The Adventure Era is hands down my favorite era of Sonic! Particularly the voice acting. Ryan Drummond as Sonic, David Humphrey as Shadow, Lani Minella as Rouge, the late Deem Bristow as Dr. Eggman etc were huge highlights. To this day it’s my favorite Sonic voice cast.
Your Justin story was so sweet! My heart melted because that kind of friendship is one of the best moments a person can experience. Awesome video, dude!
The Adventure Era was the best period for the Sonic series. I loved hearing about your stories and experiences during the series' peak. 😀 Also, it was a total bummer that the Dreamcast was discontinued too soon, and I was going to get more games for it (Sonic Adventure was the only game I had for it), but aside from not knowing or hearing the news on the console at the time, my parents divorced and money issues prevented the expansion of my game library. Thankfully, the Gamecube versions of SA and SA2 came, and the latter game helped make up for missing out on the Dreamcast version of Sonic Adventure 2. Rough times, but that Sonic Adventure era brought me joy as a preteen. =)
The adventure era was peak 3D and 2d sonic in my opinion. The sonic adventure and sonic advance games are to me the essence of sonic’s key gameplay feedback loop, with scores, ranks, fun gameplay and especially the chao garden which encouraged even more replay ability than any other sonic game mechanic,
It was so cool hearing your experience being a Sonic Fans around the Adventure/Dreamcast era, kinda of reminds me of my experience but with the Dark & 2010's/Meta era
I got a Sega Dreamcast back on Christmas of 1999, it came with a demo disc and I got Sonic Adventure with it, but before that, I remember going into Toys "R" Us and I remember seeing an advert for Sonic Adventure and at first I hated how Modern Sonic looked because it looked intimating and I was use to Classic Sonic but as time went on and I pass that advert every time I went to Toys "R" Us, the Modern Sonic design grew on me and I beg My Mother to get me a Sega Dreamcast with Sonic and Christmas of 1999 came and I got the game, I got the Sonic Adventure figures from resaurus I got Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and a 11 inch Sonic figure and the toy Island Sonic, Tails, Big and Eggman and the bendible figure of Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Amy. Then 2001 came, I was at the bus stop and a Friend of mine told me that Sonic Adventure 2 is coming and I got exited and I picked up a Gamepro Magazine from a Local Grocery Store, I seen an evil Sonic and I thought Sonic was going to under go a evil transformation I.E. Dark Sonic until I got the game and realized that the Dark Sonic was named Shadow, oh the many broken copies I got of Sonic Adventure 2 and kept going back and forth to KB Toys and had to get 7 copies of Sonic Adventure 2 and the 7th copy of lucky and that it was working. 2002 Sega stopped making consoles and I was happy that Sonic was going to be on a Nintendo Platform (I was a die hard Nintendo fan then and still to this day) and I finally got Sonic Adventure 2: Battle, Sonic Advance 1 and Sonic Mega Collection and it was where I met my Best Friend because of his love for Sonic (aswell as Nintendo and Anime) and We talked about Sonic X, Sonic Adventure DX and Sonic Advance 2 and I remember He got Sonic Advance 2 as a gift for a religious event (which I won't give away here) that I was jealous which I did get Sonic Advance 2 as a end of school gift from My Mother and got Sonic Adventure DX as a 10th birthday gift, however I felt Sonic X and Sonic Heroes IMO was the beginning of the dark age of Sonic.
