If you would've told me 5 years ago that the highest rated 3D Sonic game would be essentially Shadow the Hedgehog 2 bundled with a Gens port, I'd probably would've thought you were deranged
Second highest, the Dreamcast version of SA2 still has better reviews. Ironically, the Generations port dragged down the review score of the Shadow the Hedgehog sequel
Sonic and Infinite not being bosses was disappointing, but I understand why is was done. Also the fact that Shadow happened to have the yellow Emerald back in 2011 is very fortunate, otherwise we couldn't have gotten the fake Emerald subplot.
Infinite not being a boss fight makes a lot of sense tho from a story plot point. No sonic boss fight is disappointing tho, it definitely should have been there, win in gameplay but lose in cutscene when caught off guard.
@@meachy1 Disregarding fan opinion, I don't think Infinite makes more or less sense than Mephiles. He definitely makes more sense than Chaos Island though. At least the Sonic battle cutscene was really cool.
@@4589dude This series does a really good job at emphasizing character vs characterization. If Tails' only appearance was Forces, than you'd probably think the same of him. I don't think it should be ignored that Infinite may be a good character who has only seen awful characterization.
I think the doom powers are more significant than people give them credit for. What this game does to innovate upon the boost formula is vastly increase the amount of options and potential inputs the player uses. Reaction checks aren't just about jumping, crouching or attacking, they now include stunning, stopping time, directing enemy throws, grappling and subsequently choosing how to end the grapple. All the added complexity makes the level design incomparable to that of previous games, it's more narrow than Generations but adds variety and options to make it way more interesting than Forces. It's the most universally successful experiment they've done in the boost era.
Shadow Generations SCREAMS Bowser's Fury, but don't take that as a negative! I 100%ed Bowser's Fury the weekend it released, honestly it was one of the most interesting and fun Mario games I've played in recent time, it was an incredible experience. Sonic being my favourite videogame franchise of all time, anything being similar to one of my favourite Mario expansions is gonna go down well with me.
5:56 Okay, so the reason a Shadow 05 level isnt present and Chaos Island is used is due to asset reusage. With 2 year to plan and produce this game (since it was only planned after seeing the reveal of Shadow in Sonic Movie 2), it would have been easier to get a level from a recent Sonic game with modern textures and assets than making new ones. The time limit is probably the reason there isnt a Sonic fight as well 😅
That and probably due to the time eater pulling stages from ALL times, past, present and future which is probably why sunset heights and chaos island is here
@@primobux6522This!! I wanna also add a theory someone mentioned where Chaos Island is here because of how important the emeralds are to Shadow. It’s less about the Island and more what it represents to his character!
I still think a Shadow the Hedgehog (the game) level would have been better but it explores an interesting point for Generations : the possibility in Generations to play a stage "from the future" of Sonic (technically not for us, only for the characters in their point in time but you get the idea). That allows to make Time Eater mix "the future" with the present as well, not just the past and I think that's refreshing.
Never played one of these modern sonic games. Stopped playing sonic at SA2. You would not believe the smile on my face after I went on Shadow Generations and heard the music from SA2. Super happy with this game.
@@Snake_eyes0 Not gonna lie. I enjoyed Shadow Generations far more than the Sonic Generations side of the game. Makes sense why these new games never caught my attention. But the Shadow Generations side of it is honestly very fun to play.
@@AlejandroRojas-ur4vg I'm hyped to play Shadow generations the game looks amazing and the doom powers are mad cool also they remind alot about the symbiote tbh
My theory is that they might release a Shadow 05 level as DLC, and it will have a small story element that explains how Black Doom survived. IDK why they didn’t explain how he survived.
They explained it in Dark Beginnings, since the Black Arms were a hive mind, Black Doom survived thanks to a larva that was in the Ark which appears in Dark Beginnings.
This only confirms Shadow is stronger but Sonic has always been faster and that's exactly why Shadow needs to use chaos control. We know Sonic could go faster than he does against Shadow.
