imagine playing sonic so optimized that you start looking less like a game recording and more like one of those sprite animations where sonic looks really badass when running
God I wish we had more games in the Advance style. Amazing sprite work, great sense of building up speed, fun soundtracks, tiny chao gardens, awesome zones, etc...
The Special Stages in this game are stupidly easy. They're practically giving you the emerald. The hardest part about the Special Stages is just finding the Special Rings to unlock them.
Sonic Advanced 2 was the very first Sonic game, and even the very first Video Game I ever played. I remember one day when I was a kid I was really mad at something and back then my mom tried to keep me away from video games and TV even though my oldest sister, older brother and older sister had video games and TV. But when I was sulking about something, my older brother peeked around from behind the corner with a huge grin on his face. He sneaked me his GBA with this game on it. It changed my life. My mom also walked in on us in his room doing sum stupid shit playing the game and watching TV. She wasn't even mad, she kinda laughed as if saying, "why did I bother trying". Great memories.
Franklin Reed This might be my favorite thing to read on the internet now, and hey! Sonic advance 2 was my first game as well lol. There’s nothing but good memories tied to this game for me XD
Honestly I never really realized ‘till now how similar the Advance games are similar to the Rush games in terms of level design. Must be ‘cause they’re both made by Dimps. Heck, Rush is pretty much Advance but with the boost tbh.
Advance 1 and 3. Rush and advance 2 have one key difference: this game is very forward based, while rush is mostly timing based. In this game, you don't really have to much besides kind of go forward (nothing wrong with it, a more focused game allows for stuff like... THIS(also not press right to win it has more than that)) while Rush needs much more timing (not like Advance 2 doesn't, it's just that rush has much more of it.) However, yes, they are still quite similar.
Rush is just advance 2 but with instant access to boost and because of it the levels can be more creatively designed instead of a downward slope to encourage the player to enter and maintain the boost state like in adv2.
Something immaculate about the way Sonic moves starting at 27:41 to the end of the act. holy shit. more sonic levels should allow for that kind of movement. everything about that was tight.
Zone XX's size is proportional to how much time it takes you to clear it. This TAS reduces XX to its smallest possible size and thus retroactively reduced the cost of its construction, saving Eggman millions of dollars.
Other Tas: Ok so we're going to preform code and hex execution to get to this secret area nobody knows about to trick the game into killing the final boss with the good ending Sonic Tas: *speed noises*
Watching this is so mesmerizing, the whole sonic advance trilogy were honestly the best compared to other aonic games these held a vibe like no other what sonic truely is meant to be, you truely masterd this game which takes a lot of skill
My god brother gave me this game when i was 8. I will never forget the memories this gave me. He died of Covid 19 2 years ago rest in peace and thanks for the game.
@@PedroHCF37 unfortunaltely not. but i think, many other speedruns for example are quite boring if just the ingame dialogue is the only fast thing and everything else can't be accelarated like sonic
@@NafiurRahmanYT Thank you, you are right, but that was not what I meant 😅 I mean, do you know any other games about speed like this with good speedruns?
In the short period from 27:40-27:48, you managed to time the sound effects of what you were doing with the music. I doubt it was intentional, but it was cool. Also the airdash in this game is interesting. At first it seems really useless, but the more you play around with it you find out it's just about the best asset in the game and all other characters are held back by not having it.
I thought it was a fake cause the Ring was moving faster and stopping at times in each level. But later I realized that it was actually Sonic's speed that was altering the rings speed. I haven't played in years. So don't blame me.
Wow this is the first speed run I’ve ever seen and you were going d So fast that in music plant I could see the background of the stage start to glitch out
It's one of the main flaws, tbh. It's not as bad for the older games, but with how fast you can go in Advance, the screen being so close hurts the gameplay. I still love the Advance series, but it still has issues despite that.
It’s why Advance 1 being as slow as it is was probably for the best and why caving to negative reception and making 2 so fast you constantly run into stuff probably wasn’t a good idea.
This is the one sonic game I could never 100%. Getting all the medals in these fast paced stages was asking too much. At least I finish advanced 1&3 some how!
