PATRONE: bit.ly/3OG2QI5 i did some music for this cool compilation: bit.ly/3rU7AQo my buddy neelan made a cool video: ua-cam.com/video/rqROBimXVlw/v-deo.html
in the words of sonic 1 japanese box art "Don't just sit there and waste your precious time. When you want to do something, do it right away. Do it when you can. It's the only way to live a life without regrets"
38:38 "The Kubrick Stare" is one of director Stanley Kubrick's most recognizable directorial techniques. A method of shot composition where a character stares at the camera with a forward tilt, to convey to the audience that they are at the peak of their derangement
funny anecdote: my friend (at the time of release) HATED 06 because he thought Sega killed off Sonic. He played up to the point where Sonic is "killed" (before they bring him back with the emeralds) and immediately ejected the game. He refused to play anything sonic-related for years because of that, lmao
I can imagine black and white slow motion bawling his eyes out with the music that has that choir when that part happened damn I’m sry he had to go through that he must of felt betrayed
Hell yeah. I also finally played through this game recently and it was a wild ride. I ended up having a lot of fun with it despite the jank, or possibly because of it, but I might be predisposed to enjoy that kind of weird sonic thing lol
I played it for the first time within the past year, too. I don't consider myself a "Sonic fan", and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Honestly, there is a sort of gratification from learning the jank. Theres a mastery to understanding how to control the characters, and when to avoid touching the controls to not die (lmao). Additionally, exploiting the broken physics and systems to skip parts of stages makes you feel like youre outsmarting the game sometimes, which is always fun as hell.
It's honestly a breath of fresh air, especially when you compare him to the many video essayists and game reviewers that are incapable of liking a game
that blue sonic curry bit is one of the most horrifying things I've ever witnessed. I couldn't help but desperately gasp for breath that entire section
32:01 I think they mixed that blue devil curry with crack cocaine when they approved this. Then they said f$&% the console market! El Chapo just you wait till you get a whiff of this curry cocaine mix! we're the mafia b&$%es now!
Back at release one of my college friends, the weird dude that was well meaning and generally a bro despite the absolute weirdness, picked this up and got super into it. This was before the internet memes and the like, being only like a week old at the time, so I had a solid time watching him jank his way through it. Yeah it clearly had it's issues but my man was loving it so much I got caught up in it and spent an evening or two very engaged with the entire thing. Very much one of my top memories of that generation of gaming.
My take on this game is that it was the Jesus of the 6th Gen. It showcased all the skung and jank possible with the new technology and gave pointers for game studios to avoid its faults in future games. I really don’t miss 6th Gen load times
Speaking as a person that likes smells in bottles, what its called (cologne, eau de toilette, eau de parfum, perfume) refers to the concentration of "smelly essence" in the product. Cologne is lowest, like up to 4%. And perfume is the highest, I think. 20 to 30%. EDIT: Felt weird just having my only comment on any of your videos being a pedantic correction. Just wanted to say I like your stuff. Watch it all and it's a good time. Keep it up.
As someone who ate the Sonic Curry before, your review is spot on. It actually tastes like your average Japanese curry, but you ended up with some kind of "mineral" after taste. It is both pleasant and revolting at the same time
I think you finally managed to answer a question I've had for years but never had any ability to answer to know how to ask; "What is it about Sonic The Hedgehog that appeals to so many teenagers and young adults on the spectrum?" (I mean this quite honestly, not in a veiled insult way). And I think you hit the nail on the head. Sonic is "Safe rebellion". It presents itself as BOTH edgy and safe. And i think for this appeals to teenagers as a whole, but especially those who may not enjoy media that is openly anti-establishment or confronting.
More like "non-particular" is more about, it's reaaaaaaally subtle and easy to miss, but at the same time, not very specific too. But what I mean, is "Oh, it's a cartoony boy. Safe place for our child that we want to raise as a religious zealot as ourselves".
Me and my partner were discussing Sonic (as all couples should) and came to the conclusion that even when Sonic is terrible, it's passionate. There are so many creative things in '06, and they were clearly trying to make something interesting, but had the resources swept out from under them. Sonic's never bad because they weren't trying, if anything it has the opposite problem, Sonic doesn't play it safe, and often winds up shooting itself in the face as a result, but I can't knock the passion.
Sonic Forces is the one exception to this rule I feel, it's the one Sonic game I walked away from like "What were they trying to achieve here?" It felt like they wanted to lean into the Sonic OC culture with the character creator, but then forgot they had to actually make a game around it. For me 2000's edgy Sonic will always be more enjoyable and memorable than whatever 2010's meme/meta/cringe Sonic was trying to be.
@@Chickenman161 that game is a lot of things but I definitely wouldn't call it safe, it has a lot of that angsty, shonen anime energy that a lot of the 2000s Sonic games have and I love that
7:16 Oh man, I was thinking about this recently and you just put in the perfect words: "Sonic has multiple fan-bases"! Like, every game in the Sonic franchise has it's loyal fans, from the original classics, to the more obscure but beloved handheld games, to the weird 'dark age' of Sonic, and even Sonic Boom and Forces. It's so wild. *Someone* always has *something* good to say about a Sonic game, even when everyone else hates it.