I do think I prefer how the boosting feels in base Generations modern stages (and sort of by extension, daytime unleashed), something about how fast the boost actually sends you and having it be a double edged sword that requires good map knowledge and execution with to not fling yourself off a stage feels more satisfying to me because those two factors lead to a much bigger payoff when you do get it right. That being said, the tightness of control is fitting for the ultimate life form, and its the best modern iteration of the forces/frontiers styled physics by a mile.
Don't put forces/frontiers in the same camp buddy, that's just weird. Nevertheless shadow generations doesn't even control like forces. Generations physics are more close to Forces than Frontiers and Shadow Gens.
I find it really hard to go back to Sonic Generations now tbqh. Sonic is just so stiff and heavy compared to Shadow and there’s not a lot of room to get creative with the movement. It was worth trading a bit of the raw speed in exchange for giving you much more control
One thing that people are mad about is again censoring Rouge. They make her suit cover almost all of her back (this actually looks like her wings was on the suit ). Also I think that Sega can make Shadow 05 stages as an DLC.
@@Bombastic_daioh I love unleashed and it is a very close second, but Shadow Gens just feels like it has so many ways to optimize and so many creative alternate paths. It actually feels fully 3D and mixes the best parts of Boost and Adventure imo, let's see if it holds up after my hype dies down
@@PDS350 Lmao not being "fully 3D" and having "more creative alternative paths" doesn't make it better. Unleashed has the more expansive and creative levels, the best boost gameplay but most importantly is more challenging and feels more complete content wise. Not hating on Sonic X Shadow Gens, it's a incredible game but it objectively doesn't hold a candle to Unleashed nor it deserves to be called "Peak 3D Sonic"
@@Bombastic_daioh I hope they manage to make it harder and faster in the future too, and the worst parts is definitely the extremely easy S-ranks, but it is a much better foundation than frontiers IMO for the next game
The title of this video and the thumbnail are extremely misleading as you definitely don't act like this is peak Sonic or that it's a 10/10 lmao. You're weirdly pretty negative here and a lot of your critiques are ridiculous at best. Like why Chaos Island is here, it's not about what specific stage Shadow has been to in the past or future. Time has broken down so a number of different areas are just thrown into the White Space, Chaos Island during the events of Frontiers being one of them. If you bothered to talk to Gerald after visiting there and Sunset Heights he would've clarified that. In fact every level in Shadow Gens Sonic had been to as well so it was really the Time Eater throwing levels of Sonic's past and future into the White Space. The only genuine criticism you give is there being no Shadow 05 level at all which is pretty weird. But otherwise the stage selection is awesome. Tf do you mean "unfortunately" it's awesome that you have to complete challenges to get boss keys. All of them were super fun and nice little missions to do, nothing about it is to "pad out the game's run time." That's like saying having collectibles in the open world or doing a boss is to pad the game out lol. If it's intended and new content, it's not padding. All of the Doom Powers are fantastic and provide fun different ways to traverse the levels and find secrets. You essentially go "oh yeah they're gimmicks, okay they're not great then" like wtf. So what if some of them are situational? That doesn't make them underutilized or bad, you use all of them a ton throughout the game. The bosses are awesome too, they're just the right amount of spectacle and difficult. They definitely weren't too easy and if you really thought they were play em on hard mode. Gerald's model does not look goofy at all, these are the best humans in Sonic have looked since Unleashed. His face looks like Eggman's which is the whole point, he's his grandfather. Otherwise he looks as he should, nothing "goofy."
It feels like a Sonic game that could’ve come out in the mid 2000s, like a mid-2000s Sonic fan’s Sonic Mania.
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You better respond to this bro. At 4:30 it's not shadow being better than sonic. It's sonic being better than him. Sonic beat shadow in like 1 hit in a couple seconds honestly. If they were the same skill it would of been much longer. Shadow said he was holding back because he would beat sonic on his own but it's like this, if he has to use the doom powers along with his chaos powers then it proves he is weaker, sonic uses traditional abilities and skills while shadow using chaos powers and doom powers and if shadow has to win to use them that's proof he is actually worse because sonic beat him in a couple seconds with nothing other than his own power.
