The Impact of Sonic in the Dreamcast & Adventure Eras -- A Retrospective
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- The Dreamcast/Adventure era for Sonic is special to me and I would like to share why. Here's my story!
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Hey, Mugi! The reason why SADX: Director’s Cut is called that is because the OG director of SA1 was, possibly, accidentally cut from the credits of the game
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I first got into the Archie Comics around when sonic generations was coming out and reading the genesis arc was very entertaining and confusing at the same time. Thankfully I was able to catch up and I enjoyed the weird weirdly charming world of Archie sonic. Plus looking at Spaz’s art inspired me to draw
While I never bought or owned any copy of archie sonic, I always read up on it online back in the late 2000's. Needless to say I got really attached to all the new characters created for it and got really pissed when they all got erased with the genesis wave.
@@MalevolentStudios same. Also how did you read it online? I forst saw it posted on youtube ironically found 178 by searching Sonic vs Tails here on youtube
Even though they cancelled the Archie Comics without warning, should I still give the series a read?
@@SuperWorldJumper Yes. Keep in mind, not everything it did was good per say, but I still enjoyed them nonetheless.
@@ADJackD Also same. Though mine was more around 172 with Fiona turning turncoat.
this is such a chill and nostalgic video. please make more like this. and more retrospectives and your memories on the other eras
God... This era of Sonic was one that nearly passed me by. Given that I missed out on the Saturn entirely, I didn't even get my Dreamcast and Adventure/Shuffle until well into 2004 or 2005, from essentially a pawn shop. Long after the console was effectively discontinued. T'was also a pretty isolated time in my life, so I don't really have many tales to tell of it, other than lingering thoughts of..."not-allowed-on-youtube" that Adventure actually helped distract me from.
I suppose what sums it all up the best is the fact that I thought the Team Blast Glitch was a *positive* aspect of Heroes. That, and noticing the drastic physics differences in SA2 and SA2B that still bother me to this day.
It was nice hearing you talk about your memories of and around this game. Glad you could make some good memories around one of my favorite Sonic eras.
This community makes me proud to be a Sonic fan.
This is one of those wild, self-reflection, memory lane types of videos. I mean that in a good way, of course. I grew up with similar Sonic experiences in the late '90s and early '00s, including it taking a backseat to Pokemon for a while. Seeing Billy Hatcher and that Mario Kart demo disk brings back fond memories of my little bro, who bugged our dad to get him those so we could play them together. Thanks for the memories and the video, dude.
Frontiers has undoubtedly regained the atmosphere of this era
I think that the meaning of separating classic and modern has finally been demonstrated.
He's no longer the annoying machine gun talker he once hated, and he's regained all of his coolness as Sonic the Hedgehog.
I'm just glad they're bringing back the openness of levels again. As much as I like unleashed and generations, the games after felt more like an automatic line you can only go straight on.
@@MalevolentStudios The Adventure series was actually more linear than the boost games. People just seem to only remember them for their longer stretched sections.
@@windy3935 They probably mean that you can approach levels in your own way to an extent. Aswell as Sonic's unchained controls. The boost games feel alot more linear by comparison.
@@TheunknownuserM07 Boost games tend to have more branching paths and actual varying layers similar to the classic games, while Advs kept you on one narrow path mainly and with no consistent varying layers. (Even Heroes Seaside Hill was on a completely different level from Advs.) Adventure just mainly has more 3D space control. Werehog gameplay is also onpar with Advs, with more varied gameplay (combat, puzzles, platforming, more than triple the moves Adv had, etc). Like, compare Speed Highway Adv to Gen's.
One 3D series that actually exceeds Advs linearity is the storybook games.
Even Forces had its moment's in terms of pure level layout. Not length
@@windy3935 I'm not talking about branching paths. I'm talking about how you approach levels in your own way. Or complete it in your own way.
Boost has more options (branching paths). But adventure is a playground when it comes to level design. Just watch any of zoom mike's videos on Sonic, and you can see how many approaches you can take with the adventure games and it's level design. Point is. Adventure may have the more linear game design, but due to Sonic's moveset and unchained controls, that linear path can be approached in numerous of ways.
Also. Sure the boost games has branching paths similar to the classics. What it doesn't have is it's philosophy of momentum. Which the adventure games translates successfully. Hell, I think its even better in 3d, because you can see right in front of you beforehand, and it doesn't have the "Surprise motherfucker" syndrome, that the classic games have.
Also, your forgetting the fact that, boost games tend to have alot more 2d sections. Which makes it much more easier to integrate the "Branching paths" design. Adventure never had that "luxury".
