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I agree a lot with your take on the Purple stage nothing about that stage is good another cool thing I noticed was that in woodman is you use the flash power before entering the screen with the dogs they won’t spawn

I thought I was crazy when I found this game to be hard on my first playthrough so I see where you’re coming from. That said, I recommended this game to one of my friends who had never played a mega man game before, and they played it on difficult mode. You know what they said after they beat it? They said it wasn’t that bad difficulty wise!!! I’m glad to hear that I’m not crazy. Edit: 21:13 wtf is this

Yeah, I figured as much, these are NES games so they are inheritably hard. I'm playing the Game Boy games on NSO this week and I been struggling on them.

Thanks for this! Since you modded this, is it possible to make this game work perfectly on original hardware? Of course, assuming you can adjust to the style of controls. And I was wondering if there are ways to fix it without mods, possibly. I also saw that someone else is remaking this!

Never played 9 or 10 but I think id like it if one of the boards in a new game was like this . Not the whole game, I think the perfect game has several types of boards.

"The best Sonic fans are the ones that are also Mario fans" is an interesting concept

I knew the saying "Sega does what Nintendon't" backfired on Sega but not to the level explained at the end

Sonic Adventure 1>Sonic Adventure 2

Unpopular Opinion:To a certain degree Sonic had a better transition into 3D than Mario

This is why Team Rose specifically has formation gates that change for you so by the time you get to team dark you KNOW what formation to be in or understand the game enough to experiment and choose something else you think might work better.

"I didn't put any thought into it" and "there's way too much to think about as you play though these stages". Yeah that's called depth, and is the sole reason it's my favorite game. That's the main problem with most people who dislike Heroes: they either have no clue how deep the game is or find it too complex and they don't like it cause they can't just turn their brain off. If the game isn't for you I have absolutely no problem with that assessment, but when people start claiming it's designed bad or is inherently flawed thenI take issue because whilst not being perfect I firmly believe that it's extremely well thought out and put together and with some minor control tweaks and better tutorialisation the would be held in much better regard.

This game is a challenge I don't want to imply it isn't. I just don't think its THAT hard. Compared to other NES classics that are highly regarded anyway. I am 41 and to this day I have not beaten any Ninja Gaiden game. I've never beaten Contra without cheating. I have cleared Mega Man 1 several times though.

