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Fun Fact: The game files reveal a scrapped Super Easy Mode with invincibility, unlimited Tails Saves, and automatically puts you on the next platform if you're stuck in one place for too long. You may as well have placed a rock on the forward button and let it play itself.
The thumbnail is like a cursed crossover between Sonic the Hedgehog and Echo the Dolphin that never got officially approved and is stuck in permanent limbo.
The thing I personally liked about Rise of the whisps was that while it still retained some of the cheesy humor in the main game, it did manage to at least get somewhat serious and Sonic and Tails are more in character then what is presented in the main story.
If SEGA and Blind Squirrel want an easy mode, without insulting the intelligents of the average gamer, they should've just made Tails an optional playable character.
It disappoints me that a game I grew up with ended up with a mess of a remaster. Lack of options, over use of bloom, cut content, long loading times, lack of polish, and lots of glitches. Its sad because this remaster did some things right but for everything it does right it does 2 things wrong. I had a fun time with this game but its a mess of a remaster either way.
Yeah I felt so bad learning that Metal Sonic being playable was cut content. When they announced Ultimate and revealed Metal Sonic for Rival Rush saying there’d be a “Great reward” for beating all of the races, my immediate thought was “THEY’RE MAKING HIM PLAYABLE, FINALLY Metal is going to be playable again!” Aaaaaand nope. They cut it.
This is basically the exact same situation with Pokemon Sword and Shield. Half of the fans are toxically positive, ignoring the glaring flaws of the game and taking every form of criticism as a personal attack, while the other half is simply triyng to voice their complaints and want to make other fans and the company aware of all the flaws so we can get better games next time. I'm both a Pokemon fan and a Sonic fan and these 2 franchises are surprisingly similar.
But with Sword and shield its was way worse, probably because this is just a random remaster that was clearly rushed because they had nothing to release this year, while SW/SH was a mainline game an the first one to be on a console
Solid review man! I wanna say you nailed it when you talked about how there’s a huge disconnect between the actual fans and the game journos that don’t care about Sonic. Now that I think about it, SEGA def has these people in their ears which is understandable I guess. Hopefully going forward we get a product that isn’t rushed and will have major appeal to the fans.
The fans can also be a problem though. Fans range from genuinely caring about the direction of a product, to blindly loving everything it does. maybe a better approach is to look at what the fans enjoy from the fangame community for direction. The last time they did that (mania) worked out amazingly for them
Sonic Colours Ultimate is basically the reverse of past Sonic games around the Dark Age. Instead of being loved by fans but hated by critics, it's loved by critics and hated by fans. Guess reviewers really love the lack of ''Sonic's stupid friends'', easiness for their rather bad playing and Baldy McNosehair.
Hopefully Sega doesn’t rush more games, I’m worried that this’ll be a major blow to Blind Squirrel’s reputation when Sega put them in a no win situation. They damaged Big Red Button with their carelessness and these developers do not deserve all of the hate they’re receiving.
"The thing about the original Colors on the Wii was that it already was a decently easy game" Me, who 100%ed Unleashed Wii but could not even *finish* Colors: *cough* uhhhh yesexactly I don't think I'll be getting this game though. The original Colors was one of the biggest disappointments for 13 year old me back when it came out and time only made me dislike it more for a multitude of reasons and even after I tried giving it multiple chances. Glad you got enjoyment out of it though :) Edit: 22:48 How dare you forget the "Sonic had a rough transition to 3D" line!11! :') Jokes aside I do really feel that part about how it's catering more to reviewers and journalists. Some good points there
Sonic Colors Wii is a good time. In a vacuum, outside of the heavy usage of 2D it’s great. It’s what spawned from it which sometimes overshadows it. SCU cultimates this in a port of questionable/variable quality. Blurring the line between the quality of the game itself and the surrounding issues
I'll still always prefer the DS version tbh, it's just not the "ultimate" version imho without the DS content and even if you play the remake =/= remaster card it was later discovered new content (such as playable Metal Sonic) were scrapped in SCU. While I'm glad a major issue (potential seizure inducing glitches) is gone, the whole aftermath of SCU has left much to be desired plus the game still needs more work... :/
@SMTrules “Sonic Colours is a good time. In a vacuum, outside of the heavy usage of 2D, it’s great.” That’s a weird way of saying only around 10% of the game is great. And people have the gall to spout out in parroted unison that Adventure 2 is supposedly only “1/3 good” ever since SCMJ & PJ’s reviews of the game released.
You're very much like me in this case. I was very blegh on the original colours yet the whole thing just clicked for me this time in spite of the clear issues with the Ultimate port.
The patch: “I. FIXED. *E V E R Y T H I N G* … I… think?” Me in tropical resort: proceeds to no-clip out of existence and cause a dead sonic body to most likely visit the backrooms by some unknown way most likely having to do with running out of power using *fudging pink spikes*
Eh, I'm pretty sure I'll never play Colors. I say this as somoene who used to love Generations enough to 100% it and replay it over and over, but I haven't geneuinely played it since like 2013-2014. Last time I tired to go back to it in 2018, I just couldn't enjoy it anymore. I'm just completely done with boost gameplay, nothing about it will ever make me enjoy it ever again. At least, so long as it remains the status quo for mainline titles. I want Sonic games to be more platform-centric/momentum-based, if not, go back to the Adventure formula. Keep in mind I'm not saying all boost games are bad. At the very least, I'll always respect and appreciate Unleashed for its ambition and story.
