@@manuelalbertoromero9528 The story was originally different and had better lore until sega decided it they couldnt go with the original story. When the game is a certain way and half way through its decided it cant be that way you can only do so much to fix it without outright deleting weeks work of progress.
@@5frogfrenzy plus Sega told BRB that the game was going to be a Wii U exclusive when they were already months into development. The game was built on cryengine 3 which the Wii was to week to support. So BRB had to further scrap levels, game features and plot points.
Absolutely love how sonic unleashes a literal world destroying entity that can make the whole world corrupted and the only lines the grandpa has to say is, "not cool sonic"
@@trailsofstars I was literally there during the stream, I'm pretty sure I'm right. You can even see me be replied to in chat in this video. Unless there's some way for UA-cam streams and Twitch streams to be merged, it was definitely on UA-cam.
I think it's more amusing that it doesn't "sound" like Knuckles, it's like they just, took the line when the voice actor was reading the script, paused, and just, thought out loud.
Its funny to think that eggman in another reality would be the ultimate evil just because he moves out of the way lol. Like not a single time, has eggman EVER learned to MOVE.
>Shows up in the beginning cutscene >Leaves for the majority of the game >Returns for one quick segment Alpharad barely bothered to cover >Leaves for the remainder of the game >Saves the day in the last cutscene for no apparent reason and says "Gottem" >Refuses to elaborate further >Leaves Alexa, play I Am The Eggman
The story begins with who's gonna win You know when danger lies within Aboard the ARK A genius at heart That wanted to unlock the mysteries of life I am the E.G.G.M.A.N: That's what I am I am the E.G.G.M.A.N: The one with the master plan
I do think Sonic’s biggest weakness in this game is his cockiness. I feel like that’s what keeps him being a relatively average hedgehog, every time he does alright he acts like he’s invincible. He’s like the real life Pit: mid tier with an Icarus complex
If I had a nickel for every time I’ve seen shadow the hedgehog round house kicked a main character in a hot garbage glitchy ass sonic game involving time travel, a time loop, in a boss fight cutscene, had a one time villain, and had a noise that made it funny I’d have 2 nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice
"Let's go get those miners!" "... that's not a good voice line Knuckles. " Clearly, Alpharad has never heard the part of the show where Knuckles talks about beating up children.
Hot take: I actually like the later seasons of the show. The suits were like: "y'know what? Fuck it. Do whatever", and the producers were like: "Okay! We will do whatever" and actually made funny shit.
12:32 I was legitimately expecting Jacob to hit us with a "Not cool, Sonic." upon realizing that Sonic completely dipped This entire game felt like a social experiment, and I wasn't even the one playing it; overall, I can confirm that this is the Sonic game of all time
People always bring that line up even though the context surrounding it is talking to a character who just doesn't die every time he receives a fatal wound and pointing out that fact lol
@@tendrilartist3609 Yep. He's specifically saying he's not a normal person anymore. "People die when they are killed." *pointedly staring at the giant hole in his torso*
22:05 With how much Knuckles and his infinite jumps basically bends the entire game to his will, calling Sonic the sidekick isn't completely false for this game 😆
Basically what we see occur in the game is called a “Bootstrap Paradox” where an infinite time loop is caused through a piece of information where the information no longer has an origin since it’s going in a circle and is considered “self-created” at that point
Ok, but the ENTIRE game leading up to Sonic’s “death” occurred in ONE DAY THEY TRAVELED BACK IN TIME 1000 YEARS, COLLECTED WHO KNOWS HOW MANY CRYSTALS, PLAYED TEMPLE RUN WITH METAL SONIC FOR 13 MINUTES AND PROBABLY OTHER THINGS WHO EVEN KNOWS ANYMORE WITHIN TWENTY FOUR HOURS
@@RhinoHorn7 Unless they went back 1,000 years, did their business, then went forward ONLY 1,000 years, and not forward 1,000 years + whatever time they spent there
I'm more confused at how the devs didn't think to use the time travel _they already established_ in some way to get Sonic back, by... I don't know, _time travelling_ or something? Then again time paradoxes are annoying to work out.
The "We can use them as ramps!" Exchange actually sounds like one of those two lines was recorded as a stand in for that spot of dialogue until the writers came up with something more clever to use then, but either forgot or were just so incompetent that they straight up couldn't figure out something better
In all honesty, it's a shame that the backlash for this game prevented a 3rd season for the TV show which of course was the greatest thing to come out of this spinoff franchise
i think the funniest thing about this video is that, even after the official sonic account crashed the stream and told jacob he was evading taxes, they still gave him early access to sonic frontiers
@@thesupervideogamenerdmore3171 oh yeah no i get it, like overall i know exactly whats going on and what the overarching story is, but each individual plot point is making me more and more confused
@@_lostglory because you can put it in other contexts and make it funny. And it's funny to think that they'd be ignorant enough to not even know about rocket troopers.
the 3DS ones were pretty good tho. The first one had a few problems (Not nearly as bad as RoL) but the second one got rid of them and made it even better
this game is so tragic because it actually showed a lot of promise, until sonic team forced the devs to put it not only on the wii u (it was supposed to be on ps4 and xbox one) but they also rushed it out the door they also made them rewrite the story multiple times because “you’re not allowed to write a sonic origin story” and then they had to make it more in line with the show anyways, if you wanna see more i recommend watching splashdash’s video on it, it’s really telling of how badly sega treats its IP
and thats after they basically did the same mistakes themselves with Sonic 06 (except in that case they dropped the Wii version in favor of the other consoles, not the other way around).
