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I have the same hopes for Sonic Adventure 3 as I do for Sonic Chronicles 2. And that's to say, I don't see it happening.

2:16:34 Shadow's rage is his own. Shadow cared a lot about Maria. Gerald didn't force Shadow to be angry, he did that on his own.

2:13:36 That's not entirely true. They haven't been ignoring his development of weapons, they have just been explaining why he did it.

2:09:27 The fact is that GUN hired and funded Gearild to have him build weapons. In fact, the Space Colony Ark was built as a research center to primarily build weapons. He only agreed to make these weapons to 1) have money and 2) because he thought that through the creation of these weapons, he might find other uses for the technology that are beyond just using them as weapons.

2:06:00 You are assuming that the rooms we see in the games are all of the rooms in the Ark. You know else we don't see? Bedrooms or a kitchen. We also never see any first aid kits or fire extinguishers. Just because you don't see them doesn't mean that they don't exist.

2:05:38 Maria having an illness is only ever mentioned in one game, and that game is Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood. The only time it's mentioned in that game is in the in-game bio page for Gerald Robotnik. Also, Sonic Chronicles is a questionablely canon game at best. So instead of saying SA2 is bad because it doesn't show any signs of Maria having an illness, you should instead question whether or not Maria having an illness is actually canon.

2:05:16 Fun fact, they also kept the secret from themselves. 50 years after the raid, GUN had no idea what Project Shadow was, all they knew was the name and that it was an ultimate weapon. The files they did had on the project were locked behind a password they didn't know. This is why they had to have Rouge look into it.

2:03:43 Actually it was their goal from the beginning to whip out all the staff members (except for Gearld) and capture the Ultimate Lifeform. What didn't go to plan was Maria sending Shadow down to earth.

2:03:25 Negotiating with the enemy is usually much better than trying to fight them with force, since there are a lot less casualties when it is successful as opposed to going to war. Also as far as the President knew, Eggman had a deadly laser that he could fire at any time anywhere. In addition, we don't actually see what the President's response would be to Eggman's demands or whatever plan he had in mind for dealing with this issue, since Sonic and Tails interrupt their meeting.

2:00:59 Shadow is not mind-controlled, he is brainwashed. Mind-control is when a person is in control of another person's thoughts and actions. Brainwashing is when you force a person to think a certain way, but you're not controlling their actions. Gerald did not control Shadow's actions, he merely made it so Shadow thought Maria wanted revenge. Shadow acted on his own accord.

I really like Shadow's music

I replay the Biolizard boss fight in Genrations so many times, because I find it quite fun

In Adventure 1's cutscenes characters walking animations will stop before they stop moving. They also stop, then slide, then stop again.

17:27 Narratively speaking, it doesn't matter who wins since either way the cannon fails to fire and Gearld's final plan is activated.

15:19 Knuckles had nothing better to do then to stop Sonic from getting to the Master Emerald. Shadow had other and more important things to do than to fight Sonic,

14:12 Shadow doesn't fight Sonic right away because Shadow doesn't feel the need to. It wouldn't make sense for Shadow to fight Sonic during that introductory cutscene since 1) the police are hot on his trail, and 2) Shadow doesn't see Sonic as a threat to his mission yet. It's not until the jungle levels that Sonic actively gets in Shadow's way, and therefore Shadow feels the need to fight Sonic.

13:44 It does not affect Shadow's character in future games.

In the beginning cutscene of the game, you see handcuffs on Sonic, so it's reasonable to assume that he was arrested. And when you see the black truck later in the level, it's not too far-fetched to conclude that the truck is on the same side as the helicopter and therefore must be related to the group that arrested Sonic.

Games can only be so long, so it makes sense that we didn't play Shadow's bank heist. They would of had to make a whole level that you only play in once, and it's not even that important to the story they were wanting to tell.

8:00 What Shadow is referring to is the fist time they meet. Also, Shadow is angry because Sonic is getting in his way.

7:43 I always play Dark Story first, because Shadow is the coolest and I want to play as him.

7:10 Sonic literally says in that same cutscene that the military had mistaken Shadow for Sonic. It's no mystery why Sonic is mad at Shadow.

Question: Why do you want the Hero Side Story to start with you playing as Shadow? Or conversely, Why do you want the player to be forced to play the Dark Side Story first?

A moment of silence to the -Fucshia- Purple Team...

I find Amy's character to be overhated in this game, and I want to defend her here. While she does lose the independence that her story in SA1 leaves us on, I think it comes down more to how the other's treat her over how she's treated herself. In SA1 Amy was presented as not being as strong as Sonic, Tails or Knuckles, she doesn't have the same experience they do and had to rely on other means just to even have a chance to keep up with them. And in her story, she defeats an Eggman robot, who would just be a mini boss to those guys, yet to Amy it proves she is capable, she proved that too herself and wanted to make Sonic respect her independence. She retains that confidence in SA2, but nobody else sees her that way, keep in mind her only feat was just defeating Eggman's robot, she still has competition with Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Rouge and Shadow, who are all not only shown to be more experienced, which puts Amy at unsteady footing, her being the weak link isn't due to her character, it's how everyone treats her, which yes, isn't good, but that's also the point, while Amy is confident and determined, she is also out of her league, this is shown when she learns that their adventure goes as far as to each the limits of outer space she puts her hand over her mouth and gasps, as if that's out of her limit, but still wants to go along with them anyway. When it comes to Amy being held at Gunpoint by Eggman, I don't really find Amy to be a "damsel" here, because in actuality he's gotten everyone captured, he just used Amy as the vessel to keep them at bay. The culmination was to end with her contributing to the situation the way only SHE knew how to, using her compassion for people to influence Shadow to help the others. Which calls back to her emotional intelligence from SA1.

