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  • I have waited over 20 years to 100% Sonic Adventure 2 Battle... and it was a journey.
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  • @Alpharad
    @Alpharad  9 หลายเดือนก่อน +772

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    • @DirectorOfChaos9292
      @DirectorOfChaos9292 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +53

      Its just SCENTED water. Not flavored, SCENTED. Talk about a rip off

    • @chiby5664
      @chiby5664 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      I wish I could get it, really, but apparently Canada doesn't like flavored water

    • @MrLemon-hl7pi
      @MrLemon-hl7pi 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      YAHOOO!

    • @jstar3382
      @jstar3382 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@DirectorOfChaos9292yeah

    • @vyorion4485
      @vyorion4485 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Next stop, Sonic Heroes 100% "Speedrun" (but it's the shitty broken ps2 port)

  • @littleguystar
    @littleguystar 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5594

    Sonic Adventure 2 casually vs Sonic Adventure 2 completionist is radically different, and ranges between being infuriating and making you feel like the most badass guy in the entire world. I love this game.

    • @manjackson2772
      @manjackson2772 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +179

      I genuinely think it's the best way to approach the game. Even if you don't *actually* get 100%, at least trying to do it will make you look at it through new eyes.

    • @sonicnerd21
      @sonicnerd21 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +51

      I agree, I'm like 10 or less emblems away and to be honest. I'm not looking forward to the A Ranks

    • @LuigisNo1fan
      @LuigisNo1fan 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@sonicnerd21Honestly the only A Ranks that really suck are the treasure hunting ones and the car stages.

    • @badminton311
      @badminton311 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      I don’t know how to break this to you, but it does not make you a badass

    • @elibonham4388
      @elibonham4388 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +84

      ​@@badminton311it does for me

  • @mushroomfusion245
    @mushroomfusion245 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1914

    28:46 The Biolizard was designed after the murals in the Mystic Ruins that depicted Perfect Chaos in Sonic Adventure 1, while Shadow was designed after the murals on Angel Island that depicted Super Sonic fighting Eggman at the end of Sonic 3 and Knuckles. This is why Shadow’s quills resemble that of Super Sonic. May no Sonic fan be confused by this lore ever again.

    • @alansmithee6273
      @alansmithee6273 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +71

      Wow that's sick.

    • @Shalakor
      @Shalakor 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

      If not for the sponsor, this comment should be tagged.

    • @eliasovzki
      @eliasovzki 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      Fake. There is no official source that confirms this, especially because Shadow was created 50 years in the past, before the fight that took place in Sonic 3.

    • @justcallmekai1554
      @justcallmekai1554 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +164

      ​@@eliasovzki I'm pretty sure the mural is a prophecy. That mural was already there when Gerald found it and was inspired by it to create the "Ultimate Lifeform". At the end of the game, Shadow calls Sonic the Ultimate Lifeform. Sonic even contemplates after Shadows fall as to what it means.
      There are way more parallels to credit the theory. Other Gerald creations (Artificial Chaos and The Biolizard), even the ARK has connections to Angel Island and the Mystic Ruins. Like The Master Emerald shrine or the Snakeslide from Sa1's Mystic Ruins in Cannons Core. If the Biolizard was based on Perfect Chaos, what's Shadow based on? It can't be random given the connections.

    • @SonicSwifter
      @SonicSwifter 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

      It's important to say that this is all headcanon. Whilst I do agree with it, there really isn't any confirmed sources for it. It's just people trying to connect dots that seem like they fit, they've never been connected in actual Canon. (Unless they done it in a recent game as I haven't played properly since 06)

  • @Pogbirb
    @Pogbirb 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +48

    "Sonic Jr" and "Shadow2" are so incredibly in character I can't explain it i just love them so much

  • @noneknowstheswagger
    @noneknowstheswagger 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1547

    shoutout to Noah for gaslighting Alpharad so easily, a true icon of our time

    • @ironicallyedgy7234
      @ironicallyedgy7234 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +71

      Gets better. Alpharad told the story before and I’m confident that he was told that DONALD DUCK in Mario Party 5.

    • @jstar3382
      @jstar3382 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      ​@@ironicallyedgy7234yeah we've heard this story so many times. Donald Duck in Mario Party absolutely

  • @SymbioticVader
    @SymbioticVader 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2523

    Alpha getting his hair done at the end is just pure comedy gold

    • @8unnylover
      @8unnylover 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +263

      Alpha's hairdresser is a real one, respect to her just agreeing to do it on stream lol

    • @barbaro124
      @barbaro124 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      King energy from alpha right there

    • @AceWolf456
      @AceWolf456 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +48

      @@8unnyloverfor sure. And it probably worked as a good ad on stream. If she even gets 1 new customer from that stream it was worth it.

    • @its_unbearable
      @its_unbearable 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      ALPHARAD gold™️

    • @ashleylightheart126
      @ashleylightheart126 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      my headcanon is that Sophia was that friend that told Alpha sonic was in smash.