Also. Why compare the adventure games to the werehog? Those are entirely different. The werehog focuses more on, slow puzzles, combat, and methodical platforming. Adventure focuses more on momentum, and how you as a player can utilize that momentum. You simply cannot compare the adventure movements, to the werehog movements, because both are utilized completely different.
Forces had shallow level design, I dunno how some moments of it overshadow adventure's level design.
Simply put. Adventure does things that boost can't. Boost does things that adventure can't. Adventure has the philosophy. Boost has the level design. Both translated elements of the 2d formula spectacularly, despite the two being so different. Both took the elements of what it had adapted from the classic formula, and brought it into uncharted territory. Both gameplay styles are valid. And I think, as fans, we should appreciate the two different styles for what it offers, and it's strengths.
great video. hearing that you made a friend who had a huge interest in Sonic after being bullied about liking the series, and hearing that you guys are still friends to this day is incredibly heartwarming. I was born at the tail end of the Adventure era, 2004. but despite that, a few years later I did get to play some of the catalog from that era. my first Sonic game was Heroes and I LOVED IT. Ocean Palace never fails to make me incredibly nostalgic. Ryan was the voice I knew for Sonic, so it was a bit odd but cool jumping over to games like Unleashed (that just came out at the time) and hearing a new voice. I basically went from Heroes, to Unleashed, to 06, and the classics. but during that time I did get to play SA1 and I loved that game too. it wasn't until a bit after that I played SA2 after seeing it downloaded on my friend's PlayStation. I grew up in the Dark Age era mostly but it was cool to experience even just a sliver of the Adventure era.
This era was wild, my cousins, my friends on the street and my friends on school, we all loved Sonic, We all talked about how epic the stories were, how Sonic, Knuckles and Shadow were so cool and we kept on rocking with the OSTs, bringing memory cards to fight each other's Chao or just some good old races or shooting duel
The Adventure and Advance games alongside the collections will always remain as my fondest memories with Sonic, there was a time where you wouldn't think twice if somebody said that this guy was the 2nd pillar of gaming rivaling Mario
I really enjoyed hearing your experience through this era. I smiled fondly at your stories of playing the games with friends and getting up early to watch Sonic X. All of this just reminds me of the joy of being a kid.
I was huge into Sonic during the Genesis era, even had a game gear too. But on a particular Easter I got an N64 and didn't touch another Sonic game until like 2011/2012 when I caught up with the series. So I missed out on this era unfortunately.
Was expecting from this video a retrospective on the Dreamcast era's impact on the game series as a whole but ended up getting a life retrospective instead. Was really cool to hear your experiences, hope you make more on the other eras.
I was introduced to Sonic through the GameCube era. Adventure DX, Mega Collection, Adventure 2 Battle, and Heroes. Such great times! Luckily I had a close friend who also liked Sonic and he was able to introduce me to the original Sonic Movie, Sonic X, Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, and more. Finding merchandise was incredibly hard to do around that time, especially here in Canada. But it made it all the more rewarding when I came across the Toy Island Sonic X figures.
I loved film making as well so in the early days of UA-cam I made a lot of videos under the names sonicfanguy and toxicnightmarex. It was great to be a part of the Sonic community on UA-cam back then and I’m proud to still be a part of it in a small way.
I enjoyed this retrospective as my childhood self played Sonic Adventure religiously and it filled most of my free time when I'm not doing schoolwork. In terms of SA 2, i didn't really get the chance to own the game, but i eventually played it at my friends house. Fast forward to modern times, i own a Steam copy of the game and raised my Chao to become cute and powerful!~
Looks good already!
AW YEAH! THIS IS HAPPENIN!!
This video made me almost tear up twice.
I can't believe someone had such a good experience with getting into Sonic.
I didn't get my first console, the Gamecube, until 2006 at age 7, so I was too young to experience that. I got SA2B and Heroes in a pack together and those became instant favorites. My sister brought Sonic Mega Collection from a Book Fair one day. Being a Sonic fan during the Gamecube days was perfect because you had everything that released up to that point. I watched Sonic X religiously too. Even though it doesn't hold up too well, I can never bring myself to hate it.
This video just feels so nostalgic I grew up the same way in the adventure era! Do another video like this!
That’s so cool that you & Justin stayed best buddies all this time! I remember watching your videos around the lateish 2000s. That’s when I first discovered your channel & your Sonic x re dubs.
That Justin story part was really sweet, reminds me of the times I spent with my cousins,
i wasn't even thought of during the adventure era, but since my family wasn't really the richest we usually had a bunch of older generation consoles as hand me downs, and mine was a gamecube with sonic mega collection and sonic riders. i remember having so much fun playing the classic games while also going through the gallery to look through the artwork. i took one look at the adventure design and knew it was the coolest thing i ever had seen. despite him not looking the same as in game or on the manuals, i still got the sense it was sonic.
