Sonic Advance Reminded Me Why 2D is My Favorite | The Completionist
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- čas přidán 14. 06. 2024
- I didn't have a Gameboy Advance growing up so I'm a little late to playing the Sonic Advance games...by 22 years. And playing this, really did feel like playing Sonic again for the first time and made me appreciate these 2D Sonic games.
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Intro 0:00
A Game of Firsts 1:27
Never Abandon Your Roots 7:56
Advanced Perspective 15:40
Dr Eggman has hatched another evil plot to build his Eggman Empire by capturing Animals and turning them into robots, as well as gathering the seven Chaos Emeralds in order to gain unimaginable power. Sonic the Hedgehog and his friends Miles Tails Prower, Knuckles the Echidna, and Amy Rose set off on an adventure to free the Animals and stop Dr Eggman on the GBA.
Sonic Advance features four playable characters and marks the first playable appearance of Amy Rose on a 2D title. The game borrows elements from the original Sonic the Hedgehog titles for the Sega Genesis, but with the post-Dreamcast art style for the characters which was introduced in Sonic Adventure. The game also includes multiplayer features and mini-games for Sonic Advance gameplay on the gameboy advance.
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We desperately need a Sonic Advance Collection
Sega will find a way to butcher them
@@zaneheaston8254 Most of the work on the originals was done by Dimps, so unless the porting job is really borked it would be a decently competent collection.
@@zaneheaston8254 😅
I think it should be a sonic dimps collection being made up of all of there fully original titles, advance 1 to 3 and rush and rush adventure
Maybe they should come out on Switch Online?
I’m glad to see the Sonic Advance series getting some love.
It's weird to remember that these sprites were used in so many flash things. Whether in games or fan videos
Theyre absurdly polished and expressive sprites considering their size
Hey Jirard! It was a great video, but you might want to know that Sonic Advance was not actually developed by Sonic Team, but instead by Dimps, who made the entire Advance series as well as all of the Rush games.
Was looking for this comment! I follow another youtuber who is, himself, a dedicated Sonic fan and he did a nearly whole-series retrospective that included these games and he talked quite a bit about Dimps and their contributions to the franchise!
The Geek Critique, if curious....He's also talked quite a bit about Donkey Kong Country and Metroid!
@@TransientWitch he is better than that king k guy, the way that guy talks is arrogant
I actually can't believe that jirard didn't fact check himself at all.
Pin this comment!
There actually is a save system in this game. Even when you reset the game, it saves which acts you've completed for each character. Just wanted to let you know!
i feel people don't give amy enough credit in these games. i never once seen anyone mention all of her skills, while discussing this game. for example, you didn't mention that, if you hit springs with her hammer, the height the spring catapults you into the air doubles. additionally, while she can't jump into enemies the same way the others can, if you press b + down while in the air, she spins her hammer around herself, allowing her to damage enemies from above just as easily as any other character, while at the same time having the additional bonus of retaining her momentum and given her additional height, if she lands on top of an item box while spinning. honestly, given just how many useful abilities she has, she might even be one of my favourites to play as.
And this is something I never knew! I always thought Amy was supposed to be “hard mode” since she doesn’t have a spin jump and is vulnerable. Guess you can’t expect to know that when you’re 7.
@@Wernershnitzl She was more of a "skill mode". Sacrificed what everyone else had for something different, but the goal was still the same.
Yes! This 100%
Paying as Amy is my favorite part of this game and why I still go back and revisit it to this day
You don't have to beat the game in one sitting! The game saves after each and every act completion; you can then turn the game off and when you turn it back on, you get the stage select screen that lets you choose from any act you've started with that character.
I never actually played sonic advance, but me and my friends played an online flash game that used the assets. Hopefully sonic advance gets added to Switch online one of these days because they look like a blast
its actually advance 2 and not 1
Whoa, same here.
Ultimate Flash Sonic babyyyyy
That game slapped advance flash was my childhood at school
Loved that game
9:40 Tails is the very definition of "cute" and "adorable" it's his most defining characteristic besides his flight and his past character development!:)
I thought his intelligence and sweet nature were defining.
@@princesspikachu3915 sure are!:3
Sonic advance was such a treat to play on GBA when it was released. Sonic rush on the ds reminded me of this .
As someone who had 100% cleared all Sonic Advance titles back in the day, I can say that I love all the Sonic Advance titles and they did improve the design in Sonic Advance 2 & 3. These are amazing games and I wouldn't mind playing them all again! My favorite was Sonic Advance 3 though.
