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I say this a lot, but Don's video's are genuinely some of the most creative gaming content on UA-cam. Every single video is something new. Documentaries about pikmin, and entire animated story about kirby with a gun, and now some Mr. Rogers shit with your friend Shadow the Edgehog. It's like... WHAT??? This guy deserves more attention then he already gets. You can tell he really loves what he does.
Best part is that he doesn't shill for likes and subs because he knows his stuff is worth tuning into if you like the games or characters in them alone.
Helping Don work out which routes to take and find the one route where you don't kill Eggman was sick. Edit: Clarifying, since Don was clearly too distracted to recognise my point in the video. I wasn't saying "this level isn't so bad", my point was that his patience was worn down and destroyed by the rest of the game, so it was affecting him WAY worse than it should have. And the fact we didn't get to the misunderstanding until over 40 minutes into a 1h video massively reinforces that.
26:57 what’s REALLY funny about this is that you accidentally went through the path that’s closest to being the “canon” one, since helping out vector, espio, and charmy allows them to use the discs you helped charmy obtain and the computer vector found in order to transmit gerald’s last words to shadow and break him out of black doom’s control in the true last story if vector could deal damage to black doom this could hypothetically be canon, with shadow only having to fight in the last way and devil doom
It's one of the closer ones to being possible. A bunch of events are canon, especially given some scenes of Shadow remembering them in the Last Story, but it's not possible to have All of them occur in one playthrough. (EG: You cannot do Cryptic Castle Hero, which dialogue shows is canon, while Also going to Mad Matrix to teach Charmy how to hack cyberspace, which he does in Last Story.) Personally, I'm curious what the route would be if they just made the game linear, with every stage playing out in a way that fits canon where applicable. I'd love to see a mod of that concept.
While the route as a whole is pretty good for a canon route, I feel like the ending he got on the Black Comet is probably the closest to an ending that leads into the true Last Story than any other ending in the game, given it ends on the Black Comet, doesn't involve either Black Doom or Sonic being defeated, and overall has the most ambiguous conclusion for Shadow's characterization, allowing the Last Story to pick up from there without issue. If we just assume that Shadow hurt Eggman rather than outright killing him, it leads perfectly into the Last Story. Either way, the game could conceivably have Shadow be a pacifist the whole time!
Route 037 is actually the canon path. Evidence from dialogue in the Devil doom fight as well as expert mode shows Shadow MUST help Cream, have Eggman lie about Shadow's past, and Finally General Abraham tries to shoot Shadow. There's also evidence in game that events that happen in other missions still take place without Shadow's involvement. For Example Sky Toops requires Black Doom to activate his ruins in order for them to fly in this mission, but Shadow would have been inside the cyberspace with Rouge during the time the ruins were activated. This proves Doom's army accomplished their goal without Shadow's help, and that Knuckles canonically fails to destroy the Black Arms if he's solo against them. Using context clues, you can figure out what events in other stages actually still happen without Shadow being involved in said mission.
fun fact on the egg dealer, even if you don't attack him for the negatives, the bombs eggman lauches will still hurt him, yes, eggman will litterally beat himself for you, what a nice guy
@@lychenthrope it's not a timing thing at all... if you hit all 3 reels, you will get something. if you don't, it means eggman stopped at least one because you were too slow.
50:30 especially considering at this point in the timeline, Tails has canonically disarmed a nuclear bomb in Sonic Adventure 1, and Knuckles probably just learned what a bomb was yesterday. This video goes hard, I know it's not like, movie quality, but the special effects at the end looked pretty good, man!
Knuckles has canonically seen bombs of various types by this point and used at least one himself, but that doesn't mean he knows anything about them other than that they make stuff go boom, and he might not even know the word... so he still might have just learned what a bomb is yesterday :P
The fact that Maria has a fully animated punch with particle effects is wild. Kinda slightly changes the context of her death if she was actually throwing hands on the soldiers. 😂
Don. Donny. Donovan. I have to tell you something. I suffer from severe depression and insomnia, as well as have legit PTSD. Every day is a struggle for me, and weeks can be whole entire wars sometimes. Your videos have made me laugh the absolute hardest on all of YT all year. That "me when I walk into a new restaurant" joke freakin' sent me, and I'm only 3 minutes in. Tysm.
