Frontiers. This is why the jump balls are the same, 360 air movement is the same, graphics are the same, boost effects are the same, air boost is the same, and the combat is the same. It's in the same engine and framework as Frontiers, and different to Generations. Edit: I have been informed that the Hedgehog Engines are just for lighting, and the gameplay was just made along side it. In that case, my point still stands, but I'd just like to make that clear, so I edited the og comment to highlight it. Thanks to everyone who corrected me. 🙏

Video thumbnail : before you buy Me who already pre ordered day one: mmmm, yes. This is for me

I forgot to mention, you are 100% right on the japanese boxart being much better. The american one is a lazy, lame edit of the original Gens' boxart adding Shadow in the middle, with neither of the Sonics even acknowledging that he's there. Meanwhile the japanese one not only does it have actual new artwork for Sonic, and not only it clearly shows that the Sonic and Shadow portions are separate, it's a clear reference to the logo of Sonic Adventure 2. It's absolutely fantastic.

I don’t think it would make sense for Shadow to have the same dialogue as he did in the time eater fight because the games are supposed to take place at the same time. If Shadow goes through all that. it wouldn’t make sense for him to just be like “You got this Sonic”. Idk why but i also feel like Silver is gonna have a role in this somehow. Maybe not an entire Story but i feel like he’s gonna have a DLC story. Hopefully if so they bring back Pete Capella

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Short answer: it is worth it

14:33 Mephiles hasn’t even had be reoccurring this will be a big deal if he returns

im guessing the note is music and paintbrush is art

29 minutes of wait until the full game to come to be sure

19:59 "It also seems like there is some type of Shadow Emblem that you can be able to grab inside of the stages as well." We see one get dropped by the Doom's Eye mini-boss and collected in a cutscene. I don't know if that one's a freebie (like the first Chaos Emerald in Shadow 05), but I had assumed they're story-related. Given that it's also a Black Arms symbol and Shadow's Doom Powers are Black Arms related, they could go towards unlocking/upgrading those powers. They could function like Sonic Adventure Emblems instead though.

12:53 Fun fact! This animation for Shadow is a rolling animation from Sonic Lost World. Nice use of your animation, Sega!

I hope shadows final boss fight is his new form vs Devil Doom or mephiles

I'm guessing the paintbrush is for concept art of various things - Probably Shadow, Maria, Gerald, The Commander, Artificial Chaos, GUN Robots, Rouge, Omega, Black Doom, various Black Arms, Shadow Androids, Mephiles, and various Mephiles summons.

Skill points (and the Chao card) are all in the base game, and used to buy trivial upgrades like an instant recovery after damage or increased boost gauge, so I wouldn't bank on that too hard. I'm thinking the paintbrush might also be concept art from Adventure 2, Shadow '07 and Shadow Generations, but as you mentioned, the music notes already had that covered in Sonic Generations (though Sonic Generations also gave concept art for red star rings, which are missing from Shadow Generations). As for Shadow Generations omitting the drift, its most likely due to being built on Frontiers, which doesn't seem to have a good handle on drifting just yet, delegating it to gated zones in cyber space.

I always assumed the paintbrush would just be concept art, like base gens.

is it possible at all to order the japanese collectors addition to america ? never tried international shipping

I bought the deluxe edition along with a shadow plush to celebrate the year of shadow this is the most hyped Ive been for a game before and I think they will make a boss per game shadow comes from so like a sonic heroes boss, 06 boss, and shadows game boss they could also add rival fights like sonic vs shadow, mephiles vs shadow and shadow vs black bull or somethin so this game has a lot of potential lets just hope it turns out how we expect it

Chao being the new wisps would be hilarious and at least give chaos a stab back in the series. They are sorta magical so it wouldnt be too farfatched for them to have an unknown ability. And maybe Maria was an artist in her life and that collectable is for artwork and why the paint brush isnthe icon. Also pro tip, print out the Japan cover and slap it in your physical box

As much as I hate to see life systems going, really the only time I even burned lives in Generations was resetting the level because I missed a ring that was in a particularly difficult spot to reach consistently, like that one after the first building jump on the board in City Escape. I feel like they work for more demanding games, but they're tedius here because it really only "challenges" your ability to find the collectibles. I feel like if this game were harder it would be more of a loss. The quality of life changes definitely add to the value of the game. The old trick system could use some polishing up, and I prefer the new controls for the main Sonic campaign. Going between Generations and Frontiers is...jarring without remapping buttons.

5:23 I've really gotta stress that the removal of lives means you can restart stages, without losing lives, similar to Unleashed in which if you wanted to grind a stage for a better time, you needed a huge stack of lives cause if you made a mistake & restarted, you lost a life, but it's also extremely monotonous having to exit & reload an entire stage over 1 mistake, if you're tryna save your lives. The removal of lives in this remaster fixes that issue entirely.

