Sonic the Hedgehog on the Megadrive via my uncle at 3 years of age. My first console was a Megadrive too, two years later, and Sonic the Hedgehog 2 was my childhood obsession. Looking forward to the video as a long-time fan who lapsed during the Adventure Era. I've never really connected with all the fans from that time period, but I wanna know where this'll go.
Or the Sonic X comic. Yes there is a comic book adaptation of Sonic X and it had its difference. Unfortunately don't last long enough to reach season 3.
I can't remember the last time i actually liked and favorited a video after watching it once. Everything from the editing, to the thumbnail, to the actual writing are top notch. I can't believe i'm gonna have to simp for a hedgehog and sub smh.
I found this video at the perfect time! I just watched the Sonic movie 2 and had a blast! Other than the 2 Sonic movies the only Sonic content I’ve seen is the show Sonic Boom. I really want to get more familiar with the Sonic characters and lore and this was super helpful! I had no idea Sonic had that many games but I’ll probably check out some game play soon! For now I’ve started Sonic X which is pretty good so far, Knuckles is my favorite I think he’s really interesting! From what I’ve seen character design wise Rouge the Bat, Amy Rose, Tails, Cream and Eggman himself are some of my favorites! I’ll definitely be getting into some great Sonic content soon, thank you for your help! :D
Dude this was literally me, I saw the movies, then tried my hand with Boom, and I’ve been struggling ever since. So glad this video exists, it’s super helpful lol
@@utahsrainbowsprinkles GIRL ME TOO, I DONT WANT TO WAIT TWO YEARS 😭😭 I can’t decide if I’m more anxious to see if Jim Carrey will still be Robotnik, or what Shadow will be like
I have never played a Sonic game but my partner grew up with it and has rediscovered his obsession recently. Thank you for giving me an opportunity to learn.
Hi there, I'm that guy from Holland that commented on your premiere that I would watch this video tomorrow due to it being 1 AM at the time. Now it's 02:30, I haven't postponed watching it, I simply couldn't wait. Before you read this, I rarely comment on CZcams video's, probably only once or twice a year even so I'm going all out on this one. When I saw the last 2 minutes of your premiere I just got off watching a stream of my all time favorite CZcamsr who was, in my opinion, the representative of the Dutch Sonic Community back in 2010. Nowadays he's not into Sonic anymore and doesn't like talking about it but for me, my journey with him began with Sonic. Currently I'm 20 years old and to this day I still love the blue blur for as far as I can remember. I'm quite sure the first videogame I've ever played is a Sonic game. Sonic Adventure 2 to be precise. As a child I loved the game even though I was just a small, dutch child that couldn't speak English. To this day, sadly, no Sonic game has ever been dubbed to Dutch. Despite that, I instantly got hooked to the series at around 2003. Since then my entire life has been Sonic. I'm glad that, despite my age at the time, I could still experience the games, comics and series when they came out. I quickly caught up with the classics as well. I still fondly remembering Sonic X being dubbed in Dutch on tv. Nowadays I even have contact with some of the old cast such as the voice actor of Sonic or the voice actor of Eggman that has already retired and lives just a few blocks away from me now. To this day I'm still trying to collect those dutch dubbed episodes because they are sadly lost for the majority of the episodes. With all the criticism on the Dutch voice of Sonic in the recent movie, I'm even planning on audition for his role in the second part as I got in contact with one of the voice actors that have worked on the dutch dub of the movie. Sonic is still, to this day, the reason I was able to learn English. Having played all the games at around the age of 12, finished watching all the cartoons that were out then and being caught up with the main story line of the Archie comics that I sadly had to illegally pirate due to them not being available for purchase in the Netherlands, I'm stil sure that Sonic gave me a headstart in secondary school with my English skills. I was very much into the fanbase. Like most fans I had my cringy Sonic phase in which I loved going to forums, draw fanart and watch tons of Sonic content on CZcams, DeviantArt, Newground etc.. I'm still nostalgic for Sonic Paradox or plush CZcamsrs like Spindashpro or SonicSong182. Roger van der Weide's Sonic in minutes animations are still very beloved to me and I love his Sonic dissected series to this day. A reason for all that being he was, like me, a dutch Sonic fan. Which brings me to my next point. I met the friends I held dearest in my life through Sonic. I had a CZcams channel in which I posted Dutch Sonic content when I was around 10-15 years old. The CZcamsr I mentioned in the beginning was a huge help for me to reach many Dutch Sonic fans as well as a few lifetime friends I still have to this day. When I was around this age I was quite jealous of other countries having a much more connected Sonic fanbase while the dutch one was very bland. After all, this was a very niche franchise here. So i tried to do everything I could to meet as much fans as possible. I contributed tons to the fanmade Dutch Sonic Wiki. I made 2 collab channels on CZcams with the cringiest names ever (The Dutch Sonic Group and The Dutch Chao Garden). I even tried to organize an event despite being too young to have any clue how to organize a proper meetup. I was a very enthusiast fan to say the least. At around 2015 my love for the series sadly died down a bit. I still remember making some Sonic Boom fandubs as there was no Dutch release to the cartoon at the time and I was definitly reading the Archie comics until they got cancelled but I just felt like I was growing up. I'm glad this died down though after I played Sonic Mania in 2018. Sonic is to this day still a huge part of my life. This entire wall of text just nearly scratches the surface of how much I love this franchise. To this day my biggest hobbies probably have something to do with Sonic. I love playing the games in my off-time, dubbing the characters in projects is still a very big hobby of mine and being a historian (in training) I even try to perserve Sonic history with any small thing I can contribute. I'm sorry for making this comment all about me, I want to give you my thoughts on your video essay as well. I love video essays, they are my nr. 1 favorite type of content on CZcams and when I saw the notification pop up for this video I was instantly hooked. I just couldn't wait to watch it. The way how you express your love and passion to this franchise is something I look up to. I've been waiting for years for a video this elaborate and informative that tries to scratch the surface of everything a newcomer has to know and I couldn't agree more on any opinion you gave in this video. All the love and dedication put into this now make this one of my all time favorite CZcams videos ever created. Any time somebody asks me about Sonic, I'll link them this video for sure. Thank you so much for making this. Sadly due to me living in The Netherlands and not having a creditcard I can't really donate to your Patreon so if possible I would like to ask your Paypal emailadres so I can send you 50 bucks over. You deserve it and I really want to show my appreciation to you this way. You gave me a ride of nostalgia and of my past this night and I must give you something in return. It's now 03:10 at the time of me finishing writing this comment. I hope you liked my small story and I can't wait to see what other video's you will be releasing. Sincerly, Darkie
This was a really fascinating and thoughtful comment and I honestly love reading responses like this. Seeing the different personal experiences of people in relation to the topics I discuss always creates such a warm feeling of community and something distinctly _human_ to me. So many people all with different experiences, environments, ages, walks of life, etc. all enjoying one thing for some reason or another, whether casually or deeply. It's really wonderful to read about, and I appreciate your comment a lot. As for the generous offer, I deeply appreciate that as well c: If you do feel so inclined, my Paypal address is soulstarstudios@gmail.com , but obviously there's no need to do so if anything remotely more important requires your attention~ Thank you for this, it's responses like this that are so personal and moving that make the long hours of work I do for my content all worth it to me.
Hah, I bet the vast majority of people watching this (myself included) have been into Sonic for ages. Still, it was a great nostalgic recap of the franchise, and I really enjoyed it. I just never get sick of revisiting Sonic. Thanks for making this. (Oh, and my Dad made me play Sonic School House for AGES. He thought it was good for me, so I must have spent like at least a hundred hours in that terrifying place.)
Yeah, that's an issue I have too. Although that's more to do with how Sega dictates Shadow must be characterized now, so the IDW guys' hands are a bit tied there.
Of all the "How 2 Sonic" guides I've seen thtoughout the years, this is by far the most in-depth one!! The fact that you also covered the cartoons and comics was a nice surprise! Well done!! I got into the Sonic franchise because a friend of mine showed Sonic Adventure DX, but the first game I actually owned myself was Sonic Heroes!
As a really long term Sonic fan, I gotta respectfully disagree about the Sonic Boom cartoon. The series absolutely overflows with love for the franchise, a la the Sonic Twitter account. It can be a little pandery at times, but the show really grows into its own, especially into season 2. It's clear watching it that everyone involved had a blast with it, and I'm glad I got over my initially being repelled by the seeming over-reliance on irony and self-deprecation. Truly a shame it won't get Season 3, this show really got me going especially in season 2.
Man, thank you for this amazing video! Seriously, it was so refreshing to see someone who shares a lot of my same opinions about this wonderful blue boy that I do. And even though there are entries that aren't the greatest, still keep that positivity and passion for this phenomenal franchise!
Well, believe it or not, I began with Sonic CD. I remember my father getting it for me, and playing the first level and intro over and over again. Between the gameplay and beautiful animation, it's what got me into Sonic.
I played the hell out of that game. Fantastic story, pretty fun fighting gameplay, but the more difficult fights could be kinda frustrating (unless you had the cheat code combo moves that killed in one button press)
@@CodinskiSchwartzando yeah. i feel like a re release or a proper remake could fix the balancing issues some of the fights had. also the whole rematch problum were you'll fight characters like 5 times back to back really messed with the pacing.
My very first exposure to Sonic was through X (I used to watch it religiously) and a demo of Sonic Adventure DX on one of the computers in our school library. I didn't play it till way later but seeing the older kids go through Twinkle Park, Emerald Coast and Red Mountain... I dunno, it just felt almost magical. That's why even today, when I'm playing SA1 it feels "like home". It's a perfect comfort game for me, reminding me of the good old days when I had so much fun. Heroes had a pretty big part in my love for the series too, by a short demo that I would never get tired of.
