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My favorite always will have to be sonic adventure 2 battle my aunt gave me a gamecube she did not use anymore and when I found out it came with SA2 I flipped
Oh man, I thought you were going to put Sonic Unleashed on a bad tier but when it appeared on the S-tier, I was like "YES! THIS GAME DESERVES IT!" Nice tier list man, I love Sonic Unleashed
It's even heavily implied Black Knight takes place immediately after Unleashed with Sonic having two chilldogs when he gets isekai'ed into Camelot (He did plan on hanging out with Amy in Unleashed). The only reason I didn't include them in my list is because it's been years since I've played the storybook games, so I don't feel comfortable giving an informed ranking (I used to love Generations 3DS but after recently replaying it, let's just say DiMPs weren't at their "A" game).
As an og Sonic Unleashed fan back when everyone thought it was one of the games that absolutely ruined the franchise, it feels very good to finally see it justified for the incredible gem it is. Best story and music by far its not debatable.
I’m someone who played the Wii version when I was 10 and I got super bored because the night levels were awful. I’m taking a look at the 360 version for the first time as a Sonic Colors lover, and I’ve gotta say while Sonic Unleashed’s lows were definitely lower than the lows of Sonic Colors, it’s highs were much higher.
I still look back at Sonic Unleashed just to see gorgeous the game is. It was really ahead of its time graphics wise, compared to the games that released the same year.
@@lucasmendes3219 Definatelly but for what it did alone having the best story, soundtrack, world building, tone and daytime gameplay is something most sonic games can't pull off. Some do but only in 1 or 2 aspects.
I adored sonic heroes when I was a kid. I know my love for it is just because of nostalgia. I have always thought about replaying it as an adult, but I know it’ll probably hurt my memory of it. Crazy how we look past so many issues with games when we’re kids.
if you can get an original copy of it i’d go for it (or if ur just really good with emulators), i just paired an xbox one controller to my pc through a dolphin emulator with a copy of the game i got on pc, and mapping the controls got funky for some reason and like every few minutes it would go from full screen to a small bordered window and pause the game, idk. i would shoot for a console copy if i were gonna replay it again, but for some reason shadow the hedgehog worked a lot better on my pc and was still pretty fun to play
What’s funny is the theme isn’t even a bad song it’s just so interruptive of the calming night music. That and like when you find one small dude to use for a puzzle and it starts playing again
Sonic Unleashed deserves so much more recognition for it's aesthetic. I never hated the concept of Sonic in the human world, but I couldn't stand the semi anime realism of the human's art style; it looked so, SO awkward to see them stand next to Sonic characters. Seeing Sonic run around a world full of humans that are just as cartoony as him is so satisfying, as well as charming. That game also had the best tone for me. It was light hearted and corny, but allowed itself to be dark enough for the threat to be taken seriously.
I actually found Shadow the Hedgehog to be a better experience than Heroes. Controls felt less slippery and guns really helped out with bullet sponge enemies.
I enjoyed the story of shadow the hedgehog alot. while sonic is obvs not the main character of this game, it's still a sonic game. so I'm surprised it wasn't included among the ranking list
Shadow the Hedgehog was kinda bad for the time, but it definitely wasn't terrible and didn't really deserve all the hate it got. I just wish the game took itself seriously and went for that Teen rating. Woulda made SO MANY voicelines less cringey and more palatable.
If we're keeping it 100, it's because there was a significant amount of time that has passed since it was released on the Wii, and thus a significant amount of time since some have played it (either because they don't want to bother using the Wii, or they don't have the wii or game anymore). Honestly, no one has ever really hated colors (except for it's undeniably horrid dialogue), it was only consider underrated in light of how much worse ultimate was by comparison. The reason fans have started considering it underrated, is because they found themselves comparing to a direct comparison in Unleashed, and it always seemed to come up short by comparison, even though Unleashed clearly had many more haters than Colors, a product that objectively gave less in terms of quality and quantity.
Off topic, but I’m sorry: you can’t possibly tell me that Rise of Lyric is mainline, but Shadow the Hedgehog isn’t. It’s literally an Adventure-style game, but with Shadow as the main character. Also, shoutout to Vectorman. That game slaps!
Imo, if Shadow doesn't count because of its gimmicks, then Unleashed doesn't count either because of its gimmicks. I'm ready to challenge the entire community on that.
@@lpfan4491 I can respect that. The only thing dope about Unleashed was its story and tone the controls were hella tight on Unleashed and the werewolf stages slowed it down.
I kept waiting for him to mention Shadow and I was getting really curious as we got higher and higher. By the time we reached SA2, I thought, "Okay, it must not be here."
I’m so glad there are others who love sonic unleashed just as much as I do! TBH sometimes there were moments (when I played the game) that made me think that the werehog has better gameplay than the normal sonic that we’re used to. Literally, the only downside to the game (for me) was the camera angle sometimes and the fact that I WANT MORE! Even though it seems unlikely or near impossible that we’ll get more from unleashed, I hope that there will be another sonic unleashed game…
I agree sonic unleashed is my favourite sonic game ever despite some small issues. I would love to see a sonic unleashed 2. If it were real I would buy the game on launch day (unless if it’s bad like forces).
It’s nice to see other people appreciate Sonic Adventure 1. It’s close to being my favourite Sonic game next to Generations. Mania is awesome too but I suck ass at Classic Sonic games.
I don't like classic Sonic gameplay because you're supposed to make so many decisions while your camera shows you so little. How am I supposed to choose one of several paths when I see non of them? How am I supposed to know when to jump while I run on supersonic speed and can only see a few steps ahead of me? Modern Sonic doesn't have these issues. I grew up playing Sonic Adventure and Sonic Heroes and will always cherish them.
@@Raykon333 There are Christian Whitehead ports of Sonic with widescreen support and extended camera, i always choose Sonic 3 AIR over the original Sonic 3&K.
See I was one of those people who really liked 06, I ignored critics and went for it. Soundtrack great, I like the story oddly enough and how they managed to intertwine Sonic Shadow and Silver with no plot points unfinished. The cut scene where the three hedgehogs fly to go fight the final boss was sweet. The game needed more time to iron out the kinks and loading screens. And some of the side missions were impossible. But I really like joyed 06
I also like 06, but there is one major plot point that went entirely unfinished, and that's the last story. If Mephiles just could kill Sonic himself, why bother sending Silver back in time to do so? How does Mephiles even know about Sonic to begin with, considering they never meet in Sonic's story?
Ranking EVERY Mainline Sonic Game! 0:56 Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric (2014) 3:17 Sonic Forces (2017) 8:31 Sonic Heroes (2003) 11:12 Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) 14:20 Sonic CD (1993) 16:13 Sonic the Hedgehog (1991) 17:26 Sonic Lost World (2013) 20:24 Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (1992) 22:38 Sonic Generations (2011) 25:01 Sonic Colors (2010) 26:56 Sonic Adventure 2 (2001) 29:16 Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (1994) 32:03 Sonic Mania (2017) 34:21 Sonic Adventure (1998) 37:57 Sonic Unleashed (2008)
I LOVE Sonic Unleashed, it’s my favorite game EVER, every time I hear endless possibilities, I tear up, because it reminds me of the good times I’ve had with this game since I was a kid, I absolutely love it.
Sonic Adventure 1 was my all time favourite! Played hours on end on the Dreamcast. Very excited to see what Sonic Frontiers is giving us, hopefully a massive open world! 🤩
my first game was sonic riders or colors but when i got sonic adventure 1 i fell in love number 2 i didnt really enjoy as much as 1 because of the knuckels and rouge gameplay i just hate those levels
As someone who grew up in the universe of Classic Sonic, I remember buying a Sega Dreamcast on 9/9/99. I bought three games with it (THREE!): Power Stone, Soul Calibur, and Sonic Adventure. And I think those three games represent the absolute best the Dreamcast has to offer.
D TIER 0:55 Sonic Boom 3:17 Sonic Forces C TIER 8:30 Sonic Heroes 11:11 Sonic 2006 B TIER 14:19 Sonic CD 16:12 Sonic 1 17:25 Sonic Lost World A TIER 20:23 Sonic 2 22:37 Sonic Generations 25:00 Sonic Colors 26:56 Sonic Adventure 2 S TIER 29:15 Sonic 3 & Knuckles 32:02 Sonic Mania 34:21 Sonic Adventure 37:56 Sonic Unleashed
I actually like the BOOM designs, they match the characters personalities more. And Sonics blue arms are more flush with his body than the sudden peachy arms that were only there so you could see them in 2D.