I’m going to write some bullet points about Sonic Generations Remastered as I watch -The Drop Dash will be a ton of fun for Classic Sonic but I have no clue how I’ll utilize it for Modern Sonic, maybe it’ll be helpful for the platform heavy sections like in Sky Sanctuary, Crisis City, and Perfect Chaos’s boss fight -I’ll give the Frontiers controls a shot, those might be more comfortable for this game, especially since I like going for perfect runs and have to do some precise boost jumps and stuff -I am actually really glad they’re getting rid of lives for one main reason: you lost a life every time you restart the level, and that gets on my freaking nerves and makes perfect runs incredibly frustrating to go for (since when you reach zero lives, “Start Over” is grayed out so you have to manually back out of the stage to restart) -The Chao acting as a companion along with the skill system ALONG WITH alternate skins is going to make customizing Sonic a ton of fun -Thank god they added a display for Red Star Rings, 100% completion will be way more fun now! Hopefully they make it to where you don’t have to beat Green Hill Zone to get Red Star Rings unlike the original game, that was a really weird and arbitrary change

Idk if it’s just me or does it seem like Sega took some inspiration from spiderman for the shadow portion, Idk if you noticed in the new gameplay of the cutscenes to stage transitions and it’s so sick, or the venom wings etc, has a hub open world.

wait but what im wanting to know is sonic generations was the last game with endless possiblity from unleashed but will it be in the new game

There's no way I'd buy this on PC without a sale since I've played the original, but I would love to get the Switch version to have the game portably. I'm not pre-ordering, though. I'm waiting for reviews because you never know whether a Switch port will turn out well or not.

i would love for them to add a Sunset Heights Level and make it, a level. Cuz that was a big standout in Forces

I preorder the digital for both PS4/5 when I get paid next time I’m gonna preorder the physical

On the lives argument, I only ever game overed as a kid and then I'd either give up, get pissed or both. I've recently gone back and messed with the "classic" modes within 1 and 2 in origins with lives to find they had become trivial.

Important to Note that the PS4 is not getting a Physical Version in the West, you’ll have to import a Copy from Japan.

Hopefully we get a jet set radio (2026) sonic-beat skin.... my favorite character is really Tab but in this new cannon his not the starter trio 😢 it's Combo.

Shadow searching for black arms & sees sonic struggling "You got this sonic" We watch the 2 sonics over shadows shoulder as her wonders were's the black arms leader (leader laughs) shadow turns towards the camera & continues to search for the leader

I'm planning on buying the standard edition

If they bring back Mephalis they need to bring back Infinite as well, just to see the two fight each other, lol.

9:10 maybe they switched to the 3DS version of generations maybe

Weiß jemand ob die Dialoge aus dem Spiel sind oder aus Sonic X

You could probably use buyee to get the collectors edition that’s what I’m gonna try to do😁

You could be thinking that the unannounced holiday 2024 skin for the digiital deluxe edition could be Christmas clothes for Shadow but that might not be what it truly will be because I heard someone bring up a suspicion that it could possibly be a Movie Shadow skin instead!!! That is possible because the third movie has December 20 as it's theatrical release date. They may not have revealed that because they likely want this to be an exciting surprise and also likely because Paramount has been making it be like a total crime to spoil any things about that movie.

I'm going to buy this game on sale as I do all my games

Sucks that the Nintendo Switch doesn't seem to be getting a Deluxe Edition - or even a Digital Version at all…!!

I want that keychain.

The game doesn't release for 4 months, so why is this video so early. Isn't that a bit unfair?

I bought the original when it was $1 on steam, am planning on buying Shadow Generations, unsure what addition.

Take a shot every time he says “ inside”. You’d be dead five minutes in.

I just want a Chao garden man.

To me, from what I've seen? Not really. The Drop Dash is already in the 2011 Gens thanks to a mod (and even the spindash for Modern), so that holds zero value to me. Shadow Gens seems cool but I won't pay 60 for 5 Shadow levels, lmao. I might pirate it for my Switch to have both it and 3DS Gens on it though. Portable Sonic is always good.

Calling it, Rail canyon is gonna be implemented the same way ratical highway is.

The Japan box art reminds me of the sa2 symbol

Anybody here gonna try and get the Jp collector edition?

I ordered sonic x shadow generations for the Nintendo switch ❤❤

Small fix i hope they make super sonic better to play as. The whole boost and lose rings faster was always lame so i hope they fix that

short answer: YES ITS 100% WORTH IT

I hope we can set the button layout to original🙏🙏🙏

Yes

Yes.

Yes, next question

I’m just going to download mods from generations, PC

It looks fine

I love sonic as a whole, but man I SUCK at these dashing games. I liked unleash a lot cause at least you get to fight. I tried generations but it made me realize how shitty I am at the sonic games

I put a lot Of hours into boost being square

My biggest concern is if they'll release it on the ps4 as well

Me And Julio x Sally Acorn Generations

bro it's not even out yet lol you'll never know until it does

bruh it's still 3 months away chill

you sound like billeh bawb

i hope throw it all away is in the game,

Too late

"wow look at all this stuff it's worth buying due to generations alone" the entire generations modding community who has already done all of this already be lookin like -_-

You know you could buy and just return it 😂

20:57 nawwww Jason had done shadow so much better

I've perfected nearly every modern stage in Generations but I wanna ask. What's the point for Modern sonic to actually HAVE the drop dash? He can boost at top speed instantly. If given to Classic Sonic that would make a LOT more sense. But Modern Sonic having it doesn't to me.

The game is not even out yet.

Japan Definitely is better than the rest

Japan wins every time

Is clicking on this video ACTUALLY worth watching?

People just buy it. Please I want sonic to still be thriving and alive

Classic sonic is the goat sonic I want superstars plus to have classic sliver LEGO shadow classic cream the rabbit Rouge the Bat skin for TIP Jeffy Juneor Cody joseph from sml And max and jimmy and chicken nugget meme from max design pro

The changes to the game look kinda bad ngl

why do u say "inside" so much do u have a thing for shadow👀👀

Definitely digital deluxe 🙏

Yes.

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