@@Nirual86 I wouldn't call that the same mistake. They just cut an unsupported console out of the mix in favor of stronger ones. Sonic Boom meanwhile was apparently coming along very nicely, until they get told to port everything to the Wii U, which resulted in huge chunks of the game being cut and last hours spent on making an unsupported engine run on the Wii U rather than to polish the game. This is more comparable to Mass Effect Andromeda, where the entire game was built on an engine that cannot handle RPG focused games. Hell, there's problems with it running FPS games, the games this engine it was made for. Unlike Sonic Boom, this choice was apparently 100% on the team and not the bigwigs. Also to play Devil's Advocate here. Sega was not to blame for Sonic Boom, it's mainly on Nintendo. The contract stated Sega needed to release 3 games for their consoles. Sonic Boom got the shit end of the deal because of all their projects, this one was the closest one to completion and the deadline was ticking really close. Shit happens in game development, and Sonic Boom was there to save Sega from any legal nightmares.
@@kyotanaka920 that's not nintendos fault. it's still segas. If I borrow 50 bucks and need to pay you back and because of that, I need to sell something, that's not your fault. That's my own bad planning.
@@Neremworld Willing to bet that stayed in because that was one of the many aspects of the game that actually worked. Stupid shit tends to stay in when you're trying to put out all the fires. Just look at how memeable Andromeda was
The Game Grumps play through of this is legendary, but the fact Sonic inadvertently named the Knuckles fly glitch “tax evasion” and the similar pointing out of its brokenness makes it just as good. Plus this is just way more condensed.
24:36 This is actually way more ridiculous because- I learned this in another playthrough, but the game only checks for *Sonic's* crystals. Meaning you can bypass the entire final boss by glitching to the end of his path and breaking the pod there.
I'm pretty sure there's something similar in DK64, where there are 7 required keys but the game only checks for the last one because it assumes you've gotten all the others This would, of course, work well if these games were well designed and not prone to thousands of bugs and glitches
This video unironically inspired me. I think it could be fun to make a game where the controls/physics is specifically unintuitive or changes between levels with the point of the game being to figure out how to abuse the controls
Stuff like this is actually really hard to create on purpose. Though there are certainly some indie games that kinda play with the idea of breaking out of the initially presented gameplay premise (Pony Island comes to mind), nevermind those moments in gaming history where a glitch turned into a whole new gameplay mechanic like rocket jumping.
The problem with this concept is that most movement techs in games are either discovered completely by accident or through an understanding of the game's coding, both of which are unsatisfying and frustrating ways to introduce puzzle mechanics
Touhou 17.5 Gouyoku Ibun is sort of like this. Kind of like a fighting game, where you play through a quick story as one character and then unlock another character who plays basically completely differently, and you end up having to relearn how to use each new character each time. One will be able to fly and spam invincibility projectiles from the sky, and then the next is a grappling melee character, etc.
Fun fact: this game’s story is a complete trainwreck because Sega making up arbitrary rules for the game devs such as: sonic can’t touch water and tails & eggman must be the only inventors
@Charon the Toaster Well that makes a lot of sense. It's another level if they are making them change shit without giving them any time to essentially rewrite the story
@Charon the Toaster Because of Generations, the only way to make an origins story is to use the Classic forms and do all sorts of confusing workarounds, like they somehow find a way to show why Amy is traveling to Little Planet or her being from Little Planet (they'll probably make it MORE confusing)
I love how you just used the pause sound/screen to segue through all the moments where you used (abused) Knuckles' infinite jump. That sound is absolutely burned into my memory and you definitely captured the experience well
7:40 Running on water IS actually possible if something is fast enough, but I don't think it's not as easy as video games and movies make it out to be. The common basilisk lizard has flat back feet and can get up to 15 MPH on water, and with those two combined to it's relative size, it can run across water for short periods of time. This has led to it sometimes being referred to as the "Jesus Christ Lizard."
I don't know why my brain didn't immediately realize that the only possible game that could ever continue the "I Played 'X,' so you don't have to' series, and truly live up to the absolute masterpiece that was Jump Force, was the one and only Sonic Boom Wii U game, but looks like Alpha showcased just exactly _why_ he's the official three-time video game champion. Well done Jacob, well done.
18:54 Trivia time! This exact little "hiding the loading screen" trick was greatly utilised in the original *World of Warcraft* , making the game at the time seem impressively large and quick! World of Warcraft is a _decade older_ than Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric, and stopped utilising this trick after two years into its lifetime.
Yea, hiding loading screens like that is just a thing. Probably not anymore, but if you're trying to load a really impressive section of map its still an option.
Modern games still do this all the time, their just so much better at hiding it. Why do you think every single protagonist of a Triple AAA game has to slide between two rocks before they can get to the view showing off the next gen graphics on the other side?
@@vocalvortexstudios2058 if i remember rightly he only successfully used the emerald splash once against a fly so its ends up being a "i killed this fly with a fly swatter.... i could probably destroy a tank with it too." Scenario
It’s still funny to me that Shadow doesn’t even play an important role in the plot, the directors just wanted to have a Sonic vs Shadow fight in the game.
I recommend watching the "What Happened" video on this game-learning about the development of this game is genuinely sad. There was so much wasted potential just...thrown away.
Gonna be real, the cartoon is genuinely funny. They really do a good job of referencing and parodying the history of the series and it's fans, and there are some great 'over the kids heads' jokes for adults hidden in there. I feel bad for the french animation studio that made it having their show's reputation associated with the trashheap of a videogame.