Great gameplay i love sonic advance 2 & 3 special sonic advance 3 its so nostalgic to me i love it so much...thanks sega/sonic team for making our days and rested peace in home...
I still dont understand how they managed to get 999 rings in every single one of the special stages whereas during my playthrough I barely managed to get 300. Amazing gameplay.
For me as a young lad the hardest part was finding all the medals and I could never find them all for the space level and I accidentally found all of the them for the fire level
@@archieakira4237 (TAS) is generally defined as speedrunning a game in an emulator, generally with various tools at a player's disposal like programming a sequence of buttons to perform a set of actions, slow-downs and going frame-by-frame to create a theoretical perfect speedrun.
@@DJKmoneydog Oh huh, there really is. Got it confused with Advance 3, I think. At least Advance 2 doesn't force you to use the homing attack, unlike, well... Sonic 4.
Captain falcons needs *machinery* and *technology* to acheive fast. Nature's version of the ultimate life form doesn't need *pollution* to acheive fast
SuperSonic68 The way I always did it was you collect a certain amount in one act and a certain amount in the other act. I just didn’t know you can collect all seven in one act
@@calebdouglas7622 that method would have been better to unlock the special stage instead of getting them all in one act infact if sucka the most with sonic because he can fly and backtrack like the other characters so everything needs to be timed and the mechanics need to be mastered I'm not counting any because getting all rings doesn't unlock anything for her.
![[TAS] Sonic Advance 2 - Speedrun as Cream](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/xuTUYweCN7Y/mqdefault.jpg)
![[TAS] Sonic Advance 2 - Speedrun as Cream](/img/tr.png)
![[TAS] Sonic the Hedgehog CD - Speedrun](/img/n.gif)
The Advance Trilogy were truly great games. Thanks for this, Shiro.
love you. read umineko tho
My favorite is Advance 2 :D
Yep
The only thing DIMPS got right.
The Advance and Rush games were great
Words can’t express how satisfying it is to watch Sonic actually go fast
use 2x speed and sonic is even faster
Maurice Herndon hi been a while
Ikr
The true speed of sound baby
I love it when he goes so fast that the camera can’t keep up. That’s just fantastic.
imagine playing sonic so optimized that you start looking less like a game recording and more like one of those sprite animations where sonic looks really badass when running
A THOUSAND TIMES YES!
Sonic advance 2 but it's played in a much more powerful device.
4:57 That is the Egg-Hammer
5:02 That was the Egg-Hammer
And on your right you'll see...
On your left... nope uh okay
On your....
I give up.
God I wish we had more games in the Advance style. Amazing sprite work, great sense of building up speed, fun soundtracks, tiny chao gardens, awesome zones, etc...
The Special Stages in this game are stupidly easy. They're practically giving you the emerald. The hardest part about the Special Stages is just finding the Special Rings to unlock them.
Thats the point cause in advance 1 finding and wining the special stage was way too hard
Sonic Advanced 2 was the very first Sonic game, and even the very first Video Game I ever played. I remember one day when I was a kid I was really mad at something and back then my mom tried to keep me away from video games and TV even though my oldest sister, older brother and older sister had video games and TV. But when I was sulking about something, my older brother peeked around from behind the corner with a huge grin on his face. He sneaked me his GBA with this game on it. It changed my life. My mom also walked in on us in his room doing sum stupid shit playing the game and watching TV. She wasn't even mad, she kinda laughed as if saying, "why did I bother trying". Great memories.
Franklin Reed This might be my favorite thing to read on the internet now, and hey! Sonic advance 2 was my first game as well lol. There’s nothing but good memories tied to this game for me XD
Good, that's wholesome, we need more of this in the internet.
Hands down the fastest game in the whole series besides Unleashed. The sense of speed and seeing Sonic’s after images never get old
The sonic rush games? I remember those being really fast paced
Honestly I never really realized ‘till now how similar the Advance games are similar to the Rush games in terms of level design. Must be ‘cause they’re both made by Dimps. Heck, Rush is pretty much Advance but with the boost tbh.