My first Sonic was actually Sonic Unleashed for the PS2, I remember seeing an ad for it back in the day and asking my mom for it desperatley. It instantly became one of my favorite games of all time, and is still my favorite Sonic game overall. I was five at the time, and I somehow managed to get to Eggman Land Act 2 and even get S ranks. Just wish I still had my copy!
We had a Dreamcast and Sonic Adventure growing up, but I was too young to really play. I first got into the franchise seriously though from Sonic X, I used to wake up and watch it at 7am every weekend with my younger brother. Been hooked since. Now I have to watch all your Sonic content haha
Oh the Sonic Franchise,what a crazy but amazing franchise,i remember to this day that i played Sonic & Sega All Stars Racing with my cousin and i kept crashing to the walls just to see the car spin,i was stupidly happy. Years later,i saw a bunch of Sonic Content on CZcams and since then,i started loving the Blue Blur and the entire cast since,nowadays i own some games such as Sonic Free Riders,Generations,SA2 and even Lego Dimensions which had Sonic as a playable character alongside a open world and a level,i also got a IDW comic which i bought recently and i already consider it a relic of mine,because i live in Brazil and Sonic Comics are really hard to find here,the easiest way to get one is importing it,but thankfully i was able to find one in a brazilian website and i'm very happy about it! The Sonic Franchise is one of the main aspects of my chilhood and teenagehood alongside Pixar's Cars,Lab Zero Games (the ones who made Skullgirls and Indivisible) and PaRappa the Rapper,i would never trade it for nothing,i've made so many friendships with it,so many fun memories and nostalgia! The music is awesome too! I loved I Am All of Me from Shadow and Race to Win from Rivals to name a few,the characters are in my opinion one of the best things about it with my favorites being Blaze,Big and Team Chaotix. I love expressing my love for this series and i really hope it still remains of the most importants gaming series for years to come,i'm a proud Sonic Fan for years,i've seen a lot,to Fanart,to Aniamtions and even a lot of arguing with others about the franchise,who could have thought that a Blue Hedgehog with Shoes would be such an memorable thing about millions of people? I certainly didn't but... it did! I really hope this franchise continues to live on to generations and generations,i may not have every game,every comic or any sort of stuff related to Sonic,but for now,i'm just happy that this series exists,i'm very excited for Sonic's 30th Aniversary and can't wait to see what the future comes,but until then... Good on you Sonic,you're awesome ^^
Tbh, my first sonic game or, encounter was sonic CD, just by seeing a hedgehog run around a big world with lots of new things to experience made me love it
This is the perfect beginning guide to all things Sonic! There's tons of drama and crap, but there's at least SOME cream you can enjoy. The first ever game I owned was Sonic Rush Adventure and slowly but surely I continued to delve into the series. All the characters and how they can bounce off of one another is what I truly love in the series. Sonic Heroes, Mania, the IDW comics, the OVA, all that awesome music. . .but the best thing about the series are the fans. Believe it or not, it's actually the saving grace of the series. It's the birth of so many beautiful things born out of the love for a blue hedgehog. Rock on blue blur. You, Knuckles, Amy, Blaze, Metal Sonic and all the others I love in the series.
So I know this vid is 3 weeks old but, dear God, it really is a love letter to this franchise that I got to love so much, this has been a thrill, and if anything, now I know what to expect of Tails' Adventures, the next game I'll tackle
17:20... I remember that day.. Actually, around a month before I had preordered Sonic '06(guide and all... including a X-Box 360 purchase.) and then went to work to request 2 days off work the following days it came out so I could Play It All Weekend!! we all know the story from there.
It was Thanksgiving in 1991. My family was visiting friends. Friends I didn't know. And in that house there were a bunch of kids in a dark livingroom. The only light was coming from the game Sonic The Hedgehog. Mind you it would be a few months until I actually got to play. And Mario was my first love when it comes to video games and now still has my respect. But when Sonic blew into town, the rest was history for me. For a long time it was the craze of Ninja Turtles and Sonic and TGIF. Great video. God bless and Jesus loves you.
I get somewhat taken aback when I see videos like these which are "for beginners" but they're over 50 minutes long. I mean, what do master guides look like? I don't think I'm ready for that.
I grew up playing a bit of sonic on gamecube, mostly watching Sonic x, and occasionally reading archie comics, but I’m getting into it more than ever now and I’m so excited to watch this video !!!!
Sonic Forces was my First Sonic Game I think it’s Not the best but i like it. After That i Player Generations Mania the Classics Colors and Unleashed(i conpleted Unleashed yesterday) and i like All These games. Nice Video
my start was on the cd remake it was my return to videogames and the reason I stayed, from there I hunted everything, and some words on your video........ it was pretty, I think that if you watch this as a veteran its very inspiring, you truly make me remember why I love those character so much and how it was my base idol for becoming the person I am today
I just found your channel through this video today and I want to say you did an amazing job making this absolute beast of a video. I started with Sonic 1 via Mega Collection + at my cousin's house (I actually convinced him to let me keep his copy and I still have it to this day). I was able to grow up with Sonic 1 on CRT while still loving watching the Heroes intro nonstop (never owned the game) or watching Sonic X. This video is great for newbies but I as a veteran still loved it and I actually teared up at the end with the testimonials. Consider me subscribed because I can't wait to watch the rest of your channel and see more great videos from you in the future and see your channel grow.
I had the Mega Collection on PS2 and the Heroes port on PC as a kid, and I remember playing them a lot. I used the Mega Collection to play 1-3 and Knuckles, and now having played Mania.... I can confidently say that I can't stand Genesis-style Sonic. Legitimately 3D Blast was my favorite out of that collection, though for the life of me I couldn't tell you why. I really liked Generations, but the one game that keeps me from dismissing the franchise altogether is Sonic Rush. It's slick, speedy, stylish, and has one of the best soundtracks in gaming history in my opinion. All these years later, and I'm still inexplicably interested in the franchise. I keep an eye on it, hoping for one more Generations or Rush. And, I suppose, appreciating the aesthetics and fandom from a distance. ...I dunno, I think I'm two steps too contrarian to say anything valuable about the series. The passion of fans like yourself makes me wish I could see in Sonic what you all do. Great work as always.
So... You have a taste for the Boost Hybrid of the Rush Trilogy? But not Génesis? Play the portable versions of the Mainline Games made by Dimps. Avoid "Sonic 4" as much as you can.
My journey started earlier than I can remember. I was born in the early 90's in a fairly well off family (at least, we were well off at the time...), so I grew up with both Mario and Sonic. Really, I only knew about Sonic 1 and 2, and rumors of a Sonic 3 from my older brother. It wasn't until I was about 13 that I really got into it though. You see, my brother had moved out and got himself a Dreamcast. And a few times I'd see him, and he'd bring it over 'cause he knew I loved video games. It was something we always bonded over... actually, this may even be why I decided to become a programmer! And on my 13th or 14th birthday, he gave me his old CRTTV and Dreamcast... because he had an XBox, but he knew that I'd appreciate those games more than he did. And... I absolutely played the hell out of Sonic Adventure 2. It was my reintroduction into the series. I poured *hours* into the game. I wanted to see every single part of it. I was *way* into Chao raising. I was absolutely *crushed* when a game breaking glitch happened in the final level (possibly because it wasn't an... let's say "official"... copy of the game...), and I was *ecstatic* when I managed to hover my way back onto the course and beat the game (though, 180 emblems was still out of reach for me because of that glitch). When I got into high school, I was *just* hearing about Sonic Heroes and Shadow the Hedgehog. Not because they were new, but because no one at my school really talked about Sonic anymore. I knew people who didn't even *know* about the Adventure games... So... I kinda just forgot about everything again. Fast forward to my college years. I had just gotten into emulators (don't judge). I played *every* game I hadn't been able to fully enjoy as a kid. Some, I dropped. I liked Sonic CD, but I never loved it enough for a second playthrough. And then... I started reading the Archie comics. I started from the very beginning. And I just kept reading. It was enthralling for me. I absolutely *loved* when Robotnik became an actual threat. And I loved when useless one-off characters showed up again and actually mattered. I remember laughing at how over the top Evil Sonic was. And... I remember crying with all the Bunnie and Antoine drama. Yeah. It's safe to say that Archie Sonic is, like, the quintessential Sonic in my mind. And I *really* wish that the whole Ken Penders thing hadn't played out like it had, because I would love to see some of those characters and plotlines in an actual game... After that, I just kinda... well, I still observe Sonic with a passing interest, but now everyone I know knows about Sonic's ongoings (for better or for worse). My friends let me play their copy of Sonic Mania, and I absolutely loved the game. I wanted to get the Knuckles & Knuckles ending, but it was not to be. And I still want to play Sonic '06 and Sonic Forces, but, like, as dissections of bad games (I've seen playthroughs of Sonic Boom, and that game was too boring for me to play even as a dissection). And I want to get back into the new comics. And that's the main part of my Sonic journey. I mean, back when Sonic Boom was announced, I remember predicting a good Sonic game for 2018 (I was off by a year with Sonic Mania)... though, I was *completely* thrown for a loop with how quickly Sonic Forces dashed Sonic's good name into the dirt. Like, it wasn't even pretty. But one of my programming friends and I had a good laugh about how bad it was. We even joked about a Sonic Warriors game would work, including some rudimentary character and story design. Even though it was mostly as a joke between us, I would absolutely play the heck out of that game.
What a great and lovely video. Its my second year in the community an i love this place we've built. Your video reminds me of the stuff i searched for they brought me here in the first place. Sonic is such an amazing being, a living idea spinning with us in the big mad world. Thank you for your work.