I was more of a classic sonic guy despite being born and was in an era where modern Rodger Craig smith was the voice actor (and still is) I just really liked playing the mobile ports of classic sonic which made me fall in love with stuff with that more cutesy black eyed sonic I thought he was the right balance between looking cool and also cute and I loved the classic sonic games including when I managed to port Sonic 3 A.I.R on my phone, beating doomsday zone was so hype for me And I absolutely love Sonic mania and often still replay it on my Xbox But I also loved the adventure era, I feel like if I think of the early 2000s as being edgy and it’s about being cool and doing cool shit, my mind thinks that’s sonics re design was perfect for that time and Ryan absolutely killed it with how sonic sounds in my head but Jason kind of stole the show after that It’s interesting being a 17 year old and being a fan of games that been made before I even existed
Sonic Adventure DX was one of my first exposures to Sonic (I unfortunately can’t remember if it was _the_ first, but I’m pretty sure it was). It was one of my favorite games to play on the GameCube as a child and I spent extensive periods of time on it. I remember owning a giant Tails plush and acting out Sonic Adventure gameplay with it. I don’t have much nostalgia for Sonic Adventure 2: Battle despite owning that game too, however I did play a fair bit of Sonic Heroes on PlayStation 2 as a child. I watched a bunch of Sonic X online. I got into it after it had already ended, so almost all of my memories consist of watching the episodes on UA-cam. My favorite episode is Episode 19: Sonic’s Scream Test. Of all the episodes in the series, that’s the one I watched the most (ENG and especially the JPN version), almost religiously in fact. I remember actually catching that episode on TV one morning and being _super_ excited (this was in 2010, I believe). I bought Sonic’s Scream Test on DVD last year after having it on my radar ever since childhood. The Dreamcast era is my favorite Sonic era, though I suppose that’s not an unpopular opinion. 😂
The "reinvention" of Sonic didn't really feel like one for me. It just seemed like "the next step in the saga" more than anything else. The only reason I even had a Genesis in the day was because my grandmother bought one on her Sears charge for me (along with a washer and dryer for my mother) on my birthday, fully planning to ignore her debt for the remainder of her life. I couldn't even imagine having a Saturn when it came out, though in that retrospective nobody in my neighbourhood had one except for this one guy nobody really bothered with. Strangely enough, the N64 was rare too. Most people around had a Playstation instead. By the time the gen of consoles after that came about, it wouldn't be until 2002 that I'd actually get my own Dreamcast with my own money for the first time in my life. There was a pawn shop that had one near my church miles away, they called me that Wednesday morning to say there was one available. My mother told me that we could pick up it at 7 when we'd go there for church service, but I didn't want to wait. I got dressed put on my backpack and comfortable shoes, and walked 2.3 miles along multiple highways without sidewalks, down and back up 250+ feet of incline to get to the pawn shop and give my hard earned money to the guy to grab the Dreamcast with a copy of Sonic Adventure and Sonic Shuffle. Then I walked that same distance and incline back home, for a round trip of about 2 hours and some change. I hooked it all up and sat down to the rather resounding intro and opening moments of Sonic Adventure, and was just...blown away. Having followed SatAM and the Archie comics at the time, it felt like this was finally the age in which Sonic's (potentially) expansive world was ready to pop out from the screen and bloom in ways that video games couldn't express in the past. At some point I was bought a PC (on that same Sears card, mind you) and played around with Windows 98, taking floppy discs to the library to download Genesis (Gens) and SNES (zSnes) emulators since buying games were well outside of my family's scope. It was there that I got to experience Final Fantasy 4 (which was 2 in america,) Final Fantasy 6 (a.k.a. 3,) and Super Metroid - plus Chaotix once I found some 32X bios to run it. These titles, coupled with the Archie comics, really allowed my mind to expand concepts of world building and grandeur, and upon seeing Sonic Adventure for the first time, the voice acting and intertwined campaigns all telling the same story but from ever-so-slightly different from their own perspectives, as well as running around the Adventure Fields was an experience like no other. I still remember the first load...turning the console on, watching the intro movie, listening to the riff at the title screen, pressing start, not having a memory card to have a file, but starting the Adventure and just seeing that character