The one thing I like about this ending is that before he became corrupted, this game showed the kind person Gerald Robotnik once really was. Also the fact that he was so much more than just a creator to Shadow but also his father and he helped Shadow realize that he had a choice, because Shadow's father Gerald Robotnik gave him that.
Right. That's why G.U.N and the United Federation decide to honor Gerald, since he (obviously) didn't deserve to have his project shutdown and his granddaughter killed when he was acting with wholly good intentions when creating Shadow and the Eclipse cannon. It was only because the humans wronged him that he was driven insane and started making doomsday plans for earth, completely abandoning his own morals because of his overwhelming grief.
Actually, if you delay the battle against Devil Doom long enough at a certain point, it will be revealed that one of Dr. Eggman's robots saved Shadow at the end of Sonic Adventure 2..
@@Revivalofalls if you stay in the final battle for 9 minutes, Eggman will reveal the story that happened after SA2 ended, he admitted that he lied to him during Sonic Heroes and this game.
Could be neat, but they'd have to "dull the edge", so to speak, and they'd have to make the gameplay a lot less tedious and frustrating. Other than that, sure, why not? Edit: Also, touch up the story quite a bit.
Apparently this is the first sonic game where Sega outsourced the pre-rendered cutscenes to an actual animation studio. It's why the pre-rendered cutscenes look so great and the in-game graphics/animation looks... bad.
Though the stories were very flawed, i miss the days where sonic games had dialoge and story other than, you got this sawnik, or insert bad meme jokes here.
Same. Even if as a big Shadow fan I can't condone this game's really messy and incomprehensible story, it really didn't deserve to be used as scapegoat for chastizing any form of decent storytelling in Sonic. Look at Shadow now. He's reduced to a pointless cameo like everyone else, while Sonic is a stupid asshole who never takes anything seriously.
Every time I see Shadow standing proud on the comet and all his friends cheering for him I tear up :, ) I feel like he deserved to finally be seen as a hero -3
16:20 The whole game was worth that part where I Am...All of Me beautifully switches to Live and Learn. ...Okay, probably not, but you still get my point, right?
Given his line half-way into the fight, I think the idea is that he didn't think Shadow would be able to defeat him even with the Emeralds. Chances are he didn't even know Super forms were a thing. So rather than just leaving them behind, it's more that in his mind there was simply no reason to keep hold of them, they'd servered their purpose.
by the way theres a spoil during this boss fight where if you are in it long enough you get to here eggman say that one of his robots saved shadow from falling to earth
i actually enjoyed playing this game, but it was tedious at times and sometimes boring. and the longer i played, i was like "if im working for the black arms, why do they constantly attack me!?"
@@sssj806 No he's right, "meet your maker" means to die and meet God in the afterlife. It has a religious origin. www.tapatalk.com/groups/wordoriginsorg/prepare-to-meet-your-maker-t10874.html
@@paulwebb2078 So technically what Black Doom says makes sense even when you try to joke about it. Gerald created life, you could technically see him as a God. Also, the joke makes no sense to begin with, it's not like Black Doom said "Prepare to meet your maker for the first time!" You can meet someone without it being the first time you do so.
@@autistinquisitor9441 Here are my rankings for the best actors who voice Sonic the Hedgehog: 5th Place Jaleel White 4th Place Ben Schwartz 3rd Place Kirk Thornton, don't know which Sonic series has this person in it playing Shadow the Hedgehog 2nd Place Roger Craig Smith 1st Place Jason Griffith, the real legendary voice of Sonic the Hedgehog/Shadow the Hedgehog
I really don't seem to understand why Vector, Espio, and Charmy wasn't with them after the others got themselves paralyzed. Where the hell are they even at, anyway? Looks like to me they're in some sort of spacecraft in space.
And biolizard. Everyone thinks she was a creation of the black Arms. But she was created from the blood of some kind of monitor lizard (megalania?) it was shadow who was the one with alien blood in his veins! This scream was first perfect chaos' the biolizard's then devil dooms. It doesn't fit with devil doom as this is a noise of agony and torment. Both biolizard and chaos were in AGONY and ultimately not truly evil but devil doom was satanic. This wail of anguish does not fit him at all...
My personal story for this game would be this: After the opening cutscene, Shadow decides to remain neutral and just look for the green and blue Chaos Emeralds in Westopolis, ignoring Black Doom’s orders and Sonic’s requests for help. After Black Doom sends him to Glyphic Canyon against his will, Shadow develops a grudge against him and helps Knuckles take down his forces, finding and collecting the yellow Chaos Emerald in the process. Shadow then travels to Circus Park and once again, he stays neutral, just searching for the silver Chaos Emerald. However, he feels like he knows Eggman from somewhere, and decides to get information on him in hopes of finding out more about his past. After helping Team Chaotix hack into Eggman’s computer, Shadow helps Espio in extracting data for his own gain. He takes Eggman’s statement about his past with a grain of salt. He joins Sonic on his trip to the ARK, and takes the cyan Chaos Emerald, and the alarms that go off when he does this triggers a flashback of the time when he helped Maria calm the Artificial Chaos and her gruesome death shortly after. He travels to the Black Comet and confronts Black Doom with Sonic, whom he asks about his past while on the comet. Sonic explains to Shadow the events of SA2, and Shadow thanks Sonic for the information before finding the purple Chaos Emerald. The duo then fight Black Doom and get the red Chaos Emerald, but when Shadow starts his monologue about who he is, Black Doom quickly steals the Emeralds and warps the Black Comet down to Earth. He runs away, and Shadow tells Sonic to leave the comet, telling him that this isn’t his battle. Sonic obliges, and wishes Shadow luck before escaping. The rest of the story plays out the same. Shadow learns about how he was created, Team Chaotix active the video, and Shadow defeats Black Doom and teleports the Black Comet to space (where the Eclipse Cannon blows it up) using the Chaos Emeralds.
