This is one of my favourite levels in the entire game. The soundtrack, the level design, the objectives (minus the dark story mission) are fun to do as well. This one level is what inspired me to write my own story based in a tron like world similar to this
I remember playing this game on XBOX waaay back in the 2000s and adoring it, my favorite levels are the cyberspace levels, especially this one. The Mad Matrix level. Also, I know this is random as Hell, but I would love to know more about your story. Provided you ever see this comment and feel like sharing.
@@elgoblinocoolio4378 Sure I don’t mind sharing. Basically I created my own comic book series which I’m hoping will become an anime one day called Chaos Man. Mad Matrix inspired me to write an arc based in a digital world with four towers like the ones in the game all ruled by it’s kings. The plot for it is that people are mysteriously disappearing through time and space to the digital world and are forced by the AI controlling the digital world to choose which of the four kingdoms to join and fight for. The four kings have to battle each other until only one remained. The winning tower gets to escape the digital world alive. It was originally meant to be part of the main story but I instead made it into a spin-off/epilogue of the main series (Chaos Man) I could go into more detail but I don’t wanna make this comment too long. You can read my first chapter online if you want a link to it, I’ve also talked about it on my TH-cam channel
@@thedragonskull1065 dude, what you just wrote piqued my interest. That storyline of yours sounds absolutely badass and I would love a link. I also have my own Cyberpunk story, and there is a cyberspace level very similar in design to Mad Matrix. It's 100% based off of Mad Matrix and the chapter was even called Mad Matrix lol That being said, we should contact each other in Discord or something. If you are on any social media, preferably non mainstream ones I'd love to befriend you there. Also, on a sidenote I really wish my old XBOX still worked. I'm not sure how I would go about ripping assets from Xbox games but I'm a fairly resourceful guy and I'm sure somebody must have done it somehow. There's multiple Xbox games that have amazing 3D world that I would love to port to a PC engine of sorts. I'm a huuuge cyberpunk fan, and this level, the Mad Matrix was one of my earliest tastes of the aesthetic and it played a roll in me getting into cyberpunk style sci-fi from a young age. Man, I would love to have the exact 3D files of all the Shadow The Hedgehog maps, or even just mad matrix, so I can port it into GMOD or unreal or something. Imagine playing custom storylines on this map. This game has absolutely legendary level design all around.
@@elgoblinocoolio4378 yeah I’d like that. I actually do have a discord server for my channel. If you click on my most recent video you’ll find a link to my discord there as well as the website you can read my comic on. Remember that it’s called Chaos Man so you don’t confuse yourself with the other comics there
@@thedragonskull1065 the Discord link doesn't send me anywhere in particular it just sends me to the main website. I watched your most recent video and click on the link and nothing. However if you were to provide me your Discord username with the hashtag and four-digit number I would be able to send you a friend request. You can feel free to delete your comment once I've sent you the friend request however. If you don't mind hosting your username to begin with. Or you can just link your server here, but it has to be an actual link to your server. Apologies, I know Discord isn't the easiest thing to work with
I don't think Nintendo viewers would like that very much, since spyware, malware, or any kind of form of harmful software are full of viruses. I think Eggman would've been better off creating a file of his own for world domination, not a file where he keeps all his anger, failure, and shame built into it. Besides if Eggman doesn't have any respect for the Internet, then he shouldn't be a Nintendo villain at all. Just a 35 year old baldy, peach-fuzzed, hot-headed, revenge-obsessed, hedgehog destroying, junk food eating, morbidly obese, while also giving his henchmen orders kind of villain, rather than being the type of person who never seems to understand the definition of the word, "fun", since cooking up some revenge plots based on destroying Sonic the Hedgehog somewhat seems like "fun" to him.
