You know, this as an April Fool’s Day video honestly makes sense. For two reasons: -To see if there is any difference to enjoy it as is. -Is it easier or harder to perfect all stages with or without the gimmick. Were the reviewers joking or was it maybe true.
The real April Fool's joke here is that you played through Sonic Free Riders of your own free will. You played yourself AND we got some Mawde Wile content.
Yo! Fool's jokes aside, I wanted to give my thanks for actually showing pretty damn good skill in this game! It always frustrates me to no end when any sort of reviewer complains about the controls being unresponsive, since they're just fine once you get used to the delay. Especially the turning, though, *nobody seems to want to use their arms while boarding!* But my ranting aside, splendid video, Mawde, sub obtained.
you did very well and seeing now Sonic Free Riders has good levels and gimmicks (the one about holding on to the pole and launching yourself in some direction is my favorite) but I think the only problem with the game would be the fact that it depends on the kinect, the The idea is good, but an option to choose between playing on a controller or on Kinect would save the spine of many players, as well as being more comfortable to play
@@mawdewile and not everyone has an able body to move around the space!! the controller version gives disabled sonic fans an opportunity to give free riders a go.
Alright, you got me for sure. It didn't even occur to me until the end that this was an April Fools video, I was already preparing my comment for how I thought the idea of playing a game the dev intended way was funny enough on its own. That aside, I never played this one because my 360 red-ringed a long time ago, but I was a fan of the previous Sonic Riders games. I know this one wasn't reviewed well, but there are some nice ideas that I like in some of these races, like sticking your arms out to grab onto objects or find shortcuts. Having both the power skill and motorbike controls overlap does seem like an oversight, but otherwise you made the game look a whole lot more functional than others did when it released.
Yeah, it is. I honestly never had issues with the Kinect in any game that used it, including Sonic Free Riders. If anything I actually enjoyed using it. I know this was an April Fools upload, but I still feel the need to defend the Kinect when I never struggled to use it the same way everyone else struggles to coexist with it.
I’m kind of in the same boat. The Kinect I used was working perfectly fine. A few hiccups here and there, but nothing compared to all the horror stories on the internet
Wow! Fantastic video! Love how you took this challenge seriously and efficiently explained everything for us. As someone with next to no understanding of this game it really helps having it simply explained!
Mawde: “Also, 50k and I’ll do [a challenge] for Bubsy 3D.” Me: honestly, the challenge I’d want is more for rom hackers than players: can you make something tolerable or even fun using Bubsy 3D as your base game?
You totally could... but it'd be a lot of work for not much pay off. Bubsy 3D is fundementally broken in most every way. The way Bubsy and the camera work in that game is truly atrocious and not at all accomedated by the level design so the game desperately wishes those were ironed out, but even with good controls the level design is a travesty. At best the level design is completely nonsensical and at worst it's actively punishing the player for daring to engage. We could of course focus on making new levels that better work with the base controls and camera, but that's a hard sell because as mentioned they're awful and not fun to play with, and provide no real oppertunities for interesting level design, ex: the camera panning directly down when you jump forces every jump to be straight down or badly designed. So what we end up with is that we'd need totally new controls, camera and new levels to make a game that isn't inherently unfun to play, and even then the theming would be garbage. Bubsy is painfully unfunny in Bubsy 3D, the graphics are... unfinished, and the sound is painful. It would genuinely be easier and a better use of your time to make a Bubsy fan game from scratch then it would be to fix Bubsy 3D.
@@TheWrathAbove Yeah, probably not worth it. Definitely fun to say you could, though. Incidentally, Rerez actually introduced a better target game for this sort of challenge/redemption hack thing: Phix the Adventure. Could’ve been a late PS1 curiosity, certainly has more starting value than Bubsy 3D, but it’s more broken than Sonic 06. Notably, while Bubsy 3D is a case of really being better off starting from scratch, Phix is more a case of “this might be worth someone’s time at least if someone went in and fixed…everything.” You’d know what I mean if you saw it.
The whole “swapping between normal and goofy stance swaps your rider ability” thing has me conflicted. On one hand, in general it’s a very “why would you do that” thing given the Kinect controls, because of course everyone would want to keep flipping their actual left and right to swap abilities as needed. On the other hand, it seems like something that would actually be pretty cool if you mastered it and pulled it all off flawlessly in a race, which is very much in the spirit of Sonic.