Ever since quarantine started and been extremely bored I've decided to tap on the OG sonic genesis series and I gotta say that I've been really enjoying it, I'm pretty weak when it comes to retro platforming but something about this games really stuck to me despite the amount of death I've gotten. As for my first exposure to sonic, it all started when I was a little boy on a mall trip. While we are waiting for some reason there's a tv shop that's showing a certain trailer of a blue hedgehog and a furry big arm boy(?) Ever since that day after finding out more about it, I've gotten an addiction of searching Mario Vs. Sonic on youtube. Don't ask why.
As someone who grew up with Mario, My first introduction to Sonic was Sonic Heroes thanks to McDonald's, watching Sonic X and Sonic Underground and playing the Genesis games on Sonic Classic Collection on the DS made me realize "...Yeah Sonic is fucking cool" The characters, the high speed action gameplay, the wacky overthetop tones and the music won me over. So I started playing as many Sonic games as I could and became a Sonic fan ever since!
"It can be an imposing thought to figure out where to start." Or you can be me and have a friend at 5 who intentionally leaves the PC version of Sonic R on your dining room table one day and go from there.
Talk about Sonic Unleashed, when I got my first Wii Sonic Unleashed was my very first sonic game that I played and until now I feel like I want to play even more Sonic games because of how the gameplay of Unleashed was like Epic, very challenging, and so fun that I couldn't even stop playing that game! (Keep lovin the old days
I can't say that I'm a Sonic fan. Not because I dislike Sonic, but instead, because I never had the chance to connect with that fandom, that conglomerate of stories and iterations, when I was younger. More than just being in a "Nintendo Household" (it wasn't a matter of console wars for us, it was a matter of practical expenses and being able to afford more than one console), it was just that it wasn't initially appealing to me. The gameplay was not something I ever felt particularly capable of playing, since I have terrible reaction times to things, and get disoriented easily. So unfortunately, engaging with something that kinda relies on those things was always going to have that barrier. My largest exposure to everything Sonic, for the longest time, was the impression that there was something off about the fandom; what I came across was often not child-friendly, and sadly, that ended up putting me off (Add discussion about bad actors ruining fandoms for the uninitiated across multiple fandoms here). But over the years, I got to know actual Sonic fans, and see their passion for it, the creativity it inspired, and in bits and pieces, I saw more of the appeal of Sonic itself. Because there are people like you, those who sent in voice clips, and commenters on this video, who see the best in a fandom that's suffered from a bad public image for WAY too long. I still don't think that I can engage with the games because of what I mentioned before. And the various cartoons and comics, I don't have the same time to dedicate to absorbing all of that, even as I appreciate what it means to others. But I DID see the 2020 movie, and I thought that it was actually pretty decent; it wasn't the SAME Sonic, but to introduce people who *weren't* already Sonic fans to the appeal of the character and the story, it did a fantastic job of laying the groundwork for more of the 'absurd' aspects of Sonic. Plus, you know. It's a fun movie! It doesn't have to be perfect to be enjoyable! I appreciate you making this video essay, Nezumi. And I know many others appreciate the positive look at a fandom that's been kicked in the stomach more than a few times (and has endured anyway). For all the hard work that went into this, it was worth it. (SUPPORT NEZUMI ON PATREON SHE MAKES EXCELLENT CONTENT)
You don't really have to dedicate anything.Sonic lore is just as confusing as zelda's. Just know this: Your fast. Your cocky. You free animals. You slay god being for fun.
Good comment; you don't have to force yourself, or assimilate all the media to call yourself a fan. I consider myself a fan of Sonic, but not part of the fandom, because Sonic resonated with me. It just, formed a connection with me. btw I really liked the movie too, I miss days when movies can be fun, and not part of a 30 film epic!
me, a fan for 10+ years: mm,,,knowledge 👁👄👁 granted i was about 7-8 when i first played sonic 2 and never cared much about the actual lore until i was about 12-13
I've been thinking about my first experience with sonic since i saw your tweet asking about peoples first experiences I was probably around age 6 or 7 and I was at After school care or vacation care and they had an X-box with a bunch of games and one of them was Sonic Heroes and we were only allowed to play for 10 minutes at a time because there were a lot of kids but it was so colourful and fun, and even when I died it wasn't really frustrating the amount and diversity of character design is probably, along with pokemon, what sparked my interest in art and character design when i was like 10 i made my parents buy it for me so i could play it at home and i remember finishing Team Rose and Team Chaotix but getting stuck on the giant crocodile with Team Sonic and in the rising lava with Team Dark i didnt even fully finish the game until last year when i decided to play it on my computer as an adult for nostalgia
@@tidepoolclipper8657 He has a birthday, but it doesn't count. The Sonic Team doesn't want Sonic to grow up. That is why his age is still 15 on Sonic Channel. The birthday was just to celebrate the anniversary. Sonic's age will be 16 when the Sonic Team changes that on Sonic Channel.
I got a Gamecube when I was maybe 6, with Sonic Mega Collection. My cousin, who was already a fan, helped introduce my siblings and I to the blur. I learned to love every game in that pack - including 3D Blast. But I have to give thanks to my undying fandom of the series not to the classic titles, but to the X anime, Heroes, and the Archie comic, showing me the potential of what this series could be, and introducing me to the cast of characters that keeps me coming back nearly 20 years later.
i’ve always kind of wanted to get into sonic, but i never had access to any of the games, and still don’t so i’ve never known where to start 😭 should i even take the time to watch gameplays of some of these? or should i just read up a bit on the entire franchise and go into like the sonic boom cartoon and the newer movies or something?
The movies and Boom are their own continuities, so gamewise, probably not. They're definitely fine to get into on their own, of course! But they're very separate. Gamewise, my top picks for places to start would be either Sonic 2, Sonic 3 & Knuckles, or Sonic Mania for the classic style games, and Sonic Adventure 2, Sonic Heroes or Sonic Generations for the 3D games. The IDW Sonic comics would also be a great place to start for a new fan if you're more interested in the character/lore side of things.
this might get abit lengthy and if so, im sorry if its too long or ends up making no sense, i tend to make lots of mistakes in typing when i type for awhile. i first started playing sonic via emulation at the age of 5. i never had a console when i was younger and just a pc, so my dad set up an emulator for me to play all 3 sonic games. i would play those games non stop, i even remember i pretended to be sick one day so i could just play sonic 3 instead on going to school. there was a point where i annoyed my friends by talking about sonic so much that my mom banned me from anything sonic for a month. (that was the longest month of my life _~_) i eventually got sonic generations for xbox 360 from one of my friends for my birthday, i would have to wait until i went to my uncles place to play the game on his xbox 360 though. i still remember excitedly looking at the box of the game and i still even have that exact copy. i would then go on to play sonic unleashed, 06, adventure 1 and 2, and many more and never did i stop loving sonic the hedgehog. honestly i dont think i can ever NOT love sonic. The only time i didnt, it only lasted for acouple months after forces came out. yes, i realise this stretched WAAAYYY past just how i first learned about sonic, and that not many people will probably read this far, but i just couldnt help myself.
Well this was certainly an ambitious project. Never seen a video cover every piece of Sonic media like this in a comprehensive structure like this. And kudos for being a fellow SatAM fan. Us older fans from the 90s are a dying breed unfortunately.
Dude, I have no idea what you’re saying for Sonic Heroes because the theme song was laser printed into my most deep seated memories and I can’t not sing to that. Edit; Holy shit I did not expect to find out Tails originally broke down crying in Sonic X at that part.
I hardly know where to begin. I'm honestly... so overwhelmed by the love and care put into this video, by all the passion brought to the table by so many people, that... I can hardly think of words to type. I'm... not in the best position. I'm not a voice actor or artist, and no matter how much I want to go into game development and writing, it's... a massive hurdle to even start. Like, it's generous to even call me an amateur hobbyist writer. It's honestly... kinda pathetic. And in hindsight, I almost feel guilty that I don't have as much interest or experience in Sonic outside of the games... I don't know how old I was - 6, maybe? I can just barely remember my very early childhood, and no memory of Sonic comes to mind... but it's difficult to think that far back. So I'm just gonna have a guess that I was around 6. If I dig even deeper into my past, I may even remember where it was bought, but that doesn't matter in the end. It was a blue plug-n-play SEGA Genesis, with 6 games, one of them being Sonic the Hedgehog 1. Though it really isn't my favorite, in fact, next to SA1, it's probably one of my least favorites of the ones I played- i feel... like I have to at least give it _some_ respect. Without it, I wouldn't have met my girlfriend or my best friend... I only beat Sonic 1 on my own around the time Generations came out, and that's when I decided I didn't really like it... but Sonic 2? Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is one of if not my favorite game, Sonic or not. Sonic 1 may have been my introduction, fittingly, but Sonic 2 means so much more to me. 7 years old on my birthday, I was given a Walmart giftcard and we went to Walmart to buy me a gift. I'm in the toy section, being the young kid I am, and this section also holds a lot of games - mostly board games or the cheap plug-n-play kinda stuff. And that's what I got - just like my mom's blue one, I got a red one with six other Genesis games. But the only one I really cared about what Sonic 2. And I played it on and off for over a year, slowly getting further and further, until finally... Sonic 2 was the first video game I ever beat. Without even knowledge of the Sonic fandom or what a fan character even was or how to make characters, I made my very first Sonic fan character that night in almost celebratory glee, right before I went to sleep. And yes, they were a red hedgehog named Pyro. Though they are completely different now, I've kept them around as my oldest original character ever - they were mostly based on me, and they changed alongside me, now being a phoenix named Pyra. But like- seriously though. Me beating Sonic 2 was huge for me. After that, it was a snowball effect of passion and... _light obsession_ that brought me years of happiness and close friends. Sonic is a big part of me, and I care about the fandom so much and I look forward to SAGE and the Sonic Hacking Contest every year. I just- Like many people here, I love Sonic. His games, his story, his music, _his world_ are fantastic distractions that get the creative juices flowing and even when I'm not feeling so great, when dysphoria and depression are beating me down, with homelessness and covid ramping my anxiety into the fucking stratosphere, I always have the little blue prick and other fans of his I've met along the way to keep me sane.