I mean, same. I just don’t like Knuckle’s redesign. Other than that the other aren’t that bad. I do think they could’ve made Sonic’s redesign a bit better (mainly the 3d render)
Hope they change the design of the characters to something like that or the movie so that they can be more expressive which is one of the problems in the games and also knuckles hands are surprisingly big which hope had a change to something like the movie knuckles
One thing I liked about Unleashed was how much fun Sonic was having when he used his boost. It may not seem like much but I really like it and I hope they’ll go back to that
Sonic adventure 1 was my first sonic game and I'll never forget the memories I have with it. I love it. Thank you for appreciating it honestly, I hold it very dearly.
I know this wasn’t about those “spin-off” games, but I was so curious to see what your take was on Sonic Riders. One of my favorite spin-off games in the entire sonic universe. Also Sonic Fighters. I used to go on vacation at this hotel and they had a little arcade near the pool. The amount of quarters I spent trying to beat the game in one sitting to get to metal Sonic at the end was insane. Absolutely loved it
If you’re already trying 06 on Xenia, just go check out Project 06. Its made me really start to enjoy the aspects of the game that were really done well but hidden behind the glitchiness
@@SilverSpireZ I’ve played project 06, it’s more polished and looks better but I have some big problems with it that make it less enjoyable. Silver and Sonic don’t turn and control as well as regular 06, and I find myself messing up in some stages (note: I played Project 06 before 06 so it’s not a bias thing). P06 however does make snow boarding and mach speed sections playable now which is amazing. Tails and Knuckles control better in P06 too
I though I was crazy for liking 06' for a moment. It's literally Sonic Adventure level design. For me it is perfect design philosophy for Sonic, a mix between 1 little openess and 2 more spectacular side (06 still is not the perfect example of that design, but it really is close to perfection). If they didn't had to rush the game at the time it could've been a great game. Story still may have suck anyway, but it was something new and more mature. Levels and such are really fun beside the technical faults. It's also fun to break the game.
@@coconutgun325 Stop living in 2008. Everyone can't shut the hell up about Unleashed these days and the person who made that review hasn't worked there for over a decade. Someone else made a review for it last year.
Rise of Lyric failed primarily because they were told "yeah this is gonna be a wii-u exclusive" about halfway through development, meaning they had to start all over again, and because of time constraints they weren't able to get it finished in time. If the game was allowed to be made as big red button wanted from the very beginning, it's likely it wouldn't have failed
Sonic unleashed is so amazing, I loved the game as a kid and still love the game, the soundtrack was amazing plus eggman was in his prime in this game, he had his funny moments but at the same time he was the most serious in this game out of all the sonic games, tbh it was nice to see eggman truly filling his role as a serious villain and proving how much of a master mind he really was, like in this game he managed to capture super sonic and drain him of his powers. No other version of eggman has ever done that. As well as he wasn’t just trying to keep sonic out of his was like normally, this time he was truly trying to kill him. Idk seeing eggman in this game fully sold me.
@@Invisibleboy999 HOW? There are plenty of reasons why I think SA2 is worse than SA1. 1. The mech stages are WORSE than Gamma's stages all because Eggman/Tails have clunky controls (honestly, Tails shouldn't have had a mech and it didn't make sense why he had one if he could FLY, his stages should've been like his SA1 stages, I'm saying that he should've been able to fly around in all of his SA2 stages). 2. The radar in Rouge/Knuckles' stages doesn't beep faster when you're close to a Master Emerald shard and it doesn't show more than one emerald shard (like the radar in SA1). 3. Sonic and Shadow's Spin Dash has input lag (they should've put the Spamdash in the game), the Somersault and Lightspeed Dash are mapped to the same button, their controls are kinda awkward (I said, kinda.. by the way). 4. The level design is narrow or linear and not as open as SA1's level design. And 5. The camera is AWFUL (I don't even need to say anything about this flaw, it's just awful). While SA2 is more stable (less buggy) and has a better story compared to SA1, I still prefer SA1 over SA2.
I’m so glad you gave Sonic Unleashed some love!! I loved this game and other then some of the minor mechanics, I don’t understand the hate. I agree with almost everything you said. I would however put Sonic Adventure 2 at S tier because it was so evolutionary to 3D Sonic games, but it’s such a minor criticism. So I digress. Good work
@@rando6677 Then how do you explain the radar in Knuckles' stages and the DELAYED Spin Dash (it shouldn't take almost 1 second for Sonic to use his Spin Dash, he should start rolling immediately) in SA2?
I like your tier list, it's pretty accurate, and I understand we're all going to have slightly different opinions on this. In my mind the most amazing sonic game was sonic adventures 2 BATTLE (the version that had 2 player vs mode racing in it) followed by sonic adventures 1. I just thought adventures 2 was a little bit more polished and had a few less glitches. The game also had a lot more replayability for me because I would frequently play it to race my friends for a good several years afterward. Almost all the levels in both games were so iconic to me, and I can't help but get a little crazed when people comment that the best sonic games were the side scrolling 2d games. No. The sonic adventure games were true marvels. 3rd I'm placing generations simply because that game was straight and to the point. You want to just run thru classic revamped levels in both old and new sonic styles with a miniscule storyline to slow you down? Here you go lol. My one gripe with generations is that I really thought they stumbled onto a great formula and believe they missed out on a dlc or sequel opportunity to add significantly more classic maps that many people probably wanted to see brought back and polished up. I still wish they would come out with a sonic generations 2 lol.
I used to not care about Stories in games because I don't focus on them, but now I really miss the story of Sonic Unleashed, its tone. I like Sonic Colors, but now I realize how funny it looks compared to Sonic Unleashed. The latest Sonic Games have given us Candylands, renamed Green Hill Zones, and Casinos in Jungles. While Sonic Unleashed has shown us several countries from the real world with amazing music on the background that just fits. At least Sonic Frontiers looks like something new.
For m I'd rather have Gens no story then Colors bad cringey story, at least Generations makes up for it because I enjoy how fast it is and how creative the trials are. I can't find a single cripe about Gens aside from its no story and bad boss fight. While Colors story is bad and we have barely any 3d, and with wisp that make sonic that either cheapen Sonic or slow him down like laser=cheap and hover=slow.
11:14 I knew this game had potential, the problem is 06 was an unfinished game, if the release date was pushed or if they began earlier that year it would have been a good sonic game
I agree for the most part. With Unleashed, the biggest flaw was the medals. Take it out. Now if the warehog games were more arcade like, it'd be perfect. SEGA can make good beat'em ups. Golden Axe and Streets of Rage are evident of this. If the warehog stages were more like that, I'd call the game a must, even for casual gamers. Still my favorite game.
I never EVER thought I would find another human being who’s 2 favourite Sonic games were Unleashed and Adventure, resonated with every word said about both games, Adventure was my first ever gaming experience and Unleashed enhanced my reflexes and consistency with gaming. Great list!
me 2! sonic in general was my first real gaming experience, especially sonic adventures, sonic unleashed, and sonic adventures 2, i remember how all our siblings would have our own unique chao, and i remember when my older brother told me he knows a bug to make my chao extremely powerful, but i said no because i wanted him to get stronger naturally😭
As a long time sonic fan, I actually love the Sonic Boom look. The character proportions look great and they all have much more personality built into their look and expressions. Imo Sonic fans need to be more open to changes to Sonic. People geniunely get mad when sonic's quills get slightly shorter or his blue is a shade lighter.
I'm so happy to see love for sonic unleashed :) it was an outstanding game way ahead of its time, and the werehog is actually really fun if you keep an open mind and get into it. I totally agree with your tier list, great job, as soon as I saw this vid, I said to myself, this channel deserves a sub 👏
I actually like Lost World despite some of the common criticisms. What would've made more sense would be if Lost World was a 3D Classic game. Think about it, the simple story, the cartoony aesthetics, elements from the classic games such as the way the robots are designed, the main problem I have is that this is all strung together and classified as a Modern Sonic game. Lost World as a classic Sonic game would make the most sense and it would probably be the first proper 3D Classic Sonic game.