Alright lets me get this straight - Shadow, having seen the pain and suffering that violence brings after GUN raided the ARK, swore himself to resolve the Black Arms invasion without taking a single life, no matter how many times he had to go back - Sonic is just being a massive racsist dick to the Black Arms (which would also involve Shadow since he was created with Black Dooms DNA) - Knuckles, the GUARDIAN of the Master Emerald on ANGEL Island, promised to protect Shadow no matter which way Shadow had to achive his goal because he belives in Shadow to find the perfect pacifist way eventually, and politely asking that one GUN soldier to step away from the bomb so Shadow could defuse it (also he probably came in off screen to save Cream and Cheese in Cryptic Castle because hes that much of a GOAT) - Espio, being able to sense Shadows resolve through some weird ninja, may not know the full extend of Shadows reason, but knows that he has to protect him from Eggman - Charmy, seeing Shadow as someone to idolize, also wants to be as cool as him so he becomes a pacifist aswell - Vector tries to help Shadow with all his might to achive his goal, even if he strong enough to get him there - Amy, seeing her former crush turn out to be fucking bigot who just runs away from his problems while Shadow is a headstrong man facing his problems head on and sticks to his beliefs, decides to go with him because she can feel everything will just turn out fine that way (yea the Don somehow found a way to make the Shadamy ship happen in the game) - Omega is...yea okay hes beyond violent...but atleasts its non-discrematory violence...he doesnt hate you for what you are, he just hates you for what you did...and if you attack Shadow then hes gonna riddle you with holes no matter who or what you are - And Tails, being sick of Sonic Twitter hate rants, goes to help the actual hero achive his wish for peace...but we should probably take him off TikTok, seems like brainrot is already getting to him CAN WE PLEASE LET THE DON DIRECT A SHADOW THE HEDGEHOG MOVIE? THE MCU WISHES IT WAS THIS DEEP AND COMPLEX
Shadamy is already in the game, if you start the game dark but then help Amy at Cryptic Castle and, from that point forward, go pure hero, the name of the path is "Miracle Of Love"
For each of the paths you take in this game, you get a unique title on clearing it. For the True Pacifist route, it is called “Voyage of Reminiscence”. I’d say that is a fitting name for this video.
I can't even remember the last time I experienced 'the "random interesting sounding sidebar recommendation" to "subscriber" pipeline' but this video's done it
i find it interesting how the way the hero pacifist route dies, is right at the boss that has the ending where Shadow threatens to end his own life. He broke his morals to defeat a demon alien, and then ends his own life.
ill be honest, was not expecting a cinematic experience about a man fighting his inner demons telling him violence is the only way when clicking on this shadow pacifist run video. The don strikes again
I love your video editing style and philosophy (documentary style, edited and digestible, rewatchable, and big enough to binge). It's always a treat seeing you post something new.
These videos are so fun and silly, like I'm genuinely hyped with gun kirby, pikmin documentaries and all that stuff, like this is some genuine peak content
I'm hoping the UA-cam analytics blesses you with more visibility on this video cause this run was a joy to watch the vods for. Especially since Sonic X Shadow Generations released last week and that game is ZESTYYYYY
Bro, your editing and presentation is some of the best I've seen on UA-cam. Keep doing what you're doing, you're becoming one of my favorite UA-camrs on the platform.
The Dons back with more peak content (genuinely though, each video you post never drops in quality or charm, so props to you Don, glad to see more uploads from you, can't wait to see what else you have cooking up in the future)
I like how Part 1 of this video is about trying to complete the neutral path, Part 2 is about finding a hero path, Part 3 is about finding an evil path, and the final path ends up being neutral, neutral, hero, hero, evil, evil.
Don, my guy, my homie, even when you make content about games I couldn't give two douces about, you make entertaining editing and content that you truely put your soul into. You're the real youtuber we need.
getting kinda sick of ppl misinterpreting the candy from a baby line, he's saying that it's stupidly easy to get the chaos emerald and that he's perfectly fine with how easy it is, not that he's ok with stealing candy from a baby (although he might still be okay with that, jury's still out)! personally i think that makes it a lot funnier when the alarm instantly goes off the second he grabs the gem but to each their own
Fun Fact: Jason Griffith, the original voice actor, stated that the game was originally intended to contain Shadow droppin’ the f-bomb in every sentence (Or he recalls). He says that he had to do two takes for each line, because they didn’t know if the game was going get the M rating they intended for it. In the end, we never got that M rating, so we never got to hear those lines. He also said that there were *hours* of these voice lines. Imagine famous lines like “Damn, not here!” & “Where’s that damn FOURTH Chaos Emerald!” In that version of the game. The game would forever be immortalised further! _I _*_need_*_ those…_
It was super fun catching some of these streams. I hope this video gets the views it deserves because Don went through it at times. It was a wild ride, but this Shnack always cooks up a way
I’ve got two questions: 1. Do the robots really need to count for pacifist? You have no qualms about destruction in missions. With the exception of Omega I don’t think any of Eggman’s robots, G.U.N.’s robots, the artificial Chaos, or Shadow Androids would be counted as anything more than property damage that you’re already doing (Shadow Androids maybe because they could potentially be sentient). 2. Would the piloted mechs count either? Eggman’s and G.U.N.’s mechs are what you’re damaging. It’s like taking a baseball bat to someone’s car. You aren’t technically attacking someone so even if Eggman’s mech gets destroyed and he has to abandon it have you really attacked him?
