Does anyone else feel that Super Sonic in the final boss is more of light gaia's wing man. Chip literally brute force himself through dark gaia's barrier and Sonic has to disable it first to actually join in on the fight. Chip was carrying Sonic both physically and metaphorically. After dark gaia was defeated, Super Sonic passed out right after a thumbs up from exhaustion, like he barely was able to finish the fight. We've never seen this happen before with Sonic, and it shows how high the stakes were. In the past games starting from SA2, Super Sonic always had a partner in a Super form as well. But in this game, he plays more as the sidekick.

I think the reason that Chip has little personality before the adabat temple scene is intentional (not just from the influence of the previous game, but because of the story itself). Chip is a character who lost their memories due to Eggman prematurely awakening him along with Dark Gaia (and possibly Sonic falling on him???), and has little to go off, all he has is what he can see in apotos and Sonic himself, he doesn't even know his name. He doesn't know a lot about the world, unlike Sonic who goes on a world adventure for a living. So the reason he decides to mention food a lot (and offer characters chocolate) is because that's one of the first things he experienced: eating a lovely snack. He loved it, and because he has little else to base his life on, hones in on just food. Sonic's inspirational personality is also why he tries to help people by offering people chocolate, because he enjoys it, so assumes everyone else loves it like he does, and wants to cheer people up like Sonic does. That's my take on him, and why (hot take inbound), he's my second favorite character in the ENTIRE series, right behind Sonic himself. Edit: This was a lovely video to watch. Despite playing the game countless times, and watching countless reviews on both the game and story, I actually learnt something here: the reasoning behind his stretchy arms in Werehog form.

23:00 props to the animators for creating a ghost Chip for this one scene.

33:17 to be fair, I can believe the chaos emeralds can be used for a bunch of different unrelated things throughout history. The chaos emeralds being used to seal Dark Gaia I don't think contradicts Chaos, and the echidnas any more then it contradict Gerald Robotnik using them for the eclipse Cannon. History is vast, it makes sense that they would be used for a bunch of different things.

There's something beautiful and ironic about the very embodiment of order being naive about his own nature. It's like the opposite side of a coin in fiction to people being naive of their own darkness and thus suffering/exploring it. It's likely why that one scene in Adabat is so effective

59:43 I just noticed that Eggman has a Dreamcast and the first Sonic Adventure. I love that detail.

Way I see it, when people say Black Knight is one of the most encapsulating Sonic stories, they mean in a “Sonic character study” way, since the storybook games have these very Sonic-character-centric stories wherein he bounces off a one-off really consistently well and ends up tackling far more heavy personal themes than the series is generally willing to (abuse and the inevitability of loss and death). Unleashed definitely has a lot more of the pure appeal of Sonic the FRANCHISE, even if a lot of the cutscenes are just kinda goofy fluff the premise, beginning, end, and gamefeel all communicate these things super well. Kinda like how Colors’ story genuinely improves a lot if you literally just skip every cutscene and only focus on the environmental storytelling and the chatter within the stages themselves. Though obviously even at its worst Unleashed is nowhere near as obnoxious as that can get and its highs are higher in every way.

Besides some of the execution, the themes in this game are the closest we have gotten to Sonic's original vision, and you highlighted them very well. I have a bit of a nitpick on how Sonic is written thematically, which is the idea that Sonic is easily seen as good. In an interview with original Sonic-level designer Hirokazu Yasuhara, he says this: “When I thought about what to make the conflict between the hero and the villain, I came up with the idea of using environmental issues as the theme since the characters were animals. The environment and development have always been two opposing sides of the same coin. “The fact that it is not easy to determine which side is righteous was also an advantage when characterizing the characters. Sonic does not deny the progress of technology. Technology can make people happy or it can be a tool of control. The theme of how to use technology is linked to the problems of modern society." Basically, what I want is more of this in Sonic and even Eggman's character writing. Sonic CD addressed the rebel part of Sonic's character and how it relates to the environment while SA2 and Black Knight relate it to how others perceive him. In Sonic Unleashed, Sonic's actions are so obviously the right thing to do unlike say Black Knight for example, where some see Sonic as the bad guy. It doesn't go any further past the Sonic vs Eggman conflict in addressing Sonic's "Going my way" attitude and unless I'm missing something in the writing, that's a real shame imo.