I feel the same way about colors as well, it's not just them being a lot like Mario, but they just don't feel like a modern sonic game. Colors is 2d like classic Sonic and the few times it is 3d can be chalked up to the equivalent of special stages in classic Sonic, with difference being the ones in colors aren't optional, because they need to check that 3d modern Sonic box.
@@thaneros the classic games stories weren't meta era simple they were just more show don't tell kinda stories the stories explained better in the manuals.
@@jdawson7877 Its not just the stories but visually as well. In the classics, badniks had a very robotic animation to them on purpose. Meta era badniks are overly animated... Why? Or like how zones like Sweet Mountain or Dessert Ruins would never been in classic games as the aesthetics do not fit in the world of Sonic pre Meta era.
Now imagine: I played Sonic Heroes on a computer, where this game ran at 10 FPS at best. And I 100% completed the game, thinking that it should be so slow like that (I didn’t yet know what “minimum system requirements” were)
I'm actually replaying Sonic Heroes right now, I remember loving this game so much back when I was a kid, I would go round my cousin's house because she had an original xbox with it. I just loved it so much, the level design is pretty good and the gameplay is fun, playing it back I agree it does feel clunky at times but overall it definitely holds up pretty well considering the time it was made. I was relatively young playing Sonic 06 but it was my first game on Xbox 360 and I remember it being fantastic and completely disregarding every bug and glitch, it would be actually really fun without the game breaking issues. But I think my favourite is probably Sonic Unleashed, granted I haven't touched it in a very long time but god damn that game was good, I played it through countless times and enjoyed it every run, I just think the night stages were a bit meh at times is my only complaint. Haven't really played any of the modern Sonic stuff :(
Beautiful video, I don’t know if it’s just me, but it’s rare for someone to actually speak so passionately about Sonic, and about the stories in particular. Loved the video!
@@segaspice4062 uh dude its my opinion if you like forces good for you I respect that but I just don't like the game its boring the story is bleh and I don't like the gameplay
@@wackywakko6694 For me I'd play neither Forces is boring and as much as I enjoy 06 it's not worth the long loading screens. Unleashed doesn't make me wait an awful lot and might I add with better quality and polish.
@@jadenbissell2795 no joke here, but do people even have parties these days? (And i swear to god, if a redditor comes in just to r/Woooosh me... I GOT. THE DAMN. JOKE. Bye)
My favorite is probably Sonic Adventure 2. I love the music the most out of any of the games. It made me a huge Shadow the Hedgehog fan. (Though sadly they haven't really captured him in a good light since imo.) Sonic and Shadow levels are a blast. Knuckles has some fun music while you search for...and probably get frustrated trying to find the pieces of the Emeralds. And Eggman and Tails levels kind of sucked if I'm being honest. But they were just boring and not too hard to get through. Overall I loved it. Sonic Adventure 1 is probably right after it. Other than classic Sonic games however, I couldn't really get into any of the more modern Sonic games. I don't know why.
25:35 my main problem with sonic colors aside from the story is that it relies way too much on 2d sections and the terrain in those sections is super blocky and boring if it had more 3d platforming and more creative terrain in those sections I would’ve enjoyed it much more also whoever thought having that yellow spring auto scroll section deserves to get fired
sonic unleashed is the absolute best game of sonic and there is nothing that proves it wrong, look man 15+ years later and this banger is still the best looking, best humor and it all of the care put in all of the stages is just beautiful
I thought I wasn’t a fan of 2d sonic at all until mania, then I went back and played 3 and knuckles and that game is amazing, I also think S3K is S tier
@@roilo8560 For me, Sonic Mania's gameplay is better, but that's almost solely due to the fact that it's 23 years newer than 3&K. The story in 3&K is arguably the best in the series, rivaling Unleashed and SA2, and the game as a whole is one of the best in the 16-bit era and in history.
SA2B and Sonic Heroes will forever be my favorites. Banger music, great characters and love the maps. Plus Sonic Heroes, those team finishers/combos is awesome.
SA2B is great but honestly I can't comprehend how anybody could like Heroes for any reason beyond nostalgia That's not even meant to be insulting, I just legitimately don't get it
It was cool to see someone rank Sonic 006 higher then usual. Like I understand the game isn’t great but half the people who judge the game only talk about the bugs the game has and that’s it. It was cool to see someone grab a take on the hubs and the level design
My list: S tier - S3&K, Maina, SA1 and Unleashed. A tier - Sonic 2, SA2, Heroes and Generations (Console). B tier - Sonic CD, Shadow and Colours (DS). C tier - Sonic 1, Sonic 06, Colours (Wii), Lost World (Wii U) and Boom SC. D tier - Sonic 4 Ep2, Generations (3DS), Lost World (3DS) and Forces. F tier - Boom RoL and Sonic 4 Ep1. The higher the game the more "Sonic" it feels imo plus personal enjoyment too. Any game I've left out I simply never played.
Im happy about Sonic Unleashed being S tier, that was literally my favorite game. But I also liked Sonic Heroes a lot, but i can see why you put it on C tier, The soundtracks in the game just made me love the game.
As someone who absolutely loved Sonic CD I'll say that I loved the gimmick of time travel: go back into the past to break the Death Egg then complete the level. Do that on the first two acts and you'd get the good future for that zone in Act 3. Otherwise you'd get the bad future. It made the levels have you do more than just completing it as quickly as you could with 50+ rings. It was a challenge and while I agree with your thoughts on the wacky level design I nonetheless enjoyed the ride and time spent to beat it with the good ending. Also at the time, the idea of getting the quality of music we did was virtually unheard of. Sure there was TurboGrafx CD but in my school that system was virtually non-existant. So between the visuals, the gameplay the music, basically the whole package - I think a lot of us have strong nostalgia for this game.
totally agree! I totally loved the feeling of getting the good future :) it gave me a great sense of accomplishment :) and all the zones were fun because they were not repetitive
The Mario parallels was one of the biggest gripes I had with Sonic Lost World. Throughout the first couple levels I had this nagging feeling of familiarity that reminded me of the Super Mario Galaxy games in particular. I asked myself "What changes if I replace Sonic with Mario here?" and the answer I came to was nothing much. It felt like "Super Mario Galaxy but with a fast-forward button". Also those comparisons became even clearer when I played the Wii U Yoshi's Island DLC level.
@@ssseee3ds463 It's the visuals mostly. Most the levels remind me of Super Mario Galaxy. They very rarely felt like a Sonic level to me. I could see alot of LW levels making into SMG 3 which isn't something I can usually say about Sonic levels.
@@Dr.Deluxe The visual look more Classic Sonic-ishe to me, Also SLW levels making into SMG3 just because the gravitationnal-thing is kinda dumb (The 2D section tho are kinda mid so i can agree with that)
@@Dr.Deluxe The level themes are ripped straight out of New Super Mario Bros in particular, and you're doing a lot of standard platforming that can be done with the movement of several other platforming characters. The game would've been more interesting and unique if they had their own level themes and designed every stage around utilizing the Parkour system.
9:34 There’s more of a timing to it than automatic. Look at sonic’s cooldown on the homing attack. It’s simple to find out and makes it more manageable to see how it works. 9:53 Also you shall not press the b button during you switch rails or you die.
I don't know if it was on here or not, but Shadow the Hedgehog was the dopest sonic game, as a kid I loved that game it was nuts and awesome! Also shootouts to sonic riders too, those 2 games were godlike as well.
I love Sonic and the Secret rings. A bit overly tough in some areas for no reason but a great game never the less. The ost is an absolute banger and the story is amazing in my opinion
You forgot Shadow the hedgehog, sonic advance 1 2 3, sonic rush, etc... Good video by the way. I agree with Sonic 06. 👍 Edit: sonic rivals 1and 2, sonic riders 1 and 2, secret rings and black knight
Do you mean like unleashed is your favorite sonic game but generations is also your favorite Sonic game because it's the best game that feels like Sonic?
