Sonic Omens: A Brutally Honest Critique Video 

Sonic's cheerful voice saying "What a great motivation for genocide!" That is the highlight of my day.

My favorite part is Sonics voice acting, because they got a Jason Griffith sound-alike, but then his direction is pretty much all of the things Jason was criticized for anyway.

And nobody's even gonna point out that White Jungle shouldn't be revisitable, since the island blows up in SA2.

By far the worst mistake Omens makes is that it used the name "Moldy Jungle" instead of the obviously superior "Fungal Jungle"

Since you put Sonic Show's "argument" in this video, I wanna say: Do you want to know why he kept insisting that this game is "polished and that's a fact"? It's because, get this, he was lucky enough not to get any glitches in his playthrough. Yes, that's his argument, we mocked the people who said this shit when Colors Ultimate came out, and I'm pretty sure he did the same thing too, so why are we okay with using this lousy excuse of an "argument" now?

I want to actually take a moment to congratulate you for keeping the video to be about the game itself and being critical of both the game and the people criticizing the game. If we actually want projects like Omens or people like Ouroboros Team to improve, we need to actually improve ourselves as a community in what/how we communicate. Almost everything you mention is dedicated to the game, which is what matters. I personally think the problem isn't "they asked for money" anymore, but how the game is flawed in a lot of its technical elements despite having way more support than other fan projects out there. So i think you made the best video so far in regards to what needs to be discussed at this point, THE GAME ITSELF.

I know the developers are Russian, but god even I can read dialogue naturally. It’s one thing to be a good Sonic impersonator, but a whole new thing to be an actually good voice actor. They go hand in hand

It was painful hearing The Sonic Show doubling down on being wrong, not even because the game isn't "the best and most polished," but because he said those were objective facts when obtaining any kind of objective measurement of qualities like that is difficult if not impossible. It's an arrogant, unlearned way to present his opinion and sours the whole discourse surrounding this game which is already a minefield. That out of the way though, great vid Chaser. The metarex section was hilarious. Hope you do more like this on other games of interest.

Thanks for the SRB2 shoutout. That fangame is a insane project, imagine not having something polished after 20 years, imagine working on a game for 20 years! :v I feel like there are a lot of insane good sonic fangames, even hack roms that are really impressive, ppl just forget them. Nice video man.

The voice actor for Eggman sounds like he thought he was supposed to voice Mario after watching a V-Sauce Mario compilation

Ladies and Gentlemen. This is the Hunt Down The Freeman of Sonic. It's *Hunt Down The Eggman.*

About the metal enemies in the light speed rant. Didn't sonic unleashed give some enemies reaction animations? Like they notice you and then after a moment they attack? Maybe I'm insane, but that would possibly make that section bearable bc it would actually give you time to charge it up

11:40 There's a lock-on feature in Omens?! What the hell. Wish the game had told me, then I might've actually progressed past that dumb plane-worm boss.

honestly i’m glad that i could find a video that *wasn’t* just full of the controversy around the game. i know what that entails but i’m trying to find details on the game and here’s what i like about this video: you’re talking about what it is that you’re playing and what you think about it. it’s so simple, but it’s such a big deal for me when i’ve had moments looking for game reviews that don’t even get to the main point (i.e. how the game feels/plays and etc) that aside ya earned a sub

This was really entertaining, I hope you will do more of these critiques for the games you play.