These retrospective videos are so nice.
For my experience, I actually discovered the series when it'd be considered the end of the Adventure Era. The first Sonic game I ever played was Sonic Heroes on my younger cousin's PlayStation 2. Think I was about 5 or 6 then. Fell in love with the character designs(they made me think of the Looney Tunes, which I loved, just cooler), the visual style, the music, and since then, I was hooked. Any time my dad let me use his laptop, all I looked up was Sonic. That's how I discovered so many flash games(Ultimate Flash Sonic being the stand out), flash animations(VGDC's Mario VS Sonic was one of the earliest I saw), and a bunch more. Was how I discovered stuff like Newgrounds and all those DBZ inspired sprite animations, even without knowing what a DBZ was back then. Shadow the Hedgehog did end up flying under my radar, but not the collections! I got Sonic Gems Collection sometime around 2006, I think? And another one of my cousins eventually got Mega Collection Plus on his PS2. So I was set for Classic Sonic action, and I played Gems Collection *religiously*. Even skipped homework to play it, aaaaand I was eventually scolded for it. Beyond that, most of my experience is with the Dark Age, but I did pester so many in my family to get me Sonic Adventure DX on PC because it was a Sonic Game on PC AND because of the mods I was seeing. That stuff is common place now, but back then, it was magic to me. And you wouldn't believe the amount of emulators, ROM hacks and Fan Games I had on the same laptop my dad used that he eventually gifted to me when he upgraded to a new one. I had it all, Megamix, Retro Sonic, Sonic 2 Megamix, official Sonic games like all of the GBA games(minus Pinball Party), it was crazy.
So many fond memories of those times.
"Ice and water; stake and cow"
That reference genuinely made me smile-
I literally was born when Adventure 1 came out in the US, so the Sonic I grew up with was always the "green-eyes" Modern Sonic. It was only until I played Mega Collection that I learned about how he originally looked like. However, the 2000s era will always have a special place in my heart, despite all the crap that came out during that time.
this video was really enjoyable i’d love to see a dark era one covering everything from shadow the hedgehog to black knight
it's crazy to see this cause I was born in 2006 and experienced all the games you did on my PS3, alongside the early Boost era games. what a world
Funny that you mentioned White Jungle always reminds you of McDonald’s, as a kid I had a PS2 and I didn’t own a copy of Sonic Heroes even though I loved that game. I only ever played it on a GameCube setup they had at my local McDonald’s! So to this day both the GameCube controller and Sonic Heroes are linked in my mind to that damn restaurant.
Also thought I’d add that even though I was born in 2001, I grew up with the classic games first thanks to Mega Collection Plus! I will always be extremely thankful to have experienced this series when I did and how I did.
Please make a part 2!! I loved this video and want to hear the rest of the story!
I feel so bad because you have done this video a year ago and I am now just seeing it Ty so much for featuring my video of my unboxing 10:23 and also be credited as well I love watching your story and adventure of how you got into Sonic the hedgehog I love every minute of it and hopefully I can meet yah in person if you decide to go to the sonic expo this year 🎉
Aw, it's cool! Don't feel bad, really. I appreciate you checking the video out. 😁 I'd love to meet you too, but I don't think I'll be at Sonic Expo BUT I'll be at Sonic Revolution in late June!
Awe men that would be awesome if I can go to the the sonic revolution , ty so much hopefully we can meet someday ❤
Yup, you're definitely right about Pokemon being as huge as it was and that SA was a revival of the Genesis Glory days all those Adolescent Sega fans/kids were hoping for.
Great video man
Oh man this was so cool, watching it unlocked so many memories I forgot about.
I grew up watching Sonic X on 4Kids when it was on the CW, and while I did play a bit of the games, like I specifically remember the aircraft carrier deck race in SA2B and playing the Sonoc 06 demo at Target, I didn't actually PLAY any of them until Dimps' Unleashed, which my parents got our family with our Wii, my first console. I enjoyed Apotos but couldn't really get past the first boss because dumb kid brain.
Then I played Sonic Colors and was forever lost to my love for this autistic blue rat. Your story about Justin reminded me how I met my own best friend for my middle school years, Brandon. I loved Colors so much I would bring the manual to school and incessantly ask all the kids in my class if they played it, and this Brandon kid I hardly knew said his cousin had the DS version and he played it, and for the next like 3 years we were best buds. I remember I learned about Shadow the Hedgehog and I was so bewildered telling him about it, and even more shocked learning he had bought it between the time I told him about the game earlier that week, and that weekend when I went over to spend the night. And we played the SHIT out of Shadow and Secret Rings, I actually still have an affinity for StH as an adult and am very slowly working to fill out the library with all 326 playthroughs. And since I grew up with the Dark Era's tone, look, and stories, and really got into the series with the Meta Era for the gameplay and music, I am absolutely hyped as fuck for Frontiers. Even if it turns out not great, I know I'll still love it, like how I love Shadow and how I've even warmed up to Forces considerably.