select ring with Sonic running slowly at the screen. Press the A button, clicking Instruction, and being absolutely lambasted by the ever-iconic sound of Sonic's theme (chorus) blaring at me. I also remember reading through it at the exact pace it took for a single loop to finish as I hit the button to start the game... Beyond that are a handful of moments: Sonic stopping to take a relaxing shower in the casino, getting lost in the Mystic Ruins for what felt like ages, rushing to save Amy from Zero, experiencing Sky Deck for the first time, and just all the little bits when characters would run into other characters on the Adventure Fields and get little quips of dialogue while on their own quests. Sonic Adventure 2 came a while later, as that was much harder to find being released at the end of the Dreamcast's life, but I eventually managed to get my hands on that after acquiring VMUs and memory storage, beating SA1 and being slightly sad at the lack of internet to get the DLC stuff that I had learned about. The experience wasn't quite the same, I found Rouge to look rather weird compared to...well, pretty much everything else in the series - including the Archie stuff. (I still think she should be fluffier.) I didn't 100% it like I did SA1 (because of the Chao garden emblems,) but it was still an experience to have, even if it felt drastically different from SA1 and the Genesis games. That was a big point I remember having: Sonic Adventure felt like "Sonic the Hedgehog 4, but now we're in 3D!" while SA2 seemed like an entirely different beast. The colored irises for all the characters and tiny additions like buckles on his shoes just felt like "more detail because we finally can" where the sprites were too small to have such tiny bits like that. When the Gamecube came out and I got SA2:B, I immediately noticed how different the game felt even though it had all the same graphics, and I basically had to relearn how to do all the crazy tricks and techniques that I had discovered playing the original. SADX was even worse, because at that point it felt like erasure. The entire game looked different, even though it felt the exact same unlike SA2:B. It wouldn't be until I finished it all and unlocked Mission Mode that I had a bit of a distraction from my disappointment, and being treated to the game gear games was phenomenal. I still remember when I saw Tails Adventure upon clearing the final mission, (you all know which one that is,) and did a double take. I had only seen one person with the Game Gear before on a random bus ride. Some kid had one, and he let me play Sonic 2 as we sat together. I couldn't figure out the first boss because weird physics. Beyond that, booting up Tails Adventure, it only drove home the aspect of worldbuilding seeing Tails in his time before Sonic came along going on a metroidvania-esq adventure. I played that through to completion as well, and it still lingers with me to this day. (Sonic Drift 1 and 2 were also memorable, but nowhere near as important.) Sonic Heroes was a mixed bag. The hype for that game was insane, and the bombastic intro really kicked things into overdrive, so much so that the paper-thin story beats were easily overlooked for the sake of style and presentation, and even overshadowed the confusion of Shadow not being...well, dead still. The constant chatter and character interactions kept every moment electric, fighting enemies that had health bars made bopping badniks more than just a speed bump and more of little encounters in a Fight for Freedom, even if the freedom fighters and knothole were entirely absent outside of Spinball. Robot Carnival and Robot Storm just felt like little pieces of battles from those comics. It all felt surreal, and when Shadow the Hedgehog came around, it didn't fell all that...ridiculous to me, even if I thought Shadow using guns was silly considering the powers he had. It's only in recent times that I look back, coupled with Iisuka commenting on why Shadow doesn't have guns in the upcoming Shadow Generations that I realize "Oh, he was using guns because of the whole amnesia thing. He didn't remember how to do all the cool stuff he did before." The ending of this video is...such a mood, really. Nothing I can comment on, as you pretty much nailed everything there.
I think Sonic Adventure 2: Battle was the game that made me into the Sonic fan I am today. I put so many hours into it and I was so invested in the levels, the characters, and the stories. I remember being hyped for Sonic Heroes back when that was being advertised in magazines. I did play the Genesis games and watched someone play Sonic Adventure, but SA2 was the one that got me hooked. It was one of the reasons I HAD to get a GameCube.
What was your first experience playing the Sonic Adventure games like?? Let me know!!
Adventure DX was my frist experience
Same here
Sonic Adventure was my first experience of Sonic in 3D. It was the greatest impression the franchise has ever left on me.
