Sonic P-06 Is The Best Sonic Game Ever Made 

Facts, the fact that this dude took what was one of Sonic’s most infamous and worst game of all time, into what could have been a real contender for one of Sonic’s Greatest Games ever is just incredible. And once the story / cutscenes / voice acting, is fixed and fully realized, along with being able to play the boss battles and The full Game from start to end is really outstanding and crazy how really fun and great sonic 06 could have been

ChaosX's Remake is what SEGA and the Sonic Team envisioned their game truly looked like.😏

"You're hired, and promoted to ceo."

@@tylerr6618 I would say *one* of the worst. There are games in the series worse than 06. Like Rise of Lyric or Sonic Blast or the Sonic 1 GBA remake.

​@@fredtheted3530ngl I'd put Sonic 4 and Forces up there as well, those games are just as bad as 06 if not worse, Sonic 4 was a shitty mobile game turned cashgrab to bank off nostalgia and Forces has little to no redeeming qualities tbh, only 1 good stage from that entire game

I still remember the FTCR Playthrough ending with an entire hour of sll the loading screens edited out of the LP. Edit: it's also one ninth of the whole game.

There's nothing fun about that, though

2 hours of GET A LOAD OF THIS Eggman really predicted the future with that line

Yeah, I remember that "Everything wrong with" vid that also mentioned that... Pretty insane considering how much of our lives get wasted on load screens, and then the original 06 pulled that somehow....

Except that's not counting all the times you'll have to repeat them because of bullshit deaths caused by jank throwing you out of the level and such.

begging for a console port as 06 is 1 of my favorite sonic stories

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Générations too.

I agree. He gets too much hate from people. He is not only bad sonic character in that game.

Same

sorry but your dad was a pussy anyone who has the audacity to cancel themselves and leave kids and wives behind are

I’m sorry to hear about your Dad, man. And yeah, nostalgia really can cloud your vision but it’s really all about if the game gave you a good time or not. I, for one liked a lot of gen 6-7 titles that are critically flawed, yet I don’t let that ruin the fact that those games mean a lot for me. God Bless your soul man, and I know your father will be proud of you…

Im really Sorry about your loss..I'm happy that such an iconic series such as sonic has assisted you in those hard times. Sonic was also one of my childhood especially with the mario crossovers.

I have the need to tell you that I love you my friend - stay strong!

I think many of us have a bad game we grew up with but we liked then. Mine is pokemon sword

And to think he never even played the original!

@@MrGamelover23 he played it on stream once

Hope he adds the bosses

@@ages3475 I think they said was planning on adding that into this game but of course I’m not entirely sure on that

And super hard mode and then the game is done I think

​@Mister MashupsYT 4p splitscreen would be hype. I would love to see the 2p mode from the original

I wonder how they will do silvers boss though

the beginning cutscene for that stage too omg, silver was also amazed by how beautiful it was and i love it😭😭

same

I will fully accept P-06 as the TRUE Sonic Adventure 3 Only IF ChaosX or someone else adds a fully functional SA1/2-style Chao Garden with Silver, Iblis, Mephiles, etc. Chao. I know it won't happen, but a man can dream.

How? There's still the godawful story and no hubworld or progression whatsoever.

@@vividcolorandrichaudio6134 Because SA1 had a fantastic story.

​@@lpfan4491 it did wdym?

@@mrmelonman2893 It really did not. It had good bits and pieces, aswell as some good character development, but it is neither a cohesive picture nor does it hold up under any actual plot-scrutiny. And this is not SA2-level jank where a few tiny rewrites could fix it without much effort. Yeah, this reminds me of a certain other game.

I love that P-06 is really changing the conversation in the community just like what J said in the last part of the video. P-06 gives us this genuine hope that I have never really felt imaging really. P-06 esp the silver release has made me want to SPEEDRUN the game, which is something that I have never felt saying to myself in my entire DAMN life. This is... THE game, where I don't have to be worried about the game's quality or polish and to play it because it's overall fun until the dinner feast arrives When you mention about the "annoying comments" surrounding Chaos' work, I feel like they're either scared of it's success or that they're not able to look pass what was wrong in the past and then trying to think about what could've been improve which is what the game solves todo, which distances them from the sincere hope that the game has and what everyone has been feeling. I do know however, that no matter what kind of successful game you make, there will always be people who will like what you do, and there will always be people who will dislike what you do. You cannot please everyone All I'm saying is, Sonic Project '06 is like my magnum opus of all time, it is PEAK not just as a Sonic game but in the work of fangames, just taking one of the most disastrous games and improving it up until it is near perfection, that right there... is soo inspiring to people like me.

