I wrote the joke about Forces btw

"Not everyone bought the Frontiers DLC" But... Sonic Frontiers doesn't have paid DLCs. It's not even technically dlc, it's a free update

"Not everyone has bought the DLC for Frontiers". The DLC was free.

Did you just call emerald hill, emerald coast

Where is EVERY Sonic game, no Master System, no Sonic Advanced, no Sonic Spinball.

11:31 Are you Fucking kidding THIS WHOLE TIME, THIS WHOLE TIME, there was a power up that made that level easier?, Bro I died SO many times in that final Knuckles section, you have no idea, I almost gave up completing the game because of it, and you're telling me right now, it could've been easier, if just payed a little more attention and got the power up, man my life is lie

The hardest part of Sonic Unleashed is DEFINITELY the hot dog missions

For sonic cd you can just get all 7 time stones and it automatically gets all good futures

Bashing on Shadow The Hedgehog with "I don't ever intend to play it" because you have this perception that it sucks from other people's recounts is incredibly silly. Don't play it if you don't want but you could avoid the tired "game is bad and unfun" commentary.

00:32 - Marble Garden is from _Sonic 3._ The Zone from _Sonic 1_ is just the Marble Zone.

The most difficult part of Shadow is the Expert Mode Circus Park. In Expert Mode, you play through every stage in the game sequentially. A lot like Egg Shuttle in Sonic Colors. The difference is that Expert Mode radically changes the level design that requires you to have mastered control of the game and knowledge of some more in-depth speedrunning tech. What makes Expert Circus Park so difficult is the route you are forced to take in the middle of the level. You must jump across an extreme large gap, hopping along barrels and flaming hoops. If you mess up, you die and have to redo it all over again. These hoops are positioned in such a way so you HAVE to short hop over them AND land on the other moving barrel at the same time. The worst part about this is that this is the one single area in the game where Chaos Control WON'T carry you to safety across the chasm. It will drop you into the pit if your meter runs out halfway through. The chasm is also large enough that you damn near NEED a full Chaos Control meter to cross it. Without utilizing the Chaos Control menu warp glitch for infinite meter, this section of Expert Mode Circus Park becomes unreasonably difficult and tight for even experienced runners.

skill issue

I totally agree about Sonic 2. I played this game when it came out, and have been playing it up to Sonic Origins, and I have never been able to beat all the special stages. The main game is much easier than those stages. And damn Tails for not reacting as fast as you and losing rings.

Too many Shadow haters ;-;

"Sonic 06 has bad level design" Whaaaat? Are you serious?

Shadow the Hedgehog wasn't that bad

I'd say the hardest part of Sonic Mania (Plus) would be the Encore Special Stages. The normal ones I have no trouble with, I've memorized them all by now and can reliably get all of the Emeralds before Studiopolis. Encore Mode, on the other hand... those stages are cruel and unforgiving even on a good day, and when you compound that with Encore's altered level design and strange Big Ring locations that completely throw off someone accustomed to Mania Mode, getting all the Emeralds in one playthrough would be a _very_ tall order.

Here's mine: Sonic 1 - 3rd Special Stage. Sonic 2 - Beating the game as Tails cuz he have no Super Form for the Chaos Emerald!? Sonic CD - Zones Time Attack. Sonic 3&K - Beating the first half of game as Tails cuz he have no Super Form for the Chaos Emerald!? Sonic Rush - Beating the bosses on normal difficulty. Sonic 4 Ep. I - The Special Stages & the final boss. Sonic Colours - Getting all Red Rings & S Ranks. Sonic Generations (console) - EVERY STAGE THAT COMES AFTER GREEN HILL! Sonic Generations (N3DS) - Getting an S Rank on Radical Highway Act 2. Sonic 4 Ep. II - The Special Stages. Sonic Mania - Getting all the Chaos Emerald on Encore Mode. Sonic Forces - Clearing Stage 30 within 270 seconds. Sonic Frontiers - Final Horizon difficulty spike. Sonic Superstars - Egg Fortress Zone with it's Act 1, Act 2 & Final Boss, TRIP'S STORY FINAL BOSS & Last Story Boss.