It's so cool hearing other people's Sonic stories, I have such an encyclopedic knowledge of the series that it's cool hearing about new experiences relating to it. I'd love to see you do videos on the Dark and Meta Eras, I know you couldn't really do one for the Classic Era since you were, by self-declaration, a pants shitting toddler.
Ive been watching you for years and its SO cool and fun to hear your own personal experiences with the sonic franchise!
It is a shame you missed the boat on the Saturn. It may not have been the best system for Sonic, but Nights into Dreams and Burning Rangers are must plays for fans of Sonic.
I ended up getting a Saturn, NiGHTS, and Sonic R (Saturn version) for dirt cheap in late 2004 so it all worked out!
@@MugiMikey Awesome. Did you ever play Burning Rangers?
I actually owned a Saturn back in the 90s. Played the kiosk for Nights and Crash Bandicoot and made the choice of buying a Saturn.
Saturn was royally screwed over with its release outside of Japan. There were plenty of great games for Saturn even if we did get cheated out of them. Japanese Fighting Vipers was great although got gutted in translation, Magic Knight Rayearth was solid, & both Burning Rangers & NiGHTS were masterpieces.
This Is My Favorite Sonic Video On The Platform, As It Documents My Favorite Sonic Era Along With Your Experiences With The Era.
While watching this video it felt like a reflection of my own experiences with this era. Had me smiling and feeling nostalgic and sad. Great video man!
thank you for sharing your personal experiences with the series! i love this trip back in time with you
Nice video, it's always cool hearing how people grew up in generations I didn't get to experience. My first Sonic game I can remember was Sonic Colors, and I remember barely even playing the game and just watching the intro, listening to Reach for the Stars countless times.
Dude, hearing your nostalgic memories about Sonic, makes me really wish that I grew up with you and your peers. I was born in '94, and pretty much had very similar expierences to Sonic as you did, Mikey. This video is legit inspiring me to make something similar, lol, but all the memories of loving Sonic during my upbringing are flooding back now.
This is so awesome!
It was nice to know that you had lots of friends throughout the years
Your friendship with Justin was really nice to hear!
Remember when people were pissed about Sonic's eye Color? Those were the days man.
Also we need the Chao Guarden back.
I love how much this game impact most of us,but yeah this video was so great
As a person who is going through your early 00's experience of Sonic right now. I find it awesome looking at all the similarities and differences. I think people barely talk about Sonic anymore because he lost his console front which is why Playstation and Xbox are so synonymous with people my age these days. I would have loved to be in the adventure era but alas.... I was born at the tail end of the Dark Era so my very first introduction to Sonic if I can recall was some youtube video showing off Sonic and Shadow doing the 2P battle in SA2 and I was hooked. I vaguely remember Mania and Forces' pre release era. I though I wanted the "cool 3d game" because I thought mania was for babies ( which I wasn't far off from at the time). Frontiers is the first time I've really witnessed Pre release hype and discussion for a Sonic game and it feels great! Superstars had me groaning that it was a 2D class8c game and not a Modern one like Zippo's leaks suggested. It would've been really cool also because it would've been the first 2D modern game to release in my life (no Colors doesn't count I hate that shit). Anyways leaks suggesting that a sonic and Shadow game gonna release holiday 2024. I theorise here and now it's an SA2 Remake to synergise with Sonic 3 because that's just SA2 the movie.
More videos like this please. This is so wholesome
more videos like this please
it gives me nostalgia for when iwas into sonic at this age, helping me remember shit i haven't thought of in years
i remember when i saw sonic on the cube for the first time and i thought "is this a fake game ?"
Hearing your story was cool. Can you talk about the Dark Era next and what games you liked despite it being bad (I loved the Riders series and Rush was amazing). I’m looking forward to it!
Sonic’s supposed rock transition to 3D.
Ah my personal favorite era
My dad was born in 1981 and love video games since 1985 and sonic was one of his favorites he played the original game back in 1991 on the genesis and many other games on other consoles like mario crash bandicoot Street Fighter Mortal kombat and Pokémon he did had a dream cast but he doesn't have the sonic adventure games (that's what I think) but all I know is I bet those games were pretty cool I was not born in the year 1999 or 2001 I was born in 2007 I'd never played a sonic game nor heard of sonic in my life I played more of mario games back in 2017 until in 2020 when the mario and sonic tokyo Olympic games came out I thought it was pretty cool so my dad bought the game and we did played it and it was amazing and that's how I heard of sonic and then 2022 this year I got sonic origins Played it and I thought OH MY GOD this is so Fucking awesome and sonic will be one of my favorite video game characters
i'm liking these retrospectives mugru. keep up the good work
The intro alone of sonic adventure got me to fall in love with the franchise, great video!
