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The thumbnail is like a cursed crossover between Sonic the Hedgehog and Echo the Dolphin that never got officially approved and is stuck in permanent limbo.

Fun Fact: The game files reveal a scrapped Super Easy Mode with invincibility, unlimited Tails Saves, and automatically puts you on the next platform if you're stuck in one place for too long. You may as well have placed a rock on the forward button and let it play itself.

If SEGA and Blind Squirrel want an easy mode, without insulting the intelligents of the average gamer, they should've just made Tails an optional playable character.

The thing I personally liked about Rise of the whisps was that while it still retained some of the cheesy humor in the main game, it did manage to at least get somewhat serious and Sonic and Tails are more in character then what is presented in the main story.

It disappoints me that a game I grew up with ended up with a mess of a remaster. Lack of options, over use of bloom, cut content, long loading times, lack of polish, and lots of glitches. Its sad because this remaster did some things right but for everything it does right it does 2 things wrong. I had a fun time with this game but its a mess of a remaster either way.

The seizure glitches surely makes everyone feel weird 😅 At least Sega patched those.

This is basically the exact same situation with Pokemon Sword and Shield. Half of the fans are toxically positive, ignoring the glaring flaws of the game and taking every form of criticism as a personal attack, while the other half is simply triyng to voice their complaints and want to make other fans and the company aware of all the flaws so we can get better games next time. I'm both a Pokemon fan and a Sonic fan and these 2 franchises are surprisingly similar.

Hopefully Sega doesn’t rush more games, I’m worried that this’ll be a major blow to Blind Squirrel’s reputation when Sega put them in a no win situation. They damaged Big Red Button with their carelessness and these developers do not deserve all of the hate they’re receiving.

Careful wispmix if you keep calling sonic a blue rat hes gonna trap you in a smelly lamp

Solid review man! I wanna say you nailed it when you talked about how there’s a huge disconnect between the actual fans and the game journos that don’t care about Sonic. Now that I think about it, SEGA def has these people in their ears which is understandable I guess. Hopefully going forward we get a product that isn’t rushed and will have major appeal to the fans.

Can’t wait to play this game. Also side note: Japanese sponsor? YES! Checking that out!

Sonic colors glitch where sonic LITERALLY turns into a fish. YES A. FISH🐟

Sonic Colours Ultimate is basically the reverse of past Sonic games around the Dark Age. Instead of being loved by fans but hated by critics, it's loved by critics and hated by fans. Guess reviewers really love the lack of ''Sonic's stupid friends'', easiness for their rather bad playing and Baldy McNosehair.

"The thing about the original Colors on the Wii was that it already was a decently easy game" Me, who 100%ed Unleashed Wii but could not even *finish* Colors: *cough* uhhhh yesexactly I don't think I'll be getting this game though. The original Colors was one of the biggest disappointments for 13 year old me back when it came out and time only made me dislike it more for a multitude of reasons and even after I tried giving it multiple chances. Glad you got enjoyment out of it though :) Edit: 22:48 How dare you forget the "Sonic had a rough transition to 3D" line!11! :') Jokes aside I do really feel that part about how it's catering more to reviewers and journalists. Some good points there

Sonic Colors Wii is a good time. In a vacuum, outside of the heavy usage of 2D it’s great. It’s what spawned from it which sometimes overshadows it. SCU cultimates this in a port of questionable/variable quality. Blurring the line between the quality of the game itself and the surrounding issues

Let's hope they don;t remaster the DS game, if they do, it should be called, "Sonic Rushed"

8:14 I'd really love to see an alternate skin where Sonic is wearing his favorite clothes from the OVA. That, and a JSR outfit.

Finally! Chaomix released his video on Sonic the Fish-hog! Been waiting for this ever since I saw that thumbnail on your Twitter feed.