I was curious why the Advance games weren't included, they seem pretty "mainline" to me :o And they weren't bad games at all. But overall I can't disagree much with this list. I had the Wii version of Sonic Unleashed and I generally think people find it worse than the others, but I still really loved it! Wouldn't call it my favourite of them all tho, but a solid A tier. My favourite... I don't even know. The Gamecube-era games are definitely my favourites (Sonic Heroes, Sonic Adventure 1 & 2, Shadow the Hedgehog). All 3 of these games have their own reasons, Heroes is just unique and fun (for me at least); SA1 has an awesome story & levels, a hub world and to top it all off, it got a whole assortment of classic Sonic games; SA2 has pretty much the same reasons but also adds the Chao Garden and a lot of iconic cutscene moments but it gor rid of the hub world unfortunately. And of course, all of these games have such awesome music!
Wait- was Sonic Riders not a main Sonic game?? I gotta say as an artist I loved the designs of Riders and the animations were SO good that hooks perfectly with the music. Even as a kid whenever that starting screen animation came on I SAT and watched it through everytime.
SA2 is an S for me, first video game i remember playing, replay it once a year at least. goated soudtrack, best story, everything was just amazing, I wish they modeled all sonic games like sa and sa2. perfect formula
Fun fact for Sonic Unleashed for PlayStation 3 in specific. It was one of the only games for PlayStation 3 where you could listen to your music from your hard drive you had downloaded throughout the entire game.
9:55 Sonic adventure 2 has the rail problem too. I don't know why people bash heroes for just repeating errors from previous games. I mean it can't be just nostalgia , the games were released close to each other. Every damn 3d Sonic till Sonic 06 feels unfinished.
I'd also say that Sonic Unleashed had the best tone. It wasn't laughably melodramatic and awkward like Sonic '06 or Shadow the Hedgehog, and it wasn't just a goofy lighthearted story where nothing can be taken too seriously like Generations or Lost World. Unleashed had charming cartoony designs and good humor, yet the story actually had stakes and it wasn't afraid to go darker.
I’m happy that Sonic 06 is not on the D tier. I agree it’s a bad game, but it can be pretty fun at times when you are just platforming and playing the meat of the game. And it has Mephiles (AKA the best villain in the series). Sonic Boom is just boring all the way through.
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My favorite always will have to be sonic adventure 2 battle my aunt gave me a gamecube she did not use anymore and when I found out it came with SA2 I flipped
@@JustSomeArtistjpeg LMAO
My favourite will also be sonic boom rise of lyric. My uncle gave me a wii u and the game. When I played it, I stayed up all night playing it
By the way, I hate SA2
Oh man, I thought you were going to put Sonic Unleashed on a bad tier but when it appeared on the S-tier, I was like "YES! THIS GAME DESERVES IT!" Nice tier list man, I love Sonic Unleashed
You.....did?
It’s his favorite sonic game
Then you probably haven’t watched his videos before or something
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I think Secret Rings and Black Knight are more mainline than Rise Of Lyric
It's even heavily implied Black Knight takes place immediately after Unleashed with Sonic having two chilldogs when he gets isekai'ed into Camelot (He did plan on hanging out with Amy in Unleashed).
The only reason I didn't include them in my list is because it's been years since I've played the storybook games, so I don't feel comfortable giving an informed ranking (I used to love Generations 3DS but after recently replaying it, let's just say DiMPs weren't at their "A" game).
they kinda are there in the list of mainline 3d sonic game.
I'd argue Shadow is one as well seeing it concludes his arc.
i mean didn't Sonic directly reference the storybook series in Generations? I'm pretty sure they're canon.
Advance, Rush and even the Rivals sub-series as well.
As an og Sonic Unleashed fan back when everyone thought it was one of the games that absolutely ruined the franchise, it feels very good to finally see it justified for the incredible gem it is.
Best story and music by far its not debatable.
I’m someone who played the Wii version when I was 10 and I got super bored because the night levels were awful. I’m taking a look at the 360 version for the first time as a Sonic Colors lover, and I’ve gotta say while Sonic Unleashed’s lows were definitely lower than the lows of Sonic Colors, it’s highs were much higher.
I still look back at Sonic Unleashed just to see gorgeous the game is. It was really ahead of its time graphics wise, compared to the games that released the same year.
@@deo1405 It still holds preety well by itself.
It didn't ruined the franchise but unleashed is like, the highs are high but the lows are like Very lows
@@lucasmendes3219 Definatelly but for what it did alone having the best story, soundtrack, world building, tone and daytime gameplay is something most sonic games can't pull off. Some do but only in 1 or 2 aspects.
I adored sonic heroes when I was a kid. I know my love for it is just because of nostalgia. I have always thought about replaying it as an adult, but I know it’ll probably hurt my memory of it. Crazy how we look past so many issues with games when we’re kids.
Do it! I still love it in my mid-30s.
If it's only the two of us, then so be it
I still love sonic heroes
if you can get an original copy of it i’d go for it (or if ur just really good with emulators), i just paired an xbox one controller to my pc through a dolphin emulator with a copy of the game i got on pc, and mapping the controls got funky for some reason and like every few minutes it would go from full screen to a small bordered window and pause the game, idk. i would shoot for a console copy if i were gonna replay it again, but for some reason shadow the hedgehog worked a lot better on my pc and was still pretty fun to play
I still try to play it anyway. I own it again 😅 some stuff is annoying though like an egg man boss
That’s not true we haven’t download sonic frontiers that’s the only game you haven’t download it
werehog level's soundtrack is amazing, it's a shame it gets constantly interrupted by the combat theme.
But is it better than the boost music
@@jeannesery9936 Hell no
Or the combat itself
oh really
What’s funny is the theme isn’t even a bad song it’s just so interruptive of the calming night music. That and like when you find one small dude to use for a puzzle and it starts playing again
Sonic Unleashed deserves so much more recognition for it's aesthetic. I never hated the concept of Sonic in the human world, but I couldn't stand the semi anime realism of the human's art style; it looked so, SO awkward to see them stand next to Sonic characters. Seeing Sonic run around a world full of humans that are just as cartoony as him is so satisfying, as well as charming. That game also had the best tone for me. It was light hearted and corny, but allowed itself to be dark enough for the threat to be taken seriously.
Amen
Would love if Sonic game world has human-animal world concept, instead of just make Sonic he's like from the other world
Real😂
This is exactly why I feel weird about Super Mario Odyssey
I like the Unleashed humans but I honestly prefer anime style people like Sonic X
I actually found Shadow the Hedgehog to be a better experience than Heroes. Controls felt less slippery and guns really helped out with bullet sponge enemies.
I enjoyed the story of shadow the hedgehog alot. while sonic is obvs not the main character of this game, it's still a sonic game. so I'm surprised it wasn't included among the ranking list
hehe, pun
The level design and the mission mechanics suck most of the time
I think Shadow The Hedgehog did a lot of things right actually
Shadow the Hedgehog was kinda bad for the time, but it definitely wasn't terrible and didn't really deserve all the hate it got. I just wish the game took itself seriously and went for that Teen rating. Woulda made SO MANY voicelines less cringey and more palatable.
It’s crazy to me how people say Sonic Colors is “overrated” after it’s been underrated prior to SC: Ultimate’s release
If we're keeping it 100, it's because there was a significant amount of time that has passed since it was released on the Wii, and thus a significant amount of time since some have played it (either because they don't want to bother using the Wii, or they don't have the wii or game anymore). Honestly, no one has ever really hated colors (except for it's undeniably horrid dialogue), it was only consider underrated in light of how much worse ultimate was by comparison. The reason fans have started considering it underrated, is because they found themselves comparing to a direct comparison in Unleashed, and it always seemed to come up short by comparison, even though Unleashed clearly had many more haters than Colors, a product that objectively gave less in terms of quality and quantity.
Off topic, but I’m sorry: you can’t possibly tell me that Rise of Lyric is mainline, but Shadow the Hedgehog isn’t. It’s literally an Adventure-style game, but with Shadow as the main character.
Also, shoutout to Vectorman. That game slaps!
Agreed.
Imo, if Shadow doesn't count because of its gimmicks, then Unleashed doesn't count either because of its gimmicks. I'm ready to challenge the entire community on that.
@@lpfan4491 I can respect that. The only thing dope about Unleashed was its story and tone the controls were hella tight on Unleashed and the werewolf stages slowed it down.
