Here I come, rougher than the rest of them, the best of them, tougher than leather. You can call me Knuckles, unlike Sonic I don't chuckle. I'd rather flex my muscles. I'm hard as nails, it ain't hard to tell, I break 'em down whether they solid or frail. Unlike the rest I'm independent since my first breath, first test, feel the right, than the worst left. Born on an island in the heavens, the blood of my ancestors flows inside me. My duty is to save the flower, from evil deterioration! I will be the one to set your heart free true, cleanse yourself of them evil spirits that's in you. Streaking lights, loud sounds, and instincts, are the elements that keep me going. I am fighting my own mission, nothing's gonna stand in my way!
Here I come, rougher than Knuckles The best of them, tougher than Knuckles You can call me Knuckles, unlike Knuckles I don't chuckle I'd rather flex my Knuckles I'm hard as Knuckles, it ain't hard to chuckle I break 'em down whether they're Knuckles or Knuckles Unlike Knuckles I'm independent since my first chuckle First Knuckles, feel the Knuckles, than the Knuckle chuckle
@@callmezeldaonemoartime TASes still have players. It's not like an AI was coded to do every level perfectly. TAS means tool-assisted. It could be anything from slowing the game down and using savestates to programming a macro that does everything perfectly.
In a theoretical sense, it would make sense for Knuckles to reach this.level of speed like with the movie adaptations. He's trained on angel island for who knows how long, meaning his strength isn't just for his fists. Clearly he's got excellent leg muscle if he were to move at the speeds he can go in this speed run.
Originally knuckles was always fast. He was the 2nd fastest in the series second only to sonic until people like shadow showed up then they made him irrelevant to sonic and not only made him dumber but slower as well. Knuckles could in fact keep up with sonic but couldn't surpass him at max speed. However ppl say knuckles is as strong as sonic is fast and if that's true knuckles should just be as fast as sonic if running with his strength
@@brokenman4414 Where was that official stated? It may not be canon but I've seen sonic use his arms to make mini twisters in comics and sonic x irrc. If he could use his arms in that matter than so can knuckles use his legs. Sonic is a force of pure speed. Knuckles is strength. Say for whereas sonic could vibrate through matter with just speed alone, knuckles can't do that. However knuckles should be able to use his strength to be able move at a higher speed whereas sonic is that speed.
Knuckles' leg muscles aren't as strong as Sonics, which is why he's always had a lower maximum jump height than sonic and tails in the games. Made it a pain in the arse to play Knuckles in Sonic 2 back in the day because the game wasn't designed around that too low jump height, like I remember it made it impossible to beat the final boss robot in death egg zone because of the method I'd come up with for it. The method didn't work with knuckles cos his jump wasn't high enough. So I had to change the whole method. It seemed like I was using quite a bad method anyway compared to how most people defeat the robot, but I was only 7, so it was upsetting to me at first that I kept dying and couldn't beat the boss. But yeah, Tails was always as fast and as high jumping as Sonic because of his tails, where when he ran he uses them as propellors to sort of half-fly or glide along, and when in the air he could use his tails as propellors like a helicopter to jump that high (and then in sonic 3 he gained the ability to actually fly period, for a brief amount of time, not merely able to jump as high). Knuckles is not quite as high jumping as either of the other 2, but us makes up for it by having his wall climbing ability and his gliding ability, which makes him arguably the funnest to play as of the 3 main characters.
@@duffman18If you think playing S2 as Knux was painful, just do a no-horizontal run. I'm dead serious here, it's possible. The Death Egg methods are just stupid.
There is something very amusing about the tas coming from a stand still to a full speed in seconds, and also how it gently passes over the syringes in chemical plant. Great stuff
Just got this game on Christmas and only really had the time to actually play it a few days ago. Guess I’m a bad player if I thought speedruns of classic sonic couldn’t look this graceful
You're not bad at the game, you just need to get used to speedrunning. That's coming from someone who struggles on the Encore mode special stages. (Yes, they're different than the Mania mode ones and yes they're mostly in different spots.)
aside from the challenge of finishing the game in a low time and the competitive nature of speed running looking at these are really relaxing Thanks ^_^ and merry Christmas
Love the jumps on the loops! Also I'm curious is the Puyo Puyo segment at the end of Chemical Plant at 7:32 RNG based at all, or could you plan it carefully?
The funny thing is that Knuckles is the only character that will face all 5 of the Heavies in a single run while Sonic and Tails only face 4 of them. This is because they don't face Heavy King at all until the final fight.🥃
0:16 oh my god WE GET IT GAME!!! THERE’S AN AUTOSAVE FEATURE!!! once for each player that plays it for the first time is enough. You don’t need to bring this up EVERY SINGLE TIME!!!
Nice TAS man! Kinda wish Knuckles had more unique paths in the base game. Though from what I've heard, there is a mod that does just that, giving knux new paths and reworked stages to better fit his abilities. Any chance a TAS of that comes in the future?
I saw the mean bean machine part was a bit of a struggle. If you need help with Puyo, an easy way to make a quick 3-5 chain is with the stair stacking method. Here’s a quick video about it if you need it: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PMinvx7QHOo.html Also, amazing TAS as usual my man.
Him "this is TAS'd" Me watching him do 60 wall jumps with knuckles in 2 seconds: 👁️👄👁️ Like yeah no shit bro, really couldn’t tell, thanks for the clarification
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