16:20 It gives me chills and makes me smile til this day, hearing I Am...All of Me switch to Live and Learn. When I first played this game at 6 years old, I understood and adored the magic of that quick song switch.
I wish he did told him he’s his father that Shadow would have known who he’s real biological father is but I’m sure Shadow already knew that in his own way though
+msusagi513 let me explain everything. when maria died, he got insane. his purpose was to destroy the black comet before maria died, but after she died he INSTEAD wanted to destroy earth to avenge maria. that what he said in shadow the hedgehog was BEFORE what he said in sonic adventure 2. if something is not clear to you, I will explain it to you.
One thing I'd likento know nabout the Sonic Adventure 2 ending, how did Shadow survive tye reetnry fall after the Ark's geostationary orbit was reestablished?
Stephen Byrne Yeah, and then Shadow’s game was about finding out who or what he was. I like how there’s some endings where he accepts the fact that he is an android and not the real Shadow and that the real Shadow had died. However, in the true ending in the final fight against Black Doom, once it goes on long enough, Eggman reveals that Shadow actually IS the real Shadow.
Something that I REALLY don't understand is... All this we were playing with the REAL Shadow, because if that's true, why did Eggman said in the Neutral Route said that he and Omega were HIS creations, and if we really were with the REAL Shadow, did he died in the end when he managed to destroy the Black Comet, or did he survived, because if he really died does that mean that the Shadow in 22:14 was just one of his Android versions or the REAL Shadow?
Eggman: "Can you hear me, Shadow? He's got to be on the inside!" Sonic: "Use Chaos Control to make your way inside!" Tails: "Shadow, I believe in you. You can do it." Knuckles: "Don't you dare give up!" Amy Rose: "Please hurry!" Rouge: "You're strong enough. I know you are!"
I don't know how Sonic, Knuckles, Tails, and the rest of the group managed to escape the comet after having that paralysis gas invading their systems like that. Once you have reached total paralysis in your system while being stuck in an alien comet, there's no escaping death, especially if there is a race of evil aliens involved.
This is the only canon ending in the game, it's the real ending. All of the other endings are alternated realities created of how you choose Shadow's path in the game. The real ending will unlocked after you get all of the alternated endings.
I don't know if people know this already, but here goes anyway: Fun fact: If you connected a second controller while playing the main story, you could play as any Npc you met (Excluding Doom's eye and Eggman).
@@itzhenrythegamerguy4564 Probably that exact reason - the gas wouldn't effect him. I have a headcanon that during the events of The Last Way, Omega is storming Lava Shelter on his own, while it's defenceless. There he destroys both the facility and the Shadow Android production line.
the one thing I noticed was that in some parts of the final story, Black Doom actually BLINKS like twice in the entire game and it happens only in this part of the game. Also, if you notice Shadow when he's about to use the chaos spear, his hands are like, "BOI..."
With the way the biolizard died I was expecting a much more gruesome death for black doom. His death seems rushed. He was like the devil and died pretty quickly whereas the biolizard was just an abused reptile who was suppose to help people but got brainwashed by her own creator. Her death was horrific and brutal and was quite sad. I wish black doom has suffered as badly. He just fell to his death after having his eye poked out.
Me while reading this comment: All hail shadow! Heroes rise again, abliterating everything that's not your friend! Nothing can stop you now no ghost to bring you down, there's nothing left to loose you in. BOW YOUR HEADS LOW ALL HAIL SHADOW!!BOW YOUR HEADS LOW ALL HAIL SHADOW!!!!
Mop Head Skrillex For me it really isn't a good game. However, it does have some entertaining moments. I am glad to see that someone else has a different opinion than mine for the most part!
Indeed, since the "Goodbye forever" part was referring to his past being closed once and for all. He moved on to live a new life and protect the people of the present instead of living in the past.
Shadow remember all the words said. Sonic: What are you gonna do when you collect the Chaos Emeralds? The Commander: I will average those blood has spilled! Shadow: Did I... die? Dr. Eggman: I've give you life, Shadow! Black Doom: You are a part of me. Maria: Please help me, Shadow.
Funny, when you're a kid you don't really notice all the small details like glitches and bad controls of a game. But since this game meant a lot to me (and still does), I can't really bring myself to hate it :)) Shadow was such a powerful influence in me as a child...
I am glad Tails and the others are happy. Tails is certainly happy to see that Shadow delivered justice for the hate crimes Black Doom committed against humanity (and is especially glad Black Doom lost his natural habitat for good) and that all their friends and everyone else are all safe and sound.
I went 10 YEARS in my life completing this game in ever way good/evil and I never knew until today 2017 that there was an official ending and a final boss.