Advance 1 and 3. Rush and advance 2 have one key difference: this game is very forward based, while rush is mostly timing based. In this game, you don't really have to much besides kind of go forward (nothing wrong with it, a more focused game allows for stuff like... THIS(also not press right to win it has more than that)) while Rush needs much more timing (not like Advance 2 doesn't, it's just that rush has much more of it.) However, yes, they are still quite similar.
Rush is just advance 2 but with instant access to boost and because of it the levels can be more creatively designed instead of a downward slope to encourage the player to enter and maintain the boost state like in adv2.
I absolutely love the bits where you go so fast that the camera can barely catch up.
“Why you going so fuckin FAST??”
Hits course in under a minute
“Whooooaaaaaaaa”
5:48 I cant express how satisfying it is so see Sonic running with this song
It is Just like the sonic cd animated intro
I've always seen TAS speedruns as the canon way of playing Sonic games
Something immaculate about the way Sonic moves starting at 27:41 to the end of the act. holy shit. more sonic levels should allow for that kind of movement. everything about that was tight.
Me and the boys on our way to preorder Spongebob Rehydrated
"Sonic! Wait for me!"
*sonic just fucking gunning it*
So many knuckles’s profiles. I didn’t know we all had so many twins.
it is INSANE how cool and useful the air dash sonic has is
I never knew about these special stages. I always thought you had to find the big spring to do the space fall snowboard levels to get the emerdoods.
This is in the first game
@@fobia3248 oooh, is it? well shoot.
@@karikora8279 its balls deep hard to try and unlock all the emeralds and getting the true area 53 stage .
i just noticed the faster you move, the faster the ring in the corner of the screen spins
Ok this is actually a useful comment
This also happens in Sonic Advance 2.
@@bagelbrain2763 For some reason, I was on a different video, but it had these comments. Strange.
@@jaru4564 That has happened to me a few times too.
I love how everyone just got this in their recommended
Zone XX's size is proportional to how much time it takes you to clear it. This TAS reduces XX to its smallest possible size and thus retroactively reduced the cost of its construction, saving Eggman millions of dollars.
Looks like he saved at least 15% or more of his savings
Isn’t a sonic speed run just a regular run
This is an *Advance* run
Drinking game:
1: take a shot every time they use the air dash
2: die.
This was my GAME growing up. No idea why TH-cam recommended it to me but I won't complain
Even for a TAS, 44:48 was disrespect! LOVE IT.
When recess ends at school and you must hurry to get to class on time;
Sethan Wiley no u
Sethan Wiley still no u
Sethan Wiley r/youngpeopleyoutube
@Sethan Wiley r/youngpeopleyoutube
@Sethan Wiley r/youngpeopleyoutube
Other Tas: Ok so we're going to preform code and hex execution to get to this secret area nobody knows about to trick the game into killing the final boss with the good ending
Sonic Tas: *speed noises*
Watching this is so mesmerizing, the whole sonic advance trilogy were honestly the best compared to other aonic games these held a vibe like no other what sonic truely is meant to be, you truely masterd this game which takes a lot of skill
Even sonic himself could not be as fast as you can. Speedrun + no damage + all chaos emerald + all bosses under 10 seconds.. This is PERFECT
to be honest i got more impressed when the TAS just write "Shiro" at the speed of light, but the entire run was amazing
This is a rare footage of me going to my room after i close the light
My god brother gave me this game when i was 8. I will never forget the memories this gave me. He died of Covid 19 2 years ago rest in peace and thanks for the game.
Sorry for your lost god bless his soul
I so sad sorry bro
Vanilla: sonic come over
Sonic: uh...
Vanilla: Cream isnt home-
Sonic:
TH-cam Recommendations are acting up, but this is good.
Man at least the special stages are easy, nice showing off lol. Getting to them is such a chore though. Great Tas
God the music in this game slaps so hard
I need remastered versions right this minute
Am I the only one who never knew what the special stage looked like because I could never find all the emblems? 😆
Nope
Same
Then again, I’ve only played a bit on a mobile emulator.
Not at all I think most of us haven't.