Somebody in a Discord server I’m in has a little brother who got Colours Ultimate the Switch. When he opens the game for the first time, the game crashed.
Actually the Movie Sonic aura is a standard pre-order bonus. Not just digital deluxe. I got the physical preorder and still got it Oh and if you're ordering via Switch: the extra music and gold and silver wearables are purchasable as DLC. Meaning nothing was exclusive to the digital deluxe version on Switch. So if, like me you enjoy having physical copies of your games, be it for collecting purposes or just saving space on your console; You don't/ didn't have to worry about missing out
HAAAA YOU FUCKING WHAT????? THE GAME WE GOT BEFORE BANANA MANIA (or whatever the newest one is called) WAS FUCKIN BANANA BLITZ HD! FUCKING BANANA BLITZ!!!
Watching this 9 months later, and I just have to say I’m so FUCKING sick of the “the game isn’t out yet” defense. Literally every single time fans point out legitimate problems in the trailers for a game, we always get hit with “the game isn’t out yet.” Colors ultimate was FILLED with stuff fans were concerned about and pointed out. The lighting, Sonic’s model, the AI upscale cutscenes, and more. When the game was first announced we get the “it’s just the first trailer, wait for the next trailer to drop” than that happens and the problems are still there, and people will say “wait for the game to come out.” Then the game comes out and they say “wait until you finish the game.” How many times are we going to do this? How many times will people blindly defend what very clearly looks like shit to the very end? Sonic forces, TSR, lost world, boom, and now frontiers? I understand difference in opinion, but this is repetitive, and tedious dealing with.
Chao garden and Wisps in the same game would open the possibility of combining them, like the animals in sonic adventure, but with elemental qualities instead.
That "Seizure Glitch" part reminded me of one of the stages of Space Channel 5. Colors Ultimate's Glitch doesn't come close to the strength of the aforementioned level (Don't go see if you want to be okay. If you want to see, I suggest turning on the lights, lowering your device's brightness, and moving away from the screen.)
Completely agree, criticism should be a healthy practice to ensure that the company sees and acknowledges the grievances from the consumer and answers them if really necessary. But with colors ultimate these aspects have been muddied, people treat all the issues found to be the same across the different platforms. Most casual consumers don't know that the real harm inducing glitches are primarily on the switch and will write it off like all versions are like this. But at the same time the blind defenders need to take their hands out of their ears and realize that not acknowledging an issue is not gonna help anything/anyone moving forward. Your video is probably one of the few I've seen to actually draw a line in the sand and talk about the positives and also address the negatives and issues but make the distinction that it's not the same a cross the board in terms of severity. So mad props for that!
As someone whose first sonic game was colors for the wii, and then on top of that having done a full run through before ultimate came out, I think both games have its ups and downs. The wii version is more stable and has lives but has the visual differences. Ultimate has better visual but was given the "release now, patch later" seal and suffers from it. I played ultimate on the switch and somehow only ran into three minor bugs: the wisp music for ghost and cube would not activate sometimes, on the first level of starlight carnival sonic would get shot off the track at a very specific section, and in later stages the remixes didn't play and the og tracks did. So I had no idea about any of the other stuff that had happened with this game. My biggest criticism is that instead of taking the animations and making them better for the cutscenes or reworking them completely they simply reused them. And they didn't add nega mother wisp to ultimate which they totally should have. The Ds version is solid, I mention it just to mention it because apparently people like this one more than the wii I guess maybe?
I have a few reasons why I want to stay with the original game, most of them are minor, but because of its price in the currency of my country, I'm deeply unmotivated to buy it. Firstly, the biggest problems to me if I intended on buying and playing it, is the perfect homing attack sound effect, it's so loud, it pierces through my ears, but the physical problems doesn't stop there, because we have Starlight Carnival, which ended up getting way too bright, I have to lower the brightness of my screen if I want to see it with no problems, which would be a bigger problem if I have to control Sonic myself. The rest of the problems are smaller since they don't physically hurt me, but they still bother me, like how most of the stage looks, like Tropical Resort, which lost most of its fun on its visuals, but the rest of the stages suffered a lot less, Sweet Mountain looks great for the most part, even if I like the original's colors better, but the fact that they forgot to add shadows to a few parts bother me, it's a problem I can overlook, but I don't think it will ever be fixed, I think Aquarium Park is the best looking stage overall, it's the only one I actually like over the original, most of the problems I have left, you've already said on the video so I won't repeat it I can't talk about the gameplay itself because I haven't played this version, but the problems outside of it are already a deal breaker to me... but welp, Sonic is my favorite franchise, I'll probably buy it three years later like I did to Forces (add +2 years when the new Sonic game comes out), but as for now, I'll be staying with the original version. For the people willing to buy the remaster, have fun :)
22:10 “Who doesn’t want to see one of gaming’s greatest icons go down in a fiery blaze.” That statement can be interpreted very differently when you’re talking about Sonic Giggity
This also made some red rings much easier now as the one in Starlight Carnival you need to go around on with Spikes before it blew up and you died, simply grab it and then Tails will save you.