Actually the Movie Sonic aura is a standard pre-order bonus. Not just digital deluxe. I got the physical preorder and still got it Oh and if you're ordering via Switch: the extra music and gold and silver wearables are purchasable as DLC. Meaning nothing was exclusive to the digital deluxe version on Switch. So if, like me you enjoy having physical copies of your games, be it for collecting purposes or just saving space on your console; You don't/ didn't have to worry about missing out

Eh, I'm pretty sure I'll never play Colors. I say this as somoene who used to love Generations enough to 100% it and replay it over and over, but I haven't geneuinely played it since like 2013-2014. Last time I tired to go back to it in 2018, I just couldn't enjoy it anymore. I'm just completely done with boost gameplay, nothing about it will ever make me enjoy it ever again. At least, so long as it remains the status quo for mainline titles. I want Sonic games to be more platform-centric/momentum-based, if not, go back to the Adventure formula. Keep in mind I'm not saying all boost games are bad. At the very least, I'll always respect and appreciate Unleashed for its ambition and story.

You're very much like me in this case. I was very blegh on the original colours yet the whole thing just clicked for me this time in spite of the clear issues with the Ultimate port.

Somebody in a Discord server I’m in has a little brother who got Colours Ultimate the Switch. When he opens the game for the first time, the game crashed.

It's like Sega these days prefers something like Monkey Ball or Yakuza series over Sonic, when it comes to actual quality game development.

Im happy the sezuire patch is gone now and im super stoked for the full patch so i can enjoy a blue rat running around at fast speeds

and the sonic cycle repeats

Sonic unleashed > sonic colors

Bruh your thumbnails are the best. Can't believe it's actually Canon on switch🤣

Please, Sega, I just want rolling to be a mechanic in sonic games again. It’s literally the defining trait of hedgehogs.

Don’t worry it makes me feel weird too

Colors DS is the best version of Colors.

Chaomix your thumbnails never disappoint me

Chao garden and Wisps in the same game would open the possibility of combining them, like the animals in sonic adventure, but with elemental qualities instead.

Whoever left the dislike is jealous of how good you look with your glasses. And how right your opinions are. 😫👌🏻.

Another chaomix Banger.

If my tweet somehow inspired the thumbnail art for this vid, I’m honored haha. Great review!

Seizure glitch: *exists* Me: Sonic...you're supposed to _absorb_ the Wisps, not _swallow_ them. smh. Welp, he's just stoned now, so that's a thing.

That "Seizure Glitch" part reminded me of one of the stages of Space Channel 5. Colors Ultimate's Glitch doesn't come close to the strength of the aforementioned level (Don't go see if you want to be okay. If you want to see, I suggest turning on the lights, lowering your device's brightness, and moving away from the screen.)

Lmao I loved the sponsorship

1:55 LOL that was the best way to start talking about sponsor 😂😂😂

hey chaomix it would be great to see a tier list of your favorite sonic video games.

The patch: “I. FIXED. *E V E R Y T H I N G* … I… think?” Me in tropical resort: proceeds to no-clip out of existence and cause a dead sonic body to most likely visit the backrooms by some unknown way most likely having to do with running out of power using *fudging pink spikes*

I had the framerate stutters on PS4 and PS5 (via external SSD) but not on my PS5's internal SSD.

While I concede that the gameplay is decent enough, I wouldn't say I enjoyed colors very much. Perhaps the boost style just isn't for me, since I wasn't too big on generations either (even if I can acknowledge that it is genuinely a good game). My biggest gripe, however, comes from the characterization. All of the characters are so...boring, man. They're so one note, it's almost painful listening to them speak. The only real exception to this being Eggman whose voice and mannerisms are so iconic at this point that he practically carries the series for me, in spite of the writers' repeated failures. For the sake of ending this on a positive note, I will say that the character customization between Forces and Colors Ultimate are really good additions that I hope get fleshed out and are here to stay.

Completely agree, criticism should be a healthy practice to ensure that the company sees and acknowledges the grievances from the consumer and answers them if really necessary. But with colors ultimate these aspects have been muddied, people treat all the issues found to be the same across the different platforms. Most casual consumers don't know that the real harm inducing glitches are primarily on the switch and will write it off like all versions are like this. But at the same time the blind defenders need to take their hands out of their ears and realize that not acknowledging an issue is not gonna help anything/anyone moving forward. Your video is probably one of the few I've seen to actually draw a line in the sand and talk about the positives and also address the negatives and issues but make the distinction that it's not the same a cross the board in terms of severity. So mad props for that!