I kept waiting for him to mention Shadow and I was getting really curious as we got higher and higher. By the time we reached SA2, I thought, "Okay, it must not be here."
also where are the sms sonic games? they are technically mainline
I’m so glad there are others who love sonic unleashed just as much as I do! TBH sometimes there were moments (when I played the game) that made me think that the werehog has better gameplay than the normal sonic that we’re used to. Literally, the only downside to the game (for me) was the camera angle sometimes and the fact that I WANT MORE! Even though it seems unlikely or near impossible that we’ll get more from unleashed, I hope that there will be another sonic unleashed game…
I agree sonic unleashed is my favourite sonic game ever despite some small issues. I would love to see a sonic unleashed 2.
If it were real I would buy the game on launch day (unless if it’s bad like forces).
@@KoalaSpace360 bro I would burn the sega offices if they ruined unleashed. I ain't allowing my game to be ruined like that
The day time stages were great I hated the werehog not cause of the combat but cause of the length
@@donut2123 and know a lot of people are complaining about the duration of the levels XD
The only thing I didn't like about unleashed was the battle music, even then, my favorite sonic game by a mile
It’s nice to see other people appreciate Sonic Adventure 1. It’s close to being my favourite Sonic game next to Generations. Mania is awesome too but I suck ass at Classic Sonic games.
Adventure 1 is my favourite right now
I'm good at classic games, but i like Adventure 1's controls more, specially Sonic's movement and spindash.
I don't like classic Sonic gameplay because you're supposed to make so many decisions while your camera shows you so little. How am I supposed to choose one of several paths when I see non of them? How am I supposed to know when to jump while I run on supersonic speed and can only see a few steps ahead of me?
Modern Sonic doesn't have these issues. I grew up playing Sonic Adventure and Sonic Heroes and will always cherish them.
@@Raykon333 There are Christian Whitehead ports of Sonic with widescreen support and extended camera, i always choose Sonic 3 AIR over the original Sonic 3&K.
I suck at sonic mania but sonic 3k is really fun
Did anyone else enjoy the night levels on Sonic Unleashed even more than the day levels? They had such an immersive atmosphere...
I mean it was a change of pace from the other games
i totally dig the amount of combos you could string together and they actually felt satisfying and rewarding to remember. those air combos were gnarly
Ya I did
@@iinkstain FR I loved those combos it made me want to keep doing it
No
See I was one of those people who really liked 06, I ignored critics and went for it. Soundtrack great, I like the story oddly enough and how they managed to intertwine Sonic Shadow and Silver with no plot points unfinished. The cut scene where the three hedgehogs fly to go fight the final boss was sweet. The game needed more time to iron out the kinks and loading screens. And some of the side missions were impossible. But I really like joyed 06
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I also like 06, but there is one major plot point that went entirely unfinished, and that's the last story. If Mephiles just could kill Sonic himself, why bother sending Silver back in time to do so? How does Mephiles even know about Sonic to begin with, considering they never meet in Sonic's story?
@@Switchell2 W
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Ranking EVERY Mainline Sonic Game!
0:56 Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric (2014)
3:17 Sonic Forces (2017)
8:31 Sonic Heroes (2003)
11:12 Sonic the Hedgehog (2006)
14:20 Sonic CD (1993)
16:13 Sonic the Hedgehog (1991)
17:26 Sonic Lost World (2013)
20:24 Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (1992)
22:38 Sonic Generations (2011)
25:01 Sonic Colors (2010)
26:56 Sonic Adventure 2 (2001)
29:16 Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (1994)
32:03 Sonic Mania (2017)
34:21 Sonic Adventure (1998)
37:57 Sonic Unleashed (2008)
Thanks man 👍
Why the hell is heroes below 06
@@hafiz2796 I know right 06 is worse than heroes
appreciate you
@@hafiz2796 maybe watch the video
The soundtrack created in Sonic Unleashed is so perfect. Honestly one of the best scores for a game. Very underrated.
Do people not know what underrated means anymore?
Sonic unleashed is low-key overrated
@@Jay-kx5cb nah bro, for a very long time it was very overhated. I think only now are people realizing how slept on the game is
@@cairosharn I understand that, hopefully the same happens with sonic colors
@@Jay-kx5cb I’ll be real from the jump it didn’t grab my attention, not as much as unleashed or even generations
I LOVE Sonic Unleashed, it’s my favorite game EVER, every time I hear endless possibilities, I tear up, because it reminds me of the good times I’ve had with this game since I was a kid, I absolutely love it.
me too!
Same :))
@@Sharkyjr09 game’s amazing, I wish I could play it for this first time again
Sonic Adventure 1 was my all time favourite! Played hours on end on the Dreamcast. Very excited to see what Sonic Frontiers is giving us, hopefully a massive open world! 🤩
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Sonic unleashed has been my favorite game as a kid and I’m glad there’s others that agree that this is one of the best games
Sonic Adventure was my first game too! Got the demo disk for dreamcast!
I had the demo disk too that just had Emerald Coast. I replayed it so much.
my first game was sonic riders or colors but when i got sonic adventure 1 i fell in love number 2 i didnt really enjoy as much as 1 because of the knuckels and rouge gameplay i just hate those levels
@@Spades1406 the tails gameplay is so bad too
Same it was my first Sonic game still holds up well to this day!
As someone who grew up in the universe of Classic Sonic, I remember buying a Sega Dreamcast on 9/9/99. I bought three games with it (THREE!): Power Stone, Soul Calibur, and Sonic Adventure. And I think those three games represent the absolute best the Dreamcast has to offer.
D TIER
0:55 Sonic Boom
3:17 Sonic Forces
C TIER
8:30 Sonic Heroes
11:11 Sonic 2006
B TIER
14:19 Sonic CD
16:12 Sonic 1
17:25 Sonic Lost World
A TIER
20:23 Sonic 2
22:37 Sonic Generations
25:00 Sonic Colors
26:56 Sonic Adventure 2
S TIER
29:15 Sonic 3 & Knuckles
32:02 Sonic Mania
34:21 Sonic Adventure
37:56 Sonic Unleashed
No comment for sach a good comment let me fix it
I actually like the BOOM designs, they match the characters personalities more.
And Sonics blue arms are more flush with his body than the sudden peachy arms that were only there so you could see them in 2D.
Boom sonic is underrated
I mean, same. I just don’t like Knuckle’s redesign. Other than that the other aren’t that bad. I do think they could’ve made Sonic’s redesign a bit better (mainly the 3d render)
All the boom designs look great...except knuckles, he's...alright
The sports tape..is ehh
But they're all pretty solid
Blue arms sonic is the true sonic
Peach arm sonic is messed up
Hope they change the design of the characters to something like that or the movie so that they can be more expressive which is one of the problems in the games and also knuckles hands are surprisingly big which hope had a change to something like the movie knuckles
One thing I liked about Unleashed was how much fun Sonic was having when he used his boost. It may not seem like much but I really like it and I hope they’ll go back to that
Sonic adventure 1 was my first sonic game and I'll never forget the memories I have with it. I love it. Thank you for appreciating it honestly, I hold it very dearly.
I know this wasn’t about those “spin-off” games, but I was so curious to see what your take was on Sonic Riders. One of my favorite spin-off games in the entire sonic universe. Also Sonic Fighters. I used to go on vacation at this hotel and they had a little arcade near the pool. The amount of quarters I spent trying to beat the game in one sitting to get to metal Sonic at the end was insane. Absolutely loved it
Gotta be S tier sonic riders was amazing from the gameplay to the soundtrack it was damn near flawless
@@UFunnyLowe say that to the guys that gave riders a 6 and zero gravity 5
I need a sonic show with sonic riders opening animation asap that shit was fire
06 on Xenia with no lag and fast loading made me rethink my opinion on 06, it became way less tedious and way more fun
If you’re already trying 06 on Xenia, just go check out Project 06. Its made me really start to enjoy the aspects of the game that were really done well but hidden behind the glitchiness
@@SilverSpireZ I’ve played project 06, it’s more polished and looks better but I have some big problems with it that make it less enjoyable. Silver and Sonic don’t turn and control as well as regular 06, and I find myself messing up in some stages (note: I played Project 06 before 06 so it’s not a bias thing). P06 however does make snow boarding and mach speed sections playable now which is amazing. Tails and Knuckles control better in P06 too
I though I was crazy for liking 06' for a moment. It's literally Sonic Adventure level design. For me it is perfect design philosophy for Sonic, a mix between 1 little openess and 2 more spectacular side (06 still is not the perfect example of that design, but it really is close to perfection).