  • @DMGamer_PC
    @DMGamer_PC 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +542

    Jacob: "Yeah, hopefully this is the kind of video you watch over lunch, but over like three or four days of lunches"
    Me, binging it at 2 AM for absolutely no reason: "DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO-"

    • @northstarjakobs
      @northstarjakobs 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I watched it while working on prices for an online baseball card trade

    • @kierantheumbreon
      @kierantheumbreon 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I watched this video over lunch, and dinner LOL

    • @Link_31415
      @Link_31415 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Why not both 😏🤫

    • @melodystory2207
      @melodystory2207 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Me watching this at 4 am:

    • @___________0Z0X
      @___________0Z0X 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I was playing master dual while watching.

  • @Arkadious
    @Arkadious 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1156

    The fact that the air necklace for Knuckles is optional is absolutely insane, because as a 9 year old child I had no idea that it existed and made Cannon's Core the most difficult mission in the game. I cannot believe that I even managed to finish the mission without it.

    • @leanblasterex5240
      @leanblasterex5240 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +148

      childhood games are like finding out in adult we made the game 100x harder in some way *cough cough* i never finished pokemon yellow because the cartridge didnt have the internal battery so saving wasnt possible and i always thought it was a game you had to speedrunn before the batteries of my gameboy ended xd

    • @thunderstar7682
      @thunderstar7682 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +79

      There isn’t a more confusing feeling in the world than beating a ridiculously hard challenge as a kid and wondering “how the hell did I beat this” when you come back to it years later

    • @MonsterSlam12
      @MonsterSlam12 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Bro same lol. I couldn't beat that until I was a teenager I think.

    • @ecotix
      @ecotix 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      OMG yes! I got stuck on the last mission for that reason, I had to map out where all the time gates were on paper to route through them as a kid!

    • @ZechOfTheWest
      @ZechOfTheWest 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Bro i remember playing Spyro and crying at how scary 'Toasty' was [the first boss]
      He's literally 3 sheep in a trench coat...wtf 5 year old me? Fukin loser that guy is.

  • @RisingExult
    @RisingExult 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +825

    Jacob: “we’re so close I can taste the finish”
    Me who’s looking at the rest of the 48 minutes left: “so true king. You got this”

    • @aguenya
      @aguenya 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Wow, your comment is funny! To present my love for your comment, ill leave a like!

    • @ethernal1646
      @ethernal1646 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@aguenyabro this reply looks so much like a bot

    • @aguenya
      @aguenya 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@ethernal1646 oh im sorry. Gee wiz your GYATT comment was fucking AWESOME im edging my ohio right about now

    • @ourlordandsaviorsquirtle3278
      @ourlordandsaviorsquirtle3278 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@ethernal1646you did this

    • @Serek_Studios
      @Serek_Studios 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      ​​@@aguenyabro this reply looks like it was made up by a 5 year old with unrestricted access to the internet

  • @madnesshero4675
    @madnesshero4675 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +501

    Sonic: "Wait a minute THATS-"
    Shadow: "That blue hedgehog again, of all places!"
    Sonic: "I found you, FAKER!"
    Shadow:"FAKER? I think YOU'RE the fake hedgehog around here. You're comparing yourself to me? HA! You're not even good enough to be my fake!"
    Sonic: "I'll make you eat those words!"

    • @PokemonaMoni
      @PokemonaMoni 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +42

      You forgot the part where they interrumpt each other

    • @madnesshero4675
      @madnesshero4675 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

      @@PokemonaMoni wasn't sure how to type two things simultaneously lol

    • @PokemonaMoni
      @PokemonaMoni 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@madnesshero4675 Yeah I know, it was joke because they do that constantly lol

    • @Iron8127
      @Iron8127 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      (Sonic war cry)
      Shadow: Hey! Don't you want to hear the rest of my insul-

    • @nikiornik9136
      @nikiornik9136 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Shadow: mufsbjghiggfhioghiodgfhhhhh

  • @cartoonjohnstudios
    @cartoonjohnstudios 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +809

    Honestly, mad props to the hairdresser lady for just pushing forward while her client literally plays a video game the whole time.

    • @jippenfaddoul
      @jippenfaddoul 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +102

      To be fair, getting your hair dyed/bleached like that is kind of a multi-hour thing anyways. If she's making house calls for that long of appointments, then its probably not the first time.

    • @dpgerarddp
      @dpgerarddp 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +37

      Uhm, pretty sure this isn't abnormal. I bet lots of her clients are on their phones which effectively is the same thing.

    • @TheDancerMacabre
      @TheDancerMacabre 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +40

      Cosmo here: if she's doing house calls, it's not a big deal as the biggest obstacle for me would be the rinse and drying afterwards. It's their house, probably not the first time.
      I would even say it's easier as the client isn't engaged in a conversation with me and it would be rude to not acknowledge them every 2 minutes. But also, if he has a light rig, it's probably going to process faster since we want that heat. Heat makes it react and lift quicker (which is why you always do your roots last, because of the heat of the scalp.)