Thank you for the video. You say this is an April Fools video, but I could not figure out how to play this game with the Kinect to save my life. Props to you for sticking with it.
Real title: is it possible to beat the game without hating it??? (This was one of my childhood games and with my too young mind I either just did casual races or only team heroes with my siblings. Eventually we chose to do the rest and I beat the whole game several times).
Honestly, this game is under appreciated. It has great stages with cool gimmicks and environments, graphics still look good today, all the characters take part in the story, and it takes a lot of mechanics from the first Riders game and simplified them only a little bit. Plus it has the most in depth tutorial mode.
While the Kinect wasn’t really great I do find it a kind of funny that you have people nowadays obsessing over the idea of using their body/hands instead of a controller yet that’s literally what the Kinect did even though the tracking wasn’t the best at times like yes the Kinect was hated at the time but people hating on it nowadays is like hating on a car from the 2000s because it’s not as good as a car from the 2020s they do the same thing but one’s obviously better
This game can be fun with a controller, but I wish this game in general had an option to turn off power-ups in the rules settings for racing where it's just pure racing where it feels realistic. Since I feel like the power-ups makes the AI easy, I wonder how tough the AI would be without power-ups? Don't get me wrong, power-ups are fun to use, but I usually like them off. I would love it if it had an option to turn off power-ups instead of using the invisible gear part to act like there's no power-ups.
Damn straight im not getting out of my $200 gaming chair. I'm not gonna get that value by standing up now, am I? But in all seriousness, I enjoyed this video.
somehow, this reminded me of an old video i saw on a, ahem, adult website. the video shows someone using a device, where you stand on top of it, and shift your weight, to perform the equivalent of moving a directional control or joystick. the funny part is that one of the players is tied up, wearing a "monoglove" style bondage device! oh, and she's also dressed in a latex jumpsuit.
The sheer amount of mods and fangames in the Sonic series is a testament to how almost everyone in the fan base is better at making Sonic games than Sega themselves.
I thought you were actually serious until i saw "April 1st"😂. I have beaten this game and even got all the S ranks and its actually pretty fun, sucks that everyone i saw online hated it because its more than playable imo.
yeah the kinect worked perfectly fine. it's easy to get used to if you use your whole body to turn and bend your knees. and if you give yourself room for it to SEE you
Of course I haven’t touched it in over a decade but when I got this game as an 11 year old I fucking loved it. Of course now that I’m older and graduated with a degree in game design I can see it’s faults but still doesn’t change the fact that I once had fun with it.
I think I just got lucky with a good setup. I had a big, bright, open space to move around so I’m the Kinect must’ve had an easier time reading my actions compared to other people. Nothing compared to all the horror stories I heard online
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"is it possible to beat this game as intended"
My broken back after 100 percenting this game:
*"I won, but at what cost..."*
Next video gonna be, "Is it possible to beat Retail Sonic 06?"
Ohhhh burn !
happy april fools' day
@@nuttygamer6484Um I 100% it and nothing happened to me soooooo..........
I was half expecting cuts to a camera to a fern in the view in the Kinect.
This fern will be important to the story
Nice to see your human assistant doing all the Kinect work for you; this game doesn't accommodate for Piranha Plants
I payed her overtime to do this
It's kind of ablist really. Rocket Cows would never do that
The truest challenge for any gamer. Physical activity
I love playing the game normally ended up becoming a challenge just because of how infamous it is
You know, this as an April Fool’s Day video honestly makes sense. For two reasons:
-To see if there is any difference to enjoy it as is.
-Is it easier or harder to perfect all stages with or without the gimmick.
Were the reviewers joking or was it maybe true.
The real April Fool's joke here is that you played through Sonic Free Riders of your own free will. You played yourself AND we got some Mawde Wile content.
Yo! Fool's jokes aside, I wanted to give my thanks for actually showing pretty damn good skill in this game! It always frustrates me to no end when any sort of reviewer complains about the controls being unresponsive, since they're just fine once you get used to the delay.