Gotta keep it consistent. Can't make exceptions. That being said Eggman's robots do sometimes show some semblance of sentience beyond just their programming. Gamma and Omega are two such examples and some media show the Egg Pawns can be more than just... well... Pawns. So technically by destroying them, he'd still be taking a life. GUN robots though? You got me there. Though for the GUN mech boss fights, it is implied that they do end getting killed by Shadow, directly or indirectly.
This is by far the most effort I've seen put into a unassuming challange video like this, Im really glad I found your channel! It seems like you really take time and effort into making your videos the best they can be
I genuinely really love this games in concept, multiple paths determined by the players actions in gameplay explored through a character who both has the potential to be an great hero or terrible villain, I love that concept. The problem is that almost every single aspect of it in exucution is horribly flawed
Funnily enough, Omega is on his correct size, he's just a bit bigger than Shadow is, basically a Shadow and a half tall (considering Shadow is 100cm tall and Omega is 150cm tall). He isn't that big, and he is on his correct size in-game being just slightly bigger than Shadow, that's also his size on Heroes (both in-game and in the CGI cutscenes) and I'm pretty sure it's also his side anywhere else and he's just slightly bigger than Shadow anywhere he appears
@@DonShnack Omega is a short king 👑 I also think those Egg Pawns are weirdly huge for gameplay purposes, which makes him look smaller, in some games they're smaller, a bit taller than Sonic and Shadow
God damn, don shnack is someone I needed, I haven't had this kind of Nintendo content in a ling time, no wonder why I subscribed after just 1 vudeo ,I was like "yep, that's the guy I wanna watch"
Don, there is just something about your channel that can not only make me type this comment after writing a 5 paragraph essay, but also you are one of the only UA-camrs that I’ve ever heard of that can make me watch a video game that I’ve never cared for and still make me so happy. Thank you so much, you’re the don! -A loyal new viewer
These videos always have such high replay value because of how well put together they all are. It always feels like instead of watching a video, I'm watching a movie.
As a gay black creature, I feel oddly seen by this video and more connected with the ultimate lifeform. The video was great and hilarious. From the storytelling to the edits to the cool shirt and hat to the epic ending to the backing music selections and the pink fuzzy handcuffs. It checks all the boxes for greatness
Shadow The Hedgehog went on to pursue a career of peacekeeping negotiations as a worldwide ambassador of nonviolence. He is now retired with a teaching degree at Yale, teaching the next generation the path of peace.
I have no words. Got this reccomended and thoight id watch since shadow the hedgehog is my fav game. And. Wow. The. The fuckin. The editing style. The humor. I have little words,, im so sorry, but im subbing and watching the rest of your catalog. You absolutely HOOKED me.
37:03 okay so I’m wine drunk and this sent me down a rabbit hole: hedgehogs don’t actually have quills on their penis. It’s just skin like ours, but in a sheath and the head kinda looks like a calla lily. Also learned that the underbelly of a hedgehog is called “fleece” which is super cute and cozy sounding. Anyway idk if anyone else will find this interesting, great video btw
Whenever don attempts these challenges some evil entity personally goes out of there way to encourage don to fail and do the challenge wrong. Bro never gets a break from this shit 😢
More quality Dontent! Heck yeah! Thanks for making a crappy time of my life less crappy, and inspiring me to take a step potentially towards content creation myself. Seeing how you put so much effort into it all, gives me a quality of content to aspire to.
straight up another banger, fucking loved watching this series unfold live and its never not amazing to be able to pick out what specific moments were from what stream. The Don just dont ever miss.
Future Ideas: Can I beat Sonic 06 without Taking Damage Can I beat Mario and Luigi: Dream Team with only Luigi Can I beat a Pokémon Nuzlocke with only my Starter
How the hell do you keep upping the bar on your vids?! Legitimately you make some of, if not THE, best vids on youtube, and I've been around since the damn site launched. Absolutely stunning work. I've been looking forward to this since you've been talking about it on your streams, and it did NOT disappoint. Keep on rockin' with this stuff, Don man.