I'm gonna share this comment i saw once:imagine loving shadow the hedgehog so much, you play it every day, hourly, before you go to school you play an hour of shadow the hedgehog, after school you play HOURS of shadow the hedgehog until you must sleep to await another day, of shadow the hedgehog. Sometimes you even skip school to sneak a little 8 hour shadow the hedgehog session (hehe sneaky little boy) you recite the lines unironically, you wanna be shadow the hedgehog, your sick of the real world so every day at school you put your earbuds in and your shadow the hedgehog music plays for 8 hours, “i am i am i am dun dun dun dun dun dun i am i am i am” but off topic off course. On the weekends, oh boy on the weekends, every devoted piece of your energy is devoured by grinding hours on end of shadow the hedgehog, once youve finally beat the game all 324 times, you do it again, and again, you get an A rank every time, every mission, you know every route, every combination, every name, every enemy placement, every platform, you are a shadow the hedgehog master mind, you have no limits, you have no friends, you dont need friends because you... you are shadow the hedgehog... you are the.... Ultimate Life Form
>Shadow recieves life-shattering revelation >Sonic: "Heheh, big deal!" This game... Although I like this Last Story. Shadow isn't nearly as edgy and tryhard as in the other timelines. He's more similar to his SA2 self.
LOL. Didn't think of that, apparently Shadow didn't either. Of course though, if he didn't take that chance all life would suffer far worse an end. Being paralized as aliens ate them.
The best track in the game is when Shadow turns Super, in my opinion. The bit is called "Super Shadow" and is a quick medley of I Am All Of Me, All Hail Shadow, and Live and Learn. What's your favourite song from the game, Azura?
Imagine if Shadow was like this on Halo, he'd kill The Covenant and the Flood easily. He'd kill enough to go blue or red and destroy the army in his invincibility.
Well, he _is_ immortal... So it's possible for him to live into the 2550's and get involved in the conflict. Great... Now I want someone to write a Halo/Shadow the Hedgehog crossover.
i know hes far more powerful than any other life form, but do you really think he'd be able to kill the flood? aren't they a lot more powerful than anything in the sonic universe?
@@zacharykenniston748 dude, Eggman is Sonic's most common enemy. He once made the Final Egg Blaster, and used it to destroy multiple STARS. This is Sonic's most common enemy. Then, that energy was absorbed by Emerl, who also had absorbed some power from the Chaos Emeralds, making him lose control. Sonic then defeated him. Didn't even need a Super form. It's also a fact (not an opinion) that Sonic can move at light-speed. Considering that Shadow is pretty much his equal in speed, I believe this applies to him as well. I just can't see the Flood killing Shadow(who can become temporarily invulnerable multiple times, and possesses many types of energy attacks) especially since they have a hard time killing a single human (sure, he is a badass Super Soldier with Mad Skillz, but his abilities aren't on the same level).
The one thing I like about this ending is that before he became corrupted, this game showed the kind person Gerald Robotnik once really was. Also the fact that he was so much more than just a creator to Shadow but also his father and he helped Shadow realize that he had a choice, because Shadow's father Gerald Robotnik gave him that.
Sexy Uchiha
It’s both
Shadow has 2 fathers, it's why he's so emo!!!
fanfiction
He’s emo because of Maria and Gerald Dying To Protect Him.
Right. That's why G.U.N and the United Federation decide to honor Gerald, since he (obviously) didn't deserve to have his project shutdown and his granddaughter killed when he was acting with wholly good intentions when creating Shadow and the Eclipse cannon. It was only because the humans wronged him that he was driven insane and started making doomsday plans for earth, completely abandoning his own morals because of his overwhelming grief.
@@DLxxx agreed
I miss when Sonic games actually had a continuity
They sort of still do. I mean they kept Zavok instead of just dropping him. There just doesn't seem to be an ongoing story anymore.
@Someone with a cute Dog There is no such thing as continuity in Sonic anymore.
> shadow the hedgehog
> continuity
alright then
@@destroyerblackdragon Imagine calling shoehorning a shitty Bowser rip-off that was supposed to have died in SLW "continuity". What a pathetic sight
@Sonic and Magic The Hegdehog and Human actually its sonic adventure 4 sonic 06 is adventure 3
Actually, if you delay the battle against Devil Doom long enough at a certain point, it will be revealed that one of Dr. Eggman's robots saved Shadow at the end of Sonic Adventure 2..
@@Revivalofalls if you stay in the final battle for 9 minutes, Eggman will reveal the story that happened after SA2 ended, he admitted that he lied to him during Sonic Heroes and this game.
HexoStatus this happens right after sa2, shadow was in this before heroes
EDIT: this is false, heros is before STH
Can you even lose this battle? Does shadow lose his super form if you stop collecting rings?
@@superhydra8873 that is why i said that word ended
@@superhydra8873 Yes you can. It can be quite easy to run out of rings, since Devil Doom summoning them is somewhat rng.
16:25 I really like how Shadow's transformation music starts as this game's menu screen and then turns into Live & Learn
It's a combo of I Am All Of Me, Live and Learn and the Rail Canyon stage from Sonic Heroes. I wonder if anybody else ever noticed this. 16:29
@@trickq5883 When I first played the game, I was pumped beyond belief when I heard the Live and Learn, even if it was only a cameo.
@@trickq5883no it's a combo of I am all of me, live and learn and chaos emerald get
Love how Black Doom spouts generic villain lines for ten seconds straight at 15:54
The Impossible Dingo lol
I think they wanted to use one of them, but couldn't decide on it, so they just threw them all in to compromise.
@MageBurger The best part is that they are all a variation of "Prepare to die!"
"So which of these lines shall we use as the last words before the fight?"
"Yes."
"But it's 20 seconds lo-"
"yes."
"Your past, present, and future end here...today!"
You're not Solaris.
WE DON'T TALK ABOUT THAT!!!!
