Neat Things I Found in Sonic Boom Rise of Lyric 

7:37 The game has a cool feature called Coyote Jump, a regular jump that can be perform mid-air after a milisecond leap off the ground, many games have this feature and best example of introducing this is with Celeste, where they constantly use this feature for platforming

This video in a nutshell: *This videogame is being held together by ducktape also listen to this music*

Honestly, it's refreshing to hear someone talk about the neat stuff he found in a Sonic game with a pretty neutral tone. No need to go into the quality of the game, the rest of the internet has that covered. Shrouded Forest BGM sounds similar to Rise of Lyric tracks because it's by the same composer, Richard Jacques. He's been working on and off the series since 1996.

Even for how bad Rise of Lyric was ,I like how the team still was ale to make the characters as expressive as possible which makes the experience just a tad bit better.

I really wish Sonic Boom was given another chance. I'm sure I'm not the only one who can appreciate the game play, the environments, the music, and how different it was compared to other Sonic games.

When most people write a game off as being bad, it leaves a lot of potentially interesting things undiscovered. It's kinda funny, stuff like those broken robots aren't even hidden details but I doubt many people have mentioned them in a video before now.

Boom deserved a true 2nd chance. The show was soooo good

I like this potential pattern. Challenge run, then neat things montage.

Honestly, of all the things they did kind of eh with Sonic Boom, I quite liked their version of Shadow. Like, this bizzarro alternate universe Shadow who's outwardly brash and actively evil instead of conflicted and brooding As for the best thing to come out of Sonic Boom...the cartoon was inironically great

Okay I never see much of this game, but is anyone gonna mention how gorgeous it looks ? The environments are really pretty, and the animations are DELIGHTFUL and fluid and expressive ! Like, wow... I actually want to play this now ! Dang !

Don't ever dare call that outro cringe again. It was glorious.

I do hope the composer of this game, Sonic 3D Blast, and Sonic R's and soundtracks, Richard Jacques could return someday to compose a soundtrack for a new Sonic game, because I did like a lot of his work on the Saturn 3D Blast soundtrack, and I love Sonic R's songs, and seeing them together in the same game would be so nice (I don't how that could happen since there aren't many, if any Sonic spin offs coming out anytime soon though). I am a little unsure if he still can compose the kind of music that 3D Blast, and R's soundtrack have, because of his work on Rise of Lyric's soundtrack, but that might've been just because of what the tone of the game was going for - something a little more cinematic than a normal Sonic game.

As someone who's making his own video game as a hobby, I'm convinced all games are held together by duct tape, it's just a question of how many times they wrapped it around the joints. Even Super Mario 64 has crazy stuff like Parallel Universes and Mips Clip.

Genuine thank you for the Sonic Boom video that is not just hate, I love this spin-off universe, you earned a new subscriber So sad though that there never be new content or sequels for it

It’s cool seeing someone actually talk about the game, I hate it when people just go “it’s bad” and never discuss it

Some Neat things I found in rise of Lyric is: the the sand heart under the dock on that island in Bygone Island near the ocean purification plant, the weird happy face bubble on the texture of the tubes or those glass things in the purification plant with that water texture, and when you stomp one of the rocks in crater lake inside the cave the ring trail makes a dream cast logo. Also when spamming characters in speed sections you can get strange camera angles that can look very cool. You can also stomp enemies that have the blue charge, it only works on the normal enemies, with the bigger enemies like those mini boss like enemies you can stop their blue charge but they will still do their attack. Also did you know the mini games in this game have their own very detailed Sonic Synergy like maps? Yeah their very pretty. Also in the Sonic Boom Rise of Lyric E3 demo, there were custom very good tracks for the purification plant map especially the chase theme. Also if you talk to that turtle guy in the past about his crops, you save his turtle island from dangerous red thorns. I honestly can't think of anything else because I most likely forgot them but yeah those are the neat things I've found neat in Sonic Boom Rise of Lyric.

Interestingly enough, in Sonic Boom Fire & Ice there's a remix of an unused Sonic Fighters song, Sunset Town, used as the music for Fissure Tunnel 1. So it's interesting to see that some of the Rise of Lyric music could be inspired by Shrouded Forest! Edit: Love the fandub reference

That the characters are using their eyebrowns is actually cool. Sonic was also doing that in Forces Sometimes.

