Well this one is specifically not enjoyable to finish at all. Like most sonic games are fun bad and cool to look at, Secret Rings is unbelievably dull for the whole 10 fucking hours it takes to beat.
This game may not be the best in the _Sonic_ franchise, but the Game Grumps always know how to make even the worst games so much more enjoyable and hilarious. Seriously, Dan calling the Erazor Djinn "the exact midpoint between Thanos and Fred Durst", is priceless. How do they come up with this stuff?
Frankly, the worse the Sonic game is, the better the Grump episodes will be. To the point where I now constantly WANT them to release awful ones knowing there will be some hysterical grumpy comedy in the future. (And I'm happy to report that both the Grumps and Sonic team keep delivering!)
@@kantackistan and on the flipside, them playing Frontiers may result in a not-stellar series, like how the Sonic Colors series was kind of unmemorable...
I hope Dan eventually listens to Steve Conte outside of the context of this Sonic game. His work with Yoko Kanno is tremendous. Rain, stray, Heaven's Not Enough, Call Me Call Me, No Reply, and Living in the Shell are all bangers.
Oh god I played this game when I was something like 8. I had no clue what sonic game it was because I couldnt find anything about a desert sonic game. I only remember being stuck and eventually giving up in some multi level temple with stairs around it or something. This is already unlocking repressed memories
I remember when this first came out and they were reading out positive reviews for this game and wondering why they were so glowing... i wanted to jump through the screen and say “this was from 2007.... what do we recall came out in ‘06?” 😂
The captions are going NUTS dude. For a brief moment I thought someone had wrote wrong captions as a gag but now I just think they are just artificially wrong or something.
Despite it getting overused, I really do like Seven Rings in Hand. And that's about the only nice thing I can say about this game. Would be pretty swell if Dan did do a cover.
Steve Conte does make a lot of butt rock but I still love him, he made some of the most memorable OST's for me. Cowboy Bebop, Wolf's Rain, Ghost In The Shell, and yes... Sonic lol
Y'all, those CC captions are for the last Sonic Frontiers episodes. I was freaking out for a second because I switched mid-video to a device that had CC on for UA-cam and was reading a conversation about how hedgehogs weren't considered rodents lmao
@@bradoliver9324 Yes, but only to anyone with 2 brain cells to rub together when it comes to actual gameplay. We know Arin plays these to get upset and make the funny for the viewers, and not to play the games as they are intended.
The bit about them conning sonic out of fifty dollars fucking killed me. I love how they have the wherewithal to contribute to a bit when they don't even know where it's going.
This game is genuinely horrible and unplayable. I had it as a kid and hated it and I just replayed it at 26 and it’s GOD AWFUL. Easily the worst game I’ve ever played
Oh god, his description of how the jump works reminds me of our microwave. It only registers a button press upon letting go, and only if you pressed it for like half a second before you let go, which is so ass backwards! I keep telling my mum how fucked it is but she doesn't seem to notice lol.
I listened to this while cleaning out my desk and found Sonic and the Secret Rings fan art I made when I was like 8. You two have brought this back into my life
I'm one of those insane people that has watched literally every episode of Game Grumps ever put out, and yet somehow my brain completely eliminated them ever playing this from my memory.
Sonic and the secret rings was almost my first sonic game. It was my birthday and my dad took me to GameStop so I could pick out whatever game I wanted. I grabbed Sonic and the Secret Rings off the shelf when my dad asked “Are you sure that’s what you want?” Thanks to my dads intervention, I decided I didn’t actually want that game and I returned it so I could get Sonic and the Black Knight instead
I LOVED this game & still say that Dark Spines Sonic is the BEST powered up form. Screw vanilla Super Sonic, it's all about those Dodge Viper racing stripes on his back!!
They should make a "defenestration compilation", simply because that title is the perfect clickbait. For those of you who don't know, it would be a compilation of whenever one threatens to throw the other out of a window.
