there's something poetic about after game grumps being some people's only exposure to this game and the "unavoidable chin move" see penny just obliterate it with ease
Yeah Arin was kind of... *awful* at actually learning how to play it. On Wii at least Black Knight controls *reasonably* well, and works great when you're playing as intended-storming forward, though I won't pretend the controls aren't very heavy when it comes to going backwards or sideways at low speed. If you get good at it you really can go through the levels pretty stylishly. It really is the kind of game that would only need a few small control improvements to run pretty well.
@@masterofthelag8414 I stopped watching game grumps cause arin would purposefully go out of his way to play the most unstable versions of the games (he has admitted to this) , purposefully refuse to learn or engage w the mechanics and then spend 4 episodes complaining that the game is horrible and shitty and you re a dumb idiot blind baby if you actually think the game is good he did the same w skyward sword, sonic unleashed, sonic adventure, sonic heroes, twilight princess, it becomes really really grating once you see it
[SPOILER WARNING, WALL OF TEXT WARNING] So I’ve actually been waiting for Penny to play this game, because I wanted to share something I realized a while ago. With SatBK being based on Arthurian myth, it got me thinking: how did Arthurian myth end? Well, working backwards, it pretty much ended with the battle of Camlann, which was part of a rebellion which was pretty much caused by the dissolution of the Knights of the Round Table. But what caused the Round Table to fall apart? Well, it was mostly about loyalties, but a big part of it was the affair between Arthur’s wife, Guinevere, and Lancelot. Who, may I ask, is Lancelot portrayed by in Sonic and the Black Knight? Shadow. Basically, what I’m trying to say is, I’ve come to make an announcement-
i love how Sonic and Cal are literally fighting the entire time but their relationship still isnt as toxic as sonic and chip in the unleashed play through
Cal is a honest aggravator, Chip is a fake friend with a equally fake friendly demeanor, which just makes him way worse Just to clarify, ITS A JOKE ABOUT A BIT
@@Fnafiac Silver has the excuse of time travel, and siblings are often within a few years of age so Jet and Blaze aren't really an issue, but Shadow has 50 years on Amy...
Sonic on the high seas would also go hard, sonic would be the cannonball spinball launching at eggbeard. Or maybe Beowulf, or maybe the epic of Gilgamesh (with less sex probably) and yes, feudal Japan would go hard
I’ve had literal fully-voiced dreams of Sonic in Wonderland where Cream’s the White Rabbit and Eggman is the wicked King of Hearts. I remember everyone else’s roles, too, I just wanted to give a brief example so I don’t clog the comments.
Lots of people gave this game shit for the tone and how “edgy” the Arthurian Legend stuff is. One of the bigger examples they point to being Gawain (not Knuckles!) attempting unalive after losing. Except that’s half the point of the story. It’s not simply “Arthurian Legend but Sonic’s there” like Secret Rings was with the Arabian Nights, it’s Sonic and his mindset conflicting with that of Arthurian Legend, showing how his view of heroism is different to that of the Knights, seeing it clash with the Knights code, and the fear of death that drove Merlina to do what she did. It really is the peakest version of Sonic’s character. The gameplay is definitely clunky and sore in some places, but the story was absolutely brilliant, the characterisations were incredible, and it 1000% didn’t deserve the hate it got.
Also, that scene of Gawain attempting to unalive himself was due to a misinterpretation from Japan’s side. They assumed the knights of the medieval times had a similar code to that of the samurai, hence they believed Gawain would do something like that
I actually cannot believe the answer to the iconic "unavoidable chin move," the bane of Arin Hanson's existence, was just: Jump Honestly, it was so refreshing to watch a playthrough by people who actually want to have fun playing a sonic game, thank you for this lol
@@isaacbear7115 theres moments like that, but he also crushes a lot of the souls games and games he enjoys. i think it has a lot to do with whether or not you actually enjoy playing and less so skill
@@honeynutbea I mean, there's a lot of moving parts. Yeah he's bad at video games outside his favorite games, that's fair. Also he's trying to be funny and talk to some one and us, that's another layer, and then he has to actually be listening and take in information, which he tends to miss because him and Dan are telling jokes about stuff not in the game. Plus Arin isn't the...best listener? Like I have ADHD so I can relate, same. Plus combine all that with gaps between sessions that can last a week or two, and he gets in lots of situations where he could easily solve it, but he forgot the mechanic needed and has been brute forcing his way through fine until this point, and now can't remember how the game actually works. Like Penny is playing this all in one go, and her bit isn't "I'm a grumpy dude who gets mad at the game lol", so it does show it's not the game's fault. Plus he plays up being mad at Sonic for the bit, it works, they get lots of views. But personally I really like listening to Penny and Mar having a legit good time! It really changes my opinion about this game. ^_^
2:02:00 I love how Mar talks about the stolen fanart controversy here and RIGHT AFTER compliments the stolen art because of its shoe design without knowing that was the one he was just talking about
Man, I wish Penny got to hear more of the dialogue during the final boss fight. That line from Sonic about not wanting to know her one-sided sadness hits so hard.
Read your comment and just went to go listen to the dialogue and, oh my god, that line is raw as hell! Holy shit! Goddamn! That's such an S-tier line, I wish they included in one of the cutscenes.
@@rachelthornton4442 The reason you didn't hear the line is because Penny beat Merlina too quickly. The line basically goes like this: Merlina: "You could never understand my sorrow at seeing the ruinous future of this kingdom." Sonic: "Good, 'cause I don't ever want to know such one-sided sadness." Caliburn: "Foolish wizard! You're willing to sacrifice countless others just to escape your own sorrow?!" It perfectly describes the problem with Merlina's worldview, and how her selfishness can be seen as a motive that is for the greater good instead of what it truly is underneath. I think that's why people will either meme or actually believe Sonic is being mean to her when he says a world that goes on forever is lame or that everything has it's end, as if he's just telling her to deal with it and not giving her encouragement to enjoy the now and that death gives meaning to life. If we are going to live forever anyways than what does it matter what we do? We'll run out of things to do, and live eternally stagnant and trapped, losing the beauty of life like a flower that never withers (hence Sonic giving Merlina the flower at the end).
