Sonic's Out of Bounds City? The Mysteries, Discoveries, & Nostalgia of City Escape | Pixel Portals

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    Sonic Adventure 2 Battle's City Escape is by far one of the most iconic stages in the game. Whether you remember it because of the rush of the downhill race or the catchy soundtrack, chances are nostalgia sweeps over you. Tucked away in this sprawling city are tons of odd discoveries and mysteries - from how the giant truck appears out of nowhere, to the remains of a floating city left behind. Join me for another edition of Pixel Portals as we cover this downhill race from A to Z - both in bounds and out of bounds!
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    Truck glitch by Rattleman (11 years ago!)
    Out of bounds city discovery first noted on Cutting Room Floor by JmTsHaW.
    Music credits:
    All songs from Sonic Adventure 2: Battle OST
    "Chao Race Challenge"
    "City Escape - Trail Version"
    "Chao Garden - Hero's Version"
    "Chao Garden - Neutral Version"
    #sonic #sonicthehedgehog #sonicadventure2 #shadow #shadowthehedgehog #sa2b #sega #cityescape
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  • @aurafox1
    @aurafox1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +213

    Sonic (tearing through traffic): "Watch out! You're gonna crash! Ah!"

    • @Meph7895
      @Meph7895 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      This is a great comment and nobody can say otherwise.

    • @haezz4027
      @haezz4027 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      *sticks tongue out when he says ah*

  • @TetraBitGaming
    @TetraBitGaming 5 ปีที่แล้ว +282

    One of the best stages ever tbh

  • @cameron9388
    @cameron9388 5 ปีที่แล้ว +85

    Game designer: *leaves something in on accident* haha woops hope nobody notices
    SwankyBox: *10 minute video*

  • @mayonnaiz-7990
    @mayonnaiz-7990 5 ปีที่แล้ว +74

    It's actually based on San Francisco's downhill slopes, and radical highway is of course the Golden Gate bridge of the city. It's also interesting too that Sonic Team took real pictures when they were in California and used them as in-game textures for both of the adventure games. Once again, great video dude

    • @tacticalmeatloaf7846
      @tacticalmeatloaf7846 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Kewl

    • @heyjakejams
      @heyjakejams 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You can even see the Transamerica Building, an iconic part of the San Francisco skyline, in the skybox of radical highway. Pretty cool!

    • @gammaguyyt
      @gammaguyyt 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Doesn’t that mean chao world is Alcatraz?!?!?!

  • @ChristopherMoom
    @ChristopherMoom 5 ปีที่แล้ว +268

    An out of bounds city? Man, it took the words "City Escape" too literally

    • @Sarah12471
      @Sarah12471 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hello again

    • @rodonic01
      @rodonic01 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Chris! You're... everywhere. Kaze Emanuar, Alpharad, Hobo Bros., GameXplain, SMG4, Hat-Loving Gamer, StephenPlays, DyllonStej Gaming, Dawko, StylesX2, Hyun's Dojo Community, Dorkly, Beefy Smash Doods, AnimationRewind, Spooked, Nathaniel Bandy, Snooplax, Shyguymask, ZeRo, Merg, Sonic the Hedgehog, Casualverse, NairoMK, SimpleFlips, GameGrumps, Smashified (Curiomatic), Crispy Toast and now SwankyBox?! I don't get why the heck do I see you everywhere?!

    • @Sarah12471
      @Sarah12471 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Don't forget gnoggin he was there as well

    • @keglodude
      @keglodude 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Why are you everywhere I am??

    • @newbiegamelover4767
      @newbiegamelover4767 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Apparently, it didn't hear the lyrics "Escape from the city."

  • @GeorgTheGr8
    @GeorgTheGr8 5 ปีที่แล้ว +142

    *_Rollin' around at the speed of sound_*

    • @sunayama4650
      @sunayama4650 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I'd love to entertain this meme of a song, but I've got places to go -- gotta follow my rainbow!