Fun facts: 1. This is the true mission of this stage. Cos in the last story, team Chaotix sent Shadow a message from Eggman's grandfather. This message is the data team Chaotix needed, cos it contained information of how to defeat the Black Arms AND the truth about Shadow's past. 2.This is the only time Team Chaotix fought Eggman HIMSELF. Cos Vector doesn't appears in the cutscenes before and after the Egg Dealer boss of Cosmic Fall, and in Sonic Heroes they helped the REAL Eggman, so they fought an metal doppleganger of Sonic or Eggman. Of course, not Metal Sonic, cos he was facing Sonic.
4:21 - What the hell, Espio? I thought you didn't wanna attack the Egg Pawns in order to keep a low profile. Check the Dark Score: it's being raised by Espio killing robots off-screen.
I'm guessing that Eggman's robots are teaming up with you as your "backup allies" to taking down the black aliens, which is kind of precious. Because anyways, I'm assuming that Eggman's henchmen are through playing second fiddle to Dr. Eggman, because you know how much of a cranky, bald-headed hothead Eggman can be sometimes when it comes to him initiating another one of his diabolical schemes for world domination.
Espio: Let's see... we've got four towers: blue, yellow, green, and red. Shadow: Well we've already done blue then yellow. So let's continue doing it in that order.
Do the Neutral Mission - Help defend Sonic's ship from the Black Arms in the cutscene Do the Hero Mission - Rob Sonic's ship of its Chaos Emerald then have a flashback ???
This level is legitimately amazing with how MASSIVE it is. This game's not a good SONIC game and Shadow controls like a buttered turd, but when it shines it REALLY does.
@@cbsteffen A remake would be more appropriate. Graphics get a more updated look. They can reduce the amount of endings needed to get the trust ending since that's the only real issue with the game. They can take out any glitches that might be in the game
@@LightKing1237 Honestly upon revisiting these videos, most of the gameplay problems are just traditional sonic team unpolish. The real problems lie with the story's unmedicated ADHD.
I remember as a kid-pre-teen I got stuck in the hyperspace travel and found it hard to find my way back a few times. Like I would end up on those "islands" only to return back to the same one again and again.
6:02 "This is a complicated color-coded device." Umm... I hate to break it to you Espio, but... Rodney: It's not a puzzle. It's not. Lily: No it's not. Rodney: It took two seconds to solve.
@@tailsfan11westandwithukraine I've played the game before so I know what Im talking about and my response is correct. You can go to the red tower at any point anyway.
When you attack Eggman's robots in the boss battle, then Espio will sometimes say that he doesn't want Eggman to find them. lol that's dumb considering you are fighting Eggman.
I think it's more about him managing to get their precise location in his datascape. As long as they keep on quiet, he knows, that they're _somewhere_ around here, but has no idea about their precise location. By watching his robots going offline, he can understand, where they are likely to be.
Get a load of this. No way I can't believe this. All systems full power. You know what they say, the more the merrier. I'm a big egg. Yadda Yadda Yadda.
@@Rahkeef I have no idea. But my favorite sound in this stage is the sound the panels make when all of them are the same color as they move while activated.
Stage 4 Cleared! (Hero Mission) Hero Score: 600 Dark Score: 1,060 Normal Score: 1,620 Time: ⏱️ 06'39"71 Rings:💍182 Time Bonus: 18,080 Total Score: 19,240 Ranking: A 👍 Boss Defeated! Time: ⏱️ 00'51"09 Ranking: A 👍
Stage 4: Mad Matrix 🟢 (Boss: Egg Breaker) Mission selected: 🔵 Hero Mission Helper's Name: Espio the Chameleon Target: Access to all the terminals Terminals to access: 4 Next Stage: Lost Impact 🔵 Select a Mission 🔴 (X) ⚫ Go to the Gerald's lab 🔵 Defeat the Artificial Chaos
Nope. I think the Chaos Emerald was the power supply for the spaceship he was in. But whoever is the engineer for the spaceship he was inside of, something tells me that they might want to start going back to MIT with a master's degree, because a Chaos Emerald wouldn't be a perfect source for a spaceship's power supply. Just some spacecraft fuel, and wiring is all that is needed.