No way my guy put up exactly one frame of the LTG meme I'm cracking up

This is a pretty well put together video that goes over a lot of points and subjects most people cannot be bothered to put any detail in. Quick tip: Unless an Infinity Engine fangame has specified controller use is ideal, NEVER play an Infinity Engine game with controller. The original Infinity Engine was designed to be played on keyboard and mouse, controlling sonic like a missile with a mouse guided camera in a more traditional FPS sense instead of a platforming sense. One of Omen's biggest flaws was the fact that it did not properly convey the fact that it was not properly optimized for controller. The default Infinity Engine controller support was functional at best and the Omens team did not do enough to fix this issue. But because the game does not properly tell this to the player, the player is more likely to play with controller and thus will get a much worse play experience. The entire game was designed with the original Infinity Engine creators vision in mind. Oban wanted to create a Sonic x Devil May Cry fangame where dashing from place to place using the homing attack and air boosting with mouse centric camera controls and I think you began to see that the more you played. Its no surprise that people enjoy the stages where this isn't the case as most of the time those stages are basic boost styled stages where boosting and basic platforming are the main focuses and that most peoples least favorite stages are the ones that require more masterful control over the homing attack and camera functionality to bend the level to their will. At it's core, Omens is NOT a Boost game. The Boost is present and is a mechanic but it functions more like an extension of Sonic's mobility rather than the focus of it. You'll probably notice that a lot of areas where you're free to boost as you please has a lot of Boost energy capsules. That is because the Boost energy drains much faster in Infinity Engine than it does in traditional Sonic games. It's NOT meant to be your main mode of traversal. Using the boost to maneuver around in mid air, pivot and change directions on the spot while on the ground and gaining bursts of speed in small intervals makes the levels flow significantly better. But again, the game does a terrible job at teaching this fact to the player. I've worked with the Infinity Engine for 4 years on Infinity+ and when this game came out and everyone was trashing on it I came up with a few theories as to why and this video mixed with a few others helps prove my theory correct. Omens has too high of a skill floor and expects the player to understand more about the quirks of the Infinity Engine than what is reasonable. The game itself can be super fun 70% of the time if you know what you're doing and how to play but the game does very little to teach you what 'how to play' means in this context. Overlapping mechanical controls and level design is important in platformers and if the player cannot grasp the main functions of the game then the level design will feel good to play. Side note: United Railroad is one of my favorite stages to Speedrun as Sonic yet i can't go through the internal parts of the train without getting hit. I do think the stage has some repetition which makes it longer than it needs to be and that internal part of the train is not fun lol but i enjoy the overall stage regardless.

😃“Going home; what a great motivation for genocide!”😃-sonic

Here's a list of some fangames more worth your time and energy: SRB2 Sonic GT Triple Trouble 16-bit Sonic Infinity Adventure Pack Sonic and the Fallen Star Sonic World (DX)

Thank you for making an honest and mostly neutral take on the game. I mostly avoided videos on this because I knew most of them came out of a place of blind hatred due to it having a Patreon (despite most fan projects having one). I personally enjoyed most of the game, but I can see a lot of the problems the game has. I enjoyed Shadow's last stage a lot for using all of his Chaos powers in the level design, and I like that it implements all 4 of them. It does warn you about them in a subtle way too with the colored arrows, but it is true that you won't expect the moving platforms on your first try because you'll be boosting right into them. I also didn't really enjoy the train ending part because of all of the randomly placed obstacles but I enjoyed my journey towards the train a lot. I do believe the game was rushed towards the end, though I do not know why, hence why the final stages and the final boss are really unpolished compared to the previous chapters. Still, what Sonic Show's full argument is, for the sake of neutrality, has always been "a full 3D game that is on the level of Sonic Omens' polish in terms of gameplay, cutscenes and music", which I believe Roboblast 2 doesn't fall into because of the lack of cutscenes and voice acting (even if the voice acting isn't all that great). All in all, I enjoyed my time with Omens, despite its flaws, and I enjoyed your video and your perspective. It isn't the best but to be quite honest, I'd rather replay most of Omens' stages over replaying Colors or vanilla Forces (some of the mods look great though). I don't think the team is better than Sonic Team and that "Sega should hire this man" or anything, but when it comes to boost Sonic, I guess I just don't really like Colors and Forces, haha.

The voice direction in this game was so awful if there was any- Some reason they keep actors stumbling on lines in the cutscenes, some actor's mic quality is absolutely terrible, and some of them just can't emote correctly like you said. Sonic's VA ruins the fight with Exile because his tone is stuck happy and peppy sounding all the time. And you already said everything I could say about Shadow's voice oml did they screw up with that. Lemme tell you when I first saw the Demo of his level and the cutscene played with his voice I laughed. Which is a little harsh but his performance literally never gets better the whole game soooo

I’ve never seen any of your vids before, but this was great! You articulated your points extremely well, the script was really well written, and the editing was on point. Good stuff bro!

11:33 Frontiers has it, but that came out after this game

Honestly the voice acting sometimes feels like it was cut from a real time fandub but without the laughter or the context that makes it funny, but jarring

im so glad someone mentioned the camera issues with how you constantly have to jump your thumb from face buttons to right stick, and how things have to be on screen for you to homing attack them. it felt like talking into a void when nobody else seemed to care about that like its not an issue. tho i wanna say that i found turning also too sensitive i guess. it feels too weird for me, i cant quite get the hang of it for whatever reason, but also im so glad i realised i can lock onto bosses through a youtube video...