I'm surprised you didn't mention anything about Trip's final boss in Sonic Superstars. Did you find that one easier? Same for the Super Sonic boss, no mention at all.

The hardest part of any Sonic game I’ve played is eggman land which took me an hour to beat and I lost 80 lives before I finally beat the stage

The hardest part of Sonic Frontiers is not HEADBANGING to the music

Here's mine: -Sonic 1 - Labyrinth Zone -Sonic 2 - Special Zones -Sonic CD - Getting the good ending w/o the time stones -Sonic 3&K - Sandopolis Zone -Sonic Adventure - Big the Cat -Sonic Adventure 2 - Mad Space without using the hint monitors -Sonic Heroes - Its ice physics controls on top of Team Chaotix campaign -Sonic & The Secret Rings - Playing the game lol -Sonic 06 - Silver Dusty Desert without glitching through the door -Sonic Unleashed - Eggmanland Hotdog Vendor -Sonic & The Black Knight - Merlina -Sonic Colors - Getting all Red Rings and S Ranks -Sonic Generations - Beating the final boss without getting hit for an achievement/trophy - Sonic Lost World - A tie between the snow level and the special stages on the 3DS version -Sonic Forces - Buying the game in the first place -Sonic Mania - Final Boss with the 4 main EggRobo - Sonic Frontiers - Going for 100% clear on all the islands

Hardest part in shadow is defeating all the artificial chaos in ARK. I felt like i searched for hours and could never find them all

Personally i would say the hardest part in sonic frontiers is the whole 3rd island just because traversing the map is such a pain, but in the end its worth it because after you finish up the 3rd island you fight the best titan

The Ark levels are just tedious, but Diablon is by far the worst. Not because of the sonic ai like Plexi said, it's because of the janky ass hitbox, and the fact that Diablon can just move out of the stage so sometimes you can't even hit him. The worst part is that honestly a battle against sonic the hedgehog would've gone hard honestly. As an avid Shadow the Hedgehog *enjoyer* Diablon's definitely just the most bullshit part of the game. Also screw you, don't include games you didn't play, just skip over em. No one will care.

You really should play Shadow the Hedgegod, it's not that long, you can plan your routes to get all 10 endings before going to the last story. It has some of the best "fast" missions I've played. Some I like them more than SA2 even, like that one Lava Stage that has lava levels that rise on the Dark side of the mission, with all paths available to you in the Hero mission. That level makes me get why there's a cult to Sonic's lava levels. You also have Mad Matrix which has you collecting A TON for the dark mission but it makes up for it by challenging you in interesting ways with tons of "gotcha" moments on the speed circuit you go on to destroy the 50 mines. It has you going to 4 speed subdungeons for the Hero's one. The neutral one is the "gotta go fast" option, it's very enjoyable once you've learned the layout. The last boss is comparable to SA1 and SA2's final boss. What I like the most besides from some of its OST is the story, it's hilarious, campy as all hell, faking taking themselves way too seriously. It's got some of the hands down best lines I've ever heard Shadow say. Like in the pure dark ending where he kills basically the Devil himself to become the ultimate lifeform to conque all the universe. It's great

22:22 The current Sonic ambassador in Japan took several hours to finish Terminal Velocity Act 1 and got a 0 score because she didn't know that dying without checkpoint still has the timer continue (meaning you will lose the score bonuses given to you) unlike if you pause and hit restart. Reminded of the fact that quite a lot of Sonic fans on Twitter turned on her when someone posted about that moment to the point they even preferred Arin.