If they didn't had to rush the game at the time it could've been a great game. Story still may have suck anyway, but it was something new and more mature. Levels and such are really fun beside the technical faults. It's also fun to break the game.
The PC version has improved the game more thankfully but overall agreed if they didn’t rush the game it could of been solid.
Someone is making a fan remake of Sonic 06 that aims to fix its major flaws.
Playing Project-06 made me realize it woulda been my favorite of all time if it worked properly
It had potential, the game would already be 100% better if Elise got hit by a plane or something
The game definitely has good qualities, just needed a bit more development time
And then Mario just became like Sonic when Odyssee is more like Sonic Unleashed. Bummer.
No?
Sonic Unleashed, Black Knight, and Seven Rings are amazing. The OSTs are underrated. They will never get old.
I'm guessing you're in your early 20s to say that
They're not underrated, stop misusing that word
@@AkameGaKillfan777unleashed and black knight IS underrated.Dont even make me pull out igns terrible review about unleashed
@@coconutgun325 Stop living in 2008. Everyone can't shut the hell up about Unleashed these days and the person who made that review hasn't worked there for over a decade. Someone else made a review for it last year.
@@AkameGaKillfan777 the hell is that 6.4 in imdb then?If people could still see it the it atleast would be 7.9 or 8.4
Rise of Lyric failed primarily because they were told "yeah this is gonna be a wii-u exclusive" about halfway through development, meaning they had to start all over again, and because of time constraints they weren't able to get it finished in time. If the game was allowed to be made as big red button wanted from the very beginning, it's likely it wouldn't have failed
Thank God (or Nintendo?) it did! Can't stand the rebooted game/character designs
I wonder how it would be if it was finished for current (or current for the time) consoles
I still think it would of failed because boom had so much wrong with the only reason rise of lyric is a success is if it's not sonic boom
@@jackthestar1292still would of failed
Sonic Generations is and probably will be my favorite Sonic game ever 😄
Sonic unleashed is so amazing, I loved the game as a kid and still love the game, the soundtrack was amazing plus eggman was in his prime in this game, he had his funny moments but at the same time he was the most serious in this game out of all the sonic games, tbh it was nice to see eggman truly filling his role as a serious villain and proving how much of a master mind he really was, like in this game he managed to capture super sonic and drain him of his powers. No other version of eggman has ever done that. As well as he wasn’t just trying to keep sonic out of his was like normally, this time he was truly trying to kill him. Idk seeing eggman in this game fully sold me.
HUGE W ON UNLEASHED! Would put SA2 over SA1 personally but other than that, you're valid and it was a great watch!
Yep same bro sa2 was a super ultra gem 💎
@@reversemello9618 I don't see how SA2 is ANY better than SA1.
@@DarkShadowX9 sa2 is billions of times better then sa1
@@Invisibleboy999 HOW? There are plenty of reasons why I think SA2 is worse than SA1.
1. The mech stages are WORSE than Gamma's stages all because Eggman/Tails have clunky controls (honestly, Tails shouldn't have had a mech and it didn't make sense why he had one if he could FLY, his stages should've been like his SA1 stages, I'm saying that he should've been able to fly around in all of his SA2 stages).
2. The radar in Rouge/Knuckles' stages doesn't beep faster when you're close to a Master Emerald shard and it doesn't show more than one emerald shard (like the radar in SA1).
3. Sonic and Shadow's Spin Dash has input lag (they should've put the Spamdash in the game), the Somersault and Lightspeed Dash are mapped to the same button, their controls are kinda awkward (I said, kinda.. by the way).
4. The level design is narrow or linear and not as open as SA1's level design.
And 5. The camera is AWFUL (I don't even need to say anything about this flaw, it's just awful).
While SA2 is more stable (less buggy) and has a better story compared to SA1, I still prefer SA1 over SA2.
I’m so glad you gave Sonic Unleashed some love!! I loved this game and other then some of the minor mechanics, I don’t understand the hate.
I agree with almost everything you said. I would however put Sonic Adventure 2 at S tier because it was so evolutionary to 3D Sonic games, but it’s such a minor criticism. So I digress. Good work
Literally he Said a milion times that unleashed is his fav game, my god "aM I ThE OnLY oNE ThaT LiKeS SoNic UNleaShEd?"
Sa2 wasn't revolutionary, it just took the best parts of sa1 and did them worse.
@@AYTM1200 your opinion
@@AYTM1200 truth
@@rando6677 Then how do you explain the radar in Knuckles' stages and the DELAYED Spin Dash (it shouldn't take almost 1 second for Sonic to use his Spin Dash, he should start rolling immediately) in SA2?
You was on a roll until you got to Heroes.
I like your tier list, it's pretty accurate, and I understand we're all going to have slightly different opinions on this. In my mind the most amazing sonic game was sonic adventures 2 BATTLE (the version that had 2 player vs mode racing in it) followed by sonic adventures 1. I just thought adventures 2 was a little bit more polished and had a few less glitches. The game also had a lot more replayability for me because I would frequently play it to race my friends for a good several years afterward. Almost all the levels in both games were so iconic to me, and I can't help but get a little crazed when people comment that the best sonic games were the side scrolling 2d games. No. The sonic adventure games were true marvels. 3rd I'm placing generations simply because that game was straight and to the point. You want to just run thru classic revamped levels in both old and new sonic styles with a miniscule storyline to slow you down? Here you go lol. My one gripe with generations is that I really thought they stumbled onto a great formula and believe they missed out on a dlc or sequel opportunity to add significantly more classic maps that many people probably wanted to see brought back and polished up. I still wish they would come out with a sonic generations 2 lol.
Yep I agree with this guy Sonic Adventure 2 Battle was the S+ tier for me I still play chao world to this day🥲 and replay the story
I used to not care about Stories in games because I don't focus on them, but now I really miss the story of Sonic Unleashed, its tone.
I like Sonic Colors, but now I realize how funny it looks compared to Sonic Unleashed. The latest Sonic Games have given us Candylands, renamed Green Hill Zones, and Casinos in Jungles. While Sonic Unleashed has shown us several countries from the real world with amazing music on the background that just fits.
At least Sonic Frontiers looks like something new.
For m I'd rather have Gens no story then Colors bad cringey story, at least Generations makes up for it because I enjoy how fast it is and how creative the trials are. I can't find a single cripe about Gens aside from its no story and bad boss fight. While Colors story is bad and we have barely any 3d, and with wisp that make sonic that either cheapen Sonic or slow him down like laser=cheap and hover=slow.
same i was like that to but when i stared playing the zelda games that's when i started caring about the story in games.
11:14 I knew this game had potential, the problem is 06 was an unfinished game, if the release date was pushed or if they began earlier that year it would have been a good sonic game
Even better assumption, what if they didnt split the team to work on secret rings? Both flopped, so imagine what they could've been with time.
1. Generations
2. Unleashed
3. Adventure
4. Mania
5. Adventure 2
6. 3K
7. CD
8. Colours
9. Sonic 2
10. Lost World
11. Sonic the Hedgehog
12. Heroes
13. 06
14. Forces
15. Rise of Lyric
Sonic Unleashed is sooooo gooood man. I'm glad someone actually acknowledged it for one.
I agree for the most part.
With Unleashed, the biggest flaw was the medals. Take it out.
Now if the warehog games were more arcade like, it'd be perfect. SEGA can make good beat'em ups. Golden Axe and Streets of Rage are evident of this.
If the warehog stages were more like that, I'd call the game a must, even for casual gamers. Still my favorite game.
and yakuza
I never EVER thought I would find another human being who’s 2 favourite Sonic games were Unleashed and Adventure, resonated with every word said about both games, Adventure was my first ever gaming experience and Unleashed enhanced my reflexes and consistency with gaming. Great list!
me 2!
sonic in general was my first real gaming experience, especially sonic adventures, sonic unleashed, and sonic adventures 2, i remember how all our siblings would have our own unique chao, and i remember when my older brother told me he knows a bug to make my chao extremely powerful, but i said no because i wanted him to get stronger naturally😭
Mine are unleashed and sa2,does that count?
