All games are connected, Last Story of Shadow 2005 leads in 06 and Shadow is a G.U.N. Agent for what he did for the world after defeating his Biological Father as everyone saw him send the Black Comet into space to be destroyed for good by the Eclipse Cannon including G.U.N., the President and the Commander.
I mean, there is the down air. But I do believe that sonic's moveset should be a combination of fighters and battle. Since fighters covers the more cartoony aspect of sonic, while battle covers the more fresh and cool aspect of sonic.
You can actually block the explosion if you set your defense against power, I accidently figured it out when fucking around makes the early battles against Gamma and the Gamma copies sooo much faster.
Sonic battle is underrated. This game is actually a prequel to sonic advance 3. Gmerl is a new version of emerl after he dies in battle. The pixel art in this game was unique and it is sadly underrated. Emerls story was actually really good in this game. Also shadow and cream were extremely op and knuckles and gamma were kinda bad.
I would love to see him cover Animal Crossing, Story of Seasons (formerly known as Harvest Moon), and Rune Factory. Basically any type of game revolving around day to day life. Literal day to day life. Heck, throw Persona 5 and Stardew Valley in it. Story of Seasons has inspired so many games both directly and indirectly that I'm surprised it isn't more popular.
Oh my GOD I LOVE THIS GAME! Thanks Billiam! 🤩 I've been saying we need a Sonic Battle remake for years! There's literally enough characters to have their own Smash Bros-esque thing!
In this house, we praise and respect Dimps, the developers of most 2D handheld Sonic games in this era. That being said, Sonic Team did actually do Sonic Battle.
@@serPomiz You're absolutely right. No "real" instrument was capable of producing a sound like this. Yet, at the same time, I've never heard anything that sounded so much like a bunch of electric guitars just screaming at the top of their lungs.
YEEEES. Sonic Battle's movesets need a true carryover into other games. Edit: Cream is more OP than you think. Cream Heal is REALLY GOOD for a thrift heal skill and plus, midair Cream Cracker is ACTUALLY BUSTED. Also, Amy has the fastest first attack in the game. Girl/Maiden Jab can frame lock shit into itself with ease.
If you wanted to be really OP, you would find the passwords the download the rare combo cards from the Sonic Team building. Literal one-hit KOs. Chaos' rare combo card was the most broken.
@@luisalonsoecheverria the ones that ended in a non-special move finisher were pure AI breakers that couldn't be auto-blocked. Good times....good times....
I'll never understand why they didn't pull moves from this game for Sonic's Smash moveset. He's had the same, lame, generic moves since Brawl! Give him his breakdance moves or something!
Well now that you've played Sonic Battle it's time to play Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood as it does take place after Sonic Battle and explains where Emerl came from. Unfortunately it ends on a cliffhanger and they never made a sequel. But it was fun and the story was interesting. It explains what happened to the Echidna and why Knuckles is alone.
Damn it. I hate when games like Golden Sun and the Chrono series just end on cliffhangers like this. It feels insulting how a possibly good conclusion would be right there, but then they just stop.
Soggy Memes I get why people don’t like this game but to me it’s got a certain charm to it for being the only arena sonic fighting game and that’s why I like it a lot
I will say, it's 1 point on a lose life, 3 on winning after being damaged, and 5 for no damage wins, 10 for each chaos emerald, but even if you get a ton of 3s and 5s grinding stories for quick chaos emeralds for 10 point boosts is still way too necessary
I remember I had this game when I was really young and never realized you could edit Emerl's attacks, so I had to grind and go through the whole game with his defaults
I can't remember exactly but I think I threw my gameboy advance at the pillow multiple times while playing this game. Could have been what happened to the mic as well. Probably easier to play on the original format GBA aside the lighting vs the SP or playing on one of the DS iterations like at the beginning of the video.
This video was VERY helpful. You are the only Content Creator I've found who's properly upscaled the source gameplay footage. I've needed some footage for a game prototype I've been working on as part of my university course. Thank you for doing this!
@@newguy371 Ironically 06 makes sense in canon( it's a sequel to Shadow The Hedgehog, which is a sequel to Heroes, which is a sequel to sa2) , the game that messes it all up is sonic rivals. nothing makes sense at all anyways tho so who cares
this is an interesting run-in if nothing else. Edit: Having gotten to that point in the video; "Eggman's Robots" doesn't apply here, since they're entirely different models as Heroes' Eggman's Robots.
im actually really glad to see a video on this game, I really loved this game growing up and i actually found that grinding the grey robots at the beginning of the first story without taking damage (i believe you get more depending on if you didnt lose a life and if you didnt take any damage) was helpful. if i remember correctly you get like 5 or 10 points when you do it this way. either way, Thanks for bringing up a blast from the past.