    • @stepha7102
      @stepha7102 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      *_Got places to go, gotta follow my rainbow!_*

    • @thechefboyardeecan8948
      @thechefboyardeecan8948 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Can’t stick around gotta keep moving on

    • @stepha7102
      @stepha7102 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      *_Guess what lies ahead, only one way to find out!_*

    • @hunterkline7972
      @hunterkline7972 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Johnetta Erty no

  • @michaeljfan9720
    @michaeljfan9720 5 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    1:43 Sega thinks they're so slick hiding an acronym to their game in the dialogue.
    *Sigma-Alpha 2*
    *SA2*
    *Sonic Adventure 2*

    • @KAngel32
      @KAngel32 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Big flex there SANS

    • @KAngel32
      @KAngel32 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Or should i call you NESS

  • @ZoYatic
    @ZoYatic 5 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    3:11 **cursed image**

    • @sylvierose2799
      @sylvierose2799 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lmao

    • @indask8
      @indask8 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Still a better Sonic design than the one in the movie

    • @evelynloseo4867
      @evelynloseo4867 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Good question

    • @breadiscool22
      @breadiscool22 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I paused the video at right there it looks wierd but cool

  • @MrSolveMYMaze
    @MrSolveMYMaze 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Back in 2001, two of my friends and I made a Nintendo and Sega cross over magazine for a project in our English class. Of course, it required a full weekend of playing games and one of my mates brought his Dreamcast with an old demo disc which had City Escape on it. We must have played that level at least 100 times. And the first level on Confidential Mission. Oh, and plenty of Goldeneye for good measure

  • @greenoftreeblackofblue6625
    @greenoftreeblackofblue6625 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    "Sonic out of bounds, Sonic out of bounds!"
    -Sonic Underground.

  • @jurisfootrag
    @jurisfootrag 5 ปีที่แล้ว +86

    It's actually based on San Francisco, which is like 20 min. away from me ;)
    What got me thinking these thoughts was that highway in the car-race stages. Like who the fuck looked at these roads with giant holes in them and large bumps and said "Ok; approved!?" lol The "Nights into Dreams" building in Radical Highway always intrigued me too. You should do Radical Highway next :D

    • @SwankyBox
      @SwankyBox  5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I thought about making a note in the video since Pittsburgh obviously doesn't have palm trees, but I felt it made more sense since I actually haven't been to San Francisco myself. I was blown away the first time I had gone to Pittsburgh though because the inclines in the streets seemed absolutely absurd. Good to know San Francisco is pretty much the same!
      Radical Highway has pretty neat areas in it too. The long road spiral at the end is actually really weird when you try to tackle it in ways you're not supposed to. It can warp you back and forth - it's pretty strange!

    • @D3X1K_AXYZ
      @D3X1K_AXYZ 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@SwankyBox I am surprised to hear Pittsburgh in a video honestly. While I've never played this game or been to San Francisco, it does remind me of the street from Full House. PS, heyo from Pittsburgh.

    • @edquad2765
      @edquad2765 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@SwankyBox you should visit san Francisco one day. I went on vacation there last year and it was a blast. The culture there is great

    • @D3X1K_AXYZ
      @D3X1K_AXYZ 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I am pretty sure your username isn't much better... kind of seems hilariously hypocritical imo no offense.

    • @cyan.6399
      @cyan.6399 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Apparently they added the ability to knock over cars as a way to vent the devs' frustrations with parking laws.

  • @ZeroFuri
    @ZeroFuri 5 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    Even if my first Sonic title began with the first game and continued on from there, the game with the best intro stage is definitely Sonic Adventure 2. Sonic Team seems to like rehashing Green Hill Zone way too much though, which is probably why it's easier to appreciate City Escape way more. I think Generations did a pretty good job revisiting this piece of the past, better than any other Generations stage, even.

    • @CrystalGreymon
      @CrystalGreymon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I actually think a number of stages were handled better than City Escape was. They took out the meat of the level and made it pretty much just boarding and truck chase with hardly anything worthwhile in between.

    • @MegaDadHardlyChad
      @MegaDadHardlyChad 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I feel like its because everytime they try and do something different or unique with Sonic games the fan base loses it's absolute shit. So they try and redo Green Hill over and over because fans like it.