@devinsauls9137 if this was shadow 2005 sure but why does sonic constantly beat him if he is stronger? Also he can power up into ssj2 and hypers sonic vs shadow only having ssj and maybe hyper, he has hyper but hasn't shown to use it.
this is super minor but i feel like the shadow 05 thing is kind of a non issue, like if i say “why doesn’t this game have stages from shadow the hedgehog” someone’s not going to think of the character it’s really obvious just from the context of the sentence either way if we’re going to abbreviate it that way why not call it shad05 lmao
There is one thing about the story that I didn't get regarding the Fake Emerald. Shadow needs an Emerald in order to use Chaos Control, this is why he gives Sonic the Fake Emerald and keeps the real one. However, the Fake Emerald has "the same wavelength and properties" as the real Emerald and was even capable of allowing Sonic to use Chaos Control. What reason does Shadow actually have to trick Sonic with the Fake Emerald?
Should say that the classic sonic skin was available for free by signing up for the news letter before launch. they just made it available for cheap after the fact.
I bought the Deluxe Edition, My God this game is good so far! If you haven't played it yet do what you have to do to play this game. Buy it, download it, steal it from the game store just do what you have to do in order to play this game.
Man, I wanna play this game so bad but I can't justify it at the moment. I already own Generations on Steam which is pretty much the exact same as the remaster. I wish SEGA could sell shadow gens on its own, especially on PC
Peak 3D sonic is Unleashed day stages but this is fine too. Shadow is an improvement over frontiers. Also. the entire thing about "stages being too long" is contextual. It was a problem because in Sonic Heroes you could die at any moment to some physics malfunction and have you rank screwed over. This wouldn't be an issue in a game like this one. The physics are decently polished in Shadow Gens.
Isn’t Space Colony Ark the Shadow 05 stage with Radical Highway being the only SA2 stage? Is there even a stage actually called Space Colony Ark in SA2. There’s the Final Story but they don’t explicitly call it Space Colony Ark do they. There’s Final Rush and Chase from SA2 which isn’t called Space Colony Ark but they did use a Final Rush remix in Shadow Gens which is weird cause you’d it’d make more sense to remix Chase for Shadow since that’s the Shadow stage. They could’ve used it for both Acts or at least Act 2 but they did neither. And I’ve gone off subject. A more explicitly Shadow 05 only stage would have been better though. And as I’ve been typing this your point has made more sense. Space Colony Ark is like both a Shadow 05 and SA2 stage.
I'm dead they only peaked when they rehashed their best sonic game from 13 years ago 💀 you can tell they are still incompetent with silver's chili dog and Amy's re"write"
Hey not sure if you know this, but if you’re signed up to that sonic/sega newsletter you get the sonic jam skin for free :) only until November 1st I believe but don’t quote me on that
Did you get it on Steam? If so, then I was also in the same scenario and had to "clear download cache" so the early access download could show up. If you're on PS or Xbox, then I dunno.
If I buy Sonic X Shadow generations then I will have 2 Sonic generation games tbh at this point. It's just that the first on includes Shadow's story but the other does not.
They cooked with this game hopefully they give heroes and unleashed the same treatment and the other reason I said those game's because honestly I can see them touching those games before messing with adventure 1&2 🤣😭
The game is less than 3 hours long and costs full price. Peak 3D Sonic? If they release so little content in each game there is no future for Sonic. They'll quickly run out of lazy ports to tack on for padding.
Hell no. Unleashed SUCKS. It's one of the games responsible for burying sonic. The werehog stages were terrible and way too long with bland hack n slash gameplay that took up MOST of the game. The only "good" stage is honestly rooftop run and hardly controllable because the homing attack isn't consistent with aim and how slippery the controls feel. Unleashed is one of the worst ones, stop trolling. Adventure games are peak tho, heroes too
@@mania4270 Possibly the worst take on Sonic games I've seen in a long time. Nobody likes the werehog but the daytime stages from Unleashed are some of the best in the series. And Heroes is genuinely hot garbage.