Someone always has something good to say about anything, it's not just Sonic. With Sonic it's more that there are multiple communities of fans with contradictory tastes who often don't get along with each other.
@@genyakozlov1316 nah not really. Find someone who truly loves or cares about Babylons Fall, good luck. There are sone things nobody likes and or cares about.
I remember being 9 years old and playing that one side quest that forces you to choose between the Princess or Amy as a love interest. Forcing me to pick between: Furry on furry interest *Or* Furry on human interest... Why Sega? Why? At least the soundtrack bopped
I wonder if u chose Amy that certain scene with elegise and sonic at the end was Amy doing the deed instead Wood it cause more uproar or would’ve it been better. Could’ve been interesting maybe idk
Watching Thor's expression as it downs on him that eating the gooey looking blue curry might have been a fatal mistake is priceless. He was brave, but maybe he shouldn't have been that brave.
It is at this moment, this historically significant occasion amidst the most unprecedented face-reveal/food-review/music critic twist turn taken by the increasingly confident, versatile and mad stylish, THH, that I must make a formal and unequivocal declaration: This has officially become the best Video Game Channel on UA-cam. Sorry Civvie. Big, enduring, throbbing props to the immortal Dutch Master System Admin_ ThorHighHeels.
The Silver cutscene really threw me off when Mephiles didn't say "Welcome to my house. As you can see I've knocked over many chairs because I get so tilted at the towers. "
its very telling that when you were talking about the golf game my IMMEDIATE knee jerk reaction was "oh shit that looks sick i gotta play that" sonic brainrot is a very special kind of brainrot, isnt it?
I remember being hyped for Sonic 06 before it came out, and watching Zero9Teen's gameplay videos in anticipation before getting my hands on it myself. Ah, the good ol' days.
This isn't purely positive, and personally I made no shifts, I hold my position firm since 2010 when I said Game Grubs played this game like complete morons.
I wanted to play this game because I knew it was bad… and I LOVED IT. Could you imagine how much I’d hate it if I played this game when it came out, hoping it would be good?
I'm not...mad that you didn't wash down the Sonic curny with Sonic G Force Brand energy drink mix, but I'm not disappointed. And your description of the yellow the stank from the perfume is great. I could picture it. It's sink water that you've been soaking your bowl in, to get the Sonic Blue out, and your dish soap was lemon scented. And the yellow of the dish soap has had some of the curry bleed into it. This was great. Thank you for making me see 06 in a new light :)
To me this game is undeniably shit but I really appreciate the vibe they were going for with it. The game just emanates that early 2000s feel good type shit.
Somehow, despite not ever imagining how Thorhigheels looks in real life, he still managed to look exactly how I would expect. In a good way of course :).
I really appreciate how willing you are to engage with whatever dumb bullshit is in a game at it's level, and you never go for low blows or cheap laughs at the expense of the source material like so many other internet video game commentators do, and you also never engage in bullshit shallow ass cynicism and pretend you're above any of the stupid bullshit in some of these games either. It's refreshing and nice to see somebody appreciate a game for what it is instead of making fun of it for being what it is or wishing it was something else. It's great, and there's hardly any voices like that on this platform that I've been able to find.
22:19 this is kinda how I feel about most games in this series. Even the good games don't get given the time of day because it's popular among internet funny men to grossly exaggerate a game's flaws for easy laughs. I wish more people would give Unleashed or Adventure 2 an honest chance, instead of basing their misinformed opinions on what they've heard from people who quite clearly have no invested interest in the franchise or character.
Interesting that people hate on unleashed and SA2. I think unleashed was great, it refined the janky on rails sonic stages into something smoother and more interactive, SA 2 is let down by the boring overly simple shooting and treasure hunt sections, but it at least has that deep chao mode. Sonic 06 is just too janky/dumb for me though. I think what colors the opinion of 06 is how old you were when you first played it. If you were really young I could see how you could overlook the poor design and just enjoy that sunny atmosphere sega is so good at making ( even though I don't like 06 I can't deny that the music is amazing). You may even come to love the jankiness in time, but I don't think it's like what Thor is insinuating, that people will actively seek out recreating this jankiness, at least not in the unironic sense. Most of the current sonic inspired 3d games, like project rascal, look to make a more sophisticated version of Sonic's gameplay.
I will admit that Sonic R is not a very good game, but the way people act like it's so hard or unplayable is very confusing to me. I had it on the PC. It was the first game I ever 100%ed and I did so at the ripe old age of 9 with a keyboard. It's really not that hard or janky.