FINALLY !!! ANOTHER SONIC UNLEASHED LOVER !!!!!!
I know right?
As a long time sonic fan, I actually love the Sonic Boom look. The character proportions look great and they all have much more personality built into their look and expressions. Imo Sonic fans need to be more open to changes to Sonic. People geniunely get mad when sonic's quills get slightly shorter or his blue is a shade lighter.
Right in my opinion the redesigns were not that bad and I liked them as well tbh
@- SageAegis - his design or like his personality?
@- SageAegis - Why? It felt like a natural change to me given that knuckles is meant to be somewhat brawny and strong.
The reasson why we’re angry about the short quils is because we’re literaly going backwards (even if Classic sonic is there already)
I'm pretty sure they changed the designs so it'd be better to animate the characters
I'm so happy to see love for sonic unleashed :) it was an outstanding game way ahead of its time, and the werehog is actually really fun if you keep an open mind and get into it.
I totally agree with your tier list, great job, as soon as I saw this vid, I said to myself, this channel deserves a sub 👏
No man they need to remaster Sonic Unleashed I mean get his feeling when you beat the game that's why the gave the game DLC
@@kalebkirby6863 I know!! That would be crazzyyy
Imagine the game getting remastered or part 2
@@kalebkirby6863 my dream
@@JW.165 our
I actually like Lost World despite some of the common criticisms. What would've made more sense would be if Lost World was a 3D Classic game. Think about it, the simple story, the cartoony aesthetics, elements from the classic games such as the way the robots are designed, the main problem I have is that this is all strung together and classified as a Modern Sonic game. Lost World as a classic Sonic game would make the most sense and it would probably be the first proper 3D Classic Sonic game.
I feel the same way about colors as well, it's not just them being a lot like Mario, but they just don't feel like a modern sonic game. Colors is 2d like classic Sonic and the few times it is 3d can be chalked up to the equivalent of special stages in classic Sonic, with difference being the ones in colors aren't optional, because they need to check that 3d modern Sonic box.
to me adventure 1 is the 3d sonic game that feels the most like a classic sonic game.
The original games weren't cartoony. Meta era games try too be overly contoony which is just gross.
@@thaneros the classic games stories weren't meta era simple they were just more show don't tell kinda stories the stories explained better in the manuals.
@@jdawson7877 Its not just the stories but visually as well. In the classics, badniks had a very robotic animation to them on purpose. Meta era badniks are overly animated... Why? Or like how zones like Sweet Mountain or Dessert Ruins would never been in classic games as the aesthetics do not fit in the world of Sonic pre Meta era.
Now imagine: I played Sonic Heroes on a computer, where this game ran at 10 FPS at best. And I 100% completed the game, thinking that it should be so slow like that (I didn’t yet know what “minimum system requirements” were)
You are a legend for putting Unleashed at the very tippy top of the list.
Gross
Thank you for showing unleashed some love. The werehog was added to slow down the pace a bit so you don't just blow through the game in like 1 day.
I'm actually replaying Sonic Heroes right now, I remember loving this game so much back when I was a kid, I would go round my cousin's house because she had an original xbox with it. I just loved it so much, the level design is pretty good and the gameplay is fun, playing it back I agree it does feel clunky at times but overall it definitely holds up pretty well considering the time it was made. I was relatively young playing Sonic 06 but it was my first game on Xbox 360 and I remember it being fantastic and completely disregarding every bug and glitch, it would be actually really fun without the game breaking issues. But I think my favourite is probably Sonic Unleashed, granted I haven't touched it in a very long time but god damn that game was good, I played it through countless times and enjoyed it every run, I just think the night stages were a bit meh at times is my only complaint. Haven't really played any of the modern Sonic stuff :(
Beautiful video, I don’t know if it’s just me, but it’s rare for someone to actually speak so passionately about Sonic, and about the stories in particular. Loved the video!
You're a man of culture putting Sonic 3&K at S Tier. Bro you're legendary.
29:08
Matthasnocuts: All of my homies love the chao gardern
Also Matthasnocuts: *proceed to beat up a chao*
Sonic Generations is my childhood
So happy it got A tier
It's so dope on next gen with the fps boost.
33:52 "A grand finale to all classic sonic games"
Superstars: Allow me to introduce myself
I'll be honest I rather play a broken game over forces anyday
No
@@segaspice4062 uh dude its my opinion if you like forces good for you I respect that but I just don't like the game its boring the story is bleh and I don't like the gameplay
@@wackywakko6694 For me I'd play neither Forces is boring and as much as I enjoy 06 it's not worth the long loading screens. Unleashed doesn't make me wait an awful lot and might I add with better quality and polish.
@@segaspice4062 you must be fun at parties
@@jadenbissell2795 no joke here, but do people even have parties these days? (And i swear to god, if a redditor comes in just to r/Woooosh me...
I GOT.
THE DAMN.
JOKE.
Bye)
My favorite is probably Sonic Adventure 2. I love the music the most out of any of the games. It made me a huge Shadow the Hedgehog fan. (Though sadly they haven't really captured him in a good light since imo.) Sonic and Shadow levels are a blast. Knuckles has some fun music while you search for...and probably get frustrated trying to find the pieces of the Emeralds. And Eggman and Tails levels kind of sucked if I'm being honest. But they were just boring and not too hard to get through. Overall I loved it. Sonic Adventure 1 is probably right after it. Other than classic Sonic games however, I couldn't really get into any of the more modern Sonic games. I don't know why.
Mine was 06 until frontiers…
25:35 my main problem with sonic colors aside from the story is that it relies way too much on 2d sections and the terrain in those sections is super blocky and boring if it had more 3d platforming and more creative terrain in those sections I would’ve enjoyed it much more also whoever thought having that yellow spring auto scroll section deserves to get fired
sonic unleashed is the absolute best game of sonic and there is nothing that proves it wrong, look man 15+ years later and this banger is still the best looking, best humor and it all of the care put in all of the stages is just beautiful
Gotta say, agreed to death on Unleashed. Best soundtrack in the series, period.
I thought I wasn’t a fan of 2d sonic at all until mania, then I went back and played 3 and knuckles and that game is amazing, I also think S3K is S tier
Have you played the original , sonic 2 and sonic cd yet?
Sonic 3&k was better than mania imo
@@roilo8560 I agree, mania is top tier but sonic3&K was the goat
@@roilo8560 For me, Sonic Mania's gameplay is better, but that's almost solely due to the fact that it's 23 years newer than 3&K. The story in 3&K is arguably the best in the series, rivaling Unleashed and SA2, and the game as a whole is one of the best in the 16-bit era and in history.
Agreed about LW. I would love to see an Ultimate version of Sonic Lost World on Switch. Very underrated Sonic game
Sonic Heroes in the same tier as Sonic 06 makes me wanna cry
SA2B and Sonic Heroes will forever be my favorites. Banger music, great characters and love the maps. Plus Sonic Heroes, those team finishers/combos is awesome.
Completely agree!
SA2 was probably the best sonic game ever imo
@@Nozoroth Honestly, I can agree with that. It’s a wonderful game with wonderful gameplay and an amazing story.
Facts. Couldn't agree more.
SA2B is great but honestly I can't comprehend how anybody could like Heroes for any reason beyond nostalgia
That's not even meant to be insulting, I just legitimately don't get it
I’m glad people are starting to appreciate unleashed. It was my favorite for a long time.
Man really put 06 above heroes smh.
I know its crazy
IKR !?
"Everyone has a different opinion on every sonic game"
Sonic 06:
the hate for this game is phenomenal and crazy
It was cool to see someone rank Sonic 006 higher then usual. Like I understand the game isn’t great but half the people who judge the game only talk about the bugs the game has and that’s it. It was cool to see someone grab a take on the hubs and the level design
My list:
S tier - S3&K, Maina, SA1 and Unleashed.
A tier - Sonic 2, SA2, Heroes and Generations (Console).
B tier - Sonic CD, Shadow and Colours (DS).