Man I remember when there was a leak of an image of sonic colors ultimate before it came out and it showed a tails icon that looked like a life icon and everyone thought tails was going to be playable at first but no when Sega confirmed and showed that tails wouldn’t be playable and instead be some type of stupid helping gimmick they screwed up everything and I will never forgive Sega for that but I hope that tails becomes a playable character for once again in a mainline 3D sonic game at launch
@@chaomix I have it (but haven't beaten it because I fail). It's kind of Rush 3 minus Blaze and grind tricks but with the wisp powers & red rings. Made up for lack of 3D with at least 1 wisp type that isn't in the Wii version. Also fewer levels per "zone" IIRC. Extended cast show up for "challenge" mini-stages.
I think the "it's prerleease footage, it'll probably get fixed" argument is valid to a point, at least until a couple of months before release, when you can start becoming legiitmately concerned if the key issues remain unfixed.
I had the exact same feeling about 100%ing everything when I replayed the game on Dolphin. I think it more has to do with already knowing what to expect when you play the game and finding it much easier to tolerate the flaws. You know how to play the game and how its designed so its much easier to get through it rather than expecting something more.
While I concede that the gameplay is decent enough, I wouldn't say I enjoyed colors very much. Perhaps the boost style just isn't for me, since I wasn't too big on generations either (even if I can acknowledge that it is genuinely a good game). My biggest gripe, however, comes from the characterization. All of the characters are so...boring, man. They're so one note, it's almost painful listening to them speak. The only real exception to this being Eggman whose voice and mannerisms are so iconic at this point that he practically carries the series for me, in spite of the writers' repeated failures. For the sake of ending this on a positive note, I will say that the character customization between Forces and Colors Ultimate are really good additions that I hope get fleshed out and are here to stay.
Totally agree. I actually really like the boost gameplay though, especially in Generations. That game is soooo fun IMO. But yeah, the story in most of these games just isn't for me I guess...
@@chaomix I definitely think there's a fine balance to be found in regards to the story and character writing, which can be safe for children while still being appealing to the now-older audience. I think the early 3d Sonic games did well at telling somewhat compelling stories with charming characters while still having those upbeat, cheesy moments and making them work. I think the biggest problem with the more recent Sonic games is that it very much talks down to its audience and presumes that children can't handle serious themes. Even Forces felt like a lot of the stakes of an otherwise dark situation were severely undercut by how the characters were written.
Did you know that the layout of the special stages in sonic colors ultimate are similar to those of sonic 1 (The zones; green hill, scrap brain, and etc.)
Man, I just feel bad that they didn't push to have DS there too... Like, fully 2D levels aren't that hard to make, esspecially when pre designed and they are supposed to share the graphical assets, so... I just wanted mother wisp... She was a fun boss.
Glad to see someone else appreciate the Mother Wisp also iirc the DS version is actually the "canon" version (if anyone still cares about the Sonic continuity).
I really enjoyed your review! It was well-organized and paced. I think I'm going to wait for the game to patch itself before I get it for Switch. Hearing about the lower resolutions and fps bums me out.
I appreciate your rants and tangent throughout these videos about the current situation with the franchise. As an (relatively) old-time Sonic fan, it feels nice to know I'm not alone in disagreeing with the current direction the series is taking, and with good arguments to be made about it instead of being told I just hate it because it's different like I'm being told all the time by toxically positive meta era fans who always disregard old-time fans as whiny fanboys.
I know this remaster isn’t perfect, but I’m still looking forward to getting it for my switch and playing it! The bloom effect looks really pretty to me tbh.
playing sonic colors ultimate on a switch Nintendo Switch: running on 30 fps and going berserk the guy playing it: sonic colors is buggy Nintendo Switch: what do you hate the buggy colors? the guy playing it: buggy colors are giving my eyes colored
I 100%'d this in like 3 days on PlayStation and I was like "I remembered the game being harder..." Must've been a mixture of being a young kid when I played Sonic Colors on Wii and just being incompetent somehow. The only S rank I struggled with was the one for Frigate Skullian. That one's like a mixture of the boss positioning himself properly and beating him at the right time.
From what I’ve seen, the game was built in the Godot game engine which, in its current state, has some issues with more intensive 3D games. So in the end, it wasn’t your pc struggling, but rather the game engine itself.
unpopular opinion; i like the idea of limited boost. i like the idea of it being a reward for good gameplay, instead of hand-given. instead of wisps, i’d put more rings on the ‘higher’ pathways, and make it so stages don’t rely on the boost to be cohesive (so no enemy fodder crowds)
IDW Sonic Comics: makes an arc based around glitch characters(kinda) Sonic Colors Ultimate: Sonic Fish Me: Hey Sega, can I make a anthropomorphic Fish OC?