A retrospective from Mikey? Damn this was awesome! Great video
I would love one of these on the dark era. This is such a cool thing to hear about the experience of someone alive at the time!
Feck Jacob lol. Who kills a sweet harmless chao in a argument. I can't even go to the menu to throw them away without feeling really bad and back out
Thx so much for showing us ur child hood it reminds me a lot of mine even the part where u got bully bc u like sonic everyone did that to me and now at my new school I haven’t made a new friend ☹️
The Dreamcast was Sega's last anticipated console.
Sonic Shuffle? Not good???? Not bro dissing the second best game in the series 😔
Maybe it's just my nostalgia talking as Adventure 2 Battle was among the first games I ever played, but the Adventure Era truly was peak Sonic in my opinion. When I think of the franchise and what I enjoy from it, these games are what I think of first.
Please do more like this please its really good c:
I hate when people act like that era had no good game.
They try to rewrite the past into something that wasn't the case.
for me the dark age was the adventure era in a sense because during that time i couldn't afford a wii or xbox 360 so i was going back and playing all the sonic games that came out in the early 2000s as well as shadow and sonic riders so it all kinda bleeds together for me. that being said, the actual adventure era was in my opinion the best time for sonic. not because of how popular it was, because the popularity was fading by that point, but because of the quality and quantity of the games. think about it, not only was there the adventure ports, the advance games, and sonic heroes, but there was also the mega and gems collections. if you had a gamecube, like me, you had the best of sonic. i'm hoping the sonic frontiers will bring sonic back to where he was in the early 2000s, a high quality triple a franchise. it wont happen all at once, but open world is in my opinion what sonic should have been doing for years, so my hopes are starting to rise.
I didnt expect to be so enthralled about someone elses young life story about Sonic games.
I will forever praise Adventure. My heart is open, I've lived and learned, and I'm loving it.
sounds like you got a good life also R.I.P. Hava The Angel Chao you will be missed
I remember The First time I got into Sonic was The Anime Series, Sonic X. The Series was airing on The FoxBox at the time. All of The Sonic Characters were introduce to me as a kid. The first game I ever played was Sonic Advance 2 for GBA. I been playing video games ever since. Now since Sonic Frontier is coming out this year. I better try out since I have my own Xbox One and Nintendo Switch. As for now, I better try out Sonic Adventure 1 since I never played any of the Dreamcast Games at all. I better try it out someday
Wait people dont know that Sonic Adventure 2 was always a divisive game. And SA2 Battle began the “Sonic had a rough time since his jump to 3D” And SA1 in the early 2000s also became divisive.
No one at the time said that SA2 was rough. And for Sonic Adventure 1, DX was released, an abomination of a port or "remaster" .
Sonic Adventure 2 and Adventure 1 are top 5 games in the series with Sonic Mania Plus and Generations.
Watch Geek crituqe video on SA2.
@@themissingbits6375 And J'Reviews, Jeb Tube, KingK...
SA2 always has been a very good game. Almost 90 metacritic, with SA1 and Mania...
@@saricubra2867 What about the Fandom?
And yet fans to this day *STILL* wants a Sonic Adventure 3! Also missed opportunity to have Sonic Meets Crash" cause It Is his 26th Anniversary!
@@Biscuit.Ummers One easy word; *Nostalgia*
So out side of the additional chao garden additional content and advance game tie in, the game is identical, plus the dream cast has exclusive battle mode skins. If you do not care about the choa garden is there a reason to purch adventure two battle if you have the original dream cast version?
My first hearing about sonic was the archiecomics and then sa2 was my first actual game
This new style of video is nice
I was born July 1991, 1 month after Sonics debut ✌️😎 I was 5 when I began obsessing over sonic. I played the old games to death! Dreamcast era and first experiencing Sonic Adventure are 2 of my favourite childhood memories! Honestly this game changed everything for me. Epic, serious story, music, voice acting, gameplay, graphics unreal. Sonic adventure bonded me and my close friends together at my house cos before that we always spent time at his house as he had the bigger game collection or the console I didn't. UNTIL I got a DC! 🔥👌 This game blew my little 8 year old mind. The music is iconic and helped me get into rock music at a young age.