C tier - Sonic 1, Sonic 06, Colours (Wii), Lost World (Wii U) and Boom SC.
D tier - Sonic 4 Ep2, Generations (3DS), Lost World (3DS) and Forces.
F tier - Boom RoL and Sonic 4 Ep1.
The higher the game the more "Sonic" it feels imo plus personal enjoyment too. Any game I've left out I simply never played.
Ayyyy Dude why you copy and pasted my list. 😏
What's your your opinion of Colors?
I'm just curious.
@@Esteban-nk3nm Well, since it's in C tier he probably thinks it's mid.
Sonic Lost World 3DS should be an A but ok
Im happy about Sonic Unleashed being S tier, that was literally my favorite game. But I also liked Sonic Heroes a lot, but i can see why you put it on C tier, The soundtracks in the game just made me love the game.
The overwhelming anxiety I felt waiting for Sonic 4 to show up snowballed into indescribable relief as I realized it wasn’t on the list. Nice vid.
Sonic Unleashed is also my favorite sonic game. So many great memories and I still love playing it to this day!
As someone who absolutely loved Sonic CD I'll say that I loved the gimmick of time travel: go back into the past to break the Death Egg then complete the level. Do that on the first two acts and you'd get the good future for that zone in Act 3. Otherwise you'd get the bad future. It made the levels have you do more than just completing it as quickly as you could with 50+ rings. It was a challenge and while I agree with your thoughts on the wacky level design I nonetheless enjoyed the ride and time spent to beat it with the good ending.
Also at the time, the idea of getting the quality of music we did was virtually unheard of. Sure there was TurboGrafx CD but in my school that system was virtually non-existant. So between the visuals, the gameplay the music, basically the whole package - I think a lot of us have strong nostalgia for this game.
totally agree! I totally loved the feeling of getting the good future :) it gave me a great sense of accomplishment :)
and all the zones were fun because they were not repetitive
The Mario parallels was one of the biggest gripes I had with Sonic Lost World. Throughout the first couple levels I had this nagging feeling of familiarity that reminded me of the Super Mario Galaxy games in particular. I asked myself "What changes if I replace Sonic with Mario here?" and the answer I came to was nothing much. It felt like "Super Mario Galaxy but with a fast-forward button". Also those comparisons became even clearer when I played the Wii U Yoshi's Island DLC level.
Mario in LW makes the game way worse, but Sonic in LW is great imo. So i desagree.
@@ssseee3ds463 It's the visuals mostly. Most the levels remind me of Super Mario Galaxy. They very rarely felt like a Sonic level to me. I could see alot of LW levels making into SMG 3 which isn't something I can usually say about Sonic levels.
@@Dr.Deluxe The visual look more Classic Sonic-ishe to me, Also SLW levels making into SMG3 just because the gravitationnal-thing is kinda dumb (The 2D section tho are kinda mid so i can agree with that)
@@Dr.Deluxe The level themes are ripped straight out of New Super Mario Bros in particular, and you're doing a lot of standard platforming that can be done with the movement of several other platforming characters. The game would've been more interesting and unique if they had their own level themes and designed every stage around utilizing the Parkour system.
*Sees Sonic Unleashed in S-Tier.*
Ah, finally someone who sees the true beauty and perfection that is Sonic Unleashed.
9:34 There’s more of a timing to it than automatic. Look at sonic’s cooldown on the homing attack. It’s simple to find out and makes it more manageable to see how it works.
9:53 Also you shall not press the b button during you switch rails or you die.
I don't know if it was on here or not, but Shadow the Hedgehog was the dopest sonic game, as a kid I loved that game it was nuts and awesome! Also shootouts to sonic riders too, those 2 games were godlike as well.
I love Sonic and the Secret rings. A bit overly tough in some areas for no reason but a great game never the less. The ost is an absolute banger and the story is amazing in my opinion
You forgot Shadow the hedgehog, sonic advance 1 2 3, sonic rush, etc... Good video by the way. I agree with Sonic 06. 👍
Edit: sonic rivals 1and 2, sonic riders 1 and 2, secret rings and black knight
yeah, riders was epic
Bro as we speak I'm downloading Sonic Unleashed on my Xbox one s because I still have the disc from playing it on my old Xbox 360
Unleashed is also my favorite game in the series. The difficulty while cheap at times made me love mastering it
I LOVE SONIC UNLEASHED. THE WHEREHOG WAS AMAZING AND THE DAY TIME WAS FAST AND INTENSE. LOVED ALL OF IT
It's so nice to see Sonic Unleashed get so much love and it deserves it, definitely the best Sonic game ever and no one will ever change my mind
Half of the game is dogshit
It’s hard to explain but: Unleashed is my favourite sonic game, but Generations is my favourite game in the Sonic franchise
Do you mean like unleashed is your favorite sonic game but generations is also your favorite Sonic game because it's the best game that feels like Sonic?
I was curious why the Advance games weren't included, they seem pretty "mainline" to me :o And they weren't bad games at all. But overall I can't disagree much with this list. I had the Wii version of Sonic Unleashed and I generally think people find it worse than the others, but I still really loved it! Wouldn't call it my favourite of them all tho, but a solid A tier.
My favourite... I don't even know. The Gamecube-era games are definitely my favourites (Sonic Heroes, Sonic Adventure 1 & 2, Shadow the Hedgehog). All 3 of these games have their own reasons, Heroes is just unique and fun (for me at least); SA1 has an awesome story & levels, a hub world and to top it all off, it got a whole assortment of classic Sonic games; SA2 has pretty much the same reasons but also adds the Chao Garden and a lot of iconic cutscene moments but it gor rid of the hub world unfortunately. And of course, all of these games have such awesome music!
Wait- was Sonic Riders not a main Sonic game?? I gotta say as an artist I loved the designs of Riders and the animations were SO good that hooks perfectly with the music. Even as a kid whenever that starting screen animation came on I SAT and watched it through everytime.
I think he forgot about it. Other games are missing too
I understand your opinion, but I think we all agree that Sonic Forces deserved tier A or S
If they ported Unleashed on the switch id buy it in a heart beat
SA2 is an S for me, first video game i remember playing, replay it once a year at least. goated soudtrack, best story, everything was just amazing, I wish they modeled all sonic games like sa and sa2. perfect formula
Sonic unleashed was my childhood but holy shit that game pissed me off so much I found it so hard.still love the game none the less.
Not gonna lie kinda of a harsh list but fair enough tbh
Fun fact for Sonic Unleashed for PlayStation 3 in specific. It was one of the only games for PlayStation 3 where you could listen to your music from your hard drive you had downloaded throughout the entire game.
9:55 Sonic adventure 2 has the rail problem too. I don't know why people bash heroes for just repeating errors from previous games. I mean it can't be just nostalgia , the games were released close to each other. Every damn 3d Sonic till Sonic 06 feels unfinished.
To an extent, you are right about the last part. I think the adventure style gameplay was just hard to pull of back then.
Having sonic unleashed above adventure 2, when unleashed made me stop playing sonic games, hurts so much
Personally, I love Unleashed but Eggmanland… *DEAR GOD WAS THIS STAGE* This stage took me so long but it damn worth it when I finished it
I honestly was a fan of 06. It wasn’t the best but I still enjoyed it especially destroying my siblings in the multiplayer mode.
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It’s funny how a sonic game suck but the soundtrack carries it almost every game honestly
I'd also say that Sonic Unleashed had the best tone. It wasn't laughably melodramatic and awkward like Sonic '06 or Shadow the Hedgehog, and it wasn't just a goofy lighthearted story where nothing can be taken too seriously like Generations or Lost World. Unleashed had charming cartoony designs and good humor, yet the story actually had stakes and it wasn't afraid to go darker.
Bad monster threatens planet, beat it. The story isn't deep at all.
@@AkameGaKillfan777 i doubt you played the game there is way more then that.
@@hormoheb Bitch, I beat the game. It's incredibly shallow
@@hormoheb do you recommend it?
I’m happy that Sonic 06 is not on the D tier. I agree it’s a bad game, but it can be pretty fun at times when you are just platforming and playing the meat of the game. And it has Mephiles (AKA the best villain in the series). Sonic Boom is just boring all the way through.