Espio, I think you need to get a brain check. The puzzle isn't complicated. Red, blue, yellow, and green. That's it. Where you expecting purple to be there too? :S Wait... You did this to get the data from Eggman's computer, yet they never access it? You just fight a boss? Leads just like the normal path. Guess Sega didn't want to complicate things (or was too damn lazy to make another path).
@AzureBlade49 Oh you silly canooks. I always tell folk that you all are trying to change America via culture but no one ever listens to me! Would ya imagine that, eh? ... Oh sh--
Michael Lindeen Digital circuit is mostly a straight path, with a couple of points when you must go down some poles, and I can understand getting lost in Mad matrix, though I prefer it over digital circuit.
Shadow Breaks the Internet.
Shadow the Hedgehog broke the internet
Just like Ralph Breaks the Internet.
Shadow broke the Internet
That'd be digital circuit
No shadow his extract data no break data
The sound of activating a terminal lives rent free in my head it’s been 15 years
WubwUBWUBwUBwUb
This is one of my favourite levels in the entire game. The soundtrack, the level design, the objectives (minus the dark story mission) are fun to do as well. This one level is what inspired me to write my own story based in a tron like world similar to this
I remember playing this game on XBOX waaay back in the 2000s and adoring it, my favorite levels are the cyberspace levels, especially this one. The Mad Matrix level. Also, I know this is random as Hell, but I would love to know more about your story. Provided you ever see this comment and feel like sharing.
@@elgoblinocoolio4378 Sure I don’t mind sharing. Basically I created my own comic book series which I’m hoping will become an anime one day called Chaos Man. Mad Matrix inspired me to write an arc based in a digital world with four towers like the ones in the game all ruled by it’s kings. The plot for it is that people are mysteriously disappearing through time and space to the digital world and are forced by the AI controlling the digital world to choose which of the four kingdoms to join and fight for. The four kings have to battle each other until only one remained. The winning tower gets to escape the digital world alive. It was originally meant to be part of the main story but I instead made it into a spin-off/epilogue of the main series (Chaos Man) I could go into more detail but I don’t wanna make this comment too long. You can read my first chapter online if you want a link to it, I’ve also talked about it on my TH-cam channel
@@thedragonskull1065 dude, what you just wrote piqued my interest. That storyline of yours sounds absolutely badass and I would love a link. I also have my own Cyberpunk story, and there is a cyberspace level very similar in design to Mad Matrix. It's 100% based off of Mad Matrix and the chapter was even called Mad Matrix lol
That being said, we should contact each other in Discord or something. If you are on any social media, preferably non mainstream ones I'd love to befriend you there.
Also, on a sidenote I really wish my old XBOX still worked. I'm not sure how I would go about ripping assets from Xbox games but I'm a fairly resourceful guy and I'm sure somebody must have done it somehow. There's multiple Xbox games that have amazing 3D world that I would love to port to a PC engine of sorts. I'm a huuuge cyberpunk fan, and this level, the Mad Matrix was one of my earliest tastes of the aesthetic and it played a roll in me getting into cyberpunk style sci-fi from a young age.
Man, I would love to have the exact 3D files of all the Shadow The Hedgehog maps, or even just mad matrix, so I can port it into GMOD or unreal or something. Imagine playing custom storylines on this map. This game has absolutely legendary level design all around.
@@elgoblinocoolio4378 yeah I’d like that. I actually do have a discord server for my channel. If you click on my most recent video you’ll find a link to my discord there as well as the website you can read my comic on. Remember that it’s called Chaos Man so you don’t confuse yourself with the other comics there
@@thedragonskull1065 the Discord link doesn't send me anywhere in particular it just sends me to the main website. I watched your most recent video and click on the link and nothing. However if you were to provide me your Discord username with the hashtag and four-digit number I would be able to send you a friend request. You can feel free to delete your comment once I've sent you the friend request however. If you don't mind hosting your username to begin with. Or you can just link your server here, but it has to be an actual link to your server. Apologies, I know Discord isn't the easiest thing to work with
Keanu Reaves playing Shadow confirmed
With the amount of defenses eggman put up, he REALLY mustn't want anyone finding his porn stash!