My history with the Dreamcast/Adventure Era:
This era is how I was introduced to Sonic. I was born September 12, 2002, so today is actually my birthday, but since I was born in 2002, I didn't get into it until it was over but how I got introduced to it is through my older sister. She wanted to get into gaming back in 2001 after the Dreamcast was already discontinued, so dad brought her to Toys R Us and out of all of the consoles, Dreamcast was the one that caught their attention the most, especially because of how cheap it was due to it being discontinued. All of this cool stuff for a great deal was an opportunity that my dad did not want to miss so he bought the console then and there alongside Echo The Dolphin and Sonic Adventure 1. Sometime later on my sister would've eventually gotten Sonic Adventure 2, as well as some other games on Dreamcast. In 2003 our cousin bought a PS2 for my sister, and a bunch of games for it too, seriously this guy went all out for my sister, he probably spent 400 to 500 USD on all of that stuff, the PS2 was 200 bucks at the time so he basically would've spent double the money on games so now that she also had a PS2, when Sonic Heroes came out later on that year she bought it for PS2.
Then, enter the year 2006, before Sonic 06 came out mind you, this is where I came into the story. I noticed my sister was playing the Sonic games a lot, I was watching her play them, and I wanted to get into it, so SA 1 & 2 were the first games I ever played in my life, either that or the Dreamcast port of Spider-Man. I can't remember for sure, but I probably played SA 1 & 2 first and then played Spider-Man second.
So of course with SA1 being my first ever gaming experience, there was really nothing like this to me back then. I had a great time playing through SA1, so then I moved on to SA2, and even though I liked SA1, SA2 was the game that really showed me what video games can be, and shaped me into the gamer that I am today. SA2 is the superior game imo, it improved upon everything. The reason I specified this being before Sonic 06 came out, is that after I played SA 1 & 2, E3 2006 happened, so I remember my sister showing me the E3 trailer for Sonic 06 on the old Sonic 06 website. The one that had the instrumental version of His World in it. Fun fact btw, that Sonic 06 website is still online and has never been shut down. I was so impressed and was excited about the game. So sometime later in 2006 I would've started watching Sonic X for the first time, and was loving it.
Then go to early to mid 2007, and this would've been when I started playing Sonic Heroes for the first time. I thought all of the characters having their own teams was really cool and the game was on par with the other games. 2007 also would've been when I started doing the multiplayer in SA2 and Heroes with my brother, and the end of the year is when the final season of Sonic X aired so my entire family watched the new episodes as they released. Other than Season 5 of Spongebob this was the first time I got really hyped about new episodes of a TV show.
And Shadow The Hedgehog kinda counts as the Adventure/Dreamcast Era, so I played that in the summer of 2008, and for Christmas in 2008, my mom bought some of the Sonic X toys for me. I got Sonic, Tails, and Shadow.
And that's where it ends for me, although my time with Sonic was far from over. It was the end of one era and the start of the next. So for me the Adventure Era was from early 2006 - the end of 2008, that's basically 3 years worth of my first exposures to Sonic.
The Adventure Era is still my favorite to this day since it's where both gameplay and story really shined, therefore giving us the best of both worlds and it felt like the only Era of Sonic where they actually cared about continuity since they were still referencing the events of SA 1 & 2 in Heroes and Shadow.
Watching this just brings back memories of playing Sonic Adventure 2 Battle with my older brother. Racing and mech battling in multiplayer. My older sister would join the two of us for the Chao garden and we would raise different Chao. Good times
This is such a sweet video
Don’t forget about the sonic origins plus trailer that finally just dropped.
This was Sonic's silver age. He returned after years of being in the background with more spectacle than before, and also some of the better examples of early 3D game design. 'Sonic Adventure 1' is a good game, albeit one that aims to be ambitious to a fault, and 'Sonic Adventure 2' improved and streamlined everything to make for one of the high points of Sonic's gaming career. Sonic 3 still stands as the strongest entry, but the jump to 3D is remarkable nonetheless.
I disagree, I believe the Adventure Games are the series peak & Sonic 3 has its share of problems that prevent it from being the best in the series. Did you forget the barrel existed?
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The barrel is frustrating, but other than that, stellar game.
The Adventure games did make some improvements, the second is probably the first Sonic game to make going fast satisfying to achieve.
@@fictionalmediabully9830 I disagree. Marble Garden Zone is one of the worst 2D levels i ever played, and i also dislike Ice Cap, it drags so much.
Sonic 3&K is a good game, but some levels are a hit or miss. Sonic Mania Plus IS the best 2D game i ever played, i liked basically every single level.
Sonic 1&2 are interchangable.
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Care to elaborate? Last time I played, Marble Garden was alright, and Ice Cap is fast and fun. Because there's a save system, the player doesn't express stress over a lesser level draining their lives and continues and potentially sending them back to the start.
I like Sonic Mania, but the original levels were much more fun than the returning old, even though the reimagining in their second acts is pretty high quality.