The comedy in the show was insane. Easily early/peak SpongeBob and Amazing World of Gumball level. Knuckles destroying the twitter feminism argument and explaining actual feminism is just legendary. Its a shame the show wasn’t more well known and loved. It was just legitimately funny with legitimately likable characters with legitimately good chemistry. Far more than I can say for most adult comedy cartoons
That is so funny in the wrong way. It's like teaching a 4-year-old how to play a video game. It's stupid, and frustrating, but you can't help but smile, trying not to laugh.
Knuckles, despite being DRASTICALLY not Knuckles in his fundamental character design, is still the best character in Sonic Boom's entirety. He's consistently entertaining, more powerful than physics itself, and he can time travel independent of the half baked story going on in this game.
That's the last thing I would have been expecting, honestly. Being familiar with the cartoon, I expected the dialogue to be good, even if everything else falled apart.
"oh yea... we unleashed that god-slaying lizard who'll commit the genocide of thousands if not millions if no one does anything to prevent it" - "Not cool sonic."
I think it's funny how post commentary Alpha seems to be getting more and more exasperated with this game as it goes on, yet live-stream Alpha is just kinda chillin.
The way gaming cycles work, in five years' time the kids who grew up with this game will suddenly become very active on the internet, and this game will be somehow retrofitted to be a "hidden gem" that "did many things right or something". Something very similar has already happened with Sonic 06. There's just something amazing about peoples' abilities to find the tiniest of silver linings in an absolute dumpster fire
Here's something that makes the game a hidden gem: Very expressive animation! Even if some of the designs or overall animation are controversial, the expressions are great!
The difference between this and 06 to be fair is that 06 was released on major consoles and Rise of Lyric was released on a console that only exists hypothetically
To be honest the cartoon is amazing and im sad they didn't get more seasons, i wonder how reception would have been if there were never a game, only the cartoon
Feel free to watch the full streams: ua-cam.com/play/PL7Jh-gHAb1fV3DCzOkoX_ara6UqFHGGs_.html
Ok
Very cool alpharad
月
Do sonic chronicles next :)
Is this you telling me to rewatch both of the streams Jacob?
"Look ramps" "we can use these as ramps" is the prequal to "this wall tastes like dirt"
Look Gordon! Ropes!
The Floor is made out of Floor
@@piranhalettuce Damn beat me to it
@@BobtheJill We can use these for big pits
His firebox was on fire
"Our unfinished business....is finished..."
You literally had A THOUSAND YEARS to think of a one-liner, Lyric.
“A millenia of waiting, just to die in a mere second.”
-what Lyric should have said probably
let me take a crack at it
"I guess this time, *he* was too slow."
man couldve come up with a musical number and vocally trained himself for it
@@Jscon864 that’s an amazing one liner holy shit
not the sharpest tool in the shed
Infinite jump, best dialogue, Knuckles is the real main character of this game
Unlike Sonic, he doesn't chuckle
It’s the funny comments guys
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Wait I see you on four comment sections a day !!!
Stoo being a fan girl he wont collab with you
“Look Ramps”
“We could use these as ramps”
Best line in the entire game
Best line ever
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"Look, Gordon! Ropes!"
Timestamp
It's impressive how this game simultaneously manages to have almost no plot, while at the same time somehow having enough plot for a time paradox.
Blame sega for ruining any potential the game had
@@5frogfrenzy How does explain this time paradox!? That's such a blank statement to make here!
@@manuelalbertoromero9528 The story was originally different and had better lore until sega decided it they couldnt go with the original story. When the game is a certain way and half way through its decided it cant be that way you can only do so much to fix it without outright deleting weeks work of progress.
@@5frogfrenzy plus Sega told BRB that the game was going to be a Wii U exclusive when they were already months into development. The game was built on cryengine 3 which the Wii was to week to support. So BRB had to further scrap levels, game features and plot points.
@@5frogfrenzy what was the og plot?
"Our unfinished business. Is finished."
The development team of Sonic Boom when they were asked if Sonic Boom was ready for release.
Kinda, except that it was Sega who said “this is good enough” not the devs
@@wolfdragox5563 Kinda, except it was more like:
SEGA: You have 1 year to finish the game. Oh, and it's now a Wii U exclusive.
BRB: Wait, what?
“Look, Ramps! We can use these as Ramps!” -the mindset of everybody that worked on sonic boom
they wasted all the budget on the show (my first exposure to sonic the hedgehog)
I was about to play Sonic Boom, but now I don’t have to. Thank you Alpharad
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still painful
hello CJ!
So glad that he didn't play OW2 beta
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"He dodged my spin attack" No he did not, he blocked your spin attack, not dodged.
It’s actually a rather common misconception of the 2, so try to do it with tax evasion…
@@RealmsSMPStudios I didn't do tax evasion, I just ignored taxes.
"He dodged my spin attack. No one has ever done that before"
"No one can just deflect the Emerald Splash".
Is this a jojo reference?
spin dash has no weaknesses
NO ONE CAN DEFLECT THE 20 METER EMERALD SPLASH
the best part is he didnt even dodge, he blocked
"No fighter has escaped thunder cross split attack"
Absolutely love how sonic unleashes a literal world destroying entity that can make the whole world corrupted and the only lines the grandpa has to say is, "not cool sonic"
"Wow you released a really super duper dangerous entity that can destroy the world? Not cool man"
I feel like they were going for a "haha funny joke... wait, you're serious" scene but much like everything else, they botched it something fierce.