2:32:34 The fact that sonic gets into it SPECIFICALLY for Percivals speech is so cool i cant even put it into words. Lancelot: Oi this guy. Gawain: Chill out man! Percival: NOW WERE GETTING SOMEWHERE! The fact that sonic is so willing to commit to his part for blaze even when heckling literally everybody else absolutely shows the huge amount of respect that he has for her specifically and its so fucking cool.
Their dynamic is so good and my favorite part of the Rush games also. It's pretty wack how unexplored it is on the games. Black Knight was spot on with the characterization in general.
Mar is so cool for that, I mean, it's a basic thing, but lots of people would simply spoil things because they feel like they need to tell you everything about the game, rather because they like the game a lot so they wanna share everything right away, because can't hold themselves, or because they're little gremlins who hate fun, but that would've taken away Penny's reaction which was like, SO WORTH IT, it was awesome 3:57:30
Just so y'all know, at 34:30, the Narcissus flower actually exists! It's just another name for a daffodil. When Narcissus died, the daffodil grew, and so it was named after him.
I think the best part of the Round Table knights is that they're all portrayed by Sonic's rival characters. Even in battle mode, Galahad and Lamorak are played by Silver and Jet respectively. It's REALLY cool.
2:02:20 fun thing about the fanart movies, one of them contains a piece by evan stanley, who went on to do official art for the franchise and has recently become the lead writer for the comics
And they made Ghosts of the future, a fancomic that got popular for good reason, you can even see the OCs from that comic cameo in the background it’s pretty cool, also seeing Evan’s art improve through time to where it is now is impressive
i played this game for the first time recently and when i saw evan stanley there i was like "THE SAME ONE???? *THE* EVAN STANLEY??" it was really cool to see fvsbfbk
Out of all the people I've seen play this game for the first time you guys are the best to watch you didn't laugh at every little thing Sonic said, you didn't complain about the controls, you didn't get stuck on the most simplest things and you flat out enjoy the game rather than just hate playing it or not taking it seriously because it's Sonic l,best blind playthrough 10/10
I love the cutscene where Sonic gets Caliburn because it reveals his role in the story of King Arthur: He's Mordred, Arthur's worst foe who mortally wounded him
i love the dynamic between Sonic and Caliburn here, especially in the early game. They have a fun back and forth snark that slowly grows warmer as you play the levels. Which is why i LOVE that they put dialogue in the levels, you dont see that often
The first cutscene is so impactful. Really just shows how hilariously out of place freaking Sonic the Hedgehog is in a game that looks like something out of Square Enix's catalog.
Shout out to sonic interrupting an attempted knuckles suicide by just going "dude why are you so serious?" Like his ass feels so out of place in this game on a story level and I genuinely love it
It's kind of magical to see the core fans celebrating all the games we called ass back in the day. Unleashed, Black Knight, '06... somehow these are now crowd favourites and I am here for that.
Idk if they say this in the VOD, but Tommy didn't actually make the songs he's credited for in this game. They're rearrangements of Todd Dennis' tracks from previous games Tallarico Studios worked on
@@WeAretheSevenNaw, there are a couple things, just not nearly as many as he himself claimed. It is kinda ironic that people now assume he didn't do anything whatsoever, destroying his legacy in the way he liked to destroy others'.
@@leowilliamson1573 Honestly? If the dude wanted to take credit for his employees' work via a confusing studio title, let people be confused the other way around and assume he did nothing with the studio's name on it. Only fair that his shitty practice gets him the same lack of credit.
I know it's a long shot, but I would love to see Penny and Mar go on a "Sonic Game Marathon" of sorts. They bounce off each other really well and actually have fun with the games! This video and the Unleashed playthrough are some of my fave videos to watch (I even listen to them as I fall asleep sometimes! They've practically become a comfort lol).
I keep forgetting this game has a morality system depending how well you do for each stage and the actions you do in the game, so certain things you do and don't do give you a medal in the followings page, the silver and gold medals are done when doing good deeds like say getting rid of the monsters and being careful with the civilians and save them, while the black obsidian crimson red metals are for doing things that are bad like leaving the civilians behind with the enemies who have them hostaged or even accidentally hitting them and not being careful.
This was the last game my Wii ran before a lightning stuck the plug and fried the console. A shame, really, it could've easily been avoided if I listened to mommy dearest and stopped playing during a thunderstorm.
As someone who's spent way too much time on this game in my childhood and came to realize just how much I love this game as a Sonic fan, it makes me happy to see another first-time experience of this game, especially from someone so incredibly fond of Sonic.
I got to meet Jason Griffith like a month ago at Weebcon and dude I was starstruck to hell and back, it was like meeting my hero. I don't know if I told him Black Knight is my favorite game he was in and his best performance but I hope I did. Dude was so cool to meet its insane.
i had to go back multiple times to hear what penny was saying after sonic christianity came up. twitch chat had me in stitches. i would kill for "sonic and the garden of gethsemane"
seeing Penny play and genuinely like this game brings me so much joy because I’ve been a diehard lover of Black Knight my whole life and it feels like nobody ever talks about it
Jason really nailed his Sonic voice by this time. Shame he couldn't have voiced the character longer. I grew up with him in Sonic X and the early 2000s. He still is my favorite actor to portray Sonic/Shadow.
Seeing Penny's experience with this game vs the Game Grumps' is really funny, especially with the Arthur fight Giddy excitement vs seething frustration and rage
Is Sonic’s line at 3:50:15 a Secret Rings reference? “Who was it who kept treating me like a rat again?” referencing Erazer constantly calling Sonic a “blue rat”?
I like to play your videos on the background when i do something, and everytime i hear you doing ANY impression i literally check the video and go "is it penny or character???" like i somehow forget you have a such a voice range lol, especially with sonic. you are sooooo talented girl
FUCKING YOOOOOO!!!! BLACK KNIGHT PLAYTHROUGH YIPPEEEE!! I love this game as a big fan of Sonic and King Arthur, add to that a SnapCube playthrough and I'm frolicking in Happy Land. Or, I guess frolicking in Avalon.