    • @anonymousoff-brand7538
      @anonymousoff-brand7538 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@MegaDadHardlyChad y'know, that's always fallen flat for me. colours, generations, and the adventure games all did something different and are beloved, lost worlds gravity mechanics seem to be considered one of the good parts of that mixed bag of a game, and the avatar is pretty much the only thing well-liked about forces.
      on the other hand, i don't think iv'e ever heard of someone legitimately liking the whole thing of constant green hill zones as a whole, liking the games like generations and mania and what they do with levels yes, but never the whole thing with green hill, and especially not what forces does with old levels, the closest being devils advocates for the whole thing.

    • @MegaDadHardlyChad
      @MegaDadHardlyChad 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@anonymousoff-brand7538 Fair points.

    • @pkmntrainermark8881
      @pkmntrainermark8881 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      One of very few Sonic games that doesn't start with a hills and/or beach level.

  • @aurafox1
    @aurafox1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I swear I can hear my chao jumping into the water every time that chao garden music plays...

    • @revenevan11
      @revenevan11 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lol. Gotta get them good at swimming asap!

  • @nightingalebard
    @nightingalebard 5 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    😂 As a HUGE Sonic Adventure fan as a kid and someone who works in the game industry now, this is amazing to me. I think the assets of the city that are out of bounds were probably testable assets for developers to use quickly without needing to progress through the level each time. Asset testing areas are something devs do a lot to this day, and in older games it used to be easier to find them. Either that or they're assets left over from a cut environment. Which would lead to performance issues in modern games, but back a decade or more ago it was rarely a big deal to leave leftover assets.

    • @SwankyBox
      @SwankyBox  5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      To my surprise, I've stumbled upon a few different areas like this in SA2. I know there are records of existing areas on places like the Cutting Room Floor (this one in particular is actually documented there), but there are a few others that I don't think other people have taken note of yet. Something I didn't put in the video that I should have is that the multiplayer levels are often shortened in length, but the entirety of the level is still there - it's just blocked off. It's kind of neat to explore abandoned areas like the last 1/3rd of City Escape on 2 player mode.

  • @hannahblespecter5325
    @hannahblespecter5325 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This is one of my favorite games I played as a kid. I loved all of Knuckles' levels, especially Pummpkin Hill. I always thought I was so cool for listening to that music hah.

  • @bitter-bit
    @bitter-bit 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    My sister and I lived and breathed this game for years. Getting the Chaos Chao was so amazing... But I accidentally killed my sister's Chao and will never forget that horrific sound that plays when the egg hatches and the Chao inside is gone. Just devastating.

    • @revenevan11
      @revenevan11 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's traumatizing lol, I remember as a kid I stopped playing the chao garden because someone told me my oldest and favorite chao would probably die soon, and I didn't know about the rebirth thing, so I stayed out of the garden until I could get the long life fruit (which I never figured out as a kid, just needed more emblems lol), which meant I never got past unlocking the heaven and hell gardens. Thinking back it may have been one of my first reckonings with mortality and the inevitability of death/finite length of lifespans. I'm actually going back through some of it more thoroughly now on the PC version, kinda facepalming about how confused I was as a kid who couldn't process some of the UI for extra missions on the levels or search the internet for secrets (which I'm still only rarely doing).

  • @ZourCo
    @ZourCo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    One of my first out of bounds discoveries was in this game and I loved executing it even though it did pretty much nothing. At the chao garden if you go to the far left corner against the invisible boundary and the rocks to your right and jump attacked multiple times you could break through the wall and just float around outside the chao world. When you come back to land you will actually be below it and see just your shadow on the grass! But jumping fixed the issue and all was normal again. Super fun game, I played it for hours and hours with my sister! Thanks for the video.

  • @apurpledragon
    @apurpledragon 5 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    Another fact you missed is that the cloned City Escape in the Downtown Race is of the Dreamcast version, not the ports.

    • @SwankyBox
      @SwankyBox  5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Not sure I'm following you. Are you referring to a different cloned section, or the one that I touched on in the video? Everything in this video was done on the Gamecube version (minus one or two clips) and there's a lot more of the Downtown Race out of bounds City Escape section that I didn't show off. It goes on for quite a while (as I'm sure you're familiar with based on your comment).

    • @apurpledragon
      @apurpledragon 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      The one in the video. If you pay careful attention, you'll notice that in one of the homing attack chains of the GUN Beetles, there's an extra one that's ONLY in the DC version, and some other differences too.