2:08 "So, first, we're gonna talk about the main medium that Sonic resides in - *ancient folkloric painti-* in games we're talking about video games." That was hilarious enough to get a sub. Nice job!🤣
I first learn about sonic as a 3-year-old child. When I owned a preview disc of game demos on the Gamecube, Billy Hatcher and Sonic DX were included. When I first saw the title screen of DX, the music in the stages, the sound effects from rings, sonic's jump, to emblems. I fell in love with the game and character. Later on, my cousins would show sonic riders to me, and the songs on youtube and it really got into the franchise even more. Now, I have friends who enjoy this game character, as long as I stick with the right people. Very well done buddy.
Thank you so much for making this incredible video! Sonic Adventure 2 was the first Sonic game I ever played and, to this day, it’s still one of my favorite video games of all time. I never really got into the Sonic franchise as a kid and I recently saw both of the Sonic movies from Paramount. They were amazing and after seeing them, I really want to experience more of this franchise! Your video really helped me and I think I’ll be watching Sonic X soon because I believe I saw a few episodes of that as a kid, as well.
So I was introduced to the Sonic Series through Sonic Unleashed for the PS3 when I was like 5, and I thought that it was just okay... I never really payed that much attention to it. I could never get passed the first stages 😅. Then after that I got an iPad for Christmas and I discovered the internet, and that’s where I was really introduced to Sonic. I remember discovering a Let’s Play of this weird game called Sonic Generations, so I checked it out and thought that it was really cool, with how fast paced everything was and how colorful it was too. So I tried to find out more about Sonic and then discovered Sonic X, which really made me fall in love with the franchise and it’s characters. From there I discovered many Sonic CZcamsrs like Cobanermani456 and such. I had gone to the App Store and played as many Sonic games as I could on there, such as the Classic games ports (which I came to love to this day). Then finally in 2017 Sonic Mania came out for the Switch, and I got to really play my first true Sonic game.
im one of the ancients of fandom. i've been here from the very beginning. my first game was sonic 2 followed shortly buy sonic 3 and knuckles. i was in love with them they were my very first games as a kid. Also the adventures of sonic the hedgehog was the favorite show growing up.
THANK YOU FOR SHOWING SOME LOVE TO SONIC ADVANCE 2. As my entry point to the franchise (though I never really became super entrenched in the Sonic fandom) it holds a special place in my heart as easily my favorite Sonic game despite it’s few questionable design choices (the late game difficulty spike of Sky Canyon’s plethora of bottomless pits made it so I never finished the game as a kid, the requirements to reach the special stages, and while I have nostalgia for them the runner bosses can be *really* frustrating to fight unless your playing as Cream, as well as the complete lack of instruction from the game in regards to the R-button maneuvers you can do that are basically required late game to get through the levels smoothly). So thank you for mentioning the advance games and showing them the respect they deserve as unique entries in the Classic Sonic style with a Modern Sonic coat of paint.
My first exposure to Sonic was when I saw my older brother playing Sonic Heroes with my dad watching after he had rented it from blockbuster in 2006. It wasn't long before I had my "it's my turn on the xbox" moment and played it for the first time. Since it was rented, we had to return it shortly afterward, but it quickly became one of our most frequently rented games, to the point where the cost of renting it again and again started to outweigh the cost of just buying it, so that's what they did. I remember I was never able to get past the point in the power plant where you're running from the rising lava, and I would daydream about what the levels after it would be like. I unfortunately don't remember my reactions to any of the following levels that I made it to after we bought the game and I finally made it past the insurmountable wall that the power plant level was to my younger self, but I must have been stoked.
I was a sonic film enthusiast as a kid . I never truly played the games but I definitely treated the games cutscenes as movies (which honestly made all the 3D games my favorites help. Of course the animated shows and CZcams/Deviantart were my gateway into the franchise
My first Sonic game was Sonic and the Secret Rings. I got that along with Animal Crossing: City Folk on my very first console, the Nintendo Wii. To this day, I have a deep love for both franchises. Sonic and the Secret Rings was not a perfect game. Hell, it wasn't even a great game. But it introduced me to a character I have an unrelenting love for. I will never dislike that game, and I will never not have fun playing it. Every time I pop that disk in, I remember my childhood wonder.
I thought this video appearing in my feed was...SUSPICIOUS. But I swallowed my fears and took the plunge. Here goes nothing (Btw I am I big fan of Sonic)
Honestly, i'd almost argue that 06 was the start of the boost era instead of unleashed. Sonic's mach-speed sections are almost like a rough draft of boost. High speed along a fairly linear path. And while you don't boost on command you can lightspeed dash for extra speed
Sonic 06 was my first sonic game and that made me a fan of the entire franchise. Heroes and Unleashed are my personal favorites but I’ll always enjoy them all
My first introduction to the sonic franchise was the memes and film/game theory. Haven't got into sonic till recently like literally yesterday when I watched the 2 movies. Now I'm interested and want to learn more about the franchise.
What's weird is, I like the boom series not for its jokes or 4th wall breaks but more for the characters just relaxing with each other, working off each other and well show their personalities through. It's a mixed bag imo, amy is the perfect example of adding personality to a character that had none. For years she was either "that annoying girl who stalks sonic" or "minnie mouse", now she actually questions sonic, doesn't go into crazy anger on seconds and actually cares for other characters more than... well, what heroes did. (I will get my dear sonic!... oh and your frog and friend too... yeah... totally the reason). Then you have knuckles which is why I don't entirely love the show. He could of had a personality but nah, he's dumb! Sure he had the best jokes but, they're just dumb guy jokes. It's a hit or miss thing for me.
Not even gonna lie, I absolutely adore long form videos like this (is that the right term? I'm not sure, but I hope the point came across well enough) keep up the good work!
The first thing you gotta tell people is that the games are not about going fast, but mucking around in labyrinths while managing your speed. That is, if they're thinking about the first few games. "Gotta Go Fast" really penetrated and it's your job as a fan to limit the effect that had in people. -- me, an ex-fan that jumped off the train just before Sonic Heroes hit.
you know i was starting to think the werehog thing was a fever dream, partially because i played it as such a small child and everyone ive tried to talk to it about said they had no clue what i was talking about but im glad to know im not crazy
And the pinned comment question of today is: where did _you_ first learn about Sonic?
NezumiVA Scratch
Blockbuster, they had a copy of sonic adventure 2: battle. Been playing ever since
From the first game on my childhood after i played mario
NezumiVA Sonic 101 son sonic oh we’re gonna have a ball all
Just listen to doof 101
Sonic the Hedgehog on the Megadrive via my uncle at 3 years of age. My first console was a Megadrive too, two years later, and Sonic the Hedgehog 2 was my childhood obsession.
Looking forward to the video as a long-time fan who lapsed during the Adventure Era. I've never really connected with all the fans from that time period, but I wanna know where this'll go.
I can't believe you forgot about Sonic X for the Leapfrog Leapster. Truely an underrated gem in all of the gaming industry.
Or Sonic Jam for the Tiger game com
What about Sonic the Hedgehog on Didj?!
Or the Sonic X comic. Yes there is a comic book adaptation of Sonic X and it had its difference. Unfortunately don't last long enough to reach season 3.
@@Yourdoom4 i read one single issue of that actually
THE WHAT
I like the implication of the thumbnail that you’re teaching Sonic about his own series
I like to think that so much crazy shit has happened to him that he just doesn't really remember it all.
@@NezumiVA sonic 06 is one of them
I guess you can thank Marcus for that then :)
I would have an existential crisis if someone new more about me than I did
@@NoNamex1412 to be fair that game literally never happened
sonic 06 being described as "bewildering persistence in having existed at all" is so poetic and scathing
me who's been playing sonic games for over 13 years:
"thats interesting"
Hey! Get out of my head!
*emerges from the Chamber of Elders, in a cloud of smoke*
The Sega Genesis Model 1 Delegation approves as well. Great video.
“a beginner’s guide on Sonic the Hedgehog”
[is over an hour long]
which just goes to show how dense this franchise actually is
*Laughs in Kingdom Hearts
Beginner's Guide to Sonic the Hedgehog: *Exists*
Me, who's been a fan of the series for nearly a decade now: _Interesting_
The artwork is adorable
100th like and yes it is adorable
I can't remember the last time i actually liked and favorited a video after watching it once.
Everything from the editing, to the thumbnail, to the actual writing are top notch. I can't believe i'm gonna have to simp for a hedgehog and sub smh.
Your simping is appreciated, for what it's worth. 😌
I found this video at the perfect time! I just watched the Sonic movie 2 and had a blast! Other than the 2 Sonic movies the only Sonic content I’ve seen is the show Sonic Boom. I really want to get more familiar with the Sonic characters and lore and this was super helpful! I had no idea Sonic had that many games but I’ll probably check out some game play soon! For now I’ve started Sonic X which is pretty good so far, Knuckles is my favorite I think he’s really interesting! From what I’ve seen character design wise Rouge the Bat, Amy Rose, Tails, Cream and Eggman himself are some of my favorites! I’ll definitely be getting into some great Sonic content soon, thank you for your help! :D
Dude this was literally me, I saw the movies, then tried my hand with Boom, and I’ve been struggling ever since. So glad this video exists, it’s super helpful lol
@mick Omg that's so real I've been so hyped for Sonic 3 coming out!!
@@utahsrainbowsprinkles GIRL ME TOO, I DONT WANT TO WAIT TWO YEARS 😭😭 I can’t decide if I’m more anxious to see if Jim Carrey will still be Robotnik, or what Shadow will be like
I have never played a Sonic game but my partner grew up with it and has rediscovered his obsession recently.
Thank you for giving me an opportunity to learn.