Ok, I finally finished watching this video I gotta say, I absolutely adore your reviews! It's so nice to see that after all these years later that games like 06 and Shadow are finally getting a fair analysis and aren't being thrown under the bus for being "edgy", or "having a dumb gimmick", or "including Sonic's stupid friends". Later Sonic games released after 06 avoided implementing these features because of stupid loud-mouth “influencers” like the Game Grumps. I 100% agree that a lot of people online over exaggerated 06’s shortcomings just to get the CZcams clicks and they actually get paid for it! I hate influencer culture, it’s as if people can’t think for themselves any more! I also love how you pointed out IGN giving Sonic Adventure 2 for the Dreamcast a 9.4 but they give Sonic Adventure 2 Battle which released in the same year for the GameCube a 6.9, that makes zero sense to me and goes to show how biased these gaming critiques are against Sonic. The failure of 06 devastated me on a personal level. Prior to the release of 06, the Sonic Community was in a bit of a civil war. Not only was the fandom split apart at the time due to the controversial change of voice cast, but the fandom was split up even more due to the fact that 06 was not going to be released for the, at the time, upcoming Nintendo Wii. After Sega went third-party, most Sonic fans became Nintendo fans and felt “betrayed” that 06 wasn’t coming to Nintendo’s console. I unfortunately had a very bad experience back in 2005/2006 defending Sega’s understandable reasons for not developing 06 for the underpowered Wii. Nintendo fanboys then got upset and wrote nasty comments saying crap like “Nuh-uh, Nintendo’s not weak, Sega is weak! They’re the ones who aren’t a console anymore.” or “How dare you criticize Nintendo’s console! Nintendo saved gaming, and they saved Sonic! Sega owes Nintendo and the Sega HQ should burn for siding with stupid PlayStation and Xbox!” or “I hope this game sucks! It’ll serve them right for betraying Nintendo!” or “I HATE YOU SEGA! I hope you go bankrupt and have to sell yourselves to Nintendo!” This incident really annoyed me and caused me to dislike Nintendo and hate the fandom for the next decade and a half. And when Sonic and the Secret Rings was finally announced for the Wii, the Nintendrones STILL weren’t happy and put on this BS superiority complex and would boast about how Secret Rings would be better than 06. Unfortunately, they were right. In the end, Secret Rings was the “better” game from a functional standpoint, but the game was immensely less ambitious and smaller in scope than 06 which kept me from enjoying it as much. And if Sega didn’t kiss Nintendo’s @$$ and just waited to develop Secret Rings after 06 was complete (or not develop Secret Rings at all), then we could have probably avoided the ‘Dark Age’ of Sonic completely. It pisses me off how these Nintendrones got their malicious wish after speaking all smack, and they probably still weren’t happy with their little Wii game anyway. Anyway, I have finally made time to watch your entire review and I love a lot of the points that you made. And I 100% agree with you that a lot of people jumped on the Sonic-Hate bandwagon just for the CZcams clicks. The Game Grumps for example have even admitted that their Sonic playthroughs are their most popular videos. Thanks to clowns like them, Sonic Team strived to stay away from themes and features that 06 had (multiple playable characters, serious stories, free roaming gameplay, AKA things that made Sonic so great), and decided to play it safe during the 2010s and people still weren't happy! So anyway, there are a few points you brought up that I wanted to comment on. In regards to Blaze, I heard that Blaze saying “blue hedgehog” was a mistranslation and she was supposed to say “naive hedgehog” suggesting that it may be Silver’s actions that doom the world. It’s also theorized that the development of Blaze was similar to Cream, where Sonic Team made a character that was made for a mainline game on consoles but debuted earlier in a side game on a handheld. It’s also believed that 06 takes place before Rush and Blaze remains in the Sol Dimension that Silver sent her to and after the game’s story erases itself. I also love how intimidating Eggman was in this game. Eggman calling Sonic a rat/rodent gave me SATam vibes. And I agree with you that there’s a ton of undeserved hate that people give this game just in an attempt to be funny and get clicks such as Clement whining about seeing Eggma’s eyes in a cutscene (Seriously, who cares?). This game also has the best writing for Shadow as a character. This game gave us a Shadow who was confident in himself, put the past behind him, treated Rouge and Omega like family, respected Sonic, and acted as a mentor figure to Silver. I am also one of the few people in the world who doesn’t think of the whole Sonic x Elise as a ridiculous idea. People need to realize that Sonic having a romantic relationship with a human woman was just a simple nod to a scrapped idea from Sonic 1. Sonic was originally going to have a human girlfriend named Madonna and the accusations of beastiality is just downright ridiculous. Stories like ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’ are able to have romantic relationships between humans and anthropomorphic animals, so why is it a crime when Sonic does it? And the kiss was just a simple ‘Sleeping Beauty’ breath-of-life scene, you don’t even see their lips meet. And it was hinted that Sonic and Sarah from the OVA had something going on, she even kissed Knuckles on the cheek, so why is Elise such a big deal? Also, I find it funny how people claim that they wouldn’t be as turned off if Elise was an anthro, but if they did that, then the SonAmy shippers would be furious. And what people have to realize is, Sonic falling in love is out of character for him anyway, hence why the game erases itself from the timeline. Since the game erases itself, we are free to experiment with romance and other themes that we normally wouldn’t have in your average Sonic experience that doesn’t involve time-travel. I also feel Mephiles was overly hated, people mock him for being Black Doom 2.0, I always thought that Mephiles was an awesome villain, and his attempt to recruit Shadow but rejecting the offer goes to show how much Shadow has grown as a character. I think 06 gave us the best writing for Shadow in the games. Also, I never heard of the theory of Silver being Shadow and Blaze’s son, prior to the games’ release, a lot of people were expecting Silver to be the son of Shadow and Rouge from what I’ve seen and remember. Honestly though, if anyone, I think Silver would be a descendant of Sonic because his enemy, Eggman Nega, in the Rivals games admitted to be a descendant of the regular Eggman, so I think it would be fitting to see the descendants of both Sonic and Eggman fighting 200 years in the future. Anyway, I’m loving your reviews. Also, your comment of 06 being 3 games in one package makes me wonder how the reception of this game would have been if it had an episodic release like Sonic 3K and Sonic 4. Mind you, digital releases were not very big yet back in 2006, but still, I wonder how a $29.99 Sonic, Shadow, and Silver package released 6 months apart from each other would have worked? Anyway thanks again for making a fair review of Sonic 06 and not jumping on the 06-hate-bandwagon for the sake of clicks. 06 had pretty much everything that I wanted in a Sonic game (aside from the fact that it was an unfinished glitch-fest of course).

As someone who has beaten this game with 120 emblems, 141 A-ranks and Super Hard Mode: fuck Chaotix extra missions. I dont mind the story missions, but the extra ones haunt my nightmares.

