Is It Possible To Beat Sonic Free Riders with the Kinect?

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Күн бұрын

Not to toot my own horn or anything, but this might just be my magnum opus
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0:00 Intro Stuff
1:07 Training (you can skip this part if you want, I don't mind)
3:32 The Whole Shebang
22:53 Results
23:47 Patreons of the World
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#sonicfreeriders #sonicthehedgehog #challenge #aprilfools

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@comfyghost Ай бұрын

"is it possible to beat this game as intended"

@nuttygamer6484 Ай бұрын

My broken back after 100 percenting this game: *"I won, but at what cost..."*

@Ripnixen Ай бұрын

Next video gonna be, "Is it possible to beat Retail Sonic 06?"

@kaliosblissapou813 Ай бұрын

Ohhhh burn !

@zacknattack Ай бұрын

happy april fools' day

@destroyermcw626 Ай бұрын

@@nuttygamer6484Um I 100% it and nothing happened to me soooooo..........

@MetalSandshrew Ай бұрын

I was half expecting cuts to a camera to a fern in the view in the Kinect.

@Triff3599 Ай бұрын

Nice to see your human assistant doing all the Kinect work for you; this game doesn't accommodate for Piranha Plants

@mawdewile Ай бұрын

I payed her overtime to do this

@DE23 Ай бұрын

It's kind of ablist really. Rocket Cows would never do that

@Swagpion Ай бұрын

The truest challenge for any gamer. Physical activity

@karinyupinyan5754 Ай бұрын

I love playing the game normally ended up becoming a challenge just because of how infamous it is

@Tsukiru Ай бұрын

I'm a big fan of the straightforward and simple April Fool concepts. I had to do a double take like "Can I beat the game if I used a normal controller" but "Can I bet the game as it was released and probably intended to be played?" is much funnier.

@justlea6179 Ай бұрын

You know, this as an April Fool’s Day video honestly makes sense. For two reasons: -To see if there is any difference to enjoy it as is. -Is it easier or harder to perfect all stages with or without the gimmick. Were the reviewers joking or was it maybe true.

@c-tana5937 Ай бұрын

Yo! Fool's jokes aside, I wanted to give my thanks for actually showing pretty damn good skill in this game! It always frustrates me to no end when any sort of reviewer complains about the controls being unresponsive, since they're just fine once you get used to the delay. Especially the turning, though, *nobody seems to want to use their arms while boarding!* But my ranting aside, splendid video, Mawde, sub obtained.

@hanerd4270 Ай бұрын

fr the ending was a really funny way of making fun people who complain about it. i remember 100 percenting the game as a kid, its really not that bad

@quangamershyguyyz7166 Ай бұрын

Maybe the reviewers wouldn’t complain if the controls weren’t murder to get used to, and the worst way to play the game.

@roiitzkovich4545 Ай бұрын

Not only is it possible, as a kid I was able to S rank all of the missions. Still trash controls.

@HackaFan39 Ай бұрын

Ngl, it slipped my mind what day it was.

@ToonLinkGotT Ай бұрын

Haven't even watched the video yet and it's already the best video of 2024

@fr0stdr4ke95 Ай бұрын

The real April Fool's joke here is that you played through Sonic Free Riders of your own free will. You played yourself AND we got some Mawde Wile content.

@luizmiguel5484 Ай бұрын

you did very well and seeing now Sonic Free Riders has good levels and gimmicks (the one about holding on to the pole and launching yourself in some direction is my favorite) but I think the only problem with the game would be the fact that it depends on the kinect, the The idea is good, but an option to choose between playing on a controller or on Kinect would save the spine of many players, as well as being more comfortable to play

@mawdewile Ай бұрын

I agree. Not everyone has a big, well lit, open space to move their body around. Having that option might’ve saved the game

@Someguyhere111 Ай бұрын

@@mawdewile A real fan would just buy a bigger house smh

@destroyermcw626 Ай бұрын

@@Someguyhere111And I always have big houses or just big rooms honestly

@Capybarret Ай бұрын

I can’t tell if this is an April fools video or not

@fr0stdr4ke95 Ай бұрын

Yesn't.