21:46 I actually explained something similiar to a friend because I kind of believe the same. XD Got called crazy and I should stop defend Sega because "Sonic was never good"
It sounds like your friend is trying to throw you off, because you're onto them... Nah but seriously, what would your friend know? Unironically quoting IGN's folks of all people.
I got to meet a dev in Sonic Speed Simulator, i pitched them the idea of the chao garden, and they said they liked it! which means they will problably add it
Hey everyone! Let me know what you think about Colors Ultimate! Is it as bad as people are saying, or are people's complaints jusitfied?
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It’s weird that that you said that the game is fun even though you stated multiple times that you hated the wisps
I mean, the only thing that has really happened was when I tried to go to planet #3 it booted me back to the title screen, twice
It's real bad
people saying it's 06 bad and rise of lyrics bad are kind of single-cell brained
Fun Fact: The game files reveal a scrapped Super Easy Mode with invincibility, unlimited Tails Saves, and automatically puts you on the next platform if you're stuck in one place for too long. You may as well have placed a rock on the forward button and let it play itself.
Well, at least they know that Iizuka's at least smarter than THAT... maybe.
Basically super easy mode is sonic lost world wing powerup that just sends you to a next checkpoint
At least someone realized this is stupid and scrapped it
@@ericf.a8623 nah they wouldve added it but of course time has to be an issue
They should have called it "Game Journalist Mode".
The thumbnail is like a cursed crossover between Sonic the Hedgehog and Echo the Dolphin that never got officially approved and is stuck in permanent limbo.
I thought it had to do with Seaman.
le fishe au sonic
It’s a reference to the weird bug where sonic looks like a fish
@@DSX1 yeah. The glitch that screws up his model.
🤣🤣🤣
The thing I personally liked about Rise of the whisps was that while it still retained some of the cheesy humor in the main game, it did manage to at least get somewhat serious and Sonic and Tails are more in character then what is presented in the main story.
I think part 2 was pretty well written in regards to characterization at least, part 1 handled Sonic's character a bit strangely though.
@@melon6444 Well yes. In the first half. In the second half he gets serious after her fully grasps the situation.
Tails:WISPS, not whisps
@@tonyacatlett3683 My bad...
And when you mean "they" get serious you mean Tails right?
If SEGA and Blind Squirrel want an easy mode, without insulting the intelligents of the average gamer, they should've just made Tails an optional playable character.
But then the critics would literally destroy Sega of America's entire building.
@@iamthemouse4483 why?
@@digimonlover1632 Critics hate playing characters other than Sonic
Tails is literally easy god mode. He can fly.
@@SpiralPoli until he tires out
It disappoints me that a game I grew up with ended up with a mess of a remaster. Lack of options, over use of bloom, cut content, long loading times, lack of polish, and lots of glitches. Its sad because this remaster did some things right but for everything it does right it does 2 things wrong. I had a fun time with this game but its a mess of a remaster either way.
Same
Agreed, despite not being the biggest fan of Colors, it deserves better.
@@DBMusicEX Exactly!
Yeah I felt so bad learning that Metal Sonic being playable was cut content. When they announced Ultimate and revealed Metal Sonic for Rival Rush saying there’d be a “Great reward” for beating all of the races, my immediate thought was “THEY’RE MAKING HIM PLAYABLE, FINALLY Metal is going to be playable again!”
Aaaaaand nope. They cut it.
"long loading times"
I guess 7 seconds is a absencely long time.
This is basically the exact same situation with Pokemon Sword and Shield. Half of the fans are toxically positive, ignoring the glaring flaws of the game and taking every form of criticism as a personal attack, while the other half is simply triyng to voice their complaints and want to make other fans and the company aware of all the flaws so we can get better games next time.
I'm both a Pokemon fan and a Sonic fan and these 2 franchises are surprisingly similar.
Ditto!
What a time to be dead!
But with Sword and shield its was way worse, probably because this is just a random remaster that was clearly rushed because they had nothing to release this year, while SW/SH was a mainline game an the first one to be on a console
@@ericf.a8623 Yeah, Sword and Shield is an utter dissapointment.
I thought exactly that when pokemon came out, it felt like a Sonic situation.
Solid review man! I wanna say you nailed it when you talked about how there’s a huge disconnect between the actual fans and the game journos that don’t care about Sonic. Now that I think about it, SEGA def has these people in their ears which is understandable I guess. Hopefully going forward we get a product that isn’t rushed and will have major appeal to the fans.
The fans can also be a problem though. Fans range from genuinely caring about the direction of a product, to blindly loving everything it does. maybe a better approach is to look at what the fans enjoy from the fangame community for direction. The last time they did that (mania) worked out amazingly for them
@@CapnNapalm No for sure, but I am hoping the next game reviews well but ALSO is successful amongst the fans. (Wishful thinking, I know.)
Sonic Colours Ultimate is basically the reverse of past Sonic games around the Dark Age. Instead of being loved by fans but hated by critics, it's loved by critics and hated by fans.