@@Nirual86 and that is the sole reason sonic boom is an experience to say the least
what more do you want? its not cool
It was pretty funny, your expecting he grandpa to be mad or be really upset or somethin, but he just says "not cool" lol
From now on everyone needs to refer to Knuckles’ jump glitch as “tax evasion” and only that
"You gotta take a pause and do some tax evasion..."
uh...
I agree, this is funny
My favorite sonic boom glitch, tax evasion
it is official, sonic said so
I’m pretty sure the glitch is called that in the speedrun community
Funny thing is, Knuckles flying and Sonic being brokenly fast are both sort of canon
see satam or aosth, or boosting in the boost games
@@kellymountain+ knuckles hovering in the ova
I was told Sonic Boom sonic is slowest Sonic
so Knuckles Canonically evades Taxes
@@Silver_the_unstableWell that was the biggest lie considering that no one likes Boom except for the show
The fact the OFFICIAL SONIC THE HEDGEHOG TWITCH responded to Knuckles' WAR CRIMES with "this is tax evasion" has me in tears already, fucking AMAZING.
It was on UA-cam, not Twitch.
@@Chloe_Zana no?
@@trailsofstars I was literally there during the stream, I'm pretty sure I'm right. You can even see me be replied to in chat in this video. Unless there's some way for UA-cam streams and Twitch streams to be merged, it was definitely on UA-cam.
@@trailsofstars yeah no this was streamed on UA-cam
Well Knuckles is evading something alright
10:19 The most accurate description of this game is unironically the “I’m so confused” from knuckles.
I think it's more amusing that it doesn't "sound" like Knuckles, it's like they just, took the line when the voice actor was reading the script, paused, and just, thought out loud.
Or "I don't think we're supposed to be here"
Difference between the Boom game and the Boom show, is that the show aged like fine wine and is amazing
And features knuckles giving commentary on feminism
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@@phantomnite Dang, forgot about that scene. Golden.
And a scathing criticism of the furry sonic fandom lol
Sonic saying that no one dodged his spin attack gives off insane "no one can deflect the emerald splash" energy
Its funny to think that eggman in another reality would be the ultimate evil just because he moves out of the way lol. Like not a single time, has eggman EVER learned to MOVE.
man, I miss kakyoin 😔
>Shows up in the beginning cutscene
>Leaves for the majority of the game
>Returns for one quick segment Alpharad barely bothered to cover
>Leaves for the remainder of the game
>Saves the day in the last cutscene for no apparent reason and says "Gottem"
>Refuses to elaborate further
>Leaves
Alexa, play I Am The Eggman
Nice.
Shadow, meanwhile...
E.G.G.M.A.N.
Egg male grindset.
The story begins with who's gonna win
You know when danger lies within
Aboard the ARK
A genius at heart
That wanted to unlock the mysteries of life
I am the E.G.G.M.A.N: That's what I am
I am the E.G.G.M.A.N: The one with the master plan
I do think Sonic’s biggest weakness in this game is his cockiness. I feel like that’s what keeps him being a relatively average hedgehog, every time he does alright he acts like he’s invincible. He’s like the real life Pit: mid tier with an Icarus complex
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yeah! :)
Yeah
Ah yes, Sonic, the REAL LIFE Pit.
Definitely more real life
@@Cam-jl9kh Or Alpharad Deluxe, where the joke originated.
Sonic: "Look, ramps."
Tails: "Maybe we could use these as ramps!"
You think we can use these as ramps?
And he's supposed to be the smart one
Hmm yes the Floor is made of Floor
"Look Gordon, a rope! We can use it to cross large pits!"
I don't know if you're supposed to use those as ramps
Styx is a main character in the show and appeared for a total of 17 frames in the video game this is awesome
To be fair, she’s a lot more present in Boom: Shattered Crystal on the 3DS.
Spelling her name like the river to the underworld instead of. Branches
Is very funny to me
If I had a nickel for every time I’ve seen shadow the hedgehog round house kicked a main character in a hot garbage glitchy ass sonic game involving time travel, a time loop, in a boss fight cutscene, had a one time villain, and had a noise that made it funny I’d have 2 nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice
@@guessimlatetotheparty2923 oh thx
Sonic 06 may be horrible but at least Shadow was in character in that lol
It's normal when the writers are consistently bad
The devs got worse somehow, tho
U forgot Sonic Forces, 3 nickels for you 💁🏽♂️
@@MS54905 Sorry but the last time I checked sonic forces doesn’t have time travel
8:53 unironically the most hilarious thing ever XD
Agreed.
I can't disagree on that
100% agreed, my guy.
Reptile is without a doubt the best mk character in existence in the past, present and future
Agree
"Let's go get those miners!"
"... that's not a good voice line Knuckles. "
Clearly, Alpharad has never heard the part of the show where Knuckles talks about beating up children.
Knuckles that’s prison
@@AnnoyingGremlinCat Only of you let it be
not cool, knuckles
@@endernightblade1958no very cool Knuckles
@@thatdarnseel7052 gigachad move from knuckles (aka the guy that doesnt chuckle)
Sonic himself calling knuckles flying as tax evasion was fucking hilarious
Hot take: I actually like the later seasons of the show. The suits were like: "y'know what? Fuck it. Do whatever", and the producers were like: "Okay! We will do whatever" and actually made funny shit.
Weren't there only 2 seasons? Or only 2 on netflix?