@DarkMatter987 Ай бұрын

Nuh yuh

@onehitwonders7729 Ай бұрын

16:33 i love how he did his one and only shadow reference right after he literally just got done playing shadow

@jonolivier9126 Ай бұрын

Yeah, it is. I honestly never had issues with the Kinect in any game that used it, including Sonic Free Riders. If anything I actually enjoyed using it. I know this was an April Fools upload, but I still feel the need to defend the Kinect when I never struggled to use it the same way everyone else struggles to coexist with it.

@mawdewile Ай бұрын

I’m kind of in the same boat. The Kinect I used was working perfectly fine. A few hiccups here and there, but nothing compared to all the horror stories on the internet

@aruemon3086 Ай бұрын

This might be your hardest challenge yet.

@Antifrost Ай бұрын

Alright, you got me for sure. It didn't even occur to me until the end that this was an April Fools video, I was already preparing my comment for how I thought the idea of playing a game the dev intended way was funny enough on its own. That aside, I never played this one because my 360 red-ringed a long time ago, but I was a fan of the previous Sonic Riders games. I know this one wasn't reviewed well, but there are some nice ideas that I like in some of these races, like sticking your arms out to grab onto objects or find shortcuts. Having both the power skill and motorbike controls overlap does seem like an oversight, but otherwise you made the game look a whole lot more functional than others did when it released.

@dizzydaisy909 Ай бұрын

Love actually learning what happens in this game and not just someone complaining about the controls and putting it down after 5 minutes

@peaceribbon8322 Ай бұрын

The real 4/1 prank was saying equippeded again.

@greengaming2604 Ай бұрын

Glad the kinect and game I gave ya is put to good use

@mawdewile Ай бұрын

I sincerely do appreciate you for doing that my friend

@alsomawdewile Ай бұрын

“Magnum Opus”, Mawde says. Understatement of the century

@callumsparrow4379 Ай бұрын

Love how the Metal Sonic race map icon just looks like Sonic.EXE.

@kittykake44 Ай бұрын

I was so confused seeing the community post about this vid but it makes a lot of sense that this is an April Fools joke

@SerenitySpiderMonkey Ай бұрын

this game has so many gorgeous stages

@truebaconsamurai15 Ай бұрын

I loved playing this game with the Kinect. It was a pretty fun experience for me.

@bobbob1876 Ай бұрын

You have a great singing voice, what the hell?! You already have a good voice, but hearing you sing like that was, wow, damn! Amazing job!

@dizzydaisy909 4 күн бұрын

Came back to this and love it all over again, your videos are awesome mawde :D infinitely rewatchable

@salehalhajri7745 Ай бұрын

Bro your videos are getting better and better every time 🔥

@Toner_Cartirdge Ай бұрын

Wow! Fantastic video! Love how you took this challenge seriously and efficiently explained everything for us. As someone with next to no understanding of this game it really helps having it simply explained!

@ChefGamrLafs Ай бұрын

Real title: is it possible to beat the game without hating it??? (This was one of my childhood games and with my too young mind I either just did casual races or only team heroes with my siblings. Eventually we chose to do the rest and I beat the whole game several times).

@The-toast Ай бұрын

This was a fun way to learn what actually happens in Free Riders, especially since I've seen the cutscenes waaay more :)

@corbinpyles Ай бұрын

This game can be fun with a controller, but I wish this game in general had an option to turn off power-ups in the rules settings for racing where it's just pure racing where it feels realistic. Since I feel like the power-ups makes the AI easy, I wonder how tough the AI would be without power-ups? Don't get me wrong, power-ups are fun to use, but I usually like them off. I would love it if it had an option to turn off power-ups instead of using the invisible gear part to act like there's no power-ups.