The most neat thing is that the game ends. Jokes aside tho, it is nice to see that some of these details show that the dev team still clearly cared about the project, even after Sega came in and threw it through the mixer. 4:00 Wait, actually? I mean, I mostly have a "don't care" or even negative attitude towards the Black Knight OST to begin with(besides the instrumental versions of vocal themes and the ending theme, they are good), but man.

Love the fandub reference at 8:05 lmao

7:25 this isn't actually unique to Sonic Boom, but it might just be especially applicable due to how much time it gives you when you're off the platform, potentially. It's a specific design principle called "Coyote Time", named after Wile E. Coyote shorts in Looney Tunes. Yes, really. The idea is that a game's controls can feel imprecise and unforgiving if you're *too* exacting on when the player is allowed to do things, and games end up feeling a lot nicer if you give the player a short buffer to jump off the "Ground" for a couple/a handful of frames after you've walked off the platform. Every game will do it differently and/or choose to use it at all, but it's neat to think about, and if you're aware of it you'll probably be able to find a few games where you can manage it... though hopefully the jumps aren't often tight enough to require it.

i feel like this is some of the best sonic content on the platform right now! keep 'em coming

The neat thing I learned was that Shadow was in Sonic Boom LMAO

True, the game may have several flaws in terms of gameplay, mechanics, controls, script and certain characterizations of some characters, but returning to see this game after so long I could see that it has some good things that can be reused if they are done the right way, Enerbeam can be a very useful and versatile mechanic and it would even be possible to combine it with the Wire Shooter from Sonic Forces Avatar in terms of uses, the idle animations are very good and expressive in addition to something that fans tend to complain about "the characters' mouths are only on the side in the cutscenes of most games" here's a very good strategy where the mouth is always in the center of the muzzle but if the camera or scene angle changes the mouth subtly moves to the side in issue to look good from that angle and you don't notice it until you analyze it because it was done in a natural and organic way, speaking of the designs I particularly like them and I think they could even return as alternative skins in future games but some would need changes like Knuckles and maybe Sonic? If I were to list my favorites in order it would be Amy, Tails, Shadow, Sonic, Sticks (even though she only appears as a playable character in the following games) and Knuckles, leaving him too pumped wasn't a good idea, he skipped every day leg but I think that's it, sometimes an idea can be good or bad depending on how you work with it and it's possible to reuse these things in a really good and improved way if they analyze and work calmly and maybe even combine some of these things with other styles that interact with each other, which can generate a really cool balance in the gameplay, like the style and combat mechanics of Unleashed, but bad quickly, Frontiers also kind of has something similar, so I think it would work for take the best parts of each one, correct and improve them to combine them into a single game with good synergy

I really liked Sonic Boom Rise of Lyric

I COMPLETELY forgot about the whole sonic boom bangarang trailer thing

Its funny how Shadow's boss theme and Metal Sonic's boss theme sound almost identical. Even listening to them right after the other, they sound very very very similar... like every song in this game.

8:28 Boom Sonic's combo attacks

I had this on in the background as I was playing Sonic and the Black Knight and was doing the Shrouded Forest mission when you randomly played the theme in the video and had a “does he know?” moment it was insane lmao

6:56 You can also do this with the regular Roller Recoilers/Roller Shockers since after they roll, they are in the air for a short amount of time, so they can get grabbed by the Enerbeam.

When Shrouded Forest was played I actually thought, this isn't from Boom, I recognize it but I can't put my finger on it.

:) I’ve never even played the games you’ve talked about but you make it so interesting and easy to follow. Your content is incredible king

IT'S FINALLY HERE! A neat little fact is that the main theme of Rise of Lyric is very similar to a Hatsune Miku song from 2017-2018. now do Unleashed next, perhaps Werehog without upgrades :)

You never cease to entertain, you are goin places for sure.

Who knew the black knight challenge was foreshadowed with a music fact.

I feel like it introduces some half decent ideas maybe with out the combat and an adventure style it could've been okay.

I initially wrote off Sonic Boom as just a crappy game that was rushed but your videos have shown that there was some definite effort that went into it. It's just a shame it was taken out of the oven before it had time to cook.

Nice video, love your narrating

So, uh, when you pulled the Black Knight Shrouded Forest stinger in the music section, I did immediately think it wasn’t a Rise of Lyric song (despite not even playing much of RoL to know)…but my first thought was that it was a Ratchet and Clank song from somewhere. That war zone planet from the first game comes to mind, though if you’re just looking for musical similarities, I’d compare the track to Blackwater City, also from R&C1.