This game is good but suffers from a variety of issues. The boards are small and simple. Way too small. And Kameks board is so bad that it really only has 3 imo. The pace of the game is incredibly slow. No options like most titles to speed up CPU actions. Some things are weirdly not coded into the game. Like you can use the item shop on the final turn but you can still get items from item and lucky spaces which is just a waste of time. Having that animation that shows everyone being sad when someone else gets a star is played at EVERY opportunity holy shit. Like you said the economy is atrocious. Everything is too cheap and they still give you a similar amount of coins for actions. The minigames are excellent though i have no qualms with using the joy con. Its extremely well executed and the rumble is used fantasitcally. I'd rank this much higher then 9 and 10 but its hard for me to put it above most others. Maybe 1 & 5. At the time this seemed so amazing bc we were so starved for traditional mario party lol. But this is near impossible to come back to.

Fun fact for when you get to Mega Man 2. When you play the game it will have two difficulty modes, Normal and Difficult. In the Japanese Rockman 2, which came out first, there is no difficulty option and the game plays like the "Difficult" mode in the US release. From 3 onward there is no difficulty differences between the US and Japanese versions. So I think that Capcom was aware of the difficulty being too hard in 1 and JP2 and they decided to knock it down for US2, and they kind of over corrected, but they found more or less where they wanted to be with 3.

You could always just devote your life to reviewing butter. Then you could change your name to PaulaDeen. It'd probably be easier.

So i did decided to check out some other videos. If you like Sonic and MegaMan. Then check out Berserk Boy. It is a game that pays it's respects to both great franchises. I like berserk boy it is a fun game. Although with the MegaMan series you just took on i doubt you have time to play a game just for fun.

CZcams just had this video pop up. I love the MegaMan games. I'll say you'll do fine to do all the collections. MegaMan one through eleven. X through X8. The Zero games and battle network. That's what I would recommend. I'm glad I caught this at the beginning of your journey so I can watch it all the way through. How often are these videos going to be dropping?

Personnaly, I would recommend you to start with the classic series first (Mega Man 1 to 11) then, play the X games (good luck for the last games) Zero then, ZX and then do Legends. then just do whatever the fuck you want Also, the game boy games are the sequels of each game so Mega man 2 on the game boy is a sequel to Mega Man 2. But seriously, just enjoy the serie. If a game just piss you off then you can skip it.

The megaman fandom is almost as bad as the dark souls fandom.

Everything outside of the OG titles and the X series the franchise is trash. And some of the OG & X titles such too.

MM1 blew my mind on release. There was nothing like it in 1987. I was able to clear MM1 in my youth around 1988. You need ninja gaming skills to se it through on original hardware (or without spamming save states or rewind....not judging). No way I would have enough patience to see this game through these days. Nintendo hard is surely a thing. Cool video dude man.

Funny that youtube recommended me the first video in what’s going to be an impossibly long series. I wonder, are you going to play Mega Man X Command Mission? That’s an RPG!

The Elecman first screen music sounds like Journey

When I play a megaman game I like to beat all the bosses with the megabuster, so I can say I conquered each of them fundamentally, but then use their weaknesses during the boss rush

Great vid! This is gonna be a fun series! Subbed 😊

"For some reason, Elecmans music triggered memories in me..." Journey is ingrained into our DNA, friend.

Are you going the tiger electronic games ?

I honestly dont think this game is very hard

Knuckles gameplay in SA2 is my favorite sonic gameplay style of all time. This would absolutely trounce S3&K as my favorite sonic game if I spend more time A-ranking it and frankly, I should. (Funny how both have knuckles. Well he’s in my top three alongside Shadow and Big).

Sonic is better

This series is so long. Perhaps you should do two video series side by side?

Out of the first main 8 games, the first is the only title I've never had the patience to finish.

It isn’t. Mega man 3 is significantly harder. If 1 gave you trouble hoooooooboy.

Wow, you got yourself a massive ordeal forward, Deen. 58 games is a lot, even though most of them are relatively short, I hope you don't burnout by them. Myself, I still haven't finished Star Force 1 yet, mostly because of been distracted by other games, but I will go back to it, Star Force is an awesome game, the story, characters and the scenarios are great, the overworld gameplay is a bit confusing but the battle system is very cool, if you play the rpgs at some point, maybe 2026 or beyond, for your sanity sake, I could see that maybe at that point Star Force Legacy Collection would had released and it would be more easy access to them, instead of the DS emulation like I'm doing. Hope you have fun playing and making the videos, if you can't get done a video by the week, just don't rush it, ok? You can take all the time you want with them, I bet Capcom wouldn't even announce a brand new game like MM12 or X9 by the time you are done with this, lol. Anyway, stay great!

I loved your review, but I gotta ask, why didn't you cover 'Knuckles in Sonic 2'?

It's an interesting game. I think it's fun once you get over the edginess and the fact that Shadow is holding a gun, so don't be a crybaby! Do you think this game would have been better received if it was rated T, or if it wasn't so dark, or had no guns, maybe have Shadow match more his character in SA2? I think his character does match despite the tone, but I feel if they could maybe make it a bit clearer, as i feel like the rating this game had overshadowed what they were going for with Shadow and his past.