I use to play this when i was little because it was litterally the only entertainement we had no tv or any other games Watching this made my wrists hurt and my hands moved with a phantom controller every time he failed a dash on the tutorial and i remember being stuck on that tutorial for hours and this was before online tutorials and shit wer super popular we still had game guide books and shit
Honestly though, I was so hesitant to watch them play this, because this game was one of my favourites as a kid. At the time when I only had a Wii and Sonic 06 had just come out and I really wanted that one, this was the one I got instead, and I really loved the style and music and design... I hope they do a remaster 😅
Honestly, if they fixed the janky controls (I never really had a problem with them, even as a kid, but a lot of people did, so there's definitely *something* that needs fixing,) and put both it and Black Knight on the Switch, I think the reception around these games would improve, and very little would make me happier, as someone who loves this game a lot in particular. Then again, seeing what happened to the Colors remaster, I don't think I want them to try it.
@@Seeker_of_Truth_and_Beauty I was the same! I got used to the controls pretty quick, I don't remember them giving me much trouble (even going absolutely insane with waggling during boss fights 😂). I would definitely play a Storybook collection remaster on Switch! As for Colours, I never played the original, but I didn't find the Switch version disagreeable at all!
"Sonic is the best game series that ever crossed the humanity."
That's an action packed sentence right there.
You know what, I'm inclined to agree.
Sanic.
no no, it was:
"sanic is the best game series that ever did cross the humanity."
@@acediaethos4469 google subtitles say "san oak" which is how i will be pronouncing his name from now on
22:10 Arin: “Saying this game is flawed, is like saying dying in a fire was temperate”
This line: Chefs kiss
Ah yes, the game that gave us so many comedic moments, yet was never finished. In other words, a game the game grumps played.
Still waiting on them to finish Cuphead and Hollow Knight 😂
@@estebancontreras8184 Don't hold your breath.
With how bad the controls are, I'm not surprised nor can I blame them.
Well this one is specifically not enjoyable to finish at all. Like most sonic games are fun bad and cool to look at, Secret Rings is unbelievably dull for the whole 10 fucking hours it takes to beat.
I thought they didn't finish generations, but they did 😅😂 they need to stop making this a habit lol
"the direct midpoint between Thanos and Fred Durst"
that line and the "Infinity gauntlets up, Infinity gauntlets down" right after get me every time
This game may not be the best in the _Sonic_ franchise, but the Game Grumps always know how to make even the worst games so much more enjoyable and hilarious. Seriously, Dan calling the Erazor Djinn "the exact midpoint between Thanos and Fred Durst", is priceless. How do they come up with this stuff?
Frankly, the worse the Sonic game is, the better the Grump episodes will be. To the point where I now constantly WANT them to release awful ones knowing there will be some hysterical grumpy comedy in the future. (And I'm happy to report that both the Grumps and Sonic team keep delivering!)
@@kantackistan and on the flipside, them playing Frontiers may result in a not-stellar series, like how the Sonic Colors series was kind of unmemorable...
@@ferociousfeind8538 tbf the frontiers series is pretty good rn
@@ferociousfeind8538 I’ll say colours felt like it flew by but frontiers slaps so far
@@ferociousfeind8538 wdym the 21 pilots bit though Sadge
Lesmo had so much fun adding random subtitles to this hour-long comp
Oh weird, it looks like it's the subtitles from yesterday's Sonic: Frontiers episode.
@@TheBabaloga Yep. Looks like that is what happened haha.
oh thank god you said that i thought i was going insane.
@@ShaneyCrotty same bro. I almost couldn't pay attention to dan and arin
WHAT THE HELL HAHHA
32:14 The sarcasm in his voice is sooo delicious.
"Good job, 'video game boy'."
Give off the same vibes as "Wouldn't you like to know, Weather boy?"
"Put me back in the kiln." Always a classic.
I hope Dan eventually listens to Steve Conte outside of the context of this Sonic game. His work with Yoko Kanno is tremendous. Rain, stray, Heaven's Not Enough, Call Me Call Me, No Reply, and Living in the Shell are all bangers.