@@fictionalmediabully9830 Marble Garden pacing and enemy placement is so bad.
Ice Cap Zone act 1 has a lot of things going on that stops your momentum, it feels like it drags on and on, i hate those weird platforms that go up with the spindash, act 2 is better.
Don't get me started on Carnival Night lol...
Some level gimmicks in Sonic 3&K are kinda mixed bag too.
Pokémon still eclipses things today. Speaking from a Zelda fan that is.
That's poggers
Sonic has been a part of my life on and off, I'm actually mostly just familiar with the classic era and adventure era. I knew of the first game at first due to that being the only sonic game and splatterhouse. I do know I maybe had Sonic 2 as well? I'm not sure though. I watched the cartoons a little. My major sonic phase was when I was 8, befriended a boy who loved Sonic and had the adventure games, but we mostly played the first one until I moved.
but for the next couple of years, which are hazy, but I got Sonic Heroes and the mega collection AND the sega collection, so I learned a lot about the classic sonic games, found out about the Archie comics and started collecting those, got more sonic games like Shadow the Hedgehog, which I loved that game so much as a kid, the first level couldn't load properly and thus, Shadow would fall to his death.
Sonic was a solid 2nd place for me, since I was a playstation kid I missed out on a lot of the later console stuff starting in the ps3 cuz I was broke and dad didn't like a teenage me at that point to be into anything "kid" as I was considered too old for it. Now, the most I've been engaged with Sonic is through romhacks, catching up on the defunct Archie comics, playing Sonic Mania.
Watching this video reminds me how I got into Sonic. As I write this comment, it's September 10, 2022, just one day before my 20th birthday. I like to share my history of Sonic for a moment.
2007-2008: My memory is blurry around this time as I was only 5-6 years old, the first Sonic game I remember playing was Sonic 06 on my fathers PS3. Never got to Wave Ocean , so that story ends here.
2009-2010: Around this time, I was living in a homeless shelter and facing mental health issues and bulling, but this time period is when I really became a Sonic fan. The Rush duology, Sega all stars racing, the Olympic games, Sonic X all brought me into this Sonic world, all culminating with Sonic Colors release. The first game I ever beaten, (Excluding Mario Kart Wii.) But the next year was about to change my life.
2011-2012: I became a fan at the right time. As 2011 came in and I moved into a house with my mother and sister, I discovered UA-cam, and Sonic content was there in spades. Let's plays, history videos, stop motions, plush/toy videos, AMV'S, even MugiMikey animations from around that time, like Modern meets classic Sonic. I leaned so much about Sonic's past and it really got me into retro gaming and discovered many more titles. SADX and Gems/classic collection. In retrospect, some of my most fond memories are from this era... and I never want to forget it.
2013-2019: Interest began to wane as I entered Middle and later High school. Began turning my interest to other series like Mario, Zelda, Kirby, ect. I was keeping tabs open on Sonic, but never went out my way to play the newer games, except Mania in early 2018.
2020-2022: March 26, 2020 reignited something within me. That day, I booted up Sonic mania on my Nintendo switch... and something clicked. For the next month, I did multiple more runs of the game. I replayed SADX and loved that game more than I ever had. That summer, my dad handed me his old gaming laptop and I made a steam account. SADX was the first game I purchased on there. After beating it, I got mods for SADX and it felt magical. To this day, SADX is still my most played game on steam. Now to present day, I haven't been this invested in Sonic since 2011-2012. Now I'm very passionate about fangames, even a dev member of two Sonic fangames. It's been some rough years growing older as a person, but I at least hope that Sonic will be there to help me get through those hard times. And I don't care how corny that sounds. Thanks for making this video, MugiMikey, you inspired me to share my Sonic story.
I forget exactly when but around 2007, I got into Sonic with the Sonic Classic Collection on NDS, and replayed a hell out of Green Hill in Sonic 1. Emerald Hill in Sonic 2, and surprisingly enough, almost half way through Somic 3, but just stopping at Carnival Night Zone, and I stopped at Sonic and Knuckles in Carvinal Night Zone.
But I remembered replaying those games over and over again
I also used my Dad's phone to play the Whitehead ports of Sonic 1, 2, and CD. Which is where I got to know about CD.
Oh, and I remember watching Sonic X on my TV and some dvd set.
Unfortunately, I never got a chance to play any of the Adventure era games or Advance because I didn't even knew what a Gamecube or a Gameboy Advance was. And strangely, I only recently learned about it's existence about 5 years ago.
Any ways, I played Sonic and Secert Rings, Black Knight, Sega All-Star Racing, Zero Gravity, Colors, and Unleashed.
With some that I completed and some I didn't.