You're video's always make my day and they are really amazing like i love every videos espacially the pikmin video's i even sleep to them. keep up the good work
Putting on the video, falling asleep, and waking up 30 min later to Shadow putting the Don through a saw trap was one hell of an exerience, I'll tell you that
Regardless of quality this is one of my favorite games ever, and Cosmic Fall marked me forever cause it's so hard and so cool. The fact that you used music from my favorite game ever Transistor specifically for that level is fantastic.
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You are the reason why they changed in generations script, dark presence to evil prisons from the purple guy
Are you sure vector couldn't hit Black Doom, or were you just missing Doom's small hitbox, or hitting while the shield was up?
How many hours of gameplay did it take you to find and complete the pacifist route?
I say this a lot, but Don's video's are genuinely some of the most creative gaming content on UA-cam. Every single video is something new. Documentaries about pikmin, and entire animated story about kirby with a gun, and now some Mr. Rogers shit with your friend Shadow the Edgehog. It's like... WHAT??? This guy deserves more attention then he already gets. You can tell he really loves what he does.
Best part is that he doesn't shill for likes and subs because he knows his stuff is worth tuning into if you like the games or characters in them alone.
That's why he Is probably...wait, MY favorite youtuber
Truer words have never been spoken
Helping Don work out which routes to take and find the one route where you don't kill Eggman was sick.
Edit: Clarifying, since Don was clearly too distracted to recognise my point in the video. I wasn't saying "this level isn't so bad", my point was that his patience was worn down and destroyed by the rest of the game, so it was affecting him WAY worse than it should have. And the fact we didn't get to the misunderstanding until over 40 minutes into a 1h video massively reinforces that.
Yeah this is a good video
26:57 what’s REALLY funny about this is that you accidentally went through the path that’s closest to being the “canon” one, since helping out vector, espio, and charmy allows them to use the discs you helped charmy obtain and the computer vector found in order to transmit gerald’s last words to shadow and break him out of black doom’s control in the true last story
if vector could deal damage to black doom this could hypothetically be canon, with shadow only having to fight in the last way and devil doom
It's one of the closer ones to being possible.
A bunch of events are canon, especially given some scenes of Shadow remembering them in the Last Story, but it's not possible to have All of them occur in one playthrough.
(EG: You cannot do Cryptic Castle Hero, which dialogue shows is canon, while Also going to Mad Matrix to teach Charmy how to hack cyberspace, which he does in Last Story.)
Personally, I'm curious what the route would be if they just made the game linear, with every stage playing out in a way that fits canon where applicable.
I'd love to see a mod of that concept.
While the route as a whole is pretty good for a canon route, I feel like the ending he got on the Black Comet is probably the closest to an ending that leads into the true Last Story than any other ending in the game, given it ends on the Black Comet, doesn't involve either Black Doom or Sonic being defeated, and overall has the most ambiguous conclusion for Shadow's characterization, allowing the Last Story to pick up from there without issue. If we just assume that Shadow hurt Eggman rather than outright killing him, it leads perfectly into the Last Story. Either way, the game could conceivably have Shadow be a pacifist the whole time!
Nope, not the canon route. Shadow becomes suicidal.
I made a video about the most likely canon route (stealth shilling--my favorite!)
@@GamingTopTenAbout as stealthy as a teleprompter paired with a laugh track
Route 037 is actually the canon path. Evidence from dialogue in the Devil doom fight as well as expert mode shows Shadow MUST help Cream, have Eggman lie about Shadow's past, and Finally General Abraham tries to shoot Shadow. There's also evidence in game that events that happen in other missions still take place without Shadow's involvement. For Example Sky Toops requires Black Doom to activate his ruins in order for them to fly in this mission, but Shadow would have been inside the cyberspace with Rouge during the time the ruins were activated. This proves Doom's army accomplished their goal without Shadow's help, and that Knuckles canonically fails to destroy the Black Arms if he's solo against them. Using context clues, you can figure out what events in other stages actually still happen without Shadow being involved in said mission.
The true pacifist path is named "Voyage of Reminiscence" (#185). That's a surprisingly fitting title for the ordeal you went through
I still think it's so cool that each individual story path is named something, that's like over 300 routes named
- reach final boss of one of the time lines
- look at video watchtime
- 35 minutes left
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fun fact on the egg dealer, even if you don't attack him for the negatives, the bombs eggman lauches will still hurt him, yes, eggman will litterally beat himself for you, what a nice guy
Seriously? I had no idea that was a thing. Maybe I'll actually like that boss eventually. 😭i always had such bad timing.
*disgusting egg creatures*
*Get out of my sight*
@@lychenthrope it's not a timing thing at all... if you hit all 3 reels, you will get something. if you don't, it means eggman stopped at least one because you were too slow.
