Here I come, rougher than the rest of them, the best of them, tougher than leather. You can call me Knuckles, unlike Sonic I don't chuckle. I'd rather flex my muscles. I'm hard as nails, it ain't hard to tell, I break 'em down whether they solid or frail. Unlike the rest I'm independent since my first breath, first test, feel the right, than the worst left. Born on an island in the heavens, the blood of my ancestors flows inside me. My duty is to save the flower, from evil deterioration! I will be the one to set your heart free true, cleanse yourself of them evil spirits that's in you. Streaking lights, loud sounds, and instincts, are the elements that keep me going. I am fighting my own mission, nothing's gonna stand in my way!
Here I come, rougher than Knuckles The best of them, tougher than Knuckles You can call me Knuckles, unlike Knuckles I don't chuckle I'd rather flex my Knuckles I'm hard as Knuckles, it ain't hard to chuckle I break 'em down whether they're Knuckles or Knuckles Unlike Knuckles I'm independent since my first chuckle First Knuckles, feel the Knuckles, than the Knuckle chuckle
@@callmezeldaonemoartime TASes still have players. It's not like an AI was coded to do every level perfectly. TAS means tool-assisted. It could be anything from slowing the game down and using savestates to programming a macro that does everything perfectly.
There is something very amusing about the tas coming from a stand still to a full speed in seconds, and also how it gently passes over the syringes in chemical plant. Great stuff
In a theoretical sense, it would make sense for Knuckles to reach this.level of speed like with the movie adaptations. He's trained on angel island for who knows how long, meaning his strength isn't just for his fists. Clearly he's got excellent leg muscle if he were to move at the speeds he can go in this speed run.
Originally knuckles was always fast. He was the 2nd fastest in the series second only to sonic until people like shadow showed up then they made him irrelevant to sonic and not only made him dumber but slower as well. Knuckles could in fact keep up with sonic but couldn't surpass him at max speed. However ppl say knuckles is as strong as sonic is fast and if that's true knuckles should just be as fast as sonic if running with his strength
@@brokenman4414 Where was that official stated? It may not be canon but I've seen sonic use his arms to make mini twisters in comics and sonic x irrc. If he could use his arms in that matter than so can knuckles use his legs. Sonic is a force of pure speed. Knuckles is strength. Say for whereas sonic could vibrate through matter with just speed alone, knuckles can't do that. However knuckles should be able to use his strength to be able move at a higher speed whereas sonic is that speed.
Knuckles' leg muscles aren't as strong as Sonics, which is why he's always had a lower maximum jump height than sonic and tails in the games. Made it a pain in the arse to play Knuckles in Sonic 2 back in the day because the game wasn't designed around that too low jump height, like I remember it made it impossible to beat the final boss robot in death egg zone because of the method I'd come up with for it. The method didn't work with knuckles cos his jump wasn't high enough. So I had to change the whole method. It seemed like I was using quite a bad method anyway compared to how most people defeat the robot, but I was only 7, so it was upsetting to me at first that I kept dying and couldn't beat the boss. But yeah, Tails was always as fast and as high jumping as Sonic because of his tails, where when he ran he uses them as propellors to sort of half-fly or glide along, and when in the air he could use his tails as propellors like a helicopter to jump that high (and then in sonic 3 he gained the ability to actually fly period, for a brief amount of time, not merely able to jump as high). Knuckles is not quite as high jumping as either of the other 2, but us makes up for it by having his wall climbing ability and his gliding ability, which makes him arguably the funnest to play as of the 3 main characters.
@@duffman18If you think playing S2 as Knux was painful, just do a no-horizontal run. I'm dead serious here, it's possible. The Death Egg methods are just stupid.
Just got this game on Christmas and only really had the time to actually play it a few days ago. Guess I’m a bad player if I thought speedruns of classic sonic couldn’t look this graceful
You're not bad at the game, you just need to get used to speedrunning. That's coming from someone who struggles on the Encore mode special stages. (Yes, they're different than the Mania mode ones and yes they're mostly in different spots.)
aside from the challenge of finishing the game in a low time and the competitive nature of speed running looking at these are really relaxing Thanks ^_^ and merry Christmas
Love the jumps on the loops! Also I'm curious is the Puyo Puyo segment at the end of Chemical Plant at 7:32 RNG based at all, or could you plan it carefully?
The funny thing is that Knuckles is the only character that will face all 5 of the Heavies in a single run while Sonic and Tails only face 4 of them. This is because they don't face Heavy King at all until the final fight.🥃
0:16 oh my god WE GET IT GAME!!! THERE’S AN AUTOSAVE FEATURE!!! once for each player that plays it for the first time is enough. You don’t need to bring this up EVERY SINGLE TIME!!!
