sonic team making an xbox series x game in 2008 and porting it to the 360:

Welcome to Frame Drop Zone, how can we help you today?

You need 120 Sun Medals to play this damn stage

It took us 13 years…. But we can finally play Jungle Joyride Day officially in 60 FPS with no frame drops, it took 2 console generations to let 1 stage run as intended, let that sink in

It took 12 years, plus 2 console generations, for this game to run properly at a consistent 30 fps without any frame drops. Sonic Unleashed was objectively ahead of its time.

Jungle Joyride: [Frame Rate Drops] 9th Generation Consoles: Allow us to introduce ourselves!

I don't care what anyone says, frame drops and all, this is my favorite boost level in the franchise, hands down. The variety of locations, the challenge, the camera angles, the GORGEOUS scenery, the length, the music...EVERYTHING comes together so well.

I love how they nailed the “Late-game jungle stage” feel

I love how the music is utilized in Sonic Unleashed. If you get through the first area (the docks) flawlessly, this part 0:48 plays right as you enter the forest.

Yeah, sex is cool, but have you ever tried listening to this?

I don’t like how the only songs people pay attention to in the Unleashed OST are Windmill Isle and Rooftop Run. This and other tracks are amazing and deserve more attention

I just noticed how the tune that plays at 1:54 is literally used note for note in Sonic R's "Back in Time." I love little callbacks like that.

Power Point Panic Zone Frame Drop Jungle Zone Slowdown Speedway Zone Take your pick.

This stage is a masterpiece. It has the most natural and fluent level progression, It has a decent difficulty that tests all of your skills with the daytime stages just before Eggman land. It has plenty of spectacle that changes in each act of the level. It is pretty long. It has the most unique setting for a Sonic game much less any platformer and looks gorgeous. And last but not least has this bomber of a track playing in the background. Truly peak Sonic

I like how the XBOX version was more jungle themed and the Wii version was more village themed. Pretty neat.

Everyone: complains about frame drop & 120 Sun Medals Me: *Laughs in Wii*

Seen many people play this stage before when I was just 8 years old, and didn't know the frustration of the levels. I played this three months ago and I now know what the pain feels like. The music just makes you all fired up and makes you feel like you can't give up yet!

Incredibly underrated song honestly, people really don't talk about this one as much

Tomoya Ohtani crafted the perfect beat for the perfect and most challenging stages of the game. Favorite level so far and favorite game. Hope he got something similar for Frontiers.

Best stage in the game and i must say this Song is AMAZING. 2:17 always gets me.

everyone is out here talking about the medal requirement and then there's me who showed up with the stage already unlocked lmfao

Welcome to 5 FPS Zone!

Technology has finally caught up to Unleashed. NO MORE FRAME-RATE DROPS WOOOO

**We get it. The frame rate is bad! Now talk about the actual music.** Jesus.

Strange how most Sonic jungle stages get pretty ominous pretty fast. Angel Island Green Forest/White Jungle This!

Seeing the comments now... Oh, I wish you all would see how it plays now- we have finally achieved a crisp 60fps, after 2 long generations. It is finally ours. We can rest peacefully now, Unleashedbros. The battle has been won.

Best stage in Sonic Unleashed.

How do the citizens of this land live with all the frame drops??

1:53 - Sonic R - Back in Time

Frame rate aside, the visuals on this stage looks beautiful to look at! The game has aged pretty well!

My favourite stage from ALL SONIC GAMES. EVERYTHING is perfect there. Collapsing ruins, beautiful views, dynamic actions and this music... MASTERPIECE. The best stage I ever played.

Wii Adabat: 2’15 for an S-Rank seems rather strict... PlayStation 3 Adabat: It's "killing" itself trying to render all that foliage...

Sounds like it could of been in Sonic Riders!

By far my fav level, despite the frame drops, its so thrilling! Truly a joyride

this should have been in generations

From 0:37 too 1:24 is hands down the best part of this soundtrack

I’m really tempted to buy a Series X just to experience Sonic Unleashed without any frame drops. (I really do hope SEGA ports Unleashed to Steam)

This song just does it as the last stage (excluding the eggmanland gauntlet) because it just has that feeling that when you just hear it you know you'll be put to the ultimate test of everything you learned in the game so far. Love the entire ost and personally think unleashed had the BEST ost hands down.

After many years this still my favorite track from Unleashed, maybe even my favorite in Sonic Franchise: it's just so catchy, everything is amazing. Love it!

I played this on my series s and the frame rate was smooth asffffff. Now that I've experienced this stage in all of its glory I can say with confidence that this is my favourite stage in the game.

1:54 this portion kinda takes me Back in Time for some reason I can’t explain

Me: *start playing Jungle Joyride in Sonic Unleashed* My Xbox 360: this will be my final battle

Funny story: So me and a friend where messing around in Lego star wars 3, when we got bored and decided to play Unleashed. I had beaten the game a dozen times by than, so I let him play. Instead of wanting to play an Early stage, he told me to give him the hardest stage in the game, and I chose this one. It took 45 minutes and over 40 deaths, but when he hit the end, we where both screaming in joy.