Ah Sonic Advance series. The games that introduced me to Sonic when I was a kid
Me too bro!
Did you know that Sonic Advance has similarities with Sonic Pocket Adventure on the zones 😮😮
I really like the idea of the completionist checklist at the start. But the rating i think i enjoy better at the end, after hearing everything you went through to complete it
I like how we had a cast of sonic characters doing their usual thing in sonic advance and then we got to advance 2+3 with Cream and Cheese..the goddamn god of destruction lol
I am SO glad you completed my first sonic game! You gave a nostalgia trip.
Holy shit I'm super glad to hear you cover the Advance games, and I'm SUPER excited to see the rest!
An official rerelease of these games with a wider perspective, an official Sonic & Tails mode (not requiring a cheat, and Tails being able to carry Sonic), and Super forms for each character that can be used in normal zones would be really cool.
This is my First Ever Sonic Game I Played as a Kid on my Nintendo DS with the GBA slot.
Edit: I completed Advance 1 & 2 on original hardware a month ago. As a kid I wanted to beat this game but I wasn’t good at it back then. But finally completed my life goal by 100% completing it.
I look forward to seeing you play the rest of these, because each game builds upon the last one really well, with new mechanics and creative level design
I was a nintendo kid growing up so sonic advance was actually my first sonic game and I remember loving it
Your gonna start another gaming discourse war with a title like that, Jirard.
It's Sonic; no matter what he says, somebody will get butthurt over it.
With Sonic, it's an undeniable fact.
Because 3D is better
@@sptflcrw8583If you have a game journalist mindset
@@Terminal_Apotos bruh, name one 3D Sonic game that compares to Sonic 3 & Knuckles
I still hope the Sonic Advance Trilogy gets a re-release on Switch, they're too good to be forgotten.
I remember playing the four player link cable part of the game with friends in second grade. Chasing them around trying to hold onto the chao until the end was so much fun.
Sonic Advance 2 is my favorite 2D title.
Such a random game to complete right now, but I love it. This was a fun game for me as a kid.
As other still call It the *TRUE* Sonic 4!
I absolutely LOVED the Sonic Advance series as a kid, and I think they still hold up today. Can’t wait to see what you think of the sequels!
3:27 - That mouse cursor in Amy’s silhouette cracked me up. C’x
Sweet, one of my favorite games ever. This and FFTA were my go-to games for gba
I still love that intro.
Love Sonic Advance, just like almost all of his 2D games.
Also, I like how he says "everyone is completing Tears of the Kingdom," while I haven't finished Breath of the Wild, haha.
I was lucky enough to own this on my GBA growing up. To this day it's still the only Sonic game I've ever beaten but I've probably beaten it about 20 times. I adore the art style, Sonic looks so cool here, and playing as Knuckles and Tails is super cool, but playing as Amy Rose bonking people with a giant hammer was my favorite.
"In this game, the Chaos Emeralds are all shared by all four characters, so there's no need to collect all of them four times."
What a fantastic design choice that I'm sure won't be royally fucked up in the sequel!
This wasn't my introduction to Sonic but it was the first Sonic game I got to play myself, and for that I do remember it fondly. Nice to see it covered here.
It wasn’t my first Sonic game. However I noticed it in the game section back in the early 00’s and I had to have it. I was a Sega supporter who also had a GBC and GBA for Pokémon and only Pokémon. I was an extreme Nintendo HATER back then only liking Pokémon because of it being handheld. Dream Cast was on its deathbed and I needed something besides Sonic Adventure and playing Genesis games on that clunky Nomad that I got from Toys R Us that was also a battery eater. So when I seen Sonic was on a Nintendo handheld that I mostly just played Pokémon on I ended up getting it. It was so much fun! It was like a mash up of classic Sonic and modern Sonic except there wasn’t any differentiation between them back then other than 2D and 3D. And I really loved 2D Sonic gameplay and I loved the modern Sonic design. These and the Rush games for DS were truly special. Though Rush came out when I was nearly grown.
9:59 I see your mouse cursor!
Man this makes me want to go back and replay the Advance trilogy again. Loved the simplicity of these games, more so the first one. Of course Advance 2 is better as a game, but to 100% complete...oh I am praying for you Jirad
Dude having a full blown Sonic game on my handheld that I could take anywhere when I was a kid was one of the best ever happened to me!
Awesome games needed big consoles & TVs & ....