It’s interesting how you mentioned the experience someone may have between watching the experience vs actually going through it cause I think a lot of it can also go against those who’d say they play 06 over other sonic titles like Forces or Lost World. Almost everyone that seems to say it always talk about the funny glitches, design, and story that’s just filled with mid 2000s edge and romance, while my experience with the game was getting stuck at mach speed sections, remembering to save in fear of doing shit all over again and not wanting to do that, and probably due to me playing on the PS3 version, there was a recurring bug where the game wouldn’t load levels…unless I took the disc of the game out which left me playing the game but without the one good thing this game has to offer, its music. I definitely understand why people would prefer to play this over similarly controversial sonic games, especially since I am also a hipster contrarian who’ll go “black knight was really fun and I liked it” or “Would rather play Shadow despite still not playing it cause I think it looks cool”, so I accepted the fact that people will genuinely think this way about 06, but apart of me definitely has a growing disgust for those towards any positivity towards 06 as someone who really wanted to play it and was excited only to end up frustrated with it in the end and even more so now that it’s the game people use to describe sonic’s legacy and life as a franchise.
My most favorite thing about your videos is the absolute love you put into them. The edits, the jokes, the depth of dissection. You can feel the love and appreciation you have for the subject material. Thank you for your effort, and thank you for uploading
As someone who played it for the first time last year, I would personally say its biggest issue is that it's not Sonic '07 or perhaps even Sonic '08. I honestly expected it to be far, far worse than it is. I can see why some fans put it above the likes of Forces, Secret Rings or Boom. There are many things wrong with it (especially the mach speed sections), but you can occasionally feel that there's a pretty fun platformer buried in there, mostly during Sonic's story. At the very worst, it's a great "so bad, it's good" game, which is more than I can say about something like Balan's Wonderworld.
Thank you so much for these takes, man. You talk about things that are hard to eloquently unpack about the weird cultural niches in the gaming world. It does seem to get to where there is this "meta" cool factor that's even harder to put into words than whatever the hell the idea of cool even is. Your exercises in really trying to suck all the marrow out of these old negatively and mixed reviewed games is refreshing and sort of puts a new lens on how I view the games I'm playing now. I often wonder what will be the next vibe we look back on. It's hard to really define that flavor until you look back while playing in the current gen. I really enjoy your takes on the PS3 era because that popped off during a time when I was kind of bouncing off of a lot of titles due to those more monochromatic color schemes and the developers really enjoying the new tech allowing them to recreate that psuedo edgy Hollywood action movie cinema style. I can look back at that time more fondly with help of some of your perceptions and this is just good shit. Your music is dope too. Cheers.
You only touched on it briefly but my friends and I spent days of our lives playing Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine, perhaps the greatest mini game of all time.
Aside from first cutscene looking like Final Fantasy, Sega and the Sonic Team were good at replicating Square-Enix's habit of hiring actors from 90s and 00s TV shows and movies. Remember when Square/Leon was voiced by David Boreanaz or Ansem voiced by Billy Zane? Sonic '06 had Lacey Chabert as Elise. Even her Japanese voice actor was Maaya Sakamoto, who voiced characters in big major RPGs like Panzer Dragoon Saga and Final Fantasy XIII.
That curry immediately turned his teeth blue. There was no gradual transition. One bite and his teeth were blue. I do not think that stuff is safe to eat.
What this game really needed was more time in the oven; I remember playing it with a friend years ago, and thinking had the developers ironed out the glitches, some weird physics, and a couple technical issues, it wouldn’t have been as hated as it was upon release (the romance plot is a different story). Also, that soundtrack is phenomenal
Has anyone mentioned how they use your videos to sleep? I use them for that, rewatching my favorites every so often. Thanks for being awesome. I'm glad you're finally being seen by so many people!
When I saw you on camera with all the Sonic drip I was like, "oh shit he looks like he's feeling himself like I did when I went on a two year long acid trip, but I shouldn't assume things." Then you said, "if I could ascribe a color to this smell." Have a safe trip Thor. xD
I love this game. Really glad to see whoever grew up with it/ time passing to warm up to and appreciate the good things about. We haven’t had a good 3D sonic since Generations. I think with Forces and Lost World and the mediocrity, people have come to appreciate the ambition of 06
This is why I come to your channel. You take what is arguably one of the most extensive AAA fuckups agreed upon by the gaming community at large, and you frame it in a way that makes it endearing even though I just watched you accidentally launch yourself off a straight road 40 times. You manage to look at and APPRECIATE games for what they are, even if what they are is a barely-held-together pile of unfinished code that no one QA tested. It’s a welcome change from the angry-for-comedy’s-sake reviewers.
when you put the cologne smell color up on screen i kinda laughed. To me, that yellow-green color is the smell of gasoline. The smell you were describing is closer to a bright sky blue. The real ocean, salty and everything, is like a really soft gray-pink, and that fake ocean smell is a bright, vaugely orange, pink
Difference between eau de cologne v eau de parfumme v eau de toilette: the concentration (decreasing) of fragrance/alcohol. The bigger, the stronger the scent.
Bro, wtf. The nanosecond I decide that you will NOT mention Wacky Worlds, you do. Get out of my head, man! (Fr, tho', great shit, dawg. Keep up the absolutely brilliant work. You being you and your MySpace Era aesthetics keep me going another day.) Edit: Yooooo~ you even have that DeviantArt-ass Demon Sonic pic!