2:31 sonic: *chukles* im in danger
haha
funny
Knuckles I'm in danger
a speedrun just looks way more impressive if the game already is about speed in general
Do you know any other examples?
@@PedroHCF37 unfortunaltely not. but i think, many other speedruns for example are quite boring if just the ingame dialogue is the only fast thing and everything else can't be accelarated like sonic
@@NafiurRahmanYT Thank you, you are right, but that was not what I meant 😅
I mean, do you know any other games about speed like this with good speedruns?
Some would say the first boss was...
Creamed.
Exit over there? Great. I’ll take my leave.
Gamerboygaming gg bro
And don’t let the door hit you on your way out!
I think I spent a billion years playing this as a kid and I had no clue there were special stages
I find it funny how he killed the first boss before the 4 hits left music played
Can fall out of orbit, but cant fall down a pit... makes sense
Prolly spikes in the bottom of those bottomless pits. Or lava 🤣
In the short period from 27:40-27:48, you managed to time the sound effects of what you were doing with the music. I doubt it was intentional, but it was cool.
Also the airdash in this game is interesting. At first it seems really useless, but the more you play around with it you find out it's just about the best asset in the game and all other characters are held back by not having it.
I thought it was a fake cause the Ring was moving faster and stopping at times in each level.
But later I realized that it was actually Sonic's speed that was altering the rings speed.
I haven't played in years. So don't blame me.
4:36 damn sonic
Is this just a TAS's casual playthrough we're seeing?
Honestly, it's nice to see what a TAS does during a casual playthrough.
I forgot how god tier this game's music is
Man... Ice Paradise really takes me back to a place...
Sonic ultimate flash ah good times
Hell?
@@ZeroYami It wasn't as bad as today. At least when the Gameboy advance was popular, it was easy to make friends. I have no friends today.
Now I see how this is a game about speed
This is the real escence of sonic games
This video makes me want to play the advance trilogy, thanks for showing this, Shiro
I was shocked to see that the robot you jumped over was actually Zero from sonic adventure!
Ah it makes perfect sense to use him
Because
Sonic SPEEDrun
respect for preview if you made it - looks real pretty, good idea
Wow this is the first speed run I’ve ever seen and you were going d
So fast that in music plant I could see the background of the stage start to glitch out
This is a tool assisted run. This run is "nearly" impossible for a human to do
This man has surpassed Mach itself.
I haven't noticed before how awfully close the camera is zoomed in on your character in this game.
GBA screen is tiny.
It's one of the main flaws, tbh. It's not as bad for the older games, but with how fast you can go in Advance, the screen being so close hurts the gameplay. I still love the Advance series, but it still has issues despite that.
It’s why Advance 1 being as slow as it is was probably for the best and why caving to negative reception and making 2 so fast you constantly run into stuff probably wasn’t a good idea.
this mad man passed stage that i couldn't beat for 2 weeks.
This man has reached actual sonic speed on these levels
2:34 A nice game of Jump-Rope with a robot
3:39 Congratulations, you missed a jump!!
This is the one sonic game I could never 100%. Getting all the medals in these fast paced stages was asking too much. At least I finish advanced 1&3 some how!
Imagine screwing up once then you have to do the whole thing again.
Good job mate I didn’t even know you can play like this.
no he's not playing it, it's TAS. they're the best at speedruns
Great gameplay i love sonic advance 2 & 3 special sonic advance 3 its so nostalgic to me i love it so much...thanks sega/sonic team for making our days and rested peace in home...
This man bought the game and returned it an hour later cause he already beat it 😳
Man this game bring me back.....sigh Sega what happened? Mania can't save you forever
ikr, it's hard to think that this game was made by the same guys that did Sonic Forces
@@SrIgort It wasn't though. Sega's regular Sonic Team didn't make this game.
@@SrIgort they need new people working on the games fans like tax man tee lopes and stealth.
Sonic: Alright, i've pulled my legs long enough.
Years later i will be playing this and advance 1 and 3 myself taking my time and enjoying its fantastic gameplay
2:32 bruh xD
In a nutshell:
Jump + -> ->
For all the speed.