30:19 Sonic Unleashed also doesn't have the fake-out credits. Even Black Knight has these, even though there's no extra requirements for the "true ending" in that game. Unleashed is a straight shot from beginning to end.

I'm never laughing when I see chip but he's charming. Especially with the English voice actor, I don't think it's a negative at all. I love chip. Knukles amd shadow were originally supposed to be in this game but they ran out of time :( I think the reason why tails is afraid of the monsters because Dark gaia is a demon and makes everyone weaker and sad. Sonic even performs exorcist on people in the game. Sonic was one of the only characters who wasn't affected by Dark Gaia besides the transforming into a werehog thing. Because of what chip said. This is the tornado 3 you can even see on the plane. I think the mech in sa2 was the tornado 2 made into a mech wow they really don't know what there doing with this shit. Haha. I just disagree with what are you talking about with chips and sonics friendship, there is set up and pay off, there is charming interactions and fun interactions. Maybe not a ton of them but enough in my opinion, for this scene to work for me at least. Sonic unleashed is my favourite sonic story too :)

It's happening exactly like it's written in the Gaia Manuscripts. The KZfaqr that has been sealed in the planet has been awakened.

This is beautiful, after 2,976+ minutes of top tier Sonic videos we’ve finally got to THE video I’ve been waiting for since the beginning!!

I'm a little sad that Sonic didn't adopt Chip's bracelet as part of his design in later games... But oh well, that would just make the "everything is canon" argument more convoluted.

Sonic falls from a space station without his super form, without being rescued by anyone, and without losing his memories. Suck it Shadow

finally, its crazy to think we finished this one, especially since I've been following the series almost by the beginning Great work pariah

Sonic is definitely Chip's best friend. Ignoring the great analysis of Sonic's love for the earth that lets him run. The final song is literally called, " My Dear Friend."

In regards to Shadow, I believe it was noted that he and Knuckles were PLANNED for this game but scrapped. After pondering it, I think they should've kept both for both plot AND gameplay purposes. Gameplay wise, Knuckles could've allowed for Daytime Combat Stages and Shadow, Nightime Speed Stages. That could've probably let them make it so there's more speed stages and the combat stages coukd be shortened enough so that they feel less intrusive. Plotwise, since the Emeralds need to be restored to fix the planet, have someone consider using the Master Emerald to do so. Have the Heroes go to Angel Island and have Knuckles explain that the Master Emerald is what's keeping the world from completely breaking down in calamity so with it being 'pre-occupied', it can't restore the Emeralds even if it could fix the planet like that. On Shadow's end, just have it so he's chasing after Werehog Sonic on both GUN's orders and his own assumptions of Werehog, not knowing that it's really Sonic.

I haven't finished watching yet so if this gets addressed later on in the video, feel free to tell me I'm an idiot. The problem you addressed with Chip's lack of involvement in the story IS true and completely fair, but... I played the game *very* slowly growing up. I've always loved playing games at my own pace, savouring them, exploring as much as I felt like exploring. Unleashed, like you said in your gameplay analysis video, has a *lot* of content to go through, and it kept me very busy when I played through on my first playthrough. A lot of this involves exploring the hub worlds, doing side missions, chatting with townsfolk and following their small substory threads, and most importantly, buying all the unique food and souvenir items available. While everyone grinded for medals, I'd grind for *rings,* just so I could buy more food -- and give it to *Chip.* I loved reading his takes on all the different kinds of food (there's a lot of personality there, especially for foods he DOESN'T like), and it caught me by surprise when I unlocked a certain hidden friendship value with Chip when my PS3 popped up with a "Best Friends" trophy, complete with a Chip render to contextualise the trophy, right after I gave him some random food item. From there, any time I'd give him food, he'd offer the original message on his opinion of the food, followed by a unique random dialogue option about his travels with Sonic, Sonic himself, the other characters like Pickle or Amy, souvenirs, possible hazy memories, etc. So, for me, this friendship HAD been growing with Chip -- just in the background. This is why videogames are a great choice for storytelling, because you can play it slowly and live the experience yourself, at your own pace. It's just a shame that in this case it was pushed back and hidden as an optional time-waster like the Chao Garden. A very fun and feel-good time-waster, but still hidden and still optional. Long story short, I love Chip. He's a swell li'l guy. EDIT: Quick addition on the comedy note -- I can agree he's not funny, but I still find it pretty charming. He's got plenty of personality, even if they do push the one joke kind of a *lot,* but I still feel like I'm seeing the world with a little friend. The extra CGI scenes where Sonic and Chip are just goofing around in different places across the world just adds to this charm and friendship more, I *love* these small adventuring moments (akin to something you'd see out of Sly Cooper).