    • @apurpledragon
      @apurpledragon 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@SwankyBox if I remember correctly Main Memory did a video on SA2B's leftovers in multiplayer maps, but I can't seem tk find the video.

    • @apurpledragon
      @apurpledragon 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@SwankyBox it's either him or ElectricNukeMods, I can't remember which one it was though.

    • @ddsjgvk
      @ddsjgvk 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@SwankyBox The snow covered City Escape is a map you play in multiplayer. it doesn't have an on foot section.

  • @rubiesncreme
    @rubiesncreme 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    "I swear it's pretty much Pittsburgh"
    ...It's San Francisco...

    • @Yuli_Ban
      @Yuli_Ban 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Funny as hell... now I'm curious about Pittsburgh's hillside roads. I had no idea.

  • @Sparkette
    @Sparkette 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    19B3-825Q-2DXHQ
    RDP2-Z7Z6-ZPDXB
    WQYC-E3M9-1QVDR
    Use that Action Replay code in the GameCube version and then you can switch to a free-flight/noclip mode by pressing Z+X.

  • @galaxyrider1949
    @galaxyrider1949 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    “Pittsburgh with Inclines”
    ...
    ...
    ...
    Thought it was supposed to resemble San Fran lmao

  • @AS34N
    @AS34N 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "That's all downhill, I swear it's pretty much...*Pittsburgh*..with all the slopes..."
    Cringes in San Francisco

  • @superzigzagoon
    @superzigzagoon 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I believe City Escape took the boarding from Ice Cap level in Sonic Adventure as well as the running down a building segment from Speed Highway in Sonic Adventure.

  • @amcheeze6782
    @amcheeze6782 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This game ended up helping me feel motivated to compete with rivals, due to the race battle between shadow and sonic, and even today nearly 15 years latter i still have the song ring in my head when i finds someone to compete with in the Artistic field. XD

  • @evelynloseo4867
    @evelynloseo4867 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    0:31 when you where almost turning off the light then you heard an noise

  • @sporebliss
    @sporebliss 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Nostalgia? Man, when i made my first chao chaos... the wait... amoung many thing, you had to let your chao die twice. They have a life span of about 10 hours... 10 hours in your presence. So just being around it doing nothing, waiting for it to rebirth... damn it was long...
    I still want to do it...

  • @Dr.Frasier_Crane
    @Dr.Frasier_Crane 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    As someone from Pittsburgh, I agree it’s basically the same thing

  • @theinsomniac-9359
    @theinsomniac-9359 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Sonic Adventure 2 was actually one of the first games I’ve ever experienced and was the main source of why I still love the series to this day, despite its change in quality. I’ve always liked the 3D aspects of most of the sonic games and never found enjoyment with the 2D ones, but the Sonic Adventure games were the most enjoyment I’ve gotten out of the 3D style so far

  • @HTPCYMC
    @HTPCYMC 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Sonic Adventure 2 _& Knuckles_

    • @CaveyMoth
      @CaveyMoth 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      AAAAAAAAA!

    • @mayonnaiz-7990
      @mayonnaiz-7990 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It's Sonic Adventure 2 & Shadow

    • @evelynloseo4867
      @evelynloseo4867 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      *kunkles and the donkels*

  • @Virtually_Char
    @Virtually_Char 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I remember when I didn't realize you could speed up the timer for Amy's time stop by smashing A.

  • @Estus1999
    @Estus1999 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I remember asking myself what the PSO items were in rouge's space stage, and thinking that there must have been a way to carry them over with sonic advanced like you could do with the chao's

  • @CrystalGreymon
    @CrystalGreymon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    4:28
    In 2-Player, there's a glitch that actually allows one of the players to retain their board.
    The catch is you pretty much need pinpoint timing and to be working together to get it to happen.
    If Sonic or Shadow uses their respective Time Stopping ability at the exact moment the second player's board is supposed to be dismounted the game will get confused and overwrite the command for dismounting the board with the command for freezing time. When time resumes, the player will be moving around on the board as normal.
    Getting hurt dismounts the board as normal and Metal Sonic is really the best character to make use of this due to his great jump height. Specifically, he can get to the loop and Sonic, Shadow and Amy can get to the pulley area before the loop. They can't actually get to the loop because of Metal having a better jump height.