Yeah, it’s complicated. This game does a lot of things right, yet felt like a step back from the Adventure games. The chaotix missions can be quite gimmicky. Which game did you find buggier, heroes or 06?

Fair criticism. As much as this game tries to be Unleashed without the werehog stages, it doesn’t really do it, as the wisps can be quite gimmicky, hence the blocky design of some stages. I still think it’s good, but arguably it plays more like a mario game than lost world. Would you rather have a light hearted story or a dark, more serious, edgy story for Sonic?

Love this game! I agree, it is the best boost game! I honestly think people usually say Generations was the best because Unleashed is too challenging for them, especially the drift. But despite being the first 3d game to have the boost, it did really well, it can't be denied. Although it did have framerate problems. Also, off topic, but have you played Sonic Free Riders?

Thanks for this! I whole heartedly agree. It is not a bad game. I think it can be quite fun for someone who does not like a challenge. And yeah, I think it would have been more positively received if it was not with Sonic and co. in it, although bear in mind it was quite broken at release, your playing the patched version. I really like some of the unique environments it has to offer, which was really missing from the series at that point. Overall, it is fun if you are not looking to play a Sonic game! Would you rather play a broken or a boring game?

I’m 11-minutes into this video and I completely agree with you calling out the unfair criticism towards Sonic games and the blind bias these critics have towards Mario. And it doesn’t stop with just Sonic, I’ve seen interviews with the founders of NaughtyDog who felt that Crash Bandicoot 1 was unfairly criticized just because it was competing with Mario 64, and to this day I see Nintendo fanboys riding on the Zelda OoT 99/100 score on Metacritic, and yet they don’t acknowledge that 4 out of the 17 OoT reviewers on Metacritic have the word “Nintendo” in their name! -_- Yeah, can smell the bias. Anyway, I’m loving your work, I’ll probably make another comment when I find the time to finish this video as Sonic 06, despite its flaws, is one of my favorite Sonic games ever, and I hated the ‘safe’ route that the franchise took after the game’s release.

clearly you do not dislike adventure considering you wrote and directed a movie about it over here. its a great video! why such an inflammatory thumbnail? I was coming here ready to fight! makes it look like a 90 minute dig at advenutre

Bro the entire reason Sonic Team restarted development of SA1 on the Dreamcast is because the Saturn just wasn't nearly powerful enough to do what they wanted to do. Also Jam's hub world is literally a Saturn prototype of SA1, just heavily reworked

3D Blast was actually developed by Travelers Tales while Sonic Team worked on NiGHTS

Sonic has had, in fact, a wonderful transition into 3D. Mario 64, however, is absolute garbage even for that era. Sorry, not sorry, tank controls, for anything other than vehicles, are inexcusable under any circumstances. Yet for some reason, that clunky and boring thing is held up as a cult classic, whereas for Sonic Adventure, people go out of their way to find otherwise harmless glitches, so they can rag on the game. And yes, I blame the constant complaining and flakiness of Sonic fans for Sonic’s reputation. Sonic fans will never be happy. Not long ago they were complaining about “lanky sonic, spikes too long”. Starting with Forces, they started complaining that the spikes are too short. Not long ago they were all about how sonic was better in the classic games and now they’re complaining that classic sonic is everywhere and classic iconography is too overused (which I ageee with, but I didn’t complain about Sonic’s advancement). Not long ago we kept hearing “Sonic’s stupid friends! He talks too much! Monster of the weak formula!” and now we hear complaints about how the meta era sucks so much (which I agree, but again, I had no issue with sonic before that). As for Sonic Adventure’s presentation, it’s perfectly acceptable for the time. A lot of games (cough! Mario64! Couch) didn’t even have a story. Others had static face textures. And others horrible writing that didn’t even try to sound coherent or realistic (Cough! Castlevania Symphony of the Night! Cough!).

Honestly I vasty prefer the wii version for having tighter controls and WAAAAAAY better level design especially if you're trying to dpeedrun the levels. I do like the hd version as well but for different reasons and I actually much prefer the Werehog in the hd version since 3D action platformers are my favorite genre.

I never said it before but the idea of a reverse retrospective is incredibly unique & I applaud the challenge. It makes me want to C more ppl try it. I'll also say as a halo fan it's funny u mentioned that cus as someone who played both on release day the I had an interestin experience in relatin the 2. I relate them to each-other more beyond jus this as a fan of both but I can only mention this for rn. I have huge problems wit the game & it's incredibly rough but it is fun & I do like it on the whole & I do think it's "good" especially wit the updates.