I saw the mean bean machine part was a bit of a struggle. If you need help with Puyo, an easy way to make a quick 3-5 chain is with the stair stacking method. Here’s a quick video about it if you need it: ruclips.net/video/PMinvx7QHOo/видео.html Also, amazing TAS as usual my man.
Nice TAS man! Kinda wish Knuckles had more unique paths in the base game. Though from what I've heard, there is a mod that does just that, giving knux new paths and reworked stages to better fit his abilities. Any chance a TAS of that comes in the future?
Him "this is TAS'd" Me watching him do 60 wall jumps with knuckles in 2 seconds: 👁️👄👁️ Like yeah no shit bro, really couldn’t tell, thanks for the clarification
Here I come, rougher than the rest of them, the best of them, tougher than leather. You can call me Knuckles, unlike Sonic I don't chuckle. I'd rather flex my muscles. I'm hard as nails, it ain't hard to tell, I break 'em down whether they solid or frail. Unlike the rest I'm independent since my first breath, first test, feel the right, than the worst left. Born on an island in the heavens, the blood of my ancestors flows inside me. My duty is to save the flower, from evil deterioration! I will be the one to set your heart free true, cleanse yourself of them evil spirits that's in you. Streaking lights, loud sounds, and instincts, are the elements that keep me going. I am fighting my own mission, nothing's gonna stand in my way!
AWESOME
knuckles don't chuckle
cap
Here I come, rougher than Knuckles
The best of them, tougher than Knuckles
You can call me Knuckles, unlike Knuckles I don't chuckle
I'd rather flex my Knuckles
I'm hard as Knuckles, it ain't hard to chuckle
I break 'em down whether they're Knuckles or Knuckles
Unlike Knuckles I'm independent since my first chuckle
First Knuckles, feel the Knuckles, than the Knuckle chuckle
Knuckles the echidna 3 and knuckles.
The thing I love about this tas is that you can really stop for a spindash anytime you want with his glide
Makeshift Dropdash
Something i always love about tas runs is the programming to do frame perfect dash dancing when it doesnt need to do anything
Wow whoever this TAS guy is they are pretty good at speed running
Plays a lot of games.
He's the variety content creator we deserve
Professional gamer
Wow what an original joke
@@sharmat1611 The only non-original joke here is your comment
He was faster than the rest of them. Some could even say he was the best of them, tougher than leather, even.
22:59 that perfectly timed spindash for the explosion was sick
how to make knuckles badass 101
How to make Knuckles badass again, 101
The best Christmas gift anyone could ask for
Sorry I missed the premiere I was asleep imma watch it today though
What about a million pounds and a Terry's Chocolate Orange? That (combined) would be a better gift.
@@duffman18i dont like the terry orange chocolates
As someone who hasn’t played mania in quite a while, this is very helpful for some time saves!
Looks like this speedrun was... **puts on shades** ...rougher than the rest of them.
the best of them… thougher than leather
Sonic Mania, but Eggman stole the Master Emerald instead of the Phantom Ruby.
this perfectly describes what's happening
If you for whatever reason want to steal the master emerald you better keep running because every passing moment knuckles is getting closer
16:35 I was literally saying "Wait... REALLY?!" when I saw those gliders and then you reached to the goal capsule
Same. I mean, that's a huge skip
It’s a TAS, there’s no “you” in it
@@callmezeldaonemoartime
TASes still have players. It's not like an AI was coded to do every level perfectly. TAS means tool-assisted. It could be anything from slowing the game down and using savestates to programming a macro that does everything perfectly.
There is something very amusing about the tas coming from a stand still to a full speed in seconds, and also how it gently passes over the syringes in chemical plant.
Great stuff
In a theoretical sense, it would make sense for Knuckles to reach this.level of speed like with the movie adaptations. He's trained on angel island for who knows how long, meaning his strength isn't just for his fists. Clearly he's got excellent leg muscle if he were to move at the speeds he can go in this speed run.
Originally knuckles was always fast. He was the 2nd fastest in the series second only to sonic until people like shadow showed up then they made him irrelevant to sonic and not only made him dumber but slower as well. Knuckles could in fact keep up with sonic but couldn't surpass him at max speed.