  • @shiffpup2529
    @shiffpup2529 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +96

    EVERY SNAPCUBE REFERENCE:
    3:55 "There goes Hawaii"
    4:23 "I've come to make an announcement"

    • @thatdarnseel7052
      @thatdarnseel7052 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      that sponsor plug is so funny if you understand the reference

    • @shiny_lock
      @shiny_lock 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Pumpkin Hill following Hawaii is also great

    • @BatmanSmiling
      @BatmanSmiling 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

      “THERE GOES HAWAII!! THERE-THERE GOES HAWAII!!
      THERE GOES HAWAII! THE ISLAND IS GONE!”
      Also you forgot 15:06

  • @lucyarisato6850
    @lucyarisato6850 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +140

    8:44 Shoutouts to King Boom Boo, who scared me so badly as a child that I had nightmares about him for literally a decade and had to have a friend beat the stage for me. God I wish I was kidding.

    • @SilitongaProduction
      @SilitongaProduction 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I always find its laugh so hella annoying as a high schooler. And tbh, still does… 😂

    • @___________0Z0X
      @___________0Z0X 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I had to turn the volume off to beat him the first time as a kid lol.

    • @mimic_is
      @mimic_is หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      i just found the sound effects annoying

    • @icewizard3664
      @icewizard3664 29 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      I remember that I one time had a nightmare of him as a kid too. And boy, that was probably the worst nightmare I remember having back then

    • @___________0Z0X
      @___________0Z0X 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      @@mimic_is I find his sound effects to be hilarious now.

  • @robertwiechers374
    @robertwiechers374 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +938

    me, while eating dinner on my fourth day of continuing this video: 44:00 mad respect to alpha for knowing his target group for specific videos

    • @rpaddy6860
      @rpaddy6860 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      You started watching the 3 day old video 4 days ago?

    • @HimariRose-gg1hq
      @HimariRose-gg1hq 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Found the time traveler

    • @syweb2
      @syweb2 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      @@rpaddy6860 Might have premiered a day or two early.

    • @GeebusCrust
      @GeebusCrust 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      I did it in one hour-long lunch break (started the video at my workstation). Worth it

    • @MapleisCrack
      @MapleisCrack 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I watched the whole thing in one sitting and didn't even think it was long, lol

  • @MegamiImperatrix
    @MegamiImperatrix 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +728

    I wrote an essay about this game in my eighth grade English class. I convinced my teacher it was a book and she believed me.

    • @BierBart12
      @BierBart12 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +107

      Kids can be so incredibly good at lying.
      My most convincing one was apparently about traveling to some african mountain range.. in a racing game for Gamecube lol

    • @jacktwelve1710
      @jacktwelve1710 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      You have Earned My Respect

    • @artagle_14
      @artagle_14 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      Did the same shit but with Zelda Ocarina of Time. My teacher loved reading and thought it was from a book too lol

    • @Sm0kingp0wer9
      @Sm0kingp0wer9 26 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      I did a report on Resident Evil on the GameCube. That was so fun to talk about until I was asked to bring in my visuals. I brought in the GameCube and had the Rocket Launcher impressing the rest of the class.

    • @jobah619
      @jobah619 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

      The Trickster

  • @Valkhyron
    @Valkhyron 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +104

    I think what works so well for security hall is it's theming. The level itself can at times be janky and frustrating, but it nails the feels of a secure, high tech government vault, and the music gives major secret agent vibes

  • @sonicheroesenthusiast6121
    @sonicheroesenthusiast6121 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +453

    28:53 The reason he went from a giant lizard to a funny little hedgehog thing is because of the things he based them off of. The biolizard was based on a mural of perfect chaos from sa1, while shadow is based on a mural of super sonic.

    • @MonsterSlam12
      @MonsterSlam12 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

      Huh, I've never heard that before, but that makes sense

    • @Protofall
      @Protofall 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@MonsterSlam12 Same, but makes sense.

    • @yurisg92
      @yurisg92 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      you say, that mural of hidden palace?

    • @broly1059
      @broly1059 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Is there a source for this or is it just headcanon? Either way it's cool

    • @Dairunt1
      @Dairunt1 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      ​@@broly1059
      Gerald visiting Angel Island is canon. That's why the Emerald Shrine at the Cannon's Core is a copy-paste of the one on Angel Island. So he might have known about both Perfect Chaos and Sonic, both have murals in Angel Island.
      It's heavily implied that Sonic was the ultimate life form all along and Shadow is merely, a shadow, of it. That's why he could Chaos Control with a fake emerald and survive pushing the ARK away from the atmosphere but Shadow didn't.

  • @thegrouchization
    @thegrouchization 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +453

    There is actually an answer to the whole "Biolizard -> Shadow" thing. To sum it up, Gerald saw an ancient mural depicting Perfect Chaos fighting Super Sonic, and based the Biolizard on the former. He then went on to make Shadow after realising that the latter was actually the focus of the mural.