I don't think Nintendo viewers would like that very much, since spyware, malware, or any kind of form of harmful software are full of viruses. I think Eggman would've been better off creating a file of his own for world domination, not a file where he keeps all his anger, failure, and shame built into it. Besides if Eggman doesn't have any respect for the Internet, then he shouldn't be a Nintendo villain at all. Just a 35 year old baldy, peach-fuzzed, hot-headed, revenge-obsessed, hedgehog destroying, junk food eating, morbidly obese, while also giving his henchmen orders kind of villain, rather than being the type of person who never seems to understand the definition of the word, "fun", since cooking up some revenge plots based on destroying Sonic the Hedgehog somewhat seems like "fun" to him.
@@calebsawyer0719 German is from Sega...
This brings to mind a line from the Sonic the Hedgehog movie.
"Tell him to stop or i'll pull up his search history."
Hahaha!
@@calebsawyer0719 You know Sonic is a SEGA thing, right?
@@blastteam2442 Yeah, you're right.
Egg man's quotes:
-Get a load of this .
-take this ....take this .
-lights out .
-you know what they say , the more , the merrier .
All systems full power! No way I can't believe this! Ah he's not gonna get away with this!
-Do you think you can beat me?
-You think you cam keep up with me?
-What? He's caught up!
-Tails, wait for me!
This was probably my favorite level, only for it to be followed up by
“YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY, THE MORE THE MERRIER”
"LIGHTS OUT!"
For years, I thought getting an A rank on this mission was impossible. You are amazing diude.
The highest I got on this was C.
Nah. It's easy.
The stage itself doesn't let you get a high score, that's why it's set to get an A rank with not so many points
poor espio kept spawning and falling 😂
Espio, you can't be like that if your a ninja
“We’re on our way to the ark, so I guess that means we’re going too” what
At 6:30, stand as far away from the blocks as possible, so that the guide can finish his thought.
Fun facts:
1. This is the true mission of this stage. Cos in the last story, team Chaotix sent Shadow a message from Eggman's grandfather. This message is the data team Chaotix needed, cos it contained information of how to defeat the Black Arms AND the truth about Shadow's past.
2.This is the only time Team Chaotix fought Eggman HIMSELF. Cos Vector doesn't appears in the cutscenes before and after the Egg Dealer boss of Cosmic Fall, and in Sonic Heroes they helped the REAL Eggman, so they fought an metal doppleganger of Sonic or Eggman. Of course, not Metal Sonic, cos he was facing Sonic.
Thank you for the explanation. :)
What about at the end of their story in Heroes when they ganged up to kick the crap outta him?
@@jamainegardner4193 That was a cutscene. I was talking about you fighting a boss. I don't count cutscenes.
Thanks for the hot 411, slim!!!
don't forget, Eggman actually tricked Team Chaotix into helping him
Espio is officially the best supporting character in this game on the grounds that he covered you as you shot the panels at 5:15
The stage in this game has "Disney's: Tron" written all over it.
4:21 - What the hell, Espio? I thought you didn't wanna attack the Egg Pawns in order to keep a low profile. Check the Dark Score: it's being raised by Espio killing robots off-screen.
I'm guessing that Eggman's robots are teaming up
with you as your "backup allies" to taking down the
black aliens, which is kind of precious. Because anyways,
I'm assuming that Eggman's henchmen are through playing
second fiddle to Dr. Eggman, because you know how much of
a cranky, bald-headed hothead Eggman can be sometimes when
it comes to him initiating another one of his diabolical schemes for
world domination.
