Sonic is finally dead. 

Sorry for audio quality, been sick but this needed to be played. Also, you have a little less than one week to get my new plush! choctoplush.com

57:55 "I'm not that fantastic with computers" Well, Shadow was locked up in stasis for 50 years - it's like the equivalent of a grandparent trying to use a smartphone

"If I sound a off right now that's because I'm sick" *Plays an entire visual novel which is 90% text he has to read outloud*

This game toes the line between joke game and serious game so flawlessly it's honestly _impressive._

It’s funny how at the end it showed Metal Sonic wearing a “Go Dad” shirt, which means either Metal was happy for his creator or the more likely option of Eggman forcing him to wear it.

This is the most significance Espio has ever had in a sonic game

As an ace attorney fan, this game was SUCH a welcome surprise! I know it’s an April fools joke but I had such a blast playing it!!

One thing not enough people talk about is the artstyle, it’s candy for the eyes

I’m surprised Sega didn’t charge at least $10 for this game I mean I wouldn’t even be mad it deserves it for how good it is.

I absolutely love when companies use their IPS and make them into different genres that are straight outta left field, we haven’t seen Nintendo do that in a while…

Aside from the game itself, they really did a great job with the characters and their relationships with each other. After SO MANY years we finally see them interact with each other, and Espio being in the spotlight was very refreshing and awesome. Shadow was finally written well. Not only he's not an edgelord, but he's actually becoming a part of the gang and cares about the others (in this case, Amy). Overall, a very good and refreshing game and I'm happy that it's getting love and attention. Hopefully this shows SEGA that we love other characters besides Sonic too

Main lesson: Tails is a precious boy that needs protection, and espio is a master ninja and a terrible pretenders poet

19:07 The fact that omochao is wanted for medical malpractice is amazing

Two things: 1) Does the cake count as Sonic's birthday gift? Or did he just never give her anything for her birthday? 2) Was anyone else kind of hoping the train's personality would get transferred into like, a tiny model remote control train or something, at the end? Something the conductor could take with him when he left? That way the train would still get to be with its friend. Adopt the train into the family, Mr. Conductor.

the best thing about this game is that it was made by the social media team and other folks they got in to help, not the actual games teams. They did a fantastic job and I hope they get the chance to do something similar again sometime :)

"Let's click on Sonic Colors here." *clicks the trash can* Oh no you didn't Chocto...

The murderer vented, he genuinely freaking vented.

For an April Fools Prank, this has to be a great treat from Sega. Hope to see more in the future

1:24:39 best moment of the entire game gotta love the family

2:29 One of the few times sonic characters ever acknowledge things from Sonic Unleashed. Let’s go!

Throughout the game, Sonic makes a number of references to not having his wallet on him and hoping the train food would be on the house. However, by the end of it he somehow buys a fully customized birthday cake... I think our beloved blue blur was trying to pull a fast one (pun intended) on our boy Rupert smh

Also, I liked how he skipped Omochao being wanted for Medical Malpractice.

As a person who can’t really play this game due to being mostly blind, Thank You Choc! You brought this game to amazing life for me, not only for reading the lines, you and your personality adding detail, descriptiveness, and relatability had me shaking with excitement and tickled my soul. Sega did great with this game, 10/10 for what it is, but i feel you made 100x better. I’ll remember this for a long long time, Thank you Choc! 😎

I would like to point out that in Australia, this game did actually release on April 1st. Makes a change from getting the April fools pranks turning up on April 2nd

*F's in the chat for my boy.* Sega finally got him 😔

“You are dead, not big surprise” - Heavy

The idea of Shadow being an Arcade wizard is just delightful to me, and I hope that’s a part of Sonic 3, since “50 years ago” in the 2020s is just straight up the 70s

And then their's Sonic! 🎶 He's dead 🪦

one of my favorite things about watching people play this game is the genuine delight in their voice when sonic shows up like "oh my god it's sonic! hello! :D" as if it's unexpected to see him here. i don't know why it happens every time but that was also my reaction

I never expected Sonic to do the whole mugen train arc but here we are

Even the credits for this game are a blast. Theres a section for the devs pets and one of them is "the Stray Cats that live outside Justins house"

They really hit ‘em with the Danganronpa “The killer… IS YOU!”

30:24 That's Ian Jr. He's one of the most easter-egg'd Sonic Forces OC.

Ok, so I'm calling that it's the director. The signs are just all there. The train crashed, he bought tickets to fly out with his wife, it's his last day, and Sonic was the one dressed like a captain, the head of the train.

They snuck in some IDW references towards the end in Eggman's lab. On the far left monitor you can see the Eggperial City Control Tower as well as the Face Ship which was used in the Metal Virus arc/

That ending scene with let's go dad Made me Very happy

That was actually a really good game for a April fool's joke

This game was so outta lest field, but it was really enjoyable. Best April fool’s joke lmfao

Well damn, I thought it was just a joke. I genuinely didn't realize it had a game attached to the video. Not my jam, but I appreciate it. Always good to see more from the sonic cast.