WHATS UP VODHEADS!!!!!!! 0:06 thanks for the near panic attack Mar. the pay off was worth it 20:23 FIRST CUTSCENE STARTS 2:56:47 SCREAMING 7:04:37 BEST REAL SONIC LINE IN THE GAYME LETS GOOOO 7:06:45 LETS FUCKING GOOOOO WHO NEEDS COFFEE? NOT ME!!
I discovered your channel with the Sonic Unleashed streams a few months ago and was so excited when you announced that you would be doing Black Knight. I'm two hours in and having an absolute blast!
VOD spoilers: Can't wait for Ellie to edit the channel outro prematurely into the video when the credits start to roll then cut it off in a comedic manner so as to indicate that the video isn’t really over!
2:11:43 imo its important to understand that when a creature in fiction is built for a specific purpose but also has sentience the most probable comparison is that it finds satisfaction in that purpose or they think of it the same way we think of walking
Oh OH THIS IS THE SHIT!!! I swear, this game is so special, it made me the local Arthurian Legends NERD for a while. It's one of those hidden gems of the Sonic games that got mostly forgotten because it came out during an awkward period, the control were kinda clunky and... well, it's more of a side game, really. Which doesn't mean that it's bad, mind you, but I suppose it did make a lot of people completely ignore it. Personally, I was in love with it. The Wii game of all times! And I will always gladly sit down and defend Sonic and the Black Knight with my whole heart! I totally missed this, but someone on Tumblr mentioned you played this game recently and I just had to come over and binge this entire vod lol Your commitment to playing the challenge levels and actually paying attention to the cutscenes made me insane, I love love love this! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Something that's probably already been said in these comments but I think its really cool that each of the Knights of the Round table (even Galahad and Lamorak, who I wish got to show up in the story) are all represented by characters who are meant to directly rival sonic
One of my biggest experiences with tonal whiplash in my life was listening to a big-ass playlist of Sonic boss music, and it went in order of game release dates. So I went from King Arthur's full vocal theme to the final boss theme in this game, and I was all like "damn, is Sonic and the Black Knight actually peak?" This was immediately followed by the stupid ass Sonic 4 boss theme, which was such a fucking jarring transition in both tone and quality that it actually knocked the wind out of me.
I played this game as a child and genuinely thought it ended after defeating King Arthur... All this time and I never knew it was only half the game....
I literally ran up to the closet family member and yelled “last night i said god wasnt real, well i take that back, he is real. Why? CAUSE MY FAVORITE STREAMER PLAYED SONIC AND THE BLACK KNIGHT FOR SEVEN HOURS AND IM BOUTA WATCH ALL OF THAT SHIT”
It’s my headcanon that Sir Perceval in this game’s context being Blaze the Cat, would be called “Ser” Perceval instead. Because “Ser” is a general neutral term that sounds like “sir” and meaning similar things.
0:10 ngl actually got scared as a vod head also interesting note here: obviously it seems like Merlina is supposed to be a stand in for merlin with her name and her being the king’s wizard, however she’s more so a mixture between Morgan la fay, a powerful fae sorcerer that in some stories helps Arthur, but in most she’s just there to try and stop or mess with him and Geneviuere looney toons style, and as well as Mordred, her son that helps and is a round table knight working for Arthur but eventually ends up betraying him to usurp the throne…despite the fact he’s yk, morgan and arthur’s son. the actual legend(s) is really weird.
After binging the edited Sonic Unleashed videos and adoring those, I now have such a conundrum of whether I want to watch these early or wait for the edited ones. It's a good problem to have.
I looked at this when I woke up today and thought "oh awesome, another sonic series with mar!" And then when I actually started watching it I was like "7 HOURS? YUMMY FOOD"
I recently modded that old Wii to have online functionality again, so I checked out the top 20 online leaderboard in Black Knight's Ranking mode after beating the game in a few hours. Turns out there's less than 20 people on some of the stages, so I could just slide onto the leaderboard for several of the stages at like #18 or something despite not being a very good speedrunner. There's also a couple of names that appear on nearly every stage's leaderboard, so looks like it's mostly the same handful of people who actually used the Ranking mode back in 2009-2014 before Nintendo shut down the Wii wi-fi servers (unless they modded their Wii like I did). Regardless, I'm now cemented in history as a top 20 Sonic and the Black Knight player, and that's all that really matters. 3:14:09 This part was an obscene pain actually using my Wii remote. I had to seriously commit the timing of each swing to muscle memory since the intervals between swings is different and very specific. It was utter hell through enduring a straight half hour of deaths, and that was after I actually figured out what I needed to do with the orbs and how to catch up to him via a guide.
I'm so distractable the moment penny was like "oh yeah I kinda wanna watch dungeon meshi" I paused this and then ended up watching the show and reading the entire manga before returning to this video, anyways sonic as a knight goes crazy
Watching penny struggle with that king Arthur boss fight reminded me of when I beat him. SO I never owned the game, I was visiting a friend, and they were playing it while I was visiting. They did everything to get to him, but they couldn't beat him. After watching for a while, they asked if I wanted to try and I hadn't played before but I was like you know what sure. ANYWAYYY perfect hit is real and I beat him in less than 10 mins once I figured some things out lmao my friend was so upset this has brought back some good times 😂❤ thanks penny and Mar!
Fun fact, when i was an autistic 12 year old... holy shit that was half my life ago... Anyways, when i was a 12 vyear old, one of the characters i wanted to play for D&D was sonic, the DM actually decided it would be an interesting idea, but put mye on a bit of an assignment. Play a bunch of sonic games. That was my main exposure to Black Knight actually. Because i decided to get it along some other budget sonic games by trading in some stuff at the local game store(videogame wizards or smth) and got it for pretty cheap. I was so confused on why family around me were heckling the shit out of it because i was having a hell of a fun time. Not going to lie sonic having the idea of "do right even if it makes you look bad" has been a core memory to me and im so glad the story holds up because of it. (also this game lives rent free in my head whenever i think of writing fanfic because the first thing i think of is Blazes version of the storybook series where shes a witch. The sol dimension has so much potential and im still mad blaze doesnt have nearly as much development and conflict with her a princess vs her as a hero)
I really hope this vod becomes a video but until then, I am going to enjoy greatly this vod. I've always wanted to see a playthrough of this game because it looks so sick
What surprises me now is that Galahad and Lamorak are unlockable in battle mode despite not appearing in the story (not even in the postgame, the superboss is a Lancelot rematch). Meanwhile, Mordred isn't despite being mentioned by Merlina.