But he is before
@Sonic the Artist and shut up
@@isaacman112
Solaris was a good final boss!
@David Byrd
Correct!
Seriously want a remastered version of this game...
this game is awesome! it got such a bad score which sucks.
Could be neat, but they'd have to "dull the edge", so to speak, and they'd have to make the gameplay a lot less tedious and frustrating. Other than that, sure, why not?
Edit: Also, touch up the story quite a bit.
shaun03a "dull the edge" ROTFLOL. X D
I agree with Kamp, Game companies need to stop focusing so much on the critics.
Video game critics probably dont even count because they dont have enough time to let thw fame sink in.
"You're boring me to death, Black Doom!"
Seriously. Black Doom's entire script is one big cliche.
"You're boring me to death, Black Doom!"
You're going down you son of a Bitch!
ua-cam.com/video/H5lj23EUR9U/v-deo.html:
GTA San Andreas End of the Line.
He's So phoney .... Even his defeat and Laugh and voice was s
A cliche yes but a villainous messed up psycho that’s going to create their end of the world.
It's Sean Schemell (Goku) whose Black Doom
I always loved how the CGI went from 1/10 to 10/10 lol
Chris D Kazakhstan
Ml,ml
Smoke,so I can
I got a lot of Half Life 1 vibes from this level.
Fleece Manjenkins Xen
That's pre-rendered CGI for you.
Apparently this is the first sonic game where Sega outsourced the pre-rendered cutscenes to an actual animation studio. It's why the pre-rendered cutscenes look so great and the in-game graphics/animation looks... bad.
Though the stories were very flawed, i miss the days where sonic games had dialoge and story other than, you got this sawnik, or insert bad meme jokes here.
Same. Even if as a big Shadow fan I can't condone this game's really messy and incomprehensible story, it really didn't deserve to be used as scapegoat for chastizing any form of decent storytelling in Sonic.
Look at Shadow now. He's reduced to a pointless cameo like everyone else, while Sonic is a stupid asshole who never takes anything seriously.
@@TheDen-ec9xe
And Shadow is better than Sonic anyway because Shadow is more serious and leader like than Sonic is.
Fix the gameplay and story cause nobody truly wants to play westopolis 10 times to get the true ending
lilcharmyb Fix the story a bit, but still keep the multiple endings
Same. New games are too dishonest and ironic
Every time I see Shadow standing proud on the comet and all his friends cheering for him I tear up :, ) I feel like he deserved to finally be seen as a hero -3
Oh yeah!
Shadow deserves to be seen as a hero finally!
I totally bet all his friends are cheering for him right now. I wanted to see that 😊
@@abrialwoodford6712
Yeah and Shadow is the best
"Boring me to death"?
Did Shadow sounded like Sonic for a moment there?
Sonic and shadow were both voiced by the same voice actor in this game
well there the same voice actor sooooooooooo
Jeremy Waters That why japanece voice acting is better
+Anderson Gutierrez Well, despite being rivals, Shadow and Sonic do have mutual respect for each other. Maybe this was one of those moments.
i thought he sounded a bit like abridged vegeta.
16:20
The whole game was worth that part where I Am...All of Me beautifully switches to Live and Learn.
...Okay, probably not, but you still get my point, right?
Yes
Shadow comes full circle in that moment.
from introduction in SA2 to the end of his major role in the sonic games until Forces.
Shadow has a pretty major role in 06 though? He's literally a main character.
People (including me) forget this sometimes heheh :')
There’s something else before Live and Learn at 16:29 but I forgot what it was called
I love how Gerald truly considered Shadow as his son.
Agreed, very touching.
And that makes him Maria's uncle.
@@SonicHedgehog1991 uh oh
@@SonicHedgehog1991 no it doesn't.
@@ataladin87 your grandfather's son who isn't your dad is your uncle, I think you should relearn how family roles work.
i love how black doom leaves the emeralds on the comet for shadow to use XD
Given his line half-way into the fight, I think the idea is that he didn't think Shadow would be able to defeat him even with the Emeralds. Chances are he didn't even know Super forms were a thing. So rather than just leaving them behind, it's more that in his mind there was simply no reason to keep hold of them, they'd servered their purpose.
18:09 he literally admited that he understimated the power of the chaos emerlads
16:30 Such a good scene with Live and Learn, basically telling the player "Yeah MF this is the same shadow that was in SA2"
by the way theres a spoil during this boss fight where if you are in it long enough you get to here eggman say that one of his robots saved shadow from falling to earth
This reply is 3 months late, but I'm gonna assume it was E-123 Omega.
@@MrGojira95 this reply is 3 years late, but its probably right
@@tsumia Its true!!
Cool
Still here
i actually enjoyed playing this game, but it was tedious at times and sometimes boring. and the longer i played, i was like "if im working for the black arms, why do they constantly attack me!?"
0:35
“Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeyyyyyyy, what’s uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuupppp, it’s meeeeeeeeeeee!”
“STAHP!!!”
I can't unhear that now!
15:52 "Be prepared to meet your maker" But Shadow already met both his makers.
@ShadowWarrior 1999 that's abit dramatic lol, meet your maker just means to meet the one who is going to make you/ finish you.
@@sssj806 No he's right, "meet your maker" means to die and meet God in the afterlife. It has a religious origin. www.tapatalk.com/groups/wordoriginsorg/prepare-to-meet-your-maker-t10874.html
@@paulwebb2078 So technically what Black Doom says makes sense even when you try to joke about it. Gerald created life, you could technically see him as a God. Also, the joke makes no sense to begin with, it's not like Black Doom said "Prepare to meet your maker for the first time!" You can meet someone without it being the first time you do so.