Guess reviewers really love the lack of ''Sonic's stupid friends'', easiness for their rather bad playing and Baldy McNosehair.
Sonic 4 got loved by critics and hated by fans.
@@mason2978 that's the point.
Sonic games sucks in general lmao
@@MasterAlpha1000"hey guys i said sonic games are all bad haha" HAVE YOU TRIED TO PLAY THEM FOR MORE THAN 20 SECONDS OR PLAYED SONIC BATTLE
@@ToadSparkster I don't need to go to the sewer to know if it's smells lol
Hopefully Sega doesn’t rush more games, I’m worried that this’ll be a major blow to Blind Squirrel’s reputation when Sega put them in a no win situation. They damaged Big Red Button with their carelessness and these developers do not deserve all of the hate they’re receiving.
"The thing about the original Colors on the Wii was that it already was a decently easy game"
Me, who 100%ed Unleashed Wii but could not even *finish* Colors: *cough* uhhhh yesexactly
I don't think I'll be getting this game though. The original Colors was one of the biggest disappointments for 13 year old me back when it came out and time only made me dislike it more for a multitude of reasons and even after I tried giving it multiple chances. Glad you got enjoyment out of it though :)
Edit: 22:48 How dare you forget the "Sonic had a rough transition to 3D" line!11! :') Jokes aside I do really feel that part about how it's catering more to reviewers and journalists. Some good points there
Careful wispmix if you keep calling sonic a blue rat hes gonna trap you in a smelly lamp
The seizure glitches surely makes everyone feel weird 😅
At least Sega patched those.
Can’t wait to play this game. Also side note: Japanese sponsor? YES! Checking that out!
Ah shit, we lost one.
That's a weird fetish for Japanese people.
EXCELLENT WORK. CHAOMIX SONIC COLOR ULTIMATE,
Finally! Chaomix released his video on Sonic the Fish-hog! Been waiting for this ever since I saw that thumbnail on your Twitter feed.
Sonic colors glitch where sonic LITERALLY turns into a fish. YES A. FISH🐟
Sonic Colors Wii is a good time. In a vacuum, outside of the heavy usage of 2D it’s great. It’s what spawned from it which sometimes overshadows it. SCU cultimates this in a port of questionable/variable quality. Blurring the line between the quality of the game itself and the surrounding issues
I'll still always prefer the DS version tbh, it's just not the "ultimate" version imho without the DS content and even if you play the remake =/= remaster card it was later discovered new content (such as playable Metal Sonic) were scrapped in SCU.
While I'm glad a major issue (potential seizure inducing glitches) is gone, the whole aftermath of SCU has left much to be desired plus the game still needs more work... :/
@SMTrules
“Sonic Colours is a good time. In a vacuum, outside of the heavy usage of 2D, it’s great.”
That’s a weird way of saying only around 10% of the game is great. And people have the gall to spout out in parroted unison that Adventure 2 is supposedly only “1/3 good” ever since SCMJ & PJ’s reviews of the game released.
@@callumsparrow4379 The overuse of 2D in a game that's supposed be 3D is bad, the actual 2D sections are not.
@@mizzix who said its supposed to be 3d? I always saw colors as a 2.5d game with 3d sections
The 2D criticism makes no sense. It's like saying Sonic Mania is bad because it has too many 3D parts.
You're very much like me in this case. I was very blegh on the original colours yet the whole thing just clicked for me this time in spite of the clear issues with the Ultimate port.
The patch: “I. FIXED. *E V E R Y T H I N G* … I… think?”
Me in tropical resort: proceeds to no-clip out of existence and cause a dead sonic body to most likely visit the backrooms by some unknown way most likely having to do with running out of power using *fudging pink spikes*
8:14 I'd really love to see an alternate skin where Sonic is wearing his favorite clothes from the OVA. That, and a JSR outfit.
Eh, I'm pretty sure I'll never play Colors. I say this as somoene who used to love Generations enough to 100% it and replay it over and over, but I haven't geneuinely played it since like 2013-2014. Last time I tired to go back to it in 2018, I just couldn't enjoy it anymore. I'm just completely done with boost gameplay, nothing about it will ever make me enjoy it ever again. At least, so long as it remains the status quo for mainline titles. I want Sonic games to be more platform-centric/momentum-based, if not, go back to the Adventure formula.
Keep in mind I'm not saying all boost games are bad. At the very least, I'll always respect and appreciate Unleashed for its ambition and story.
@@DBMusicEX Adventure 2 is linear lmao, without any other pathways, don't know what you are talking about.
@@saiqa7130 Sonic's linear since day one, what are you going on about?
Somebody in a Discord server I’m in has a little brother who got Colours Ultimate the Switch. When he opens the game for the first time, the game crashed.
Actually the Movie Sonic aura is a standard pre-order bonus. Not just digital deluxe.
I got the physical preorder and still got it
Oh and if you're ordering via Switch: the extra music and gold and silver wearables are purchasable as DLC. Meaning nothing was exclusive to the digital deluxe version on Switch.