I hope Sega outright buys the fan game once they're done, give it some polish, and release it as the remaster at a discounted price of $40. Fuckin imagine that though.
I just liked the super speed sections in the Sonic missions. There should be a game dedicated to that specific tone of gameplay. Arguably... that's how it's SUPPOSED TO BE. I think the Sonic series is greatly held back because it tries to be reinventive like Mario instead of embracing its own identity which is supposed be about spunk and speed.
Honestly the Silver ball segment perfectly explains the true PS1 Tomb Raider experience. Try to do a hard puzzle with pixel perfect accuracy and jank controls, fuck up half because you made a mistake and the game jank fucks you and then back tracking ten years or loading a save that's way older than you want it to be. Good memories
I love how your videos always take a positive outlook on things that seen by most of the internet as 'bad'. It's really refreshing and you're cool as fuck for doing it. Keep it up!
this game seems to be making a bit of a comeback, I also played it for the first time a couple weeks ago and I was pleasantly surprised. It felt like, if it had a bit more time, it would have been a genuinely good successor to the Adventure games
PATRONE: bit.ly/3OG2QI5
i did some music for this cool compilation: bit.ly/3rU7AQo
my buddy neelan made a cool video: ua-cam.com/video/rqROBimXVlw/v-deo.html
Thank you for this video. I didn't know there exists a perfume with a scent of sick SpongeBob
i REALLY wanna know how you made the text in this video
good music in new game
Is sonic 06 good? Lets find out 15 years after it was decided to be ass!!
in the words of sonic 1 japanese box art
"Don't just sit there and waste your precious time. When you want to do something, do it right away. Do it when you can. It's the only way to live a life without regrets"
i love sonic hes my friend
*_Based_*
there are forks in your microwabve
Yea, Sonic is a gud friend, not like Mario.
[Cut to Gex enter the Gecko footage]
**insert "What's one of my other favorite UA-camrs doing in this comment section" comment here**
She just outright friendzoned Sonic
38:38
"The Kubrick Stare" is one of director Stanley Kubrick's most recognizable directorial techniques. A method of shot composition where a character stares at the camera with a forward tilt, to convey to the audience that they are at the peak of their derangement
I've never seen him before, but he simultaneously looks exactly as I expected while very different from it
It's the quarantine hair style.
I said the exact same thing
He looks like he smells really bad, even without the cologne
I don't think is him
He's really cute
funny anecdote: my friend (at the time of release) HATED 06 because he thought Sega killed off Sonic. He played up to the point where Sonic is "killed" (before they bring him back with the emeralds) and immediately ejected the game. He refused to play anything sonic-related for years because of that, lmao
Sonic is DEAD! No, wait! He's just being tortured on the moon!
I can imagine black and white slow motion bawling his eyes out with the music that has that choir when that part happened damn I’m sry he had to go through that he must of felt betrayed
Just wait till he finds out about Shadow
I can respect that. A hasty decision, sure, but I love the sheer conviction of it.
Hell yeah. I also finally played through this game recently and it was a wild ride. I ended up having a lot of fun with it despite the jank, or possibly because of it, but I might be predisposed to enjoy that kind of weird sonic thing lol
Anywhere sonic rears his head. Cybershell is there.
I played it for the first time within the past year, too. I don't consider myself a "Sonic fan", and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Honestly, there is a sort of gratification from learning the jank. Theres a mastery to understanding how to control the characters, and when to avoid touching the controls to not die (lmao). Additionally, exploiting the broken physics and systems to skip parts of stages makes you feel like youre outsmarting the game sometimes, which is always fun as hell.
Oh, it’s the guy carrying the entire Sonic fandom
you’re also a Thor fan, that’s cool
"Da Sanic Boiz" could be the name of you guys's podcast together.
Thor is a person physically incapable of hating a game, and I'm here for it
It's honestly a breath of fresh air, especially when you compare him to the many video essayists and game reviewers that are incapable of liking a game
Guess you didn’t hear this thoughts on mgs2
that blue sonic curry bit is one of the most horrifying things I've ever witnessed. I couldn't help but desperately gasp for breath that entire section
Food colouring was a mistake
32:01 I think they mixed that blue devil curry with crack cocaine when they approved this. Then they said f$&% the console market! El Chapo just you wait till you get a whiff of this curry cocaine mix! we're the mafia b&$%es now!
Liquid sonic
Back at release one of my college friends, the weird dude that was well meaning and generally a bro despite the absolute weirdness, picked this up and got super into it. This was before the internet memes and the like, being only like a week old at the time, so I had a solid time watching him jank his way through it. Yeah it clearly had it's issues but my man was loving it so much I got caught up in it and spent an evening or two very engaged with the entire thing. Very much one of my top memories of that generation of gaming.