Tbh when you said that unleashed is trying to go back to the original sonic, I think it’s not just that. It’s about going back to the sonic that people remember. Back to when sonic was just a fun cartoon hedgehog with a cute sidekick. They even added chilli dogs because that’s part of what people remember about sonic (in the west). Unleashed soft rebooted everything except for Sonic’s character which also got ‘rebooted’ in colours.

I just realized watching this video, that the way Sonic Unleashed treats Chip is like if the Star Wars prequel trilogy actually had Darth Jar-Jar be a real thing

Fun fact: Sonic’s Japanese voice actor changes while as the Werhog. Tomokazu Seki is his voice in that form.

I think it's interesting the way that this game does the idea of "Eggman finally wins" far, FAR better than Forces ever did. I also really like how cunning it depicts Eggman here. What a ballsy move to have essentially an entire Sonic game's worth of adventure as the "decoy" plan that lures Sonic into a trap so he can start his REAL plan.

Sonic unleashed is my favourite game and I love this style of sonic the most

Now this is the video I've been waiting for since Sonic Adventure.

I really like the blend of light heartedness and dark themes of the story. I think they did a good job mixing the two and it all culminates in this world adventure that I believe is thoughtfully put together. Sonic still embodies his cheerful attitude in a conflict that offers high stakes.

Little disappointed you didn't mention how differently Eggman acts towards the end of the game. Granted it's mostly just the Egg Dragoon fight and for most of the game he's pretty much normal goofy Eggman, but HOLY SHIT was he completely unhinged at the end. He rants about wanting Sonic to just die already, continually destroys the platform Sonic's standing on, and even the music sounds manic and desperate. Sonic even has to tell him to calm down lol. You mentioned getting the feeling that Unleashed was trying to be THE Sonic game with the most climactic and epic story. The two main rivals of the entire series duking it out as they plummet towards the core of the Earth while they hold nothing back certainly adds to that feeling.

26 seconds in and this is already gold.

I absolutely love how the Egg Dragoon is built so that it is impossible for Sonic to beat it, but gets completely fucking destroyed by Werehog. Then in Generations the Egg Dragoon is built so that the Werehog can’t beat it. Also at the end of unleashed eggman says “ill build a prototype 2” after you beat him. Which is exactly what he does

I finally understand why people like this game story so much. All the other reviews I've seen had a dedicated section of their reviews to the story. However, dedicating videos to the story and characterizations in those stories really does help put a new and very in-depth perspective on them. I never really played much of unleashed (first game was generations on a ps3) but I did understand that the story in unleashed was better and more intricate than many of the games that came after it, and it's nice to finally understand the hype surrounding it without having too many bits and pieces of it missing from the whole picture to fully grasp what really happened in the story.

19:16 Fun fact: Archie explained it in it’s cannon that Chaos came down to earth to keep the water on the planet so it wouldn’t touch the core.

Amazing video like always! Really hyped to see more content from you, especially the story videos! :)

11 minutes into the vid, just wanted to mention while many people point out the Final Fantasy style cutscenes of '06, Yuji Naka in an interview mentioned that the presentation of the game was inspired by movies like Spider-Man 2 and Batman Begins and how they ground those characters in reality. Of course interviews have to be taken with a grain of salt sometimes, had that game come out in 2008 like Unleashed did im sure they would have mentioned Michael Bay's Transformers as an inspiration as well. I think the backlash for the realistic humans in '06 definetly played a hand in them going for Pixar as an inspiration instead.

Tails: What is my purpose? Sonic: You fly the plane. Tails: Oh my god...