Especially the turning, though, *nobody seems to want to use their arms while boarding!*
But my ranting aside, splendid video, Mawde, sub obtained.
fr the ending was a really funny way of making fun people who complain about it. i remember 100 percenting the game as a kid, its really not that bad
Maybe the reviewers wouldn’t complain if the controls weren’t murder to get used to, and the worst way to play the game.
Haven't even watched the video yet and it's already the best video of 2024
Ngl, it slipped my mind what day it was.
I can’t tell if this is an April fools video or not
Yesn't.
Nuh yuh
you did very well and seeing now Sonic Free Riders has good levels and gimmicks (the one about holding on to the pole and launching yourself in some direction is my favorite) but I think the only problem with the game would be the fact that it depends on the kinect, the The idea is good, but an option to choose between playing on a controller or on Kinect would save the spine of many players, as well as being more comfortable to play
I agree. Not everyone has a big, well lit, open space to move their body around. Having that option might’ve saved the game
@@mawdewile A real fan would just buy a bigger house smh
@@Someguyhere111And I always have big houses or just big rooms honestly
@@mawdewile and not everyone has an able body to move around the space!! the controller version gives disabled sonic fans an opportunity to give free riders a go.
16:33 i love how he did his one and only shadow reference right after he literally just got done playing shadow
This might be your hardest challenge yet.
Not only is it possible, as a kid I was able to S rank all of the missions.
Still trash controls.
Both your body and mind are on superhuman levels of skill. You’re built different.
he *is* sonic
makes sense, kids can jump and move all day long, your stamina stat gets cut in half when you reach level 13
@@ChargeJN Unless you do workouts like me. I can't play it anymore because my kinect is a goner.
Love actually learning what happens in this game and not just someone complaining about the controls and putting it down after 5 minutes
Love how the Metal Sonic race map icon just looks like Sonic.EXE.
Alright, you got me for sure. It didn't even occur to me until the end that this was an April Fools video, I was already preparing my comment for how I thought the idea of playing a game the dev intended way was funny enough on its own.
That aside, I never played this one because my 360 red-ringed a long time ago, but I was a fan of the previous Sonic Riders games. I know this one wasn't reviewed well, but there are some nice ideas that I like in some of these races, like sticking your arms out to grab onto objects or find shortcuts. Having both the power skill and motorbike controls overlap does seem like an oversight, but otherwise you made the game look a whole lot more functional than others did when it released.
Glad the kinect and game I gave ya is put to good use
I sincerely do appreciate you for doing that my friend
I loved playing this game with the Kinect. It was a pretty fun experience for me.
Thought it was gonna be beating the game without hitting a wall.
This was a fun way to learn what actually happens in Free Riders, especially since I've seen the cutscenes waaay more :)
I was so confused seeing the community post about this vid but it makes a lot of sense that this is an April Fools joke
this game has so many gorgeous stages
You have a great singing voice, what the hell?! You already have a good voice, but hearing you sing like that was, wow, damn! Amazing job!
Bro your videos are getting better and better every time 🔥
Yeah, it is. I honestly never had issues with the Kinect in any game that used it, including Sonic Free Riders. If anything I actually enjoyed using it. I know this was an April Fools upload, but I still feel the need to defend the Kinect when I never struggled to use it the same way everyone else struggles to coexist with it.
I’m kind of in the same boat. The Kinect I used was working perfectly fine. A few hiccups here and there, but nothing compared to all the horror stories on the internet
it depends on where you use it mine could work just hated dong its job
Dang, you made the game look like a good time, I wish I had an X box to play it.
“Magnum Opus”, Mawde says. Understatement of the century
The real 4/1 prank was saying equippeded again.
I fr love how the title frames the normal controls as if they were a challenge
The Kinect has the same problem as the wii where you just need to find the right ones with better sensors, my Kinect wasn't that good apparently.
Wow! Fantastic video! Love how you took this challenge seriously and efficiently explained everything for us. As someone with next to no understanding of this game it really helps having it simply explained!
Mawde: “Also, 50k and I’ll do [a challenge] for Bubsy 3D.”
Me: honestly, the challenge I’d want is more for rom hackers than players: can you make something tolerable or even fun using Bubsy 3D as your base game?
Bubsy 3D gets the Project 06 treatment.