@@calebsawyer4037 bruh I'm dead 😂😭
10:41 "This is like taking candy from a baby, which is fine by me." Wtf Shadow xD
Espio: Let's see... we've got four towers: blue, yellow, green, and red.
Shadow: Well we've already done blue then yellow. So let's continue doing it in that order.
Do the Neutral Mission - Help defend Sonic's ship from the Black Arms in the cutscene
Do the Hero Mission - Rob Sonic's ship of its Chaos Emerald then have a flashback
???
I can't believe I actually just heard Espio curse for the first time in this game!
Caleb Sawyer "Damn we've been detected"
Heh-heh. First time we hear him say a swear.
He actually says far worse things in Heroes, talking about cold-blooded murder and whatnot.
This level is legitimately amazing with how MASSIVE it is. This game's not a good SONIC game and Shadow controls like a buttered turd, but when it shines it REALLY does.
I want them to remaster this game
Chris Redfield What realistic difference would that make?
@@cbsteffen A remake would be more appropriate. Graphics get a more updated look. They can reduce the amount of endings needed to get the trust ending since that's the only real issue with the game. They can take out any glitches that might be in the game
I want it too however with the problems surrounding the game I don’t think that will happen
I want Kirk Thornton to ask where the damn FORTH chaos emerald is.
@@LightKing1237 Honestly upon revisiting these videos, most of the gameplay problems are just traditional sonic team unpolish. The real problems lie with the story's unmedicated ADHD.
I remember as a kid-pre-teen I got stuck in the hyperspace travel and found it hard to find my way back a few times. Like I would end up on those "islands" only to return back to the same one again and again.
There's nothing but empty void of darkness below if you fall there's no return.
I like to believe that if you fall it's either a tron-style digital deletion or an "And I must scream":
I think this zone really does deserve the name "MAD" Matrix >:(
YOO NO WAHT THEY SAYY, TEH MOAR TEH M- *shot*
my childhood right here damn
The Dark Mission is like hell, i kept yelling in my head "HOW CAN I ESCAPE THE MATRIX?"
*"YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY, THE MORE THE MERRIER!"*
Shadow teaches Colors!
6:02 "This is a complicated color-coded device."
Umm... I hate to break it to you Espio, but...
Rodney: It's not a puzzle. It's not.
Lily: No it's not.
Rodney: It took two seconds to solve.
Apparently firewalls aren't bulletproof.
The key reward here is a eggman style rocket launcher.
Nah, it's the data, which is the password to his Twitter account.
You’re both wrong. The reward is a straight and direct path to the red tower.
@@tailsfan11westandwithukraine I've played the game before so I know what Im talking about and my response is correct. You can go to the red tower at any point anyway.
wow that's a little bit excessive , if eggman wanted to keep people away from its porn he should have download a file hiding program
Or just don't download it at all since it's always full of viruses
@@RhyperiorRanger You're talking the honest truth right there!
Never download something that will cause harm to a computer.
When you attack Eggman's robots in the boss battle, then Espio will sometimes say that he doesn't want Eggman to find them. lol that's dumb considering you are fighting Eggman.
I have no idea why you have Eggman's robots for this mission helping you destroy those Black Arms.
I think it's more about him managing to get their precise location in his datascape. As long as they keep on quiet, he knows, that they're _somewhere_ around here, but has no idea about their precise location. By watching his robots going offline, he can understand, where they are likely to be.
Get a load of this.
No way I can't believe this.
All systems full power.
You know what they say, the more the merrier.
I'm a big egg. Yadda Yadda Yadda.
bro them sqaure lights had me for days 🟨
Damn! We've been detected!
@OmniSonic I think that this counts as a puzzle... you know... in Japan, maybe. But to a Canadian like myself, this barely counts as a tedious task.
what is that sound when shadow finishes one of the terminals?