Hi there, I'm that guy from Holland that commented on your premiere that I would watch this video tomorrow due to it being 1 AM at the time.
Now it's 02:30, I haven't postponed watching it, I simply couldn't wait.
Before you read this, I rarely comment on CZcams video's, probably only once or twice a year even so I'm going all out on this one.
When I saw the last 2 minutes of your premiere I just got off watching a stream of my all time favorite CZcamsr who was, in my opinion, the representative of the Dutch Sonic Community back in 2010. Nowadays he's not into Sonic anymore and doesn't like talking about it but for me, my journey with him began with Sonic.
Currently I'm 20 years old and to this day I still love the blue blur for as far as I can remember. I'm quite sure the first videogame I've ever played is a Sonic game. Sonic Adventure 2 to be precise.
As a child I loved the game even though I was just a small, dutch child that couldn't speak English. To this day, sadly, no Sonic game has ever been dubbed to Dutch.
Despite that, I instantly got hooked to the series at around 2003.
Since then my entire life has been Sonic. I'm glad that, despite my age at the time, I could still experience the games, comics and series when they came out. I quickly caught up with the classics as well.
I still fondly remembering Sonic X being dubbed in Dutch on tv. Nowadays I even have contact with some of the old cast such as the voice actor of Sonic or the voice actor of Eggman that has already retired and lives just a few blocks away from me now.
To this day I'm still trying to collect those dutch dubbed episodes because they are sadly lost for the majority of the episodes.
With all the criticism on the Dutch voice of Sonic in the recent movie, I'm even planning on audition for his role in the second part as I got in contact with one of the voice actors that have worked on the dutch dub of the movie.
Sonic is still, to this day, the reason I was able to learn English. Having played all the games at around the age of 12, finished watching all the cartoons that were out then and being caught up with the main story line of the Archie comics that I sadly had to illegally pirate due to them not being available for purchase in the Netherlands, I'm stil sure that Sonic gave me a headstart in secondary school with my English skills.
I was very much into the fanbase. Like most fans I had my cringy Sonic phase in which I loved going to forums, draw fanart and watch tons of Sonic content on CZcams, DeviantArt, Newground etc.. I'm still nostalgic for Sonic Paradox or plush CZcamsrs like Spindashpro or SonicSong182. Roger van der Weide's Sonic in minutes animations are still very beloved to me and I love his Sonic dissected series to this day. A reason for all that being he was, like me, a dutch Sonic fan.
Which brings me to my next point. I met the friends I held dearest in my life through Sonic. I had a CZcams channel in which I posted Dutch Sonic content when I was around 10-15 years old.
The CZcamsr I mentioned in the beginning was a huge help for me to reach many Dutch Sonic fans as well as a few lifetime friends I still have to this day. When I was around this age I was quite jealous of other countries having a much more connected Sonic fanbase while the dutch one was very bland. After all, this was a very niche franchise here. So i tried to do everything I could to meet as much fans as possible. I contributed tons to the fanmade Dutch Sonic Wiki. I made 2 collab channels on CZcams with the cringiest names ever (The Dutch Sonic Group and The Dutch Chao Garden). I even tried to organize an event despite being too young to have any clue how to organize a proper meetup. I was a very enthusiast fan to say the least.
At around 2015 my love for the series sadly died down a bit. I still remember making some Sonic Boom fandubs as there was no Dutch release to the cartoon at the time and I was definitly reading the Archie comics until they got cancelled but I just felt like I was growing up. I'm glad this died down though after I played Sonic Mania in 2018.
Sonic is to this day still a huge part of my life. This entire wall of text just nearly scratches the surface of how much I love this franchise. To this day my biggest hobbies probably have something to do with Sonic. I love playing the games in my off-time, dubbing the characters in projects is still a very big hobby of mine and being a historian (in training) I even try to perserve Sonic history with any small thing I can contribute.
I'm sorry for making this comment all about me, I want to give you my thoughts on your video essay as well.
I love video essays, they are my nr. 1 favorite type of content on CZcams and when I saw the notification pop up for this video I was instantly hooked. I just couldn't wait to watch it. The way how you express your love and passion to this franchise is something I look up to. I've been waiting for years for a video this elaborate and informative that tries to scratch the surface of everything a newcomer has to know and I couldn't agree more on any opinion you gave in this video. All the love and dedication put into this now make this one of my all time favorite CZcams videos ever created.
Any time somebody asks me about Sonic, I'll link them this video for sure.
Thank you so much for making this.
Sadly due to me living in The Netherlands and not having a creditcard I can't really donate to your Patreon so if possible I would like to ask your Paypal emailadres so I can send you 50 bucks over. You deserve it and I really want to show my appreciation to you this way.
You gave me a ride of nostalgia and of my past this night and I must give you something in return.
It's now 03:10 at the time of me finishing writing this comment. I hope you liked my small story and I can't wait to see what other video's you will be releasing.
Sincerly,
Darkie
This was a really fascinating and thoughtful comment and I honestly love reading responses like this. Seeing the different personal experiences of people in relation to the topics I discuss always creates such a warm feeling of community and something distinctly _human_ to me. So many people all with different experiences, environments, ages, walks of life, etc. all enjoying one thing for some reason or another, whether casually or deeply. It's really wonderful to read about, and I appreciate your comment a lot.
As for the generous offer, I deeply appreciate that as well c: If you do feel so inclined, my Paypal address is soulstarstudios@gmail.com , but obviously there's no need to do so if anything remotely more important requires your attention~
Thank you for this, it's responses like this that are so personal and moving that make the long hours of work I do for my content all worth it to me.
i'm sure someone's said this already but you sound SO MUCH like penny "snapcube" parker
I actually don't know if anyone has! But I mean, we are both gals on the internet who have voiced Sonic for things, so I guess it stands to reason :P
@@NezumiVA you are both valid and cool
haha yeah picked that up too
Holy shit, I just scrolled down and saw this comment after thinking the EXACT same thing! What are the odds!?
I'm literally 12 seconds into the video and thought the same thing. You two should definitely collab!!
Hah, I bet the vast majority of people watching this (myself included) have been into Sonic for ages. Still, it was a great nostalgic recap of the franchise, and I really enjoyed it. I just never get sick of revisiting Sonic. Thanks for making this.
(Oh, and my Dad made me play Sonic School House for AGES. He thought it was good for me, so I must have spent like at least a hundred hours in that terrifying place.)
My only flaw with the IDW comic is the portrayal of Shadow, like, what the hell...
Yeah, that's an issue I have too. Although that's more to do with how Sega dictates Shadow must be characterized now, so the IDW guys' hands are a bit tied there.
I think shadow's portrayal was intended so silver can get the spotlight,
NezumiVA Actually that’s a myth Ian Flynn made to get the backlash off him. He only wanted to be in archie to change it to how he wanted it.
Where the heck did you get that from? Plus it’s not like the other author was not doing the same thing
Yeah its just sad
Of all the "How 2 Sonic" guides I've seen thtoughout the years, this is by far the most in-depth one!! The fact that you also covered the cartoons and comics was a nice surprise! Well done!!
I got into the Sonic franchise because a friend of mine showed Sonic Adventure DX, but the first game I actually owned myself was Sonic Heroes!
Subbed for "Sonic bad give me views."
Edit: AND you stan Scratch and Grounder.
As a really long term Sonic fan, I gotta respectfully disagree about the Sonic Boom cartoon. The series absolutely overflows with love for the franchise, a la the Sonic Twitter account.
It can be a little pandery at times, but the show really grows into its own, especially into season 2. It's clear watching it that everyone involved had a blast with it, and I'm glad I got over my initially being repelled by the seeming over-reliance on irony and self-deprecation.
Truly a shame it won't get Season 3, this show really got me going especially in season 2.
Loved your analysis btw, this is really the only thing I wouldn't cosign, personally.
Instant sub, can't wait to go through the backlog
Sonic the hedgehog:
Run fast.
Hit robots.
Flex on gods.
Become furry super sayian.
This comment is hilarious and I wish I could make a meme out of it
Dont sayains turn into big monkeys
@@uboa8060 Well yes but also yes.
This video fucking rocks. Fantastic work cramming everything from the series into an easily digestible video
The editing and script are super tight!
Man, thank you for this amazing video! Seriously, it was so refreshing to see someone who shares a lot of my same opinions about this wonderful blue boy that I do. And even though there are entries that aren't the greatest, still keep that positivity and passion for this phenomenal franchise!
Well, believe it or not, I began with Sonic CD. I remember my father getting it for me, and playing the first level and intro over and over again. Between the gameplay and beautiful animation, it's what got me into Sonic.
To quote a particular song "Where do I start now it's all a blur it's so unclear, well I don't know but I can't be wrong!"
sonic battle is the best story in the games if you ask me. gemerl/emerl is legit my robot son and i'd die to protcc him. honestly it needs more love.
No my son
@@GalaxeeTea i'm willing to share custody.
@@angrybrony ok deal
I played the hell out of that game. Fantastic story, pretty fun fighting gameplay, but the more difficult fights could be kinda frustrating (unless you had the cheat code combo moves that killed in one button press)
@@CodinskiSchwartzando yeah. i feel like a re release or a proper remake could fix the balancing issues some of the fights had. also the whole rematch problum were you'll fight characters like 5 times back to back really messed with the pacing.
My very first exposure to Sonic was through X (I used to watch it religiously) and a demo of Sonic Adventure DX on one of the computers in our school library. I didn't play it till way later but seeing the older kids go through Twinkle Park, Emerald Coast and Red Mountain... I dunno, it just felt almost magical. That's why even today, when I'm playing SA1 it feels "like home". It's a perfect comfort game for me, reminding me of the good old days when I had so much fun. Heroes had a pretty big part in my love for the series too, by a short demo that I would never get tired of.