    • @CrystalGreymon
      @CrystalGreymon 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      That moment when the video explains pretty much everything after you write the comment.
      I ain't changin' it!

  • @12majixajinxixcolorchartdi25
    @12majixajinxixcolorchartdi25 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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  • @arvispresley2373
    @arvispresley2373 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I remember glitching the jungle multiplayer level with Metal sonic, as soon as you start, use his shield and keep going, you will fall off the stage and though the death boundary...
    You can guess how that went

  • @VelociKatzeMk99
    @VelociKatzeMk99 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I had fun going into the void as metal sonic in green forest, and metal harbor has some fun bugs.

  • @frostdarkblood9008
    @frostdarkblood9008 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Hello swankybox, this video is amazing it brings back so many memories of City escape, it brings out all the nostalgia this is still one of my favorite levels today, keep up the amazing work, I love your videos your videos always make me smile when I watch them, keep up the good work and don't stop what you're doing no matter what anyone says and eggman running through the streets is the most hilarious thing ever, I wondered how that hella big truck got into that city as well,

    • @SwankyBox
      @SwankyBox  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanks for sharing these kind words! I appreciate the support and I'll be sure to keep making them!

    • @frostdarkblood9008
      @frostdarkblood9008 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@SwankyBox you're welcome

  • @bluekittyyoyo6592
    @bluekittyyoyo6592 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    when I was a kid playing this stage, I always thought that the goal ring being there meant I messed something up and I would spend several minutes wandering around the goal ring area trying to find something to "fix" whatever I had messed up on. and then I would spend hours replaying the stage and trying to do it "correctly". ah, good times

  • @fredrick5227
    @fredrick5227 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    My cousin and I used to grind chao garden, so we'd farm stats on stages to get "Sonic Chao" etc, then go outside to play with a ball and bat while waiting for the chaos to evolve. I even have a fully handwritten guide that I've kept for almost 20 years. We even found a bug to breed an invisible chao. Thanks for the thip down memory lane!

  • @Jimmy_G412
    @Jimmy_G412 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    0:10 can confirm this I'm from Pittsburgh. Are you from here as well? Also the area is home to the world's steepest city street.

    • @huesun3624
      @huesun3624 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      You should skate down it on an aircraft door.

    • @TorutheRedFox
      @TorutheRedFox 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      no, it's a panel off the wing lol
      the door blasted off somewhere

  • @mad_quack
    @mad_quack 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Shoot yeah, this IS my favorite game of all time. I’ve played it more than anything else even to this day with Skyrim and Fallout 4. I’m sure I still put more hours into SA2B

  • @Peace.and.knowledge1
    @Peace.and.knowledge1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Been watching your vids for awhile and gotta say swanky theirs literally very few true gamers in the world like you and i agree with your taste in mysteries, lore and games man keep the vids coming 👍

  • @Sgt-Wolf
    @Sgt-Wolf 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Since you asked.
    Yes I do have nostalgia for sonic adventure 2 i got it when I was 6 but I sucked at the game.
    But one year later I beat it that summer and now I think of summer when I play it.
    (Man that got sentimental fast)

    • @revenevan11
      @revenevan11 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Funny that you mention thinking of seasons. When I first played through HL2 it was just after Easter, I had my windows open and the smell of the first fresh air of spring and the taste of those malt chocolate eggs still come to me when I play it, especially the airboat sections!

  • @natekofalt1823
    @natekofalt1823 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    As someone who lives in Pittsburgh, some of the inclines in City Escape aren't really too much of an exaggeration lmao

  • @twilitsaenguani485
    @twilitsaenguani485 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I do in fact have two pixel portals with SA2, the first was with Dry Lagoon being that's what introduced me to the game when I played a demo in FYE which impressed my mom so much she bought the game literally on the spot, my tenth birthday was close anyway. The music and aesthetics combined with Rouge being the token enchantress of the series touched me in an almost aetherial way and from around that time onwards I've been essentially obsessed with anything with a dark faerie forest sort of vibe, and most anyone who embodies these vibes, so basically any femme fatale. The second is Crazy Gadget, in the last puzzle room I assumed you had to hit the gravity switch on the yellow platform by somehow making that impossible jump sideways, I learned how to eventually after a couple hundred attempts, but then my sister being smarter than me with these things just went up and jumped to the blue one above like a plebian. I was so mad at myself for being so stubborn I'd overlook something so obvious, this taught me to keep an open mind and don't assume there's only one impossible solution to a problem, as there's usually a much easier one, but at least I got more skilled. XD

  • @ScottE-2
    @ScottE-2 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great video man, I sadly never got the chance to play any other sonic game outside of what was available to the Mega Collection. But the trailer for Adventure 2 Battle always got me hyped to one day play it.