    • @ghost-fs7th
      @ghost-fs7th 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      hm didn't know that

    • @CrystalApex
      @CrystalApex 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +46

      Not only that... Gerald was sick and twisted after they killed maria, remember...? His entire speech when you walk into the chamber its pretty dark lol. He created Bio lizard after researching the mural and the power of the emeralds. It was stated to be a regular lizard but turned into that after experimentation, though it can activate and control the fake chaos emeralds, it just can't activate a super form, because it is incomplete... While shadow can use the fake emeralds to turn super, being fully complete. This is why Biolizard could use chaos control to teleport if you remember. Shadow was the same experiment but added the DNA of Doom, a black arms alien... Which created the perfect being Gerald wanted to use to take over the world. That was originally shadow's purpose was to help Gerald take over the world for revenge sadly, same thing for bio-lizard.

    • @SonicFrake
      @SonicFrake 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

      @@CrystalApex Wait, how could Shadow have been created for revenge when Maria was still alive when he was created? Shadow and Maria were close friends remember? It wasn't until Maria's death that Gerald messed with Shadow's memories so he would act as the instrument for his vengeance. Didn't Shadow the Hedgehog reveal at the end that Gerald created Shadow with Doom in some convoluted plot to double cross Doom and destroy the Black arms?

    • @TheKiddingStar
      @TheKiddingStar 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@SonicFrake Shadow the hedgehog is not canon.

    • @SonicFrake
      @SonicFrake 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

      @@TheKiddingStar Tell that to Sonic Frontiers.

  • @PhirePhlame
    @PhirePhlame 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +45

    Here's a fun lost bit from the Battle version on GameCube (which was, in fact, the codebase for the HD version): the Super Hedgehogs were going to be made playable in the revamped 2-player mode, as indicated by a few leftover bits of graphics, text, and even programming! Unique text banners reading "Super Sonic" and "Super Shadow" can be seen alongside the respective models in fully-functioning floating poses if you use a cheat device to make them selectable, though it only loads in the normal Sonic & Shadow text blurbs. Despite this, the Supers do have their own text blurb also stored on the disc:
    "SUPER (SONIC/SHADOW)
    Powered by the
    7 Chaos Emeralds.
    Amazing speed and moves,
    but dies if rings are lost."
    There's also another leftover text block indicating how they would have been unlocked:
    "Congratulations!
    You've cleared Green Hill with Rank A. Strongest characters are now available to use in Sonic and Shadow 2P versus mode."
    Unfortunately, though, the actual character coding doesn't seem to exist, and so actually selecting them will just cause the game to use normal Sonic and/or Shadow.

  • @blueberriesinmycoffee1234
    @blueberriesinmycoffee1234 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1727

    I love the childhood story to start off, 27 year old technically unemployed Alpharad is back at it :D

    • @highdefinition450
      @highdefinition450 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      you had only watched the first like 5 minutes when you wrote this comment, didn't you lol

    • @blueberriesinmycoffee1234
      @blueberriesinmycoffee1234 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      ​@@highdefinition450Yeah, ha. I got here right after the upload for once and thought, how about I write a comment anyone will be able to find and read in two hours. And here we are, lol

    • @jstar3382
      @jstar3382 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@highdefinition450yes, since it was said in the first 3 minutes

  • @KlementtM
    @KlementtM 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +537

    "Alpharad setting up a challenge and wildly misjudging how long it would take" is a whole series at this point

  • @narden2117
    @narden2117 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +61

    Not lunch, but dinner, and not only eating dinner, but even making it. I am in love with your long videos alpha, thanks for being such a good cooking/eating buddy

  • @boonofbird
    @boonofbird 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +419

    I have new found respect for this man, after realizing he converted 26 hours worth of footage into 1 hour.

    • @21Handguns
      @21Handguns 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      So you respecting him for doing the exact same that that every other VOD gaming streamer does?
      Must not watch other people lmfao

    • @rixenoshivaz
      @rixenoshivaz 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      bro thats 3 days worth of footage compared to like 2 hours@@21Handguns

    • @21Handguns
      @21Handguns 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@rixenoshivaz and? Streamers go on for weeks doing challenges especially for 100 percenting and perfecting speedruns. This shit ain't special,stop glazing little boy

  • @Choctopus
    @Choctopus 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +342

    Getting Green Hill Zone was hell as a kid... and I know I'm going to have to do that shit again.

    • @CupheadTheMightyCup
      @CupheadTheMightyCup 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Does that mean you'll make a video of it?

    • @pablokpsctr
      @pablokpsctr 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      I used the Chao Exp Booster on the steam version a few years ago.
      Now I'm trying to make it again on an original Dreamcast with a copy of the game... I won't have the same resources this time.