I still love that it's the same voice actors in this game as Sonic X...
Uhhhhh have you heard shadows sonic x voice actor and this game. Jason Griffin changed dramatically between continuities.
Crash Rocket Actually it's Jason Griffith and he was the best at playing the voices of Sonic and Shadow!
This was the best cast. I prefer this cast over Roger Smith and Kirk Thornton playing Sonic and Shadow now.
@@autistinquisitor9441 Here are my rankings for the best
actors who voice Sonic the Hedgehog:
5th Place Jaleel White
4th Place Ben Schwartz
3rd Place Kirk Thornton, don't know which
Sonic series has this person in it playing
Shadow the Hedgehog
2nd Place Roger Craig Smith
1st Place Jason Griffith, the real legendary
voice of Sonic the Hedgehog/Shadow the Hedgehog
@@calebsawyer0719Umm… where’s Ryan Drummond?
0:37 Heyyyyyy! Whatttsssssss uppppppp!? It's meeeeeee!!
STOP!
4:40 eggman made the perfect pose for paralysis, look at that smile
Now he can die beautifully
@@jordanboyd5587It looks like he's trying to choke
himself just by doing that pose. That's hilarious!
I don't give a single *fuck* what crtitcs say, I love this game.
I can’t unthink Goku as Black Doom. Thanks Sean Schemmel.
Wait... So Sonic & Friends got devoured by the offspring or what? Shadow refused to help or step on the aliens lol....
I like to think that Eggman ate them for tonight's dinner.
+Era Flamehog That's how Shadow really is. Merciless,Cold and a bit of caring of friendship.
I really don't seem to understand why Vector, Espio,
and Charmy wasn't with them after the others got
themselves paralyzed. Where the hell are they
even at, anyway? Looks like to me they're in some sort
of spacecraft in space.
Caleb Sawyer I'm pretty sure they were in the space colony and fired the eclipse cannon into the black comet
They're in the Space Colony ARK, it played a major part of the story in Sonic Adventure 2
Anyone notice devil doom has the same roar as perfect chaos?
Connor Fort Budget cuts.
And biolizard. Everyone thinks she was a creation of the black Arms. But she was created from the blood of some kind of monitor lizard (megalania?) it was shadow who was the one with alien blood in his veins! This scream was first perfect chaos' the biolizard's then devil dooms. It doesn't fit with devil doom as this is a noise of agony and torment. Both biolizard and chaos were in AGONY and ultimately not truly evil but devil doom was satanic. This wail of anguish does not fit him at all...
And his appearance in the first cutscene is literally his model just clipping through the ground and floating up. Christ.
I think Sean Schemmel has enough work yelling as Goku
Zachary Kenniston she?
My personal story for this game would be this:
After the opening cutscene, Shadow decides to remain neutral and just look for the green and blue Chaos Emeralds in Westopolis, ignoring Black Doom’s orders and Sonic’s requests for help.
After Black Doom sends him to Glyphic Canyon against his will, Shadow develops a grudge against him and helps Knuckles take down his forces, finding and collecting the yellow Chaos Emerald in the process.
Shadow then travels to Circus Park and once again, he stays neutral, just searching for the silver Chaos Emerald. However, he feels like he knows Eggman from somewhere, and decides to get information on him in hopes of finding out more about his past.
After helping Team Chaotix hack into Eggman’s computer, Shadow helps Espio in extracting data for his own gain. He takes Eggman’s statement about his past with a grain of salt.
He joins Sonic on his trip to the ARK, and takes the cyan Chaos Emerald, and the alarms that go off when he does this triggers a flashback of the time when he helped Maria calm the Artificial Chaos and her gruesome death shortly after.
He travels to the Black Comet and confronts Black Doom with Sonic, whom he asks about his past while on the comet. Sonic explains to Shadow the events of SA2, and Shadow thanks Sonic for the information before finding the purple Chaos Emerald. The duo then fight Black Doom and get the red Chaos Emerald, but when Shadow starts his monologue about who he is, Black Doom quickly steals the Emeralds and warps the Black Comet down to Earth. He runs away, and Shadow tells Sonic to leave the comet, telling him that this isn’t his battle. Sonic obliges, and wishes Shadow luck before escaping.
The rest of the story plays out the same. Shadow learns about how he was created, Team Chaotix active the video, and Shadow defeats Black Doom and teleports the Black Comet to space (where the Eclipse Cannon blows it up) using the Chaos Emeralds.
12:28
i want some of that too :P
This is good! I always believed that Shadow never did any of the dark missions and mainly stayed between hero and neutral
@@joshuadesousa6668 Thank you
That should absolutely be the official canon. That all makes sense and blends perfectly. Awesome!
Personally this is my very favorite Sonic game. Shadow is awesome.
Hooray for Shadow! He really did it he saved the earth!
He deserves to be seen as a Hero.
True
@@mohammedzoheirhadjslimane6142 Yes, very true.
16:20
It gives me chills and makes me smile til this day, hearing I Am...All of Me switch to Live and Learn. When I first played this game at 6 years old, I understood and adored the magic of that quick song switch.
Yup
0:25 Yes, you got it all the chaos emeralds for the millionth time
I don't care what people says about this game, for me it will aways be one of the best games of the entire Sonic franchise.
2000s Sonic in general was great.
Especially compared to the crap we have now.
