sonic at the end is like "hang on i'll finish off dark gaia in a sec, just let me pose for the ranking screen"

Don't let this distract you from the fact that sonic was fighting 2 separate armies for days and possibly weeks on end. Had the dark gaias energy ripped out of him. Breathed in fumes from the earth's core for a long period of time. Still had enough strength left to fight a God. And then finally passed out. Dude is a fuckin beast and he's practically a high schooler if he was a person

Back when Sonic games actually took risks and had original content and not just rehashed levels for the sake of nostalgia.

WHENEVER YOU PLAY A SONIC GAME, EXPECT THE GREATEST MUSIC EVER

Everyone Hates Unleashed. But if you ask me. It Has the best Story, Best Cutscene Graphics, Best in game graphics, best theme, one of the best super sonic boss fights (i personally think if the Xbox and Wii version where combined it would be the best) Best voice acting. It got the dark feeling without being to dark and edgy, it had its comic releif. It had nice hub worlds. The music was great. The characters where lovable. All of that looked down on because of the Gameplay not being everyones cup of tea

If you’ve never played this boss you’ll never understand how satisfying it is to hit those snake things over and over again

One thing I never got was why sonic fainted after he beat dark gaia because the chaos emeralds would put him back at peak physical form. Then it occurred to me, sonic has been going non stop day and night for possibly a week or so...Peak form or not I think any character would pass out from that.

Poor Perfect Dark Gaia. His jaw must be so tired, but if he closes it, then he'll hurt his eyes.

ppl complain of the final boss battle being too long... Guess they have not played Sonic Heroes' final boss yet

The thing that saddens me the most about the game is how much effort Sonic Team putted in this, and how poorly it was received. Even though it has it's flaws and it's not perfect, there are many things they did right, and I thing they tried to recapture the greatness of Sonic 3&K again. They even created a special engine for Sonic. After the dissapointment Sonic06 was, you could feel how Sonic Team wanted to make up to their fans. The graphics that are the best seen in any Sonic Game, the epicness of the soundtrack, the atmpsphere, the tone. I think people were harder with this game thanks to Sonic's strike of bad luck in past games. But actually, for being the first game using the boost formula, this game is actually made with a lot of love. They even made a mobile version to market it! You KNOW they wanted this to be their best triple A game, even going so far to create mini-stories for the HUB characters. I think Sonic Team got discouraged to put true effort to their games after the madness that was Sonic Unleashed. SEGA gave Sonic Team the time they wanted to create this game, trying to learn from their mistakes of rushing Sonic games. Is pretty sad to hear the Rise and Fall of SEGA. They should make a book about it, like the sequel to "Console Wars". i cry eve rytiem,,

This sonic game did everything right. They should give this voice actor another contract

The cut scene before this fight makes me think "how is this game rated E10 again?"

4:16 R.I.P. PS3 square button.

I don't care what anyone says this is the best Modern Sonic game!

I miss you Jason Griffith

Everything about this final boss is perfect, The Cutscene before it, the leadup to the boss with the main theme swelling, Chip FORCING HIS WAY INTO THE BARRIER AND DECKING DARK GAIA IN THE FACE, The barrier section doesnt last that long so it doesnt get irritating for being repetitive, and even though the final part of the fight is a QTE with a button mash, it makes up for it with the presentation

This maybe the most epic Super Sonic battle in the franchise’s history. Not just because of the epic music or the battle itself, but because what Sonic was up against. As someone pointed out in a comment below, Sonic actually passed out after defeating Dark Gaia and stated it was because of Dark Gaia ripping out the energy from Sonic by force. Actually, I don’t think that’s the cause (nor is it because of Sonic not resting to put the planet back together.) The main cause can be seen during the fight. Super Sonic is shown to pretty much be invincible to anything in the past. However, here, when Sonic is hit by one of Dark Gaia’s attacks, Sonic isn’t knocked back like in previous battles. Super Sonic actually TAKES damage! To people who don’t understand why this is a big deal, of any final boss that has been fought before, there’s only one other that has accomplished this feat: Solaris; a time god who’s power required 3 super transformed hedgehogs to defeat. That’s how powerful Perfect Dark Gaia is. Since Solaris was erased from Sonic’s timeline altogether, this makes Dark Gaia the strongest enemy Sonic has ever fought. Sonic knew Dark Gaia wasn’t like facing Eggman. He was facing the embodiment of the Earth’s darkness, a literal force of nature that was driven by the planet’s will to destroy itself. He had to take this even more seriously then anything before. If him or Chip lost, the world would end.

Y'all remember when sonic and the iron gigant defeated literally satan himself?

I'm not gonna lie, I absolutely love this final battle.

am i the only one that is aware of the fact that perfect dark gaia can ACTUALLY damage super sonic?

4:34 in this part, sonic actually says three quotes, depends on every other playings: "here's sonic" "this one's all mine" "I've got this one covered" but imo, i love here's sonic one lol

*seeing forces for the first time Me : I love forces *seiing this Me : f*** forces

This will forever remain my Number 1 favorite game of all time.