The hard work on this project really paid off. Fantastic work from everybody involved.

does ChaosX plan on recreate the whole episode, cutscenes and stories and all that?

Even though you may have a small role in making the project, I still thank you for even working on it in the first place. The Silver release was so cool! I'm very glad you gave Silver some justice, and gave him more potential, and made the gameplay much more fun. Along with Blaze and Amy too. I appreciate the hard work you guys do for us. And as someone who was actually born in 06 and grew up a little with the game, I'm very happy I can now watch a game do what it was made to do. Thanks so much! :)

A lot of burden is coming up on you. I wonder if you're going to work on the story cutscenes while ChaosX takes his rest, giving you time to catch up to his work, or if you'll wait for him to model the hubworlds. I also wonder If you'll do the CG Cutscenes as well.

This is what humanity could be, it really is. All the games, movies etc could be amazing, just need to take a leaf from ChaosX’s book

Even if its not sonic I'd be down to see whatever he does

It turned one of the worst Sonic games in history, to one of the best.

@@Channeleven2345789 nice

​@@Channeleven2345789it also showed no matter what people say about the Sonic Fanbase, we're some of the most dedicated fans you'll find in the gaming community.

@@jrt2792 true, and there have been far worse fandoms in recent memory as well

@@Channeleven2345789 It's because of people like you that still to this day call any of these 3d sonic games "the best" that sega keeps churning out their garbage. It's an improvement to a broken release, nothing more.

Sonic 06 tried to be something more mature and deep, and I would wish SEGA had given it another chance instead of admitting defeat and regurgitating Green Hill Zone for a decade later.

"it wasn't a cashgrab but an honest disaster" is such a solid take. I wish we had more honest disasters these days. at least the passion is there.

Exactly

They're just ignorant. "Polishing a turd" is basically what all game dev is. Even the GOATs start out as unplayable messes.

@@gigatesla yea you definitely have a point,may not be a game developer but i kinda know the process in a simple way,core gameplay first(well most of the time atleast),everything else later,bugfixes usually coming last,unless there is a gamebreaking bug discovered during playtesting,in which case they have to fix it. and to be fair,some game source codes are a mess,hacky and all that,because of the fact that they needed to be done in a limited amount of time,some games which have had sors code leaks have had hilarious comments from the devs,and some are literally just ranting how bad the game code is but hey,atleast they got it done in time.

That part was absolutely baffling! Its one thing to have no faith that '06 could be any good at all, but they were actively discouraging ChaosX from even trying, to the point that it felt like they were personally offended that someone else was taking their time to make a game these people don't care about. All I could think about when I saw those angry comments was, "So?", because it literally doesn't affect them in any way whatsoever, regardless of whether or not the game ends up good. The only thing it does is, if its good, potentially benefit them if they go out of their way to play it, and if its bad then nothing changes. So why the hostility?! They act like they are scared that the game might be good and are trying to nip it at the bud before it comes out, like they have some sort of personal stake in the game staying bad.

@@Damian-cilr2 I love the TF2 comment about the unremovable jpeg. Also! Animated movies go through a similar process. Pixar even has a name for it, something like "Ugly baby." There's cool videos on RU-vid about their process.

Yeah like no one is forcing them to play p06 They need to go out and touch some grass

It is insane that one man could do so much, and have the determination and optimism to go for so long. Respect to ChaosX for having really strong willpower and skill to do all this solo.

He had help

Bros just tryna play the game he never could

@@local_streetpharmacist8393and made a better version

but its the same game,story,and missions? is sonic 06 hated just because of glitches?

That’s kind of the way Valve approaches game development!

Ikr, that fascinated me the most!

Frontiers was good but clearly a bit rushed. It was all going to be one massive island originally but SEGA forced them to cut it down to seperate areas for the switch port to work and to cut time. That's why there's like three separate islands with the same theme and why the level design falls off so heavily when reaching the third island. At least it isn't Sonic 06 or Pokemon SV levels of rushed, frontiers is actually playable and quite fun if a bit "jank" unlike those other two.

@@krimsonkatt fun fact the director of Sonic Team Takashi Iizuka actually nearly got fired just for asking an extra month of development time on Frontiers

If Only EA could understand this (cough Battlefield 2042)

@@richardperaza5083not surprising considering sega

@@krimsonkatt I have not played the game myself, since I have no strong Sonic investment, but even from some gameplay videos I can see the notes of rushed development. The Giganto fight has things like simple "smash-cut" changes between animations when knocked back and some moves that just look a mite weird for Sonic to do when there are alternatives. And they are notable enough for the back-seat watching me to somewhat sour the exciting and, honestly, visibly fun segments of Super Sonic beatdown. If added some polish, the fight could easily change from "good" to "incredible".