  • @esigurd6133
    @esigurd6133 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My favorite memory of this game was playing grind race with my neighbor and us having to ban metal sonic since he grinds so damn fast

  • @bruskedragon
    @bruskedragon 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    SA2B is one of my favorite sonic games of all time, and the chao garden and music are just so good. I spent so much time in the chao gardens whenever i was sick, and its just such a great nostalgia.

  • @eezack1
    @eezack1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Poster, an out of place object as you're frantically leaving the city.

  • @melodicGemstone
    @melodicGemstone 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "Talk about a low budget flight. No food or movies... I'm outta here!"

  • @Letrictox13
    @Letrictox13 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    i love your videos ! don’t ever stop doing what you do bro!

  • @jeremiahquirnel8066
    @jeremiahquirnel8066 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I remember I would watch my brother play story mode as I kept practicing to get good with city escape and me and my brother would battle alot

  • @fredrick5227
    @fredrick5227 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The loop area with the board, the way you bypassed was jumping over the fence. We tried that too. The stuff we did when our weekly allowance allowed one game every two months, we did everything. It's fun to see someone else explore it.

  • @MarioSpivey
    @MarioSpivey 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I have some pretty good memories of City escape. Especially with the music with it's energetic feel and pretty cool lyrics.

  • @MikeyTaylorGaming
    @MikeyTaylorGaming 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Interesting! Certainly haven't seen this before despite enjoying a good out of bounds myself!

    • @MikeyTaylorGaming
      @MikeyTaylorGaming 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Leo This is very closed minded! Everyone has their own style on TH-cam. I've been plagued with comments that say 'You ripped off this guy, you ripped off this guy'
      But fortunately people see the content for what it is. We don't copy each other, we have our own unique styles and we enjoy entertaining in the form that we do!
      Hopefully people stop with this, it's sad to think that people see us as copycat channels :)

  • @austinnoliphant
    @austinnoliphant 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    has someone that has played both SA2 and PSO1&2 I at least somewhat how you feel and always find it aways when someone takes about them. this video was pure nostalgia for me and I learns some new fun glitches from it thank you... for nostalgia feels I had a brother that was four years older than me and was better at playing video game but I always loved racing and battling him in vs mode.

  • @MrcaliciousHyphy
    @MrcaliciousHyphy 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I always loved the trick you can do at the very end of the stage.
    Superbounce over the wall in the goal ring area, and you could walk backwards through the truck chase section, all the way to the start. The best part is that if you made your way to the beginning of that section, the truck would actually respawn and start chasing you again.
    Another fun thing about the truck is that its mostly designed to keep pace with Sonic. You can walk through that section and the truck will slow down with you.

  • @travisshaffer6623
    @travisshaffer6623 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    So freakin nuts! The truck driving backwards is hella funny dood!

  • @haloplayer505
    @haloplayer505 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    This game provided my brothers and i with literally over 300 hours of fun way back when, we never got all the emblems despite all the time we put in as we mostly spent our time in 2-player mode lol. So i recently went back and grabbed all A-ranks, i never realized just how much this game meant to me until that moment when it was basically over again. Will definitely do it again.

  • @onigarbage9143
    @onigarbage9143 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    This was my first sonic game, I have a picture from my 4th birthday holding Sa2 and Mario Sunshine. Mario sunshine was too hard for me so I spent all of my time playing Sa2. The first Sonic Adventure was one that I had nearly beaten, Big the Cat stages kept me from such but Sa2 I could never beat since I didn't know about the Aquatic Mines upgrade needed to beat the final story. One thing I played more than anything were the chao gardens. I loved my chaos. I remember one day when a chao I had dubbed the legendary chao, he won at chao karate more than others, had died. I noticed that he was "evolving" for a second time and I was so excited to see what he would turn into next. When the shell disappeared and he was gone, I absolutely sobbed. I still play Sa2 to this day, it's been 14 years with this game. I'm learning to speedrun it, I've 100% it a few times. This game means so much to me.