I happened to watch season two of Vinland Saga in between watching parts of this video, and after all of the Jason Griffith love, I was delighted to hear his fantastic performance as Snake in that show. he really is super talented and I want him to do more work.
I do love how this game used Sonic's ADHD and not listening to exposition as a plot point
Truly incredible
Does he actually have that or is that just a joke amongst the community?
@@JoeyTheMinionNot a joke, more an interpretation by the fans. There's a looot he does that is very relatable to us neurodivergent fans haha
That's why I liked Prime, that whole show would've been 5 minutes long if sonic just took his adderall when shadow told him to
there's something poetic about after game grumps being some people's only exposure to this game and the "unavoidable chin move" see penny just obliterate it with ease
I was pogging the whole time
Yeah Arin was kind of... *awful* at actually learning how to play it. On Wii at least Black Knight controls *reasonably* well, and works great when you're playing as intended-storming forward, though I won't pretend the controls aren't very heavy when it comes to going backwards or sideways at low speed. If you get good at it you really can go through the levels pretty stylishly. It really is the kind of game that would only need a few small control improvements to run pretty well.
@@masterofthelag8414 I stopped watching game grumps cause arin would purposefully go out of his way to play the most unstable versions of the games (he has admitted to this) , purposefully refuse to learn or engage w the mechanics and then spend 4 episodes complaining that the game is horrible and shitty and you re a dumb idiot blind baby if you actually think the game is good
he did the same w skyward sword, sonic unleashed, sonic adventure, sonic heroes, twilight princess, it becomes really really grating once you see it
It's almost like Game Grumps is bad.
@@djoshawott2850They have their audience. Though I do wish some games they played were given some more practice or patience.
[SPOILER WARNING, WALL OF TEXT WARNING]
So I’ve actually been waiting for Penny to play this game, because I wanted to share something I realized a while ago. With SatBK being based on Arthurian myth, it got me thinking: how did Arthurian myth end? Well, working backwards, it pretty much ended with the battle of Camlann, which was part of a rebellion which was pretty much caused by the dissolution of the Knights of the Round Table. But what caused the Round Table to fall apart? Well, it was mostly about loyalties, but a big part of it was the affair between Arthur’s wife, Guinevere, and Lancelot. Who, may I ask, is Lancelot portrayed by in Sonic and the Black Knight? Shadow.
Basically, what I’m trying to say is, I’ve come to make an announcement-
I read all this interesting lesson on Arthurian Myths
just to learn that shadow pissed on Eggmans wife and had an affair with Arthurs'
SHADOW THE HEDGEHOG IS A-
SHADOW THE HEDGEHOG IS A-
what kind of INCREDIBLE coincidence is this?
Eggman is Guinevere in the black knight universe. Only possible conclusion.
i love how Sonic and Cal are literally fighting the entire time but their relationship still isnt as toxic as sonic and chip in the unleashed play through
Cal is a honest aggravator, Chip is a fake friend with a equally fake friendly demeanor, which just makes him way worse
Just to clarify, ITS A JOKE ABOUT A BIT
@@2bdaqueen268Did I miss something?
Since when was chip a fake friend?
@@anxhelovucinaj1576 that's what I'm saying!
@@anxhelovucinaj1576 the joke is based on the bits Penny and Mar make while voicing the characters
@@hopscotch1049 .........That has to be one of the dumbest reasons for saying their friendship is toxic like what?
Amy being Shadow's mom, Silver being Shadow's son, and Jet being Blaze's brother is weird to think about...
Yeah. They seem like they're all around the same age
Not as weird as Shadow is going to fuck Sonic's wife.
So is the fact that Shadow is going to fu€k sonic's wife.
@@Fnafiac Silver has the excuse of time travel, and siblings are often within a few years of age so Jet and Blaze aren't really an issue, but Shadow has 50 years on Amy...
is that the game canon? goofy
When you guys mentioned a third Sonic storybook game, my immediate thought was Sonic in feudal Japan, not Sonic in the fucking Bible LMAOOO
Sonic on the high seas would also go hard, sonic would be the cannonball spinball launching at eggbeard. Or maybe Beowulf, or maybe the epic of Gilgamesh (with less sex probably) and yes, feudal Japan would go hard
I’ve had literal fully-voiced dreams of Sonic in Wonderland where Cream’s the White Rabbit and Eggman is the wicked King of Hearts. I remember everyone else’s roles, too, I just wanted to give a brief example so I don’t clog the comments.
Sonic: Y'know, I'm surprised no-one has thought about trying to redeem people AFTER they die.
Nah sonic and the journey to the west
@@loganwernicke7604 Who's stronger, Archie Sonic or OG Wukong?
Lots of people gave this game shit for the tone and how “edgy” the Arthurian Legend stuff is. One of the bigger examples they point to being Gawain (not Knuckles!) attempting unalive after losing.
Except that’s half the point of the story. It’s not simply “Arthurian Legend but Sonic’s there” like Secret Rings was with the Arabian Nights, it’s Sonic and his mindset conflicting with that of Arthurian Legend, showing how his view of heroism is different to that of the Knights, seeing it clash with the Knights code, and the fear of death that drove Merlina to do what she did. It really is the peakest version of Sonic’s character.
The gameplay is definitely clunky and sore in some places, but the story was absolutely brilliant, the characterisations were incredible, and it 1000% didn’t deserve the hate it got.