One other hard thing about Eggmanland. Hot dogs. Now,this will only matter to achievement hunters but basically in every hub world, there's a hot dog vendor who will sell you a hot dog unique to that hub world if you clesr either the day or night stsge under a certain condition. These hot dogs are required to get the achievement for eating all the food items in the game. The challenges can be a bit tricky but aren't too bad up until Eggmanland. Once you beat the game, you can visit a Eggmanland hub world where you can take on the challenge of beating Eggmanland in a certain amount of time. The kicker is if I recall correctly, you don't get any checkpoints. You die, you restart the whole thing.

I love the tone shifts when you talked about Rise of Lyric and sonic forces 💀 Like you got to have recognized that those games are worse than 06, cause those tone shifts are just so fucking funny bro

This video is therapeutic, it has eased my disappointment with myself in the parts of these games I had such difficulty with. For so long I thought it was just me and my weak skills.

Great idea for a video! I really enjoyed it, thank you 🤩 Oil Oceans inclusion was a surprise, I really enjoy that level.

For shadow the hedgehog, it's getting the ending you want while a live chat is "controlling" you with the unmatched power of money

As someone who was a kid playing NES, SNES, and Genesis in the 90s, I wanted to offer some insight. But first of all, this is not a criticism; I use save states when I replay those games, too. Back in the day though, you got through the hard parts by replaying everything up to that point and trying again until you got it. It was brutal and might take you weeks of attempts to get through one hard stage that's late in the game. A lot of kids might only have three or five games for a console and only get one or two new games a year, or rent games for a few days or a week at a time, so playing one game every day for a few weeks was a feature. As a kid I did manage to collect all the emeralds in Sonic 1 and 2 (I hate Blue Spheres to this day; I didn't get all emeralds and Super Emeralds in 3 and 3&K until I played Origins) but I couldn't do it again without save states unless I invested a lot of time again. Anyway, the fact is that replaying five stages to beat the sixth inevitably means that you're homing your skills before each new attempt at the part you're stuck on

Hardest part of Shadow was having to endure Westopolis ten billion times to get the true ending ☠️

Plexi I have a question what is the song playing at the beginning of the short in "Sonic Unleashed SAMPLED This Song!!!" I must know.

sorry if them not being included was already explained in the video, but what about the Advance / Rush games?

I'd argue that the hardest part about Sonic Heroes is the special stages They're not that easy to play through (and are needed for the final story) and the method of accessing them is pretty much no-hitting a level

As a fun bit of background on Sonic 1's level design ethos, the reason it zig-zags so much from zone to zone was deliberately done, due to the experimental nature of Sonic's gameplay. The devs' faith in it wasn't complete, since something quite like Sonic had never been done before, so the choice was made to make what I think was a half-and half split, where half of the zones would lean fully into the newfangled speed-platforming while the other half was kept to more traditional platforming challenges.

I will now be completing Sonic and the Black Knight for the first time at 23 years old

You see you don’t know pain until you talk about the game gear games. Getting all the Chaos Emeralds in Sonic 2 for the Game Gear and THEN beating the elusive Crystal Egg Zone is a nightmare of a task. New fans will not know this pain.

5:10 " while the special stages for sonic 2 just feel borderline unplayable " Sonic pocket adventure :

In Sonic Adventure 1 as Big, if you flick the control stick when you get a fish it sets the hook. This was actually in the game's manual.

If you think Eggmanland was bad, then good luck completing every Side Missions and Hot Dog Challenges in the game. Becoming a completionist in Sonic Unleashed is the perfect definition of purgatory.

People like to whine about Eggmanland but nah, we actually need more levels like Eggmanland. It was the ultimate challenge to really test/show off your skill because it’s what the whole game up until that point was preparing you for. Say what you want about the Werehog but Unleashed fundamentally excelled at risk reward gameplay in both the day & night stages. I miss when Sonic games tested player skill like that. (Frontiers is a step in the right direction) Also, Shadow the hedgehog is not as bad as people in 2005 made it out to be. Once you get a feel for it, the controls are smoother & the boss battles are better than Sonic Heroes. The OST is incredible. And upon replaying, I actually enjoy Shadow a lot more than many recent Sonic games. Don’t get me wrong, the indoor Ark levels are some of the worst things the sonic franchise has to offer but it’s only 2 stages. Besides that, Shadow has really cool levels. Digital Circuit in particular is one of the most fast paced energetic levels in the entire franchise. Def give the game a chance.