Looking back on this game after so long, I realize how bittersweet this fight was from the perspective of the story. Just thinking about the weight of saving the world with a good friend, knowing that your actions will result in the loss of that friend... If I still felt things like I did as a youngin this would've torn me up for weeks, lol

Punching demons is cool. Colossal temple golems punching a demon five times its own size is even better. They sure don't make final bosses like they used to. Granted, it's a bit ridiculous, but final bosses are meant to get you excited.

Hey I just realized something. The way Super Sonic moves around the shield to hit the weak spots represents how Sonic has been traveling around planet Earth throughout the game! Anyone else think this was the idea?

0:46 Now this ! This is EPIC!

This is a perfect send off to high effort big budget sonic games

This was the greatest boss battle ever. And I say this because of the cinematic feel it has and because Super Sonic has a Health bar

I love how Dark Gaia puts up a shield because he's desperate.

I love the Doomsday Zone reference at the beginning

"Heeeere's Sonic!" Never heard this before. So we got meme references before Sonic Boom?

“Chip you were wow” will always give me goosebumps.

Its a shame this game got the reputation it did back in the day. It did everything right, fantastic story, amazing level design, phenomenal final boss fight, and a great soundtrack. People seemed to not like the werehog but I think the werehog does a good job add changing up the pace. This was one of the few sonic games to feature a super sonic boss fight and it contained one of the best super sonic fights to date. This game was supposed to be a love letter and apology from Sonic team and Sega to the fans to try and fix what happened with Sonic ‘06, and it shows. This was also the last sonic game to have a full development time. Its sad that games like this are left in the pile of shitty games that will eventually be forgotten

Wow even 14 years later i still always come back to this.... This is my favorite sonic game and holds a special place in my heart

This was the perfect cinematic boss fight. I was happy to do this final fight after the horror that was Eggmanland!

Remeber when boosting into rocks didn't hurt super sonic? I do.

I love this boss fight. I don’t care what anyone says, Sonic Unleashed was awesome! 😊

here is my story my best friend had a ps3. he loved sonic games. he had unleahsed. one day he asked me could i come over to help him. -ok when we beated dark gaia, we came to perfect. the custence... i was like 8... it scared the living shit out of me. i went out of he room xd when i saw 60× □... i tried it a few times, but we failed. after a month or two my aunt bought me this game. after months i beated dark gaia and he custence still disgusted me. i collected some life and after 14 tries i did it. i screamed and started to dance like an idiot. now im 12 and still watching this custence

Unless frontiers somehow tops, this will forever be the best final boss

The last amazing Sonic game

When I beat the game I was so satisfied. Hours of medal grinding and random deaths when going fast as hell. All worth it

Best Sonic game ever. I Love Sonic Unleashed. Love this music, Endless Possibilities. 💛💙💛💙💙💙

The theme is so Heroic, I love it.

When I first saw Dark Gaia's true form, I was shook and said, "How are Sonic and Chip going to beat Dark Gaia now?!" I even had goosebumps all over my body and shivers down my spine. But when the Chaos Emerald's started moving from the temples right to Sonic and he transformed into Super Sonic. I was like, "Oh hell yeah!!!" This is the first Sonic game where I got to play as Super Sonic for the first time in my life

Watch the part when chip goes through the shield with your eyes closed.

I played Sonic Unleashed on the wii and it will always have a place in my heart, but damn, this is an amazing boss fight too. I love both versions of this game. Thanks, SEGA

4:35 if this game ever gets remastered it would be really neat if it switched to the Wii’s version of the final boss at this point to add a bit of length to the fight and make the finale more involved (for context the Wii finale boss had sonic directly fight dark Gaia by homing attacking and boosting into his eyes). It could just be 3 hits instead of 9 to stop it from making the fight too long but it would be cool to see.

No Super Sonic transformation scene will satisfy me the way this one did. Nit even the movie had the same epic feeling

This is the REAL sonic and who Sonic really is Fighting a monster in the core of the earth to save it from destruction Come on what more could you ask for

The one time his Super Form didn’t have a time limit.

I love how Super Sonic just briefly stops there for a second before charging into Perfect Dark Gaia's eye so he can pose (depending on his rank).

I've never seen a gamer play sonic unleashed with so much skill. this guy is awesome

Dad: hey son, why is the X button not working? Me: um.. 4:15

Here in 2023 and I'm so glad that Sonic Frontiers brought back super sonic boss fights with this level of epicness after so many years, even if the true final boss was a let down.

Unleashed to this day remains my favorite

3:30 Dark Gaia: Give me a hug.

99% of the game: I sleep Dark Gaia's part: REAL STUFF

Fun fact: Perfect Dark Giga is one of the few final boss in the entire series that is powerful enough to actually damage Super State characters.

This is by far my favorite sonic game. I played it after playing colors awhile back. It has some awesome music, I really enjoyed both styles of gameplay once I kept playing,the story was actually pretty good. This boss fight was just my favorite part of the game. As soon as the music kicked in I just thought to myself "Lets finish this" and it made me sad to see that it was basically over. But I was satisfied to see the credits playing endless possibilities.

Super Sonic is the COOLEST power up to ever exist in a video game and NO ONE can tell me otherwise... well you can but you would be wrong.