If Sega was smart, they would hire the people working on P-06 to fully remaster Sonic 06 & officially re-release it to critical acclaim. This would free Sega from its legacy & finally allow Sonic Team to experiment again.

​@@John-XThe problem starts with the engine SEGA uses, you know, most game companies uses their own engine or an professional one. In that way ChaosX would need to know how to do this in another engine, redo all of his work with a time limit and some stuff being changed/removed due to problem with assets in another engine, or the lack of right to these assets. That is the problem with the "SEGA/Nintendo hire this guy" mentality, working alone/with a small group is nothing like working for a company. Project 06 is amazing, but it is a fangame at the end of the day, and that's okay, hopefully ChaosX can be hired in the future to work for SEGA in a new project, we know the community would love it. If you read all of this i really thank you, goodnight and God bless you.

@@John-Xi think chaosX confirmed that he wouldn’t take any offers to work with sega if they arose

I definitely don’t think it’s SA3. The game was meant to be a reboot and a demonstration for next-gen tech. However, I do think that SA3 might’ve been cancelled due to ‘06’s failure

It IS Sonic Adventure 3.

Same for me I loved it 😅

Facts this game gets so much hate

It was made to be amusing by the people who made it, for players like you ! ...players who appreciate. ☺

I think there is certainly a lot of "holding onto the past" but P-06 is still not a particularly good Sonic game or a good game at all really. It is still a problematic game. I have played it and at times liked it. But there were also many times I did not. Some of those things could be improved upon further but others cannot without fundamentally making a completely different game. There is also value in digging up that old horse and giving it more bruises though. SEGA has still not learned their lesson because people keep forgiving them. SEGA makes a decent or mediocre game and people praise the crap out of them for finally getting things together. Until SEGA actually gets back on track and starts making actual good games, Sonic 06's failings should be very much in mind.

There are people that are unwilling to forgive, not even to hate. Those are gonna be the REAL problem since at least the shitposters would be silenced and some haters even join us. But those that resent and never forgive?

@@juliansoria7733 We have to keep in mind that for some people like Narax, Sonic is a franchise that is (or was) near and dear to their heart. When 06 came out, after the missteps of flawed products like Heroes and Shadow 05, it seemed that SEGA had blown their last chance for redemption, and they believe the company will continue to flounder until they either step up their game (no pun intended), or sell the franchise to another company that does care and is willing to put in the work. Given the continued mixed reception of Sonic games to this day, some feel justified in abandoning hope for the blue blur. I personally enjoyed P-06, but I understand that for others, the stain this now-infamous title left on the franchise can never be removed.

Surely that also applies to the Sonic 06 fans who keep holding on to the past and won't let the dead horse be because of "muh ambition/passion/potential" right?

@@SirNarax Saying it isn't a good game is completely objective to your view. It isn't problematic because you don't like it. You are merely stating your opinion and making it out as it is a fact. You can have your opinion, but saying "its just not a good Sonic game" is your opinion only.

Bosses and last story are going to be made together from the big man himself. Hubs and cutscenes are the one thing ChaosX doesn’t entirely know but we will see

@@sevenchaos7156 skip the hubs, even if that means losing Sonicman, but definitely keep cutscenes

@@whodatninja439 Nah, the hubs is fun though also because this is P-06 and everyone is not slow as a brick I think traversing the hub isn't going to take such a long time unlike the retail 06

Well he did have soleanna actually made with an updated radar for the hub but that was a long while ago. Could have hub, could not.

Wait, he said this is the best sonic game ever made and it doesn't even have bosses yet? Come on

I loved it when I was a kid.

@@Blanktester685same I thought it was good when I was a kid. Didn’t really care about or notice too many glitches

@@zkiller2043Same here, would love to play it again.

it's only a broken game if you give up hope on it

@@StarChyme Not really. To repair something, one needs to first admit that it isn't right.

"RUNNING FROM THE PAST IS A LOSING GAME, IT NEVER BRINGS YOU GLORY" -Sonic Frontiers, 2022

@@eggbreakerdotexe Based Sonic Frontiers.

underated comment

That's the kind of lesson that Yuji Naka should remember after the failure of Balan Wonderworld.

@@poweroffriendship2.0 It will forever be legendary how after the GUN soldiers said he is alright in 2005, he instantly fell off a cliff and was never alright ever again. That's major karma.