Probably one of the best break downs of the plot I've ever heard

I'm amused whenever he goes into what might be the "story justification" for any changes or inconsistencies that show up in the story, only to always just reach the same conclusion in every video, "Sonic Team just didn't cared"

Don't you dare skip this cutscene, don't skip that cutscene! Heck a doodle, THANK YOU gud sir

48:58 THANK GOD! you are the first person to bring a compliant I have had for years, the fact that this cutsence would be way better if the game made me give a crap about Chip beforehand.

Saying Chip isn't likeable or endearing is like saying Sonic 2 has no purpose in the franchise. Well, that's an over exaggeration. But you get my point.

english voice acting is superior because japan doesn't have the werehog scream. *AAAAAAAAAAAAH*

32:00 lol I made a comment way back on your shadow story video explaining how all the stories from Sonic 1 to shadow were all one continuous story and then afterwards we got a series of soft reboots and you commented that it was a spoiler for a future video. Glad to finally see what spoiler you were talking about

When talking about the humor of Sonic games, I think it is important to remember the target audience for Sonic. At least this game tries to be funny instead of having the same serious and generic tone throughout like Sonic 06. It makes it way less boring imo. And it's not like they downplay the REAL serious moments for humor. It also helps that I think some of the funny moments (specifically in Unleashed and Black Knight) are actually kinda funny. But humor is subjective anyways. Also I feel like a lot of what makes the scene with Sonic and Chip in Adabat pay off is the gameplay. Chip is going through all of it with you. It's the little stuff like how you see him cheer you on at the beginning and end of every level, he's always following you in the hubworlds, he gives you hints for some reason, and when you feed Chip food from around the world he gives his opinion on it. He's just a really playful and innocent character who tags along for fun, not fully understanding how dire the situation is. That is what the pictures in the credits are depicting. He's definitely not as strong of a character as Caliburn, and they could have done more with him during the middle of the story, but for what he is, I find him enjoyable. Definitely one of my favorite Sonic characters, but I suppose I can see why others don't find him as compelling. One of my favorite scenes is after you beat the Dark Gaia Phoenix and Chip accidentally bonks Werehog's head, then Werehog swipes his arm at Chip, but he misses. I think Chip is a cute character. Also the reason I don't mind Tails and Amy's inclusion is that they add more good than they take. The scene with Tails and the Dark Gaia mob might seem out of character at first, but it actually humanizes Tails. He is just 8, after all. And he has never seen the Dark Gaia minions, so they are understandably pretty scary to him. Especially since one of them is like 10 times his size and has a giant club.

I think everyone agrees Unleashed (besides the neat side stuff of Mania) genuinely had the best and most heartfelt story in the main series since Adventure 2 until now with Frontiers, man such a great time and definitely felt like a proper balance of tone and writing quality, it’s not a perfect masterpiece but it gets one every time

37:19 I believe that it makes sense that sonic would find tails in relatively the same landmass. Depending on how long the raid on eggmans space fleet had been taking place prior to the opening cutscene (which shouldnt be very long considering we cut in just as eggman notices sonic is even here) They were probably together doing some bullshit before getting sonic up into the atmosphere, and then being that high up for all of about 6 minutes, and being cosmicly flung right back down, probably sonic's geographic position didn't change all that drastically form where he last saw tails. He is literally jogging around the continent in the ending credits after all. I only felt the need to dissect this matter so thoroughly bc im high as shit rn, respect on the good video my brother.

Great video I really love this game and I’m looking forward to your sonic colors review

I feel like the werehog stages would be a perfect place to have Chip tagging along and talking to Sonic. It would probably be incredibly annoying and would've made the review scores even lower though LOL

"WE are Sonic's best friend." "PARASOCIAL!! YOU NEED TO LOG OFF!!!" LOLLLL

Yooo new Pariah vid, can’t wait to listen to this while running my errands I love hearing his perspective on S- Pariah jumpscare: “WHAT 😡”

This was a great video! I would like to point out that during my playthroigh of sonic unleashed, I would always buy the food in each different country and feed it to chip. With every food item you give him, he says something different that conveys that friendship that Sonic and Chip share, with there even being some points where he will gift you with certain items like videotapes if you feed him enough. That’s why I always found their friendship well built up throughout the game, but I suppose that’s only because I went out of my way to find it.

we have did it. we found the video we were all waiting for! best video yet.