My take on this game is that it was the Jesus of the 6th Gen. It showcased all the skung and jank possible with the new technology and gave pointers for game studios to avoid its faults in future games. I really don’t miss 6th Gen load times
@@LC-iw3ll *7th gen
Speaking as a person that likes smells in bottles, what its called (cologne, eau de toilette, eau de parfum, perfume) refers to the concentration of "smelly essence" in the product. Cologne is lowest, like up to 4%. And perfume is the highest, I think. 20 to 30%.
EDIT: Felt weird just having my only comment on any of your videos being a pedantic correction. Just wanted to say I like your stuff. Watch it all and it's a good time. Keep it up.
As someone who ate the Sonic Curry before, your review is spot on. It actually tastes like your average Japanese curry, but you ended up with some kind of "mineral" after taste. It is both pleasant and revolting at the same time
I think you finally managed to answer a question I've had for years but never had any ability to answer to know how to ask; "What is it about Sonic The Hedgehog that appeals to so many teenagers and young adults on the spectrum?" (I mean this quite honestly, not in a veiled insult way). And I think you hit the nail on the head. Sonic is "Safe rebellion". It presents itself as BOTH edgy and safe. And i think for this appeals to teenagers as a whole, but especially those who may not enjoy media that is openly anti-establishment or confronting.
Thinking about my Asperger's self and attached history, I think you nailed it. Huh. Never put that to words before.
That actually makes a ton of sense
Yeah it's rebellious but it's not actually rebelling against anything in particular
More like "non-particular" is more about, it's reaaaaaaally subtle and easy to miss, but at the same time, not very specific too. But what I mean, is "Oh, it's a cartoony boy. Safe place for our child that we want to raise as a religious zealot as ourselves".
It don't. Sonic have nothing to appeals to young adults. What happened is that adults that played the game being kids don't matured.
Me and my partner were discussing Sonic (as all couples should) and came to the conclusion that even when Sonic is terrible, it's passionate. There are so many creative things in '06, and they were clearly trying to make something interesting, but had the resources swept out from under them. Sonic's never bad because they weren't trying, if anything it has the opposite problem, Sonic doesn't play it safe, and often winds up shooting itself in the face as a result, but I can't knock the passion.
Sonic Forces is the one exception to this rule I feel, it's the one Sonic game I walked away from like "What were they trying to achieve here?" It felt like they wanted to lean into the Sonic OC culture with the character creator, but then forgot they had to actually make a game around it.
For me 2000's edgy Sonic will always be more enjoyable and memorable than whatever 2010's meme/meta/cringe Sonic was trying to be.
unfortunately the new open world game does seem quite safe as a concept if your ask me. but i agree with your sentiment especially for the past games
@@Chickenman161 that game is a lot of things but I definitely wouldn't call it safe, it has a lot of that angsty, shonen anime energy that a lot of the 2000s Sonic games have and I love that
7:16 Oh man, I was thinking about this recently and you just put in the perfect words: "Sonic has multiple fan-bases"! Like, every game in the Sonic franchise has it's loyal fans, from the original classics, to the more obscure but beloved handheld games, to the weird 'dark age' of Sonic, and even Sonic Boom and Forces. It's so wild. *Someone* always has *something* good to say about a Sonic game, even when everyone else hates it.
Someone always has something good to say about anything, it's not just Sonic. With Sonic it's more that there are multiple communities of fans with contradictory tastes who often don't get along with each other.
Innuendo Studios has a great video on how split the sonic fandom is if you'd like further discussion
@@genyakozlov1316 nah not really. Find someone who truly loves or cares about Babylons Fall, good luck. There are sone things nobody likes and or cares about.
In Nezumi VA’s intro to sonic video she asks how people became fans in the comments and nearly everyone has a different answer. It’s pretty sick.
I remember being 9 years old and playing that one side quest that forces you to choose between the Princess or Amy as a love interest. Forcing me to pick between:
Furry on furry interest
*Or*
Furry on human interest...
Why Sega? Why?
At least the soundtrack bopped
But…..which one did you pick first
Wich one did you pick?
you are withholding information from the public. tell us king
Interspecies romance is OK, when it's been presented in a way that well established.
I wonder if u chose Amy that certain scene with elegise and sonic at the end was Amy doing the deed instead
Wood it cause more uproar or would’ve it been better. Could’ve been interesting maybe idk
Watching Thor's expression as it downs on him that eating the gooey looking blue curry might have been a fatal mistake is priceless. He was brave, but maybe he shouldn't have been that brave.
It is at this moment, this historically significant occasion amidst the most unprecedented face-reveal/food-review/music critic twist turn taken by the increasingly confident, versatile and mad stylish, THH, that I must make a formal and unequivocal declaration: This has officially become the best Video Game Channel on UA-cam. Sorry Civvie. Big, enduring, throbbing props to the immortal Dutch Master System Admin_ ThorHighHeels.
The Dutch are out in the streets celebrating the king's birthday and Thor is publishing an analysis on the worst Sonic game of all time. What a Chad.