Is it really worth checking out Sonic Almonds in the long run

The thing about controls is that people who tend to call them trash play on a controller but i personally believe that KB+M was an intended way to play Infinity Engine sonic fangames because moving camera with mouse is SO much eacher than awkwardly moving your right thumb of off action buttons just to readjust camera. In official Sonic games this is not a problem because the game automatically moves the camera for you but in Omens there will be moments where you will have to manually adjust it to the situation which is simply not that easy. Maria Boss fight is a perfect example of this as on a controller you have to continiuosly adjust the camera in order to auto target enemies to chain homing attacks but by doing so you kinda leave yourself open due to not being able to immidiately homing attack to the next target as your thumb is too busy moving the camera so you cant use it to homing attack however on KB+M Both homing attack and camera controls can be easily done with mouse(Homing attack is mapped to left mouse button so you can pretty much homing attack/double jump as you rotate the camera) so you can do both actions at the same time while on a controller you cannot. I've seen countless people calling Maria Dark Souls levels of difficulty because they keep being hit by things but as a KB+M player i didn't had this bad of a time as the controls allowed me to do both actions necessary to easily complete this boss fight and pretty much every stage as this setup allowed me to react accordingly to any and all hazards that the game decided to throw my way and not only that playing with KB+M gave me overall a much better Omens experience as i didn't encouter nearly as many problems controller users did as far as the difficulty or level design issues go besides few small glitches here or there such as getting randomly stuck in a spring or an enemy for like 3 seconds so is it REALLY fair to blame Omens for something that the engine is at fault? This will be a problem for all Infinity Engine games moving forward so either learn how to play with KB+M or consider not playing Infinity Engine games as they're obviously not as controller friendly as we would like them to be. To close this off i will add that since our racoon guy is being mentioned here i will say that outright i agree with most of this view regarding both gameplay(especially in regards to the difficulty which is NOT a bad thing as we were long overdue more challanging Sonic game) as well as controversy except for his view on Maria's textures which he tries to excuse by saying it was probably just one guy who did that but no, no matter if it just one guy this simply cannot be excused. The game is seriously overhated for the silliest of reasons and the fanbase reaction to this is honestly overblown to the point where it almost feel meme worthy.

For shadow ranged ability, they should have just added it as a proximity of the target it will appear with the prompt to press the button. So as to not slow momentum. It would also looked cooler on the run

I dunno, man, I love this eastern european, eurojank voice acting. Shit's just, chef's kiss in a soviet era apartment complex communal kitchen, with cooking of potatoes with a hint of condensed milk and alenka chocolate bars. I dunno man, I just can't hate it 🤣

FINALLY A REVIEW THAT'S JUST HONEST AND DOESN'T DICKRIDE / TRASH THE GAME DUE TO IT'S HISTORY

Great video, one thing you could've talked about though would probably be the story, but that's fine. Really liked how you critiqued the game without having to be biased

I know absolutely NOTHING about this game or it’s drama. This random video in my feed is all I’ve heard and seen. And regardless of all this all I can genuinely say is: It amazes me to see what a fan base can do. It may not be the best game or anything, but wow. It’s impressive to see fans make something like this.

For the homing attack issue is actually not the target that's the problem. The target is in sync with the camera but you can still homing attack something else if you're holding the direction to whatever else you're trying to homing attack even though it's not targeted. Press it without any direction it will auto Target whatever it is that the target indicator is on

I grew up partially playing all kinds of Sonic fan games on the family computer. So Sonic Omens should be right up my alley. But my opinion of Omens was ruined as the first time I heard it it was described as “the best looking Sonic game”. Immediately I knew the fandom was out of control so I checked it out. And nope, it looks great for a fan game but that’s it. I eventually had no desire to play it since it was nothing but drama. After your critique I think it’s finally time for me to give it a shot. It looks super fun despite the terrible unfriendly level design and glitches. I’m honestly used to it. I’m going to treat it like a fun fan game. Like everyone should. Not the messiah of Sonic games. Edit: I quit on the second boss. That wasn't worth my time.

Did not expect that toxic SonicTuber to turn up here but I'm glad people are responding to his inane nonsense.