@@mania4270I love how you claim i'm "trolling" when everything you listed about the game is factualy false. Unleashed has some of the best controls in the entire franchise same with the homimg attack been the smoothest in the whole series. The Warehog was a nice distraction as well offering some pretty solid Bet em up gameplay espacially after he is maxed out. I'm not even gonna bother debunking your last claim about this game burring Sonic when it's also factualy false considering how it moved Sonic's gameplay forward (But then took a step back thanks to Generations)nd how beloved it is with the majority of the fanbase so really who's the one trolling here because it sure ain't me. Are you sure you are not just another grifter following the hate mob or a Classic glazer because you sure sound like one.
@@RunstarHomer "Nobody likes the Warehog" Warehog was the second best part of the hame besides the exploration, controls and the hub worlds. What are you talking about? Maybe if you didn't have the attention span of a Tik Tok kid you would understand how great the Warehog really is as a concept and execution-wise.
@@Bombastic_daioh Jesus almighty, it's possible to disagree without being a giant ass. It's just because i have the attention span of a tik tok kid that I dislike one of the least popular parts of a sonic game in the entire franchise? I guess the overwhelming majority of Sonic fans are tiktok kids too 🤷♂
The early access thing makes sense. Streamers and content creators will all buy it to stay ahead Anyway it's a sonic game. I'll get it when it's on sale for less than $10
If you would've told me 5 years ago that the highest rated 3D Sonic game would be essentially Shadow the Hedgehog 2 bundled with a Gens port, I'd probably would've thought you were deranged
Second highest, the Dreamcast version of SA2 still has better reviews.
Ironically, the Generations port dragged down the review score of the Shadow the Hedgehog sequel
What seems deranged is sometimes a great option.
Sonic and Infinite not being bosses was disappointing, but I understand why is was done.
Also the fact that Shadow happened to have the yellow Emerald back in 2011 is very fortunate, otherwise we couldn't have gotten the fake Emerald subplot.
Infinite not being a boss fight makes a lot of sense tho from a story plot point. No sonic boss fight is disappointing tho, it definitely should have been there, win in gameplay but lose in cutscene when caught off guard.
@@meachy1 Disregarding fan opinion, I don't think Infinite makes more or less sense than Mephiles. He definitely makes more sense than Chaos Island though.
At least the Sonic battle cutscene was really cool.
@@meachy1 They probably didn't have the time to add a Sonic boss fight, with the 2 year production time
Infinite needs to be forgotten. What an awful character lol
@@4589dude This series does a really good job at emphasizing character vs characterization. If Tails' only appearance was Forces, than you'd probably think the same of him. I don't think it should be ignored that Infinite may be a good character who has only seen awful characterization.
Im glad we can finally say sonic is well and truly back at least for now
For the first time in like 13 years but people still glaze the series…
Yeah and Sonic Froniters doesn’t count
Its shadow not sonic.
@@The_SUN1234 True, but Shadow is a Sonic The Hedgehog character. Also, the last few Sonic games have been a success, especially Sonic Frontiers.
First time I'm that excited for a Sonic game since Sonic Adventure 2 or Shadow the Hedgehog (the game) actually. I think that says a lot.
I think the doom powers are more significant than people give them credit for. What this game does to innovate upon the boost formula is vastly increase the amount of options and potential inputs the player uses. Reaction checks aren't just about jumping, crouching or attacking, they now include stunning, stopping time, directing enemy throws, grappling and subsequently choosing how to end the grapple.
All the added complexity makes the level design incomparable to that of previous games, it's more narrow than Generations but adds variety and options to make it way more interesting than Forces. It's the most universally successful experiment they've done in the boost era.
Shadow Generations SCREAMS Bowser's Fury, but don't take that as a negative! I 100%ed Bowser's Fury the weekend it released, honestly it was one of the most interesting and fun Mario games I've played in recent time, it was an incredible experience. Sonic being my favourite videogame franchise of all time, anything being similar to one of my favourite Mario expansions is gonna go down well with me.
5:56 Okay, so the reason a Shadow 05 level isnt present and Chaos Island is used is due to asset reusage. With 2 year to plan and produce this game (since it was only planned after seeing the reveal of Shadow in Sonic Movie 2), it would have been easier to get a level from a recent Sonic game with modern textures and assets than making new ones.