@@REDFIRYOSHI
So what you're saying is that timing is involved
@@PointsofData not timing, speed. you don't have to attack timing the reels right, just homing attack all 3 fast enough
17:20 Knuckles IS from a place called “Angel Island”
50:30 especially considering at this point in the timeline, Tails has canonically disarmed a nuclear bomb in Sonic Adventure 1, and Knuckles probably just learned what a bomb was yesterday.
This video goes hard, I know it's not like, movie quality, but the special effects at the end looked pretty good, man!
Knuckles has canonically seen bombs of various types by this point and used at least one himself, but that doesn't mean he knows anything about them other than that they make stuff go boom, and he might not even know the word... so he still might have just learned what a bomb is yesterday :P
The fact that Maria has a fully animated punch with particle effects is wild. Kinda slightly changes the context of her death if she was actually throwing hands on the soldiers. 😂
Damn-
Yikes
Well Maria did give her life for Shadow, so it would not shock me if she was fighing to keep him safe lol.
"You don't understand, that twelve year old cancer patient had hands."
-The GUN agent that killed Maria, probably.
42:36 fun fact: Omega’s height is in fact accurate, he’s 4’10”
BRO THERE IS NO WAY HELLO?!?!? I THOUGHT THIS GUY WAS LIKE 6'8?!?!? I THOUGHT HE WAS DUNKING IN THE NBA
My world has been changed forever...
@@DonShnackTo be fair all the Sonic Animal characters are around 3 feet except Vanilla, who's apparently the size of a human mother
i mean hes only really relatively big to the mobians, and we already know how small they are compared to humans... it only makes sense
@dr.elementalist yes, but to be fair she also looks more humanoid than other characters. if only we could see her take wing.
Knuckles-Empowered True Pacifist Shnack vs Shadow.EXE was one of the most well-animated one-sided match-ups in Executable File History.
Consider that file... Executed.
its the true pacifist, ralsei!
Don. Donny. Donovan. I have to tell you something. I suffer from severe depression and insomnia, as well as have legit PTSD. Every day is a struggle for me, and weeks can be whole entire wars sometimes.
Your videos have made me laugh the absolute hardest on all of YT all year. That "me when I walk into a new restaurant" joke freakin' sent me, and I'm only 3 minutes in. Tysm.
straight up a child
1:00:49 rip to whatever poor soul in mauritania that just got a shadow the hedgehog puppet launched through their skull at near light speed
Literally, as soon as he realized Vector couldn’t hurt Black Doom, I was like “Okay, but what about the dark mission for that level?”
Alright lets me get this straight
- Shadow, having seen the pain and suffering that violence brings after GUN raided the ARK, swore himself to resolve the Black Arms invasion without taking a single life, no matter how many times he had to go back
- Sonic is just being a massive racsist dick to the Black Arms (which would also involve Shadow since he was created with Black Dooms DNA)
- Knuckles, the GUARDIAN of the Master Emerald on ANGEL Island, promised to protect Shadow no matter which way Shadow had to achive his goal because he belives in Shadow to find the perfect pacifist way eventually, and politely asking that one GUN soldier to step away from the bomb so Shadow could defuse it (also he probably came in off screen to save Cream and Cheese in Cryptic Castle because hes that much of a GOAT)
- Espio, being able to sense Shadows resolve through some weird ninja, may not know the full extend of Shadows reason, but knows that he has to protect him from Eggman
- Charmy, seeing Shadow as someone to idolize, also wants to be as cool as him so he becomes a pacifist aswell
- Vector tries to help Shadow with all his might to achive his goal, even if he strong enough to get him there
- Amy, seeing her former crush turn out to be fucking bigot who just runs away from his problems while Shadow is a headstrong man facing his problems head on and sticks to his beliefs, decides to go with him because she can feel everything will just turn out fine that way (yea the Don somehow found a way to make the Shadamy ship happen in the game)
- Omega is...yea okay hes beyond violent...but atleasts its non-discrematory violence...he doesnt hate you for what you are, he just hates you for what you did...and if you attack Shadow then hes gonna riddle you with holes no matter who or what you are
- And Tails, being sick of Sonic Twitter hate rants, goes to help the actual hero achive his wish for peace...but we should probably take him off TikTok, seems like brainrot is already getting to him
CAN WE PLEASE LET THE DON DIRECT A SHADOW THE HEDGEHOG MOVIE? THE MCU WISHES IT WAS THIS DEEP AND COMPLEX
Eh, I'd personally want to change the amy and sonic stuff, but otherwise, I'm pretty happy with the characters
Shadamy is already in the game, if you start the game dark but then help Amy at Cryptic Castle and, from that point forward, go pure hero, the name of the path is "Miracle Of Love"
@@LiMe251 that is actually pretty funny, I just wish the game would make it easier to actually experience the games 326 possible paths
For each of the paths you take in this game, you get a unique title on clearing it. For the True Pacifist route, it is called “Voyage of Reminiscence”. I’d say that is a fitting name for this video.