Honestly the trailer was probably my favourite, it was damn hilarious at the beginning.

I'm way more invested in this than I should be

I kinda wish omega was in this game just so we could see him dressed is like a three piece suit

The true april fools here is that amys birthday is on september 23. We have been fooled

My brother walked into me watching the video, looked at sonic and said: Is that Sonic disguised as Failboat?”. I can’t unsee it now

ngl i thought shadow locked the doors because he didnt want anyone sneaking in while he was playing a masterpiece on the piano

The visual novel is so charming and the art is awesome! I rlly liked the oc and I adored the little lore drops and just how on point the character writing was!

I would unironically buy all of these "visual novel with Sonic gameplay mini games" if they made more. I understand they most likely will not, since this was definitionally an April Fool's joke, but my commitment stands.

43:04 "Blaze deserved better than the end of Sonic 06." I agree 124%.

When they pulled out the chao chain then you should've had plankton saying "shing, sparkle sparkle"

The ending made me realise that Eggman now has both a super AI in Sage and a super Robot in metal Sonic. So, what if the two of them kinda fused for a time?

this seems like a real thing, not just a game for april fools day, i love this so much

sage and metal both wearing a "let's go dad" shirt at the end really caught me off guard. Not for sage but metal sonic specifically after sonic heroes. I never thought metal sonic could be adorable but this game proved otherwise

"pretend you're blaze's spouse" choc: ayo us: silver will not be happy

Shadow not being able to use a computer well makes sense because he’s like 50 years old

I'm glad/happy that they used IDW drawings of these characters because these look nice. Edit: Why is this art style cute!?

Why does the image of Vector eating a bookshelf and Espio walking in seeing it and then backing out slowly seem so funny to me?

as far as april fools jokes, this is really cool. I love seeing SEGA do stuff with fans.

eggman mustve been so happy to hear this

"Trains are cool."- Espio, 2023

This is a Danganronpa ace attorney and sonic crossover and I’m all for it!

The endless runner game you're talking about in the final stretch is called Sonic Dash. Simple but pretty genuinely fun. I fucking LOVE high-effort April Fools jokes, so this was a VERY welcome curveball. Didn't expect it to be as genuinely good as it was either, such a pleasant surprise.

This was the change to the series they wanted after Frontiers. Just killing off the series.

The Thinking Dream gear mini game reminds me of the Neo The world ends with you when Fret has to use his *REMIND* Psychic powers(you gotta rotate the control sticks in different angles to piece together a drawing of a memory Of someone/something)

Clarifications from a well/decently knowledgeable Sonic fan to help clear things up (even though most people in the comments probably already have lol) along with some fun facts: - If you needed to, you can go into the options and turn on both invincibility and remove pits to make the runner segments easier - Try not to take EVERY detail about this game as fact, the canon of the game is a bit dubious with details here and there, although I agree and want the majority of this game to be canon -- Listing the ones that I have issue with that would cause canonicity problems: --- The idea of Amy having backup hammers, because she normally just summons her hammer out of literal "hammer space", Also THANK YOU FOR POINTING OUT HER HAMMER IS A SQUEAKY HAMMER because she originally did, her Piko hammer was very much based on a squeaky hammer, I feel like that's getting more and more forgotten in the general consciousness (also I'm fairly certain is the actual source of her strength and traversal, her having an amount of super strength ends up encroaching on Knuckles' whole point as a character) --- The train they're on being made by Eggman 32 years ago (unless the train had decent tech a long while ago and it was simply upgraded at some point, otherwise is just more than likely a meta joke on the fact the franchise is 32 years old) --- While yeah, Shadow tends to be labeled as "The Ultimate Lifeform" and it IS true to an extent, technically Shadow labels Sonic as it by a realization in the final boss section of Adventure 2, it's not well known because it's a slightly hidden dialogue option due to only being shown up if you want around a long time for the boss fight --- The idea of the jeweled Chao egg being specifically "Fabrege" implies Russia is canon to Sonic due to the term being the name of a company --- The characters should technically know how to tie shoes because there is evidence present in past games that allude to them knowing how to tie laces - Player character: The game code and promotional trailer label him as "Barry", he's a quokka - The name of the train "The Mirage Express" is due to the train being on the same island that was featured in Sonic CD and Sonic 4, the latter being that you explored the actual land mass surrounding Never Lake where Little Planet (the level locations (Zones) for CD) being named "Mirage Island", it's the big chain that Eggman originally used to hold Little Planet in place back in CD you see outside of the Saloon Car window - (Don't know if you got to see it) The "Shadow has coffee beans raw" thing comes from one of the Sonic Twitter Takeovers - The game was made by another team, yes, you'll see so in the credits - The reason why "Barry" is invested is because otherwise their life is boring, plus they ain't got nothing else to do on the train aside from catering everyone - Tails' cast iron is mostly from the recent tails Tube episodes where he's shown to cook meals for Sonic occasionally when he visits Tails' workshop - Spindashing doesn't EXACTLY make the buzzsaw effect in canon, it's more like a spiked wrecking ball if anything - Barry mentioning endless runner games is mostly in reference to the same kind of mobile games that are out right now (Sonic Runners, Sonic Dash, & Sonic Forces Speed Battle) - The DreamGear: It's also part Dreamcast - Sonic doing the Family Guy death pose meme is actually the second time the pose was used in something Sonic related, previously it showed up in one of the recent comic (IDW) issues by a character in it named "Surge the Tenrec" doing the pose - The general design of the Saloon is based on the Mirage Saloon Zone level from Mania - I mean what's funny is soon after this game's announcement, they actually did an April Fools joke of Sonic having a dating sim novel game XD - The doodles are based on the old Sonic Japanese manual "tutorial" sketch art designs - The code for the safe is April Fools day - Some of the clothes in the closet reference the OVA (mostly the short) and Frontiers (mostly the brown Adventurer's Shoes) - The gamer hat Forces oc that's in the library and on the printed picture is specifically "Ian Jr." - And to be fair on Shadow not knowing how to handle computers, the last time he tried to he just karate chopped the thing XD