This was actually the first sonic game I played on the PlayStation 2...So nostalgic 😭
I was waiting for the "Shadow, I am your father" 11:40
Shadow: NOOOOOOO
I wish he did told him he’s his father that Shadow would have known who he’s real biological father is but I’m sure Shadow already knew that in his own way though
"Damn you! NO, it's not true!"
@@ZoniferConundrum Me: *Gasp!*
With the Black Comet's destruction, the Black Arms are most likely extinct.
Shadow will always be my favorite
That moment when you realize charmy saved the world by playing that video
Prince Charmy to be precise.
12:00 “Psychic…attack!! F**k you!”
"You can do psychic attacks?!"
"I can do anything! Have you not met me? I'm _the Devil!_ From-Bible!"
@@halfmettlealchemist8076 *“How have I not impressed that upon you??”*
Okay, I never noticed the little tone of Live and Learn when Shadow turned into Super Shadow. That was a nice touch.
+msusagi513 let me explain everything. when maria died, he got insane. his purpose was to destroy the black comet before maria died, but after she died he INSTEAD wanted to destroy earth to avenge maria. that what he said in shadow the hedgehog was BEFORE what he said in sonic adventure 2. if something is not clear to you, I will explain it to you.
One thing I'd likento know nabout the Sonic Adventure 2 ending, how did Shadow survive tye reetnry fall after the Ark's geostationary orbit was reestablished?
@@stephenbyrne3909 one of Eggman's robots saved him.
@@subzeroapplesauce6773 And then Eggman made countless clones of him in Sonic Heros right?
Stephen Byrne Yeah, and then Shadow’s game was about finding out who or what he was. I like how there’s some endings where he accepts the fact that he is an android and not the real Shadow and that the real Shadow had died. However, in the true ending in the final fight against Black Doom, once it goes on long enough, Eggman reveals that Shadow actually IS the real Shadow.
Something that I REALLY don't understand is... All this we were playing with the REAL Shadow, because if that's true, why did Eggman said in the Neutral Route said that he and Omega were HIS creations, and if we really were with the REAL Shadow, did he died in the end when he managed to destroy the Black Comet, or did he survived, because if he really died does that mean that the Shadow in 22:14 was just one of his Android versions or the REAL Shadow?
"Goodbye forever...Shadow The Hedgehog"
He tried saving us from the corona virus...
Did he just leave all the other characters behind to be eaten by those slime things?
yea hahahahaha
He should have stomped on them
Shadow: Up yours to all my friends. XD
xBluegamerx At least they managed to escape (somehow), right?
@@perkilatorxiii5179
Yeah they did the only thing we didn't get was revealing how they escaped.
Eggman: "Can you hear me, Shadow? He's got to be on the inside!"
Sonic: "Use Chaos Control to make your way inside!"
Tails: "Shadow, I believe in you. You can do it."
Knuckles: "Don't you dare give up!"
Amy Rose: "Please hurry!"
Rouge: "You're strong enough. I know you are!"
Where's Omega?
@@destroyerblackdragon Probably he's destroying Eggman's Robots alone.
strange thing to note but I like the attention to detail where shadows SOAP shoes give of a jet boost when jumping and firing a gun.
18:49 Who is doing the gameplay for the final boss of this game, Sonic? Shadow is, not you.
So, you're just gonna leave them there to be eaten? Great plan, Shadow...
I don't know how Sonic, Knuckles, Tails, and the rest of the group managed to escape the comet after having that paralysis gas invading their systems like that. Once you have reached total paralysis in your system while being stuck in an alien comet, there's no escaping death, especially if there is a race of evil aliens involved.
This is the only canon ending in the game, it's the real ending. All of the other endings are alternated realities created of how you choose Shadow's path in the game. The real ending will unlocked after you get all of the alternated endings.
I don't know if people know this already, but here goes anyway:
Fun fact: If you connected a second controller while playing the main story, you could play as any Npc you met (Excluding Doom's eye and Eggman).
“Heeeeyyyyy what’s uuuuppppp! It’s meeeeeee!”
“STOP!!!”
I don’t know how to tell you that physical damage done to my body does not affect me at long terms
@@sonicgaming69420 Shadow!
@@The_Ultimate_Agent
Oh, your friends are here!
@@MackeyBigBoy4014 We’re here to help you, man! With what? I don’t know, but I value our friendship!
I don't think the gas would paralyze Omega.
Still, I don't think he could be able to destroy all the Black Arms before they leave/kill all the humans.
Speaking of which, why wasn't Omega in the last story AT ALL?!
@@itzhenrythegamerguy4564 Probably that exact reason - the gas wouldn't effect him.
I have a headcanon that during the events of The Last Way, Omega is storming Lava Shelter on his own, while it's defenceless. There he destroys both the facility and the Shadow Android production line.
Yeah, the Archie Comics' Shadow Fall arc confirmed this!
@@Someguyhere111 Eggman: Well, glad that's over, I'll just head back to my base.
*later, at Eggman's base*
Omega blowing everything up: ANNIHILATE! ANNIHILATE! DESTROY! DESTROY! WORTHLESS CONSUMER MODELS! ANNIHILATE!
Eggman:... Nope.
I believe that the professor in this game
had a part to partake in one of the episodes of Sonic X.
Seeing Shadow in his Super Shadow form in CGI made me realize that he’s a total badass in that form
Epic ending! !!! I love this game
the one thing I noticed was that in some parts of the final story, Black Doom actually BLINKS like twice in the entire game and it happens only in this part of the game. Also, if you notice Shadow when he's about to use the chaos spear, his hands are like, "BOI..."