Yeah although I love his work from this game very much
Shit that man sang my childhood
I mean, Dan's a vocal fan of Cowboy Bebop so I'm sure he's heard some of these songs.
Oh god I played this game when I was something like 8. I had no clue what sonic game it was because I couldnt find anything about a desert sonic game. I only remember being stuck and eventually giving up in some multi level temple with stairs around it or something. This is already unlocking repressed memories
Literally my exact same memory of this game too. I think it was either my first or second sonic game
I remember when this first came out and they were reading out positive reviews for this game and wondering why they were so glowing... i wanted to jump through the screen and say “this was from 2007.... what do we recall came out in ‘06?” 😂
1:15 Dan's "the direct mid-point between Thanos and Fred Durst" is comedy gold!
I got excited I thought they were finally going back to finish this lol
Same.
Me too I was like " no way"
i donbt even think this game has an eding, i never go to it 😂😂
@@Disaster_Jessit does. They beat sonic heroes they can beat this
The captions are going NUTS dude. For a brief moment I thought someone had wrote wrong captions as a gag but now I just think they are just artificially wrong or something.
Yeah I couldn't stop reading em, they read like the captions to the audio from the Frontiers video from yesterday.
It looks like the one for a Frontiers episode
"Kirk O'Bann"
Despite it getting overused, I really do like Seven Rings in Hand. And that's about the only nice thing I can say about this game. Would be pretty swell if Dan did do a cover.
i love dan's "WOAHHHHHHHH , lets freaking go" and stuff like that, its not convincign at all - which makes it hilarious
54:15 I love that Dan did this again in Frontiers xD
I’m so glad there’s more structure to the video titles now 🙏
Steve Conte does make a lot of butt rock but I still love him, he made some of the most memorable OST's for me. Cowboy Bebop, Wolf's Rain, Ghost In The Shell, and yes... Sonic lol
oh my god this was steve conte? that's fucking wild, i love him too 😆😆
You have fantastic taste in anime. ❤
So Arin..... you're gonna be finishing this amazing game, right?
And if you do... CUSTOMIZE YOUR SKILL RING!! PLEASE
Sonic's rings will be brought to the public eye! He cannot keep them secret forever!!
10 secrets Big Ring DOESN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW
@@EE-jp5ev Yes!
“Ship it!” I died. Thanks for this compilation 😂😂
I remember playing this game as a kid, and man, if people thought other sonic games' controls were ridiculous, well. *this game*
I’m so used to these compilations being like 6 hours long so it’s weird to see one that doesn’t even hit 2
I hope this all leads up to an amazing sonic tier list
I really really hope they go back to this one. It's so visually awesome and a freaking train wreck to play
1:00:22 One of the funniest moments on game grumps
If Arin doesn't say "UNAVOIDABLE DJINN MOVE!!!!" at some point during this game I am going to be very disappointed.
Y'all, those CC captions are for the last Sonic Frontiers episodes.
I was freaking out for a second because I switched mid-video to a device that had CC on for UA-cam and was reading a conversation about how hedgehogs weren't considered rodents lmao
And Arin still never realized that you have to press Custom on the skill rings to equip abilities. 😂
Would it ever have mattered? The game still handles like assy badness.
ignorance truly is bliss, I wish I didnt know this about the playthrough lmaoo The One Who Games strikes again
@@bradoliver9324 Yes, but only to anyone with 2 brain cells to rub together when it comes to actual gameplay. We know Arin plays these to get upset and make the funny for the viewers, and not to play the games as they are intended.
@@bradoliver9324 man I played this game as a lil kid just fine, arin just ain't the brightest bulb in the box lol
@@jonathanpilcher337 I also had this game as a kid, still handled like assy badness.
The bit about them conning sonic out of fifty dollars fucking killed me. I love how they have the wherewithal to contribute to a bit when they don't even know where it's going.