Great Video!

Final boss in Sonic Mania IS hard , but that hard is actually FUN

for Sonic 06, i was sort of expecting a mention of the final level. you have to take control of seven different characters, trying to find the seven chaos emeralds, while dodging a whole bunch of tiny Black Hole obstacles that can pull you in and INSTA-KILL you... and if you run out of lives, you have to start ALL over from the beginning of the FIRST character's segment! there's one part of Sonic Mania i REALLY despise, it's a small area halfway through part 1 of Chemical Plant. it's a vertical shaft, with moving platforms, which fills with water just after you enter. miss ONE jump, and you WILL drown. miss TWO jumps, and you WILL fall off the bottom of the level. mis-TIME one jump, and you WILL be crushed. three different things that can insta-kill you, in ONE room. it's MUCH easier if you are playing as Tails or Knuckles, however, you can fly or climb instead of jumping. i've seen some videos of Sonic Superstars, and they all said the final boss of "Trip's Story" is worse. but it DOES have an amusing "death animation"...

Just to share something if you did not know. Sonic 2 allows tails to be controlled by the second controller making the special levels a breeze to complete if you have a buddy helping you 😃

Most of my least favorite things from the games made it onto the list, I'll only cover the games I've played. Sonic 1: The most annoying thing for me is the Spring Yard Zone Boss, sometimes as I'm jumping to land a hit, I end up getting hit by the spike under Robotnik's vehicle. As for Labyrinth Zone....I only hate Act 2 mainly because of that endless waterfall section, the boss wasn't that big of a deal. I think it's a skill issue. Sonic 2: Yes, the special stages. I too used the cheat to get the Chaos Emeralds. Metropolis Zone was a bit of a challenge, the enemy placement is awful. S3&K: Freaking Sandopolis, I agree. Even though I watched several playthroughs of it beforehand, I still had trouble getting through it. Shadow the Hedgehog: Didn't have trouble with any of the stages. Well one day when I wanted to play the game and got to The Doom, I was COMPLETELY LOST. I literally forgot the layout of the stage that I had to look up a playthrough of the level just to get the Neutral Ending. Sonic Heroes: Rail Canyon for Team Chaotix, half of the time I had no idea how to progress near the end, it involved a switch to change the direction of the rails, I couldn't find it at first. And Mystic Mansion for Team Dark, I could NEVER get the A rank in that stage no matter how many times I tried. Sonic Unleashed: Eggmanland for sure but the PS2 version. Took me forever just to get the S Rank on the first Day Stage. The Night Stages weren't that bad but there were some sections that were so dark that I had to rely on the map of the stage at the corner of the screen. I should've mentioned this first but also the Adabat Day Boss, I was stuck on that Boss for WEEKS; Quick Time Events and the very few moments you have to attack Eggman, I was so relieved when I finally beat it after so much trial and error. Another thing, those hidden items you were able to find in the Day and Night Stages to unlock stuff like the music, concept art, and the cutscenes; some of those items were hidden really good, adds a bit of challenge. Sonic Colors: Uhh not a whole lot. But there was this one act in Asteroid Coaster (forgot which one) that I had trouble with, I remembered it had to with the gravity in order to get to the Goal Ring that was nearby. And yes, I too struggled to get all the Red Star Rings, and since I loved to explore the levels, most weren't hard to find but there were times where I had to look up a guide for some of them. Oh and the Final Boss, no it's not difficult, I just couldn't get the S Rank. I've gotten every single S Rank except that one. I spammed the Quick Step up to the point where it stopped giving you the 1,000 points bonus and nothing. I could never get that S Rank and it annoyed me because I had the game at 99% complete.