The Silver cutscene really threw me off when Mephiles didn't say "Welcome to my house. As you can see I've knocked over many chairs because I get so tilted at the towers. "
"sonic is a friend of mine" certified BOP. amazing video Thor. Sonic will never NOT be cool 2 me :)
its very telling that when you were talking about the golf game my IMMEDIATE knee jerk reaction was "oh shit that looks sick i gotta play that"
sonic brainrot is a very special kind of brainrot, isnt it?
I remember being hyped for Sonic 06 before it came out, and watching Zero9Teen's gameplay videos in anticipation before getting my hands on it myself. Ah, the good ol' days.
that's a name I haven't heard in a while, wonder how he's doing
did you at least enjoy it a bit?
@@crass340 Yeah. The only thing I really hated was the ungodly amount of loading screens. The jank was easy to work through.
it is always a “blight on humanity” day tbh and I’m here 4 it
"knuckles Jamaican inspiration"
Literally South/Central American inspired in every aspect as per his people's story
I've lived long enough to see this trend of positive reviews of Sonic 06...christ
This isn't purely positive, and personally I made no shifts, I hold my position firm since 2010 when I said Game Grubs played this game like complete morons.
I wanted to play this game because I knew it was bad… and I LOVED IT.
Could you imagine how much I’d hate it if I played this game when it came out, hoping it would be good?
I think a lot of people really underestimate how expectations and even their current mood can affect how they enjoy games.
I'm not...mad that you didn't wash down the Sonic curny with Sonic G Force Brand energy drink mix, but I'm not disappointed.
And your description of the yellow the stank from the perfume is great. I could picture it. It's sink water that you've been soaking your bowl in, to get the Sonic Blue out, and your dish soap was lemon scented. And the yellow of the dish soap has had some of the curry bleed into it.
This was great. Thank you for making me see 06 in a new light :)
To me this game is undeniably shit but I really appreciate the vibe they were going for with it. The game just emanates that early 2000s feel good type shit.
Horror game creators wish they could fill me with as much dread as that thing cooking in the microwave
Great vid Thor, Sonic is my friend will dominate my Spotify wrapped.
Also glad to contribute that bit of info at 8:11 lolz
Sonic 06 definitely has the loudest pigeons in video gaming.
21:25 … a “cravine”. HOLY SHIT I’m dying.
Somehow, despite not ever imagining how Thorhigheels looks in real life, he still managed to look exactly how I would expect. In a good way of course :).
The hair kinda caught me off guard, but I feel the same.
I cannot fuckin believe the cover of "Jesus is my friend" class
To quote John Waters: "I respect everything I make fun of"
I really appreciate how willing you are to engage with whatever dumb bullshit is in a game at it's level, and you never go for low blows or cheap laughs at the expense of the source material like so many other internet video game commentators do, and you also never engage in bullshit shallow ass cynicism and pretend you're above any of the stupid bullshit in some of these games either. It's refreshing and nice to see somebody appreciate a game for what it is instead of making fun of it for being what it is or wishing it was something else. It's great, and there's hardly any voices like that on this platform that I've been able to find.
I'm here for that updo Thor is rocking.
22:19 this is kinda how I feel about most games in this series. Even the good games don't get given the time of day because it's popular among internet funny men to grossly exaggerate a game's flaws for easy laughs. I wish more people would give Unleashed or Adventure 2 an honest chance, instead of basing their misinformed opinions on what they've heard from people who quite clearly have no invested interest in the franchise or character.
Interesting that people hate on unleashed and SA2. I think unleashed was great, it refined the janky on rails sonic stages into something smoother and more interactive, SA 2 is let down by the boring overly simple shooting and treasure hunt sections, but it at least has that deep chao mode. Sonic 06 is just too janky/dumb for me though.
I think what colors the opinion of 06 is how old you were when you first played it. If you were really young I could see how you could overlook the poor design and just enjoy that sunny atmosphere sega is so good at making ( even though I don't like 06 I can't deny that the music is amazing). You may even come to love the jankiness in time, but I don't think it's like what Thor is insinuating, that people will actively seek out recreating this jankiness, at least not in the unironic sense. Most of the current sonic inspired 3d games, like project rascal, look to make a more sophisticated version of Sonic's gameplay.
SA2 and Unleashed are pretty much one of the most beloved games in the franchise though?
@@anonanonymous9670 you'd be surprised how many people complain about games they've never played (talking about people outside the Sonic fandom)
plot twist: that wasn't curry what they sold, that was methadone
I will admit that Sonic R is not a very good game, but the way people act like it's so hard or unplayable is very confusing to me. I had it on the PC. It was the first game I ever 100%ed and I did so at the ripe old age of 9 with a keyboard. It's really not that hard or janky.