@33pandagamer Ай бұрын

If you lean too far forward or backward, the connect thinks you left the play area.

@thelonleygengar 25 күн бұрын

The fact this would be a actual challenge because i sure as hell couldnt do this

@Ryu_D Ай бұрын

Thank you for the video. You say this is an April Fools video, but I could not figure out how to play this game with the Kinect to save my life. Props to you for sticking with it.

@isenokami7810 Ай бұрын

Mawde: “Also, 50k and I’ll do [a challenge] for Bubsy 3D.” Me: honestly, the challenge I’d want is more for rom hackers than players: can you make something tolerable or even fun using Bubsy 3D as your base game?

@mawdewile Ай бұрын

Bubsy 3D gets the Project 06 treatment.

@TheWrathAbove Ай бұрын

You totally could... but it'd be a lot of work for not much pay off. Bubsy 3D is fundementally broken in most every way. The way Bubsy and the camera work in that game is truly atrocious and not at all accomedated by the level design so the game desperately wishes those were ironed out, but even with good controls the level design is a travesty. At best the level design is completely nonsensical and at worst it's actively punishing the player for daring to engage. We could of course focus on making new levels that better work with the base controls and camera, but that's a hard sell because as mentioned they're awful and not fun to play with, and provide no real oppertunities for interesting level design, ex: the camera panning directly down when you jump forces every jump to be straight down or badly designed. So what we end up with is that we'd need totally new controls, camera and new levels to make a game that isn't inherently unfun to play, and even then the theming would be garbage. Bubsy is painfully unfunny in Bubsy 3D, the graphics are... unfinished, and the sound is painful. It would genuinely be easier and a better use of your time to make a Bubsy fan game from scratch then it would be to fix Bubsy 3D.

@isenokami7810 Ай бұрын

@@TheWrathAbove Yeah, probably not worth it. Definitely fun to say you could, though. Incidentally, Rerez actually introduced a better target game for this sort of challenge/redemption hack thing: Phix the Adventure. Could’ve been a late PS1 curiosity, certainly has more starting value than Bubsy 3D, but it’s more broken than Sonic 06. Notably, while Bubsy 3D is a case of really being better off starting from scratch, Phix is more a case of “this might be worth someone’s time at least if someone went in and fixed…everything.” You’d know what I mean if you saw it.

@darkhorse744 Ай бұрын

Will watch ASAP.

@bIobwastaken Ай бұрын

I pressed the like button until my fingers broke

@andreworders7305 Ай бұрын

2:08 sounds like a good way to pull something

@Zero_de_Nova Ай бұрын

Great Video!

@leviticusprime4904 Ай бұрын

So this is what hell looks like, ngl it’s about what I expected.

@oOSonicexeOo Ай бұрын

While the Kinect wasn’t really great I do find it a kind of funny that you have people nowadays obsessing over the idea of using their body/hands instead of a controller yet that’s literally what the Kinect did even though the tracking wasn’t the best at times like yes the Kinect was hated at the time but people hating on it nowadays is like hating on a car from the 2000s because it’s not as good as a car from the 2020s they do the same thing but one’s obviously better

@XvXHaruhiSuzumiyaXvX Ай бұрын

the difference being, of course, that the 2000s car is the better one

@xamp_exclammark Ай бұрын

Cheaper modern VR setups do actually use the kinect from what ive heard

@ericb3157 Ай бұрын

somehow, this reminded me of an old video i saw on a, ahem, adult website. the video shows someone using a device, where you stand on top of it, and shift your weight, to perform the equivalent of moving a directional control or joystick. the funny part is that one of the players is tied up, wearing a "monoglove" style bondage device! oh, and she's also dressed in a latex jumpsuit.

@Night.Knight Ай бұрын

Mawde,you willingly put yourself through one of the few games I had as a kid. You absolute madman.

@mawdewile Ай бұрын

I got lucky. The Kinect I had was reading me perfectly fine 🤷‍♀️

@pokapoka3686 Ай бұрын

love your vids!