Dreamcast sonic is coming back
The Adventure Era is hands down my favorite era of Sonic! Particularly the voice acting. Ryan Drummond as Sonic, David Humphrey as Shadow, Lani Minella as Rouge, the late Deem Bristow as Dr. Eggman etc were huge highlights. To this day it’s my favorite Sonic voice cast.
Your Justin story was so sweet! My heart melted because that kind of friendship is one of the best moments a person can experience. Awesome video, dude!
The Adventure Era was the best period for the Sonic series. I loved hearing about your stories and experiences during the series' peak. 😀
Also, it was a total bummer that the Dreamcast was discontinued too soon, and I was going to get more games for it (Sonic Adventure was the only game I had for it), but aside from not knowing or hearing the news on the console at the time, my parents divorced and money issues prevented the expansion of my game library. Thankfully, the Gamecube versions of SA and SA2 came, and the latter game helped make up for missing out on the Dreamcast version of Sonic Adventure 2. Rough times, but that Sonic Adventure era brought me joy as a preteen. =)
The adventure era was peak 3D and 2d sonic in my opinion. The sonic adventure and sonic advance games are to me the essence of sonic’s key gameplay feedback loop, with scores, ranks, fun gameplay and especially the chao garden which encouraged even more replay ability than any other sonic game mechanic,
It was so cool hearing your experience being a Sonic Fans around the Adventure/Dreamcast era, kinda of reminds me of my experience but with the Dark & 2010's/Meta era
DUDE!!! Being a fan of Sonic during the Dreamcast era was crazy!!! I can’t believe it was already 10 years ago 😔
underrated second channel.
I got a Sega Dreamcast back on Christmas of 1999, it came with a demo disc and I got Sonic Adventure with it, but before that, I remember going into Toys "R" Us and I remember seeing an advert for Sonic Adventure and at first I hated how Modern Sonic looked because it looked intimating and I was use to Classic Sonic but as time went on and I pass that advert every time I went to Toys "R" Us, the Modern Sonic design grew on me and I beg My Mother to get me a Sega Dreamcast with Sonic and Christmas of 1999 came and I got the game, I got the Sonic Adventure figures from resaurus I got Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and a 11 inch Sonic figure and the toy Island Sonic, Tails, Big and Eggman and the bendible figure of Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Amy.
Then 2001 came, I was at the bus stop and a Friend of mine told me that Sonic Adventure 2 is coming and I got exited and I picked up a Gamepro Magazine from a Local Grocery Store, I seen an evil Sonic and I thought Sonic was going to under go a evil transformation I.E. Dark Sonic until I got the game and realized that the Dark Sonic was named Shadow, oh the many broken copies I got of Sonic Adventure 2 and kept going back and forth to KB Toys and had to get 7 copies of Sonic Adventure 2 and the 7th copy of lucky and that it was working.
2002 Sega stopped making consoles and I was happy that Sonic was going to be on a Nintendo Platform (I was a die hard Nintendo fan then and still to this day) and I finally got Sonic Adventure 2: Battle, Sonic Advance 1 and Sonic Mega Collection and it was where I met my Best Friend because of his love for Sonic (aswell as Nintendo and Anime) and We talked about Sonic X, Sonic Adventure DX and Sonic Advance 2 and I remember He got Sonic Advance 2 as a gift for a religious event (which I won't give away here) that I was jealous which I did get Sonic Advance 2 as a end of school gift from My Mother and got Sonic Adventure DX as a 10th birthday gift, however I felt Sonic X and Sonic Heroes IMO was the beginning of the dark age of Sonic.