So if, like me you enjoy having physical copies of your games, be it for collecting purposes or just saving space on your console;
You don't/ didn't have to worry about missing out
Let's hope they don;t remaster the DS game, if they do, it should be called, "Sonic Rushed"
Im happy the sezuire patch is gone now and im super stoked for the full patch so i can enjoy a blue rat running around at fast speeds
*Reach for the Stars rewrite*
Take off
Falling to the ground
Bright lights
Stop that ringing sound
I’ve been restyled
And I need
Coffee
So much regret inside of me
I’m so off track
I’m giving up
This game’s a blow
I’ll keep re-running
All that I see is bizarre
And I lost my chocolate bar
Adventure’s full of dismay
All my games are on delay
The skies bloom oh so bright
Glitches to lose my sight
I've never felt like this
Wait that's a seizure
The skies bloom oh so bright
Glitches to lose my sight
Nothing was planned
All that I see is bizarre
Alright
It's like Sega these days prefers something like Monkey Ball or Yakuza series over Sonic, when it comes to actual quality game development.
Yakuza is really popular in Japan whereas Sonic is primarily made for the west (but still in Japan) so there’s your answer
HAAAA YOU FUCKING WHAT????? THE GAME WE GOT BEFORE BANANA MANIA (or whatever the newest one is called) WAS FUCKIN BANANA BLITZ HD! FUCKING BANANA BLITZ!!!
Whoever left the dislike is jealous of how good you look with your glasses. And how right your opinions are. 😫👌🏻.
@Meat boy 🥰 no.
@@WonderTheMoon Person, you made my day better with this comment. I laughed like a mad hyena!
@@pablozanoto5801 That's so cool, you're welcome darling, your wholesome response just made my day better as well.
@@WonderTheMoon 👍
Watching this 9 months later, and I just have to say I’m so FUCKING sick of the “the game isn’t out yet” defense.
Literally every single time fans point out legitimate problems in the trailers for a game, we always get hit with “the game isn’t out yet.” Colors ultimate was FILLED with stuff fans were concerned about and pointed out. The lighting, Sonic’s model, the AI upscale cutscenes, and more. When the game was first announced we get the “it’s just the first trailer, wait for the next trailer to drop” than that happens and the problems are still there, and people will say “wait for the game to come out.” Then the game comes out and they say “wait until you finish the game.” How many times are we going to do this? How many times will people blindly defend what very clearly looks like shit to the very end? Sonic forces, TSR, lost world, boom, and now frontiers? I understand difference in opinion, but this is repetitive, and tedious dealing with.
Chaomix your thumbnails never disappoint me
Chao garden and Wisps in the same game would open the possibility of combining them, like the animals in sonic adventure, but with elemental qualities instead.
Seizure glitch: *exists*
Me: Sonic...you're supposed to _absorb_ the Wisps, not _swallow_ them. smh.
Welp, he's just stoned now, so that's a thing.
That "Seizure Glitch" part reminded me of one of the stages of Space Channel 5. Colors Ultimate's Glitch doesn't come close to the strength of the aforementioned level (Don't go see if you want to be okay. If you want to see, I suggest turning on the lights, lowering your device's brightness, and moving away from the screen.)
Bruh your thumbnails are the best. Can't believe it's actually Canon on switch🤣
Completely agree, criticism should be a healthy practice to ensure that the company sees and acknowledges the grievances from the consumer and answers them if really necessary.
But with colors ultimate these aspects have been muddied, people treat all the issues found to be the same across the different platforms. Most casual consumers don't know that the real harm inducing glitches are primarily on the switch and will write it off like all versions are like this. But at the same time the blind defenders need to take their hands out of their ears and realize that not acknowledging an issue is not gonna help anything/anyone moving forward.
Your video is probably one of the few I've seen to actually draw a line in the sand and talk about the positives and also address the negatives and issues but make the distinction that it's not the same a cross the board in terms of severity. So mad props for that!
If my tweet somehow inspired the thumbnail art for this vid, I’m honored haha. Great review!
As someone whose first sonic game was colors for the wii, and then on top of that having done a full run through before ultimate came out, I think both games have its ups and downs. The wii version is more stable and has lives but has the visual differences. Ultimate has better visual but was given the "release now, patch later" seal and suffers from it. I played ultimate on the switch and somehow only ran into three minor bugs: the wisp music for ghost and cube would not activate sometimes, on the first level of starlight carnival sonic would get shot off the track at a very specific section, and in later stages the remixes didn't play and the og tracks did. So I had no idea about any of the other stuff that had happened with this game. My biggest criticism is that instead of taking the animations and making them better for the cutscenes or reworking them completely they simply reused them. And they didn't add nega mother wisp to ultimate which they totally should have.
The Ds version is solid, I mention it just to mention it because apparently people like this one more than the wii I guess maybe?
Please, Sega, I just want rolling to be a mechanic in sonic games again. It’s literally the defining trait of hedgehogs.
Another chaomix Banger.
8:50 Duck Duck, it's Duckles!
1:55 LOL that was the best way to start talking about sponsor 😂😂😂
“Glitches that cause seizures”
Blind Squirrels indeed
Lmao I loved the sponsorship
I have a few reasons why I want to stay with the original game, most of them are minor, but because of its price in the currency of my country, I'm deeply unmotivated to buy it.