My first Sonic was actually Sonic Unleashed for the PS2, I remember seeing an ad for it back in the day and asking my mom for it desperatley. It instantly became one of my favorite games of all time, and is still my favorite Sonic game overall. I was five at the time, and I somehow managed to get to Eggman Land Act 2 and even get S ranks. Just wish I still had my copy!
We had a Dreamcast and Sonic Adventure growing up, but I was too young to really play. I first got into the franchise seriously though from Sonic X, I used to wake up and watch it at 7am every weekend with my younger brother. Been hooked since. Now I have to watch all your Sonic content haha
Apparently, my first exposure to Sonic was ages and ages ago, but I think the game music is kinda what got me hooked
Oh the Sonic Franchise,what a crazy but amazing franchise,i remember to this day that i played Sonic & Sega All Stars Racing with my cousin and i kept crashing to the walls just to see the car spin,i was stupidly happy. Years later,i saw a bunch of Sonic Content on CZcams and since then,i started loving the Blue Blur and the entire cast since,nowadays i own some games such as Sonic Free Riders,Generations,SA2 and even Lego Dimensions which had Sonic as a playable character alongside a open world and a level,i also got a IDW comic which i bought recently and i already consider it a relic of mine,because i live in Brazil and Sonic Comics are really hard to find here,the easiest way to get one is importing it,but thankfully i was able to find one in a brazilian website and i'm very happy about it! The Sonic Franchise is one of the main aspects of my chilhood and teenagehood alongside Pixar's Cars,Lab Zero Games (the ones who made Skullgirls and Indivisible) and PaRappa the Rapper,i would never trade it for nothing,i've made so many friendships with it,so many fun memories and nostalgia! The music is awesome too! I loved I Am All of Me from Shadow and Race to Win from Rivals to name a few,the characters are in my opinion one of the best things about it with my favorites being Blaze,Big and Team Chaotix. I love expressing my love for this series and i really hope it still remains of the most importants gaming series for years to come,i'm a proud Sonic Fan for years,i've seen a lot,to Fanart,to Aniamtions and even a lot of arguing with others about the franchise,who could have thought that a Blue Hedgehog with Shoes would be such an memorable thing about millions of people? I certainly didn't but... it did! I really hope this franchise continues to live on to generations and generations,i may not have every game,every comic or any sort of stuff related to Sonic,but for now,i'm just happy that this series exists,i'm very excited for Sonic's 30th Aniversary and can't wait to see what the future comes,but until then... Good on you Sonic,you're awesome ^^
Tbh, my first sonic game or, encounter was sonic CD, just by seeing a hedgehog run around a big world with lots of new things to experience made me love it
This is the perfect beginning guide to all things Sonic! There's tons of drama and crap, but there's at least SOME cream you can enjoy. The first ever game I owned was Sonic Rush Adventure and slowly but surely I continued to delve into the series. All the characters and how they can bounce off of one another is what I truly love in the series. Sonic Heroes, Mania, the IDW comics, the OVA, all that awesome music. . .but the best thing about the series are the fans. Believe it or not, it's actually the saving grace of the series. It's the birth of so many beautiful things born out of the love for a blue hedgehog.
Rock on blue blur. You, Knuckles, Amy, Blaze, Metal Sonic and all the others I love in the series.
Great job! I can tell you put a lot of work into this, and for the most part, I completely agree with what you said.
Secret rings and black knight have *some* of the best soundtracks in the history of sonic as a whole
So I know this vid is 3 weeks old but, dear God, it really is a love letter to this franchise that I got to love so much, this has been a thrill, and if anything, now I know what to expect of Tails' Adventures, the next game I'll tackle
You sound incredibly like Snapcube I was very taken aback lmao
Glad to know I wasn't the only one who thought that
17:20... I remember that day.. Actually, around a month before I had preordered Sonic '06(guide and all... including a X-Box 360 purchase.) and then went to work to request 2 days off work the following days it came out so I could Play It All Weekend!!
we all know the story from there.
Congrats on the release!! Sonic time aaaaaa-
It was Thanksgiving in 1991. My family was visiting friends. Friends I didn't know. And in that house there were a bunch of kids in a dark livingroom. The only light was coming from the game Sonic The Hedgehog. Mind you it would be a few months until I actually got to play. And Mario was my first love when it comes to video games and now still has my respect. But when Sonic blew into town, the rest was history for me. For a long time it was the craze of Ninja Turtles and Sonic and TGIF. Great video. God bless and Jesus loves you.
Guys, silver the hedgehog is underrated he needs some love.
I wish there were games that were fun to play amwhere you could play as him
I'm an underground fan. I found it pretty fun actually.
Yes
I get somewhat taken aback when I see videos like these which are "for beginners" but they're over 50 minutes long.
I mean, what do master guides look like? I don't think I'm ready for that.
Game Apologist, Jebtube, KingK, and Cybershell, their videos are about this length per game at times.
Still pretty digestible, though
I grew up playing a bit of sonic on gamecube, mostly watching Sonic x, and occasionally reading archie comics, but I’m getting into it more than ever now and I’m so excited to watch this video !!!!
“Season 3 of Sonic X in the sub is secretly the best show ever”
It really is though....
It actualy gave chris a purpose wich is nice.
Kidnapping sonic wont be forgived though.
"Console wars, man. Dark times." And they've only gotten darker. **Deepest sigh.**
Sonic Forces was my First Sonic Game I think it’s Not the best but i like it. After That i Player Generations Mania the Classics Colors and Unleashed(i conpleted Unleashed yesterday) and i like All These games. Nice Video
Check out Adventure 1 and 2! Don't listen to the youtube-consensus negative hype, they're *amazing*.
Krash Kharma Negative hype? I think there’s nothing but worship for those two going around nowadays.
Krishna Nayar then you’re being shown an entirely different side of CZcams than me buddy
my start was on the cd remake it was my return to videogames and the reason I stayed, from there I hunted everything, and some words on your video........ it was pretty, I think that if you watch this as a veteran its very inspiring, you truly make me remember why I love those character so much and how it was my base idol for becoming the person I am today
I just found your channel through this video today and I want to say you did an amazing job making this absolute beast of a video. I started with Sonic 1 via Mega Collection + at my cousin's house (I actually convinced him to let me keep his copy and I still have it to this day). I was able to grow up with Sonic 1 on CRT while still loving watching the Heroes intro nonstop (never owned the game) or watching Sonic X. This video is great for newbies but I as a veteran still loved it and I actually teared up at the end with the testimonials. Consider me subscribed because I can't wait to watch the rest of your channel and see more great videos from you in the future and see your channel grow.
I was introduced to Sonic The Hedgehog when I first watched Sonic X and my first Sonic game was Sonic Mega Collection Plus on the PC.
I had the Mega Collection on PS2 and the Heroes port on PC as a kid, and I remember playing them a lot. I used the Mega Collection to play 1-3 and Knuckles, and now having played Mania.... I can confidently say that I can't stand Genesis-style Sonic. Legitimately 3D Blast was my favorite out of that collection, though for the life of me I couldn't tell you why. I really liked Generations, but the one game that keeps me from dismissing the franchise altogether is Sonic Rush. It's slick, speedy, stylish, and has one of the best soundtracks in gaming history in my opinion. All these years later, and I'm still inexplicably interested in the franchise. I keep an eye on it, hoping for one more Generations or Rush. And, I suppose, appreciating the aesthetics and fandom from a distance.
...I dunno, I think I'm two steps too contrarian to say anything valuable about the series. The passion of fans like yourself makes me wish I could see in Sonic what you all do. Great work as always.
So... You have a taste for the Boost Hybrid of the Rush Trilogy? But not Génesis? Play the portable versions of the Mainline Games made by Dimps. Avoid "Sonic 4" as much as you can.
Yup that's what I call a beginner's guide
My journey started earlier than I can remember. I was born in the early 90's in a fairly well off family (at least, we were well off at the time...), so I grew up with both Mario and Sonic. Really, I only knew about Sonic 1 and 2, and rumors of a Sonic 3 from my older brother.
It wasn't until I was about 13 that I really got into it though. You see, my brother had moved out and got himself a Dreamcast. And a few times I'd see him, and he'd bring it over 'cause he knew I loved video games. It was something we always bonded over... actually, this may even be why I decided to become a programmer!
And on my 13th or 14th birthday, he gave me his old CRTTV and Dreamcast... because he had an XBox, but he knew that I'd appreciate those games more than he did. And... I absolutely played the hell out of Sonic Adventure 2. It was my reintroduction into the series. I poured *hours* into the game. I wanted to see every single part of it. I was *way* into Chao raising. I was absolutely *crushed* when a game breaking glitch happened in the final level (possibly because it wasn't an... let's say "official"... copy of the game...), and I was *ecstatic* when I managed to hover my way back onto the course and beat the game (though, 180 emblems was still out of reach for me because of that glitch).
When I got into high school, I was *just* hearing about Sonic Heroes and Shadow the Hedgehog. Not because they were new, but because no one at my school really talked about Sonic anymore. I knew people who didn't even *know* about the Adventure games... So... I kinda just forgot about everything again.
Fast forward to my college years. I had just gotten into emulators (don't judge). I played *every* game I hadn't been able to fully enjoy as a kid. Some, I dropped. I liked Sonic CD, but I never loved it enough for a second playthrough. And then... I started reading the Archie comics. I started from the very beginning. And I just kept reading. It was enthralling for me. I absolutely *loved* when Robotnik became an actual threat. And I loved when useless one-off characters showed up again and actually mattered. I remember laughing at how over the top Evil Sonic was. And... I remember crying with all the Bunnie and Antoine drama.
Yeah. It's safe to say that Archie Sonic is, like, the quintessential Sonic in my mind. And I *really* wish that the whole Ken Penders thing hadn't played out like it had, because I would love to see some of those characters and plotlines in an actual game...