It has been said many times before but YES, sonic unleashed was truly, ahead of it's time

🕺“We exchanged FPS for BPM”🕺

Hands down one of my favorite levels to S-rank. This song is, in my opinion, better than Rooftop Run.

Just hearing this is giving me flashbacks to those awesome Wii vine segments. You can hate the Wii version all you want, but I freaking love this game.

The song represents the stage and country it’s trying to replicate so well!

Now that the Series X can run Unleashed at 60 fps, I can safely say Jungle Joyride is the best stage.

This uses aspects from "Back in time" a Sonic R song

The flute section sounds extremely similar to Back in Time from Sonic R.

That awesome feeling when you clear the dock part in the beginning without slowing down.

I like the jungle joyride it goes fast at first then there’s a segment where it a slow type I love it

You cannot convince me that this music doesn't belong in Sonic Riders.

The name didn't missed out its really a jungle joyride

Unleashed ost is better than frontiers tbh

the penultimate setting of this game, befitting the title of greatest stage design in all of Sonic. i swear, man, there isnt a single level in any other game that works with the games mechanics so perfectly, smoothly and excitingly, especially after several hours of already experiencing amazing level after amazing level. Jungle Joyride is everything about what it means to BE Sonic and be moving at the speed of sound and it is by far the most enjoyable experience one could possibly get out of any one stage in any Sonic game, imo

With the release of the Xbox series X, technology finally exists to let us play this level.

It sounds like its building up to something, only to start building up to something else, and it ultimately doesn't build up to anything but itself.

Every joke about "frame drop zone" is now even more outdated as this game now runs at *60FPS* on Xbox Series X|S consoles. Wow.

Okay, the drop at 1:23 gets me every time, I mean, it's so energetic despite mostly being carried by the drums.

This game scored 100% from scenery to music to level design to essence of culture. This game was a god given masterpiece. I am so happy I got to have and experience this game as a child. 😭♥️ Nostalgia will never be forgotten

i know this stage has frame drops but the music slaps HARD

4:09 you think the song is about to end and then this banger comes through

It's crazy how this game is able to make my Xbox One S cry in despair as I play this stage, this game is 15 years old and still it can absolutely make recent hardware suffer

Every sonic fan: port the game to switch Sega: *laughs in jungle joyride*

This level for this song. The map is beautiful.

Jungle Joyride:exists My Xbox:RRRRREEEEEEEEEEEE

the perfect running song! i would have really liked adabat if the scenery were more lush -- but that's just me. i really love jungles.

This level looked so Perfect so it dropped the Frame rates

People: *need 120 sun medals* Wii players: "heheheheheheheeeeee siuuuuuuu"

bois, we did it

I recently noticed that this song shares that flute part with Back in Time from Sonic R! It makes me wonder if it's just a neat little coincidence or if they took some inspiration from it! ^_^

0:57 The way this drop is made is exactly why Sonic Unleashed will never compete against any other Sonic game for the title of "best sonic game"

Anyone listening to this amazing song in 2020?

I see comments about framedrops, I'm glad I first played this on the series S at 60 frames.

Im so glad they fixed the frame rate of this level for Series X. It is heaven~

Now at the 0:49 mark you can see Premy viewers' spike.

It was amazing playing this stage on the Xbox series S with 60fps

Who thought it was a good idea to make a techno track for an area with little technology? They were a genius. It reminds me a lot of Sonic music from the Saturn era.

This lagged like hell on PS3 but on 360 it was a lot better. It only really dropped frames when running on water and when you get a waterspout erupt, apart from that no I had no issues playing it on 360. Ofc having played the Unleashed Project since then you get no frame drops at all either way.

YES, I FINALLY FOUND THIS DAMN TRACK, My fav in all game.

This should've been picked for Sonic Generations. It being one of the latest levels, it would fit being near the end of Generations well. Combine that with all the water you run on being used like how they did in Seaside Hill, it would make a quite challenging level. Besides, Rooftop Run is the 4th city level. We've already escaped from 3.

0:48/0:49 Best part holy shit

How come no one talks about how much this song slaps?

When you play this on the Xbox you can just hear it screaming from renedering all the scenery. Thankfully the unleashed project is a thing

腹立つ程難しいステージな思い出だけど、改めて聞いても曲はバッチリ格好いい

the sense of speed in this games day stages are why they are by far my fave part of any sonic game ever. out of all the sonic games its this one where he feels blazingly fast. I think the realistic environments kinda help sell you on that, in my opinion!

These producers were definitely on molly.

0:00 right when I hear that intro, I knew this would an AMAZING song and I was right

0:48 No jodas Cómo adoro esta parte cuando voy en los rieles o uso el homin atack Para destruir a los robots Tremenda obra maestra 👌🏻 20/10

More like Frame Drop Joyride, amirite? Xbox Series X/S: *No.*

Too bad this level causes the framerate to shit the bed.

This stage alone would turn the switch into a nuclear warhead

It’s flying battery had a child with angel island

Flute or wind instrument was used from back in time in sonic R if it wasn't I'll eat my hat

BEST day theme in this game. Better than rooftop run. Fight me

The graphics were so good that the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 couldn't handle

I can here this song in Sonic Riders

1:53 The "Back in Time" from Sonic R reference is a nice touch.