Nice catch.
We need a remix of shodow saying CHAOS...SPHERE!
Edge LordTM **SPEAR
With the way the biolizard died I was expecting a much more gruesome death for black doom. His death seems rushed. He was like the devil and died pretty quickly whereas the biolizard was just an abused reptile who was suppose to help people but got brainwashed by her own creator. Her death was horrific and brutal and was quite sad. I wish black doom has suffered as badly. He just fell to his death after having his eye poked out.
Wait the biolizard is a she? I thought the biolizard is a it
@@ZoniferConundrum 😭😭😭
It's a he.
@@ZoniferConundrum I used to think I was female because of the eggs it produced but likely it’s asexual. Still I feel awful for the creature.
Impaled on the front of the black comet, still alive, then watching as he and the comet explode due to the Eclipse Cannon.
That gruesome enough?
I wouldn’t mind this game being made into a full blown movie!
Yeah it better be Sth the movie 4
After seeing Shadow take down Black Doom’s Kaiju-like form, I have no doubts that he can kill Destoroyah
My favorite part is when shadow (aka me)
Used chaos control with the black comet and made it get blasted by the cannon
Me while reading this comment: All hail shadow! Heroes rise again, abliterating everything that's not your friend! Nothing can stop you now no ghost to bring you down, there's nothing left to loose you in.
BOW YOUR HEADS LOW ALL HAIL SHADOW!!BOW YOUR HEADS LOW ALL HAIL SHADOW!!!!
-Time Stamps-
0:04 Black Comet Cutscene
0:25 Beginning Black Doom Cutscene (Part 1)
1:57 Black Comet Cutscene (2)
2:26 Beginning Black Doom Cutscene (Part 2)
3:23 Flashback (The Deal)
3:56 Beginning Black Doom Cutscene (Part 3)
6:16 Path to Confronting Black Doom
11:11 Confronting Black Doom Cutscene
12:39 The Trio does, *Something.*
13:24 Professor’s Truth
13:48 Government’s POV
14:16 Meanwhile, the squad is somehow still paralyzed.
14:45 Confronting Black Doom Cutscene (Part 2)
16:45 Devil Doom
20:05 Shadow’s Sacrifice(?)
20:56 Squad’s POV (Aftermath)
21:34 Government’s POV (Aftermath)
22:13 Final/Ending Cutscene
Am I the only person who liked this game?
Mop Head Skrillex no
Mop Head Skrillex For me it really isn't a good game. However, it does have some entertaining moments. I am glad to see that someone else has a different opinion than mine for the most part!
Mop Head Skrillex not. im 19 now and i still love the game.
+katarzyna kozanecka Same. I just wish I had a way to play it again.
ezio1507 there is way
And then Shadow promptly appears in the next game.
Indeed, since the "Goodbye forever" part was referring to his past being closed once and for all.
He moved on to live a new life and protect the people of the present instead of living in the past.
You guys think it's creepy when he refers to himself in the third person after saying "Goodbye forever"?
Ismael Segoviano Not at all.
Xreyabsolution Yeah, I'm open with that.
Ismael Segoviano Man, I literally explained it in the comment above yours. xD
"I put my past behind me... no one will give me orders."
"Just one thing, Shadow... get us rid of these hellish man-eating slugs BY GOD!!"
Shadow remember all the words said.
Sonic: What are you gonna do when you collect the Chaos Emeralds?
The Commander: I will average those blood has spilled!
Shadow: Did I... die?
Dr. Eggman: I've give you life, Shadow!
Black Doom: You are a part of me.
Maria: Please help me, Shadow.
Funny, when you're a kid you don't really notice all the small details like glitches and bad controls of a game. But since this game meant a lot to me (and still does), I can't really bring myself to hate it :)) Shadow was such a powerful influence in me as a child...
It's like Raven VS Trigon.
22:17 "goodbye forever Shadow the hedgehog"
2024: ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT?
21:13 Loool Knuckles chasing Eggman is my best part
Eggman : How about giving me back those Chaos Emarelds now ?
Knuckles: HEY GET BACK HERE YOU CREEP
The fact it stayed true to death egg stage in sonic 2 how Eggman somehow runs away faster with a gut like that
It’s crazy how good the CG animation cutscenes were
I liked the part where vector said get back here you idiot lol
Meta knight he said "get back here you creep!"
not idiot.
***** lol yes. i was joking. just to see how many hate comments i can get.
Meta knight Find the Computer Room!
@@katarzynak4106 he said get back here you idiot
i am the 69th like.
0:34 heeeeeeyyyyy, what’s uuuuuuuuup, it’s meeeeeeeee
I am glad Tails and the others are happy. Tails is certainly happy to see that Shadow delivered justice for the hate crimes Black Doom committed against humanity (and is especially glad Black Doom lost his natural habitat for good) and that all their friends and everyone else are all safe and sound.
Do you hear it, Black Doom? I have become the legend... the legend that you fear.... I have become... A SUPER SAIYAN
You're not dealing with the average hedgehog anymore
0:35 heeeeeeeeeey What’s up it’s me! :)
STOPPPP!!!
If Rouge said “They’re trying to destroy the planet” and Shadow turned to Black Doom and said “wait what?” I would’ve lost it
16:18 Wasn't such a good idea to leave the chaos emeralds behind. Was it Black Doom?