The time limit is probably the reason there isnt a Sonic fight as well 😅
That and probably due to the time eater pulling stages from ALL times, past, present and future which is probably why sunset heights and chaos island is here
@@primobux6522This!! I wanna also add a theory someone mentioned where Chaos Island is here because of how important the emeralds are to Shadow. It’s less about the Island and more what it represents to his character!
I still think a Shadow the Hedgehog (the game) level would have been better but it explores an interesting point for Generations : the possibility in Generations to play a stage "from the future" of Sonic (technically not for us, only for the characters in their point in time but you get the idea). That allows to make Time Eater mix "the future" with the present as well, not just the past and I think that's refreshing.
That's not an excuse tbh. Delay the game if need be.
Never played one of these modern sonic games. Stopped playing sonic at SA2. You would not believe the smile on my face after I went on Shadow Generations and heard the music from SA2. Super happy with this game.
I can't wait to play this game tomorrow
@@Snake_eyes0 Not gonna lie. I enjoyed Shadow Generations far more than the Sonic Generations side of the game. Makes sense why these new games never caught my attention. But the Shadow Generations side of it is honestly very fun to play.
@@AlejandroRojas-ur4vg I'm hyped to play Shadow generations the game looks amazing and the doom powers are mad cool also they remind alot about the symbiote tbh
The game definitely should've had a level from Shadow 05, Lava Shelter or Final Haunt, something. Other than that game is awesome
@@300fusionfall sky troops would have been cool
My theory is that they might release a Shadow 05 level as DLC, and it will have a small story element that explains how Black Doom survived. IDK why they didn’t explain how he survived.
They explained it in Dark Beginnings, since the Black Arms were a hive mind, Black Doom survived thanks to a larva that was in the Ark which appears in Dark Beginnings.
@@raydentherabbit8263yep! Also the prologue is IN the game! It’s there.
2:03 You can get it for free if you signed up for the Sega Newsletter 😅
Yeah im surprised he didn’t hear about that
I signed up but still haven’t got the email
@@Terminal_Apotos me too
@@Terminal_Apotos I believe it will be released 1 day after the official release, aka the 26th of October
@@AAlex-wg8mlnope I already have it
Well, if you didn't want to, buy the jam skin, and you can sign up for the newsletter for the skin for free
This only confirms Shadow is stronger but Sonic has always been faster and that's exactly why Shadow needs to use chaos control. We know Sonic could go faster than he does against Shadow.
Only took 13 years for sonic to be peak again! 😭💀
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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you're 2 years late man, it has been since 2022
@@KFCGullwas it fun ?yes ,did it have many many many flaws ?absolutely,so frontiers was not peak
@@KFCGull ❌
"Digital Deluxe Edition" is just a tactic to incentivice digital sales.
I do think I prefer how the boosting feels in base Generations modern stages (and sort of by extension, daytime unleashed), something about how fast the boost actually sends you and having it be a double edged sword that requires good map knowledge and execution with to not fling yourself off a stage feels more satisfying to me because those two factors lead to a much bigger payoff when you do get it right. That being said, the tightness of control is fitting for the ultimate life form, and its the best modern iteration of the forces/frontiers styled physics by a mile.
Don't put forces/frontiers in the same camp buddy, that's just weird. Nevertheless shadow generations doesn't even control like forces.
Generations physics are more close to Forces than Frontiers and Shadow Gens.
I find it really hard to go back to Sonic Generations now tbqh. Sonic is just so stiff and heavy compared to Shadow and there’s not a lot of room to get creative with the movement. It was worth trading a bit of the raw speed in exchange for giving you much more control
One thing that people are mad about is again censoring Rouge. They make her suit cover almost all of her back (this actually looks like her wings was on the suit ). Also I think that Sega can make Shadow 05 stages as an DLC.
I mean it's not like they gave her a new outfit like in Sonic Prime..
Gerald looks fine. Looks the exact same as his model in SA2.