Thank you for making the videos still. Brought me a much needed smile this morning. (But if you need to stop or take a break for your mental health then you gotta put your wellbeing first) take care and thanks for all the joy!
“You mostly get 1” Okay lemme break this down, if you complete the fight hitless, then you get 5 points per enemy, if you get hit but don’t die, you get 2, if you die even once, you get 1. Also, fighting gamma is easy, if you are on a ledge above him he will try to arial attack you but it will cancel his jump before he can reach you, and he will do it over and over as long as you’re not too far away, you can then either spam the first attack to juggle him, or charge your green meter to use the first part of the default ground shot to one shot him and run before he explodes. This strategy works on all opponents, but you can’t heal charge for sonic, tails, rouge, cream, shadow, or knuckles, you have to juggle them. I don’t know if it works on chaos, because his fight is so easy I’ve never had to try using it. And don’t bother with special attacks early, the only things you need are a good run, jump, heavy attack, and aim attack, to just hit them back and forth knocking them into the ground.
I own a copy of this game. I'm so glad I gave it a chance. It was hella fun, and the story was quaint, and a bit gut wrenching at times. Also learning abilities always was a great feeling more so when you got one of the super rare ones like the triple sonic wave shot or such. I don't know abouthte difficulty peronly, I did not have any issues with it, but then I did grind simple missions for better cards. Tho I will Agree Gama is a terrible brick wall at times. "Activating Recovery mode." Is a phrase burned into my mind that gives me shudders anytime I hear it.... Tho fun when YOU have it. XD
The game actually had a method for determining how many skill points you received after each battle. If you fainted/lost a stock at any point in the battle, you received one skill point. If you completed the battle without fainting/losing a stock, you received two. If you completed a battle against one opponent without getting hit at all, you received 5 and I THINK if you completed a battle against 2 or more opponents without getting hit, you received 6. Chaos Emeralds gave 10. One of the easiest ways for farming skill points was just to continuously beat sonic's episode, as it was fairly quick.
I played this game when I didn’t know English when I was like 8 and I skipped all the dialog so I didn’t know that I could upgrade my fighting moves so I used the default slow moves for like half the entire story until I accidentally tapped the button to bring up the upgrade menu 😅😅 good times.
I appreciate this video so much! Sonic Battle is one of my favorite games. When I first got the game as a kid I didn't know how to equip new skills to Emerl and I was stuck in the story as I couldn't beat Amy with my basic skills. After I got that figured, the game became extremely enjoyable. I would come back from school, sit on the sofa and play in the Battle Mode as Knuckles and / or Chaos against 2x Gamma until the meal was ready. I've spent countless hours in Tails' special training sessions to farm all the rare skills and even got a couple of ??? skills. Though I could never collect them all. In my opinion the mini-games were not that special, except Shadow's Speed Demon with its AWESOME background sprites! I definitely suggest checking it out! Last, but not least, through Sonic Battle I've discovered the legendary Sonic sprite animations on Newgrounds and was motivated to get into sprites myself. I owe this game so much. :D
Sonic Battle was an okay Sonic the Hedgehog-related fighting game, but the virtual training was a pain the butt and the only way you can use all of Emerl's ultimate skill cards is by using Game Shark and that sucks. And by the way, Emerl's name is pronounced "ML".
"I'm tired/I'm stressed...I'll see you next week." lol this is such a good sign off you could say it whenever for no reason in particular and I'd still like it 👌😂
With the amount of games Sonic Team cranked out early on in the old days, I'm surprised they were even able to have games in any finished state. Like, I don't even think Nintendo kept rushing out games like that. Quality over quantity, it's how Nintendo makes games compared to Sega's pump and dump philosophy.
Holy shit!!!!! Billiam, I'm so glad I wasn't the only one who remembers and played that game! I loved that game so much! Keep up the great work Billiam, I love you vids man
That totally sarcastic not sarcastic remark went on for a little too long to not be sarcastic. A highlight. Can't wait for the experimental stuff. Thank you for all your work!