Hey, good video, just a recomendation for you Try showing the videogame footage in the original aspect ratio (like, showing sonic 1, 2 or 3 and CD on 4:3 with a background wallpaper or something for the free space left). There are also decompilations of the Taxman games (Sonic 1, 2 and CD) for pc that run on 16:9 natively

Tails only loses his own rings in the Sonic 2 special stages so he’s only a bonus to have there. He won’t lose any of Sonics rings

The hardest thing in Sonic Generations is completing the race with doppelganger on Planet Wisp with a rank S. Especially on a keyboard

“Not everyone has bought the fox for frontiers” Have you even played the free dlc?

I am amazed at how much I've agreed with this so far. Personally I would put the double final boss ahead of the special stages for StH2, but when it got to SA2 I was like "Cannon's Core. It's Cannon's Core, especially Knuckles' part". Even _having_ the Air Necklace that was always the toughest part for me as a kid though it's not so bad now. Update: Sad that the negative reviews turned you off from Shadow the Hedgehog, which I personally thought was a perfectly good game but the biggest flaw was that they tried to make it just another slightly unconventional entry in the main Sonic series instead of going the SMW2/SML3/DKC route and just making it the start of a spinoff series. But your research served you well! Diablon is probably the most annoying of the route final bosses, and without a doubt, my answer would be "Lost Impact Hero Mission", which is so unbearable that despite enjoying this game as a whole I have never actually beaten it! Which is particularly annoying since you have to go to each Stage 6 twice to unlock all the endings and Lost Impact is a Stage 5 on the far Heroic end of the spectrum, meaning you have only one other way into the far Heroic Stage 6.

Nice video, even though it's technically not EVERY Sonic game. Also, Oil Ocean is awesome, especially the original version. And Sonic Forces isn't nearly as bad as people say. It has a lot of flaws, agreed. But I had fun playing it.

I like how half of the things you mentioned for bad level design in sonic 1 are normal things in the game

The way we beat most games back in the 90s was hours of dedication til you just knew the map honestly. Mind you idk when I’m getting a new game cause I’m a kid with no job, so you’d just play tf outta games you had

I always played as Sonic alone in Sonic 2 because Tails would make me fail by losing rings >:(

Arround 3:35 in there's a speical stage (sonic 2's), what game is that from? Mania?

Shadow the Hedgehog is a great game, you just gotta play it like a shooter, not like a sonic game. I am sick of people saying it sucks, bc it really doesn't and most of you saying that haven't even played it. There is a lot of care and love put into this game, and more people should know it. Yes it's edgy, but that doesn't mean it's a bad video game. Sa2 has some edginess too (Shadow backstory, eggman with a gun etc), but no one says it's a bad game bc of it. Shadow's only negatives is the light swearing and The Doom + Lost Impact. Nothing else in this game is bad, in fact it's really fun and sometimes phenomenal: Black Comet, Final Haunt, Egg Fortress, Lava Shelter, Space Gadget etc. are great and fun levels. + The route mechanic is genius. 320+ ways to create your own story in a video game + being able to watch that story in library is great! Most of these stories are either decent when it comes to sonic franchise or at the worst a bit confusing. In the end it's at it's worst a good game to play and at it's best a complete blast to play.

Honestly surprised to not see Lancelot Returns for Black Knight. I know it's an optional side mission, but it is an insanely cheap boss fight all around.

As one who played through Shadow the Hedgehog throughly, I can safely say that Central City Hero Mission was stupidly tedious. The time is EXTREMELY tight and the aliens you have to take out are very durable pretty much requiring you to take them out with their own blasters. And yeah that last alien doesn't always spawn at times. This mission annoyed me so much as a kid, I decided to just say "Screw it going for the Dark mission" and I was opting for a pure Hero route at the time.