Then I remember asking my mom to buy me a Xbox 360 just so I can play Sonic Generations, since it wasn't on Wii
A lot of nostalgia is coming back to me as I'm typing this out. Here's hoping Frontiers will be as impactful and fun for the next Sonic fans and myslef included
I was 6 when when heros came around, i got it few years after its release when i was on pc, i got adventure 2 when i was 4 to 5 around 2002 with my gamecube.
in 2005 i got ds for chirstmas and i got sonic rush around 2006 , i remeber thing this so cool, blaze was my first favourtie and still is to this day.
I can remeber most of my childhood, but it gets a little fuzzy as been a while. I had a wii and play sonic riders zero gravity, i sort in and out with the sonic franchise till 2012 and got sonic on my xbox 360 , it was not till around 2018 where got a decent pc, i decided to make up for lost time and play the games i had not and dam it been a blast.
24 years latter and Sonic Adventure's art direction is still better than recent games and the Sonic movies...
I first played these games long after they came out. First was a digital copy of SA2 on xbox, I got into emulation a while later and really got into SA1. I finally got my Dreamcast in 2019, and I was hyped, my first game for it was Sonic Adventure. There was something about playing it on actual hardware with a legit controller that felt so much better than controlling the game with a keyboard. I love my Dreamcast. Oh yeah I also got a copy of SA2B for the Gamecube before that, played it on my Wii.
Just played some Sonic Adventure on Dreamcast, Soul Calibur, and PSOv2 (online on Sylverant!). Happy birthday, Dreamcast!
I was born in 1998 and my first sonic game was sonic 1 on the Sega megadrive ( Followed by Sonic 2, 3 and sonic and knuckles) which I started playing in 2004 at the age of 6
I then was introduced to the playstation 2 in 2008 and I played sonic heroes, then sonic riders and riders 2, Shadow the hedgehog and sonic unleashed. The sound track on sonic heroes was absolutely amazing!!
I still cant get over the fact that dreamcast fixed joycon drift in their controllers decades earlier before it became a problem on the switch.
Damnit sega i wish they still made consoles, maybe modern sonic games would be better.
I was born in 2006 so I only got to experience the 2010s era but I later played the sonic adventure games and they were pretty fun.
You should do a retrospective on the "dark era" (2005-2009) (as it's known) of the sonic series, hell I think it would be really cool to turn this into a video series on your history with this franchise.
Dreamcast Sonic is a god.
My uncle had a Dreamcast tucked away in his room with a Sega Dreamcast Demo disc. I think they were called dream factories? Anyway there was a Sonic Adventure demo on there that I would play countless times until I was eventually able to borrow Sonic DX from my best friend in school. I’m still obsessed with the original Sonic team splash screen from the Dreamcast version.
Ahhh my infant memories
I’ve been with the blue rat for about 2/3rds of his life, grew up with Heroes, Shadow, Adventure 1 and 2 on GameCube (though I had both on Dreamcast at some point, definitely SA1, and vague memories of playing City Escape) Unwiished, Secret Rings (fun game), Advance 3, Sonic Rush, Rush Adventure, and eventually Generations and Unleashed HD, got my hands on the mobile ports around middle school, didn’t have a Wii U, so I luckily missed out on the bulk of the meta era, but I did get Mania and Forces when those came out, Forces was
Forces
Oh yeah and on GC I had Gems collection, was my first time with some game gear titles and CD, as well as Fighters and R
Tails Doll scared me shitless that I’d actually kept the game hidden somewhere and lost it over the years, unfortunately.
I technically came to the Sonic series after the Dreamcast era, like, my first game was Heroes, but by that point, games like Sonic 06 and Riders had come out.
I sadly wouldn't be able to play either Adventure game until years later. Actually, I still haven't been able to start up Adventure 1 in any capacity, though I did sample it on a friend's GameCube. I recall having fun, but the moment was rather temporary as I was more excited to play Double Dash.
Wait, why am I not subbed to this channel yet?
r.i.p. wanna watch more toons like this
Ah yes the Dreamcast era I personally have a Dreamcast and me and my brother would play sonic adventure 1 and 2
Sanic advonture
I wish I was your age when the adventure era was around. I was in college for Sonic Heroes so I was a bit more cynical about it. But I still love Sonic Adventure 2.
I got the Japanese Sonic Adventure when it first came out. I got it before a Dreamcast and waited till we had the money for the console.
Nice retrospective. I had my Mega Drive since 1991 incl. Sonic 1. In this year i was six. I never had a Dreamcast but thanks to my PS3 i can play theese games. For me the first 3D game is
Sonic 3D - Flickies Island and i love this game till today. I don´t care about any Era because for me is no difference between Classic or Modern. The only games i never played were for WII/U.
I hope that some day there will be remakes like Sonic Coloures Ultimate for PS4.