@@Star-wb2ov S4 was the best
@@Cat_Garfield There’s only 2 seasons 😭
damn dude, that's a take colder than liquid oxygen
All seasons were funny
12:32 I was legitimately expecting Jacob to hit us with a "Not cool, Sonic." upon realizing that Sonic completely dipped
This entire game felt like a social experiment, and I wasn't even the one playing it; overall, I can confirm that this is the Sonic game of all time
Lol
Its the undertale man
ayo the legend themself
“i can confirm that this is the sonic game of all time”
@@MrGuyIsMe-dx3uz it is the sonic game of all time
I love how you can almost cheese the entire game with tax evasion
That’s a great quote even out of context
And you can do that in real life too
@@The-Silliest-Little-Guyyou’ll get banned by the FBI for exploiting
@@The-Silliest-Little-Guy until the admins ban you
@@infiltrate6807
Mods in community Discord servers be like:
Sonic: *unleashes a great evil*
Everyone: “Cmon man, not cool”
“Look, ramps!” “We can use them as ramps!” reminds me of “People die if they are killed.”
People always bring that line up even though the context surrounding it is talking to a character who just doesn't die every time he receives a fatal wound and pointing out that fact lol
To defeat a Cyberdemon, try shooting it until it dies.
I thought the obsession with bounce pads was bad but that exchange somehow topped it.
hm yes, the floor is made out of floor.
@@tendrilartist3609 Yep. He's specifically saying he's not a normal person anymore. "People die when they are killed." *pointedly staring at the giant hole in his torso*
"Look, ramps!" "These ramps can be used as ramps!" I am glad the master class writing made it in
Ah yes, the floor here is made of floor.
I can't even think of a line that truly matches the stupidity of that statement.
This wall tastes like dirt!
It looks like we can go up those stairs!
-Cappy
Look Gordon! A rope! We can use this to- HELP ME GORDON!!!
I love how Knuckles said "/" towards the end, really inspiring.
Clearly, the subtitles said "\"
I understand, though. It's hard to truly understand the full wisdom such a phrase contains
@@dogdog357 timestamp?? LMAOO
@@nightingale3688 23:55
IM DYING RN!
23:55 fr lmao
Sonic: *actually incites full-on Armageddon and quite possibly sentences the entire universe to never-ending catastrophe*
Everyone else: whoa that’s super uncool
22:05 With how much Knuckles and his infinite jumps basically bends the entire game to his will, calling Sonic the sidekick isn't completely false for this game 😆
Basically what we see occur in the game is called a “Bootstrap Paradox” where an infinite time loop is caused through a piece of information where the information no longer has an origin since it’s going in a circle and is considered “self-created” at that point
I've always wondered if there was a name for it.
So, who really composed Beethoven's fifth?
(if you get the reference, you are awesome)
Better question, who first played the Song of Storms
In layman's terms, basically how Fry became his own grandfather in Futurama.
@@endergeek236 my 3rd favourite Doctor right behind Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant.
The way a ring flies out of Sonic when Knuckles slaps him at 12:55 is great
Sonic got slapped too hard and died
Only good part of the game aside from tax evasion.
its actually goofy and cute to me so that so far is my favourite scene
Sonic could overthrow the government and establish himself as a dictator, but if it's in the Boom universe, the reaction would be "Not cool, Sonic"
“Look, ramps!”
The supposedly smart one out of the group: “Maybe we could use them as ramps!”
Sherlock Holmes has been real quiet since that
True..... true.
Tails is like, the bootleg Watson to Knuckles' exemplary Holmes
Look gordon, ropes
He's been quiet cause he left.
Alpharad: *sequence breaks the entire game*
Also Alpharad: “this dialogue doesn’t make sense”
It doesn't make much more sense when you play the game all the way through.
Honestly that sequence break and fixing it was the best game puzzle in years
Hey guys, CRAZY IDEA. What if we used these RAMPS as RAMPS?
You absolute MAD LAD! How have I not thought of that before?
BRO HOW?
FUCKING GENIUS!!!!!!!!
ARE YOU INSANE
Ok, but the ENTIRE game leading up to Sonic’s “death” occurred in ONE DAY
THEY TRAVELED BACK IN TIME 1000 YEARS, COLLECTED WHO KNOWS HOW MANY CRYSTALS, PLAYED TEMPLE RUN WITH METAL SONIC FOR 13 MINUTES AND PROBABLY OTHER THINGS WHO EVEN KNOWS ANYMORE
WITHIN TWENTY FOUR HOURS
Yeah, but they went back 1000 years which technically doesn't advance the 24 hours at all as long as they are back there.
Jojo ass plot
@@RhinoHorn7 Unless they went back 1,000 years, did their business, then went forward ONLY 1,000 years, and not forward 1,000 years + whatever time they spent there
more eventful than most of my days
I'm more confused at how the devs didn't think to use the time travel _they already established_ in some way to get Sonic back, by... I don't know, _time travelling_ or something?
Then again time paradoxes are annoying to work out.
"He dodged my spindash, No one has done that before!"
Smash bros players: *yes.*
Shadow: *yes.*
Knuckles in every other sonic game:”it’s not flying, it’s gliding with style”
This game:
Jumping with stule
Yes indeed. He is doing that.
I CAN FLY. ALL I NEED IS TO COMMIT TAX EVASION
The "We can use them as ramps!" Exchange actually sounds like one of those two lines was recorded as a stand in for that spot of dialogue until the writers came up with something more clever to use then, but either forgot or were just so incompetent that they straight up couldn't figure out something better
I think they recorded them individually with like a 50% chance of each appearing but due to spaghetti they both appear, creating c o m e d y
In all honesty, it's a shame that the backlash for this game prevented a 3rd season for the TV show which of course was the greatest thing to come out of this spinoff franchise
Really? Shame, the show was actually good.