Sonic in Unleashed and Black Knight is peak character
Also, that scene of Gawain attempting to unalive himself was due to a misinterpretation from Japan’s side. They assumed the knights of the medieval times had a similar code to that of the samurai, hence they believed Gawain would do something like that
Fucking love how the blacksmith theme is a bardcore version of Tails' SA1 theme
I actually cannot believe the answer to the iconic "unavoidable chin move," the bane of Arin Hanson's existence, was just: Jump
Honestly, it was so refreshing to watch a playthrough by people who actually want to have fun playing a sonic game, thank you for this lol
Arin is legit bad at video games.
@@isaacbear7115 theres moments like that, but he also crushes a lot of the souls games and games he enjoys. i think it has a lot to do with whether or not you actually enjoy playing and less so skill
I have to assume it’s just harder to jump with the motion controls or something
@@honeynutbea I mean, there's a lot of moving parts. Yeah he's bad at video games outside his favorite games, that's fair. Also he's trying to be funny and talk to some one and us, that's another layer, and then he has to actually be listening and take in information, which he tends to miss because him and Dan are telling jokes about stuff not in the game.
Plus Arin isn't the...best listener? Like I have ADHD so I can relate, same.
Plus combine all that with gaps between sessions that can last a week or two, and he gets in lots of situations where he could easily solve it, but he forgot the mechanic needed and has been brute forcing his way through fine until this point, and now can't remember how the game actually works.
Like Penny is playing this all in one go, and her bit isn't "I'm a grumpy dude who gets mad at the game lol", so it does show it's not the game's fault.
Plus he plays up being mad at Sonic for the bit, it works, they get lots of views.
But personally I really like listening to Penny and Mar having a legit good time! It really changes my opinion about this game. ^_^
@@isaacbear7115☝️🤓
Sonic on the cross, stabbed by Longinus and rings come out of him
Knuckles slicing off eggmans ear as they take sonic to Golgotha hill zone
@@josiahws5Shadow jumping down a well after collecting his 30 pieces of silver
Shaka when the walls fell?
Pontius Eggman orders the crucifixion as ususal
2:02:00 I love how Mar talks about the stolen fanart controversy here and RIGHT AFTER compliments the stolen art because of its shoe design without knowing that was the one he was just talking about
Man, I wish Penny got to hear more of the dialogue during the final boss fight. That line from Sonic about not wanting to know her one-sided sadness hits so hard.
Read your comment and just went to go listen to the dialogue and, oh my god, that line is raw as hell! Holy shit! Goddamn! That's such an S-tier line, I wish they included in one of the cutscenes.
@@just1randomguy658 All the dialogue in this game truly is peak Sonic characterization it's so good!
I watched the fight back and I couldn’t find it anywhere! What’s the line?
@@rachelthornton4442 The reason you didn't hear the line is because Penny beat Merlina too quickly. The line basically goes like this:
Merlina: "You could never understand my sorrow at seeing the ruinous future of this kingdom."
Sonic: "Good, 'cause I don't ever want to know such one-sided sadness."
Caliburn: "Foolish wizard! You're willing to sacrifice countless others just to escape your own sorrow?!"
It perfectly describes the problem with Merlina's worldview, and how her selfishness can be seen as a motive that is for the greater good instead of what it truly is underneath. I think that's why people will either meme or actually believe Sonic is being mean to her when he says a world that goes on forever is lame or that everything has it's end, as if he's just telling her to deal with it and not giving her encouragement to enjoy the now and that death gives meaning to life. If we are going to live forever anyways than what does it matter what we do? We'll run out of things to do, and live eternally stagnant and trapped, losing the beauty of life like a flower that never withers (hence Sonic giving Merlina the flower at the end).
1:53:11 "Shadow flies now? He flies now!"
man, little did they know
2:32:34 The fact that sonic gets into it SPECIFICALLY for Percivals speech is so cool i cant even put it into words.
Lancelot: Oi this guy.
Gawain: Chill out man!
Percival: NOW WERE GETTING SOMEWHERE!
The fact that sonic is so willing to commit to his part for blaze even when heckling literally everybody else absolutely shows the huge amount of respect that he has for her specifically and its so fucking cool.
Their dynamic is so good and my favorite part of the Rush games also. It's pretty wack how unexplored it is on the games. Black Knight was spot on with the characterization in general.
When they were talking about Sonic & The Bible, I'm VERY surprised neither of them said Sonic and the Ten Commandments LMAO
Sonic and The Plagues of Egypt
Sonic and the 12 Disciples
Sonic and the deadly sins.
DONT TELL ME THIS IS REAL
@@fivetopoint God, I wish it was
Mar’s absolute silence at 44:14 because he doesn’t wanna spoil it is deafening
Mar is so cool for that, I mean, it's a basic thing, but lots of people would simply spoil things because they feel like they need to tell you everything about the game, rather because they like the game a lot so they wanna share everything right away, because can't hold themselves, or because they're little gremlins who hate fun, but that would've taken away Penny's reaction which was like, SO WORTH IT, it was awesome 3:57:30
You can literally hear Mar holding his breath. XD
I was cackling so much
i love Mar SO MUCH
2:11:45 one of my favorite things about Penny is that sometimes she will just casually say the most beautiful sentence you’ve ever heard in your life
You aren't kidding goddamn
Just so y'all know, at 34:30, the Narcissus flower actually exists! It's just another name for a daffodil. When Narcissus died, the daffodil grew, and so it was named after him.
They are called Narcises in at least a few world languages
I think the best part of the Round Table knights is that they're all portrayed by Sonic's rival characters. Even in battle mode, Galahad and Lamorak are played by Silver and Jet respectively. It's REALLY cool.
1:40:43 for the most insane cutscene ever put in a Sonic game
Holy shit I forgot about that scene! I haven't touched this game since it came out.
I FUCKING KNEW THIS WOULD BE THE GAWAIN SUICIDE CUTSCENE
The medieval knight thinks he’s a samurai lmao
despite this forever being my favorite sonic game since i was a kid, i completely forgot this cutscene and lost my mind seeing it
I was obsessed with this cutscene as a kid. Maybe more than I should have been 😂
Jason's last performance as Sonic before Sega-Sammy pulled a corporation.