It was a very special time for me 😊
Thanks for uploading J❤
I love being able to play as Amy in these titles. They should bring her back as a playable character in the main series titles.
Well not the main series, Sonic Origins plus has classic Amy as a playable character :)
Have you seen the frontiers DLC roadmap?
@@DJ_3592 Nothing fully confirmed yet
Yesss the Advance games are so good!! Please cover all 3!
Don’t forget Sonic Advance 2…. I remember your reaction during the SomeCallMeJohnny video!
If you loved Advance youll love Advance 2 its everything great about Advance but better definitely my favourite of the 3
I have all 3 of those games. On a GBA SP and Micro though the Micro doesn’t work well anymore.
You’re in for a treat with SA3. That game is a masterclass in 2D Sonic games
I love the sonic advance series! It has gorgeous graphics and introduces Cream the Rabbit! I remember being on the computer and editing advance sprite sheets for hours!
I've completed all 3 Sonic Advances. Whew........collecting 7 Chaos Emeralds was a complete hell. But what matters to me are all three games made myself in younger age very happy. Then I listened to music cause it is very nostalgic. I'll never forget my rage after many deaths, many failed special stages, several hours of searching key/gold stars/Chao.
2:44 "The series started out as a 2D platformer **with an emphasis on speed and momentum**"
As Jirard shows off a freaking slow level.
This is one of the best GBA games I had growing up. I also got the 3rd game and that was fun with the tag team elements but it didn’t quite capture the excitement of the original.
The Shadow the Hedgehog day is coming? Oh Jirard, no one deserves that kind of completion punishment
There actually is a button combination that returns you to the main menu without turning the GBA off and on again, not sure why they didn't just put it on the pause menu.
Now he’s gotta complete Sonic Advance 2.
“Good luck, buddy!” Him to SomeCallMeJohnny years ago.
I really just want to play this on my switch or at least a new 2d sonic game
I used to play this game so much on my N-gage as kid, nostalgia hits different :D
The timing on this video couldnt have been better as i just finished Sonic Advance 1 and 2
Sonic Advance 3 is just... Perfection. They don't make games like that anymore.
Mania
@@gengargamer5657 Sorta, but not really
@@theinktician Yeah, it is
@@gengargamer5657 kinda, but not really.
I don't know about perfection, but it is my favorite in the advanced
Excellent vid man!
The gba really had platform fans backs when so many of the home consoles at the time let us down.
Crash bandicoot, spyro & sonic are great examples of this
I think 2D Sonic is the best too but imo both 2D and 3D games in general are good in their own way. Variety is good.
I was just listen to the full OST today and then this video comes out.
Oooo definitely looking forward as you keep checking out the advance games (maybe even the off book Sonic Battle, though that one is for the story connection into Advance 3, might be a pain to complete Sonic Battle for all the Emerl stuff).
My favorite I think is Sonic Advance 2, though Sonic Advance 3 follows pretty closely. And the music across the board is a bop (shout out to the twist to a classic theme in Sonic Advance 3)
The sonic advance games were fucking amazing I really hope we get a collection of them or they just add them to the gba app on the switch. These are still some of the best sonic games fr and sonic rush was always really fun I still have my copy of that though
The first sonic game I ever beat, loved it all the way and the Super Sonic Final Battle was so hype!
A tip for totk if you do all the quests of Josh and robbie than he will return to his lab and then you can buy compendium photos from him. Hope this helps with completing the game
Man, so much nostalgia in that video :D
If you keep going with the mobile titles of Sonic, I'm hyped to hear your opinion on Sonic Rush!
Dimps did a good job for their first effort
Sonic Advance Collection with added perks. Let's go!
10:51 The Advance games (including Pocket Adventure and Rush) were all developed by DIMPS, who were ex-SNK, with Naka and the rest of Sonic Team merely supervising as Heroes was being worked on by the main team.
13:19 This is actually what the A button is for. Diving centers your character in the middle, so it’s easier to collect those rings laced between the bombs. It’s very trial-and-error at first thanks to depth perception. Initially, I also didn’t realize that you’re supposed to trick *after* you hit the boxes, and that collecting the Chao in the stages grant you extra lives.
Fun fact! Sonic Advance holds the honor of being the first third-party game to make use of the GCN-GBA Link Cable, being a 2001 release. The very first game to support it is Animal Crossing’s GCN release, that same year.