+Roy TheCrab Gohan Got Them And Became Super Ultra Saiyan Gohan
Ah Charriii5 reverence nice 👍🏾
+AxalFlameHart yes I'm not the only one who loves that channel yes!
BlazzinRoy
Chariii 5 :D
To be fair, Black Doom didn't know that Shadow could use them to empower himself.
Despite the edginess I truly enjoyed this game and it’s very underrated. And we still need a Silver game!
19:56 So precious.
"This is the end of you,and the end of my cursed past."
I went 10 YEARS in my life completing this game in ever way good/evil and I never knew until today 2017 that there was an official ending and a final boss.
What? How could you get to play this during 10 years, while being unable to get all the 10 normal endings?
I.. I’m so sorry.
Wow,thats pathetic.
10 years!? No way!
I'm gonna share this comment i saw once:imagine loving shadow the hedgehog so much, you play it every day, hourly, before you go to school you play an hour of shadow the hedgehog, after school you play HOURS of shadow the hedgehog until you must sleep to await another day, of shadow the hedgehog. Sometimes you even skip school to sneak a little 8 hour shadow the hedgehog session (hehe sneaky little boy) you recite the lines unironically, you wanna be shadow the hedgehog, your sick of the real world so every day at school you put your earbuds in and your shadow the hedgehog music plays for 8 hours, “i am i am i am dun dun dun dun dun dun i am i am i am” but off topic off course. On the weekends, oh boy on the weekends, every devoted piece of your energy is devoured by grinding hours on end of shadow the hedgehog, once youve finally beat the game all 324 times, you do it again, and again, you get an A rank every time, every mission, you know every route, every combination, every name, every enemy placement, every platform, you are a shadow the hedgehog master mind, you have no limits, you have no friends, you dont need friends because you... you are shadow the hedgehog... you are the.... Ultimate Life Form
It’s still so crazy black doom is voiced by Goku it sounds so different considering most of his roles just sound like Goku
Fitting that Sean would voice a megalomaniac control freak that craves power.
10-year old me thought this was the hardest shit ever. Honestly this is still pretty good if not rough around the edges lol
>Shadow recieves life-shattering revelation
>Sonic: "Heheh, big deal!"
This game...
Although I like this Last Story. Shadow isn't nearly as edgy and tryhard as in the other timelines. He's more similar to his SA2 self.
13:00 Did Charmy just... save the day!?
Jason Griffith, all of the characters in the game are voiced by the voice actors for sonic x.
Holy shit, I never realized that the theme that plays when Shadow transforms into Super Shadow, it’s a leitmotif of “Live & Learn”
I at least appreciated the brief use of "Live and Learn" when he turned into Super Shadow.
Now this is incredible
Rip black doom's dog
He still gets to have fun poking people with hot sticks
the last way is one of my absolute favorite final lvls in a sonic game , the lvl centering around using chaos control to make it in time is so good
devil doom is also my favorite final boss
Shadow's super transformation in this is awesome
I love how Shadow just leaves, not taking care of the creatures that were literally going to eat his friends.
That moment when you realize that Shadow has two dads
*Gasp*
Farkkkk
Who's your daddy shadow
- tails
Does this mean "Yo Mama" jokes don't work on him? /j
I have so many memories with this game
Here's a thought, imagine if the eclipse cannon missed the black comet for some reason and destroyed the earth instead
Aden well $#!+
LOL. Didn't think of that, apparently Shadow didn't either. Of course though, if he didn't take that chance all life would suffer far worse an end. Being paralized as aliens ate them.
This aged well
Shadow is my fav character out of all the series
The best track in the game is when Shadow turns Super, in my opinion. The bit is called "Super Shadow" and is a quick medley of I Am All Of Me, All Hail Shadow, and Live and Learn.
What's your favourite song from the game, Azura?
Imagine if Shadow was like this on Halo, he'd kill The Covenant and the Flood easily. He'd kill enough to go blue or red and destroy the army in his invincibility.
soahcthegod2012 Mind blooown!
Well, he _is_ immortal...
So it's possible for him to live into the 2550's and get involved in the conflict.
Great...
Now I want someone to write a Halo/Shadow the Hedgehog crossover.
i know hes far more powerful than any other life form, but do you really think he'd be able to kill the flood? aren't they a lot more powerful than anything in the sonic universe?
@@zacharykenniston748 No, the flood aren't even Universal. They get taken out by Guns used by humans.
@@zacharykenniston748 dude, Eggman is Sonic's most common enemy. He once made the Final Egg Blaster, and used it to destroy multiple STARS. This is Sonic's most common enemy.
Then, that energy was absorbed by Emerl, who also had absorbed some power from the Chaos Emeralds, making him lose control. Sonic then defeated him. Didn't even need a Super form.
It's also a fact (not an opinion) that Sonic can move at light-speed. Considering that Shadow is pretty much his equal in speed, I believe this applies to him as well.
I just can't see the Flood killing Shadow(who can become temporarily invulnerable multiple times, and possesses many types of energy attacks) especially since they have a hard time killing a single human (sure, he is a badass Super Soldier with Mad Skillz, but his abilities aren't on the same level).
Wait! if Shadow is Gerald's son, then wouldn't that make him Eggman and Maria's Uncle?
Idfk
Animators Komic Not offense but Shadow is artificial Hedgehog. Gerald just need a son so he decided to create Shadow as his son.
Technically, yes.
I know this comment is 2 years old but don’t you mean “Uncle & Aunt”?
Emmanuel Harris shadow’s a male, so yeah Uncle!
Chaos...
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