I was more of a classic sonic guy despite being born and was in an era where modern Rodger Craig smith was the voice actor (and still is)
I just really liked playing the mobile ports of classic sonic which made me fall in love with stuff with that more cutesy black eyed sonic
I thought he was the right balance between looking cool and also cute and I loved the classic sonic games including when I managed to port Sonic 3 A.I.R on my phone, beating doomsday zone was so hype for me
And I absolutely love Sonic mania and often still replay it on my Xbox
But I also loved the adventure era, I feel like if I think of the early 2000s as being edgy and it’s about being cool and doing cool shit, my mind thinks that’s sonics re design was perfect for that time and Ryan absolutely killed it with how sonic sounds in my head but Jason kind of stole the show after that
It’s interesting being a 17 year old and being a fan of games that been made before I even existed
Sonic Adventure DX was one of my first exposures to Sonic (I unfortunately can’t remember if it was _the_ first, but I’m pretty sure it was). It was one of my favorite games to play on the GameCube as a child and I spent extensive periods of time on it. I remember owning a giant Tails plush and acting out Sonic Adventure gameplay with it. I don’t have much nostalgia for Sonic Adventure 2: Battle despite owning that game too, however I did play a fair bit of Sonic Heroes on PlayStation 2 as a child.
I watched a bunch of Sonic X online. I got into it after it had already ended, so almost all of my memories consist of watching the episodes on UA-cam. My favorite episode is Episode 19: Sonic’s Scream Test. Of all the episodes in the series, that’s the one I watched the most (ENG and especially the JPN version), almost religiously in fact. I remember actually catching that episode on TV one morning and being _super_ excited (this was in 2010, I believe). I bought Sonic’s Scream Test on DVD last year after having it on my radar ever since childhood.
The Dreamcast era is my favorite Sonic era, though I suppose that’s not an unpopular opinion. 😂
I was watching this video and it started to rain, what a weird coincidence
The "reinvention" of Sonic didn't really feel like one for me. It just seemed like "the next step in the saga" more than anything else. The only reason I even had a Genesis in the day was because my grandmother bought one on her Sears charge for me (along with a washer and dryer for my mother) on my birthday, fully planning to ignore her debt for the remainder of her life. I couldn't even imagine having a Saturn when it came out, though in that retrospective nobody in my neighbourhood had one except for this one guy nobody really bothered with. Strangely enough, the N64 was rare too. Most people around had a Playstation instead.
By the time the gen of consoles after that came about, it wouldn't be until 2002 that I'd actually get my own Dreamcast with my own money for the first time in my life. There was a pawn shop that had one near my church miles away, they called me that Wednesday morning to say there was one available. My mother told me that we could pick up it at 7 when we'd go there for church service, but I didn't want to wait. I got dressed put on my backpack and comfortable shoes, and walked 2.3 miles along multiple highways without sidewalks, down and back up 250+ feet of incline to get to the pawn shop and give my hard earned money to the guy to grab the Dreamcast with a copy of Sonic Adventure and Sonic Shuffle. Then I walked that same distance and incline back home, for a round trip of about 2 hours and some change.
I hooked it all up and sat down to the rather resounding intro and opening moments of Sonic Adventure, and was just...blown away. Having followed SatAM and the Archie comics at the time, it felt like this was finally the age in which Sonic's (potentially) expansive world was ready to pop out from the screen and bloom in ways that video games couldn't express in the past. At some point I was bought a PC (on that same Sears card, mind you) and played around with Windows 98, taking floppy discs to the library to download Genesis (Gens) and SNES (zSnes) emulators since buying games were well outside of my family's scope. It was there that I got to experience Final Fantasy 4 (which was 2 in america,) Final Fantasy 6 (a.k.a. 3,) and Super Metroid - plus Chaotix once I found some 32X bios to run it. These titles, coupled with the Archie comics, really allowed my mind to expand concepts of world building and grandeur, and upon seeing Sonic Adventure for the first time, the voice acting and intertwined campaigns all telling the same story but from ever-so-slightly different from their own perspectives, as well as running around the Adventure Fields was an experience like no other. I still remember the first load...turning the console on, watching the intro movie, listening to the riff at the title screen, pressing start, not having a memory card to have a file, but starting the Adventure and just seeing that character select ring with Sonic running slowly at the screen. Press the A button, clicking Instruction, and being absolutely lambasted by the ever-iconic sound of Sonic's theme (chorus) blaring at me. I also remember reading through it at the exact pace it took for a single loop to finish as I hit the button to start the game... Beyond that are a handful of moments: Sonic stopping to take a relaxing shower in the casino, getting lost in the Mystic Ruins for what felt like ages, rushing to save Amy from Zero, experiencing Sky Deck for the first time, and just all the little bits when characters would run into other characters on the Adventure Fields and get little quips of dialogue while on their own quests.