However ppl say knuckles is as strong as sonic is fast and if that's true knuckles should just be as fast as sonic if running with his strength
@@dionlackey798 knuckles’ power is in his arms where sonic’s power is in his legs, that’s what people mean by “knuckles is as strong as sonic is fast”
@@brokenman4414 Where was that official stated? It may not be canon but I've seen sonic use his arms to make mini twisters in comics and sonic x irrc. If he could use his arms in that matter than so can knuckles use his legs.
Sonic is a force of pure speed. Knuckles is strength. Say for whereas sonic could vibrate through matter with just speed alone, knuckles can't do that. However knuckles should be able to use his strength to be able move at a higher speed whereas sonic is that speed.
Knuckles' leg muscles aren't as strong as Sonics, which is why he's always had a lower maximum jump height than sonic and tails in the games. Made it a pain in the arse to play Knuckles in Sonic 2 back in the day because the game wasn't designed around that too low jump height, like I remember it made it impossible to beat the final boss robot in death egg zone because of the method I'd come up with for it. The method didn't work with knuckles cos his jump wasn't high enough. So I had to change the whole method. It seemed like I was using quite a bad method anyway compared to how most people defeat the robot, but I was only 7, so it was upsetting to me at first that I kept dying and couldn't beat the boss.
But yeah, Tails was always as fast and as high jumping as Sonic because of his tails, where when he ran he uses them as propellors to sort of half-fly or glide along, and when in the air he could use his tails as propellors like a helicopter to jump that high (and then in sonic 3 he gained the ability to actually fly period, for a brief amount of time, not merely able to jump as high).
Knuckles is not quite as high jumping as either of the other 2, but us makes up for it by having his wall climbing ability and his gliding ability, which makes him arguably the funnest to play as of the 3 main characters.
@@duffman18If you think playing S2 as Knux was painful, just do a no-horizontal run.
I'm dead serious here, it's possible. The Death Egg methods are just stupid.
*"HERE I COME ROUGHER THEN THE REST OF THEM"*
*"THE BEST OF THEM, TOUGHER THAN LEATHER!"*
nnnah. 💩
@@spimbles?
🤡 @@spimbles
23:04 THAT WAS CUTE
Sonic:I'm the fastest thing alive
Knuckles:hold my beer
🔴💨
Now I'm wondering how ridiculous this TAS would be with Ray because his gliding ability is insane.
Great TAS Shiro I was surprised when Knuckles climbed with nothing. Merry Christmas Eve and Christmas
Thanks and Merry Christmas^^
You're the best man! Thanks
That was super Fast, I'm Totally impressed with the Speed!
Just got this game on Christmas and only really had the time to actually play it a few days ago. Guess I’m a bad player if I thought speedruns of classic sonic couldn’t look this graceful
You're not bad at the game, you just need to get used to speedrunning. That's coming from someone who struggles on the Encore mode special stages. (Yes, they're different than the Mania mode ones and yes they're mostly in different spots.)
Awesome dude!!!. You must have practiced many hours to achieve such precision and reflexes when making the video. My respects!!!.
This was a bot not a person
@@TheRetroRoar Wait, can you hear that? *woooosh* That's the sound of you missing the joke
@@thepixelartists5756 wow that was so funny that I forgot to laugh 😐
@@TheRetroRoar I laughed
@@TheRetroRoarwow bro, learn what TAs is
Mom: dinners ready!
Me: 14:17
25:57 Nice beat drop man, that wall snare going crazy
aside from the challenge of finishing the game in a low time and the competitive nature of speed running looking at these are really relaxing
Thanks ^_^ and merry Christmas
Merry Christmas ^_^
@@ShiroParadox99Christmas is over
Sonic: WHERE IS HE EVEN GOING!?
Tail: To the end...
Sonic:OF WHAT?
i love it when TASes don't have anything to do so they just take a moment to flex. 3:51 look at him schmoovin
Three cheers for Shiro Paradox and Sonic Mania as Knuckles "All Emeralds" Speedrun and Merry Christmas 🎄
Great TAS! Also, Merry Christmas!
Thanks and Merry Christmas!
your sonic mania speedruns are great! keep it up
That backwards leg in the thumbnail does not cease to disturb me.
When knuckles rolls on the ground switching from his gliding animation constantly scared the shit outta me
22:48 Oh god the robots are t bagging they’ve grown sentient
I love the silent slow, just to hype up the eye strain speeds of the Tas
Knuckles has become a vessel for a God and literally annihilates egg man at the speed of sound:
Knuckles is so underrated and underutilized
Love the jumps on the loops! Also I'm curious is the Puyo Puyo segment at the end of Chemical Plant at 7:32 RNG based at all, or could you plan it carefully?
Not quite RNG, rather using of logic.