7:31 XD I gotta agree hard though, the voice acting needed a LOT of polish on direction and delivery. Mostly delivery, because they tried way too hard to mimic the OGs when we’d all have been fine with hearing their own versions of the characters. I mean, Adrenaline Dubs is an easy reference point for what one should strive for when it comes to character inflection vs character feel. And while you can FEEL it....it’s not all that natural and the pace on a lot of the line deliveries is a mess. 11:30 Full disclosure as one of those people XD I totally never figured out there was a lock-on function. Cours,e when I swapped to controller, by that point I honestly didn’t have anywhere near as much trouble as before that. I just play better with controller personally. It’s my comf zone 13:28 Yeah... Maria is not a good boss. Thematically, she’s good, but he actually fight is.......utter garbage. The escalation in difficulty, while it feels natural, doesn’t lend itself to either the arena or the gameplay, even the obstacles tend to get in their own way. At least you can refill chaos but that’s assuming you even get the chance to without having to waste it on chaos control just for better maneuverability. There is nothing worth defending with this one. 14:07 I actually kinda liked the Exiled fight. You have to fill the boost to turn super and wail on him, but you also have to sort of manage it so you can avoid his attacks effectively. Unlike Maria, it’s a decent challenge for a boss fight that puts the flow in the players hands. Do I try to max out the gauge and go in for a beat down, or do I hang back for this attack and try and blitz enemies and bubbles while boosting to keep it up? I can see why it wouldn’t be a favorite, me personally, I got trashed up till I got a solid groove flowing and that’s without lock on by the way(Probs would’ve helped). But I dig it. It’s probably my favorite fight for how much different mechanics become while offering a challenging setup that ISN’T super unfair in its presentation and just build on cheap nonsense. Lookin at you Maria 20:04 I gave someone else flick for not thinking to use chaos control here, but having played for myself,now? .....yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, hi. First play club. XD like, you get into that zone of imma blitz everyone and everything at supersonic speed and then you get caught by those platforms and realize “FUCK.” Plus side, it’s a very trial and error moment that can hone your reaction and expectation of the timing, buuuuutit is pretty cheap if you ain’t payin attention which, nine out of ten, you won’t be xD 31:09 I was honestly avoiding this video, just because of the last guy I watched just sort of going on with a raging hate boner with no rhyme or reasoning to a lot of the things he’s saying besides bashing. And Igotta be honest: I’m glad I finally watched this. You have to be the most open, sensible critique I’ve seen of this game that isn’t blinded by salt or desperate pandering. I love it. Because yeah, this game isn’t perfect, it has a lot of flaws, and god knows what extent the controversy is reaching behind its development. And I think this kind of open-minded review is worth a lot. Keep up the good work, you just earned a new sub~.❤

Sonic Almonds

So just by watching this alone it feels like the game either wants you to go stupid fast or dead ass slow with no in between and when you do decide to do what the game asks you will just be punished anyway. It’s like a dysfunctional parent that if you do what is being asked of you, your just gonna be smacked up later anyway. That metarex part also goes against most of the official sonic enemy patterns as most of sonics enemies are stationary however if they do move they aren’t bolting right at you they come at you in a manageable speed that lets you be able to react accordingly. So just on gameplay alone it feels like there was disconnect from what the game wants to do to how the players should act which already is a failed design. If you want Sonic to go fast make him fast, make the levels incentivize that speed but don’t take it all away with randomness with no build up in preparation to said randomness. An this is just my take from gameplay alone I’m not even gonna point out the camera wankiness that also punishes you and so on.

This game feels like a parody of 2000s Sonic games lol So tryhard

"Bullet hells are not good for Sonic fans" Lol speak for yourself, I love bullet hells. But this in particular does look bad.

Loading up the video first ad that appears is a Sonic as Lmao

6:50 Ouroboros really said "second takes are for cowards"

Rofl!!!. .😂😂🤣🤣😭💀💀💀👌👌🔥🔥🔥🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 yo chaser tech welcome back fam. . Your review on the bosses and the metorex light speed attack section was funny as hell man you got a true knack and a gift for this don't give up fam 😁😁😁🤣😂😂🤣

I originally didn't want to hate this game, really I wanted it to be good. Graphics are beautiful and it presented itself like an official game, other than the really bad cutscenes. But after learning about the Patreon and realizing just how trash the level design is, how often you run out of boost, numerous glitches, and I could keep going on, it's clear that the devs don't understand Sonic, any of it, and they tried to just do a ton of fanservice in story, which is pretty lame too, I will say. The only plus of this game to me is the music, and graphical fidelity overall is pretty good. Super disappointed.

