Sonic Heroes | The Completionist 

This game gives me so much nostalgia. This was my favorite game for so long when I was little.

Hey while we are on the topic of underrated Gamecube games... PLEASE DO KIRBY AIR RIDE.

Sonic Heroes is at least better than Sonic Boom. See? You go fast in Sonic Heroes.

I really enjoyed Sonic Heroes... Sure the controls were wonky but... It was so much fun! And that MUSIC EDIT: WHAT HARD MODE I DIDN'T KNOW THAT (certainly not getting the A-ranks for it but good to know)

This game is literally a “me and the boys” meme put on console. I NEED IIIITTTTT!

nobody: my brain: SONICCCCC HEROOOOOOOESSSS

Getting Chaos Emeralds as Team Rose is best because the Emerald goes slower because you're naturally slower, so you have a better chance of nabbing one.

Team sonic or team dark? Nah man, Team Chaotix all the way.

This game is so underrated, I feel like it gets forgotten about by the video game community on RU-vid, so it's nice to see Jirard play what was probably my second favourite game of my childhood :)

TOO MANY CHILDHOOD MEMORIES FLOODING BACK

Here’s something that would’ve been cool for anyone wanting to 100% the game: Perhaps as you beat each teams campaign with all a ranks you would unlock an alternate skin for the group. Examples: Team Sonic: Each member would resemble their classic forms. Team Dark: Shadow and Rouge Would get their primary look from Sonic Adventure 2 and Omega could resemble Gamma from Sonic Adventure. Team Rose: Amy could get her dress from Sonic CD, Big could have a FROGGY shirt, and Cream’s dress could have a different Color scheme. Team Chaotix: Each member could resemble their look from Knuckles’ Chaotix And perhaps if you got every A rank in the SUPER HARD MODE of the game, you could get a METAL SONIC skin for Sonic.

*LOOK AT ALL THOSE EGGMANS ROBOTS*

Before video: Yes. This is the best Christmas gift ever! Thanks Jirard. During the video (after Jirard said fall during the intro): Please don't do this to me. Please don't do this to me Jirard. After Rating: Really? Plook at it? This deserves at least a Play it. Also, was that Bowser's shell at the very end? The reason why I made this comment is because this is one of my all-time favorite games. I wanted to explain what I felt during the video. However, I wasn't as heartbroken as I thought I was going to be at the end. In fact, I wasn't. Can't wait for next week though as my Final Exams will be done and I'll end my day with another episode of The Completionist.

Coming back to watch this again after the Grumps just finished beating the game. I love how Jirard talks about this game so casually in contrast to Arin's absolute insanity inducing play-through.

So happy to see this, albeit years after it was uploaded. I actually was brought into Sonic by this game (and watching Adventures of Sonic The Hedgehog with my little neighbour when I was a kid), I mentioned it to a friend who then showed me Sonic Adventure and the classic games. I understand there are issues with this game, but it was not terrible at all, and I don't regret the many hours I spent speedrunning it. Thanks for giving it some much needed love. Edit: Oh, and I am so happy I'm not the only one annoyed by the lack of Super Tails/Knux at the end. It's been annoying me for over a decade, and the only explanation I have is that they were too strapped for time to model and animate the super-forms of Tails and Knuckles. I know this comment will likely NEVER be seen and be buried at the bottom of an old(ish) video but DAMN I'm happy to see a video with 1.4m views point out how stupid this was. xD

Sonic Heroes is my favourite Sonic game, but I think it's because I played it casually and I only digested the fun. I do disagree with some of the things you said, but that's just a difference in opinion. With all that said, I wanted to thank you for putting the time and energy into making this video. 30mins to take apart a game and to edit and upload needs to go appreciated, so thank you again. 😄

Gets sponsored by Nintendo, plays Sonic game 👍🏻

17:09 "Extended Grinding Sequences" Doesn't sound to fun

I had the PS2 version and I never had framerate issues.