@@lupinthenerd439 Oh the irony

SEGA works in mysterious ways. They will avoid the adventure formula like the plague now because of the failures of this game, without realizing that the mistake was not the formula, but their bad habits. Rushing development to fit a console launch, hyping up titles that are way too early in development, and not giving enough time for a development team to breathe. This happens to many developers, but SEGA seems to chronically suffer from it with Sonic (cause Yakuza and Persona don't have this problem). Frontiers definitely is the right step forward, but then you learn things like the director getting almost fired because he asked for a month of extra time.

why the fuck would a big company release a game just because some nobody said to trust them lmfao

@@bronzeplays5335 They would have to believe me 😔 seriously I wouldn't even get far anyway 💀

I mean, P06 wouldn't exactly *run* on the PS3/Xbox 360.

​@@jamesyoo4779 The name of the game with sega is throwing the baby out with the bath water

I wonder if Clement knows about project 06? Apart of me thinks he actively ignores it

@@nyhtfall1969 If I remembered his review correctly, Clement had an incandescent hatred towards Sonic 06 because it's official title was 'Sonic The Hedgehog'. Which he took it personal as he sees it being an attempt to say this was the definitive edition to the OG Sonic The Hedgehog on MegaDrive/Genesis (or as we called it in China, Sega 5th Generation). Anyways, if he did actively ignored P-06 I hope it's his trauma from the official game. Not actual malice towards the fan project.

@@qinlongfei i feel like it would be more his trauma I hope he's not dumb enough to act malicious to a fan project wouldn't exactly show him in a favourable light

@@qinlongfei anyone who says they have trauma from a fucking video game is a moron who isn’t worth listening to

Well considering Chaosx never played 06, coupled with the fact that Clement’s criticisms of 06 and what could it have done better in his eyes like Rouge not having a radar in kingdom valley clearly seemed to have influenced how Chaosx fixed the game, I think Clement would like project06.

Glad you liked it! I honestly wouldn't know even a vast majority of what I do about the spreedruns without your content! And yeah, that's exactly right, this game is just a lot of fun.

​@@JsReviews say I really love your content, especially your retrospective on the Sam Rami Spider-Man and 2003 TMNT series. Is there any chance when you are going to be tackling the 2012 Nickelodeon series?

@@JsReviews So you're not going to talk about Mephiles the Dark?

Sonic P-06 really makes you FEEL like Sonic.

Hello meme man. Can I make an Ohio joke now or am I still banned?

He didn't even play the original 06? That's a big mark against ChaosX. How can he properly remake the game when he doesn't even know what was wrong with it?

​@@kingstarscream3807 he kinda did.

@@donovanblackwelder4301 But now we know that as good as P-06 is already, it would be at least three times as good if ChaosX had taken the time to play the original Sonic 2006 himself, since you can't properly remake the game if you don't know what is wrong with it.

@King Starscream True, but all the problems of Sonic 06 have been well-documented for close to 17 years, with full videos being made about them.

​@@donovanblackwelder4301 With some of them surpassing the one hour runtime

It's worth noting that a lot of P-06 is still Sonic Team's work

​@@evdestroy4121 it's about 40 percent sonic team

@@iangahm8047 It's more like 70%. Most of the assets, level design, gameplay concepts, story, and music are their work, and some of the original game's code was referenced for creating the game. Sonic Team just never got to finish it.

@@evdestroy4121 they had to completely redo the engine with is like 60%

@@iangahm8047 The engine is Unity, everything on top is just a framework. Even with that being said, there's still way more to a game than its engine.

Those ppl should touch some grass

The state of humanity people

I keep forgetting that project 06 is a free game, which is pretty crazy

There's still big budget stuff that's great. Elden Ring, God of War, Jedi Survivor, etc

You use big words to sound smart, but you don’t even give credit to games that truly go above and beyond like TotK, Elden Ring, etc. But I get it, that doesn’t get you many internet points, it’s much easier to be pessimistic and say the world is an awful place

@@ExtraordinaryFate Yup

Nintendo never disappoints.

Colors Ultimate proves otherwise

@@evdestroy4121 Sonic Colors wasn’t a bad failed game. Reading comprehension is an important skill. Learn it.

@@evdestroy4121 Sonic Colors Ultimate was a REMASTER( the same game code in a different engine) A REMAKE is a game rebuilt from the ground up in a different engine

@@rasengdori13 I know Colors wasn't a bad failed game, idiot. That doesn't change the fact that the Ultimate remaster made the game so much worse. With the state of the industry nowadays, especially knowing Sega, all they'd do is take a bad game and make it even worse.