30:43. Your mic quality was fine. My mic on the other hand sucks ****. xD

This, to me, the most fair-minded and balanced review of this game that I've seen thus far. For my money, I thoroughly enjoyed Sonic Omens. I thought it ramped up to brutal levels of difficulty towards the end, but I never felt cheated (except for that one fucking arena with the respawning Metarex that you have to take out in the Tornado in order to progress - FUCK that part). For everything else, I thought it was tough but fair. I never felt like I died because Sonic clipped through a wall from going too fast or didn't land on a rail when he should have. I can understand people being turned off from a Soulsborne-level difficulty spike in what begins as a fairly typical boost game, but, on balance, this game ranks among my favorite Sonic games of all time, atrocious voice acting and all.

7:15 to be honest, that sounds pretty good

8:17 ...This sounds like John Dimaggio inhaled helium

Hot take: egg man with sort of an accent is a cool thought

Anyone who says Sonic Omens is better than Sonic Robo Blast 2 immediately loses my respect.

The reason the name change was because it was tired of controversy over them getting money for this fan game.

23:33 my man actually doesn't know how wind works

Well made man, well made.

also i still play sonic GT sometimes and really enjoy his level layouts...but this bullshit i never wanted play once more

I know the Adventure games had a lock-on for the bosses, but just like the camera system in general, the official implementation is fully-automatic rather than something that has to be manually done.

Shadow and Eggman suddenly developing Slavic accents continues to be so jarring.

I'm one of those masochists who actually enjoyed United Railroad the most and while i understand we all have different opinions and all i honestly don't understand half of the criticism towards it. I mean this stage, and pretty much all other action stages(except for the tree) has been build precisely how fanbase wanted boost stages to be like: Big, Fairly long with solid platforming, multiple paths you can take, decently challanging and with oppurtunities to create massive shortcuts with skillful gameplay like in Adventure games. Omens has it all and yet i see people complaining and calling Omens' level design trash so i gotta ask: What does the fandom TRULY want then because we got literally what we've been asking for and yet we still moan so what do we ACTUALLY want? Forces level design again where the game is bascially a 1 minute long and automated corridor with no alternative paths? One thing is, was and will inevitably remain true until the end of time. Sonic Fandom simply cannot be ever pleased and when i see people do a complete 180 on their opinions just because the thing is controversial makes me really think that the fandom will forever remain this toxic cesspool of children who just can't ever be happy with anything. Game has flaws that much is obvious, but to see it being this ruthlessly attacked is borderline inhumane but i suppose this is what the internet does. Either your creation you spent years developing is a squeaky clean 10/10 masterpiece or you'll get buried alive overnight and it truly makes me disappointed because Sonic Fandom isn't the only one i'm in that acts this way towards mods and fan made games.

Is rather just wait another month and a half and play Sonic Frontiers. It's shaping up to be a great game. Maybe we'll finally see the death of the "Sega, hire this man" meme.

Only seen this game one time before this video (ofc, any other reference to this game is probs about the drama) and love that shoutout to Sonic Robo Blast 2 cause that was like the fangame I threw away a bunch of hours in (and made my own crappy levels). I know probs don't have much opinion from not playing it, but even with the praise for some parts it did right, I... don't like the other boxes it ticks; It honestly straight up reminds me of the IWBTG (I Wanna Be The Guy) Fangames . Trial-and-Error Gameplay (Yep, I lifted the exact TV Trope). Not often a big fan, though still a necessary evil imo for some games. Small doses are fine, but this game takes it to the extreme from the looks of it. Games like this and those IWBTG fangames.. or Kaizo Mario.. It's built upon that you would already have this prior knowledge to complete the level -- which the only way to get this prior knowledge is... well, getting smacked or getting folded. Even IF you knew the mechanic sometimes (like the Maria boss fight on that bullet hell section you mentioned), it can still be difficult because past the trial-and-error... there's just.. well, "Are you feeling lucky?" Some parts of it feel like they felt the tutorial was sufficient enough that you should, by the end of the game or even halfway through, be able to execute advanced mechanics or display a higher degree of mastery of the game that people may not achieve EVEN after completing the game. The way they deal with emergent gameplay (being introduced to new mechanics outside of the tutorial) seems to be only this trial-and-error. You feel good and can have a pretty "A-HA!" moment when you get the trick behind it down, but like you mentioned, does not excuse the lack of polish. For games like IWBTG, THIS is the gameplay.. but for Sonic Omens -- looking at it... most of it seems unintentional, like those who were developing it had tunnel vision and didn't have a problem while playtesting (only because they already KNEW how to pass the level already ofc). There's no... additional tutorial pop-ups, no character just nodding to you that you MIGHT want to do this (when you were getting hit by the bird with the giant hitbox at 23:20 coming to mind) which in one hand, don't like a game when it handholds the fuck out of you, but other times understand to ease frustration that you might need to do it. Possibly because this one thing you have to do pops up out of nowhere and will NEVER come up again. (For counterexample, you don't need to be told when 26:00 comes up, the perspective there is either just bad level design for enemy placement or unforgiving AI). Very old games ofc did this too and while still are fun to play, also is in the same pool of "does not excuse the ridiculousness of it" (If you ever played some old point-and-click games, you would know. If you ever played NES Ninja Turtles -- you'd probs know too if you got far enough at least). I won't say the game is garbage either after this vid, but it is one of those games that feel like you have to go through a bunch of bad to see a little bit of good, which doesn't feel worth it unless I'm feeling like a glutton for punishment. All in all, real nice video.