Only Sonic Advanced game I ever played was Sonic Advanced 3. I played it a lot when I was a kid and was really enjoyable. Easily the bjggest bite out of the Sonic franchise I had. Finding hidden chaos in each stage, and getting to have different pairings of the 5 characters of Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Amy, and even Cream with each one added different mechanics. Definitely looking forward to seeing Jirard complete the other Advance games
So you decide to complete Sonic Advance one. I remember playing this game at a friends house. When it was new. Nowadays, I'm pretty sure I own this as a Virtual Console Wii U game.
After growing up in the 90s on Sonic and desperately begging for a GameCube for the Adventure games, the Advance games ars where I really lost myself. So happy to see them being covered here! I *love* the Advance trilogy. Really hoping Nintendo will release them and Battle from the dungeon soon.
7:15 I remember spending a *ton* of hours here building a top notch chao for my gamecube 😂
I *WISH* they'd make a Sonic Adventure 3 with an expanded Chao Garden
Thank you for another great video about Sonic, I hope you consider doing Sonic Rivals 1&2 they are 2d platform games that were exclusive to the PSP and funny enough these 2 games were my first introduction to Sonic.
loved seeing this game come up in my sub feed can't wait for the sequels
Really looking forward to the Sonic Advance 2 video. It's not for everyone, but man is it way faster than SA1 and more complete as an experience.
sonic advance 2 is my favorite sonic game ever, the music is awesome and i find it on a flea market for cheap years ago
Glad to see you're gonna give Shadow's game a fair chance. Can I suggest doing the GameCube version?
Sonic advance 2 was my favorite 2d sonic growing up
Sonic Battle is an amazing GBA game, absolute nightmare to complete
I remember sitting in the VS waiting room to listen to the music as a kid, I don't even think I knew what the menu was for lol
The first sonic advance holds a place in my heart. When I got a gameboy advance one of the first games I can remember getting with it and putting hours in was the first advance game. I spent a lot of time in the farm but I had a great time playing the story too
Yay~! It's awesome to hear you're a Tails Fan as well Jirard. I feel our High Flying Friend doesn't get as much love as he used to.
I have been waiting for the Advance Games!
Fun review. Played this & did enjoy it.
Hard to believe I've been subbed since year 5, happy 10th anniversary.
Mannnnn I miss Sonic Advance. I lent my copy to a girl in elementary school (in exchange for her Sonic Advance 2, which was way less cool) and then she moved away before we could trade back 😢
In my country we dont really have support for this stuff. But somehow ONE shop was installing java versions of gba games for people when I was a kid. I have so much nostalgia for Sonic advance and some tomb raider game that I still havent found.
It's funny that you uploaded this just when I managed to get Sonic Advance to work on my emulator. 😅
Just to point out some things in this video. The game does save after every act or at least every zone, so you don't have to do it in one sitting. The other thing to point out is that the Sonic Advance games aren't developed by Sonic Team, but by Dimps. Sonic Team were more of a supervisory role.
The yellow eel badnik from Sonic Advance 3's Ocean Base Zone terrified me as a kid. It just popped out of nowhere and was impossible to avoid.
I'm pretty sure Sonic Advanced was my first Sonic game. But I remember Cream being a playable character, and she was super easy mode. She had Tail's flight power and could just have Cheese auto attack enemies on screen by pressing B button.
Could be remembering a different Sonic game as it's been forever since I played it.
Cream was introduced in Sonic Advance 2
This was the first and maybe only Sonic game I’ve beat. Having it on the gba was amazing though
Hyped for this series, 3 is my favorite sonic game outright. Would love to see more GBA games, maybe the 3 Castlevainias?
I never hear people talk about the portable sonic games, and I know they're not perfect, but I loved the Advance and Rush series.
Back in the ancient days of 1991
Jeez Jirad
Way to make feel old
Jared has been a bit of a break lately, so I’ve been binging your content.
Sonic Advance is one of my favorite sonic games ^^
"It wouldn't be a Sonic game if there weren't seven Chaos Emeralds to collect"
Sonic 1: "..."
I loved these games too much
I have never played Sonic Advance and it looks like a great video game and I like your video Jirard
I didnt realise just how much you koved tails!
Heads up to the Game Gear Sonic games, but you failed to mention Sonic Pocket Adventure on the Neo Geo Pocket Color.
A Completionist video on Sonic Advance 2... yeah. The poor souls who completed THAT just know we're in for a doozy.
Sonic Adventure has, in my opinion, the best GBA soundtrack. When you said it was "alright", I started grumbling lol