I've been trying to find that sound too 😱
@@Rahkeef I have no idea. But my favorite sound in this
stage is the sound the panels make when all of them are
the same color as they move while activated.
seeing shadow float like that reminds me of when you have to fight prototpye in sa2b, uuuggghhh
I miss this lvl I loved it
the more, the merrier!
Stage 4 Cleared! (Hero Mission)
Hero Score: 600
Dark Score: 1,060
Normal Score: 1,620
Time: ⏱️ 06'39"71
Rings:💍182
Time Bonus: 18,080
Total Score: 19,240
Ranking: A 👍
Boss Defeated!
Time: ⏱️ 00'51"09
Ranking: A 👍
FUCK. THIS. STAGE.
Cool video!
@AzureBlade49 Ain't that right. I mean really, how does that count for anybody BUT Japan for a puzzle?
Stage 4: Mad Matrix 🟢
(Boss: Egg Breaker)
Mission selected: 🔵 Hero Mission
Helper's Name: Espio the Chameleon
Target: Access to all the terminals
Terminals to access: 4
Next Stage: Lost Impact 🔵
Select a Mission
🔴 (X)
⚫ Go to the Gerald's lab
🔵 Defeat the Artificial Chaos
Sonic and autism sure do always go hand in hand.
Did he just rip the power supply out of the space ship he was in?
Nope. I think the Chaos Emerald was the power supply for the spaceship he was in. But whoever is the engineer for the spaceship he was inside of, something tells me that they might want to start going back to MIT with a master's degree, because a Chaos Emerald wouldn't be a perfect source for a spaceship's power supply. Just some spacecraft fuel, and wiring is all that is needed.
@ 9:52 is shadow getting tried to seeing sonic
Great Video Game I love it so much I love Shadow the hedgehog
If only this Cyberspace and the Cyberspace from Frontiers were connected somehow.
Sorry, what is it they say again?
The last terminal is bugged for me. Every single time
What button do you use to switch partners without going to the start screen?
dratinifan13 use the D-pad
1:18 and 3:33 WHAT THE HELL SHADOW, YOUR NOT SUPPOSED TO SET OFF THOSE DAMN BOMBS
You know what they say?
ItsASquid the more, the merrier
LIGHTS OUT!
ItsASquid o no *has flashbacks*
Espio, I think you need to get a brain check. The puzzle isn't complicated. Red, blue, yellow, and green. That's it. Where you expecting purple to be there too? :S
Wait... You did this to get the data from Eggman's computer, yet they never access it? You just fight a boss?
Leads just like the normal path. Guess Sega didn't want to complicate things (or was too damn lazy to make another path).
6:53 I dont get it. How do I stay up
Edit: This took me 10 minutes
One of the most uncomfortable stages, visually talking, of Sonic series
7:00
TH-cam has bad grammar. It says that this video has "1 views"
1:10 **Vietnam Intensifies**
It always kinda annoyed me that espio speaks so damn quiet lol
@Jynweythek501 thats funny
@AzureBlade49
Oh you silly canooks. I always tell folk that you all are trying to change America via culture but no one ever listens to me! Would ya imagine that, eh?
... Oh sh--
@Jynweythek501 WOW it also says "1 likes"
No,Lost Impact😭😭😭
It s very big level
I get lost every time. This and Digital Circuit are very badly designed
How can that be? Navigating around this course and digital circuit. Maybe you just suck, that's my explanation.
Michael Lindeen Digital circuit is mostly a straight path, with a couple of points when you must go down some poles, and I can understand getting lost in Mad matrix, though I prefer it over digital circuit.
@@bronosx2246 I'm dead asf I can't believe you said that to him 💀💀😭😭😂😂
@@Rahkeef some1 had 2 say it. Digital circuit, lost impact, and the doom are not hard levels. And it’s not easy to get lost.
@@bronosx2246 I never even got the hang of how completing
the Hero Mission for this stage works, to be honest.
TH-cam has bad grammar. It says that this video has "1 views"
It always kinda annoyed me that espio speaks so damn quiet lol