The main thing I liked about this game was the fact that they used the metarex, still have nostalgia for them

Yeah, the statement that this game forces you to die atleast once in later levels is very accurate, I have and WILL NEVER S rank this game just because I can't have the reaction time or memory to handle these levels entirely. (I will say the final boss while SO. FUCKING. ANNOYING. AND. VAGUE. Once I mastered his attacks he is actually really fun to beat up, especially phase 2 the music just kicked a feeling like it's a battle of generations)

21:09 this was when i alt+f4 and uninstalled the game

I guess you could say this game was...a Bad Omen! Alright, I'll see myself out.

im sorry but taking a shot at the sonic show just fucking made me burst into laughter i mean ur completely right his opinion is shit but holy shit i wasent expecting that

I think steering feels pretty loose It's mainly because of the camera. Ex: in Sonic Adventure 2 when you're on Green Forest or White jungle you're holding up the character is moving in the center of that slope whereas in this game you got to keep steering left and right to keep that balance before you fly off the screen

27:12 So were jst gonna fuckin graze over this robot *cement block sliding sfx* ing? He is actually ice cubing 💀

I loved the part when exiled 2020d over sonic then sonic went omen and omened all over him

Tbh I played through the first half and I had a lot of fun even got a couple a ranks in my opinion if they divided the stages into multiple acts maybe it would get less complaints cuz they’re are legitimate issues but the sonic show was mainly talking about story I think

Sonic GT clears this game so easily. I remember constantly playing the same levels over and over just to get best time, and having a lot of fun with the physics, game play, and level designs. It wasn't perfect, but definitely clears this without question.

7:06 This one line got me laughing more than the entirety of sonic omens.

Nice review! (Ps I just subbed

I am curious how this game is processing on your computer I have never gotten the bugs you got in the vid... And I speed run this game. That floating number point on different cpu goes crazy.

The fact that you’re being honest and giving you’re honest opinion is great even if the developers are really really bad and deserve to get criticized by sonic fans

I'm gonna be honest. Even with all the jank, I still think this is the best LOOKING Sonic game (not including Frontiers). The level of graphics and particle effects are something we simply haven't seen in the series.

Ok so I stopped playing around gun Arsenal (chaos dash problems) but I HATED waterfall chase, because the first section and the last section of the level have a instakill barrier that constantly chases you, and it took me so long to get through the level because if you missed up the landing on that macaroni shaped curve down or hit a rock while you are boosting you will hit a rock, you will slow down and you will die I had to actually take a break and come back to get past it, and it was at the point where I decided to stop being curious and just listen to others

The only reason is here because I heard the new songs from Bently Jones for this game

Here's a fun fact: They actually made the game worse in the 3.0.1 patch, which is likely the patch you played on. If that isn't a spiteful move from the team I don't know what is.