True
let's pour one out for Fire & Ice, the game that gave us season 2
Fire & Ice was pretty good
Why tho because the show was good af if they saw it was successful they shoulda kept going
21:29 Mans really had 1000 years to think of something, ANYTHING, and he came up with, "Our unfinished business, is finished."
I mean, at least he is honest instead of trying to make a cool one liner.
"Look at his stretchy hands!'
*Alpha gasps in horror as he witnesses one of the principals of animation in play*
OH MY GOD! SQUASH AND STRETCH, THE HORROR!!
Sonic unleashed
He'll be horrified when he plays Paper Mario: The Origami King.
i would argue that moment of it is excessive
Yeah, that was an L take. Sonic Boom's animation is actually great!... but the actual gameplay and game... well...
i think the funniest thing about this video is that, even after the official sonic account crashed the stream and told jacob he was evading taxes, they still gave him early access to sonic frontiers
Tails: We got the map!
Sonic: Time travel rules!
Amy: We got the crystal!
Knuckles: I'm so confused..
rhyme
knuckles is the most powerful AND most relatable character in this game
@@lxckystars__ Half the time, I am confused, but somehow also annoyed at how basic and easy the plot is to follow.
@@thesupervideogamenerdmore3171 oh yeah no i get it, like overall i know exactly whats going on and what the overarching story is, but each individual plot point is making me more and more confused
Sonic: "Look, ramps."
Tails: "Maybe we could use these as ramps!"
"Look gordon! Ropes!"
"You can use them to travel pits-"
" *HELP ME GORDON* "
AUGH……. Hello Gordon
HUAGH URGH NO NONONNNNNNNO
so we need to be careful
I’m full Gordon
I'm stuck-
“Hello, Dr. Coomer..”
"How will we know when she's ready?"
"I'm ready"
"She's ready"
Has the same energy as:
"They fly now?!"
"they fly now?"
"THEY FLY NOW..." 💀
Where does they fly now come from ?
@@Natt7672 star wars the rise of skywalker
Honestly one of the few jokes i like from the sequels
@@SVD63Ninja why? Because its unfunny, and makes no sense in universe because rocket troopers have existed since the clone wars.
@@_lostglory because you can put it in other contexts and make it funny. And it's funny to think that they'd be ignorant enough to not even know about rocket troopers.
I never knew you could use a ramp as a ramp. That’s very informative
Boom games were such a disaster but the cartoon is an absolute gem. Anyone who hasn't watched it, please do, it's worth your time.
I heard the 3ds one wasn't bad
@@AdamSmasherReal It was less broken but still pretty bad.
the 3DS ones were pretty good tho. The first one had a few problems (Not nearly as bad as RoL) but the second one got rid of them and made it even better
Sure, sounds good.
@@bfeldz1023 You referred to "it" as if they were one game, so I guess you haven't played Fire & Ice (Considered the best Sonic Boom game)
7:59 “Look, ramps!” “We can use these as ramps,”
Glad we saw the same video.
wow
Look Gordon, ropes!
Hmm, yes the floor here is made out of floor
Hmm
Yes
The floor here is made out of floor
Edit: Oh wait, someone already made this joke
this game is so tragic because it actually showed a lot of promise, until sonic team forced the devs to put it not only on the wii u (it was supposed to be on ps4 and xbox one) but they also rushed it out the door
they also made them rewrite the story multiple times because “you’re not allowed to write a sonic origin story” and then they had to make it more in line with the show
anyways, if you wanna see more i recommend watching splashdash’s video on it, it’s really telling of how badly sega treats its IP
and thats after they basically did the same mistakes themselves with Sonic 06 (except in that case they dropped the Wii version in favor of the other consoles, not the other way around).
@@Nirual86 I wouldn't call that the same mistake. They just cut an unsupported console out of the mix in favor of stronger ones. Sonic Boom meanwhile was apparently coming along very nicely, until they get told to port everything to the Wii U, which resulted in huge chunks of the game being cut and last hours spent on making an unsupported engine run on the Wii U rather than to polish the game.
This is more comparable to Mass Effect Andromeda, where the entire game was built on an engine that cannot handle RPG focused games. Hell, there's problems with it running FPS games, the games this engine it was made for. Unlike Sonic Boom, this choice was apparently 100% on the team and not the bigwigs.
Also to play Devil's Advocate here. Sega was not to blame for Sonic Boom, it's mainly on Nintendo. The contract stated Sega needed to release 3 games for their consoles. Sonic Boom got the shit end of the deal because of all their projects, this one was the closest one to completion and the deadline was ticking really close. Shit happens in game development, and Sonic Boom was there to save Sega from any legal nightmares.
@@kyotanaka920 that's not nintendos fault. it's still segas. If I borrow 50 bucks and need to pay you back and because of that, I need to sell something, that's not your fault. That's my own bad planning.
@@kyotanaka920 And yet, "Look, a ramp!" "We can use it as a ramp!" wasn't cut.
@@Neremworld Willing to bet that stayed in because that was one of the many aspects of the game that actually worked. Stupid shit tends to stay in when you're trying to put out all the fires. Just look at how memeable Andromeda was
“[NEGATIVE FOR BLUE HEDGEHOG.]”
“But positive for red echidna!”
“[RED ECHIDNA IRRELEVANT.]”
5:39
“Alright Amy, time to shine! Let’s go get those miners!”