Sonic Heroes is my favourite game of all time as of now. A guilty pleasure in many aspects, but man do I love the concept. It is a game that is not very easy to master, but is extremely rewarding when you do learn the flaws and work around them. And, oddly enough, it is like rinding a bike: you never forget how to play this game, and you constantly get better at it. I have played quite a lot, never reached Hard Mode yet (but working toward it ;) ), and to this day I still find some hidden secrets in some stages, and understand some not hammered in mechanics (you actually learned me that Thunder Shoot could aim at rings, I'll need to check that). Of all its flaws, I think the only ones I just can't just ignore are the stupidly difficult to aim at Egg Hammer head when they are down, and the fact touching ennemies you paralysed/froze in time/brought down still damages you just as if you were taking a massive hammer swing in your face (a legacy of old platformers I still fing annoying). A part from that... It is rich enough to still feel fresh. Especially with Team Chaotix, as their challenges will make you explore parts of the stages you would have never found otherwise. To me, Sonic Heroes is the reference SEGA should follow in term of balance between exploration and high speed sections. And it is such a shae it is not on Steam. That is the first game that I actually wanted to complete 100% and I have no way to show that to my 4 Steam friends. T-T

Personally I freaking love the soundtrack to Sonic Heroes, Its one of the reasons I actually really digged this games as a kid.

I admire Sonic Team's constant striving for creativity, but I hate how it comes at the expense of refinement. Why not stay with a formula fans like for more than just one game or two?

So Rouge finds a bunch of Sonic OCs?

Imagine if this got a remake for the Switch! That would be insane!

This game was a huge part of my childhood. I agree with all these flaws but I can't help but love the game because of the special nostalgia is has from me. I was humming the theme song to my head even before it started playing in the video.

First Sonic game I ever played on my old PS2 back when I was 9. Rented it all the time from Blockbuster. Never knew that version was the worst version haha.

Man, I completed this game hoping I could unlock a chao garden. Such a shame they removed that feature from the series. So much disappointment when I saw the hidden menu option was Super Hard mode instead.

God, the nostalgia is real, especially the music.

You should really complete Sonic RPG the Dark Brotherhood. It's that weird RPG Sonic on the Nintendo DS, but I liked it!

Actually I'm #teamfroggy

20:37 "Levels last eight-twelve minutes." Arin fuckin wishes. XD

I like how when he showed who he would have on his team, he put a picture of Cory in the House

I love this game so much... It was my childhood.... I stopped breathing to watch this review.

Sonic Heroes felt very slippery but it was the last one I enjoyed. That slippery control feeling continued into Shadow the Hedgehog, and with everything else that game added it ended up just being a huge disappointment overall for little 12 year old me. Then 06 sucked hard, haven't really been back into the series since.

One of my first Sonic games, such awesome times! Great review Completionist! Team Sonic for the win, all the way!

I know this is over a year old, but... *BIG THE CAT*

This game was fucking awesome. I have fond memeories playing this on my original xbox. When I would come home from school, I would go straight to playing this fucking game for hours. I think this game was getter than the sonic adventure games. In fact, i think this is the best 3D sonic came that has come out to date, better than sonic unleashed and WAAAAAAAAAY better than sonic boom. I feel like they should have kept following thus formula, it was so action packed and it was a translation from the 2D games.

I love sonic heroes.... And I LIKED shadow the hedgehog ....THERE

The soundtrack/music for casino park was lit no doubt

I actually love Sonic Heroes. It was my first true introduction to the Sonic main series. First time I played with them was Sonic Championship.

HEY LOO, ESSSONIHH

Thanks to this game, everytime I hear "you know what they say" my mind answers back with Eggman's "the more the merrier!"

Just watched this and it reaffirms why I watch your videos: almost beat for beat, you and I had the same reactions to this game. Glad to know I'm not missing ANYTHING of significance by not going back and completing it; beating Metal Overlord was QUITE enough for me.

I actually loved Heroes as well

Thank god you didnt call it team Dank

20:58 Sonic has never once said "Gotta go fast." That's just an overplayed meme taken from the 4Kids Sonic X theme song. C'mon, Jirard. You're better than that.

hi, just wanted to say that I really love your videos and I appreciate how much effort you put in them. There's a snarky comment about game grumps somewhere in my head but hey, they're a different kind of channel. I still can't believe you completed 06, that is damn heroic! And even this game, it looks broken! Best of luck, keep doing what you do and you have my subscription!

So much nostalgia. I loved this game. By the way, IIRC as Espio you could go invisible and become undetectable, which felt incredible as a kid. I thought that was missing in the video.

I was never able to beat the Metropolis level for team Chaotic. There was always 1 enemy I could *NEVER* find. I looped through that level 10 times, and I never found it.