I have a few reasons why I want to stay with the original game, most of them are minor, but because of its price in the currency of my country, I'm deeply unmotivated to buy it. Firstly, the biggest problems to me if I intended on buying and playing it, is the perfect homing attack sound effect, it's so loud, it pierces through my ears, but the physical problems doesn't stop there, because we have Starlight Carnival, which ended up getting way too bright, I have to lower the brightness of my screen if I want to see it with no problems, which would be a bigger problem if I have to control Sonic myself. The rest of the problems are smaller since they don't physically hurt me, but they still bother me, like how most of the stage looks, like Tropical Resort, which lost most of its fun on its visuals, but the rest of the stages suffered a lot less, Sweet Mountain looks great for the most part, even if I like the original's colors better, but the fact that they forgot to add shadows to a few parts bother me, it's a problem I can overlook, but I don't think it will ever be fixed, I think Aquarium Park is the best looking stage overall, it's the only one I actually like over the original, most of the problems I have left, you've already said on the video so I won't repeat it I can't talk about the gameplay itself because I haven't played this version, but the problems outside of it are already a deal breaker to me... but welp, Sonic is my favorite franchise, I'll probably buy it three years later like I did to Forces (add +2 years when the new Sonic game comes out), but as for now, I'll be staying with the original version. For the people willing to buy the remaster, have fun :)

I love how you drew SonFish the HedgeDolphin on the thumbnail. I love that glitch so much but sadly it is now removed

This also made some red rings much easier now as the one in Starlight Carnival you need to go around on with Spikes before it blew up and you died, simply grab it and then Tails will save you.

Man, I just feel bad that they didn't push to have DS there too... Like, fully 2D levels aren't that hard to make, esspecially when pre designed and they are supposed to share the graphical assets, so... I just wanted mother wisp... She was a fun boss.

Is not a fish, is Chaos, Chaos was planned for Sonic Colors Ultimate :D

I find it really funny that for some reason they got rid of the do you accept option from metal sonic

18:46 “This game launched in a very rough state.” As rough as Sonic’s transition into 3D?

Metal sonic is your best run on a stage with random boost areas and an edited path.

I’m going to be honest, I wasn’t very hyped for the game anyways.

I really enjoyed your review! It was well-organized and paced. I think I'm going to wait for the game to patch itself before I get it for Switch. Hearing about the lower resolutions and fps bums me out.

Oh come on, does sega think that kids suck at video games? I’m pretty sure DIMPS knew that kids were not babys

I watched this whole video and SCU’s credits are still rolling XD Great review though! A lot of the points you made summed up my thoughts perfectly.

I had the exact same feeling about 100%ing everything when I replayed the game on Dolphin. I think it more has to do with already knowing what to expect when you play the game and finding it much easier to tolerate the flaws. You know how to play the game and how its designed so its much easier to get through it rather than expecting something more.

*Reach for the Stars rewrite* Take off Falling to the ground Bright lights Stop that ringing sound I’ve been restyled And I need Coffee So much regret inside of me I’m so off track I’m giving up This game’s a blow I’ll keep re-running All that I see is bizarre And I lost my chocolate bar Adventure’s full of dismay All my games are on delay The skies bloom oh so bright Glitches to lose my sight I've never felt like this Wait that's a seizure The skies bloom oh so bright Glitches to lose my sight Nothing was planned All that I see is bizarre Alright

I’ve been waiting so long for this video!

“All dreams have meaning” My dreams: *the thumbnail*

no way chaomix literally just used the word "sussy" to describe the horrifying and frustrating glitches in the switch version

Omg that ad transition was super smooth and nice.

This is actually the most fair review I've ever watched nice one dude 👏

Did you know that the layout of the special stages in sonic colors ultimate are similar to those of sonic 1 (The zones; green hill, scrap brain, and etc.)