-knuckles 2014
Let’s be glad that “e” wasn’t an “o”
@@ChilledAnchovy 💀
oh dear
*minors
@@ChilledAnchovy 😭
8:52 that laugh at tails is amazing.
Portal is still not calibrated it send us to the ic-
Eh
The Game Grumps play through of this is legendary, but the fact Sonic inadvertently named the Knuckles fly glitch “tax evasion” and the similar pointing out of its brokenness makes it just as good.
Plus this is just way more condensed.
10:03 Hearing Alpharad speak about River Song and Doctor Who is such a surreal experience and I love it
"youre about to die and youre making toast jokes?!"
honestly one of my favorite alpha quotes yet
24:36 This is actually way more ridiculous because- I learned this in another playthrough, but the game only checks for *Sonic's* crystals. Meaning you can bypass the entire final boss by glitching to the end of his path and breaking the pod there.
I'm pretty sure there's something similar in DK64, where there are 7 required keys but the game only checks for the last one because it assumes you've gotten all the others
This would, of course, work well if these games were well designed and not prone to thousands of bugs and glitches
Speed run tech
Shadow kicking Tails in the face is my favorite part of the whole game lol
I think we can all easily agree the best part was the iconic Jo cameo at 22:41 for a single line of dialogue in the video. Truly worth my watch time
bro he made and brought jacob hamburger helper during this segment. actually wholesome, and the word gets the correct meaning
22:28 There’s some deep irony in Knuckles swatting bugs
Because he’s big?
@@lukiwei9468 it’s because Knuckles is buggy…
he's trying to catch those miners
In many Sonic games, Knuckles can glide
Sonic Boom however takes this to the next logical step, allowing him to straight up fly
00:00 Intro
5:13 Chaos Emeralds
10:31 The Circle Explained
15:41 Temple Run Hell
17:24 The Aquarium
20:23 Final Word (Sky Citadel)
21:46 Final Stage
Alpharad: *uses knuckles to fly throughout the playthrough
Knuckles at 13:54: *starts flying
Also alpharad: *surprised pikachu*
This video unironically inspired me. I think it could be fun to make a game where the controls/physics is specifically unintuitive or changes between levels with the point of the game being to figure out how to abuse the controls
Stuff like this is actually really hard to create on purpose. Though there are certainly some indie games that kinda play with the idea of breaking out of the initially presented gameplay premise (Pony Island comes to mind), nevermind those moments in gaming history where a glitch turned into a whole new gameplay mechanic like rocket jumping.
The problem with this concept is that most movement techs in games are either discovered completely by accident or through an understanding of the game's coding, both of which are unsatisfying and frustrating ways to introduce puzzle mechanics
It exists. It's called Getting Over It
Touhou 17.5 Gouyoku Ibun is sort of like this. Kind of like a fighting game, where you play through a quick story as one character and then unlock another character who plays basically completely differently, and you end up having to relearn how to use each new character each time. One will be able to fly and spam invincibility projectiles from the sky, and then the next is a grappling melee character, etc.
Baba Is You is like this, but a puzzle game
I find it really funny how they brought shadow back at the last cutscene just so he could go “oh for real? Huh. Alright cool”
"Portal's still not calibrated... it send us to the ice- AH"
-Tails, 2014
"Look, ramps!" "We can use these as ramps!"
"Hmmm, yes, the floor here is made out of floor."
Und warum liegt hier eigentlich Stroh? ~ laughs in German
Nice Mandjtv reference!
@@markyboi9354 you do know that meme has nothing do to with him other than it was used in some of his videos. It existed a long time before him
"when someone dies, they cant move"
@@felizen laughs in zombie
Fun fact: this game’s story is a complete trainwreck because Sega making up arbitrary rules for the game devs such as: sonic can’t touch water and tails & eggman must be the only inventors
No it isn't lol. If they can't write a plot around shit like that then they are just incompetent
@Charon the Toaster Well that makes a lot of sense. It's another level if they are making them change shit without giving them any time to essentially rewrite the story
@Charon the Toaster Because of Generations, the only way to make an origins story is to use the Classic forms and do all sorts of confusing workarounds, like they somehow find a way to show why Amy is traveling to Little Planet or her being from Little Planet (they'll probably make it MORE confusing)
I love how you just used the pause sound/screen to segue through all the moments where you used (abused) Knuckles' infinite jump. That sound is absolutely burned into my memory and you definitely captured the experience well
Is there another way to infinite jump without it cause I thought you needed to pause every time to perform the glitch
7:40 Running on water IS actually possible if something is fast enough, but I don't think it's not as easy as video games and movies make it out to be. The common basilisk lizard has flat back feet and can get up to 15 MPH on water, and with those two combined to it's relative size, it can run across water for short periods of time. This has led to it sometimes being referred to as the "Jesus Christ Lizard."
Thank god for this video because you will never catch me playing a Sonic game
🗿
Yeah the Pokemon franchise is flawless unlike Sonic
ditto
@@theminecraft2516 I can’t tell if this is sarcasm or not
Yeah, you’re too busy playing Amibo Festival
I don't know why my brain didn't immediately realize that the only possible game that could ever continue the "I Played 'X,' so you don't have to' series, and truly live up to the absolute masterpiece that was Jump Force, was the one and only Sonic Boom Wii U game, but looks like Alpha showcased just exactly _why_ he's the official three-time video game champion.
Well done Jacob, well done.
Marvel’s Avengers is exceptionally similar to Jump Force in shot potential and meme levels of awfulness.