This is actually very nostalgic for me as I had it as a kid... Granted I had the ps2 version because at the time, I didn't have the gamecube yet. I didn't notice that it was the poor man's version.. but then again I was a kid and things were more likely going to fly by my head back then, especially since I didn't have the gamecube version to compare it to.

I just stumbled upon your channel and I gotta say, I really like the structure of your video. Well structured, and the status bar is also a really nice touch. Sub earned.

I remember doing my own Completionist playthrough when I was much younger! Metal Overlord was so rewarding to beat!

"Truth, loot, and murder!" That killed me.

All Sonic games always had a slow down and stop moments, or did everyone forgotten that? like puzzle platforming, or platforming in water trying to avoid from drowning, and etc etc. Maybe Sonic should be like Quick-Silver from the X-men movies, (or have gimmick like it) seeing it in his view, as everything around him slows down.

I like the characters actually acknowledging their games don't happen in voids. Makes the entire game feel more alive.

After sonic pinball on the sega colection for the GBA, Sonic Heroes on ps2 was my intro to the sonic world, and most of the times i couldnt do something right i thought it was my fault, so i took it as a game to improve myself, so this video was a nostalgia trip for me, thnx man ^^

I'm ashamed I never unlocked the last story

"Team Sonic or Team Dark?" Team CHAOTIX, MAN!

I love that game so much since i was a kid, but now in days looks like everybody forgot about it

I love playing this game as a kid. But, I appreciate the perspective on why it is so hard to complete the game fully.

Oh my god, Xenoblade chronicles is my favourite game of all time, I'm so excited.

I'm early! Better make a joke... My social life

Oh man... Sonic Heroes. I remember this game, it was my very first Sonic game ever and I fell in love with it. I was only like 9 or 10 at the time. We were living with my grandparents at the time and I remember playing it down in the carpeted half-basement. I also remember wanting to be Sonic or have superspeed or something so badly that I sprinted through the little neighborhood my grandfolks lived in to try and get superspeed. of course, all I did was inflict pain on myself. I distinctly remember feeling like a stake was being driven through my chest, panting, almost collapsing. Bad idea stupid, stupid little me. That "SONIC HEROOOOOOES" stayed in the back of my mind for the next half decade. I still have fond memories of it but I also haven't played it since then. For some stupid reason I chose to play Team Rose first, and my brother loved Team Chaotix the most.

20:54-21:02 That's...Literally the Sonic design philosophy. You can go fast at times, but occasionally you need to take a moment to platform. Those with more skill and knowledge of a stage will know how to go fast more often, but that's how it works.

This review aggravated me. A lot. I guess it hurts to see one of your favorite games criticized.

Why does NO ONE get the ability of Sonic Teams team blast? When you use it, as the team blast cooldown is going, if you're sonic, you can jump and press the action button to do a homing attack that represents the Team Blast on every enemy around you.

This was my first Sonic game and I loved it! I love the Egg Fortress song and I never got to fight the secret final boss and hear the awesome boss music for myself.

omg i cant help but laugh when i see big the cat running so fast on the loops Alsoo i love your vids

Sonic Heroes is my favourite childhood game ever! (I got the PS2 version :/) My game broke recently and I decided to order another PS2 copy (To preserve all my memories the way they were.) And man, playing it now I realize how this game is mechanically near as awful as '06, but I still love it just because 6 year old me could not get enough of Sonic and his friends. Thanks for opening my eyes to the whole world of Sonic Heroes. A game I will never forget due to my childhood free time spent glued to my PS2 and on Sonic Heroes. When that game broke, I was quite upset. My childhood in circular form had perished. (But thank goodness for Amazon, that website is a life saver.) For the first time, I made it to the Final Boss with a team (Rose obviously) but I still have a lot more to get out of the game that started my love for the Blue Blur.

I remember playing this, but then I got to the frog jungle level. I couldn't get past it...

Honestly this was and still is my favorite sonic game. Also one of my favorite games of all time. Everyones MAIN gripe with this game are the controls. Which honestly arent as bad. Yeah youll get that eventual mega slip off the stage but its not all the time. The team gameplay style is truthfully the best gameplay style. Better than the adventure style imo. The music in this game is so damn nice and lovely. Its my favorite OST from a game period. I actually spent the time to complete this game in its entirety. It took me a full week of nothing but this game and i had a blast every step of the way. The fact that i got a sense of challenge while also genuinly enjoying myself, which i cant say i feel for a lot of games, is something so sacred and i love it. The only problem i really have with this game are the special stages. Though i didnt have THAT hard of a time, they did become a bit unstable for me. But regardless this game honestly makes me happy. A 10/10 game to me.