Technically hurting Black Doom shouldn't count since he's literally The Devil from The Bible
Snapcube reference!!!
Don, it’s me. The devil. I’m here to convince you to do sin!
I can't even remember the last time I experienced 'the "random interesting sounding sidebar recommendation" to "subscriber" pipeline' but this video's done it
i find it interesting how the way the hero pacifist route dies, is right at the boss that has the ending where Shadow threatens to end his own life. He broke his morals to defeat a demon alien, and then ends his own life.
ill be honest, was not expecting a cinematic experience about a man fighting his inner demons telling him violence is the only way when clicking on this shadow pacifist run video. The don strikes again
As someone who 100%'d Shadow The Hedgehog when I was a kid, this video really brought me back! Loved the Shadow doll bits LOL
You beat all 326 paths?
@@LiMe251 I did LOL
@@Kappy0Amazing.
I love your video editing style and philosophy (documentary style, edited and digestible, rewatchable, and big enough to binge). It's always a treat seeing you post something new.
These videos are so fun and silly, like I'm genuinely hyped with gun kirby, pikmin documentaries and all that stuff, like this is some genuine peak content
I'm hoping the UA-cam analytics blesses you with more visibility on this video cause this run was a joy to watch the vods for. Especially since Sonic X Shadow Generations released last week and that game is ZESTYYYYY
Did I like accidentally jinx this video??? I'm so sorry, Don. 0^o;
1) This video was a peak Halloween special
2) I am so brainrotted I started singing Find Your Flame when it came on.
The words pacifist and shadow the hedgehog don’t mix but Don somehow does it
I love the shadow puppet bit
Kermit the Hedgehog
*sees him chained up*
"Why is he Slay the Princess all of a sudden?"
*Chapter III*
"I WAS KIDDING!"
Of all places to see someone make a Slay The Princess comment it was NOT this video
@kackers I had just gotten the Pristine Cut, so it was on my mind at the time ^^'
@@KinamOfMyth Well it's a good-ass game and you must've enjoyed it, always good to run into other fans out in the wild
Finally. After watching all the vods, I have acquired the DonShnack emeralds
Bro, your editing and presentation is some of the best I've seen on UA-cam. Keep doing what you're doing, you're becoming one of my favorite UA-camrs on the platform.
19:42 Ay, don't be shittin on green apples that shit goes hard.
With caramel.
the production quality on your videos has always been insane, but this one brings it to a whole new level. the entire ending sequence had me in awe
The Dons back with more peak content (genuinely though, each video you post never drops in quality or charm, so props to you Don, glad to see more uploads from you, can't wait to see what else you have cooking up in the future)
Okay but 14:08 Don sounds so much like Albert. That was such a good eggman impression haha
Ah Shadow the Hedgehog, what an absolutely fascinating game in so many aspects. I can't wait to see the Don make it even more fascinating.
6:25 wasn't expecting to hear Mechonis Field. I wonder what Eggman would think of it and Mechon. Then just slaps his face and mustache on them.
You have some of the most entertaining content in the challenge video department. Honestly well done!
Paths taken:
Tainted Pacifist (Part 3): 102 Arriving at the Ego
True Pacifist (Part 4): 185 Voyage of Reminiscence
Now you don’t have to fight sans
I like how Part 1 of this video is about trying to complete the neutral path, Part 2 is about finding a hero path, Part 3 is about finding an evil path, and the final path ends up being neutral, neutral, hero, hero, evil, evil.
Your editing is so amazing, you deserve so many subs
14:49 The joke is "black people evolved to outrun bullets" or something like that. I remember this from a Baguette Ace Attorney video.
So that's why they miss so much when they get into shootouts!
36:13 Are we not gonna talk about Maria just moon jumped here?
LOL. I’ve never noticed that. That’s so funny
Don, my guy, my homie, even when you make content about games I couldn't give two douces about, you make entertaining editing and content that you truely put your soul into. You're the real youtuber we need.