This game is genuinely horrible and unplayable. I had it as a kid and hated it and I just replayed it at 26 and it’s GOD AWFUL. Easily the worst game I’ve ever played
1:01:01 I think "go dry up" has got to be my favorite thing from this video
"Saying this game was flawed is like saying 'dying in a fire is temperate'" is a beautiful analogy
43:28
Am I remembering wrong or Arin also talked about that fact on their recent playthrough of Sonic generations?
He mentions SOAPs sonic shoes in almost every 3d sonic play through. Especially if the game has rail grinding in it.
Oh god, his description of how the jump works reminds me of our microwave. It only registers a button press upon letting go, and only if you pressed it for like half a second before you let go, which is so ass backwards! I keep telling my mum how fucked it is but she doesn't seem to notice lol.
I listened to this while cleaning out my desk and found Sonic and the Secret Rings fan art I made when I was like 8.
You two have brought this back into my life
Be glad you didn't gone further,It gets much harder. And i faced Erazor Djinn. But those damn secret rings! Btw great trip back to the past guys!
13:52 Dan out here rocking the white friend "hooray!" before the meme even became a thing lol
It's funny how kids still love sonic ... 30 years later 😅
It’s great that this can be shared with young and old alike. A generational bonding kind of thing.
41 minutes for the tutorial! Man I'm dying xD
I love you guys
The game pace is as slow as Sonic. Just watching him walk quickly is painful.
How did I miss that this whole playthrough existed?
Oh well, this compilation is perfect then
Thank you Dan for the Frou Frou reference at 25:48 I was convinced no one else had actually listened to that song and maybe I imagined it
Dan quoting "Let Go" by Frou Frou just made my day. 🎵
This was my second Sonic game so I can’t help but love it. It’s so nostalgic to me and personally, I love the music in this game
" I can;t even be silly-mad in this" - Arin
idk what game the captions are playing, but i’m glad they’re having fun :-)
I thought I was going insane.
I'm one of those insane people that has watched literally every episode of Game Grumps ever put out, and yet somehow my brain completely eliminated them ever playing this from my memory.
Thank you for labeling the compilation! I thought for a second we were playing two sonic games at once lol
I don't know about anyone else, but I frequently use the Erazor Djinn to shave the secret rings from my special area.
"The exact mid point between Thanos and Fred Durst."
God, Danny was on FIRE that day.
I think Dan saying Die Hard 4 is unneeded is the most critical I've ever heard him be of a movie
Arin's experience and pain mirrors my own experience with this game.
Sonic and the secret rings was almost my first sonic game. It was my birthday and my dad took me to GameStop so I could pick out whatever game I wanted. I grabbed Sonic and the Secret Rings off the shelf when my dad asked “Are you sure that’s what you want?” Thanks to my dads intervention, I decided I didn’t actually want that game and I returned it so I could get Sonic and the Black Knight instead
oh boy I love Soinc and the Scring Rings
1:04:37 Gasp, Arin hasn't played the Evoland games! Both would make for a great series on this channel!
This was so great to go back and watch, definitely should go back after he enjoys Frontiers to rekindle the rage
i still wish y'all finished this game honestly, many iconic and golden moments out of this playthrough
I love how Sonic, the fastest thing alive, gets outran by dinossaurs, the ones not known for their speed no less
I love how the Closed Captions file is for the last Sonic Frontiers episode lol
37:53 He led with the jar!
It looks like the English non generated subtitles are from a previous sonic game!
So apparently this sold a little more than '06.
'06 sold 2.69 million, this sold 3 million.
At 55:28 the king says “just as I feared” but is written “just as feared”.
Two very similar sentences with very different meanings.
I JUST realized Dan made a Frou Frou reference and I could not be happier
49:57 Fun fact: the dinosaur models in these games were reused from the Dinosaur King Arcade Game.
The real sonic heroes were the friends we made along the way.
25:04
Arin: This game sucks.
Sonic: I'll make you eat those words!