I actually remember 100% this game, seeing the thank you screen and angrily putting it away forever. I enjoy it, because I played with pauses between teams I didnt get bored, but I remember with was a mix bag with frustrating moments.

Me: *clicks on a Sonic video* Jirard immediatly: I have a major announcement- Me: *pauses and uses every bone in my body to not say it...* Me: SHADOW THE HEDGEHOG IS A-

I love you for looking at my favorite Sonic game EVER.

I was 7 when my dad got this game for me. I have so many fond memories of it. I played each of the 4 campaigns multiple times and it was great. I didn't even know English back then and it felt great when I was playing as sonic - the hedgehog I had only seen on TV until then. Now I'm 23 and I've watched so many videos bashing on the game. I don't care how bad it was though. I had fun back then. I'm sure as hell not going to go replay it though, don't want to stain my memory of it.

THIS GAME IS PURE NOSTALGIA FOR ME. i miss the days of sitting there with my mom and dad playing sonic heroes :( realy wish i could relive it over and over :(💙

20:14 Ok, that one was your own fault dude.

5:41 he says “omega lights up the joint” in the most awkward way possible

You do so much hard work for your videos

Favorite 3D sonic game PS: I haven’t played the adventure games

25:48 - If you think about it, Hyper Knuckles and Super Tails (for the record, there's no "Hyper" Tails) can only be accessed when you have all the SUPER Emeralds. They only have all the CHAOS Emeralds.

That amazing mighty duck reference !! thank you

i am a little late for this but loved this review, you did not just say its trash blah blah, you did it justice for what it was, a fun time and not to be taken seriously :3

I like sonic heroes too! Still do, for some reason, maybe because it brings me back to the past of my childhood

you should complete Shadow the Hedgehog

i remember playing the hero route at a friend's house. i remember getting stuck at this one spot where we had to get over a huge hole but no matter what i did, i could never get passed that part.

I loved this game back in 2005 when I was 10 years old and didn't understand English yet. I especially loved the intro music a lot

Honestly a pretty good game, just sometimes the controls are finicky and the emerald stages kinda suck. But other than that, amazing expression

Best Sonic Game Ever Period.

I loved the DS9 "It's a fake!" reference.

Your intros are the best! Beard mode!!!!

Ultimate unlock for sonic heroes How bout oh I don't know THE ABILLITY TO USE SUPER TEAMS Gosh freaken damnit

btw, I don't know if this was on purpose or not but when you do team blast with sonic and then using sonics tornado attack before the gauge goes back to zero, you'll do your team blast again.

When playing as Team Dark I always thought Rouge was doing nothing during the Team Blast, just there as part of the team. Never noticed that Omega was elevated during that sequence, very glad to have been enlightened to that fact.

Sonic Heroes was my first Pre ordered game ever. I just remember walking into GameStop with my dad and I saw the announcement of Sonic Heroes, so we asked the guy if they have it, he said it was up for pre order, but 8 year old me didn't know what that was, i guess the guy explained to my dad what it was, my dad asked if I wanted it and hell yeah I wanted it. Well, I forgot over time about it, and then when my mom picked me up from school she said there was a surprise at home for me. And lord and behold I got my GameCube copy of the game and with a shirt with Team Sonic on it. And boy was I a happy lad. I was a huge Sonic fan from watching the cartoons, playing the GameCube games. I'm glad I got to enjoy Sonic as much as I could back then as a kid, or id definitely would be like a huge hater of the later games. And yeah I was excited for 06, I just watched the cutscenes on RU-vid and I thought it was pretty rad, I didn't see gameplay besides the commercials.

LUBBA IS LIFE!!!! LUBBA IS LOVE!!!!!

"It opens With Sonic parkouring his way through a Dragon Ball Z landscape" I Lost It

I played this game all the time as a kid but I could never beat the egg emperor. Also I'm more relieved than you can ever imagine that you experienced the same glitches bugs and deaths as me. I hated the grind sections. They were fun sometimes but switching rails or making jumps always ended with me falling.

"only one of the few that did" he even slowed it down like he knew he's wrong

9:45 SomeCallMeJohnny Worst Nightmare.