People don't like the controls in Secret Rings? May you be trapped in the Arabian desert forever.

What’s the soundtrack u used for sonic cd

For Shadow, it's definitely the doom, though can I even call it challenging when the problem is yet another "enemy won't spawn" bug? Seriously, Shadow is such a shit game that most missions require you to use the checkpoint teleportation to spawn all the enemies you need to pass the dark or hero missions. Genuinely, fuck that game. I can tell you with full certainty since I wasted a few months back in my teenage years to experience the travesty myself. People who say it's a good game genuinely have not finished it, or even played it. It's not fun in the slightest.

In Sonic Cd getting all Time stones will automatically destroy all Robot generators

Sonic 1 GEN: Special Stages (any version) Sonic 1 MS: Sky Base Zone Act 2 (an entire proper level with no rings, loads of hazards plus slowdown in critical areas) Sonic 2 MS: Getting the 2nd Emerald in Sky High Zone Act 2 (bouncing on clouds and walking platforms indistinguishable from the background clouds) Sonic 2 GEN: Special Stages 5 - 7 (BS spike bomb traps and trollish ring placements without prior knowledge) Sonic CD: Good Ending via Robot Generators only (no second chances if you accidentally miss one) Sonic Chaos: Special Stage 4 (Impossible gaps to go over unless you take very specific Lu placed Rocket Shoes item boxes) Sonic Spinball GEN: The Showdown (Need I say more?) Sonic Spinball MS: Playing it without wanting to turn it off immediately (Challenge: Impossible) Sonic 3 & Knuckles: Playing Marble Garden Zone Act 2’s boss as Tails only (small boss hit-box + surprise attacks + slow Tails flying speed = frustration) Sonic Triple Trouble: Special Stage 5 (BS disappearing bumper platforms over bottomless pits and blind leaps of faith) Sonic 3D Blast: Not playing it with an analogue stick Sonic R: Unlocking emeralds & tokens in one run on the same track (Self-imposed challenge I know, but otherwise this game’s a cakewalk) Sonic Adventure DX: the two Snowboarding missions Sonic Adventure 2 Battle: Mad Space Sonic Heroes: Team Chaotix’s Hard Mode missions Sonic Advance trilogy: Getting the Chaos Emeralds Shadow 2005: The Doom Sonic 2006: Completing all side-missions (the length and amount of loading times truly rear their ugly heads here) Sonic Rush: Not being tempted to spin-dash up the Egg King’s arm when the game instructs you to hold down (figured out the solution a year after I got the game as a kid) Sonic Rush Adventure: Getting all the Sol Emeralds Sonic Unleashed & the Storybook sub-series: Obtaining true 100% completion Sonic Colours WII: Playing the Game Land’s Sonic Simulator 2-player mode Sonic Colours DS: Finding access to the 7th Special Stage Sonic Generations HD: Getting the online-only achievements after they inevitably shut down Sonic Generations 3DS: Completing all the side missions (only allowed 2 per day based on the 3DS Play Coin function; 5 per each mission and 10 per mission bonus) Sonic Lost World HD: Playing it without a Wii U or PC. Sonic Lost World 3DS: Tropical Coast Acts 1 & 3, Frozen Factory Act 3 and Sky Road Act 3, playing all the Special Stages without looking like a lost mental patient, and completing all of Hard Mode) Sonic Forces: Destroying the one singular enemy in Casino Forest and clearing the Silver Ring challenge in that stage Sonic Mania Plus: Encore Mode’s Special Stage 7 Sonic Frontiers: Having any interest of picking the game up at all Sonic Superstars: Trip Story’s final boss against Mecha Fang and the Last Story’s Black Dragon fight