I remember grinding Emera into an unstoppable monster with the best skills in the game. You really needed to grind for certain skills and a high enough Skill Point limit to get anywhere early on... Sonic or Shadow's Speed and Cream's healing, if I recall. I think that there were also Emera specific super-skills that surpassed everything in the game for their given slot, though they might have been postgame unlockables. There were some basically-cheating password skills that turned your special into an unblockable instant-kill flurry of attacks themed around any given character, too. Not all the missions in the game were particularly great. There was lot of monotony in mindlessly beating up the same characters over and over in the same near-identical arenas, especially the gray Gamma clones. I remember one where you just had to run away from Rouge and not get hit by her for 2 or 3 minutes or something, so you just did laps around the edges of the square arena. Gaammeeeplaaaaaay.
Yeah, this game can be tough. I spent a lot of time grinding to get the stuff I wanted like Chaos' side splash attack and healing. But, it was cool to have a character that was so customizable. Narratively, it was great to watch Emerl go from barely able to communicate to being able to match wit with Rouge and charisma with Sonic.
Oh man, I really loved this game as a kid. I remember having Tail's and Cream's Punching abilities combined with Shadows Teleportation for my character, where I can escape to a silent corner and Cream Heal. I loved it.
Oh yah for sure. This was honestly one of my favorite sonic games. When I was younger I didn't know you could customize Emerald so I ended up beating the game without ever changing emeralds default moves. It was a nightmare. Lol
I totally agree. Leveling up Emerl is such a drag. And not even mention farming to get all the skills and Ultimate skills. But it's so satisfactory to land a combo with the final hit dunking the other one to the ground
I remember getting the game as a birthday gift. And I loved it, I was sad none of my friends had it and I honestly never found anyone who knew about the game and just kept it to myself. Glad to find someone else who enjoyed the game. Keep making videos fellow hipster!
Hold up, imma take my win here... When pushed against a wall, tap the direction away on impact. You’ll be able to dash toward your enemy and spike them. Emerl’s basic copies of Sonic’s moves aren’t the worst. The start of Sonic’s ground shot can’t be neutralized by a shot defense, which is an instant K.O. when your power bar is full. Use this often. Rouge’s story isn’t that hard. Just jump and spam B. If you camp near a wall correctly, your enemy will jump up and not be able to hit you. This enables you to heal and charge your power bar. Watch out for Knuckles and Sonic with this, though. Double-pressing the L button rotates the camera. You can double-press it again to bring it back to default. Blocking moves builds your power meter. If you K.O. an opponent with one type of move (i.e. shot), they’ll usually respawn as vulnerable to the other type you have equipped. Alternate between the two when going for instant K.O. moves. Having them run into a trap to see if they’re vulnerable to it, BEFORE using your fully charged power meter, is key. All in all, the game isn’t THAT difficult. You just have to spend 300+ hours grinding for the ultimate abilities and special cards, only to never get all of them, to understand how the game works... ...or just read my post, here. Either one works.
Watching this video almost a year afterwards, to bring back the positive memories of a game I never forgot about. Or in other words... *INITIATING RECOVERY MODE*
You will never know the feeling of getting all you friends as a kid together and playing this on the game cube with the game boy attachment with four controllers on Christmas 2004
Skill points were earned based on how well you did in the fight ranging from 5, 3 and 1. If I remember correctly you got 5 by beating your opponent without getting hit once, 3 if you got hit and didn't die, and 1 if you just won the fight
definitely an overlook classic. I remember unlocking all the best movesets in this game and all my friends who has this game is shocked and impressed how i got such strong movesets
“I’m tired of running, let’s punch something” is a BIG mood.
I know right lol
Same
I hope Sonic Gets In a Punching mood Again Soon
Evangelion in a nutshell
Next Sonic forces kinda?
this is what Sonic Team thought we had in mind when they made Sonic Unleashed
so this is where all those sonic flash animations got there sprites came from
Right!!!!!
unfortunately
glitchy boi How is that unfortunate?
Hahah glad I wasn't the only one to have this revelation
Its ether that or Mega man style sprites
I too played this game a ton. Was basically a Sonic RPG...before Sonic Chronicles. Which is interesting since Chronicles references this game.
This is one sonic game with a fairly better story.
Did it??? How so? I never played Chronicles but, I played the heck out of battle.
@@KingSega they mentioned Emeral, his origins and other gizoid models
All games are connected, Last Story of Shadow 2005 leads in 06 and Shadow is a G.U.N. Agent for what he did for the world after defeating his Biological Father as everyone saw him send the Black Comet into space to be destroyed for good by the Eclipse Cannon including G.U.N., the President and the Commander.