    • @malikjones8842
      @malikjones8842 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Eeeeeeeh, Choccy boy! I watch your stuff!😊

    • @ch-animatestudios
      @ch-animatestudios 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      You gotta! You did all the crap Sonic games, now it's time for peak

  • @Lego_Deadpool2023
    @Lego_Deadpool2023 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +183

    I’m questioning my own humanity on how nobody is talking about rouge’s jiggle physics at 35:09

    • @jessepinkman5702
      @jessepinkman5702 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Maybe you’re just a pervert. Not everyone cares about that stuff

    • @saikoormike
      @saikoormike 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      Ok why do I agree on how it wasn't addressed

    • @ryan___ryan2711
      @ryan___ryan2711 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

      Scoped out the treasure

    • @kotori6938
      @kotori6938 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      He added a spring sound effect

  • @jonathanhead9009
    @jonathanhead9009 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +290

    paused on the Tier list for levels. i've never agreed any harder on someone's tier list about anything. it's perfect.

    • @Alpharad
      @Alpharad  9 หลายเดือนก่อน +98

      🤝

    • @CaptainFalcoyd
      @CaptainFalcoyd 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      Nah that list is definitely invalidated by having Pumpkin Hill, Green Forest and Final Rush anywhere but the top tier. And the driving missions anywhere but dead last.

  • @CybeastID
    @CybeastID 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +480

    28:56
    The lore states that the Biolizard was based on Perfect Chaos, from discovering the ancient mural inside Lost World from SA1.
    56:09
    The way you're SUPPOSED to do that, by the way, is to use the Sunglasses. A trail of rings appears by the correct one.

    • @sheogorath6834
      @sheogorath6834 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      And Shadow was based on Super Sonic on a mural in Sonic 3.

    • @Sonictmnt
      @Sonictmnt 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      I always thought it was a reference to lizards being able to re-grow their tails in space. Afterall, the whole point of the colony was to research life in an attempt to cure Maria's condition. Idk maybe there's some other science-y reason, SA2 isn't supposed to make sense.

    • @TheRibottoStudios
      @TheRibottoStudios 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@sheogorath6834 but how can that be when Shadow was created 50 years ago?
      God that poor hedgehog's story is a mess.

    • @sheogorath6834
      @sheogorath6834 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

      @@TheRibottoStudios Because there was a mural on Angel Island representing Super Sonic fighting Eggman (in one of giant robot)
      Their fight was prophesised i think.

    • @TheRibottoStudios
      @TheRibottoStudios 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@sheogorath6834 ohhhhh them meeting being a prophecy is kinda interesting. New info for me and I've been around the Sonic fandom since back when Sonic X was a thing lol
      ...GOD I'm old and I'm only 30

  • @Pogbirb
    @Pogbirb 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

    I'm scared Sonic 3 is just gonna either have a orchestral version of live and learn or just a leitmotif of it instead of putting in Crush 40's bangin lyrics like I NEED to hear that "Yeah yeah yeah!" In theaters please

  • @3namega
    @3namega 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +237

    Never apologize for long videos, it's my favorite thing in the world to put on something for like 3 hours in the background while I draw (although I don't usually tend to split them up over multiple days, my bad)

  • @thesandguardianofthesand
    @thesandguardianofthesand 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +111

    Alpha referencing Snapcube while playing SA2 is all I needed at life in this very moment.

  • @smb2fds
    @smb2fds 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    6:28 Rank A for Accident.

  • @inkromancer_studios
    @inkromancer_studios 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +216

    For what it's worth Alpharad, Pyramid Cave fucks with everyone. I had a B rank staring at me for literal years so the fact it only took you 2 days is genuinely impressive.

    • @Purplesubmariner
      @Purplesubmariner 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I remember Sky Rail's time challenge being a beast to get A. I would have like, less than a second to spare at the goal ring (and that's after failing to make it 10 times prior) and ending with a B

    • @YangTheAce
      @YangTheAce 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Recently I've been trying to get all 180 emblems and for the Sonic stages, Crazy Gadget and Pyramid Cave were the HARDEST to A Rank. It was even harder than Final Rush and I found Final Rush WAY easier than Crazy Gadget! And I still do.

    • @Purplesubmariner
      @Purplesubmariner 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@YangTheAce oh yes, not all levels were created equal. I remember having a heck of a time with Sky Rail's Time Trial

  • @FlameTechKnight
    @FlameTechKnight 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +165

    "As a child who loved games, I was not very good at games."
    This is somehow the most accurate way to describe the childhood gaming experience.

    • @zigzagintrusion
      @zigzagintrusion 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      This describes my adulthood gaming experience lmfao

  • @martobl8901
    @martobl8901 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Thanks man! I really needed a video while i do the dishes, the house chores and the cooking of the day! Lots of love

  • @Moon-Fang
    @Moon-Fang 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

    3:56 There goes Hawaii🎵 There there there goes Hawaii 🎵Oh there goes Hawaii, the island is gone

  • @stainedanomaly
    @stainedanomaly 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +205

    Green Hill being considered special and important enough to be made a secret level in SA2, while every single Sonic game of the past 15 or so years has Green Hill in it just for "nostalgia" sake, is truly one of the things of all time.