My guy! Can’t wait to watch this later before bed. Hope you are having a good day brotha

These are honestly really nice epilogues to the challenge videos. I don't know if you plan on doing these for each game you do a challenge for, and I don't want you to feel like you have to do that, but these are all very neat videos Also, that buddy-bot trick at the end honestly kind of looks like a Frontiers attack. Y'know, if SEGA remembered that Tails is capable of being playable

i love sonic boom so much thank you for this video

Luv ur content

I legit found you out like two days ago and have notis on lmao

Not a bad video, that last detail was kinda funny ngl, also since the next sonic game on the list is Nintendo exclusive, im assuming it could be any of these games Sonic and the secret rings Sonic and the black knight Sonic lost world

3:58 I don't care if it's technically off-topic, this is the exact kind of "neat thing" I clicked on this video for. I think it's a really cool piece of trivia, and I would never have noticed it unless it was pointed out to me.

2:08 😂 not me about to sing Chayanne's "Torero"

A lot of platformers allow you to jump briefly after stepping off of a ledge. It's called "coyote time." The idea is that players usually try to jump right at the edge, but it feels really bad when you press the jump button and nothing happens because you were just a little too late with the timing, so the developers make it a little bit more forgiving.

This Came out Right when I Opened up my PC after I Woke up You Genius you've got me Hooked

With 06 Sonic team got hit with, you gotta make a game for the Wii too, Rol got hit with it’s only for the Wii U, Sega with the self sabotage. I wish this game didn’t get meddled with and released on PC

10:22 more stuff I’m baffled they had time to include considering how rushed they were.

Sonic and the black knight actually had a really unique ost in the fact that they use really obscure songs from different sega ips. Molten mine is a remix of a track from a helicopter game

every time i see those white robots i think its silver why the hell would silver be in sonic boom

The creeper at 7:54 took me out

Video idea: is it possible to beat sonic unleashed without running, only walking

7:40 this is completely intentional, and is referred to as "Coyote time", after Wile E. Coyote, It's put in place to make sure you can still jump even if you fall off just before you jump.

3:18 huhhh? This game has some of the weirdest bugs.

Thank you for the video. That was a fun bit of nonsense.

You mean great outro

7:35. Oh. So this game has coyote time.

In shadows ice phase when talking about music sonic took all those attacks like it was nothing Edit: It's around 2:12

I see you mentioned shrouded forest but did you get 5 stars on it hmmmm?

I listen to the Slowpoke Cave soundtrack all the time, so your assumption was incorrect

Shadow the hedgehog without chaos control or chaos blast.

8:03 HE SAID THE THING

I listen to Black Knight's OST on a regular basis so your little experiment didn't work on me. What it DID do though is made me realize that the similarity to the mostly bland Boom tracks is the reason why Shrouded Forest is one of my lesser liked tracks

Hear me out.. This needs a ps4/ps5 remake

What metal sonic is in the game?

What is that outro music?

I kinda like sonic boom:rise of lyric for no reason

I never played Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric before (i own a Wii U so that shows how little care about the game) but from what i seen it's not the worst thing ever, it has some neat stuff and sometimes looks fun, but the rest looks boring AF, repetitive platforming and enemies, confusing hub-world and tecnically messy. Even then i can't bring myself to hate it, i rather being bore to tears insead of frustrated to rage quit (i'm looking at you Shadow the hedgehog) so i'm just going to pretend this game didn't exist

3:46 sounds like oceans 11 nlg

so do you play this on wiiu or an emulator?

outro

My man is trying so hard to make this game redeemable. But it is such a disaster to the point where NORMAL GAME FUNCTIONS are "nice features" and sub-par music is considered a compliment.

This game reminds me of a bad movie tie-in ps2 game or a nickelodeon tv show tie-in game. decent for that standard terrible for sega.

What music did you use for the glitchy montage?

Sucks no one will see these beacuse knuckles can fly

Find a good game in there next

He just thinks they're neat

Cringe outro isn't cringe enough

GOD the music in this game is almost *unfathomably* boring. I never thought I'd say that about a Sonic game of all things. The music isn't even interesting on it's own merit, let alone being fitting for a Sonic game. If one or two of the songs were of this more atmospheric, orchestral style, that'd be one thing, maybe a nice change of pace. ALL of them? Snooze.