30:30 “sometimes foreshadowing is relatively obvious”

Silver should have been a shopkeeper.

AMY'S HAMMER BROKE? I was UNDER THE IMPRESSION THAT WAS NEAR INDESTRUCTIBLE

The part where it's revealed where Shadow wanted to buy Amy tickets for her favorite band just melted my heart the first time I saw that.

Blaze finally returned, that's enough to intrigue me.

“Trains are cool.” -Espio the Poet, 2023

"Finally the blue rat is dead." - some guy in the official announcement trailer

I have no earthly idea why this game was so good *and* so difficult. Not the mystery, that was obvious, but the *running.* During the last of the ones before the twist I was hoping there wouldn’t be any harder ones… which aged REALLY bad.

I admire your courage to record your stream of this hilarious April Fool's visual novel with full commentary despite being sick. I hope you recovered smoothly from your sickness since then. ;)

Sonic Dating Sim....it may be the last thing the fandom needs, but i can bet is one of the things that the fandom wants

That’s an actual game?! That’s pure gold!!! Glad everyone’s okay though, that ending has so much going on!

Bro vector and espio's dynamic in this game reminds me of the "he asked for no pickles" meme

The fact this is better than most new sonic games

I can’t believe there is an official Ace Attorney-like Sonic game.

I know it was mostly a joke but like that actually was a pretty damn good vector impression

58:26 I'm conflicted. On one hand, Shadow was created on the Ark, which was full of technology and scientists, and the time he spent there, however short, was enough to befriend Maria. So he SHOULD know a thing or two about computers. On the other hand, I don't know if home computers were on the ark.

That one-for-the-team option really couldn't be better at all. Rupert's face is incredibly monotone-happy and just said I sacrifice myself so the conductor doesn't get sued

Just started up this game, I think I know where the story is going. "It was a murder mystery party at first but then someone actually captured sonic" is what I'm thinking

Fun fact: the main character's actuall name is "Barry the Quokka"

“What did omochao do to be wanted by the police?” “Medical Malpractice”

My new headcannon is Rupert serving me Chicken Cordon Bleu on the Sonic murder train

MARIO MOVIE TOMORROW WHOOOOO

one little series of @Choctopus is the cosmic shake, it is amazing watching him play it.

All in all, the quality of recent Sonic stuff has been skyrocketing. The movies, Frontiers, the IDW comics, Prime.

Can’t wait for that danganronpa x sonic crossover to come out

Bro I thought this was an April Fools game why am I crying at the end???

I named myself “fool” so every time they talked to me, it sounded like they were insulating me PS: The game is head canon. It says in the game description.

I'd like to see more of Espio in the games. But when I first played it I really thiught it was either Shadow or Knuckles. I never suspected Espio but it makes sense. Love it.

Ngl rouge and blaze be lookin spicy

This game is like Danganronpa, but kid friendly, and with Sonic characters. We even have Tails giving us the “Tell them Naegi” routine, when he knows the evidence.

The only thing they had to do was make the MC a bird so people could name him "Phoenix." Missed opportunity there, Sega.

That fleas poem didn't need the 3rd and 4th line to rhyme, just the 1st 2nd and 5th

45:18 it's Diabolical Box all over again

this game was super fun in my opinion, I hope that this will lead into a small series of point and click spinoff games.

I was no expecting this game to have so many twists and turns. Truly amazing

Is anyone surprised that Amy could break the train with her hammer but not the shelf at the beginning???