  • @HassanSayeed1977
    @HassanSayeed1977 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Already love this video cuz u used Billy Hatcher at the start.

  • @AeonKnigh432
    @AeonKnigh432 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +140

    Honestly, mad respect. Not for this insane challenge run, but for your ability to keep composure and commentary while having your hair bleached.

    • @lks19
      @lks19 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Well, he hacked the chao world emblems, so no respect.

    • @AeonKnigh432
      @AeonKnigh432 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@lks19 The words of someone who's CLEARLY never had their hair bleached /j

    • @Hariol_
      @Hariol_ 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@lks19 As someone who has done this legit before, I'm glad he loves himself enough to hack it in.

  • @Cantrona
    @Cantrona 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +353

    Some people might not enjoy such a long video about a 22 year old game. I am not some people. This game had a choke hold on my entire childhood and when Jacob mentioned he was working on this I got so happy.
    I watched this video TWICE EVEN

    • @DavidLopez-rk6em
      @DavidLopez-rk6em 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      damn, had no idea this game was so old. I played it when it came out, and back then, a 22 year old game was an atari game

    • @Marineisme
      @Marineisme 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I'm on my seventh.

    • @birdfacemd
      @birdfacemd 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      This game was also the thing I look back on and wonder why my parents never got me tested for autism over

    • @Drekromancer
      @Drekromancer 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@birdfacemd soooooo true

    • @thatonecat88
      @thatonecat88 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Never played it, never will but he seems so into it I routinely rewatch this

  • @Flufficuss
    @Flufficuss 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    THAT'S WHERE THAT BLANKITY BLANK BLANKING TREASURE WAS. I restarted Rouge's stage twice as a kid because I got that particular one, and thought it was completely glitched out and broken. I distinctly remember it just for how frustrating it was, as little me sat there in his room with the walkthrough spread on his lap, wondering and cursing just what had gone wrong and why the nice walkthrough people who totally just knew everything-according to kid me-didn't even slightly mention it's location. BUT IT WAS ON THE SIDE THE ENTIRE TIME!? THAT'S SO BOGUS!
    Alas, lil' me's playthrough towards full completion was hard walled by Shadow 4. Radical Highway. I just could not beat the speed test. As in at all. I never, to this day, managed to beat that speedrun level. And uh, after watching this video? A) Thank you Alpharad, you're a hero. B) Oh thank goodness THAT was my wall!

  • @rudyrubio5214
    @rudyrubio5214 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +375

    I wasn’t expecting a 1 hour video! I’m here for it!

    • @Lord_Ducck
      @Lord_Ducck 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      You should have expected it do better

    • @rudyrubio5214
      @rudyrubio5214 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@Lord_Ducck I have failed the Internet Funny Man

  • @fireboltchamploo7620
    @fireboltchamploo7620 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +224

    Getting your hair done while 100% completing Sonic Adventure 2 is honestly such a power move.

    • @TheRibottoStudios
      @TheRibottoStudios 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      I mean speaking as someone who has gone platinum blonde that shit TAKES ACTUAL HOURS to do. Why not kill two birds with one stone lol

  • @redacted_e
    @redacted_e 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    26:25 the jiggle physics of rouge is wild

  • @EmporerSwag
    @EmporerSwag 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +187

    The thing that's cool about Security Hall to me is that you get to collect chaos emeralds instead of pieces of the master emerald. Really feels like a cool callback to how important they were in SA1

  • @montyeggman3075
    @montyeggman3075 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +116

    Doing the 180 Emblem collection and unlocking Green Hill Zone was one of the greatest accomplishments of my childhood. Thank you for giving us this and congratulations for achieving it as well.

    • @elibonham4388
      @elibonham4388 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Bro same for me man it was awesome

  • @micahheyward5342
    @micahheyward5342 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    0:07 Background information
    1:09 Completing the Hero Story
    4:24 Sponsor
    5:42 Back to completing the Hero Story
    11:12 Missions 1-4 for Hero Story stages
    22:30 Completing the Dark Story
    27:18 Completing the Last Story
    30:27 Hero and Dark Story Boss Rush
    30:52 Kart Racing
    31:38 🅰️ Rank in White Jungle mission 1 and Shadow 2 in Chao World
    31:56 Missions 1-4 for Dark Story stages
    34:53 Sonic Jr in the Chao World
    35:06 Security Hall missions 3 and 4
    35:22 Chao World Emblems
    37:46 Sonic Adventure 2 Full Boss Rush
    38:18 Missions 1-4 for the remaining stages
    52:05 Hard Mode
    1:15:48 Green Hill Zone (The Secret Final Level)
    1:17:13 Ending :⁠-⁠)

  • @kittykake44
    @kittykake44 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +62

    Shadow bending time and space (cheating) to make Shadow2 (his son) the most powerful Chao in existence is more accurate to his character than most of his own game.