I've been waiting for this!

These vids of these games' stories REALLY help me appreciate them more & I thank u for that. I agree wit EVERYTHIN u've said here & aside from BK Unleashed is prob my fav sonic story in the games. The joke bout makin the games purposefully "bad" is hilarious cus it would actually be genius imo tho I still really like the werehog lol. Kiyoko Shimura is def a fav writer with Maekawa but ye her jokes tend to not land for me, however I will say the food gags get a pass cus wit chip after losin his memories his first positive experience is good food so he wants to cheer everyone up the same way he was as light gaia

IT’S HEEERRREEE

I have nothing to say. This is a great video on a great story from a great game told by a great guy

watching this when the werehog's japanese voice came up I thought "huh I didn't know kanemaru could go that deep that's funny sounding a bit like gilgamesh there", and after reading the description I went to check the cast and it actually IS Tomokazu Seki voicing the werehog what the heck I shouldve played this in japanese This was great! Can't wait for the absolute misery that'll be the colors story video now :^)

been waiting on this one

58:51 Ngl, there are some people who loves this boss in the story sense for how frustrated Eggman is for Sonic always winning.

15:15 Well, eventually we will arrive to the Starfall Island, only this time Eggman wasn't even aware there was a monster hidden there. ...Subversion?

I think Unleashed has one of the simplest stories in a Sonic game. If I had one complaint, it's that act 2 of the story drops the "regaining chip's memories" until the end. And it's such an easy fix. Just make the Gaia temple's regain his memories piece by piece. But the rest is perfect. Great game all around, and I don't care what people say about the Werehog (even if they are a veteran combat gamer).

I just wanna say that I love these story videos you make for the sonic games and I would definitely watch these kinds of videos for other games. Also I would love to hear your opinions on the Devil May Cry series (yes even DmC)

37:34 the convenience of Sonic friends being where he is around is an established trope in the series, even fan works and Sonic Channel do it. Even Silver does it, and he shouldn't. For a huge world, it feels very little.

I know you were just joking around about Sonic's mixed reception in most of the 3D games, but all jokes aside, I do wonder about something in gaming, Sonic or any game franchise. Why do developers keep adding various things that people have repeatedly said they don't like? Such as underwater levels with bad swimming controls (for most games with water levels), or having unskippable or unpauseable cutscenes or having to collect all of something again, even if you got almost all of it in a level that took a while to get through (and there are more games than just Crash that do that). It makes me wonder if game developers do that just to "balance" the game out, so that the good stuff looks even better by comparison. Just a thought. Anyway, nice video.

This is my favorite game EVER, it reminds me of my childhood, and that’s why video made me cry a lot hahaha

Id add about the story being unrelated to the others...it kinda looks like a soft reboot of sonic adventure - and the adventure era build up . Cuz of the japanese title, the emeralds again being blacked out - now u have more gaia guardians not just one guardian being chaos - and tails having a so called tornado 1

amazing rant at the beginning about the animation & presentation of sonic stories after this game. just amazing. excellent. love it. still havent had a chance to play this game lmfao, part of why i never prioritised it is BECAUSE it just doesnt care about previous games. i like my sonic games to at least acknowledge previous adventures. makes me feel like i'm dumb for loving a previous story when its ignored. "what you care about why shadow isnt here? shut up youre stupid"

Ironically, both Rise of Lyric and Forces do try to be cinematic too. But the first didn't have the setup for the narrative, and the latter the budget for that cinematic.

Finally got around the time to finish this video. I want to say that I find it very amusing how the most explicit reference to the Adventure games is that the Chao are a thing, albeit less than inconsecuential, they're just sort of there. Unleashed kinda reminds me of Batman Forever in that, you can omit the very few possible continuity nods and it's very much it's own thing, going back to a style and tone from before the franchise wasn't so gritty, but still kinda sorta fitting in as a pseudo-sequel/soft reboot.

My man's CHURNING these out and i'm loving all of them. Can't wait to hear your thoughts in Frontiers's story!

Great video bro.

I've long waited for this.

