This is just a Tech Demo, it was never completed

@@shadowopsairman1583 Yeah we talk about all the versions released in t he video. Which version is your favorite?

I’m sure that if it wasn’t for retro revival of the 2010s then sonic 4 wouldn’t have happened, or would’ve just been kept as sonic the portable.

"Built from the ground up"

"But that's just a theory" oh wait, wrong youtuber

​​​@@AguFungusik they said that but doesn't it use the Rush engine?

New Super Mario Bros was a few years old at that point too

It was a big deal we were going to get a brand new HD Sonic game for home consoles...we just did not expect to get a game as underwhelming as Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode I. That's part of why Sonic Fan Remix was such a big deal at the time. It was such a stark contrast to what was offered by Sega at the time.

Not to mention it was being made by those same guys doing the games on Nintendo as well.

That is what I never understand. They make it a big deal that Sonic is back, while we have like 5 other choices between GBA and DS

@@cliffturboadvance2377 Yeah, but those were standard definition handheld games. A high definition 2-D Sonic game for consoles was a big announcement in 2009. Keep in mind that HD gaming was still kind of novelty back then, where as nowadays, it's just the norm.

It wasn’t well at all those games beyond Advance 1 were plagued with the same problems Sonic 4 had, to response in some communities when it was quickly deduced off the 5 second reveal clip that it was based off Rush was absolute dread. Dashpads everywhere, nerfed useless rolling and spindash and the godawful bottomless pits everywhere all come from Rush. There was hope at the time that whatever Needlemousewas that it had no association with Dimps

I think it was called Slyvania Castle

EP2 is basically a collection of half hearted attempts to make it seem like they are listening like the big slope in act 2 to make it seem like rolling is useful but that is never used again and rolling is useless just use the rolling combo win button instead, Tails is here but with a chunky action system that breaks flow plus you can’t play as him in single player, new Eggman bosses but they drag on forever just like in Rush and the recent Superstsrs, here’s a pretty snow carnival zone but it’s barley doing to anything with that theme and indeed wastes a whole act on a ugly underwater level, here’s Little Planet for a pointless callback that might have been a setup for episode 3 because they couldn’t dream that Sega would pass on it

​@@CrozyOMD*Sylvania* Castle

Bro CASTLEVANIA LAND ☠️🙏⁉️

Because it got cancelled.

Unfortunately. It had lots of promise going. I was waiting and waiting too.

😂

Sonic: *nah screw u physics* ima sleep on this *wall* 😴😴😴

I find this comment fascinating because I did extensive research when I wrote the script to this video. What makes you feel like this script was written by Ai technology? I'm genuinely curious.

@@WillieCorley I think the most AI-ish sounding part of the script is at 21:22 due to a lack of a factual sources or interviews or quotes regarding the claim that Christian Whitehead provided them a Sonic physics engine that Arzest could build on top of, followed by jumping to an opinion piece on Reddit (Bing AI does this a lot) and then coming to a conclusion that brings up a previously brought up point ("...so, Sonic Fan Remix might have had an influence to Sonic Generations and Sonic Superstars"; Bing AI and Chat GPT do this needlessly repetitive conclusion part a lot too). And then also bringing up another comparison to a similar 2D Sonic game, happens a lot with Bing AI. Bing AI would be like "Sonic Fan Remix is a fangame released in 2010 by..." and then ends with "The entire Sonic Fan Remix concept is also similar to the concept of Sonic Mania, which has a similar concept to Sonic Fan Remix". The "red string"/flow across sentences just feels a bit robotic because it feels like it jumps from topic to topic. Also, not naming the modder is also a bit odd...

I was actually wondering if the voice over was AI myself. The voice, cadence, delivery of lines, and constant use of the game's full titles, things like that. You make an interesting point on the script though, because I started paying more attention to what was being said and found it really weirdly paced. Like, while discussing checkpoints and Tails, it suddenly brings up Stardust Speedway and just assumes that stage would have been included, without any prior mention that the game was going to feature other stages until after the point was made. Plus the way that sentence came out was strange, saying the zone name twice like that. Seriously though, if that is someone's narration voice, please work on your delivery and lower your pitch if possible. It sounds like you're about to cringe into awkward forced laughter on every other line. It was really hard to take in information.

@@ClydeJHatbird I didn't want to mention the way the narration was done, but yes, I hated how repetitive the inflections on the script read were and how fake the enthusiasm sounds like. I still wouldn't say it's AI, because some people just want to narrate a video while making the mistake in choosing to sound like that in their video, but it was annoying to sit through. Try not to do that, please.

it was different back in 2010s.

Same

@@akioasakura3624mid

That's because the script was written by an American who has lived in California his entire life...me. LOL

As an American month day year makes the most sense

@@backloggamereviews all I heard was the Month followed by numbers, confusing.

@@dri_him How was that confusing?

LOL

Better level design than Sonic 2 and most of 3. Better music than 2 also. I don't care if the physics are not accurate or whatever. I grew up playing Sonic Mega collection plus, and my favourite games on there were always the 8-bit ones, which didn't have the dumb momentum physics.

@@genyakozlov1316 can you please tell me why you like being wrong? if you don't care about momentum physics the boost games are the best sonic games then. but instead you want to be wrong.

@@genyakozlov1316 BETER MUSIC???? NANANNANANANANAH

Cybershell Reference

thank you

I hate Stefanie Sterling with all my being, and I have the problem with classic physics, not with Sonic 4 ones. The best classic games were always the 8-bit ones, which didn't give you problems with walking up slopes with their dumb momentum focus, and also had more actual platforming.

@@genyakozlov1316 damn you should genuinely give the 16bit games another chance, play the definitive fan ports though they’ll make you really love the games. Like the physics based gameplay is hard to wrangle I understand but once you get used to it you will GET IT!!

Cybershell is unironically right

They don't hire fans, no company does. They hire developers and some happens to be fans. No, Mania devs weren't hired for being fans, they were devs that proved themselves by porting Sonic CD for mobile using their engine and they only had the pitch for Mania greenlit after also porting Sonic 1 and 2.

​@@Mari_IzuSega leaned into the fact Mania developers were fans during marketing, with the whole "By the mania for the mania" thing, leaving people with a wrong impression that they hired a group of fans intentionally, rather than being impressed by their Sonic engine and hiring them for mobile ports first, not because they are fans and not for the sake of creating Mania, which at that point wasn't an idea yet.

@@genyakozlov1316 Yeah, but that was just a way to reassure people that they'd get it right a third time. Not to mention it wasn't their first time working with SEGA either.

Lol sorry such an American pronunciation.

Not really crazy.

I'm not sure if I'd *quite* go that far. It looks great in a lot of areas, don't get me wrong, but I feel like the Emerald Hill landscape in the demo feels a little too...busy, especially in motion.

incorrect thats only the co-creator who was arrested for inside trading the actual original creator was involved in sonic superstars

@@sometf2player752yuji naka made sonic game, naoto ohshima made sonic himself

@@SonicTheBlueBlur15 yeah