After that, I just kinda... well, I still observe Sonic with a passing interest, but now everyone I know knows about Sonic's ongoings (for better or for worse). My friends let me play their copy of Sonic Mania, and I absolutely loved the game. I wanted to get the Knuckles & Knuckles ending, but it was not to be. And I still want to play Sonic '06 and Sonic Forces, but, like, as dissections of bad games (I've seen playthroughs of Sonic Boom, and that game was too boring for me to play even as a dissection). And I want to get back into the new comics.
And that's the main part of my Sonic journey. I mean, back when Sonic Boom was announced, I remember predicting a good Sonic game for 2018 (I was off by a year with Sonic Mania)... though, I was *completely* thrown for a loop with how quickly Sonic Forces dashed Sonic's good name into the dirt. Like, it wasn't even pretty. But one of my programming friends and I had a good laugh about how bad it was. We even joked about a Sonic Warriors game would work, including some rudimentary character and story design. Even though it was mostly as a joke between us, I would absolutely play the heck out of that game.
What a great and lovely video. Its my second year in the community an i love this place we've built. Your video reminds me of the stuff i searched for they brought me here in the first place. Sonic is such an amazing being, a living idea spinning with us in the big mad world. Thank you for your work.
Ever since quarantine started and been extremely bored I've decided to tap on the OG sonic genesis series and I gotta say that I've been really enjoying it, I'm pretty weak when it comes to retro platforming but something about this games really stuck to me despite the amount of death I've gotten.
As for my first exposure to sonic, it all started when I was a little boy on a mall trip. While we are waiting for some reason there's a tv shop that's showing a certain trailer of a blue hedgehog and a furry big arm boy(?) Ever since that day after finding out more about it, I've gotten an addiction of searching Mario Vs. Sonic on youtube. Don't ask why.
I watched a lot of Sonic content as a kid, lost interest, and now Sonic 2 dragged me back into it
Strangely, my first Sonic Game was Sonic Forces.
No offence, but that's a pretty awful way to introduce yourself to the series.
As someone who grew up with Mario, My first introduction to Sonic was Sonic Heroes thanks to McDonald's, watching Sonic X and Sonic Underground and playing the Genesis games on Sonic Classic Collection on the DS made me realize
"...Yeah Sonic is fucking cool" The characters, the high speed action gameplay, the wacky overthetop tones and the music won me over.
So I started playing as many Sonic games as I could and became a Sonic fan ever since!
"It can be an imposing thought to figure out where to start."
Or you can be me and have a friend at 5 who intentionally leaves the PC version of Sonic R on your dining room table one day and go from there.
Talk about Sonic Unleashed, when I got my first Wii Sonic Unleashed was my very first sonic game that I played and until now I feel like I want to play even more Sonic games because of how the gameplay of Unleashed was like Epic, very challenging, and so fun that I couldn't even stop playing that game! (Keep lovin the old days
I can't say that I'm a Sonic fan.
Not because I dislike Sonic, but instead, because I never had the chance to connect with that fandom, that conglomerate of stories and iterations, when I was younger. More than just being in a "Nintendo Household" (it wasn't a matter of console wars for us, it was a matter of practical expenses and being able to afford more than one console), it was just that it wasn't initially appealing to me. The gameplay was not something I ever felt particularly capable of playing, since I have terrible reaction times to things, and get disoriented easily. So unfortunately, engaging with something that kinda relies on those things was always going to have that barrier.
My largest exposure to everything Sonic, for the longest time, was the impression that there was something off about the fandom; what I came across was often not child-friendly, and sadly, that ended up putting me off (Add discussion about bad actors ruining fandoms for the uninitiated across multiple fandoms here). But over the years, I got to know actual Sonic fans, and see their passion for it, the creativity it inspired, and in bits and pieces, I saw more of the appeal of Sonic itself. Because there are people like you, those who sent in voice clips, and commenters on this video, who see the best in a fandom that's suffered from a bad public image for WAY too long.
I still don't think that I can engage with the games because of what I mentioned before. And the various cartoons and comics, I don't have the same time to dedicate to absorbing all of that, even as I appreciate what it means to others. But I DID see the 2020 movie, and I thought that it was actually pretty decent; it wasn't the SAME Sonic, but to introduce people who *weren't* already Sonic fans to the appeal of the character and the story, it did a fantastic job of laying the groundwork for more of the 'absurd' aspects of Sonic. Plus, you know. It's a fun movie! It doesn't have to be perfect to be enjoyable!
I appreciate you making this video essay, Nezumi. And I know many others appreciate the positive look at a fandom that's been kicked in the stomach more than a few times (and has endured anyway). For all the hard work that went into this, it was worth it.
(SUPPORT NEZUMI ON PATREON SHE MAKES EXCELLENT CONTENT)
You don't really have to dedicate anything.Sonic lore is just as confusing as zelda's.
Just know this:
Your fast.
Your cocky.
You free animals.
You slay god being for fun.
Good comment; you don't have to force yourself, or assimilate all the media to call yourself a fan. I consider myself a fan of Sonic, but not part of the fandom, because Sonic resonated with me. It just, formed a connection with me.
btw I really liked the movie too, I miss days when movies can be fun, and not part of a 30 film epic!
me, a fan for 10+ years: mm,,,knowledge 👁👄👁
granted i was about 7-8 when i first played sonic 2 and never cared much about the actual lore until i was about 12-13
I've been thinking about my first experience with sonic since i saw your tweet asking about peoples first experiences
I was probably around age 6 or 7 and I was at After school care or vacation care and they had an X-box with a bunch of games
and one of them was Sonic Heroes
and we were only allowed to play for 10 minutes at a time because there were a lot of kids
but it was so colourful and fun, and even when I died it wasn't really frustrating
the amount and diversity of character design is probably, along with pokemon, what sparked my interest in art and character design
when i was like 10 i made my parents buy it for me so i could play it at home and i remember finishing Team Rose and Team Chaotix but getting stuck on the giant crocodile with Team Sonic and in the rising lava with Team Dark
i didnt even fully finish the game until last year when i decided to play it on my computer as an adult for nostalgia
Sonic Boom got me genuine laughs regardless of being different.
Finally sombody calls Sonic a teenager, he's 16.
Sonic is 15.
@@Dr.PaiPai
He had a birthday in Generations. You would expect him to be 16 at this rate.
@@tidepoolclipper8657 He has a birthday, but it doesn't count. The Sonic Team doesn't want Sonic to grow up. That is why his age is still 15 on Sonic Channel. The birthday was just to celebrate the anniversary. Sonic's age will be 16 when the Sonic Team changes that on Sonic Channel.
I got a Gamecube when I was maybe 6, with Sonic Mega Collection. My cousin, who was already a fan, helped introduce my siblings and I to the blur. I learned to love every game in that pack - including 3D Blast.
But I have to give thanks to my undying fandom of the series not to the classic titles, but to the X anime, Heroes, and the Archie comic, showing me the potential of what this series could be, and introducing me to the cast of characters that keeps me coming back nearly 20 years later.
i’ve always kind of wanted to get into sonic, but i never had access to any of the games, and still don’t so i’ve never known where to start 😭
should i even take the time to watch gameplays of some of these? or should i just read up a bit on the entire franchise and go into like the sonic boom cartoon and the newer movies or something?
The movies and Boom are their own continuities, so gamewise, probably not. They're definitely fine to get into on their own, of course! But they're very separate. Gamewise, my top picks for places to start would be either Sonic 2, Sonic 3 & Knuckles, or Sonic Mania for the classic style games, and Sonic Adventure 2, Sonic Heroes or Sonic Generations for the 3D games. The IDW Sonic comics would also be a great place to start for a new fan if you're more interested in the character/lore side of things.
@@NezumiVA ohh ok! thank you very much :D
the video was great as well btw!!
Holy shit, Sonic Underground. I remember waking up at 6 am to watch it.
this might get abit lengthy and if so, im sorry if its too long or ends up making no sense, i tend to make lots of mistakes in typing when i type for awhile.
i first started playing sonic via emulation at the age of 5. i never had a console when i was younger and just a pc, so my dad set up an emulator for me to play all 3 sonic games. i would play those games non stop, i even remember i pretended to be sick one day so i could just play sonic 3 instead on going to school. there was a point where i annoyed my friends by talking about sonic so much that my mom banned me from anything sonic for a month. (that was the longest month of my life _~_)
i eventually got sonic generations for xbox 360 from one of my friends for my birthday, i would have to wait until i went to my uncles place to play the game on his xbox 360 though. i still remember excitedly looking at the box of the game and i still even have that exact copy.
i would then go on to play sonic unleashed, 06, adventure 1 and 2, and many more and never did i stop loving sonic the hedgehog. honestly i dont think i can ever NOT love sonic. The only time i didnt, it only lasted for acouple months after forces came out.
yes, i realise this stretched WAAAYYY past just how i first learned about sonic, and that not many people will probably read this far, but i just couldnt help myself.
Well this was certainly an ambitious project. Never seen a video cover every piece of Sonic media like this in a comprehensive structure like this. And kudos for being a fellow SatAM fan. Us older fans from the 90s are a dying breed unfortunately.
Where my sonic comic fans at?
Which continuity? Archie or Fleetway?
Diego Rodriguez an excellent question. I like both but I’m more of a Archie fan if I had to pick
@@rennac3152 A fan of Archie "retrospectively" Ive read it all! To the Ken Penders Era to that neat little reboot.
Diego Rodriguez a fellow man of culture I see
Diego Rodriguez idw
Your character's 'classic' design is actually really cute, it's great.
I feel like the only sonic fan who thinks his 2d games are kinda boring
Dude, I have no idea what you’re saying for Sonic Heroes because the theme song was laser printed into my most deep seated memories and I can’t not sing to that.