Shadow the Hedgehog? Move over its time for Don the Shnack
Time for me to Shnack on the Don 😈😈😈😈😈
getting kinda sick of ppl misinterpreting the candy from a baby line, he's saying that it's stupidly easy to get the chaos emerald and that he's perfectly fine with how easy it is, not that he's ok with stealing candy from a baby (although he might still be okay with that, jury's still out)! personally i think that makes it a lot funnier when the alarm instantly goes off the second he grabs the gem but to each their own
13:20 you weren’t kidding when you said you were going to make this about puppets!
Where’s that DAMN 4th Chaos Emerald
33:54 I then realized here you were playing Kirby music in the background and I SWEAR I FROZE- AND THEN SNORTED 😭
Your experience of the Ark stages was basically that Snapcube dub, and the second one was, "I'm back in the fucking building again?!"
Only real fans know this took dozens of hours.
Oh I know. I watched the vods, he was indeed tweaking
I know it by heart
I was there live and can confirm that it took a WHILE.
Damn, not here
“Where’s that DAM fourth chaos emerald!”
"You're going straight to HELL!"
"This is like taking candy from a baby, which is fine by me!"
Fun Fact: Jason Griffith, the original voice actor, stated that the game was originally intended to contain Shadow droppin’ the f-bomb in every sentence (Or he recalls). He says that he had to do two takes for each line, because they didn’t know if the game was going get the M rating they intended for it. In the end, we never got that M rating, so we never got to hear those lines. He also said that there were *hours* of these voice lines.
Imagine famous lines like “Damn, not here!” & “Where’s that damn FOURTH Chaos Emerald!” In that version of the game. The game would forever be immortalised further!
_I _*_need_*_ those…_
“Disgusting black creatures.”
It was super fun catching some of these streams. I hope this video gets the views it deserves because Don went through it at times. It was a wild ride, but this Shnack always cooks up a way
31:55 missed a good joke opportunity for the alarm clock and bomb to be Vektors redstone alarm clock and some tnt
I’ve got two questions:
1. Do the robots really need to count for pacifist? You have no qualms about destruction in missions. With the exception of Omega I don’t think any of Eggman’s robots, G.U.N.’s robots, the artificial Chaos, or Shadow Androids would be counted as anything more than property damage that you’re already doing (Shadow Androids maybe because they could potentially be sentient).
2. Would the piloted mechs count either? Eggman’s and G.U.N.’s mechs are what you’re damaging. It’s like taking a baseball bat to someone’s car. You aren’t technically attacking someone so even if Eggman’s mech gets destroyed and he has to abandon it have you really attacked him?
Gotta keep it consistent. Can't make exceptions.
That being said Eggman's robots do sometimes show some semblance of sentience beyond just their programming. Gamma and Omega are two such examples and some media show the Egg Pawns can be more than just... well... Pawns. So technically by destroying them, he'd still be taking a life.
GUN robots though? You got me there. Though for the GUN mech boss fights, it is implied that they do end getting killed by Shadow, directly or indirectly.
This is by far the most effort I've seen put into a unassuming challange video like this, Im really glad I found your channel! It seems like you really take time and effort into making your videos the best they can be
"shadow the hedgehog? no, I'm shadow the story of undertale"
I genuinely really love this games in concept, multiple paths determined by the players actions in gameplay explored through a character who both has the potential to be an great hero or terrible villain, I love that concept. The problem is that almost every single aspect of it in exucution is horribly flawed
Funnily enough, Omega is on his correct size, he's just a bit bigger than Shadow is, basically a Shadow and a half tall (considering Shadow is 100cm tall and Omega is 150cm tall).
He isn't that big, and he is on his correct size in-game being just slightly bigger than Shadow, that's also his size on Heroes (both in-game and in the CGI cutscenes) and I'm pretty sure it's also his side anywhere else and he's just slightly bigger than Shadow anywhere he appears
dog I found out after I uploaded this he's only 4'11... I have never been more disappointed in my life I thought he'd be dunkin on people
@@DonShnack Omega is a short king 👑
I also think those Egg Pawns are weirdly huge for gameplay purposes, which makes him look smaller, in some games they're smaller, a bit taller than Sonic and Shadow
Makes sense Vector didn't know it was a 4090 and not a 490
I mean, there's ACTUALLY 326 pathways, but let's just say there's now 327 considering your new pacifism route lol
God damn, don shnack is someone I needed, I haven't had this kind of Nintendo content in a ling time, no wonder why I subscribed after just 1 vudeo ,I was like "yep, that's the guy I wanna watch"
The Don's docuseries always hits different idk what it is, but every time a new vid like this is posted it's such a treat
this might be the only video on the planet that actually made me want to play shadow the hedgehog for the playstation 2
This was a really fun vid, glad to see you've got lots of creative juices flowing :)
1:47 this moment, hits so hard for Cobanermani456 fans…
Omg I was looking for a comment talking about this and I found it! Thats exactly what I was thinking
@ welcome to the nostalgia corner, kid
Don, there is just something about your channel that can not only make me type this comment after writing a 5 paragraph essay, but also you are one of the only UA-camrs that I’ve ever heard of that can make me watch a video game that I’ve never cared for and still make me so happy.