Let's go Knuckles and flex your muscles because you need them to beat this game. Time for a Knuckles sandwich
The fact that I’ve managed to rival TAS times on most of these special stages is fucking nuts.
I'd love to see a speedrun where the main goal is to hit Eggman with a Hellfire chain in Puyo.
my jaw dropped when you skipped the spider boss thats insane
I love your speedruns
I've been waiting for this for the last week
The funny thing is that Knuckles is the only character that will face all 5 of the Heavies in a single run while Sonic and Tails only face 4 of them. This is because they don't face Heavy King at all until the final fight.🥃
Knuckles only faces Heavy Rider in the last Robotnik boss encounter and his chances of actually doing so are low
@@DeltaMarlfox That is true. I forgot that Sonic and Tails face of against her at the same time Knuckles fight him.
@@OneZenDarius wait "her"?
@Kip_jr Yeah, Heavy Rider is a she along with Heavy Magician. They are both female. Gunner, Ninja, and King are male.
@@OneZenDarius do robots even have gender?
3:51 VIBRATE MODE ENGAGE
that's what she said
This speed run is sick.
Nice Sonic Mania Returns On Shiro Paradox TAS Sonic Mania As Knuckles
0:16 oh my god WE GET IT GAME!!! THERE’S AN AUTOSAVE FEATURE!!! once for each player that plays it for the first time is enough. You don’t need to bring this up EVERY SINGLE TIME!!!
This was so cool you earned yourself a subscriber
imagine seeing it in 2x speed
I saw the mean bean machine part was a bit of a struggle. If you need help with Puyo, an easy way to make a quick 3-5 chain is with the stair stacking method.
Here’s a quick video about it if you need it: ruclips.net/video/PMinvx7QHOo/видео.html
Also, amazing TAS as usual my man.
Nice TAS man!
Kinda wish Knuckles had more unique paths in the base game. Though from what I've heard, there is a mod that does just that, giving knux new paths and reworked stages to better fit his abilities.
Any chance a TAS of that comes in the future?
If that mod has for decomp version
I love how knuck rotates his fist because his sprite model doesn’t have any fingers
I was here in spirit, I was watching the whole time!
(I was watching it on my TV)
Good gameplay bro and merry christmas
Thanks, and Merry Christmas too^^
Thx ;)
Im not bilíngue,but this speed thats magnificent
this is the meaning of "gotta go fast"
i was waiting for knuckles, thanks
hey shiro paradox nice speedrun tas very nice buddy youre awesome
*Merry Christmas Eve And Merry Christmas!*
Even with the power of the emeralds, you must respect... the bumpers.
Timestamps:
0:00 The Beginning
0:19 Cutscene 1 (Green Hill)
0:21 Green Hill Zone (Act 1)
0:31 Special Stage 1
1:13 Special Stage 2
1:47 Special Stage 3
2:16 Green Hill Zone (Boss 1/2)
2:39 Green Hill Zone (Act 2)
3:10 Special Stage 4
3:35 Green Hill Zone (Boss 2/2)
3:59 Cutscene 2 (Chemical Plant)
4:00 Chemical Plant Zone (Act 1)
4:21 Special Stage 5
5:00 Chemical Plant Zone (Boss 1/2)
5:29 Chemical Plant Zone (Act 2)
6:47 Special Stage 6
7:23 Chemical Plant Zone (Boss 2/2)
8:35 Cutscene 3 (Studiopoils)
8:37 Studiopoils Zone (Act 1)
9:06 Special Stage 7
9:52 Studiopoils Zone (Boss 1/2)
11:41 Studiopoils Zone (Act 2)
12:41 Studiopoils Zone (Boss 2/2)
13:37 Cutscene 4 (Flying Battery)
13:39 Flying Battery Zone (Act 1)
14:53 Flying Battery Zone (Boss 1/2)
15:17 Cutscene 5 (Flying Battery Act 2)
15:27 Flying Battery Zone (Act 2)
16:47 Cutscene 6 (Press Garden) + Press Garden Zone (Act 1)
18:04 Press Garden Zone (Boss 1/2)
18:31 Press Garden Zone (Act 2)
19:17 Press Garden Zone (Boss 2/2)
19:37 Cutscene 7 (Stardust Speedway)
19:39 Stardust Speedway Zone (Act 1)
20:28 Stardust Speedway Zone (Boss 1/2)
21:00 Cutscene 8 (Stardust Speedway Act 2) + Stardust Speedway Zone (Act 2)
