Thanks so much for watching everyone! Sorry it took me so long lmao, which tracks in this game are your favorite?

This was truly a great nostalgia trip. I used to play this game so much as a kid that my friends started to hate me because they wanted to play something else with me lmao. I loved other racing games of the era like Mario Kart Wii, the Crash Team Racing games and similiars, I still do. I used to play lots of Mario Kart Wii with my father as well. But even him didn't really like this game because it was too complex and fast-paced, which is actually its main strength. Zero Gravity is far from perfect but it's tons of fun, and the best tracks of the game have such great vibes. The water tracks are insanely good design-wise, they make me wish every water level had some kind of water river pushing you everywhere. That being said, is there any modern racing game of this kind outside of the Mario Karts? Would love to play this kind of stuff on PC in a multiplayer environment.

My ranking: 16: 90 Bouvelard 15: 80 Bouvelard 14: Nightside Rush 13: Botanical Kingdom 12: Snowy Kingdom 11: Security Corridor 10: Morbius Strip 9: Meteor Tech Premises 8: Megalo Station 7: Astral Babylon 6: Tempest Waterway 5: Aquatic Capital 4: Gigan Rocks 3: Crimson Crater 2: Gigan Device 1: Meteor Tech Sparkworks

Great video! It's definitely a shame this series died with (that which name shall not be spoken). It's honestly got a great aesthetic and seems like a lot of fun. These tracks honestly all look really nice and all the cool zero g shortcuts seem fun as hell even if they aren't super common. Not sure if I'll ever have the chance to give these games a try, but I'd love to see a new entry or maybe at least a remaster some day.

I like the fact that Nightside Rush and Tempest Waterway's layouts are essentially the layouts of their respective heroes counterparts but backwards with some modifications, similar to the R/T tracks in Mario Kart Tour

You've officially got me interested in racing games with your amazing analysis of riders, mario kart, and all-stars racing! Incredible video as always!

Not the biggest Sonic fan but if they ever make these games get re-releases, I'll try them. Great video still friend!

Aquatic Capitol is my Favorite. It is like a cool water park. This game really does take me back to my childhood. I got this game as Christmas present and I played it immediately on my PS2. Then years later I got it again for Nintendo Wii to play it again for old times sake since I lost the PS2 thanks to my siblings. I still hope SEGA Remasters this game and Sonic Free Riders cause the 1st Sonic Riders was the best. We can do our own tricks, boost, and attack our Rivals. That took those great mechanics off when they made Zero Gravity and Free Riders, only if your in 7th or 8th or 12th place, you'll be able to attack when u grab an item pod. They even messed up Super Sonic like what were they thinking? They clearly made him a power type. On the 1st Sonic Riders, Super Sonic was Speed, Flight, and Power. I hate whenever Super Sonic is playable in a Sonic Game, he always has to run on rings. I wonder what made Sonic Colors good enough to be remastered. I never even played to original game.

Aquatic Capital and Tempest waterway is fun and the music makes it better.

I think one of the things bringing Astral Babylon down that wasn't mentioned in its section is that you can't even play it until you've beaten both stories, since it's technically meant to be the A-Side track for Mobius Strip. if you got a chance to play it during the story, where the gimmick of the whole track being a boost section could have plausibly been implemented, it may have been a bit more fun to race on; maybe the Arks of the Cosmos get supercharged or something? idk. Mobius Strip's mandatory boss fight gimmick distracts from it some, but it definitely feels like the B-Side to Astral Babylon with the similarities in their design--wide open straightaways, short sections for different gear types, little to no actual input from the player needed, and the obvious basically-required (and actively forced, in Mobius's case) boost section. the design of them both being large, mostly empty boost-fodder tracks isn't good, mind you, but Astral being locked behind campaign completion alongside the Boulevard tracks just feels a little mean to me

I’m so glad I came in time for the video to actually already be out lol The worst ones for me are Tempest and waterway nightside rush, I hate them more than snowy kingdom if I’m honest, they’re good stages, I just suck at manoeuvring them The way I knew astral babylon was gonna be first😭 I also knew snowy kingdom was going to be second

Nightside Rush and Tempest Waterway unfortunately are my least favorites, mainly because of the visibility on the track. I like that these stages are done at night with a ton of rain going on, cause it gives it a lot more depth, but for me it just fucks with my vision. That being said, definitely agree with you on the Babylon one being dead last lol

GIGAN ROCKS IS S TIER 🙏🛐

Why there was a "Lord of Chaos" in the name of the Skythe Era?

i think i will buy sonic riders zero gravity on my wii u i should play with a gamecube controller

So, Free Riders next?