Sonic got nerf in advance 3
That would be so cool if you see what's ahead of you
welcome to 2d my man
@Tails' Workshop Master System versions wasn't that bad.
I still dont understand how they managed to get 999 rings in every single one of the special stages whereas during my playthrough I barely managed to get 300. Amazing gameplay.
Because it's a tool assistant speedrun friend.
Sonic in the cartoons be like:
Me and the boys going to mcdonalds
Cardboard Box good luck
Lmao
Nah you're too slow!
Thank you TH-cam Recommended, very cool.
For me as a young lad the hardest part was finding all the medals and I could never find them all for the space level and I accidentally found all of the them for the fire level
"There are no accidents"
-Master Oogway
the only good boost formula that nobody, not even sega, will ever use again.
soo true, I mean this boost formula when done correctly had absolutely no downsides and they also never used the trick system to gain extra speed.
also this version of boost looked cool as shit
Everyone here is from like an hour ago I wasn't expecting that.
The run on Hot crater 2 was a thing of beauty 🤩
Shiro is the goat for Speed Running in Sonic Game's 💙💙💙
I just realised they used the same trick than in FF in the special stages to make them look 3D.
Just so the people in the comments know,
[TAS] at the start of the video title means Tool Assisted Speedrun.
So what tool is he using to do this not all tools are the same ...
Or is it?
@@archieakira4237 (TAS) is generally defined as speedrunning a game in an emulator, generally with various tools at a player's disposal like programming a sequence of buttons to perform a set of actions, slow-downs and going frame-by-frame to create a theoretical perfect speedrun.
Or Tool Assisted Superplay
@@WinServer-sg3dp This is correct also :)
Tas should stand for totally accurate sonic because of how fast it is
This is the best comment i've seen
Speed run: Gonna needlessly jump over this bot in the chaos emerald section
16:03 Playing on time in a music-themed level
Did anyone realize he could of took advantage of the homing attack?
-There was no homing attack in the Advance games- wait, there really was one in Sonic Advance 2. Not in Advance 3 though.
@@lithiumwyvern_ there is a homing attack
@@DJKmoneydog Oh huh, there really is. Got it confused with Advance 3, I think. At least Advance 2 doesn't force you to use the homing attack, unlike, well... Sonic 4.
We are all commenting in a video that's 1 year old...
Yep
Nobody:
Moms in mobile game ads:
Dads in Mobile game ads: Poop
Dads in real life:
Nobody:
Reddit users making this the same unfunny joke:
Brings a tear to my eye i rememeber playing 1 2 and 3 and sonic battle on my SP back in the day long live that era 😭😎🤙
Sonic battle so underrated!!
He is the fastest thing alive
proven here
10 times faster than that slowpoke Captain Falcon!
Captain falcons needs *machinery* and *technology* to acheive fast. Nature's version of the ultimate life form doesn't need *pollution* to acheive fast
Sonic Advance needs more than 8 Numbers to calculate that score Jesus Christ
This music brings back deep memories
You are good at this speed run
Wow this game looks amazing. I never knew about it
TH-cam reccomendations are weird. This is actually good doe the fuck.
This is what Melee Sonic would've been like if he was added.
*ALL HAIL THE ALGORITHM*
also what dumbass decided special stages shouldn't immediately end once you get enough rings?
They probably did not planned to do it because they didn't expected Shiro to pass by😅
Holy sht this is insane!!!
You made this game look easier to me, and now im jealous. :(
I never knew you could get all seven special rings in one act
Wait. Isn't that the only way to even attempt to obtain a Chaos Emerald?
SuperSonic68 I never even saw the special stages I don't think
It was so hard to find them
SuperSonic68 The way I always did it was you collect a certain amount in one act and a certain amount in the other act. I just didn’t know you can collect all seven in one act
@@calebdouglas7622 that method would have been better to unlock the special stage instead of getting them all in one act infact if sucka the most with sonic because he can fly and backtrack like the other characters so everything needs to be timed and the mechanics need to be mastered I'm not counting any because getting all rings doesn't unlock anything for her.
Bro those special stages tho lmao
Ikr