Love the "Welcome to the next level" shirt

Great, now you've blessed us with Sonic the Rainbow Fish.

Chaomix: "I've kind of seen the light" Me: "Yeah, it's everywhere"

I know this remaster isn’t perfect, but I’m still looking forward to getting it for my switch and playing it! The bloom effect looks really pretty to me tbh.

From what I’ve seen, the game was built in the Godot game engine which, in its current state, has some issues with more intensive 3D games. So in the end, it wasn’t your pc struggling, but rather the game engine itself.

If you want a portable Sonic Colours, just get the DS version or wait for the Steam Deck and download the Dolphin emulator & the game’s ISO onto that.

Why do I feel low key betrayed that he said he had fun with Colors? I guess I have to play it too although Project 06 is still my go to remaster

I got to meet a dev in Sonic Speed Simulator, i pitched them the idea of the chao garden, and they said they liked it! which means they will problably add it

The thumbnail is pure gold.

8:50 Duck Duck, it's Duckles!

Side note. The original music isn't in this game. I've played Colors more than I would normally care to admit, but I can assure you the music in acts 4 through 6 of each attraction are remixes of the original arrangements. Very unfortunate.

unpopular opinion; i like the idea of limited boost. i like the idea of it being a reward for good gameplay, instead of hand-given. instead of wisps, i’d put more rings on the ‘higher’ pathways, and make it so stages don’t rely on the boost to be cohesive (so no enemy fodder crowds)

... That thumbnail... *I love it! :D*

I love how you can play the black alt sonic from smash bros in this game

Weird thing: One of my online friends complained about people complaining about sonic forces and sonic colors ultimate

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Sega has ruined colours by rushing anf now they hsve tainted it

I remember when I played Sonic colors with my Wii Pro controller, the boost was on the B bottom and made me confused with my generations muscle memory

“Glitches that cause seizures” Blind Squirrels indeed

20:14 ahh it's like casino night zone in the mobile version of sonic 4 episode 1

Sonic Colors Ultimate is an Amazing game. It’s just the Bugs in the Way.

SEGA DON'T MESS UP GENS ULTIMATE

Nice Work on Rush 3D

Can’t wait for the Aqua Wisp to allow Sonic to turn into the Submarine in the thumbnail

I can see the choking and terror in Chaomix's face as he makes his confession about SCU being fun

IDW Sonic Comics: makes an arc based around glitch characters(kinda) Sonic Colors Ultimate: Sonic Fish Me: Hey Sega, can I make a anthropomorphic Fish OC?

3:56 This looks like a fan game I didn't mean in a bad way so,take it how you will.

I 100%'d this in like 3 days on PlayStation and I was like "I remembered the game being harder..." Must've been a mixture of being a young kid when I played Sonic Colors on Wii and just being incompetent somehow. The only S rank I struggled with was the one for Frigate Skullian. That one's like a mixture of the boss positioning himself properly and beating him at the right time.

Therapist: Sonic the fish isnt real and cant hurt you. The thumbnail:

They also said they would take their time when Sonic Forces was in development, yet look how that game turned out. -_-

Man never knew sonic was a fish

I appreciate your rants and tangent throughout these videos about the current situation with the franchise. As an (relatively) old-time Sonic fan, it feels nice to know I'm not alone in disagreeing with the current direction the series is taking, and with good arguments to be made about it instead of being told I just hate it because it's different like I'm being told all the time by toxically positive meta era fans who always disregard old-time fans as whiny fanboys.

In many games and game engines, inputscan and framerate are closely tied but there is no reason this has to be the case. you can get the same input responsiveness on 15fps visual frames.

Fish sonic Ironically more original than most sonic oc's

Man I remember when there was a leak of an image of sonic colors ultimate before it came out and it showed a tails icon that looked like a life icon and everyone thought tails was going to be playable at first but no when Sega confirmed and showed that tails wouldn’t be playable and instead be some type of stupid helping gimmick they screwed up everything and I will never forgive Sega for that but I hope that tails becomes a playable character for once again in a mainline 3D sonic game at launch