the famous "Sonic lost world (3DS) Frozen Zone Act 3" aah momento

What is the Spring yard zone song playing in the background of Sonic 1

I didn't have a hard time getting through that pinball stage in Sonic Frontiers, and the Master Koco Titan time trial was okay for me because each time I failed to complete that challenge, an option came up on screen to choose if the player would or wouldn't want it to become easier if you try again, so when I had made it easy enough by choosing that option each time was how I finally got through that part of that game. I think the hardest part (if you haven't downloaded the free Final Horrizons update yet) is getting an S rank on the Sky Sanctuary inspired cyberspace stage on Kronos island that has the music in it that was playing in this video when you brought up Sonic Frontiers. You get an S rank if you reach the goal before the time limit and I continuiously keep frustratingly failing at reaching the goal before it gets past that time limit and get any rank that is lower than the S one each time I try!

For shadow the hedgehog, I wouldn't consider it hard. It's rather tedious. Lost Impact's hero mission (Destroying 35 artificial chaos), Mad Matrix's dark mission (Destroying up to 30 bombs), The Doom's dark mission (It's broken because a gun soldier glitched through the floor), Westopolis's hero mission (finding alien #45 which doesn't spawn correctly unless you use the checkpoint to respawn at one of those areas), and Cosmic Fall's EXPERT MODE! Egregious!!

For colors, I’d choose getting all the s ranks. For alot of them you basically need to know where the red rings are anyways and grab them in one run. The boss of asteroid coaster is an annoying s rank too

The hardest part of Sonic R is trying to beat Super Sonic on hard mode. I was able to do it on all 4 normal courses and have a video doing just that, but I could never beat him on hard for Radiant Emerald course. You need to be extremely good at picking up rings on the run to have a chance of beating him.

For Sonic Rush Adventure, I would say getting the last two Chaos Emeralds. Johnny is a VERY tough opponent in the last two races, and it’s borderline impossible to win without upgrading your Jet Ski

"Not everyone has bought the DLC for Sonic Frontiers." Who wants to tell him?

Me: "I'm never going to be somebody who puts other people down for having a hard time with things I thought were easy" Also me: "My dude what are you actually talking about with that final egg door puzzle, are you all right"

You know what? The way you talked about Eggmanland actually made sense. I never had the privilege of playing the PS3/360 version (only played the PS2 version, getting an S rank in that stage within 4'30'' was still bullsh!t), but if you're going to have a final stage where the bad guy finally achieved his dreams, why not let him be as much of an S-hole as possible? Still, seeing people lose so many lives was agonizing. At least the level designers were kind enough to give 1-ups here and there.

For Sonic Forces, i think it's egg fortress (the last classic sonic level) with that one autoscroller and also the final section where if you don't have enough speed, you will die no matter what.

Just gonna ignore that you can get the good future by getting 50 rings and not hunting for the generators at all

My sonic 06 pick has to be the final level end of the world. Silvers section is so broken to the point where if you don’t speed run the final lap of his portion it’s just impossible to complete because those insta kill portal orbs crowd the ending, not to mention that his section takes place in dusty desert, which has insta kill quicksand. That part of the game was the first time I’ve ever cried playing a video game out of sheer anger and frustration I probably sound dumb for this next take, but for Sonic frontiers, I think that laser puzzle on Kronos island is the hardest part. I don’t think I’m that dumb but holy shit, I don’t understand how kids would be able to figure that out when all the movements in the guide I had to watch to complete it were hyper specific

The hardest part of Shadow the Hedgehog 05 is the hero mission for The Doom, where you have to search for wounded GUN soldiers & heal them. The entire stage has a confusing layout, and some of them are hidden in obnoxious, unintuitive locations. I remember having the biggest struggle with that level as a kid. Also I disagree with 06 having bad level design. That was the one thing 06 did right. You didn't talk about the Advance games, the Rush games, or Chronicles. rip You really not gonna talk about SA2's Mad Space? Lmao

Flying Battery? Atrocious? Cap. Maximum Cap. That's the zone that should have been in Sonic 3 instead of Ice Cap Zone.