“And like every kid tossed aside by their parents, he turns to Sonic the Hedgehog.”
That’s the truest thing I’ve ever heard
Chris Chan comes to mind.
DeviantArt comes to mind
DeviantArt is no good.
I'm still pissed that Sonic's Smash-Bros-Version, hasn't taken any inspiration from this game.
His moveset could have been so much more interesting.
Tbh
Yeah I’m pissed too
I mean, there is the down air. But I do believe that sonic's moveset should be a combination of fighters and battle. Since fighters covers the more cartoony aspect of sonic, while battle covers the more fresh and cool aspect of sonic.
Project M Sonic has some moves from Battle. Check it out if you got a copy of Brawl laying around.
@@Mufnman64 Project Plus now actually. It even comes with Knuckles
If there's three words burned into my skull after playing this game, it would be:
I N I T I A T I N G R E C O V E R Y M O D E
This game's three most deadliest words. 😱
E102: "Initiating Recovery Mode."
*Player Dies*
No wonder we all forgot about this.
You can actually block the explosion if you set your defense against power, I accidently figured it out when fucking around makes the early battles against Gamma and the Gamma copies sooo much faster.
TheShuuman you can actually block it by pressing the shield button at the right time
Early game, killed me, I need a therapist.
Sonic battle is underrated.
This game is actually a prequel to sonic advance 3.
Gmerl is a new version of emerl after he dies in battle.
The pixel art in this game was unique and it is sadly underrated.
Emerls story was actually really good in this game.
Also shadow and cream were extremely op and knuckles and gamma were kinda bad.
Knuckles was good be he needs timing and Patience... Gamma is... Yeah it's Shit...
If only earning his ultra moves wasn't literally HELL ON EARTH.
Just a shame about the GAMEPLAY in this VIDEO GAME. Glad to hear the story about child-friendly anthropomorphic cartoon animals is good though.
Wait this thing was a prequel?? Kinda sad I didnt try it out.
So the sprites look nice and emerl's story is also neat. What else? Also
>this video is literally half ranting
Cheese being broken in a handheld Sonic game? I have definitely never heard of that before, especially not in the Sonic Advanced series
Or even in Heroes, i managed to get Cream by herself during character battles and she just "force pushes" characters to their death
*TH-cam:* Animal Crossing.
*Billiam:* But Sonic, tho.
My mood
I would love to see him cover Animal Crossing, Story of Seasons (formerly known as Harvest Moon), and Rune Factory. Basically any type of game revolving around day to day life. Literal day to day life. Heck, throw Persona 5 and Stardew Valley in it. Story of Seasons has inspired so many games both directly and indirectly that I'm surprised it isn't more popular.
Oh wow, a Sonic video on Billiam's channel. How very experimental.
This isn’t the experimental video!! Lol
@@billiam, Haha! Alright. :P
Manscaped has drakes favorite the ball deodorant lol I always remember drake mentioning that in his videos
@@halojustin1, It's warm in Texas.
For some reason I just keep watching them and don't mind
Oh my GOD I LOVE THIS GAME! Thanks Billiam! 🤩
I've been saying we need a Sonic Battle remake for years! There's literally enough characters to have their own Smash Bros-esque thing!
Me Too! :)
In this house, we praise and respect Dimps, the developers of most 2D handheld Sonic games in this era. That being said, Sonic Team did actually do Sonic Battle.
If you respect them so much, then why did you call them Gimps when they're called Dimps, huh?
@@TheMGMfan OOf, typo on my end! Didn't even notice. Ill edit it thanks!
Dimps level design is not the best tbh
To witness someone unironically praise DIMPS gave me creeped out, disgusted chills
@@StinkTerios The other games that Dimps worked has that cheap level design
I was genuinely disappointed when I realized this wasn't getting a sequel on the DS or 3DS.
Sonic Chronicles continues plot line of gizoids.
Gnidel
But that game is also dead
The gizoid died...
*(cries)*
The music for Sonic Battle is amazing and memorable for sure too.
where most games where just murdered by the GBA soundfont, this one embraced it and made it work
@@serPomiz You're absolutely right. No "real" instrument was capable of producing a sound like this.
Yet, at the same time, I've never heard anything that sounded so much like a bunch of electric guitars just screaming at the top of their lungs.