It’s interesting how you mentioned the experience someone may have between watching the experience vs actually going through it cause I think a lot of it can also go against those who’d say they play 06 over other sonic titles like Forces or Lost World. Almost everyone that seems to say it always talk about the funny glitches, design, and story that’s just filled with mid 2000s edge and romance, while my experience with the game was getting stuck at mach speed sections, remembering to save in fear of doing shit all over again and not wanting to do that, and probably due to me playing on the PS3 version, there was a recurring bug where the game wouldn’t load levels…unless I took the disc of the game out which left me playing the game but without the one good thing this game has to offer, its music. I definitely understand why people would prefer to play this over similarly controversial sonic games, especially since I am also a hipster contrarian who’ll go “black knight was really fun and I liked it” or “Would rather play Shadow despite still not playing it cause I think it looks cool”, so I accepted the fact that people will genuinely think this way about 06, but apart of me definitely has a growing disgust for those towards any positivity towards 06 as someone who really wanted to play it and was excited only to end up frustrated with it in the end and even more so now that it’s the game people use to describe sonic’s legacy and life as a franchise.
My most favorite thing about your videos is the absolute love you put into them. The edits, the jokes, the depth of dissection. You can feel the love and appreciation you have for the subject material.
Thank you for your effort, and thank you for uploading
If culture wars are real this is like guerilla warfare for the sonic army. 👍
As someone who played it for the first time last year, I would personally say its biggest issue is that it's not Sonic '07 or perhaps even Sonic '08. I honestly expected it to be far, far worse than it is. I can see why some fans put it above the likes of Forces, Secret Rings or Boom.
There are many things wrong with it (especially the mach speed sections), but you can occasionally feel that there's a pretty fun platformer buried in there, mostly during Sonic's story. At the very worst, it's a great "so bad, it's good" game, which is more than I can say about something like Balan's Wonderworld.
Ironic that Sonic’s story has easily the worst plot but the “best” gameplay
If people considered 06 as a spinoff, it probably wouldn't get such hate
@@ostrichlord9097 Shadow the hedgehog was a spinoff tho but look how that went
@@isaacargesmith8217 He looka for the damn fourth chaos emerald
@@isaacargesmith8217 Are you implying Shadow the Hedgehog was a bad game 👁👁???
Thank you so much for these takes, man. You talk about things that are hard to eloquently unpack about the weird cultural niches in the gaming world. It does seem to get to where there is this "meta" cool factor that's even harder to put into words than whatever the hell the idea of cool even is. Your exercises in really trying to suck all the marrow out of these old negatively and mixed reviewed games is refreshing and sort of puts a new lens on how I view the games I'm playing now. I often wonder what will be the next vibe we look back on. It's hard to really define that flavor until you look back while playing in the current gen. I really enjoy your takes on the PS3 era because that popped off during a time when I was kind of bouncing off of a lot of titles due to those more monochromatic color schemes and the developers really enjoying the new tech allowing them to recreate that psuedo edgy Hollywood action movie cinema style. I can look back at that time more fondly with help of some of your perceptions and this is just good shit. Your music is dope too. Cheers.
Spent a large part of my early childhood playing sonic1/2/3 and S&K on my sega in the early 90s. Didnt hang out with people...just sonic
You only touched on it briefly but my friends and I spent days of our lives playing Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine, perhaps the greatest mini game of all time.
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BABE WAKE UP
NEW SENTENCE JUST DROPPED
You've got more rings than Sonic on your fingers.
proof sonic 06 is more influential than mario galaxy
Aside from first cutscene looking like Final Fantasy, Sega and the Sonic Team were good at replicating Square-Enix's habit of hiring actors from 90s and 00s TV shows and movies. Remember when Square/Leon was voiced by David Boreanaz or Ansem voiced by Billy Zane? Sonic '06 had Lacey Chabert as Elise. Even her Japanese voice actor was Maaya Sakamoto, who voiced characters in big major RPGs like Panzer Dragoon Saga and Final Fantasy XIII.
Lol “Square”
@@numbah1525 Oh no! What have I done!?
That curry immediately turned his teeth blue. There was no gradual transition. One bite and his teeth were blue. I do not think that stuff is safe to eat.
I expect this to be a wild ride. Thanks for the upload babe.
With this game the phrase "if you put the time in, it'll put you to the test" is very apt.
eating my shitty sonic general mills cereal while watching this
Watching Knuckles fumble the bag really made my day
omg The Night Cafe is my favorite van Gogh! I love you're videos and hope you are doing so well
What this game really needed was more time in the oven; I remember playing it with a friend years ago, and thinking had the developers ironed out the glitches, some weird physics, and a couple technical issues, it wouldn’t have been as hated as it was upon release (the romance plot is a different story). Also, that soundtrack is phenomenal
Also one of the project leads ran off with half the game's budget to make Sonic and the Secret Rings (which is in many ways an even worse game).
Has anyone mentioned how they use your videos to sleep? I use them for that, rewatching my favorites every so often. Thanks for being awesome. I'm glad you're finally being seen by so many people!
When I saw you on camera with all the Sonic drip I was like, "oh shit he looks like he's feeling himself like I did when I went on a two year long acid trip, but I shouldn't assume things." Then you said, "if I could ascribe a color to this smell." Have a safe trip Thor. xD
Dude i thought your channel was dead. So much content. Glad your active. Still binging your library. Thumbs ya if ya saw this thor. Thanks man.