Personally, I'm very much gameplay first when it comes to video games. I can appreciate a good story regardless of what medium it's in, though honestly, not a lot of video game stories really impress me, especially nowadays. HOWEVER, as an animation nerd, I think it's an absolute shame that not more Sonic games or even games in general have this level of high quality animation and directing. I still prefer the Sonic CD intro because I prefer that style of animation, but Unleashed is still amazing. I'm admittedly not a fan of the animated cutscenes in Mania and Origins, mainly because I don't like how cutesy wutesy they've made Classic Sonic since Generations. Tyson Hesse's Classic especially looks like a 2010's CN cartoon at points, which I'm not a fan of (I still like his work and think he's an great artist, just not a fan of his classic Sonic).

Well, this period had good animation with the CGI cutscenes starting with Shadow the Hedgehog. Only by Unleashed they decided "heeey, let's actually focus on Sonic AND Eggman" rather than whatever nonsense they were thinking at the time. The animation studio would eventually work in the movies, and they created a short animation called Night of the Werehog. I'm curious of seeing that later reviewed.

I really wished Chip's Bracelet was a part of Sonic's design as a way to show that that was his truest (is that a word?) self and that Chip is Sonic's best friend.

Yesssssssss I’ve been waiting

Once again excellent work in analyzing in depth the story of Sonic Unleashed. Regarding the final boss, well, what can I say, it's epic, but personally, I prefer the Dark Gaia fight in the Wii version. I don't know, but I think the Wii version was better constructed. Similar 1st phase of swapping between Chip and Sonic, but instead of a slow bullet hell (more like bullet stroll) whith Chip, you get a Punch-Out style grudge match, where the entire point is to punch Dark Gaia in the face. Then 2nd phase is a lot more of a personal 1-on-1 between Perfect Dark Gaia and Super Sonic, which the former slashing and chucking meteors at latter, who charges up rings to launch himself and take out all of Perfect Dark Gaia's eyes, untill hitting the final, central one, ending the whole thing. Hell, even the orchestral theme of Endless Possibility is also present in the Wii version. In the PS3/Xbox360 only went for the spectacle apprach, because it is cinematic af. As Super Sonic, you don't really do anything, you don't fight Dark Gaia directly, only take out the shield and then do pure Quick Time Events.

36:45 I agree with the assistant idea, but I have to say it. This would’ve been a great time to bring back a previous character like Ray. They’ll just need some form of connection to Pickle though🤔

I just say one thing Sonic Unleashed, like it's own thing, it's a better reboot than Sonic 06, somehow The BEST Sonic Reboot

This game is so much fun. Sadly, I couldn't afford PS3 or Xbox 360. Funny how I didn't play any Sonic game, but it's really interesting to look at gameplay and story.

AW MAN HERE WE GO

They kind of do that thing where you help people around in each continent like you wanted through the side-missions. However, it's not tied to the main plot and none of them have to do with Chip and Sonic's development. And I can't really blame you for not really touching the side missions since they aren't too interesting gameplay wise. I remember in Spagonia you have you find a little girl's brother and those ghosts from Night of the Werehog actually do show up in the side-missions believe it or not. I remember actually playing through all of these side missions when I finished the game and there's actually some fun dialogue with the NPC's. There was some NPC who quizzed you Sonic lore lmao. But again, it's in there, just not to the extent you wanted it. I get the feeling they wanted to do your idea, but the structure of the game didn't really support it.

19:11 Would have been hilarious if you showed transparent clips of movies like that while you were talking about that. Also not only that the game's opening acted like a Sonic movie feeling but fans said when they saw the trailer for the Shadow the Hedgehog game it felt like a trailer for a movie rather than a game.

I think a good deal of Chip bonding happens in Night of the Werehog and the 3 special shorts.

38:23 Actually I think the implication was judging from the after credits picture of Tails' Story that he fixed/rebuilt it.

It would've been nice to show that since Chip is Gaia, the spirit of the world, then all the food that he eats would end up jump-starting his memories about those parts of the world. And he would get a full understanding of the people and their culture simply from eating their types of food. Maybe even helping Sonic locate the different temples. Since Gaia would know about them, and being reminded of a certain world cultures would also led them to the temples. It would be a mystery how this little dude with amnesia knows so much about the world. This game could've used Chip's love of food as a character and story telling element. We could've gotten a Purrito in this game, but instead got a Donkey.

chip before learning he is gaia being only focused on eating is a metaphor for consumerism, thats why chip is like that.