You totally could... but it'd be a lot of work for not much pay off. Bubsy 3D is fundementally broken in most every way. The way Bubsy and the camera work in that game is truly atrocious and not at all accomedated by the level design so the game desperately wishes those were ironed out, but even with good controls the level design is a travesty. At best the level design is completely nonsensical and at worst it's actively punishing the player for daring to engage.
We could of course focus on making new levels that better work with the base controls and camera, but that's a hard sell because as mentioned they're awful and not fun to play with, and provide no real oppertunities for interesting level design, ex: the camera panning directly down when you jump forces every jump to be straight down or badly designed.
So what we end up with is that we'd need totally new controls, camera and new levels to make a game that isn't inherently unfun to play, and even then the theming would be garbage. Bubsy is painfully unfunny in Bubsy 3D, the graphics are... unfinished, and the sound is painful.
It would genuinely be easier and a better use of your time to make a Bubsy fan game from scratch then it would be to fix Bubsy 3D.
@@TheWrathAbove Yeah, probably not worth it. Definitely fun to say you could, though.
Incidentally, Rerez actually introduced a better target game for this sort of challenge/redemption hack thing: Phix the Adventure. Could’ve been a late PS1 curiosity, certainly has more starting value than Bubsy 3D, but it’s more broken than Sonic 06. Notably, while Bubsy 3D is a case of really being better off starting from scratch, Phix is more a case of “this might be worth someone’s time at least if someone went in and fixed…everything.” You’d know what I mean if you saw it.
The whole “swapping between normal and goofy stance swaps your rider ability” thing has me conflicted. On one hand, in general it’s a very “why would you do that” thing given the Kinect controls, because of course everyone would want to keep flipping their actual left and right to swap abilities as needed. On the other hand, it seems like something that would actually be pretty cool if you mastered it and pulled it all off flawlessly in a race, which is very much in the spirit of Sonic.
Came back to this and love it all over again, your videos are awesome mawde :D infinitely rewatchable
If you lean too far forward or backward, the connect thinks you left the play area.
Thank you for the video. You say this is an April Fools video, but I could not figure out how to play this game with the Kinect to save my life. Props to you for sticking with it.
Will watch ASAP.
Mawde,you willingly put yourself through one of the few games I had as a kid.
You absolute madman.
I got lucky. The Kinect I had was reading me perfectly fine 🤷♀️
I didn't even know there was a mod to play with a controller. Plus, even as an April Fool's joke, it was still informative. Well done.
Real title: is it possible to beat the game without hating it???
(This was one of my childhood games and with my too young mind I either just did casual races or only team heroes with my siblings. Eventually we chose to do the rest and I beat the whole game several times).
Honestly, this game is under appreciated. It has great stages with cool gimmicks and environments, graphics still look good today, all the characters take part in the story, and it takes a lot of mechanics from the first Riders game and simplified them only a little bit. Plus it has the most in depth tutorial mode.
16:33 BRO IS SHADOW FR FR
While the Kinect wasn’t really great I do find it a kind of funny that you have people nowadays obsessing over the idea of using their body/hands instead of a controller yet that’s literally what the Kinect did even though the tracking wasn’t the best at times like yes the Kinect was hated at the time but people hating on it nowadays is like hating on a car from the 2000s because it’s not as good as a car from the 2020s they do the same thing but one’s obviously better
the difference being, of course, that the 2000s car is the better one
Cheaper modern VR setups do actually use the kinect from what ive heard
It was honestly interesting to see that it's possible to beat the game with the kinect controls considering the reputation
ya know what, you are the greatest sonic the hedgehog player in all of history for this video
This game can be fun with a controller, but I wish this game in general had an option to turn off power-ups in the rules settings for racing where it's just pure racing where it feels realistic. Since I feel like the power-ups makes the AI easy, I wonder how tough the AI would be without power-ups? Don't get me wrong, power-ups are fun to use, but I usually like them off. I would love it if it had an option to turn off power-ups instead of using the invisible gear part to act like there's no power-ups.
Can’t for the riders and a zero gravity challenge one
Dude, I didn't even know that part. I'm glad I learned something new from this game😎
"Lets double down and go for all S ranks" **starts to get flashbacks to vector in the lava stage**
When beating a game the way the developers intended is considered a challenge, you get a sense of how horrible the game is.
