วีดีโอ

No problem. I don't know what I would have done if I hadn't had that Prima guide for the game. Some of these keys are more cryptic than the French catacombs. Also nice reference.

I've been getting better at this game since recording this, so I'll give you some advice I learned. The slide attack is your best friend. It bails you out whenever you're going too fast and are about to collide with something that does touch damage, by giving you immunity to most damage. And in case you're hurtling towards an edge, the jump out of the slide cancels all momentum and makes you go slightly backwards. It enables you to be a lot more fearless in speeding through stages. Maybe that can help you catch up. Also it's a useful tool when there's non-damaging things in your way, like the debris and barricades in Westopolis. Sometimes your momentum is cancelled, but mostly you'll plow right through it all and not lose as much time as it would take to jump over it.

Congratulations Shadow, You Pretty Much Made The Unnamed President Suffer The Same That JFK & James Garfield Had As Presidents.

You can at least use this but yeah

If you touch a switch, a barrier is put up at the end of the stage that prevents you from getting to Black Doom, and you have to go back and hit the switch again. That's about it.

The Iron Knight powerup has a special ability that lets you do that. I forget the button combination, but when you have 50 gems and activate said ability, you get another hit point. This hit point is added to all powerups you can get, and you get to keep it until you die. All the helmet powerups have abilities. If you have more than 20 but less than 50 gems, a weaker ability activates and consumes only 20. If you have 50 or more gems, a stronger ability activates. Some give you offensive abilities, some make you temporarily invincible, one gives you an extra life, but by far the most useful is the ability to get more health. I'd recommend looking into an FAQ for the details of what every helmet powerup gives you, it's really useful to know what each does.

@@reshawshid thanks

Just glad people are getting use out of it, honestly. Reassures me that I didn't do all this for nothing.

literally what i though

Part of me now thinks that the Lost Impact secret room is the devs trolling. They HAD to know people would want to take the car with them.

I'm... not sure. I see the counter tick up between rooms, so I think an enemy got killed by another enemy?

​@reshawshid, I figured it out. There's supposed to be a Gun mech here at 4:24. It must've died on accident.

​@@ShadowScorp99 Much appreciated, I was a bit concerned about needing to redo this. I was already thinking of redoing the whole thing with a better format, but still.

With that particular powerup, you just approach a wall and rapidly press one of the buttons. I think it's the button used for attacks, but it's been years.

@@reshawshid yeah I saw another that answered this but thanks for the reply.

Probably, but I feel like they were most likely just strapped for time and couldn't be bothered to change the dialogue that results from killing enemies. Speaking of wrong dialogue, though, I found out that if you follow the Digital Circuit dark path with Rouge, there's a trigger for a voice line that isn't supposed to play there, but instead in Gun Fortress. I think the voice lines are universal, as in the trigger events apply regardless of partner and are used in all stages, and simply play whatever line should happen for that partner. Amy might be the only exception.

Appreciate the tip on that. It took me a while to figure out what you were even talking about because it wasn't working (and because I play relatively sparingly), until I realized I needed to aim up a little. Would not have figured that out otherwise.

Same, I was like "What's wrong?, am being too bad?" 🥺

I keep becoming surprised by my performance as people comment on these videos. I genuinely don't understand why I didn't demonstrate that shortcut, because I knew about it very well.

@@reshawshid it's more of a tip for others actually

I haven't tested it, but someone else here suggested you could get up by homing attacking something on the back side of the platform. I'm skeptical given the nature of the homing attack in this game, but I've heard no better answers. My "official" magazine guide didn't have a better answer than what I did, and neither did FAQ's online.

@@reshawshid Was able to get the spin dash to work but it was as frustrating as possible to do it. Great video

Looking at the video now, I genuinely have no idea why I didn't just do that.

Section 230 is fine, but should be getting enforced correctly. Platforms should not be allowed to censor content that isn't illegal. COPPA though? That was just a stupid half measure that ultimately accomplished nothing but making things difficult for creators.

@@reshawshid removing COPPA would only allow something worse to replace it. We have to strike the problem at its source with precision and strength. Section 230 turned into a means for places like TH-cam to be publisher and platform with none of the negatives, and COPPA is just one of these government bloat laws that screw over creativity, which is the source of profits. Everything that has made a profit has always been the result of creativity and free market.