Club Rouge is a goddamn slapper 🔥🔥🔥
@@lugbzurg8987 And it's so awesome. Same with the Advance series. Everything other than Sonic and Megaman sounded dank on the GBA
YEEEES.
Sonic Battle's movesets need a true carryover into other games.
Edit: Cream is more OP than you think. Cream Heal is REALLY GOOD for a thrift heal skill and plus, midair Cream Cracker is ACTUALLY BUSTED.
Also, Amy has the fastest first attack in the game. Girl/Maiden Jab can frame lock shit into itself with ease.
like smash.
If you wanted to be really OP, you would find the passwords the download the rare combo cards from the Sonic Team building. Literal one-hit KOs. Chaos' rare combo card was the most broken.
During this era, Cream and Cheese was always easy mode OP. Buuut then Sonic Team forgot they existed. RIP
@@luisalonsoecheverria the ones that ended in a non-special move finisher were pure AI breakers that couldn't be auto-blocked.
Good times....good times....
@@JazzyWaffles the internet will never forget them.... especially rule34. Budump-tsh.
"If you're still upset about that you're just jealous."
Unironically a galaxy brain take.
For all intents and purposes, Battle is in between Advance 2 & 3.
I think sonic battle is after advance 2, it came out before advance 3
"bland grey Eggman robots".... I think you mean "bland grey Eggman's robots"
If you're doubting me ask Tails
Some are not Eggman's anymore because he sold them to be security guards.
SHUT UP, TAILS!!!
i have had this game's poster on my wall since the day it came out.
Damn, there's posters?! Can I see a photo or something? Sonic Battle released in 2004, so I know it's gotta be old.
@VGF64 Now I really want one. That'd spice up my room nicely.
images.app.goo.gl/4vqv8Th4v4ZnLFrX9
Never got to play this game, but it’s art-style was cool as hell.
Same and ikr?
Same
Also pretty impressive 3D fast paced action for the time.
You can play on your phone
Not gonna say where, but you can emulate it and get a rom :)
In this game, Sonic went by the name “Battle Rabbit” and his sidekick was named “Joe Mammal”
wot.
glitchy boi It’s true
@@DigiRangerScott oh. havent played sonic battle for a long time now
I read that as “Joe Mamma” at first and felt personally attacked for a sec
CooperwithaCamera That’s exactly how he got his name
I'll never understand why they didn't pull moves from this game for Sonic's Smash moveset. He's had the same, lame, generic moves since Brawl! Give him his breakdance moves or something!
"I'm tired of running. Let's punch something"
Well now that you've played Sonic Battle it's time to play Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood as it does take place after Sonic Battle and explains where Emerl came from. Unfortunately it ends on a cliffhanger and they never made a sequel. But it was fun and the story was interesting. It explains what happened to the Echidna and why Knuckles is alone.
I just want to point out, I thought Sonic Adventure said Chaos destroyed his ancestors and that's why Knuckles is alone.
@@mr.sleepyhead8401 it was tribe.. however considering his young age there was Clearly survivors for him to be in the picture in first place
Damn it. I hate when games like Golden Sun and the Chrono series just end on cliffhangers like this. It feels insulting how a possibly good conclusion would be right there, but then they just stop.
Fun fact, Etika got his name from this game. There was a cheat code called Ekita, he switched the K and T and the rest is history.
...who?
TotalX48
Search him up
Overlooked? This is one of the most underrated sonic games bruh
Soggy Memes
I get why people don’t like this game but to me it’s got a certain charm to it for being the only arena sonic fighting game and that’s why I like it a lot
"And like every kid tossed aside by their parents they turn to sonic"
Wait wait what!
4:21
"HOW DO YOU LIKE THAT, OBAMA?!"
I PISS ON THE MOON YOU IDIOOOOOT!
Look mom, I quoted the SnapCube dub again.
"I pissed on the moon, you idiot"
the characters art style reminds me of The World Ends with You, somehow...
Huh... You know going back and comparing. Yeah. Same kinda hard edge, thick line style.
It's the graffiti aesthetic. Thick sketchy outlines and vibrant colors with minimal shading. Not many games use it but it really stands out.
Also that top down map view. All they needed were buildings curving in from the top of the screen during battles.
Finally someone who appreciates my Sonic Battle skills after 16 years... it's been so long...