@andreworders7305 Ай бұрын

When the real challenge is just beating the game as intended, lol

@Gaiacrusher9fan2 Ай бұрын

I didn't even know there was a mod to play with a controller. Plus, even as an April Fool's joke, it was still informative. Well done.

@motionproplus6346 Ай бұрын

Ngl that looks hella fun

@drakordarkstar383 Ай бұрын

yeah the kinect worked perfectly fine. it's easy to get used to if you use your whole body to turn and bend your knees. and if you give yourself room for it to SEE you

@corbinpyles Ай бұрын

Dude, I didn't even know that part. I'm glad I learned something new from this game😎

@Alph4Falc0 Ай бұрын

I’ve never wanted someone to have 50k subs so fast

@beatziegraham6928 Ай бұрын

I can’t wait for Bubsy 3D for the Kinect!

@blametheghost Ай бұрын

ya know what, you are the greatest sonic the hedgehog player in all of history for this video

@CluckBuckles Ай бұрын

0:54 Closest thing to a face reveal.

@jojonono2679 Ай бұрын

Great video

@catthebart9108 Ай бұрын

😂 Yeah, baby !! Best april fools day gift l could ask for !!

@benpopalisky1168 Ай бұрын

Happy April Fools Day. When it comes to this game, you definitely have lots of skills.

@andreworders7305 Ай бұрын

You make this game look like it functions

@mawdewile Ай бұрын

I think I just got lucky with a good setup. I had a big, bright, open space to move around so I’m the Kinect must’ve had an easier time reading my actions compared to other people. Nothing compared to all the horror stories I heard online

@Nomad-vc6hx Ай бұрын

Can’t believe after so many years a plant was willing to sacrifice its sanity for this thank you on the behalf of humanity

@universe7soap Ай бұрын

Thought it was gonna be beating the game without hitting a wall.

@Nathan-rb3qp Ай бұрын

The sheer amount of mods and fangames in the Sonic series is a testament to how almost everyone in the fan base is better at making Sonic games than Sega themselves.

@Kyle_Spivis Ай бұрын

As ethoslab would say “Grab your snacks!”

@kanrakucheese Ай бұрын

The game actually looks pretty good for a 360 game, especially one centered around a gimmick peripheral.

@KebabTheLama Ай бұрын

nice aura sphere reference!

@thelonleygengar 25 күн бұрын

Fun fact Oddly enough despite never playing this game i have had a dream about the frozen forest half pipe in the mario and sonic Olympic games

@thelonleygengar 25 күн бұрын

It was also dawn but that's not important

@NinjaV_Editz Ай бұрын

This game actually looks fun

@PaxtheDreamer Ай бұрын

13:54 - I would've given you a 7/10, myself

@jajathenewking6131 Ай бұрын

The Kinect has the same problem as the wii where you just need to find the right ones with better sensors, my Kinect wasn't that good apparently.

@isenokami7810 Ай бұрын

The whole “swapping between normal and goofy stance swaps your rider ability” thing has me conflicted. On one hand, in general it’s a very “why would you do that” thing given the Kinect controls, because of course everyone would want to keep flipping their actual left and right to swap abilities as needed. On the other hand, it seems like something that would actually be pretty cool if you mastered it and pulled it all off flawlessly in a race, which is very much in the spirit of Sonic.

@James-lw9ih Ай бұрын

It was honestly interesting to see that it's possible to beat the game with the kinect controls considering the reputation

@FlameSwordedLink Ай бұрын

Completely forgot you had a Patreon, let alone that I was supporting it. Whoops?

@PaperWorldManShoji Ай бұрын

The april fools prank here was you thinking it was an april fools prank

@ivythay4259 Ай бұрын

Metal Sonic's icon in this game will never not bother me.