Thank you so much, you’re the don!
-A loyal new viewer
I’m surprised how much quality comes out of these videos! Great job!
It's what Maria would've wanted.
I wasn't expecting to click on a random shadow video and find it to be this awesome. I love the editing, great job completing the challenge
59:12 “Just play the game like a normal goddamn person.”
~Shadow the Hedgehog 2024
Awesome video hard to make an edited continuity of what seems like weeks of work
These videos always have such high replay value because of how well put together they all are. It always feels like instead of watching a video, I'm watching a movie.
Knuckles proved he is Shadow’s best friend in the run.
Omega? Rouge? Maria? Nah
This vid made me laugh so many times. So glad I found this channel! Presuming you see this, keep up the good work!
As a gay black creature, I feel oddly seen by this video and more connected with the ultimate lifeform.
The video was great and hilarious. From the storytelling to the edits to the cool shirt and hat to the epic ending to the backing music selections and the pink fuzzy handcuffs. It checks all the boxes for greatness
59:42 dude braking the handcuffs is insane, a criminal could have been put away with those.
55:07 Canon accurate Shadow’s mindset in a nutshell
53:32 Tails's attack stuns Don so freaking much he forgets that he is suppose to have one hand cuffed to the table. XD
Peak content Im so glad Vernias sent us to your stream a while ago.
Shadow The Hedgehog went on to pursue a career of peacekeeping negotiations as a worldwide ambassador of nonviolence. He is now retired with a teaching degree at Yale, teaching the next generation the path of peace.
1:48 your a legend for putting on the palace that was found
I have no words. Got this reccomended and thoight id watch since shadow the hedgehog is my fav game. And.
Wow. The. The fuckin. The editing style. The humor. I have little words,, im so sorry, but im subbing and watching the rest of your catalog. You absolutely HOOKED me.
37:03 okay so I’m wine drunk and this sent me down a rabbit hole: hedgehogs don’t actually have quills on their penis. It’s just skin like ours, but in a sheath and the head kinda looks like a calla lily. Also learned that the underbelly of a hedgehog is called “fleece” which is super cute and cozy sounding. Anyway idk if anyone else will find this interesting, great video btw
16:52 caught me off guard because it sounded so accurate.
The Don casually bringing my enjoyment of UA-cam back to life
Whenever don attempts these challenges some evil entity personally goes out of there way to encourage don to fail and do the challenge wrong. Bro never gets a break from this shit 😢
More quality Dontent! Heck yeah!
Thanks for making a crappy
time of my life less crappy, and inspiring me to take a step potentially towards content creation myself. Seeing how you put so much effort into it all, gives me a quality of content to aspire to.
straight up another banger, fucking loved watching this series unfold live and its never not amazing to be able to pick out what specific moments were from what stream. The Don just dont ever miss.
Future Ideas: Can I beat Sonic 06 without Taking Damage
Can I beat Mario and Luigi: Dream Team with only Luigi
Can I beat a Pokémon Nuzlocke with only my Starter
Can I beat Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam without Mario or Luigi
holy shit
6:25 Shadow just sitting there mouth agape actually scared the shit out of me
Finally, the cannon run of Sonic the Hedgehog.
How the hell do you keep upping the bar on your vids?! Legitimately you make some of, if not THE, best vids on youtube, and I've been around since the damn site launched. Absolutely stunning work. I've been looking forward to this since you've been talking about it on your streams, and it did NOT disappoint. Keep on rockin' with this stuff, Don man.
Your stuff is always so fun to watch; always look forward to a full Don vid
Don does it again - incredible and wildly creative video per usual! Hardest I've laughed from a UA-cam video in forever
You're video's always make my day and they are really amazing like i love every videos espacially the pikmin video's i even sleep to them. keep up the good work
You are going to explode in popularity very very soon. Great video man
27:50 So, were those cuffs bought for the bit, or...?
Putting on the video, falling asleep, and waking up 30 min later to Shadow putting the Don through a saw trap was one hell of an exerience, I'll tell you that
Regardless of quality this is one of my favorite games ever, and Cosmic Fall marked me forever cause it's so hard and so cool.
The fact that you used music from my favorite game ever Transistor specifically for that level is fantastic.