I will say, it's 1 point on a lose life, 3 on winning after being damaged, and 5 for no damage wins, 10 for each chaos emerald, but even if you get a ton of 3s and 5s grinding stories for quick chaos emeralds for 10 point boosts is still way too necessary
It's 2, not 3, but the rest is right!
"Like any child tossed aside by their parents, he turned to Sonic the Hedgehog" is now the greatest quote of all time. Fite me
Someone besides me and my brothers cares about the Sonic gba games??
Wow. I was so sad that no one talked about this underrated masterpiece, and yet magically here is this recent video. Thank you so much.
That's a cool coincidence, as I randomly had this game as well
This is easily one of my favorite stories in the series. It's begging for a remake on less-limiting hardware.
The game just takes place after Shadow's true ending, basically.
I remember I had this game when I was really young and never realized you could edit Emerl's attacks, so I had to grind and go through the whole game with his defaults
That's pretty impressive.
I loved this game in middle school! I want to play it again...
11:52 Something tells me that you'll predict the future.
This game came out at the height of my Sonic love during my youth. I'm glad to see it get some appreciation. :)
Something is off with the mic your using when you're on the couch. It sounds tinny and kinda muffled.
Yeah, I realized it too late. Might have to replace It
I can't remember exactly but I think I threw my gameboy advance at the pillow multiple times while playing this game. Could have been what happened to the mic as well. Probably easier to play on the original format GBA aside the lighting vs the SP or playing on one of the DS iterations like at the beginning of the video.
This video was VERY helpful. You are the only Content Creator I've found who's properly upscaled the source gameplay footage.
I've needed some footage for a game prototype I've been working on as part of my university course.
Thank you for doing this!
This game needs a sequel with more characters, moves, stages, and a better story mode.
i need it
I laughed when billiam said “sonic canon” we all know that’s not real
There was until '06. Except for the moon, which magically restored itself after Adventure 2.
@@newguy371 Ironically 06 makes sense in canon( it's a sequel to Shadow The Hedgehog, which is a sequel to Heroes, which is a sequel to sa2) , the game that messes it all up is sonic rivals. nothing makes sense at all anyways tho so who cares
@@newguy371 actually, every game after SA2, whenever we see the moon, we're only looking at the good side. The other side is still destroyed
@@StarDragonNova What about Sonic Riders?
@@danfriz1270 what do you mean?
Great content home slice. My nostalgia glands are always working hard watching these videos
8:30
Um, excuse me, sir. The term is, "Eggman's Robots." Possessive. Whether it makes grammatical sense or not. Respect the canon.
this is an interesting run-in if nothing else.
Edit: Having gotten to that point in the video; "Eggman's Robots" doesn't apply here, since they're entirely different models as Heroes' Eggman's Robots.
You definitely live up to your name
"Um, excuse me, sir. The term is, "Eggman's Robots." " 🤓
As the days go by, the more I think Billiam looks like a young hairy Jim Carrey
I remember beating this!One of my favorites despite its flaws.
im actually really glad to see a video on this game, I really loved this game growing up and i actually found that grinding the grey robots at the beginning of the first story without taking damage (i believe you get more depending on if you didnt lose a life and if you didnt take any damage) was helpful. if i remember correctly you get like 5 or 10 points when you do it this way. either way, Thanks for bringing up a blast from the past.
Thank you for making the videos still. Brought me a much needed smile this morning. (But if you need to stop or take a break for your mental health then you gotta put your wellbeing first) take care and thanks for all the joy!
"I'm tired of running. Let's punch something."
Billiam, 2020
How would you feel if we got a Sonic Battle remake that ended up shoehorning in Persona characters?
You say that like it's a bad thing.
Sonic/ _P_ Area Ultimax
I would't Mind Other Sega Characters To Be In, as Long as They Don't Take the Sonic Series Focus Of the Game
"... And like every kid tossed aside by their parents, he turns to Sonic the Hedgehog."
Cheers.
I felt that statement.
The story of this game is really good, and It's a very unique game, i wish there was a Sonic battle 2
God I loved Sonic Battle. Had it on the GBA, then even emulated it on my laptop later. Good times.
I would love to get a new Sonic Riders. I would pay full price for that
How about Sonic Zero Gravity 2?
“You mostly get 1”
Okay lemme break this down, if you complete the fight hitless, then you get 5 points per enemy, if you get hit but don’t die, you get 2, if you die even once, you get 1.