Damn straight im not getting out of my $200 gaming chair.
I'm not gonna get that value by standing up now, am I?
But in all seriousness, I enjoyed this video.
somehow, this reminded me of an old video i saw on a, ahem, adult website.
the video shows someone using a device, where you stand on top of it, and shift your weight, to perform the equivalent of moving a directional control or joystick.
the funny part is that one of the players is tied up, wearing a "monoglove" style bondage device!
oh, and she's also dressed in a latex jumpsuit.
Can’t believe after so many years a plant was willing to sacrifice its sanity for this thank you on the behalf of humanity
So this is what hell looks like, ngl it’s about what I expected.
6:16 how is this all working? Do you live in a furnitureless void?
Metal Sonic's icon in this game will never not bother me.
Here's my question: Why on Earth is the main theme so ridiculously good?!
Happy April Fools Day. When it comes to this game, you definitely have lots of skills.
0:54 Closest thing to a face reveal.
The sheer amount of mods and fangames in the Sonic series is a testament to how almost everyone in the fan base is better at making Sonic games than Sega themselves.
its almost like not having inconsistent management and no crunch time/ expected released date means improvements in quality
As ethoslab would say “Grab your snacks!”
I’ve never wanted someone to have 50k subs so fast
Completely forgot you had a Patreon, let alone that I was supporting it. Whoops?
I pressed the like button until my fingers broke
I remember beating this game as a kid, actually.
But I didn't bother 100%ing it, admittedly.
The fact this would be a actual challenge because i sure as hell couldnt do this
I thought you were actually serious until i saw "April 1st"😂. I have beaten this game and even got all the S ranks and its actually pretty fun, sucks that everyone i saw online hated it because its more than playable imo.
Well, look at that. It is actually possible... Who could have thought.
Damn, I didn't know this game actually had tracks that weren't "go forward, you win"
The bike alone would make me want to play with a controller instead of Kinect.
I like how the only time there's a slight semblance of difficulty is when you're technically able to be lazy and sit down.
yeah the kinect worked perfectly fine.
it's easy to get used to if you use your whole body to turn and bend your knees.
and if you give yourself room for it to SEE you
I can’t wait for Bubsy 3D for the Kinect!
Still love this game, had tons of fun with the kinect.
Still wish I had more time with it 😢
I swear, I thought "Goofy" was just you saying stuff, until it popped on screen with Silver. How has this game not won GOTY. 🤣
This is just the first Riders's mission mode but with some story added in, I feel less bad that I never played this game now 😂
Of course I haven’t touched it in over a decade but when I got this game as an 11 year old I fucking loved it. Of course now that I’m older and graduated with a degree in game design I can see it’s faults but still doesn’t change the fact that I once had fun with it.
Making a 100 percent in this mode make me want to play the game again
The game actually looks pretty good for a 360 game, especially one centered around a gimmick peripheral.
You make this game look like it functions
I think I just got lucky with a good setup. I had a big, bright, open space to move around so I’m the Kinect must’ve had an easier time reading my actions compared to other people.
Nothing compared to all the horror stories I heard online
Not only is it POSSIBLE I 100% this game as a kid
really wish some of these stages and songs were in riders or zero gravity
Fun fact
Oddly enough despite never playing this game i have had a dream about the frozen forest half pipe in the mario and sonic Olympic games
It was also dawn but that's not important
This game actually looks fun
0:00 me when I find a funny plant with shark like teeth
Ngl that looks hella fun
2:08 sounds like a good way to pull something
14:10 six is underselling, that's an 8 in my book
nice aura sphere reference!
The april fools prank here was you thinking it was an april fools prank
As someone who played this game 100% i want my life back.....including all the bikes and boards.....
😂 Yeah, baby !! Best april fools day gift l could ask for !!
When the real challenge is just beating the game as intended, lol
I own Free Riders, and oh my god its really tiring....
Somehow this video made me want to play this on the 360
Welp, I’m off to make 35 thousand bot accounts so we can get that Bubsy 3D video lol
Great Video!
One day you’ll be able to sing the full song with a bunch of Patreon members🙏🏾
If it can eventually get to that point, it’d be the best thing ever