The animation in the cutscenes like the one here of Dark Gaia becoming Perfect Dark Gaia are so stunning! It really looks like at the Pixar animation level.👍

That punch, that punch that happens after pressing the x button 60 times always gives me goosebumps

I remember during my first play through as a kid, I couldn’t press square 60 times, so I needed my cousin to help me. When I finally beat this boss by myself, I felt accomplished

The only thing I hate about Unleashed was that you have to fight this boss twice, because the first time it was defeated the game just plays the last few cutscenes without giving you the rank for Dark Gaia boss causing you to fight the entire boss again. This was frusating the first time I fought agaisnt this boss.

4:28 is the perfect timing for that piece of music to come in

It's 2019, I still haven't played this precious game and I love the game so much and everything about this is just A M A Z I N G, even if a lot of people say this game sucks, I just love it!

I was always confused as to why super sonic had a health bar then while thinking on it realized just how powerful dark gaia is and how worn down and weaken sonic was and it made sense, especially since it replaced his ring counter.

Ah yes, back when Sonic final bosses were on par with Kirby final bosses in terms of epicness. This was literally the last truly epic final boss, nega wisp armor is a great final boss and the time eater in the 3DS version of generations is also pretty good, but they lack the build up and the epic feel that this boss had. and don't even get me started on lost World's final boss or force's final boss as they completely miss the mark on every front. I want final bosses like these, not whatever the hell those new bosses are.

if those camera angles weren't so bad this boss fight would have been so much better.

This final boss was so good it almost made me cry in tears of joy

4:13 Dark Gaia used Kamehameha! It wasn't very effective... Gaia Colossus used Falcon Punch! Critical Hit!

the only boss ever able to hurt super form

Hopefully frontiers goes back to cool final boss fights root instead of recycling colors

this game is a literal MOVIE, not just the cutscenes but even the gameplay looks like a movie

13 years ago i was in awe and shock how a sonic final boss looked against my meager wii port now, i feel like i can write this off my bucket list thanks for uploading this

This final boss was a freaking masterpiece when I was younger and it still is.

God I miss sonic unleashed, I never cared about what people said about this game in the past. This was honestly such a good sonic game and I even loved the werehog stages.

Even after all these years, listening to that sound effect when Sonic just bashes into something at high speed is so satisfying, like an intended sonic boom effect.

I know it’s been 11 years but congrats on the S Rank. I have a C Rank on that boss because before the Super Sonic phase, I have trouble reaching the third eye in time when running through the temple grounds. The first two eyes were fine, it’s the third eye that feels like it doesn’t give enough time and has more obstacles to avoid.

I was really young when i played this game 4:15 gave me a hard time and i always would lose my lives at that qte and restart the fight. It took lots of tries and my thumb was getting destroyed everytime but when i finally did it it i felt a rush of euphoria like never before. It was amazing. I still have this game as my favorite Sonic game imo

If you think about it dark Gaia is canonly the third most powerful foe that sonic has ever faced. The dude was able to stop super sonic away and light Gaia(chip) had no chance alot. Now I believe eggman is his secondmost powerful as not only on this game stopped super sonic and won, but also in generations basically broke time itself His strongest foe yet I say has to be Solaris as he was not able to die until the timeline was rebooted, he was able tondestroybthe universe itself and not die until the universe events was removed.

I pretty sure this is the most massive creature super sonic has ever fought.

HEEEEEERE'S JOHNNY

Best Sonic final boss ever

4:16 Don’t lie you struggled so hard on this.

mmm.. childhood memories. makes me almost tear up inside. this is easily my top 3 fav sonic games.

Even though I have mixed feelings for this game when I fought the final boss with super sonic everything felt epic and extremely satisfying I feel like this is probably the best final boss fight I ever played in any sonic game

Unlike other games i have played, this is the conclusion, ending, last chapter, final boss i played for. This is what i wanted.

My ratings for this game (this is just my ratings and my opinion about this game) Story 10/10 Cutscenes 10/10 Graphics 10/10 Effort 10/10 Environment 10/10 Bosses 10/10 Entertainment 10/10 System 10/10 Resolution 10/10 Mechanics 10/10 Voices 10/10 Functions 10/10 Total 120/120 The best sonic game in my opinion

this is the most coolest super sonic final battle in franchise

*Sigh* They don't make Sonic Bosses like this big beast anymore...

Man this game is bad ass I wish sonic team would put more effort into Newer games as they did it with this game the critics/older sonic fans just blindly bashed this game

I like when mostly modern sonic games have some unfitting or uncanny valley things like Dark Gaia, Perfect Chaos, Ultimate Life Form, Black Arms and Sonic 06 in general.

Sonic Unleashed are my fav sonic game of all, and gameplays like this one make me remember the reason why i love so much this game

"Heeeere's Sonic!"

BEST FINAL BOSS EVER

The music fits perfectly 👌 on this part 3:50

And people say sonic unleashed is bad ? And they say shivery is dead 😅 This is the better sonic to play Top quality graphics up to this day still holds up

4:15 This is where my anxiety comes in 😂