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Favorite Sonic tweet ever was the Sonic Official Twitter bragging about free DLC and someone was like "didn't you charge for Super Sonic"? And they were like "He's free now!". And then the person was like "Don't do it again".

06 having DLC at all is bold enough in and of itself, but the fact that its actually kind of cool and robust is even more insane

The character voices for the menus in SA2B were originally DLC for the Dreamcast version. And with the mixture of the limited space on a Dreamcast VMU and the files being pretty sizeable, you could actually find yourself not having enough room on your VMU for all of them. And I'm pretty sure Rouge had a Witch costume where her fur was black as well.

I think my mic is dying

What the dev for Pizza Tower is doing is a great compromise for DLC, he's only released the base game only digitally, but once the game is actually finished he will release the physical edition with all content added and no updates needed.

let’s just say, sonic has had a rough transition into DLC

Weird things about the Sonic 06 DLC: 1. The Very Hard levels were made once they understood the game they made better and were just better versions of the Hard Levels in many cases without being actually harder. 2. Team Attack Amigo drastically speeds up Tails, making him feel less like puttering through molasses, but only in the TAA levels. 3. The PS3 in the US only got the Very Hard DLC, no Boss Attack or Team Attack Amigo, despite it releasing in other regions. (Even regions the Xbox 360 version didn't receive.)

I love how “Rocky” is essentially a trigger word for sonic fans.

DLC in games will never be gone. and sonic is no exception still I enjoy some of them and hope they get better in the future

Man, that rant about Generations spoke to me. I was so excited at the prospect of them adding more levels into the game. It's shocking how Sega/Sonic Team are still a float with the amount of financial Ls they take.

12:34 Actually this is why SEGA took down high-quality Sonic OSTs from various websites. It doesn’t help that they still don’t re-release most of them in any form.

Assuming the older games ever eventually get ports/remakes, I hope these DLC's are brought back. I really enjoyed the Sonic Unleashed DLC levels, Day and Night, and would be disappointed if the game got ported without them. And it's sad knowing I'll probably never get to try some DLC's like the Lost World ones since the eShop closed down.

Actually, I loved playing Amy in Sonic Origins Plus.

3:01 You had Silent and the Black Knight RIGHT THERE and you just WALKED past it.

Sonic had a rough transition to dlc

Can't wait for this video to have DLC that is exclusive to Walmart if you want it

There are very few companies that would think it would be a genuinely good idea to have a staple form in basically every game be paid DLC, and imagine how happy I am knowing the the company that owns one of my favourite franchises is one of them.

I actually still own the LEGO Dimensions Sonic pack and even bought one of the new sets. It's been years since I've played it, but the DLC level was pretty cool even as someone who didn't play that many Sonic games

8:19 I think you unfairly skipped All-Stars Racing Transformed: - Metal Sonic (again) and a OutRun themed track, which were part of a Bonus Edition. - Alex Kidd was added on 12/25 for free. - The PC version contained racers from Total War, Football Manager and oddly; Team Fortress 2. - Yogscast as part of a charity event After a fan-submitted poll: - Ryo Hazuki from Shenmue (who was also chosen because it was a quick reuse of assets from the first game) As for the frontrunners in said DLC Character Poll: 3rd: Segata Sanshiro (who already appears in the Race of AGES track) 4th: Vectorman 5th: Bayonetta 6th: Ristar (who was already the game’s flagbearer) 7th: Toejam & Earl 8th: Billy Hatcher 2nd, and I kid you not: Hatsune Miku

What I find funny was Team Sonic Racing Was perfect for DLC. Everyone wanted more characters for that game but nothing.

I remember when superstars DLC was all free for download for 5 minutes on launch night. Gotta say I nabbed the comic book skins before they became unavailable and I am glad I managed to get them since they look good. But for real we need better DLC for sonic games. like new zones or storys like that, instead of all this cosmetic stuff that makes sonics shoes a different color. thankfully frontiers and superstars have been steps in the right direction. The rabbit skin for sonic is so much better customization than what we had in colors ultimate (remember when we thought we would get movie sonic skins?)

The one thing that I hate about certain Sonic DLCS is now SEGA is choosing to go the FOMO(Fear of Missing Out) route,where the SOAP Shoes skin or the Modern Amy dress are only there for a limited time.

12:02 Hearing this with Planet Wisps theme in the background made me remember the awful dubstep opening in the remix that completely spits in the face of what the original's stellar theming.