4kids contract expiration moment
And his one of only two good performances! (No hate to Jason but it took him many years to actually settle into the role tbh)
That’s fucking hilarious
@@Meme_Lorbut he was *so* good when he made it
2:02:20 fun thing about the fanart movies, one of them contains a piece by evan stanley, who went on to do official art for the franchise and has recently become the lead writer for the comics
And they made Ghosts of the future, a fancomic that got popular for good reason, you can even see the OCs from that comic cameo in the background it’s pretty cool, also seeing Evan’s art improve through time to where it is now is impressive
i played this game for the first time recently and when i saw evan stanley there i was like "THE SAME ONE???? *THE* EVAN STANLEY??" it was really cool to see fvsbfbk
Love how the two dragons in this game are meant to be the Arthurian versions of Chaos and the Biolizard
OH MY GOD
Woah wait!! This is one of my fav sonic games and i never realized this!!! Ty for pointing that out haha
Fun fact: this was my first sonic game and I was SO confused when I played my second
Which was your second?
tell us the second
What's the 2nd one?
Out of all the people I've seen play this game for the first time you guys are the best to watch you didn't laugh at every little thing Sonic said, you didn't complain about the controls, you didn't get stuck on the most simplest things and you flat out enjoy the game rather than just hate playing it or not taking it seriously because it's Sonic l,best blind playthrough 10/10
I love the cutscene where Sonic gets Caliburn because it reveals his role in the story of King Arthur: He's Mordred, Arthur's worst foe who mortally wounded him
he's arthurs incest baby!?
Mordred didn't take Excalibur/Caliburn. He took Clarent.
@@AlexaRobin21 clarent also happens to be what the sword sonic wields in those couple of levels before he gets caliburn is called as being
If we ever get another Sonic Storybook....cowboy sonic. GIVE HIM A GUN AND A COWBOY HAT
howdy, faker!
@@deniedred
That blue varmint again, of all places
@@crimsonking5986 talk about a bargain horse, no chow or film? i’m outta here! i like runnin’ better!
i love the dynamic between Sonic and Caliburn here, especially in the early game. They have a fun back and forth snark that slowly grows warmer as you play the levels. Which is why i LOVE that they put dialogue in the levels, you dont see that often
The first cutscene is so impactful. Really just shows how hilariously out of place freaking Sonic the Hedgehog is in a game that looks like something out of Square Enix's catalog.
Shout out to sonic interrupting an attempted knuckles suicide by just going "dude why are you so serious?" Like his ass feels so out of place in this game on a story level and I genuinely love it
3:57:54 “see you next week vodheads” … IS WHAT I WOULD SAY
It's kind of magical to see the core fans celebrating all the games we called ass back in the day. Unleashed, Black Knight, '06... somehow these are now crowd favourites and I am here for that.
Time moves in one direction and more recent additions to the sonic fanbase have never had it good
06’s reputation is still mixed at best
@@biodock2003 06 is kinda beloved because it's a janky mess with zero coherence tbh
@@defeatstatistics7413 it can be fun at times but it’s also pretty fucking bad overall let’s not kid ourselves
Shadow The Hedgehog
THE SCFREAM I JUST SCRUMPT. MY AUTISTIC HEART IS GOING TO EXPLODE AHHHH
using that past-tense form of scream from now on
Idk if they say this in the VOD, but Tommy didn't actually make the songs he's credited for in this game. They're rearrangements of Todd Dennis' tracks from previous games Tallarico Studios worked on
I don't think Tommy Tallarico has ever been personally responsible for creating literally anything he's taken credit for lol
@@WeAretheSevenNaw, there are a couple things, just not nearly as many as he himself claimed. It is kinda ironic that people now assume he didn't do anything whatsoever, destroying his legacy in the way he liked to destroy others'.
@@WeAretheSeven i think the closest is the charge beam sound from metroid prime 1, but even then that ended up being replaced swiftly
@@WeAretheSeven but he was the first ever American to ever work on a sonic game!! His mother is very proud of him 😊
@@leowilliamson1573 Honestly? If the dude wanted to take credit for his employees' work via a confusing studio title, let people be confused the other way around and assume he did nothing with the studio's name on it. Only fair that his shitty practice gets him the same lack of credit.
Literally the contrast of ps2 unleashed and this is hilarious. This is just 7 hours of them geeking out.
I know it's a long shot, but I would love to see Penny and Mar go on a "Sonic Game Marathon" of sorts. They bounce off each other really well and actually have fun with the games! This video and the Unleashed playthrough are some of my fave videos to watch (I even listen to them as I fall asleep sometimes! They've practically become a comfort lol).
samesies!!!
I keep forgetting this game has a morality system depending how well you do for each stage and the actions you do in the game, so certain things you do and don't do give you a medal in the followings page, the silver and gold medals are done when doing good deeds like say getting rid of the monsters and being careful with the civilians and save them, while the black obsidian crimson red metals are for doing things that are bad like leaving the civilians behind with the enemies who have them hostaged or even accidentally hitting them and not being careful.
oh man, the fact that penny beat the dragon WITHOUT tipping the pillar on the dragon's head is SUCH a gamer move. she's gaming
that second king arthur boss walled the fuck out of me as a kid
I got stuck on a level where I kept getting petrified and died
I felt so accomplished beating him and seeing those credits for the first time.
I remember getting so mad as kid I dropped the game, then finally deciding to finish it 1 year later, only to find out that wasn't the last boss 💀
(Sonic Voice) Wow, when they said I'd be crucified I just thought I'd get a talking to!
This was the last game my Wii ran before a lightning stuck the plug and fried the console. A shame, really, it could've easily been avoided if I listened to mommy dearest and stopped playing during a thunderstorm.
she couldve just gotten surge protectors 😭
Don't mind me, just some of my favorite moments.
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57:10 Mar Katoto caught live 4K down bad for SpongeBread
As someone who's spent way too much time on this game in my childhood and came to realize just how much I love this game as a Sonic fan, it makes me happy to see another first-time experience of this game, especially from someone so incredibly fond of Sonic.
So excited to see her reaction to the Merlina final confrontation. And KNIGHT Blaze
Hellboy: You good?