You agree too, huh? I just can’t stop playing this bad boy 🎮
Best 3D level design in Sonic history
*Sonic Unleashed: I'm i a joke to you"
@@Bombastic_daioh I love unleashed and it is a very close second, but Shadow Gens just feels like it has so many ways to optimize and so many creative alternate paths. It actually feels fully 3D and mixes the best parts of Boost and Adventure imo, let's see if it holds up after my hype dies down
@@PDS350 Lmao not being "fully 3D" and having "more creative alternative paths" doesn't make it better. Unleashed has the more expansive and creative levels, the best boost gameplay but most importantly is more challenging and feels more complete content wise. Not hating on Sonic X Shadow Gens, it's a incredible game but it objectively doesn't hold a candle to Unleashed nor it deserves to be called "Peak 3D Sonic"
@@Bombastic_daioh I hope they manage to make it harder and faster in the future too, and the worst parts is definitely the extremely easy S-ranks, but it is a much better foundation than frontiers IMO for the next game
@@Bombastic_daiohUnleashed glazers are something else 😂
This game low-key took almost everything I knew about the boost formula and flipped it on its head, but in a good way
5:08 "Why is Classic Sonic in Rooftop Run?? He wasn't even IN Unleashed"
true
He was though... In the future
@@Rusty_Spy didnt they retcon it so that classic sonic is from a different dimension
The title of this video and the thumbnail are extremely misleading as you definitely don't act like this is peak Sonic or that it's a 10/10 lmao. You're weirdly pretty negative here and a lot of your critiques are ridiculous at best. Like why Chaos Island is here, it's not about what specific stage Shadow has been to in the past or future. Time has broken down so a number of different areas are just thrown into the White Space, Chaos Island during the events of Frontiers being one of them. If you bothered to talk to Gerald after visiting there and Sunset Heights he would've clarified that. In fact every level in Shadow Gens Sonic had been to as well so it was really the Time Eater throwing levels of Sonic's past and future into the White Space. The only genuine criticism you give is there being no Shadow 05 level at all which is pretty weird. But otherwise the stage selection is awesome.
Tf do you mean "unfortunately" it's awesome that you have to complete challenges to get boss keys. All of them were super fun and nice little missions to do, nothing about it is to "pad out the game's run time." That's like saying having collectibles in the open world or doing a boss is to pad the game out lol. If it's intended and new content, it's not padding. All of the Doom Powers are fantastic and provide fun different ways to traverse the levels and find secrets. You essentially go "oh yeah they're gimmicks, okay they're not great then" like wtf. So what if some of them are situational? That doesn't make them underutilized or bad, you use all of them a ton throughout the game. The bosses are awesome too, they're just the right amount of spectacle and difficult. They definitely weren't too easy and if you really thought they were play em on hard mode. Gerald's model does not look goofy at all, these are the best humans in Sonic have looked since Unleashed. His face looks like Eggman's which is the whole point, he's his grandfather. Otherwise he looks as he should, nothing "goofy."
I love that the physical version has a journal of the shadow's creator
It feels like a Sonic game that could’ve come out in the mid 2000s, like a mid-2000s Sonic fan’s Sonic Mania.
You better respond to this bro. At 4:30 it's not shadow being better than sonic. It's sonic being better than him. Sonic beat shadow in like 1 hit in a couple seconds honestly. If they were the same skill it would of been much longer. Shadow said he was holding back because he would beat sonic on his own but it's like this, if he has to use the doom powers along with his chaos powers then it proves he is weaker, sonic uses traditional abilities and skills while shadow using chaos powers and doom powers and if shadow has to win to use them that's proof he is actually worse because sonic beat him in a couple seconds with nothing other than his own power.
No. Shadow Solos
@devinsauls9137 if this was shadow 2005 sure but why does sonic constantly beat him if he is stronger? Also he can power up into ssj2 and hypers sonic vs shadow only having ssj and maybe hyper, he has hyper but hasn't shown to use it.
Nah nah nah nah nah Shadow solos case closed
@@Snake_eyes0 ok blud even though sonic whoops him in this very game we are talking about
shadow solos bucko 🤪
5:25 As the lone defender of Shadow the Hedgehog (2005), I approve the name Shadow '05.
this is super minor but i feel like the shadow 05 thing is kind of a non issue, like if i say “why doesn’t this game have stages from shadow the hedgehog” someone’s not going to think of the character it’s really obvious just from the context of the sentence
either way if we’re going to abbreviate it that way why not call it shad05 lmao
I kinda wish they brought sky rail or a few more stages from Shadow 05
I’ll never get tired of breaking Shadow’s spin in generations.