It's such a shame, this game had a lot of potential, but SEGA screwed the devs so frickin' hard
atleast the cartoon was boomin (no pun intended) it was actually funny. the gumball of sonic
Really? It looks like the glitches are the only thing interesting about it, I don't see much potential here
The handheld Boom games were pretty decent.
18:54 Trivia time! This exact little "hiding the loading screen" trick was greatly utilised in the original *World of Warcraft* , making the game at the time seem impressively large and quick!
World of Warcraft is a _decade older_ than Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric, and stopped utilising this trick after two years into its lifetime.
Yea, hiding loading screens like that is just a thing. Probably not anymore, but if you're trying to load a really impressive section of map its still an option.
You mean a decade older? Otherwise that's some impressive duke nukem forevering on Rise of Lyric
psst, i think you mean decade older
@@manjackson2772 the sonic "boom" of my brain being gone
Modern games still do this all the time, their just so much better at hiding it. Why do you think every single protagonist of a Triple AAA game has to slide between two rocks before they can get to the view showing off the next gen graphics on the other side?
MAIA: “Red Echidna Irrelevant”
Red Echidna: Proceeds to destroy time and space
I swear, that first meeting has the same energy as 'Nobody can just deflect the emerald splash!'
Seriously, kakyoin was saying that like weve spent a whole season with him just ending fights early with the emerald splash
@@vocalvortexstudios2058 if i remember rightly he only successfully used the emerald splash once against a fly so its ends up being a "i killed this fly with a fly swatter.... i could probably destroy a tank with it too." Scenario
It’s still funny to me that Shadow doesn’t even play an important role in the plot, the directors just wanted to have a Sonic vs Shadow fight in the game.
I recommend watching the "What Happened" video on this game-learning about the development of this game is genuinely sad. There was so much wasted potential just...thrown away.
Gonna be real, the cartoon is genuinely funny. They really do a good job of referencing and parodying the history of the series and it's fans, and there are some great 'over the kids heads' jokes for adults hidden in there. I feel bad for the french animation studio that made it having their show's reputation associated with the trashheap of a videogame.
honestly surprising how I can come back to it after a year or so and still laugh.
The comedy in the show was insane. Easily early/peak SpongeBob and Amazing World of Gumball level. Knuckles destroying the twitter feminism argument and explaining actual feminism is just legendary. Its a shame the show wasn’t more well known and loved. It was just legitimately funny with legitimately likable characters with legitimately good chemistry. Far more than I can say for most adult comedy cartoons
@@vullord666 Three words.
Orbot and Cubot.
THIS GAME IS NOT BAD
@@jalolastname5446 to be honest it is. Just the TV show deserved better
the dialogues in this game vary from
*actually funny lines*
to;
“Look, a ramp”
“We can use this as ramps”
Let's go get those miners
Don't forget "Not cool Sonic"
or "/"
@@loadstonee relatable
That is so funny in the wrong way. It's like teaching a 4-year-old how to play a video game. It's stupid, and frustrating, but you can't help but smile, trying not to laugh.
Knuckles, despite being DRASTICALLY not Knuckles in his fundamental character design, is still the best character in Sonic Boom's entirety. He's consistently entertaining, more powerful than physics itself, and he can time travel independent of the half baked story going on in this game.
"Oh ramps! we can use these as ramps!"
Truly masterclass in writing. It moved me to tears.
"Look, ramps!"
"We can use these as ramps!"
i thought people were joking when they called this game horrendous but nevermind
That's the last thing I would have been expecting, honestly.
Being familiar with the cartoon, I expected the dialogue to be good, even if everything else falled apart.
"Look, Gordon! A rope!"
I fucking WISH they were kidding.
"oh yea... we unleashed that god-slaying lizard who'll commit the genocide of thousands if not millions if no one does anything to prevent it" - "Not cool sonic."
Omfg that neck snap at 9:24 😂
Especially at .25 speed😂
I CACKLED
"Red echidna irrelevant."
Boy, did THAT line age well in the year of our lord, 2022...
"As you play the game you really become familiar with the glitches as though they were intended" me playing Sonic 06 multiple times as a kid
sonic joins chat
alpharad: "i feel like i cant talk shit about the game now"
chat getting hyped
also one chat member: "does sonic ever shut up"
14:34 "Did you see that mechanical worm?!" not only is this game buggy, but it is also terraria
We can use it as a mechanical worm!
I think it's funny how post commentary Alpha seems to be getting more and more exasperated with this game as it goes on, yet live-stream Alpha is just kinda chillin.
The way gaming cycles work, in five years' time the kids who grew up with this game will suddenly become very active on the internet, and this game will be somehow retrofitted to be a "hidden gem" that "did many things right or something". Something very similar has already happened with Sonic 06. There's just something amazing about peoples' abilities to find the tiniest of silver linings in an absolute dumpster fire
There’s a game that is an actual hidden gem, sonic unleashed
@@Crxsseyed1 i really do hope that sonic boom gets the p-06 treatment in the future
@@Crxsseyed1just like sonic boom and soon sonic forces
Here's something that makes the game a hidden gem: Very expressive animation! Even if some of the designs or overall animation are controversial, the expressions are great!
The difference between this and 06 to be fair is that 06 was released on major consoles and Rise of Lyric was released on a console that only exists hypothetically
Alpharad knows what we need and does everything to save us from horrible experiences
“why does amy have clothes?gender norms are fucked up” 4:28
To be honest the cartoon is amazing and im sad they didn't get more seasons, i wonder how reception would have been if there were never a game, only the cartoon
the cartoon definitely deserved at least one more season