Firstly, the biggest problems to me if I intended on buying and playing it, is the perfect homing attack sound effect, it's so loud, it pierces through my ears, but the physical problems doesn't stop there, because we have Starlight Carnival, which ended up getting way too bright, I have to lower the brightness of my screen if I want to see it with no problems, which would be a bigger problem if I have to control Sonic myself.
The rest of the problems are smaller since they don't physically hurt me, but they still bother me, like how most of the stage looks, like Tropical Resort, which lost most of its fun on its visuals, but the rest of the stages suffered a lot less, Sweet Mountain looks great for the most part, even if I like the original's colors better, but the fact that they forgot to add shadows to a few parts bother me, it's a problem I can overlook, but I don't think it will ever be fixed, I think Aquarium Park is the best looking stage overall, it's the only one I actually like over the original, most of the problems I have left, you've already said on the video so I won't repeat it
I can't talk about the gameplay itself because I haven't played this version, but the problems outside of it are already a deal breaker to me... but welp, Sonic is my favorite franchise, I'll probably buy it three years later like I did to Forces (add +2 years when the new Sonic game comes out), but as for now, I'll be staying with the original version. For the people willing to buy the remaster, have fun :)
18:46 “This game launched in a very rough state.”
As rough as Sonic’s transition into 3D?
and the sonic cycle repeats
22:10 “Who doesn’t want to see one of gaming’s greatest icons go down in a fiery blaze.”
That statement can be interpreted very differently when you’re talking about Sonic
Giggity
This also made some red rings much easier now as the one in Starlight Carnival you need to go around on with Spikes before it blew up and you died, simply grab it and then Tails will save you.
Don’t worry it makes me feel weird too
SEGA DON'T MESS UP GENS ULTIMATE
Man I remember when there was a leak of an image of sonic colors ultimate before it came out and it showed a tails icon that looked like a life icon and everyone thought tails was going to be playable at first but no when Sega confirmed and showed that tails wouldn’t be playable and instead be some type of stupid helping gimmick they screwed up everything and I will never forgive Sega for that but I hope that tails becomes a playable character for once again in a mainline 3D sonic game at launch
I watched this whole video and SCU’s credits are still rolling XD
Great review though! A lot of the points you made summed up my thoughts perfectly.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Colors DS is the best version of Colors.
I still haven't played it but I always hear that. I guess it means I gotta give it a try!
@@chaomix I have it (but haven't beaten it because I fail). It's kind of Rush 3 minus Blaze and grind tricks but with the wisp powers & red rings. Made up for lack of 3D with at least 1 wisp type that isn't in the Wii version. Also fewer levels per "zone" IIRC. Extended cast show up for "challenge" mini-stages.
This is the realest thing I’ve ever read
I think the "it's prerleease footage, it'll probably get fixed" argument is valid to a point, at least until a couple of months before release, when you can start becoming legiitmately concerned if the key issues remain unfixed.
it wasn't your cup of tea, it was your mug of coffee
sussy switch version
I love how you drew SonFish the HedgeDolphin on the thumbnail. I love that glitch so much but sadly it is now removed
I had the exact same feeling about 100%ing everything when I replayed the game on Dolphin. I think it more has to do with already knowing what to expect when you play the game and finding it much easier to tolerate the flaws. You know how to play the game and how its designed so its much easier to get through it rather than expecting something more.
Is not a fish, is Chaos, Chaos was planned for Sonic Colors Ultimate :D
While I concede that the gameplay is decent enough, I wouldn't say I enjoyed colors very much. Perhaps the boost style just isn't for me, since I wasn't too big on generations either (even if I can acknowledge that it is genuinely a good game). My biggest gripe, however, comes from the characterization. All of the characters are so...boring, man. They're so one note, it's almost painful listening to them speak. The only real exception to this being Eggman whose voice and mannerisms are so iconic at this point that he practically carries the series for me, in spite of the writers' repeated failures.
For the sake of ending this on a positive note, I will say that the character customization between Forces and Colors Ultimate are really good additions that I hope get fleshed out and are here to stay.
Totally agree. I actually really like the boost gameplay though, especially in Generations. That game is soooo fun IMO. But yeah, the story in most of these games just isn't for me I guess...
@@chaomix I definitely think there's a fine balance to be found in regards to the story and character writing, which can be safe for children while still being appealing to the now-older audience. I think the early 3d Sonic games did well at telling somewhat compelling stories with charming characters while still having those upbeat, cheesy moments and making them work.
I think the biggest problem with the more recent Sonic games is that it very much talks down to its audience and presumes that children can't handle serious themes. Even Forces felt like a lot of the stakes of an otherwise dark situation were severely undercut by how the characters were written.
Did you know that the layout of the special stages in sonic colors ultimate are similar to those of sonic 1
(The zones; green hill, scrap brain, and etc.)
Man, I just feel bad that they didn't push to have DS there too... Like, fully 2D levels aren't that hard to make, esspecially when pre designed and they are supposed to share the graphical assets, so...