I'm pretty sure the prologue included bits of lethal highway and metropolis.
There is one thing about the story that I didn't get regarding the Fake Emerald. Shadow needs an Emerald in order to use Chaos Control, this is why he gives Sonic the Fake Emerald and keeps the real one. However, the Fake Emerald has "the same wavelength and properties" as the real Emerald and was even capable of allowing Sonic to use Chaos Control.
What reason does Shadow actually have to trick Sonic with the Fake Emerald?
Hopefully they phase out the act 2 2d levels in the future. The true 3D maps are so much fun and are meant for Modern sonic
Huh, I had NO. CLUE. About the Jam Pack skin so thanks for the heads up!
Should say that the classic sonic skin was available for free by signing up for the news letter before launch. they just made it available for cheap after the fact.
11:59 I always had the impression that the president was based on the actor Eric Mabius.
Yes finally another person that calls it Shadow 05 (I’m not crazy)
I'm excited for the future of sonic, glad Sega is consistently making good decisions now
11:00 Shadow generations spoilers, but there is a hard mode in the boss fights so it can be more challenging
I bought the Deluxe Edition, My God this game is good so far! If you haven't played it yet do what you have to do to play this game. Buy it, download it, steal it from the game store just do what you have to do in order to play this game.
the Sonic Jam skin is free for people who sign up for the newsletter
I was gifted the standard version of this game as a birthday present on steam. I hope I still get the Sonic Adventure 2 skin
When I need to differenciate the game from the character, I just say "Shadow (the game)", that's it.
If you sign up for the news letter before November 1st, you can the Sonic Jam skin for free
Guys... I think this guy really likes Sonic games
Peak 3D Sonic is actually Shadow 😂
Man, I wanna play this game so bad but I can't justify it at the moment. I already own Generations on Steam which is pretty much the exact same as the remaster. I wish SEGA could sell shadow gens on its own, especially on PC
There's never shame in waiting for a sale, I never buy digital games at full price anymore
The sonic jam skin is free you just need to sign up for segas news letter and they give you a code to redeem it
0:44 damn...
I would’ve love some Wii and ds era representation
Peak 3D sonic is Unleashed day stages but this is fine too. Shadow is an improvement over frontiers.
Also. the entire thing about "stages being too long" is contextual. It was a problem because in Sonic Heroes you could die at any moment to some physics malfunction and have you rank screwed over. This wouldn't be an issue in a game like this one. The physics are decently polished in Shadow Gens.
Isn’t Space Colony Ark the Shadow 05 stage with Radical Highway being the only SA2 stage? Is there even a stage actually called Space Colony Ark in SA2. There’s the Final Story but they don’t explicitly call it Space Colony Ark do they. There’s Final Rush and Chase from SA2 which isn’t called Space Colony Ark but they did use a Final Rush remix in Shadow Gens which is weird cause you’d it’d make more sense to remix Chase for Shadow since that’s the Shadow stage. They could’ve used it for both Acts or at least Act 2 but they did neither. And I’ve gone off subject. A more explicitly Shadow 05 only stage would have been better though. And as I’ve been typing this your point has made more sense. Space Colony Ark is like both a Shadow 05 and SA2 stage.
0:33 OH!
At first I thought you were shitposting by playing a mod for Sonic Generations that turns Sonic black or something 😂
I really wanted terios and the movie dlc but i bought the physical edition hope i can buy it on the eshop maybe
They never sent me my sonic jam skin 💀
I'm dead they only peaked when they rehashed their best sonic game from 13 years ago 💀
you can tell they are still incompetent with silver's chili dog and Amy's re"write"
Wait, did the Time Eater bring back Black Doom, or was Black Doom always alive (but in hibernation) post-Shadow the Hedgehog?