21:42 Stardust Speedway Zone (Boss 2/2)
23:17 Cutscene 9 (Hydrocity) + Hydrocity Zone (Act 1)
24:28 Cutscene 10 (Hydrocity Boss 1/2)
25:00 Hydrocity Zone (Boss 1/2)
25:38 Hydrocity Zone (Act 2)
26:51 Hydrocity Zone (Boss 2/2)
27:39 Cutscene 11 (Mirage Saloon)
27:46 Mirage Saloon Zone (Act 1)
28:41 Mirage Saloon Zone (Boss 1/2)
29:02 Mirage Saloon Zone (Act 2)
29:40 Mirage Saloon Zone (Boss 2/2)
30:32 Cutscene 12 (Oil Ocean)
30:33 Oil Ocean Zone (Act 1)
31:16 Oil Ocean Zone (Boss 1/2)
31:38 Oil Ocean Zone (Act 2)
32:28 Oil Ocean Zone (Boss 2/2)
33:11 Cutscene 13 (Lava Reef)
33:19 Lava Reef Zone (Act 1)
34:54 Lava Reef Zone (Boss 1/2)
35:34 Cutscene 14 (Lava Reef Act 2) + Lava Reef Zone (Act 2)
36:59 Cutscene 15 (Lava Reef Boss 2/2)
37:15 Lava Reef Zone (Boss 2/2)
37:45 Cutscene 16 (Metallic Madness)
37:46 Metallic Madness Zone (Act 1)
38:44 Metallic Madness Zone (Boss 1/2)
39:50 Metallic Madness Zone (Act 2)
40:49 Metallic Madness Zone (Boss 2/2)
41:32 Cutscene 17 (Titanic Monarch)
41:33 Titanic Monarch Zone (Act 1)
42:55 Titanic Monarch Zone (Boss 1/2)
43:24 Cutscene 18 (Titanic Monarch Act 2) + Titanic Monarch Zone (Act 2)
45:59 Final Boss (Titanic Monarch Boss 2/2)
47:32 Good Ending
100000 IQ knuckles doing poyo poyo like its nothing
Do do do dododo dodo do do, you know me the fighting freak knuckles and we're at pumpkin hill, you ready?
Bro the amount of disrespect to just jive while speed running is insane to me
Hard to believe it's been 5 years
These tickle my brain in the best way
Knock Knock
It's Kunckles
Woah your speedrun first time to see that ⚡👍
Man. All emeralds is 3 minutes slower with Knuckles than Tails? Dang.
55:1 was so calm and nice deserved a sub🥶🥵😎
Oh wow u gotta have a really pro gaming chair!1!1
so I was playing it wrong this whole time!
3:46 ok but that bm on Robotnik tho
I loved your tas skilz. So how to conent libtas into sonic maina
I used decomp-linux version
Dreams been mighty quiet since this dropped
Omg it's a new speed run 30 seconds it's a all esmerald
I like how some special stage have the bird and fish from the sonic 1 special stages
21:06 POV:you missed the school bus but don't want to tell you parents
23:29 POV:you turned into jesus cuz you hate swimming😂
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVE EVERYBODY!
Now, we'll just wait to move onto plus for mighty, then ray, and possibly encore mode.
Ray would be so fun to see a speedrun of
rays glide will make him beat levels in possibly 30 seconds because of how broken it is
The Puyo segment seemed sub-optimal, but maybe starting a chain with a row of four yellows would not have ended the fight early
Also there’s some OOB glitches with super knucks so yeah.
Good TAS bot
Bro used the glitch technique for special stages
ok that climbing trick ive never seen before congrats
nice TAS
What type of controller did you use? and What platform did you do this run?
I used decomp version for LibTAS. Controller? I just used gaming keyboard.
Merry Christmas, Shiro!
Merry Christmas too!
Merry Christmas, as well!
my man outran the camera dude
Him "this is TAS'd"
Me watching him do 60 wall jumps with knuckles in 2 seconds: 👁️👄👁️
Like yeah no shit bro, really couldn’t tell, thanks for the clarification
i dont understand what is happening in the special stages. i hated catching the ufo and this guy is all blip bloop done
He makes it looks like the video is playing at 2x speed by his skills lmao
Good you are speedrun sonic mania
9:14 Holy Crap!
Dude the bumpers got him 3 emeralds?!
Wtf this speed
Pov, you touched the Master emerald.
16:23 eggman: hmm knuckles should be near by now 16:37 WHAT THE FU
I could never get the 3D stage trick to work, correctly. What is the secret?
16:24 Yo WHAT!?!?
0:32 How did he manage to move so fast without losing momentum in Special Stages?😮