Also, fighting gamma is easy, if you are on a ledge above him he will try to arial attack you but it will cancel his jump before he can reach you, and he will do it over and over as long as you’re not too far away, you can then either spam the first attack to juggle him, or charge your green meter to use the first part of the default ground shot to one shot him and run before he explodes.
This strategy works on all opponents, but you can’t heal charge for sonic, tails, rouge, cream, shadow, or knuckles, you have to juggle them.
I don’t know if it works on chaos, because his fight is so easy I’ve never had to try using it.
And don’t bother with special attacks early, the only things you need are a good run, jump, heavy attack, and aim attack, to just hit them back and forth knocking them into the ground.
Excellent video as always man! Loved this game as a kid but yeah I probably haven't replayed it since... probably 2006 haha.
Is it just me or is the first segment having audio issues (clipping)?
not just you
Short answer: Yes
Long answer: Kinda... maybe... but probably yes.
This man is digging up all of my childhood and I'm happy in not alone
Another dope video bro, I loved Sonic Battle growing up
I own a copy of this game. I'm so glad I gave it a chance. It was hella fun, and the story was quaint, and a bit gut wrenching at times. Also learning abilities always was a great feeling more so when you got one of the super rare ones like the triple sonic wave shot or such. I don't know abouthte difficulty peronly, I did not have any issues with it, but then I did grind simple missions for better cards. Tho I will Agree Gama is a terrible brick wall at times. "Activating Recovery mode." Is a phrase burned into my mind that gives me shudders anytime I hear it.... Tho fun when YOU have it. XD
The gba sonic games are really underrated
The game actually had a method for determining how many skill points you received after each battle.
If you fainted/lost a stock at any point in the battle, you received one skill point.
If you completed the battle without fainting/losing a stock, you received two.
If you completed a battle against one opponent without getting hit at all, you received 5
and I THINK if you completed a battle against 2 or more opponents without getting hit, you received 6.
Chaos Emeralds gave 10.
One of the easiest ways for farming skill points was just to continuously beat sonic's episode, as it was fairly quick.
Thank you for covering this, this is my favorite Sonic game
I really dig the games stylistic look 😁👌
I played this game when I didn’t know English when I was like 8 and I skipped all the dialog so I didn’t know that I could upgrade my fighting moves so I used the default slow moves for like half the entire story until I accidentally tapped the button to bring up the upgrade menu 😅😅 good times.
I appreciate this video so much! Sonic Battle is one of my favorite games.
When I first got the game as a kid I didn't know how to equip new skills to Emerl and I was stuck in the story as I couldn't beat Amy with my basic skills. After I got that figured, the game became extremely enjoyable. I would come back from school, sit on the sofa and play in the Battle Mode as Knuckles and / or Chaos against 2x Gamma until the meal was ready. I've spent countless hours in Tails' special training sessions to farm all the rare skills and even got a couple of ??? skills. Though I could never collect them all.
In my opinion the mini-games were not that special, except Shadow's Speed Demon with its AWESOME background sprites! I definitely suggest checking it out!
Last, but not least, through Sonic Battle I've discovered the legendary Sonic sprite animations on Newgrounds and was motivated to get into sprites myself. I owe this game so much. :D
I loved this game as a child. Great and obscure content, Billiam
I beat this game without editing emerl's abilities because I was a dumb idiot and somehow missed every dialog that said press R.
Sonic Battle was an okay Sonic the Hedgehog-related fighting game, but the virtual training was a pain the butt and the only way you can use all of Emerl's ultimate skill cards is by using Game Shark and that sucks. And by the way, Emerl's name is pronounced "ML".
"I'm tired/I'm stressed...I'll see you next week." lol this is such a good sign off you could say it whenever for no reason in particular and I'd still like it 👌😂
I just might
With the amount of games Sonic Team cranked out early on in the old days, I'm surprised they were even able to have games in any finished state. Like, I don't even think Nintendo kept rushing out games like that. Quality over quantity, it's how Nintendo makes games compared to Sega's pump and dump philosophy.
favorite game 😁 gald your talking about it
Holy shit!!!!! Billiam, I'm so glad I wasn't the only one who remembers and played that game! I loved that game so much!
Keep up the great work Billiam, I love you vids man
That totally sarcastic not sarcastic remark went on for a little too long to not be sarcastic. A highlight. Can't wait for the experimental stuff. Thank you for all your work!
“Sonic didn’t have a real story” Fnaf fans are having a mood
NOT WEIRD?