Sonic Adventure 2 came a while later, as that was much harder to find being released at the end of the Dreamcast's life, but I eventually managed to get my hands on that after acquiring VMUs and memory storage, beating SA1 and being slightly sad at the lack of internet to get the DLC stuff that I had learned about. The experience wasn't quite the same, I found Rouge to look rather weird compared to...well, pretty much everything else in the series - including the Archie stuff. (I still think she should be fluffier.) I didn't 100% it like I did SA1 (because of the Chao garden emblems,) but it was still an experience to have, even if it felt drastically different from SA1 and the Genesis games. That was a big point I remember having: Sonic Adventure felt like "Sonic the Hedgehog 4, but now we're in 3D!" while SA2 seemed like an entirely different beast. The colored irises for all the characters and tiny additions like buckles on his shoes just felt like "more detail because we finally can" where the sprites were too small to have such tiny bits like that.
When the Gamecube came out and I got SA2:B, I immediately noticed how different the game felt even though it had all the same graphics, and I basically had to relearn how to do all the crazy tricks and techniques that I had discovered playing the original. SADX was even worse, because at that point it felt like erasure. The entire game looked different, even though it felt the exact same unlike SA2:B. It wouldn't be until I finished it all and unlocked Mission Mode that I had a bit of a distraction from my disappointment, and being treated to the game gear games was phenomenal. I still remember when I saw Tails Adventure upon clearing the final mission, (you all know which one that is,) and did a double take. I had only seen one person with the Game Gear before on a random bus ride. Some kid had one, and he let me play Sonic 2 as we sat together. I couldn't figure out the first boss because weird physics. Beyond that, booting up Tails Adventure, it only drove home the aspect of worldbuilding seeing Tails in his time before Sonic came along going on a metroidvania-esq adventure. I played that through to completion as well, and it still lingers with me to this day. (Sonic Drift 1 and 2 were also memorable, but nowhere near as important.)
Sonic Heroes was a mixed bag. The hype for that game was insane, and the bombastic intro really kicked things into overdrive, so much so that the paper-thin story beats were easily overlooked for the sake of style and presentation, and even overshadowed the confusion of Shadow not being...well, dead still. The constant chatter and character interactions kept every moment electric, fighting enemies that had health bars made bopping badniks more than just a speed bump and more of little encounters in a Fight for Freedom, even if the freedom fighters and knothole were entirely absent outside of Spinball. Robot Carnival and Robot Storm just felt like little pieces of battles from those comics. It all felt surreal, and when Shadow the Hedgehog came around, it didn't fell all that...ridiculous to me, even if I thought Shadow using guns was silly considering the powers he had. It's only in recent times that I look back, coupled with Iisuka commenting on why Shadow doesn't have guns in the upcoming Shadow Generations that I realize "Oh, he was using guns because of the whole amnesia thing. He didn't remember how to do all the cool stuff he did before."
The ending of this video is...such a mood, really. Nothing I can comment on, as you pretty much nailed everything there.
I really appreciate you, Delrin. Thank you.
Great video!!
I think Sonic Adventure 2: Battle was the game that made me into the Sonic fan I am today. I put so many hours into it and I was so invested in the levels, the characters, and the stories. I remember being hyped for Sonic Heroes back when that was being advertised in magazines.
I did play the Genesis games and watched someone play Sonic Adventure, but SA2 was the one that got me hooked. It was one of the reasons I HAD to get a GameCube.
Nice to know someone's prospective from that era
Cool Video!
My first Sonic game was Sonic Advance on Java phones.
Im getting Deja Vu