You sound familiar

Sonic Adventure: 2:26 Sonic Adventure 2: 4:06 Sonic '06: 4:54 Sonic Unleashed: 5:35 Sonic 4: 6:35 Sonic & Sega all Stars Racing: 7:02 Sonic Generations: 7:29 Sonic All Stars Racing Transformed: 8:18 Sonic Lost World: 8:22 Sonic Boom rise of lyric: 9:27 Sonic Mania: 9:43 Sonic Forces: 10:27 Sonic Colors Ultimate: 11:42 Sonic Origins: 12:16 Sonic Frontiers: 13:07 Sonic Superstars 13:50

Unleashed's DLC level design is exactly what I need the next game to have for post-game unlockables or something. Also kinda confused why they haven't added more seasonal costumes to Frontiers considering how many existing designs they have via Sonic Channel. Oh well

Its absolutely insane to me how every time I look at what sonics doing, it almost always seems to be floundering in some way, but then I look over to the Like a Dragon series (which is also being developed at sega although under their own team) and they just released a new game which started out as DLC, but then expanded to its own thing with an insane amount of content and polish, AND its being sold for $40. On top of that, in just TWO MONTHS the 8th entry is coming out which seems to be absurdly good (and huge!) from the demo I've played. I Almost wonder if there is some sort of elitism or somethjng regarding sonic team, because im sure theres talent and people willing to give it time, but come on, this is ridiculous

Sonic dlc has been very crazy

The Superstars DLC was such a shitshow on the Steam version. For the ones who missed it: - When the game released, almost all the DLC from the deluxe edition was available for FREE by accident. - The "Comic book" skins were available (also free) due to the error. When they fixed it, they locked it completely claiming that you can only get it through some goofy promotion from idk which store. - So deluxe people *kinda* got scammed on game release, and the comic book skins are locked away for no real reason. Mania Plus only DLC worthwhile tbh, fairly priced with pretty much an entire game's worth of replayability due to encore + might & ray.

as someone who has OCD when my sonic games aren't complete with every DLC and yet some DLC is permanently locked behind different versions, this video targets me, and i understand why😔

Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed also had the Outrun Bay level and Ryo Hazuki as DLC, which were both pretty neat!

And Sega says they want to surpass Mario! Yeah, if they keep doing this bullshit, then no!

Transformed got glossed hard. That game is the reigning champion of bizarre character DLC. Total War, Football Manager, even _Team Fortress??_ When the game was still being supported, people were speculating about Hatsune Miku since she was the runner-up for the original ASR's most-wanted character poll, only to be graced by the iconic mega-star General Winter from Company of Heroes instead. Wild times.

You didn't mention the Japan Exclusive Korone Sound Effects DLC for Frontiers. Probably because it's Japan Exclusive.

Completely forgot you had this sonic channel, I am so glad I found it again 😍

Sonic Frontiers DLC was the best DLCs we got the first one was fun it added Jukebox, Photo mode and New Challenges, the Second one added the Spin dash and the Third one was the best one! we got Playable Characters again since 2006! the Towers were fun to climb and the Final Boss was so much better than the OG, sure it has flaws like the pop in, Master King Koco Trial and that ball puzzle but its still an S Tier Game! at first it was in top 10 but now thanks to the DLCs its at top 5 Along with SA1, SA2, Unleashed and Generations!

Sonic dlc was never good.

2:59 Silent Dreams, the goat of Sonic remixes

If Sonic and Knuckles counts as DLC, then sonic's OG DLC was epic

You should talk about Sonic's appearances in other games and properties, like Smash Bros, O.K K.O, and Lego Dimensions. I don't know of any other examples off the top of my head, but I'm sure you'll find some!

The rebok contest winner was given a personalized dreamcast kiosk all sonic themed and everything and that winner watched sonic central on it

If they make superstars plus it’s all over

Dear god, the hate for Update 3 is so forced, how can you dislike it so much just because it's difficult?

8:00 wait it's rumored that sonic generations had cut secret rings and black knight stages that's news to me!

Technically speaking, the earliest bit of DLC for a Sonic game isn't Sonic 3 with Sonic 3 & Knuckles, since that was more so a means to complete the full experience without making a more expensive cartridge. The first is actually for Sonic 2, since with the use of the Sonic & Knuckles cartridge, you can play an updated version of the game as Knuckles called "Knuckles the Echidna in Sonic the Hedgehog 2" which actually had a bit more than just "Play as Knuckles" This included *Keeping your rings from before a special stages upon exiting said special stage *Shields are now grey instead of blue *Slight level layout changes with new paths Very recently at this years SHC, someone actually made a hack of this called "Sonic the Hedgehog, and Miles "Tails" Prower in Knuckles the Echidna in Sonic the Hedgehog 2" (That's the actual title btw) That adds back Sonic & Tails with the new additions present in the Knuckles version.

1:49 Truly the best sonic OST ever

The thing about the 25 extra lives that a lot of people don't remember is that before it was VERY hard to get extra lives in Lost World. At the game's launch and not until a few months in. You couldn't get lives by collecting rings. The levels would give you hundreds of rings and yet you never got an extra life, which is why you had to look around the levels for the countdown rings and any loose lives all over the place. So the 25 lives from Amazon gave you something to keep you safe for a bit to avoid early game overs. But then a LOT of people complained about it and Sega eventually added in a patch for you to get lives when you collected rings. The weird part is the 3DS version always had that, Sega removed it in the Wii U version for some reason.

I would say that Unleashed DLC was the most fun for me.

The issue with recents DLCs isn't exclusive to Sonic, Sega is doing the exact same thing with their other IPs in recent years, just look what they did with Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania and Samba de Amigo Party Central.