  • @karameru880
    @karameru880 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    this vid gave me the feels. sonic adventure 2 will always be a special game for.

  • @thewoodgamer6608
    @thewoodgamer6608 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The Dreamcast was my first video game console, well my first that I could really understand how to use. And sonic adventure 2, crazy taxi and hydro thunder where the only games I owned. Sonic adventure 2 as to be my all time favorite sonic games.

  • @ChampionRevilo
    @ChampionRevilo 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    One of my favorite levels in gaming ever.

  • @chumon1992
    @chumon1992 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love how the GUN truck is supposed to be getting rid of Sonic because they think he's Shadow. But they have no issue plowing through everything in the way

  • @TheCreepypro
    @TheCreepypro 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    while I don't have any nostalgia with this game it is nice to hear your nostalgia cause too many people have jumped on the bandwagon of being too hard on it

  • @RoarTheRapper
    @RoarTheRapper 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    While I don’t have any nostalgia for sonic, because I like you didn’t have Seger in my house growing up, bomber man 64 really meant something to me. It not only served as a catalyst to other games, but also made me love the rest of the franchise. The soundtrack for sure is something I’ll always remember. :-)

  • @1Thunderfire
    @1Thunderfire 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Eggman's the fastest thing alive!

  • @superpocky9611
    @superpocky9611 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    This was my first Sonic game, and I played the heck out of it; my save file has hundreds of hours on it. I liked goofing around in the Chao gardens because you could explore more compared to the levels, my favorite thing to do was wedge myself out of bounds and fly around the skybox!

  • @GCJACK83
    @GCJACK83 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Concerning why the game starts with Sonic held captive by G.U.N, it's actually explored in full during the Sonic X anime. Falling between the Adventure 1 and 2 arcs, Eggman breaks Shadow out of a G.U.N prison. GUN chases Sonic thinking he's the escaped Shadow.

  • @SpyingShip
    @SpyingShip 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Zardys maze in the left 2:38

  • @daniele.parentmradamgamera2500
    @daniele.parentmradamgamera2500 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love your content, stay frosty swanky box. :)

  • @jaytc8521
    @jaytc8521 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I remember as a kid I found a way to clip outside the chao garden by homing attacking on a certain spot.. you could float around and then just return to the map

  • @3rdmonocle789
    @3rdmonocle789 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I once discovered that in Final Rush in 2 player mode you can reach the chase sequence where debris falls on Sonic by falling in a specific area to the left of the invisible barrier. What's more interesting is that the area around the chase sequence has the same debris falling everywhere.

  • @brendonstacks4107
    @brendonstacks4107 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You're the best TH-camr ever SwankyBox

  • @MegaStorm252
    @MegaStorm252 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    And after this song, I listened to City Escape :')

  • @daskampffredchen9242
    @daskampffredchen9242 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Sonic : I like running more
    *Uses snowboard on street

  • @ConstantlyKenny
    @ConstantlyKenny 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I remember playing this game as a kid on dreamcast with my younger sister. We didn't play the vs mode much but we did spend all our time raising and playing with the chao. I remember buying an extra vmu so we could both play those mini games together and battle our chao. It was an incredible time in my childhood. I hope some day we can raise chao again.

  • @Chiamy
    @Chiamy 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Honestly City Escape is my *FAVORITE* stage in video games, and also Escape from the city is my *FAVORITE* Sonic song, well it is my favorite song in video games. I really love this game and stage, It's my childhood!
    I still have the game but I don't play it anymore because the controller always leave my finger whit a lot of pain. But if I buy I new one then I'll probably start playing it again!
    Thanks for giving me back memories :3

  • @vanslickereviews8435
    @vanslickereviews8435 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You deserve to get more views on your videos

  • @1128nesecret
    @1128nesecret 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    This was such a sweet video

  • @vigi1antvort3x41
    @vigi1antvort3x41 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    No people were hurt in the making of this game.