Edit; Holy shit I did not expect to find out Tails originally broke down crying in Sonic X at that part.
Pog
You ever watch a video that just hits you in an place in your heart where not alot of videos hit your, or have never hit you before?
I hardly know where to begin.
I'm honestly... so overwhelmed by the love and care put into this video, by all the passion brought to the table by so many people, that... I can hardly think of words to type.
I'm... not in the best position. I'm not a voice actor or artist, and no matter how much I want to go into game development and writing, it's... a massive hurdle to even start.
Like, it's generous to even call me an amateur hobbyist writer. It's honestly... kinda pathetic.
And in hindsight, I almost feel guilty that I don't have as much interest or experience in Sonic outside of the games...
I don't know how old I was - 6, maybe? I can just barely remember my very early childhood, and no memory of Sonic comes to mind... but it's difficult to think that far back. So I'm just gonna have a guess that I was around 6. If I dig even deeper into my past, I may even remember where it was bought, but that doesn't matter in the end.
It was a blue plug-n-play SEGA Genesis, with 6 games, one of them being Sonic the Hedgehog 1. Though it really isn't my favorite, in fact, next to SA1, it's probably one of my least favorites of the ones I played- i feel... like I have to at least give it _some_ respect.
Without it, I wouldn't have met my girlfriend or my best friend...
I only beat Sonic 1 on my own around the time Generations came out, and that's when I decided I didn't really like it... but Sonic 2?
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is one of if not my favorite game, Sonic or not. Sonic 1 may have been my introduction, fittingly, but Sonic 2 means so much more to me.
7 years old on my birthday, I was given a Walmart giftcard and we went to Walmart to buy me a gift. I'm in the toy section, being the young kid I am, and this section also holds a lot of games - mostly board games or the cheap plug-n-play kinda stuff. And that's what I got - just like my mom's blue one, I got a red one with six other Genesis games. But the only one I really cared about what Sonic 2. And I played it on and off for over a year, slowly getting further and further, until finally...
Sonic 2 was the first video game I ever beat. Without even knowledge of the Sonic fandom or what a fan character even was or how to make characters, I made my very first Sonic fan character that night in almost celebratory glee, right before I went to sleep.
And yes, they were a red hedgehog named Pyro. Though they are completely different now, I've kept them around as my oldest original character ever - they were mostly based on me, and they changed alongside me, now being a phoenix named Pyra.
But like- seriously though. Me beating Sonic 2 was huge for me. After that, it was a snowball effect of passion and... _light obsession_ that brought me years of happiness and close friends. Sonic is a big part of me, and I care about the fandom so much and I look forward to SAGE and the Sonic Hacking Contest every year.
I just-
Like many people here, I love Sonic. His games, his story, his music, _his world_ are fantastic distractions that get the creative juices flowing and even when I'm not feeling so great, when dysphoria and depression are beating me down, with homelessness and covid ramping my anxiety into the fucking stratosphere, I always have the little blue prick and other fans of his I've met along the way to keep me sane.
2:08 "So, first, we're gonna talk about the main medium that Sonic resides in - *ancient folkloric painti-* in games we're talking about video games." That was hilarious enough to get a sub. Nice job!🤣
While I'm not that much into Sonic OCs, I really like the design of yours!
I first learn about sonic as a 3-year-old child. When I owned a preview disc of game demos on the Gamecube, Billy Hatcher and Sonic DX were included. When I first saw the title screen of DX, the music in the stages, the sound effects from rings, sonic's jump, to emblems. I fell in love with the game and character. Later on, my cousins would show sonic riders to me, and the songs on youtube and it really got into the franchise even more. Now, I have friends who enjoy this game character, as long as I stick with the right people. Very well done buddy.
Thank you so much for making this incredible video! Sonic Adventure 2 was the first Sonic game I ever played and, to this day, it’s still one of my favorite video games of all time. I never really got into the Sonic franchise as a kid and I recently saw both of the Sonic movies from Paramount. They were amazing and after seeing them, I really want to experience more of this franchise! Your video really helped me and I think I’ll be watching Sonic X soon because I believe I saw a few episodes of that as a kid, as well.
So I was introduced to the Sonic Series through Sonic Unleashed for the PS3 when I was like 5, and I thought that it was just okay... I never really payed that much attention to it. I could never get passed the first stages 😅. Then after that I got an iPad for Christmas and I discovered the internet, and that’s where I was really introduced to Sonic. I remember discovering a Let’s Play of this weird game called Sonic Generations, so I checked it out and thought that it was really cool, with how fast paced everything was and how colorful it was too. So I tried to find out more about Sonic and then discovered Sonic X, which really made me fall in love with the franchise and it’s characters. From there I discovered many Sonic CZcamsrs like Cobanermani456 and such. I had gone to the App Store and played as many Sonic games as I could on there, such as the Classic games ports (which I came to love to this day). Then finally in 2017 Sonic Mania came out for the Switch, and I got to really play my first true Sonic game.
im one of the ancients of fandom. i've been here from the very beginning. my first game was sonic 2 followed shortly buy sonic 3 and knuckles. i was in love with them they were my very first games as a kid. Also the adventures of sonic the hedgehog was the favorite show growing up.
_i was there since the beginning.. and now here we are._
THANK YOU FOR SHOWING SOME LOVE TO SONIC ADVANCE 2. As my entry point to the franchise (though I never really became super entrenched in the Sonic fandom) it holds a special place in my heart as easily my favorite Sonic game despite it’s few questionable design choices (the late game difficulty spike of Sky Canyon’s plethora of bottomless pits made it so I never finished the game as a kid, the requirements to reach the special stages, and while I have nostalgia for them the runner bosses can be *really* frustrating to fight unless your playing as Cream, as well as the complete lack of instruction from the game in regards to the R-button maneuvers you can do that are basically required late game to get through the levels smoothly). So thank you for mentioning the advance games and showing them the respect they deserve as unique entries in the Classic Sonic style with a Modern Sonic coat of paint.
I’m not a beginner but still wanted to watch this
My first exposure to Sonic was when I saw my older brother playing Sonic Heroes with my dad watching after he had rented it from blockbuster in 2006. It wasn't long before I had my "it's my turn on the xbox" moment and played it for the first time. Since it was rented, we had to return it shortly afterward, but it quickly became one of our most frequently rented games, to the point where the cost of renting it again and again started to outweigh the cost of just buying it, so that's what they did. I remember I was never able to get past the point in the power plant where you're running from the rising lava, and I would daydream about what the levels after it would be like. I unfortunately don't remember my reactions to any of the following levels that I made it to after we bought the game and I finally made it past the insurmountable wall that the power plant level was to my younger self, but I must have been stoked.
I was a sonic film enthusiast as a kid . I never truly played the games but I definitely treated the games cutscenes as movies (which honestly made all the 3D games my favorites help. Of course the animated shows and CZcams/Deviantart were my gateway into the franchise
My first Sonic game was Sonic and the Secret Rings. I got that along with Animal Crossing: City Folk on my very first console, the Nintendo Wii. To this day, I have a deep love for both franchises.
Sonic and the Secret Rings was not a perfect game. Hell, it wasn't even a great game. But it introduced me to a character I have an unrelenting love for. I will never dislike that game, and I will never not have fun playing it. Every time I pop that disk in, I remember my childhood wonder.
1:50 alright, I'm staying, you made me cackle with how you sounded when you said "It's horrifying"
I thought this video appearing in my feed was...SUSPICIOUS.
But I swallowed my fears and took the plunge.
Here goes nothing
(Btw I am I big fan of Sonic)
Honestly, i'd almost argue that 06 was the start of the boost era instead of unleashed. Sonic's mach-speed sections are almost like a rough draft of boost. High speed along a fairly linear path. And while you don't boost on command you can lightspeed dash for extra speed
Sorta, I guess? But a controlled boost _did_ come before in Sonic Rush, in 2005.
Sonic 06 was my first sonic game and that made me a fan of the entire franchise. Heroes and Unleashed are my personal favorites but I’ll always enjoy them all
I recommend to start with Robotnik's mean bean machine
My first introduction to the sonic franchise was the memes and film/game theory. Haven't got into sonic till recently like literally yesterday when I watched the 2 movies. Now I'm interested and want to learn more about the franchise.
What's weird is, I like the boom series not for its jokes or 4th wall breaks but more for the characters just relaxing with each other, working off each other and well show their personalities through.
It's a mixed bag imo, amy is the perfect example of adding personality to a character that had none. For years she was either "that annoying girl who stalks sonic" or "minnie mouse", now she actually questions sonic, doesn't go into crazy anger on seconds and actually cares for other characters more than... well, what heroes did. (I will get my dear sonic!... oh and your frog and friend too... yeah... totally the reason).
Then you have knuckles which is why I don't entirely love the show. He could of had a personality but nah, he's dumb! Sure he had the best jokes but, they're just dumb guy jokes. It's a hit or miss thing for me.
I first learned about sonic through Sonic X if i remember correctly. My first game after watching that show was sonic colours for the DS
I adored the artist on twitter than you put up for the thumbnail and hopped right into the video.
And then sonic frontiers came out and is ALSO a pretty good place to start. Sure you won’t get the references. But you’ll have a grand time
Not even gonna lie, I absolutely adore long form videos like this (is that the right term? I'm not sure, but I hope the point came across well enough) keep up the good work!
The first thing you gotta tell people is that the games are not about going fast, but mucking around in labyrinths while managing your speed. That is, if they're thinking about the first few games. "Gotta Go Fast" really penetrated and it's your job as a fan to limit the effect that had in people. -- me, an ex-fan that jumped off the train just before Sonic Heroes hit.
you know i was starting to think the werehog thing was a fever dream, partially because i played it as such a small child and everyone ive tried to talk to it about said they had no clue what i was talking about but im glad to know im not crazy