  • @normalpersonlivingtheirlife
    @normalpersonlivingtheirlife 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +63

    30:14 I love how Shadow tries to rack an M16 like you would rack a Mossberg

    • @zwergderstein9531
      @zwergderstein9531 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thats an actual gun tho which looks like the M16 but its a bolt action

    • @Shinny1338
      @Shinny1338 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Pretty sure it's an MP5, that is also definitely not pump action. Oh man the time-line where Shadow gives it the special forces whack would have been top tier. Would have have predated CoD doing it?

    • @NyxDiscordia33
      @NyxDiscordia33 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I think it's actually the world's largest MP5
      still pretty weird, though lol

  • @DareDB
    @DareDB 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I remember grinding all of this back in the summer of 2003 after having the game for a year or so when I was 15. I completed Tails, Rouge and Knuckles first. I will never forget the struggle of getting the A for the 4th mission of Radical Highway. It was awful. We didn't have online tutorials to see speed runs and skips, and so a lot of it was using a magazine guide and a lot of effort. It was so rewarding to complete, but yeah, the Green Hill Zone is a little anticlimactic though lol. It was such a trip down memory lane watching you go through this. It's been 20 years since I did this.

  • @nerisbug6965
    @nerisbug6965 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +142

    The fact that Alpharad can make "The fourth Mission easy haha" still entertaining after 50 minutes is crazy

  • @TheRibottoStudios
    @TheRibottoStudios 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +254

    Ahhh the game that gave us everyone's favorite iconic dark furred brooding hedgehog. I never got to play this game when it came out. I was introduced to the Sonic franchise via Sonic X. And that show absolutely is why Shadow is my favorite character of all time. When Shadow is done well, he's essentially quiet kid reality. Mutli-faceted, has a small friend group, deeply cares but tries not to show it for fear of losing people, he's complex and collected, calculating. Nuanced.
    When Shadow is handled disrespectfully he's the embodiment of every single "quiet kid" stereotype meme. Shadow is my favorite not because of a lot of typical reasons. Shadow was created to be perfect. He's immortal, he is the pinnacle of human ingenuity. And yet, because he was created by humanity, he inevitably has flaws. And Shadow the Hedgehog is potentially one of the most flawed Sonic characters out there. And because of those flaws, it makes for a very fascinating character. Shadow is so much more than just an edgelord. And my God it felt great to see him back to form in Prime.

    • @kingstarscream320
      @kingstarscream320 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I also love Shadow. He is so edgy.

    • @TheRibottoStudios
      @TheRibottoStudios 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      @@kingstarscream320he's edgy in all the ways that WORK. Like, Boom!Shadow is the WORST Shadow because that's mandate Shadow in full force and no one likes it.
      Shadow in Sonic X is just edgy enough where he would absolutely kill a smol child but he isn't trying to kill someone JUST because. He does things for the wrong reasons but to HIM it makes sense. THAT type of edge, where a character is morally gray is good writing.

    • @kingstarscream320
      @kingstarscream320 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@TheRibottoStudios True, but Sonic Boom was a comedy so I cut it some slack with its slightly exaggerated characters.

    • @TheRibottoStudios
      @TheRibottoStudios 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@kingstarscream320 That's fair. It just hurts cause some people legit think Boom Shadow is like...THE Shadow. God that poor hedgehog's reputation has just been shattered. He's always so completely misinterpreted by the fandom and sega. I'm glad Prime has him right though. It looks like they're finally seeing the damn mandates are only hurting not just Shadow but everyone. I'm pretty stoked to see how he'll be in movie 3.

    • @moosesues8887
      @moosesues8887 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@TheRibottoStudiosnot Mickey prime 😂😂😂

  • @theawesomeaj9433
    @theawesomeaj9433 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    “I hope this is the kind of video you watch while eating lunch spread over four days-“ I have been glued to my phone for the past 44 minutes watching the entire thing

  • @uminekoexpert
    @uminekoexpert 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +85

    This game was a HUGE part of my childhood. I never comment but this made my 30 year old heart swell up with joy, this satisfied my need to 100 percent the game.

    • @003dylan
      @003dylan 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I feel the same way, although because he cheated it I feel the need to go complete Chao Garden legit...

    • @uminekoexpert
      @uminekoexpert 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      that can take so many hours BUT there are mods for it that speed it up without feeling like yo ucheated, plus more colors and combos, it's super neat to play it on PC@@003dylan

    • @niernocturne
      @niernocturne 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      also a umineko fan…. based

  • @eclipsion6728
    @eclipsion6728 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +278

    A-Ranking every mission in Sonic Adventure 2 took my sanity

    • @joey25891
      @joey25891 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      It was bs and not worth green hill,but my child self would be happy.