Merlina: No.
It’s crazy that Tommy Tallarico made this entire game himself! No wonder he was on MTV Cribs multiple times!
His mother is very proud
He was the first American to kiss sonic
"Sonic king arthur that sounds fun"
22:09 *realizes this means I'll have to hear british people*
We're eating good TOOONIIGHT
It’s noon for me, which means I’m having a good brunch today.
YEAAUHH
of course she’s eating
@@fiblz5443green aura with flies
@@ArlieMeadow what does this mean
51:00 Her little “yay! :)” gives me life
this was actually my full first experience with the game and its actually peak, having penny and mars commentary made it so much fun :>
I got to meet Jason Griffith like a month ago at Weebcon and dude I was starstruck to hell and back, it was like meeting my hero.
I don't know if I told him Black Knight is my favorite game he was in and his best performance but I hope I did. Dude was so cool to meet its insane.
i had to go back multiple times to hear what penny was saying after sonic christianity came up. twitch chat had me in stitches. i would kill for "sonic and the garden of gethsemane"
Shadow would 100% be Judas Iscariot
@@Vanity0666 ok but consider: eggman as judas is very funny
Sonic and Gomorrah
It was such a good time watching Live Penny playing the game that made Sonic The Hedgehog one of my favorite protagonists ever.
Mar saying "look up at the sky" randomly after Penny just finished rebirth is HILARIOUS
Mar is such a supportive person to play games with
Everytime they call sonic "knave", I just imagine sonic dressed as Arlecchino from genshin impact.
Lmao
seeing Penny play and genuinely like this game brings me so much joy because I’ve been a diehard lover of Black Knight my whole life and it feels like nobody ever talks about it
Jason really nailed his Sonic voice by this time. Shame he couldn't have voiced the character longer. I grew up with him in Sonic X and the early 2000s. He still is my favorite actor to portray Sonic/Shadow.
Seeing Penny's experience with this game vs the Game Grumps' is really funny, especially with the Arthur fight
Giddy excitement vs seething frustration and rage
Is Sonic’s line at 3:50:15 a Secret Rings reference?
“Who was it who kept treating me like a rat again?” referencing Erazer constantly calling Sonic a “blue rat”?
I like to play your videos on the background when i do something, and everytime i hear you doing ANY impression i literally check the video and go "is it penny or character???" like i somehow forget you have a such a voice range lol, especially with sonic. you are sooooo talented girl
FUCKING YOOOOOO!!!! BLACK KNIGHT PLAYTHROUGH YIPPEEEE!! I love this game as a big fan of Sonic and King Arthur, add to that a SnapCube playthrough and I'm frolicking in Happy Land.
Or, I guess frolicking in Avalon.
WHATS UP VODHEADS!!!!!!!
0:06 thanks for the near panic attack Mar. the pay off was worth it
20:23 FIRST CUTSCENE STARTS
2:56:47 SCREAMING
7:04:37 BEST REAL SONIC LINE IN THE GAYME LETS GOOOO
7:06:45 LETS FUCKING GOOOOO WHO NEEDS COFFEE? NOT ME!!
YOU KNOW
EVERY WORLD WILL HAVE IT'S END
IM HERE
TO PROVE IT ALL TO YOU
I AM
WHO YOU DON'T THINK I AM
I discovered your channel with the Sonic Unleashed streams a few months ago and was so excited when you announced that you would be doing Black Knight. I'm two hours in and having an absolute blast!
VOD spoilers:
Can't wait for Ellie to edit the channel outro prematurely into the video when the credits start to roll then cut it off in a comedic manner so as to indicate that the video isn’t really over!
2:11:43 imo its important to understand that when a creature in fiction is built for a specific purpose but also has sentience the most probable comparison is that it finds satisfaction in that purpose or they think of it the same way we think of walking
3:25:02 Mar’s imitation of sonic’s scream somehow also perfectly mimics the singer right before
Oh OH THIS IS THE SHIT!!!
I swear, this game is so special, it made me the local Arthurian Legends NERD for a while. It's one of those hidden gems of the Sonic games that got mostly forgotten because it came out during an awkward period, the control were kinda clunky and... well, it's more of a side game, really. Which doesn't mean that it's bad, mind you, but I suppose it did make a lot of people completely ignore it. Personally, I was in love with it. The Wii game of all times! And I will always gladly sit down and defend Sonic and the Black Knight with my whole heart!
I totally missed this, but someone on Tumblr mentioned you played this game recently and I just had to come over and binge this entire vod lol
Your commitment to playing the challenge levels and actually paying attention to the cutscenes made me insane, I love love love this! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Something that's probably already been said in these comments but I think its really cool that each of the Knights of the Round table (even Galahad and Lamorak, who I wish got to show up in the story) are all represented by characters who are meant to directly rival sonic
I saw the notification when Penny went live for this one, but wasn’t free to join. So glad we have the vod up now! ♡
One of my biggest experiences with tonal whiplash in my life was listening to a big-ass playlist of Sonic boss music, and it went in order of game release dates. So I went from King Arthur's full vocal theme to the final boss theme in this game, and I was all like "damn, is Sonic and the Black Knight actually peak?"
This was immediately followed by the stupid ass Sonic 4 boss theme, which was such a fucking jarring transition in both tone and quality that it actually knocked the wind out of me.
I played this game as a child and genuinely thought it ended after defeating King Arthur... All this time and I never knew it was only half the game....
1:41:20 I just imagine Sonic getting fired from the hotline with:
"Acts of chivalry: 0"
Vodheads promotion? We have an entire vodbody now
vody?
I literally ran up to the closet family member and yelled “last night i said god wasnt real, well i take that back, he is real. Why? CAUSE MY FAVORITE STREAMER PLAYED SONIC AND THE BLACK KNIGHT FOR SEVEN HOURS AND IM BOUTA WATCH ALL OF THAT SHIT”
It’s my headcanon that Sir Perceval in this game’s context being Blaze the Cat, would be called “Ser” Perceval instead. Because “Ser” is a general neutral term that sounds like “sir” and meaning similar things.