@@Michael_Afton40 I know, that has nothing to do with my point.

I learned to enjoy X6 by accepting it as an unfair kaizo game that veteran X players can enjoy as a challenge. Like the Lost Levels of Megaman X.

I've watched let's plays of X6 and X7 before X4 or X5. I now have a fondness for X6's [badly executed] ideas. I've watched let's plays of Sonic 06 and Shadow 05 before ANY OTHER SONIC GAME (besides CD) and it's _still_ true - I've heard a lot about Adventure 1 and 2, Unleashed, Forces, 3&K, Mania etc. but I've never actualy played or watched let's plays of them. I've only recently started playing Sonic 1. Still love the two (kinda). :)

I've played X6 improvement project. The creator tried, but X6 is still an absolutely garbage game even with the patch. You can polish a turd but it's still a turd. X6 will never not be the worst Mega Man game, unless of course Capcom makes something even worse. But since they don't make Mega Man games anymore, that's not going to happen.

​@@mjc0961 They already made a Mega Man game worse than X6. It's called X7. ...thank god X8 fixed a bunch of the problems though.

@@robertlupa8273 Sonic 1 is painful but quite enjoyable after you get past Marble Zone

Seriously. People can not let things change their mind. The rhetoric will always be in their mind instead of giving something a chance

Ah, fuck 'em all. They wanna throw a little childish tantrum let 'em throw a tantrum

Same here

Me too, maybe if we ask SEGA and chaosx maybe he wouldn't mind to port to consoles

@@TrueDBX man stop saying that He doesn't want to work with SEGA

I'm just curious if they get tight deadlines or not. Seems like that happens to Sonic Team often but no one ever speaks if they have short deadlines, crunch, or lack of staff. How come they never have things done on time? It makes me really curious about frontiers because how far behind could you have been to need a full year?

@@aerostrafe1075 remember when SEGA said they're choosing quality over quantity in 2021? That only happened cz the director begged for another year.

@@aerostrafe1075 Frontiers only had 60 ppl working on it I believe

@@creativename152 60 Does sound like a low number for an entirely new concept for sonic in an open world. I still give Sonic Frontiers a B overall though.

@@aerostrafe1075Same when all the dlc comes out ill give it like a 7.5/10 maybe

Honestly, in the state it's in right now, it's already one of the best. The gameplay is that solid, but I would still like to see it totally completed.

​@@DewMan31 yeah, it's already fantastic, but for now we only have the stages. The average 3d sonic game has more than just stages yknow... We'll see if the project is eventually completed

@@playbossthebest936 I mean, colors, Generations and Adventure 2 are basically nothing but stages and cutscenes. I get where you're coming from though.

I've been trying to find an answer online but maybe you know, is there any content missing to make the game "complete" or is it just going to be bug fixes and other improvements?

@@Pixelhurricane Yes, there is content not in the current build. Currently P06 just has a level select with no hub world or bosses and most of the cutscenes (ones that aren't part of the level) aren't there. Also there is no final story. Basically what P06 currently does and doesn't include: Does Include -All 9 characters fully playable with new movesets. -All main stages from all three campaigns. -All glitches fixed. -Redone physics. (no longer broken) -Some new and removed stage sections. -Changes to specific level gimmicks. -All in-level cutscenes and dialogue. DOES NOT Include -The FMVs. -Cutscenes outside of the actual stages. -Any and all boss fights. -The entirety of the final story. -All the hub worlds. -All of the hub world missions/side quests.

I am impressed but I am always curious what created the drive for this fangame. The game is 15 years old, Shouting about its potential is kind of just as old as hating it by this point. Feels more like a project started to prove the game could of been something if all the stars aligned for it. I prefer the sonic riders fan project myself since thats bringing back a concept we know Sonic Team will never touch again. Props to the people working on it though.

He doesn't want to work with Sega

@@Michael_Afton40 he should tbh He could make millions

@@Michael_Afton40 And for good reason. SEGA is the reason the Sonic games are always rushed in the first place. Or, at least, a big contributor.

I get that he doesn't want to work for sega because of their rush problems but he can just publish it and sonic team can add their own ideas because I'm sure p06 will do really good on consoles

@@pixelluka888Yeah, like how Stealth was rolling in cash after Mania sold like gangbusters. Oh wait, that's right, he was broke and barely paid a thing. He got no royalties and couldn't even get his next game off the ground with a crowdfunding campaign. It's a terrible idea. P-06 is fantastic. ChaosX is wise not to give up his status as an independent developer. And I say that as someone who also develops games. No sense in ruining a good thing.