@IPODsify Ай бұрын

Not only is it POSSIBLE I 100% this game as a kid

@sidclauwers5945 Ай бұрын

Still love this game, had tons of fun with the kinect. Still wish I had more time with it 😢

@natk205 Ай бұрын

This could've been a great game, if Sega had bothered to make the Kinect controls, you know, consistent with everyone who played it.

@Soldaraku Ай бұрын

I like how the only time there's a slight semblance of difficulty is when you're technically able to be lazy and sit down.

@TayumeTheMuffinMan Ай бұрын

I swear, I thought "Goofy" was just you saying stuff, until it popped on screen with Silver. How has this game not won GOTY. 🤣

@ca_lcium Ай бұрын

This is just the first Riders's mission mode but with some story added in, I feel less bad that I never played this game now 😂

@flumphflumph6021 24 күн бұрын

I wish the Kinnect had been a secondary option for this game or at least got controller support. Compared to the PS2 version, this version of the game is much prettier to look at. Note: I've never had the space to use the Kinnect so whether I wanted to ("Gun Stringer") or not ("Kinnect Adventures") I couldn't give it a chance.

@jsj0520 Ай бұрын

Of course I haven’t touched it in over a decade but when I got this game as an 11 year old I fucking loved it. Of course now that I’m older and graduated with a degree in game design I can see it’s faults but still doesn’t change the fact that I once had fun with it.

@morpho1548 Ай бұрын

0:00 me when I find a funny plant with shark like teeth

@Poker2735 Ай бұрын

The worst part is that it is a challenge

@justavulpixlol Ай бұрын

Damn, I didn't know this game actually had tracks that weren't "go forward, you win"

@dragensnow9280 Ай бұрын

Considering I beat it as a kid... I'ma say yes

@Wolfy-Kun Ай бұрын

I own Free Riders, and oh my god its really tiring....

@thatloserexe5746 Ай бұрын

Ngl I herd this game was so bad that I thought this video was for real 😂

@Julian-um2om Ай бұрын

really wish some of these stages and songs were in riders or zero gravity

@mrhalfsaid1389 Ай бұрын

14:10 six is underselling, that's an 8 in my book

@iszac Ай бұрын

Somehow this video made me want to play this on the 360

@speedupslowdown358 Ай бұрын

One day you’ll be able to sing the full song with a bunch of Patreon members🙏🏾

@mawdewile Ай бұрын

If it can eventually get to that point, it’d be the best thing ever

@Scorbunzx Ай бұрын

Hi mawde wile happy April fools day.

@sipinosapa Ай бұрын

Well. I did. Back then

@DuskoftheTwilight Ай бұрын

"haha, nice April fools joke, acting like they really made a game like this without controller support...wait what do you mean that wasn't a bit?"

@kaliosblissapou813 Ай бұрын

Making a 100 percent in this mode make me want to play the game again

@tsyumamatsuthehavenofguard32 Ай бұрын

YES

@djoshawott2850 Ай бұрын

I remember beating this game as a kid, actually. But I didn't bother 100%ing it, admittedly.

@KnightoftheWind7 Ай бұрын

Did you seriously not come across many problems with the Kinect? In any case, AWESOME JOB!!

@mawdewile Ай бұрын

For the most part, I legitimately did not have many problems with the Kinect. It’d hiccup every once and a while, but overall, unironically had a very fun time with it. That might’ve been the case because I had a much better set up compared to other people

@KnightoftheWind7 Ай бұрын

@@mawdewile Interesting, it was that setup you showed us with the Kinect on the Xbox right? Why do you think that worked better?

@mawdewile Ай бұрын

I was fortunate enough to be in an open, well lit room while playing this. In other words, I could stand far enough away from the Kinect to where it can see my entire body, and it was pretty bright (all while not bumping into anything). I’m thinking because of that, the Kinect had a much easier time registering all of my movements. Sadly, not everyone really has that privilege; I just got lucky.

@mawdewile Ай бұрын

That’s my theory at least

@KnightoftheWind7 Ай бұрын

@@mawdewile Makes sense, keep up the amazing work!