  • @phantomhurricane666
    @phantomhurricane666 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    you can break through the invisible wall in the first chao garden. keep homing attacking the corner where the rocks are and eventually you'll go through it. as a bonus, the chao will start "drowning" in the ground. in the dark chao garden, you can "plant" a chao in the ground next to the tree with a cage on it.

  • @astridvalkyrie8458
    @astridvalkyrie8458 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I used to stay on the board all level all the time. I loved it and felt so cool as a kid for doing it xD

  • @Thefroggamer-yh6hl
    @Thefroggamer-yh6hl 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I think the best part of the stage is the song because it’s so catchy

  • @PavethaWay
    @PavethaWay 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    0:55

  • @Julian_Pepper
    @Julian_Pepper 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    2:03 legit trying to see if I can avoid destroying any cars now (not counting the GUN Truck's rampage of course)

  • @emilytheuncoollady7676
    @emilytheuncoollady7676 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I Love The -Quiet- City Escape!

  • @tailse
    @tailse 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    So I just downloaded SA2B and I noticed something on my recent playthrough of City Escape.
    On the downhill escape from the truck, if you look to the right during one of the straightaways, you'll actually notice Big the Cat fleeing for his life before eventually getting ran over in the mess of cars along the sidewalk.
    Nothing gruesome, just honestly did not remember that from my childhood.

    • @CrystalGreymon
      @CrystalGreymon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That's because Big wasn't present in any of the levels on the Gamecube version. He was in all of those spots in the Dreamcast version though.
      Personally I like finding him in the levels on the Ark. It makes you wonder why he's there. Me and a friend just kinda joked that he's a Super Secret G.U.N Agent.

  • @berryfox7028
    @berryfox7028 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Sonic: I'M INNOCENT! *flips tons of cars trying to escape police*

  • @SprocketWatchclock
    @SprocketWatchclock 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Spinning the joystick speeds up the time stop timer so as long as you know that, it's not as annoying.

  • @AustinD_YT
    @AustinD_YT 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hi, Sonic fan here... Sonic Adventure 1 doesn't set up for the story of 2 at all. AT ALL. In Sonic Adventure 1 it ends with Sonic having of beaten Perfect Chaos, and the start of 2 starts the way it does. The reason Sonic was captured was due to Shadow stealing the chaos emeralds and everyone else thinking Shadow was Sonic. This is a story that is completely contained in adventure 2. The original game doesn't have Shadow or Rouge at all. Everyone was confused at the begining, that was the point. it was meant to be a twist to make everyone playing go "Holy shit why is Sonic arrested!" until completing the first stage when sonic clears it all up with one line. "The military has mistaken me for the likes of you"

  • @xelaranger3880
    @xelaranger3880 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I remember playing battle so much on the game cube I remember we found some funny pathing in this game when playing the battle mode playing as the speed characters with one of us playing as metal sonic and just holding b to use his ability that made him look like a crystal. Alot of times he would just shoot off the screen at high speeds and we would burst into laughter.

  • @PoisonIvory088
    @PoisonIvory088 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wow,cool,awsome!!!

  • @Avriel_Mimiga
    @Avriel_Mimiga 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    1:22 Welcome to episode ### Of an online series where we basically take the camera
    Anywhere we want

  • @JelloSickle98
    @JelloSickle98 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I loved this game I loved the chao garden and my favorite stage was pumpkin hill

  • @Blinkedzero
    @Blinkedzero 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Subscribed. More Sonic please. :)

  • @abeperdomo1401
    @abeperdomo1401 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    First time playing this game i was amaze of the graphics.

  • @AxelWedstar411
    @AxelWedstar411 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    You just know Sonic's body on Rouge's head has inspired some odd fanfiction.

  • @classicspeeder
    @classicspeeder 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    When you mentioned Phantasy Star I expected you to mention the Tails Chao

  • @cookieskoon2028
    @cookieskoon2028 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    While Pittsburgh is indeed built on steep ground, the stage was very clearly modeled after San Francisco.

  • @idiotontheinternet8113
    @idiotontheinternet8113 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    2:04 go complete city escape without destroying cars then. it'll be fun trust me

    • @revenevan11
      @revenevan11 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's one of the extra mission requirements for the car driving levels. It can get a bit frustrating lol.