Chevere Hugprack if I’ve done more then one video on the topic I won’t call it “was weird” :p
I remember grinding Emera into an unstoppable monster with the best skills in the game. You really needed to grind for certain skills and a high enough Skill Point limit to get anywhere early on... Sonic or Shadow's Speed and Cream's healing, if I recall. I think that there were also Emera specific super-skills that surpassed everything in the game for their given slot, though they might have been postgame unlockables. There were some basically-cheating password skills that turned your special into an unblockable instant-kill flurry of attacks themed around any given character, too.
Not all the missions in the game were particularly great. There was lot of monotony in mindlessly beating up the same characters over and over in the same near-identical arenas, especially the gray Gamma clones. I remember one where you just had to run away from Rouge and not get hit by her for 2 or 3 minutes or something, so you just did laps around the edges of the square arena. Gaammeeeplaaaaaay.
Yeah, this game can be tough. I spent a lot of time grinding to get the stuff I wanted like Chaos' side splash attack and healing. But, it was cool to have a character that was so customizable.
Narratively, it was great to watch Emerl go from barely able to communicate to being able to match wit with Rouge and charisma with Sonic.
People think Sonic is now a sellout, or “dead”.
But in reality... *Sonic is just under appreciated.*
I love your voice and i played this game a lot back then, u deserve a sub
Oh man, I really loved this game as a kid. I remember having Tail's and Cream's Punching abilities combined with Shadows Teleportation for my character, where I can escape to a silent corner and Cream Heal. I loved it.
Oh yah for sure. This was honestly one of my favorite sonic games.
When I was younger I didn't know you could customize Emerald so I ended up beating the game without ever changing emeralds default moves. It was a nightmare. Lol
I totally agree. Leveling up Emerl is such a drag. And not even mention farming to get all the skills and Ultimate skills. But it's so satisfactory to land a combo with the final hit dunking the other one to the ground
I remember getting the game as a birthday gift. And I loved it, I was sad none of my friends had it and I honestly never found anyone who knew about the game and just kept it to myself. Glad to find someone else who enjoyed the game. Keep making videos fellow hipster!
Hold up, imma take my win here...
When pushed against a wall, tap the direction away on impact. You’ll be able to dash toward your enemy and spike them.
Emerl’s basic copies of Sonic’s moves aren’t the worst. The start of Sonic’s ground shot can’t be neutralized by a shot defense, which is an instant K.O. when your power bar is full. Use this often.
Rouge’s story isn’t that hard. Just jump and spam B.
If you camp near a wall correctly, your enemy will jump up and not be able to hit you. This enables you to heal and charge your power bar. Watch out for Knuckles and Sonic with this, though.
Double-pressing the L button rotates the camera. You can double-press it again to bring it back to default.
Blocking moves builds your power meter.
If you K.O. an opponent with one type of move (i.e. shot), they’ll usually respawn as vulnerable to the other type you have equipped. Alternate between the two when going for instant K.O. moves. Having them run into a trap to see if they’re vulnerable to it, BEFORE using your fully charged power meter, is key.
All in all, the game isn’t THAT difficult. You just have to spend 300+ hours grinding for the ultimate abilities and special cards, only to never get all of them, to understand how the game works...
...or just read my post, here. Either one works.
i'm here to acknowledge your sonic battle expertise, us lords of niche games no one cares about must hold each other up
Watching this video almost a year afterwards, to bring back the positive memories of a game I never forgot about. Or in other words...
*INITIATING RECOVERY MODE*
You will never know the feeling of getting all you friends as a kid together and playing this on the game cube with the game boy attachment with four controllers on Christmas 2004
Don't worry Billiam, we'll give the videos a chance
New the first TH-camr I've seen to praise the modern era. THANK YOU
I've never played Sonic Battle, but now I want to own it! Thanks Billiam.
Totally forgot about this game but played the hell out of it when I had a GBA growing up, thanks for reminding me of it!
I love this game, but that first chapter where you fight Knuckles 3 times in a row is a complete chore
Skill points were earned based on how well you did in the fight ranging from 5, 3 and 1. If I remember correctly you got 5 by beating your opponent without getting hit once, 3 if you got hit and didn't die, and 1 if you just won the fight
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Me who's actually good at sonic battle: "FINNALY someone recognizes my genius"
definitely an overlook classic. I remember unlocking all the best movesets in this game and all my friends who has this game is shocked and impressed how i got such strong movesets