7:05 my dog be like

The engine was infinity engine which means ouroboros studio did basically ALL the bad stuff and the good stuff was made by the creator of infinity engine

I just will never understand why they made these voice actors who are *clearly* trying to sound like the English voice cast not speak in their native language. It would've made the voice acting SO much more tolerable. They have the vocal registers for these characters don't try to force them to try to believably speak a language they aren't as well versed in. It's such a simple fix that should have been ironed out in the conceptual stages

Tbh I would have loved a Maria boss fight but tbh it should have been in shadow the hedgehog the game because shadow now doesn’t care about his past only his future

Where did you get the meme at 28:59

I GOT SO HAPPY YOU SAID ROBO BLAST 2❤

Well, I have only seen videos of this game and they all look super good, but of course never played it so I don’t know how it controlled, but thank you for showing issues with the game and showing fair critiquing, I just hope this was not on a super outdated version. Some others are just outright trashing everything about the game and I wonder if it is because of that one person who is probably just carrying out a vendetta against the developer.

This game is as polished as any other triple A sonic game to any casual audience like myself. And by casual, I mean, someone was hasn't played Sonic since pre-preteen years.

Here’s my very quick opinion, when you’re playing 2 Player with your friends and you’re absolutely blasted and you laughing at everything and running into walls. Fun game.

No one cared about what were they doing during development. The script was written in English while screenwriter sucks at English and then edited by Sonic's VA so, as I've heard, dialogues sound a bit unnatural. Also later it was translated into Russian and some details don't match with English script but again, it's unknown how different final English script from the original so God knows how bad things are. But then you have extra notes (level descriptions and Chris' letter) which were written in Russian, have plenty of syntactic and orthographic mistakes (for example, Rouge was called "Руш", not "Руж"), roughly translated into English and then were edited by Sonic's VA again but he also added more stuff from himself so English localisation of these notes contradict with both Russian notes and game's plot in general. Like... sand in Moldy Jungle? Also fun fact about Rouge. Thanks to that mistake in Russian version of note, she became "Rush". And about VAs. I can get why they worked with Russians. It's easier to work with people you share native language with. But again, you better either target for bigger audience and get people who are better at English or are native speakers or make your life easier and make the game in Russian. But no, you will listen to female instead of Tails, you will listen to Ukrainian or Southern Russian Shadow and you will listen to Eggman who sounds less like off-brand Pollock (despite his VA is Bristow fan) and more like VA himself but he thinks making more rough voice is enough.

This game was clearly made for casuals to ogle at on a playthrough, which are in my opinion the most gullible to say this game is good.

I rather play Sonic Forces than Sonic Omens and for many reasons.

Why did YT set your channel to "for kids?" I don't get notifications of uploads on my phone anymore

Literally only the first 2 levels were good.

Oh come on, Eggman in Omens might be really halfassed at times (some of his lines don't even match the subtitles), but the voice itself is great, really. Not as good as the official ones, but still has the right feel. Can't say anything good about the game or the rest of the voice actors, though.

Tl;dr this game is probably a 4/10, but could be a 5 or maybe 5.5/10 with enough polish, but its foundation (like sonic 06) is too flawed, to the point where bug fixes would only go so far. Like 06, there are elements to enjoy, but the game isnt worth playing. Overall this game is disappointing. Ignoring the controversy behind the development team, this game overall did have some elements I do enjoy. I actually like the idea of the bosses themselves, and the music is pretty good. And as said, the cutscenes (especially for a fan game) are solid at the very least. That being said, even if the game had 0 bugs or glitches, its level design would still be flawed, especially the tornado levels and the forest. As the video said, the beginning levels are easily the better part of the game, which speaks additional volumes about the development of this game. Honestly, I compare this game to Sonic 06, but modern day. Just like 06, the game introduces certain story/level elements that are new additions to the series, which have the potential to be quite enjoyable. But, its production was a nightmare (just like Sonic 06).

Sonic show gonna be fumming mad when he sees this lmao gonna get u flagged bruh

26:05 sonic gets jumped

Sonic Omens as a fangame looks really polished at first glance but once you keep on playing you'll start noticing problems that don't seem much at first but keep on piling... and piling... and piling... and piling... you get the picture. At the end of the game you'll start questioning why you're even playing Sonic Omens.

Sonic Almonds

Omens feels like everything those preachy 2000's fans say a perfect Sonic Adventure 3 would be, executed in the worst way possible. Even the story, it's trying so hard to be serious and dramatic but it falls flat....am I NOT supposed to laugh my ass off hearing a bad Jason impression say the word "genocide"?

2:10 the raccoon randomly fading in is fucking hilarious without context

This video LITERALLY describes my experience about Omens, It has a lot of good stuff, but it has tons of bad stuff the only difference between my experience and yours is that the blue spring in tree palace didn't glitch for me XD that was a great video❤