hey...theres a lot of things to like about 06... Elise is 0 of them however lmao

Benefit of the doubt on why Sonic does not grow as a character in this game: fundamentally, Sonic as a character _cannot_ grow. He fundamentally _has_ to be a static character- because he is Sega's mascot. Taking the Sonic series as its own narrative, that's a frustrating limitation, but it's easy to get wrapped up in the lore and worldbuilding and forget that ultimately Sonic games are there to promote Sega as a brand. Sonic is supposed to reflect Sega, the real life corporation, so he can only "grow" is so far that it reflects well on what Sega Corporation wants the world to see them as being. And honestly, that's fine; not every character needs to be dynamic. As long as the story moves forward just fine and the others play their part (or if there aren't many others, as long as the story is fun) But I do know that Sonic fans can get _so_ intensely invested and involved in the series (as I once had been) and then wonder why Sonic, the titular character, can't have the same arcs that other characters have and suggest improvements or offer ideas that completely overlook the cold fundamental fact that mascot characters by nature are not allowed to be overly dynamic.

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3:10 the music “It Came From Amazon/The Green Hell Zone”

Did this show predate Sonic Ride? If so, then this is the first time Sonic was CG.

I cant believe you highlighted the terrible lines bit dodnt play the Tails classic, "Thats Eggman! ....... I wonder what happened to Sonic?"

You show a depth of understanding that I usually don't see in these sorts of videos. I was really ready to skip over the first 40 minutes because I am so tired of the "plot analysis" in video essays just being plot summaries, but you actually broke down WHY this game's story, characters, and presentation are so damn appealing despite their shortcomings. I often struggle to justify why I like SA2's non-gameplay elements when people point out its flaws, and you put it into words perfectly. However, you display a concerning LACK of understanding about the design of boost style games. You criticize Generations for the way you enter other routes being boring, admit that SA2 has the same problem, and explain how SA2 minimizes the problem: different routes offer meaningfully different gameplay. But you falsely claim that Generations doesn't do this, for some reason? All while repeatedly using examples exclusively from Green Hill, the literal tutorial. I'm not going to argue that the tutorial is a complex level, because it is not nor should it be, but literally the opening 15 seconds of the next level gives you branching paths that look very similar to what you considered to be fantastic level design in Final Rush. Its almost enough to make me doubt your analysis of SA2, making your critical observation look more like accidental brilliance. I only hope this lack of nuance comes from lack of focus.

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as someone who yearns for an adventure 3, hard agree on that closing point. it may have gotten significantly closer with frontiers, but the series is still nowhere near in a state where i trust these mfs to make a competent one. however, especially with the rumors of a new adventure style game in the works, i feel like it’s very possible we could end up in a good position for it, we just have to see how they stick the landing (please dear god do not let them call their first adventure style game in more than 18 years, being worked on by sonic team’s goddamn B team, “sonic adventure 3”)

My son Paul Smith came 2nd 1993 roadshow competition at didcot Williams.i have loads of photos of this event with Chris Evans and violet berlin.

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I think the one where he is shacking his fist up and down is him saying “come on come on” at least that’s what I think

47:46 I always thought that she was thinking of Shadow, given the context of the scene.

10:21 Does anyone know the music name?

where did the second video go?

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3:45 tax fraud. Got me too

I'm pretty sure Gerald was requested by the President to unlock Immortality and at first Gerald denied the request believing Immortality should not be messed with, until he found out about Maria was terminally ill and decided to find away to obtain Immortality and while doing this a cure for Maria. The Government began to get cold feet and decided to kill everyone involved to cover up Project Shadow, Gerald's contact with Black Doom seemed accelerate this decision, I do understand where you are coming from about Gerald's actions but the Government/President actions through GUN was overkill, especially since they was the ones who wanted Gerald to create Immortality for them.

That explanation about Chaos 4 and the water is fascinating, I listened recently to another UA-camr who did a Retrospective about Sonic Adventure and they mentioned the water in Chaos 4's battle and they thought it was that way to make the battle easier. I like how you realized it's more to do with Lore reasons instead.

Badnik was hiding from tails doll wants to make him suffer from running away from him before he kills him in his house during the devil's hour ohh no tails doll broke the door down and badink was hurting really quickly what the hell do you want from him

Badnik left his keys upstairs in his house during the devil's hour oh no he's right there behind him dude you gonna get rid of it before it kills you and you don't want to die and you might not survive this is scaring me too death somebody help him

Badnik mechanic was freaking out right now tails doll is ailve in his house during the devil's hour tails doll was trying to murder him but he doesn't want to die in his house at night time right now dude run away from it hurry up before he kills him this is freaking me out right now my heart is pumping so faster

Will there be someday an unblurred version posted somewhere ? it quite frankly one of my favorite video of yours

What a fantastic retrospective of one of the top 5 sonic games of all time.. ,(2, 3, S&K, SA1 and SA2 put them in any order you like their the Mt rusgmore of sonic games if you ask me) thank you for such a great video. I learned a hell of a lot from this video to how deep the level design truly was how many routes there are that AREN'T bugs their literally allowed to be played that way and the rewards for doing risky paths, the character building the details like the dandelions god damn no wonder sonic adventure 1 is such a toss up for me with 2 about which game is greater.. Is say if it wasn't for shadow and the emotional impact of SA2, then 1 is superior.. But that's totally debatable. I wish they kept the adventure over world in 2 but it was a more focused more enjoyable and pick up and play experience. Some parts of SA1 used to have me ripping my hair out trying to find a way to access the newer stages but whenever you figured it out you were like.. Damn, that makes sense.. Like when it took my half hour to find the casino night button above the door of the level lmao 😂