0:59 I’d rather have pre order bonuses be as lame as 25 lives than being gatekeeped out of a cool cosmetic option that appears in a lot of the gameplay (Lego Eggman superstars pre order dlc or the comic style Amazon skins) Also frontiers digital deluxe sucks because they stuck the middle finger at physical buyers for not allowing us to buy it separately

I didn't know it would be possible to give something like that during Dreamcast

Man, Sonic '06 DLC sure does exist.

Can't believe Sonic 06 DLC actually exists

“Wonder what they might do next!” -they proceed to make an Apple Play exclusive game-

Amy should've been playable in the base origins game. But this series is too cheap to make 4 sprite sets at once

For PC players, at the very least, the PC versions tend to get modded to add back all the content EXCEPT THE RACING GAMES (still no Banjo, Metal Sonic and Egg Hangar for the first Sonic and Sega racing game) -SADX has all the SA1 DLCs -SA2 kinda has almost all of the DLCs -Lost World had the Nintendo DLCs ported -You can pirate Forces since the Joker and Shadow costumes (not the Episode Shadow DLC, thankfully) are not available in some regions. -Frontiers had the Korone DLCs, free JP emote, and the now-JP-exclusive Soap shoes modded back, and are even recognized as DLC by the game

Notice how he put lego dimensions in the thumbnail but never talked about

4:44 I don’t like being called out like this Mr. Splash Dash

One of those moments where im happy i got sonic origins as a gift rather then buying it myself

"Silent Forest" Silent Night of the Werehog boy wish he got fired for that blunder

Fun fact, if you get sonic four episode two on mobile, you will get episode medal. And you won’t need to get episode one

I'm surprised you didn't mention the SA1 Twinkle Circuit DLC course.

Babe wake up splash dash posted

Sonic game to get dlc outside of a pinball table: Red button: One of the most infamous and hated video games of all time Blue button: One of the most critically acclaimed 3d sonic games, with a large array of assets and an opportunity to bring back a sea of past levels Sega: Jim Carrey pressing the red button

"If you paid $2 for super sonic ... you shouldn't be trusted with a credit card" - The same guy who just said "Mania's DLC adds (2 literal who's with egregiously ugly & bland designs that only 0.01% of sonic fans have heard of prior to the DLC existing) for $5, which is worth it for that alone!" 🤔

3:00 Silent Nights into Dreams was right there

when you realize how groundbreaking sonic 3 and knuckles was unfortunately

Wait a damn minute is that LSMark?

I remember getting the Lost World DLC for free. The Zelda one was really confusing but the Yoshi one was passable.

Sonic and DLC are definately a mixed bag to say the least. One one hand you got stuff like Mania Plus or the Unleashed DLCs where it genuinely felt like a true expansion of the game, on the other you got stuff like Origins plus where it feels like Sega has fallen victim to the same "We need to weaponize FOMO to maximise profits with premiumn deluxe editons" mantra that most major game studios have gotten into.

4:46 I mean you aren't wrong

little did he know we are getting dlc for sonic generations a few months later

You never mentioned the Sonic DLC for Lego Dimensions.

I am just shocked that I never found out Sonic Adventure had DLC like this ever, and am just finding out about this now.

Just clicked on it since this interesting, not expecting that LS mark was going to be here

actually superstars is going to get dlc in 2024 and I hope that is more story content like mania

The Lost World DLC had a lot more spirit than the Force... It's strange that frontiers is free. and mania new playable cool

I'm currently replaying Generations, a remaster of that would be great. Add in a few more stages, Tails ad Knuckles as playable charters, some gameplay tweaks and it would be well worth rebuying.

I questioned Spnic dlc the most when Generations released. Really made me feel how the games were released and done with while fans picked up after them and showed its potential beyond.

Nah the 25 lives for Lost World is Intentional for that Lava level on rails for sure.

Rouges skins (especially the Christmas one) look pretty cool tbh, it would be cool to see a pumpkin or skeleton one.

Oh good a splashdash video SONIC HAD A ROUGH TRANSITION INTO-

4:46 They were FLUTTERING💀

the original dlc was sonic and knuckles attached to sonic 3

0:40 so much extra content? soap shoes and holiday cheer suit are so much extra content?

Sonic has always had a *ROCKY TRANSITION* to DLC XD

Slowly waiting for him to talk about the Sonic Boom 3DS games

I love your videos!

Amy is literally the only reason why I would even consider playing Origins.

I like to think if splash dash had a persona itd be a vaguely familiar orange haired man with sonic man helmet on obscuring his face lol

Yay new splash dash video

Sega always feels like they're we behind the industry by a good decade I swear

LEGO Dimensions was how I got into Sonic, and is still a great DLC to this day.

Silent Casino Night was RIGHT there.

2:38 it might be the 1st instance of a game being released & then finished later

3:00 silent night of the werehog!

You forgot to mention the Inugami Korone DLC for Frontiers & Modern clothes Amy on classic Amy for Superstars

I was so excited to see your thoughts on the Lego dimensions sonic pack. Hopefully a video on it in the future!

The frontiers roadmap is in the base game. It's a free update.