I just wanted mother wisp... She was a fun boss.
Glad to see someone else appreciate the Mother Wisp also iirc the DS version is actually the "canon" version (if anyone still cares about the Sonic continuity).
@@lynxfresh5214 technically both are referanced in future games, so they more or less happen at the same time
Would be nice if Mother Wisp was included as a Super boss in Ultimate.
I really enjoyed your review! It was well-organized and paced. I think I'm going to wait for the game to patch itself before I get it for Switch. Hearing about the lower resolutions and fps bums me out.
hey chaomix it would be great to see a tier list of your favorite sonic video games.
“All dreams have meaning”
My dreams: *the thumbnail*
Chaomix: "I've kind of seen the light"
Me: "Yeah, it's everywhere"
Can’t wait for the Aqua Wisp to allow Sonic to turn into the Submarine in the thumbnail
Oh come on, does sega think that kids suck at video games? I’m pretty sure DIMPS knew that kids were not babys
I appreciate your rants and tangent throughout these videos about the current situation with the franchise. As an (relatively) old-time Sonic fan, it feels nice to know I'm not alone in disagreeing with the current direction the series is taking, and with good arguments to be made about it instead of being told I just hate it because it's different like I'm being told all the time by toxically positive meta era fans who always disregard old-time fans as whiny fanboys.
I find it really funny that for some reason they got rid of the do you accept option from metal sonic
I think people memed on it too hard lol
... That thumbnail...
*I love it! :D*
They also said they would take their time when Sonic Forces was in development, yet look how that game turned out. -_-
“An opposite glow up, but a literal glow up at the same time” LMAO
Weird thing:
One of my online friends complained about people complaining about sonic forces and sonic colors ultimate
I know this remaster isn’t perfect, but I’m still looking forward to getting it for my switch and playing it! The bloom effect looks really pretty to me tbh.
Therapist: Sonic the fish isnt real and cant hurt you. The thumbnail:
I had the framerate stutters on PS4 and PS5 (via external SSD) but not on my PS5's internal SSD.
playing sonic colors ultimate on a switch
Nintendo Switch: running on 30 fps and going berserk
the guy playing it: sonic colors is buggy
Nintendo Switch: what do you hate the buggy colors?
the guy playing it: buggy colors are giving my eyes colored
This is actually the most fair review I've ever watched nice one dude 👏
Well they aren’t making more easy with sonic superstars with that really hard boss battle which isn’t even the last boss
Great, now you've blessed us with Sonic the Rainbow Fish.
I can see the choking and terror in Chaomix's face as he makes his confession about SCU being fun
I 100%'d this in like 3 days on PlayStation and I was like "I remembered the game being harder..." Must've been a mixture of being a young kid when I played Sonic Colors on Wii and just being incompetent somehow. The only S rank I struggled with was the one for Frigate Skullian. That one's like a mixture of the boss positioning himself properly and beating him at the right time.
Metal sonic is your best run on a stage with random boost areas and an edited path.
Love the "Welcome to the next level" shirt
From what I’ve seen, the game was built in the Godot game engine which, in its current state, has some issues with more intensive 3D games. So in the end, it wasn’t your pc struggling, but rather the game engine itself.
Frame stutters in a Sonic game is about as acceptable as a Halo without Co-Op.
Oh wait...
Oof too soon lol
"Sonic's other greatest rival..."
*shows a Lucky Charms Commercial*
unpopular opinion; i like the idea of limited boost. i like the idea of it being a reward for good gameplay, instead of hand-given.
instead of wisps, i’d put more rings on the ‘higher’ pathways, and make it so stages don’t rely on the boost to be cohesive (so no enemy fodder crowds)
It’s a complete disappointment the customizations don’t appear in cutscenes. That’s the place you’ll be paying attention to how you look.
IDW Sonic Comics: makes an arc based around glitch characters(kinda)
Sonic Colors Ultimate: Sonic Fish
Me: Hey Sega, can I make a anthropomorphic Fish OC?
Ahhh yes, Sonic the Seaman, my favorite video game franchise!
The thumbnail is pure gold.
chaomix saying "sussy" unironically gives me nightmares
I’ve been waiting so long for this video!
I love how you can play the black alt sonic from smash bros in this game
21:46 I actually explained something similiar to a friend because I kind of believe the same. XD
Got called crazy and I should stop defend Sega because "Sonic was never good"
It sounds like your friend is trying to throw you off, because you're onto them...
Nah but seriously, what would your friend know?
Unironically quoting IGN's folks of all people.
I'm willing to bet your friend probably hasn't played a single sonic game in their life, and probably gets all of their opinions from online sources.
Omg that ad transition was super smooth and nice.
Why do I feel low key betrayed that he said he had fun with Colors? I guess I have to play it too although Project 06 is still my go to remaster
I got to meet a dev in Sonic Speed Simulator, i pitched them the idea of the chao garden, and they said they liked it!
which means they will problably add it
That whole "they rushed it even though they said they're willing to put extra time in" thing and then frontiers gets delayed.