I cried so hard after completing Unleashed...

36:47 funny you mention that, that's the reason I don't care about Colors DS. The cameos don't really make the story more interesting. But we will eventually go there.

If you look at the Tornado model in SA2 that one is actually the Tornado 3. Tails improved upon the Tornado 2 and made it be able to turn into a mecha. The name written on the mecha is "Tornado III" I hope that adequately made the Tornado issue even more confusing for you.

I’ve always wanted that ice cream cone. It looks so delicious

11:12 I find this ironic because I see it as the start of the Boost era.

Are you going to be talking about the Wii and PS2 versions of unleashed?

i love when games take eggman seriously and make him actually threatening i love flipping the brains vs brawn on its head when eggman the villain is the brains

1:22:46 Bro just dug himself his own grave lmao

Sonic shuffle review when

1:01:00 on a later cutscene it shows it getting even higher from the rest of the planet, so it's probably what happened when Dark Gaia awakened

4:18 that’s one reason I like these games it always seems like a continuation

Sonic Unleashed is both the start of a new era while also being the end of an era. By the start of a new era, I am referring to the boost era. While I can't really say it was good for Sonic games in the long run I can say that it worked for Sonic Unleashed in day stages. And this is something SEGA and Sonic Team went with this from this point onward. But at the same time, this is also the end of an era. The end of Sonic games with a decent story. After Sonic Unleashed and Sonic and the Black Knight, the quality of the story has nosedived.

Just got the CD soundtrack for this game today at 2:25p.m. and it's the Planetary Pieces Sonic World Adventure Original Soundrack CD and I'm listening to it while watching this! 7:37p.m. 6/15/2023

Ok so basically Odyssey executed the story ideas for in game incentive with helping the “continents” and the townsfolk and then developing our main companion’s friendship

itd be way cooler if it was more of a focus point that light gaia and dark gaia's influence separates the happiness and sadness of the people in the world. portrayed in day and night. it seemed like(atleast to me) that was what they were hinting at. I mean, this IS a game, so it could be that they just didn't care. but I think they knew that it was very unrealistic that everyone didn't care about the state of the world. not even the government noticed!(which in my opinion, they should've included some mention of the government, maybe even seeing them in the night stages prowling around? they could even be implemented as semi-enemies where if they see sonic they will follow him, and sonic will have to dodge them and climb away so they lose track of him. hiding in dark places in corners will get them to lose you but if a monster sees you and the government people are in range they will follow you again.) now onto the tails thing(didn't think I'd be just pouring ideas here..) I think it'd make more sense if tails was shown to be followed by some of the smaller monsters, he turns around, and the bigger ones are infront of him. he's concerned, and outloud(because apparently these games don't know how to make it sound like characters are thinking) says he has no idea what these monsters are, but will be cautious since he doesn't know what'll happen if he touches them. then he notices he feels drained, and tries ducking under the legs of one of the monster to get out. before that happens though, sonic and chip hear the monsters and run over. sonic beats up the monsters and after tails notices that he can touch them, he beats up the rest.(in this part of the scene he's visibly tired and drained) after they are done, sonic and chip notices this and chip then gives him the chocolate while sonic asks if tails is okay. (wip I gotta leave rq)

Tails rebuilt the tornado 1 at the end of SA1 in some form, at the ending screen you see him with his plane there. The ending screens take place after the ending (the Angel Island rock mass is even gone, which implies that it's flying in the air.) Which may be the Tornado 3 or not or whatever, it's just an excuse to return to the status quo after all is said and done The biggest issue with this is the cyclone in SA2, so Tails would have have rebuilt the Tornado 1 and made a Tornado 3 all for himself, maybe he rebuilt the Tornado 1 for Sonic? This game was originally supposed to connect more to prior entries, having Shadow and Knuckles in it even. So a bit more story was likely planned. This got changed likely due to demands by SoA and response to the common critiques of the Sonic franchise at the time