0:10 ngl actually got scared as a vod head
also interesting note here: obviously it seems like Merlina is supposed to be a stand in for merlin with her name and her being the king’s wizard, however she’s more so a mixture between Morgan la fay, a powerful fae sorcerer that in some stories helps Arthur, but in most she’s just there to try and stop or mess with him and Geneviuere looney toons style, and as well as Mordred, her son that helps and is a round table knight working for Arthur but eventually ends up betraying him to usurp the throne…despite the fact he’s yk, morgan and arthur’s son. the actual legend(s) is really weird.
Never gonna get rid of the implication that the legend of King Arthur is basically Looney Toons
I always found it weird Lancelot didn’t have a cutscene after you beat him. Unless it was cut for being darker than Gawain’s post-fight cutscene lol.
I love that you played that one shrouded forest level as shadow, continuing his track record of getting his mind messed with
After binging the edited Sonic Unleashed videos and adoring those, I now have such a conundrum of whether I want to watch these early or wait for the edited ones. It's a good problem to have.
I looked at this when I woke up today and thought "oh awesome, another sonic series with mar!" And then when I actually started watching it I was like "7 HOURS? YUMMY FOOD"
nothing, and i mean NOTHING, could have prepared me for sword mar, i had to do a spit take when i realized
SPOILERS:
7:07:12 sonic gets a magical girl transformation sequence and I am HERE FOR IT!!!!!!!
I recently modded that old Wii to have online functionality again, so I checked out the top 20 online leaderboard in Black Knight's Ranking mode after beating the game in a few hours. Turns out there's less than 20 people on some of the stages, so I could just slide onto the leaderboard for several of the stages at like #18 or something despite not being a very good speedrunner. There's also a couple of names that appear on nearly every stage's leaderboard, so looks like it's mostly the same handful of people who actually used the Ranking mode back in 2009-2014 before Nintendo shut down the Wii wi-fi servers (unless they modded their Wii like I did). Regardless, I'm now cemented in history as a top 20 Sonic and the Black Knight player, and that's all that really matters.
3:14:09 This part was an obscene pain actually using my Wii remote. I had to seriously commit the timing of each swing to muscle memory since the intervals between swings is different and very specific. It was utter hell through enduring a straight half hour of deaths, and that was after I actually figured out what I needed to do with the orbs and how to catch up to him via a guide.
It's weird how much I like Knight Blaze's/Sir Percival's design.
I'm so distractable the moment penny was like "oh yeah I kinda wanna watch dungeon meshi" I paused this and then ended up watching the show and reading the entire manga before returning to this video, anyways sonic as a knight goes crazy
0:00 Penny’s Reaction to Every Character Now Playable 3:57:00 3:57:01 3:57:02 3:57:03 3:57:04 3:57:05 3:57:06 3:57:07 3:57:08 3:57:09 3:57:10 3:57:11 3:57:12 3:57:13 3:57:14 3:57:15 3:57:16 3:57:17 3:57:18 3:57:19 3:57:20 3:57:21 3:57:22 3:57:23 3:57:24 3:57:25 3:57:26 3:57:27 3:57:28 3:57:29 3:57:30 3:57:31 3:57:32 3:57:33 3:57:34 3:57:35 3:57:36 3:57:37 3:57:38 3:57:39 3:57:40 3:57:41 3:57:42 3:57:43 3:57:44 3:57:45 3:57:46 3:57:47 3:57:48 3:57:49 3:57:50
1:41:40 "perfect hit tutorial? wow, this tutorial is perfect!" why is this funny lmao
Sonic and the black knight is pretty awesome when you don’t have someone screaming in your ear that it sucks
Watching penny struggle with that king Arthur boss fight reminded me of when I beat him.
SO I never owned the game, I was visiting a friend, and they were playing it while I was visiting. They did everything to get to him, but they couldn't beat him. After watching for a while, they asked if I wanted to try and I hadn't played before but I was like you know what sure. ANYWAYYY perfect hit is real and I beat him in less than 10 mins once I figured some things out lmao my friend was so upset
this has brought back some good times 😂❤ thanks penny and Mar!
4:58:54 and then Shadow did the Akira slide in the Sonic Movie 3 trailer and it was cool :]
Man, I love it when people gush about a game that I really, really like
It's so cool seeing Penny playing the game made by the first American :)
I JUST GOT DONE REWATCHING THE SONIC UNLEASHED PLAYTHROUGH AAAAAAA thank you penny and mar :)
Fun fact, when i was an autistic 12 year old... holy shit that was half my life ago...
Anyways, when i was a 12 vyear old, one of the characters i wanted to play for D&D was sonic, the DM actually decided it would be an interesting idea, but put mye on a bit of an assignment. Play a bunch of sonic games.
That was my main exposure to Black Knight actually. Because i decided to get it along some other budget sonic games by trading in some stuff at the local game store(videogame wizards or smth) and got it for pretty cheap. I was so confused on why family around me were heckling the shit out of it because i was having a hell of a fun time.
Not going to lie sonic having the idea of "do right even if it makes you look bad" has been a core memory to me and im so glad the story holds up because of it.
(also this game lives rent free in my head whenever i think of writing fanfic because the first thing i think of is Blazes version of the storybook series where shes a witch. The sol dimension has so much potential and im still mad blaze doesnt have nearly as much development and conflict with her a princess vs her as a hero)
I really hope this vod becomes a video but until then, I am going to enjoy greatly this vod. I've always wanted to see a playthrough of this game because it looks so sick
i love it when penny just goes WOOOAA!!! in so much whimsy
As a long time Sonic and the Black Knight fan watching Penny falling in love with this game is the best thing.
What surprises me now is that Galahad and Lamorak are unlockable in battle mode despite not appearing in the story (not even in the postgame, the superboss is a Lancelot rematch). Meanwhile, Mordred isn't despite being mentioned by Merlina.
I happened to watch season two of Vinland Saga in between watching parts of this video, and after all of the Jason Griffith love, I was delighted to hear his fantastic performance as Snake in that show. he really is super talented and I want him to do more work.