Also, 25:16 "Sounds like _you're_ getting tilted."
...at the towers? (sorry)
I REALLY want them to see the final cutscene, that thing is a trip.
Funnily enough, I was JUST thinking of rewatching this series!
I'm 25% sure Arin hates Sonic, 25% sure he loves Sonic and 50% sure it doesn't matter because it's hilarious.
1:02:05 the song he’s thinking of is Ten Thousand Fists by Disturbed. I know because I thought the same thing when I heard it.
I want to see how Dan does on a "Name that Dinosoure" test or a dino tier list.
I LOVED this game & still say that Dark Spines Sonic is the BEST powered up form. Screw vanilla Super Sonic, it's all about those Dodge Viper racing stripes on his back!!
I love how the subtitles are from a Sonic Frontiers episode.
I really hope they go back and finish this game one day 😂
Ah yes, “Sonic of the Rings” the game they never finished which pains me 😭
And the “next time on game grumps” for this sonic series never came…
yet, I'm happy they made it fun while it lasted
Good old Soinc and the Scring rings
They should make a "defenestration compilation", simply because that title is the perfect clickbait.
For those of you who don't know, it would be a compilation of whenever one threatens to throw the other out of a window.
I use to play this when i was little because it was litterally the only entertainement we had no tv or any other games
Watching this made my wrists hurt and my hands moved with a phantom controller every time he failed a dash on the tutorial and i remember being stuck on that tutorial for hours and this was before online tutorials and shit wer super popular we still had game guide books and shit
I loved that impersonation of Lewis from the Yogscast!! hah!
1:02:00
This actually reminded me of the X-Men opening theme
Sargnarg Tha Hardgharg is my favourite gaem
10:05 i remember playing this as a kid, and I could not finish the tutorial that they were struggling with (i couldn't remember this for like 5 years)
This is one of the best playthroughs ever
6:00 parents walked right by my door and I heard them stop and stand there for a minute. great
U play this on speaker?
@@4thquarter5 yup, usually just have it running in the backround while doing work. This time it was a mistake XD
Honestly though, I was so hesitant to watch them play this, because this game was one of my favourites as a kid. At the time when I only had a Wii and Sonic 06 had just come out and I really wanted that one, this was the one I got instead, and I really loved the style and music and design... I hope they do a remaster 😅
Honestly, if they fixed the janky controls (I never really had a problem with them, even as a kid, but a lot of people did, so there's definitely *something* that needs fixing,) and put both it and Black Knight on the Switch, I think the reception around these games would improve, and very little would make me happier, as someone who loves this game a lot in particular.
Then again, seeing what happened to the Colors remaster, I don't think I want them to try it.
@@Seeker_of_Truth_and_Beauty I was the same! I got used to the controls pretty quick, I don't remember them giving me much trouble (even going absolutely insane with waggling during boss fights 😂). I would definitely play a Storybook collection remaster on Switch!
As for Colours, I never played the original, but I didn't find the Switch version disagreeable at all!
54:13 I love how it cuts to the next clip
“Make a game where you can’t do anything and you have to unlock going left or something” Arin has never heard of Johnny Upgrade I see
They really asked, what sonic game could they cause the most damage with, on purpose.
The captions for sonic frontiers though 😂
I was so confused by the subtitles
I thought it was a joke at first! Woops!
"I'M WAITING FOR BATHTIME" always fucking kills me xD Oh, fuck, I completely forgot about that for the longest time.
My favorite part of any sonic play through is the moment Arin says "This is garbage dude!"
The subtitles are wild 😂
Its Sanoak!
With his friend Tulls!
You wouldn't believe this... but.. my favorite game of all time is sonic and the black knight! Would love to see you guys play it.
🤣🤣🤣
I listened/watched this while doing chores. Was a good time
what were the other storybook Sonic games? Sonic in Wonderland? Sonic & The Three Bears? Sonic & The Temple of Doom?
Seeing Arin having to deal with the terrible motion controls is giving me life, I hope they will continue this