6:36, In my opinion for most of the stages this appears in, it’s a good thing. In order to get the good ending, (or the “neutral” one) you have to understand the level design, and gain mastery over the speed-based platforming that sonic exclusively provides. it’s a nice little challenge and I think regardless of execution, on paper it is a really clever method to incentivize the player to get better at the game.

Sonic Adventure 2 the hardest shit is getting all 180 emblems just to unlock the green hill zone 😭 that’s literally the only thing I could never do on that damn game and I’ve replayed it at least 20 times

What's that instrumental that plays when you start talking about Sonic CD??? Colddd

0:30 that's MARBLE ZONE. 4:18 it's called EMERALD HILL.

Wdym by bought the Frontiers DLC? The Final Horizon was a free update

Anyone wanna tell him you can just collect all the time stones in Sonic CD for the good ending?

I'll give you a note for the "Getting the Good Future" thing for Sonic CD: Opt for the special stages. Completing all special stages rewards all good futures in all zones, even if you don't find the robot generators. Time Stones are your friends. Just get 50 rings and keep them at the goal. A warp ring will appear at the end of the level and you can try to nab a Time Stone. Get all of them and you covered the alternate route for the good future.

Eggman land in Unleashed took me forever to finish!! I had to grind for lives and grind to max the werehog until I was able to beat it and it took me FOREVER

I literally hadn’t beaten Sonic unleashed because of Eggman land that’s how hard it is.

People that like Shadow the Hedgehog and find it fun have the lowest standards possible known to Mankind. The late Special Stages in Sonic CD made me rage. I played those for the good ending.

For shadow, definitely the fact you have to play through the game and get all the endings which there is I think 11 And people say sonic heroes is repetitive.

Imagine 10 year old me playing through SA2 and not knowing the Air Necklace actually existed. I just had to get good at the level to win. Absolutely crazy, looking back on it years later.

As someone who has 100% Shadow the Hedgehog, I'd have to say the hardest part (Excluding Super Hard Mode) would be either The Doom's Dark Mission or Lost Impact's Hero Mission. Diablon isn't actually *that* hard, as long as you know the pattern and when to/not to attack. Both TD Dark and LI Hero missions are kinda the same; run around the Ark and kill the enemies. It really comes down to preference which one is harder. I'd like to say Lost Impact but that's probably just because while going for an S-Rank I died right when the last Artificial Chaos was in sight and had to start over but if we're talking *just* clearing the stage, then The Doom's Dark Mission is probably more difficult. Again, it just comes down to personal preference. Though I feel its much easier to get lost in The Doom. On the plus side, if you're just trying to clear the game (As in, reach the true final stage and defeat the Super Shadow fight) you never have to play The Doom OR Lost Impact. Clearing Space Gadget's Hero Mission will get you to Final Haunt, the last True Hero stage.

I wasn’t a god in Sonic 2 back in the 90’s. I was just determined to get super Sonic by myself without my sister’s help. Plus I put it on Sonic only.

For me on Shadow the Hedgehog, my first real struggle was trying to get the hero route on the circus path. trying to get 400 rings was a challenge let alone making sure you didn't get hit and lose any.

SA2’s difficulty spike for me was eggman’s cannon core, only because of a cursed glitch on some of the Dreamcast copies! On my version, every time without fail at the start of eggman’s section, he falls through the floor and dies. I didn’t know what a glitch was. I was baffled! Eventually I found that if you started gliding right away and held a certain direction, you wouldn’t die, and you could catch back up with the stage below. I EARNED my SA2 ending damn it!

On Sonic 2 special stages, Tails just mirrors Sonic with a delay, you can actually use that to your advantage to pick rings from both sides at the same time!

Gotta agree with you on Sonic 2. As a kid I only ever beat Metropolis zone ONCE, then failed Wing Fortress. But that was never as frustrating as only ever getting two emeralds in that game. A nice double whammy of being defeated.