The Ark is the shad05 representation
No Super Shadow is a crime
And then 2 to 4 years later we will be calling this game mid or bad
Finally, someone being positive about a Sonic game
There has to be a good game for someone to be positive
Hey not sure if you know this, but if you’re signed up to that sonic/sega newsletter you get the sonic jam skin for free :) only until November 1st I believe but don’t quote me on that
Maybe we could get more stage dlc it would be a big miss if we didn’t 😭
For some reson I can't play it early but I got the digital deluxe. I'm not whining or anything I'm just confused?
Did you get it on Steam? If so, then I was also in the same scenario and had to "clear download cache" so the early access download could show up. If you're on PS or Xbox, then I dunno.
Thanks for explaining. I got it on switch lol 😅
Agree on the stage selection
If I buy Sonic X Shadow generations then I will have 2 Sonic generation games tbh at this point. It's just that the first on includes Shadow's story but the other does not.
frontiers stage lowkey there cuz asset reuse luckily its not a bad stage.
If they keep reusing the same levels from Shadow, I swear to god
They cooked with this game hopefully they give heroes and unleashed the same treatment and the other reason I said those game's because honestly I can see them touching those games before messing with adventure 1&2 🤣😭
So excited to play it
The game is less than 3 hours long and costs full price.
Peak 3D Sonic?
If they release so little content in each game there is no future for Sonic.
They'll quickly run out of lazy ports to tack on for padding.
No shadow 05 stage is disappointing. Also sunset heights should've been replaced by luminous forest
0:15 how is that any different from the game just being released if all editions have early access?
This is insane😮
Haha its not Amy's crush thats toned down, its Sonic being less of a jerk to Amy.
Also game is most definatly NOT 10/10, its a solid 7.5
I mean it's close to "peak" but that title will always be more deserved to Unleashed and the Adventure games.
Hell no. Unleashed SUCKS. It's one of the games responsible for burying sonic. The werehog stages were terrible and way too long with bland hack n slash gameplay that took up MOST of the game. The only "good" stage is honestly rooftop run and hardly controllable because the homing attack isn't consistent with aim and how slippery the controls feel. Unleashed is one of the worst ones, stop trolling.
Adventure games are peak tho, heroes too
@@mania4270 Possibly the worst take on Sonic games I've seen in a long time. Nobody likes the werehog but the daytime stages from Unleashed are some of the best in the series. And Heroes is genuinely hot garbage.
@@mania4270I love how you claim i'm "trolling" when everything you listed about the game is factualy false.
Unleashed has some of the best controls in the entire franchise same with the homimg attack been the smoothest in the whole series. The Warehog was a nice distraction as well offering some pretty solid Bet em up gameplay espacially after he is maxed out.
I'm not even gonna bother debunking your last claim about this game burring Sonic when it's also factualy false considering how it moved Sonic's gameplay forward (But then took a step back thanks to Generations)nd how beloved it is with the majority of the fanbase so really who's the one trolling here because it sure ain't me.
Are you sure you are not just another grifter following the hate mob or a Classic glazer because you sure sound like one.
@@RunstarHomer "Nobody likes the Warehog"
Warehog was the second best part of the hame besides the exploration, controls and the hub worlds. What are you talking about? Maybe if you didn't have the attention span of a Tik Tok kid you would understand how great the Warehog really is as a concept and execution-wise.
@@Bombastic_daioh Jesus almighty, it's possible to disagree without being a giant ass. It's just because i have the attention span of a tik tok kid that I dislike one of the least popular parts of a sonic game in the entire franchise? I guess the overwhelming majority of Sonic fans are tiktok kids too 🤷♂
Sonic was always good
First in Lost World they copied Mario Galaxy
Then in Frontiers they copied Breath of the Wild
And now they're copying Mario 3d World + Bowser's Fury
Sonic better than Shadow because sonic beat shadow in that cutscene
isn’t the city stage westopolis?
PEAK!
How do u change u skin for shadow?
The early access thing makes sense.
Streamers and content creators will all buy it to stay ahead
Anyway it's a sonic game. I'll get it when it's on sale for less than $10
peak
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$1.59??? I got it for free by subscribing to the newsletter
Please stop using that prompted word, it's like you lack vocabulary.