No problem
I love this game. Really glad to see whoever grew up with it/ time passing to warm up to and appreciate the good things about. We haven’t had a good 3D sonic since Generations. I think with Forces and Lost World and the mediocrity, people have come to appreciate the ambition of 06
This is why I come to your channel. You take what is arguably one of the most extensive AAA fuckups agreed upon by the gaming community at large, and you frame it in a way that makes it endearing even though I just watched you accidentally launch yourself off a straight road 40 times. You manage to look at and APPRECIATE games for what they are, even if what they are is a barely-held-together pile of unfinished code that no one QA tested. It’s a welcome change from the angry-for-comedy’s-sake reviewers.
I checked the time stamp when you started reviewing the curry, and I was so happy to see I still had 20 minutes left. What a great vid.
when you put the cologne smell color up on screen i kinda laughed. To me, that yellow-green color is the smell of gasoline.
The smell you were describing is closer to a bright sky blue. The real ocean, salty and everything, is like a really soft gray-pink, and that fake ocean smell is a bright, vaugely orange, pink
I love this comment
That sonic curry looked absolutely vile. Like they squeezed the essence out of sonic and sold it as food.
Ever wondered what happens when they reboot Sonic?
Those aren't chunks of chicken/porc/whatever.
@@Valkeryu oh God I'm gonna vom
Difference between eau de cologne v eau de parfumme v eau de toilette: the concentration (decreasing) of fragrance/alcohol. The bigger, the stronger the scent.
ThorHighHeels done lost his damn mind this time around, and we reap the benefits...
Bro, wtf. The nanosecond I decide that you will NOT mention Wacky Worlds, you do.
Get out of my head, man!
(Fr, tho', great shit, dawg. Keep up the absolutely brilliant work. You being you and your MySpace Era aesthetics keep me going another day.)
Edit: Yooooo~ you even have that DeviantArt-ass Demon Sonic pic!
Your on camera-ness is awesome. More please!!
I think Project 06 just flat out proves there was a decent game under all those technical issues, they just needed time to polish it
Someone’s Patreon name was - “Vaping after Gaping”
I hope Sega outright buys the fan game once they're done, give it some polish, and release it as the remaster at a discounted price of $40. Fuckin imagine that though.
15:01 you looks like the hardest gangsta in history, I LUV IT :'D
Seeing that cut scene with Blaze, Mephiles, and Silver just reminded me of the fandub. The scene kills me everytime.
Gameplay: Its okay
Jank: Real
Story: Actually good.
Just wanna say, you're awesome. I watch all your videos. Everytime they pop up on my notifications I jump for joy. Keep on doing do you do do.
I want to see Eggman's mustache brush a vintage Ming vase.
I just liked the super speed sections in the Sonic missions.
There should be a game dedicated to that specific tone of gameplay. Arguably... that's how it's SUPPOSED TO BE. I think the Sonic series is greatly held back because it tries to be reinventive like Mario instead of embracing its own identity which is supposed be about spunk and speed.
“I’m not a… smellist.” Had me rolling
41:29 "Beautiful eyes. Like I heard from my brother before."
Swears in ps1 is an amazing song.
The deterioration of a man due to a hedgehog or a curry is terrifying.
Edit: it’s scary how well Sonic Adventure music works with FF8 music!
I'm at the point where hearing silver without a southern accent doesn't feel right.
Honestly the Silver ball segment perfectly explains the true PS1 Tomb Raider experience. Try to do a hard puzzle with pixel perfect accuracy and jank controls, fuck up half because you made a mistake and the game jank fucks you and then back tracking ten years or loading a save that's way older than you want it to be. Good memories
You could say T H E S K U N G had a rough transition to 3D
3:14 what a memory you have unlocked. lol
33:15
There's some dude on twitter who's absolutely mad about this guy and i can't stop laughing for 5 minutes whenever i think about that lmao
To further your thesis that sonic reflects whatever is trendy at the time, Twilight came out the same year as sonic unleashed.
I love how your videos always take a positive outlook on things that seen by most of the internet as 'bad'. It's really refreshing and you're cool as fuck for doing it. Keep it up!
I knowwwww!!!!!!!!
13:15 "Schmuckles bumble-fuckles his shit" lmao
I have never seen curry destroy a someone's will to live before
cool face reveal btw, you look cool af
why did you have to eat the blue goop my good dude
Sega does what Ninten-WON'T
I should have put money on this being a Thor video at some point
this game seems to be making a bit of a comeback, I also played it for the first time a couple weeks ago and I was pleasantly surprised. It felt like, if it had a bit more time, it would have been a genuinely good successor to the Adventure games
Having someone say ''I have standards'' while wearing a bling bling knuckles necklace is powerful. :'D
15:00 face reveal. Lots of respect for that homie. I'm proud you're comfortable.
The Prodigy and TGP go hand in hand with sonic. The fat of the land came out in....97. Around the time some sonic game came out