    • @vwavefun
      @vwavefun 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      agreed 100%, as someone who’s gotten all the emblems on both games, this is the main reason I love SA1 way more

    • @YangTheAce
      @YangTheAce 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      How do you unlock the Chao
      Karate in Dreamcast SA2?

    • @eclipsion6728
      @eclipsion6728 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@YangTheAce I think that’s only available for the GameCube version or sonic Adventure 2: Battle

    • @YangTheAce
      @YangTheAce 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@eclipsion6728 Well that's kinda weird since I had Chao Race AND Chao Karate when I played SA2 in the XBOX. And that was the Dreamcast version.
      Edit: Also, the Gamecube SA2 is SA2 Battle.

  • @iscremintothevoid
    @iscremintothevoid 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    26:35 Eggman's WHAT?!

  • @Satherian
    @Satherian 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    4:24 Snapcube's dub truly lives on in everyone's heads

    • @Kakapiu
      @Kakapiu 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I'VE COME HERE TO MAKE AN ANNOUNCEMENT

    • @brickletman
      @brickletman หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@Kakapiu SHADOW THE HEDGEHOG İS A B-

  • @DerpShmerp
    @DerpShmerp 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +103

    You can't truly call yourself a Sonic fan until you've made the pilgrimage that is 180 emblems in SA2

  • @magellan6439
    @magellan6439 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    35:00 the physics engine my god

    • @chrissyleeevans
      @chrissyleeevans 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      i came to see for the exact same thing

    • @why_did_you_at_me
      @why_did_you_at_me 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@chrissyleeevans Dude same

  • @Ducktile414
    @Ducktile414 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

    the fact that he was getting his hair re-done while finishing the game is so funny to me for some reason

  • @bob8765456
    @bob8765456 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    35:09 Those jiggle physics are insane for a game made for children

    • @AkameGaKillfan777
      @AkameGaKillfan777 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Some people have modded them further

    • @superhazemgames3582
      @superhazemgames3582 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      This game is not made for children it's made for everyone 🙂

  • @davidgeorge3944
    @davidgeorge3944 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Congratulations man. I had literally no idea there was a green hill level for completing every emblem in the entire game.. This was an amazong video so it's not fake after all there really is a hidden level 😮

  • @TwoPairSA
    @TwoPairSA 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

    I'm just glad I finally get to see someone who _gets_ how awesome Cannon's Core is. It's got more than a few problems (like the rest of the game) but the relay race aspect with the in-story aspect of facing a ticking clock to save the world just gives a feeling of excitement like few other games have ever given me.

    • @maiselph7456
      @maiselph7456 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      To this day Cannon Core remains one of my most favorite parts in any game I played. Having all these characters you controlled separately working together is satisfying. Hearing them on the radio trying to guide and encourage you is satisfying. Having the heroes and villains team up over something reasonable is satisfying. Playing for the first time and beating the level with the five characters to enter the boss battle with the sixth one is also satisfying. I love this level.

  • @liamdonley4206
    @liamdonley4206 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +71

    I know you’re probably not going to see this but don’t apologize for longer content. You made it engaging the entire time. Thanks for highlighting one of my favorite games

    • @rixenoshivaz
      @rixenoshivaz 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      THATS WHAT IM SAYIN

  • @ToppSpeed88
    @ToppSpeed88 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Ordinarily this would be the type of video that I would watch in like 2-3 segments across a few days, but I was feeling ill today and this was just the type of video I needed, both informative and entertaining.

  • @spiderdude2099
    @spiderdude2099 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    If you’ve ever heard people say any of the upgrades are “optional” they mean to complete the main story of the game. Because BELIEVE IT OR NOT, you actually can beat the game without the air necklace and most of the other upgrades. Yes, even the knuckles section. It’s just VERY hard.

  • @Killagoose77
    @Killagoose77 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

    Props to you doing this. As a kid, I must've only gone halfway on the emblems and focused most of my time on the Chao Garden, and that was with a game guide to do the missions. I don't think I'll ever have the patience drive to legitimately get all emblems, but props to anyone who has.

  • @dangangalaxy9759
    @dangangalaxy9759 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I don't exactly know why but hearing so many of my absolute favorite Sonic tracks in an Alpharad video really warmed my heart for some reason. Especially the more niche ones like The Palace That Was Found and Catch Me If You Can.

    • @elibonham4388
      @elibonham4388 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That was so sick not just sa2 music but music from all the games

    • @bryanzoom97
      @bryanzoom97 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      So true I totally forgot about the "Mad Space" track and it brought me back to how much I despised that level back in the day

  • @notsiraaron4086
    @notsiraaron4086 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

    Already watched ALL of the VODs of the 180 emblem journey a couple months ago. Now condensed into a montage to relive the journey all over again is such a treat. SA2 hands down one of the top Sonic games ever. 👍🏼

  • @dolomite1067
    @dolomite1067 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    1:37 People don't realize that the first Sonic game to have S-Ranks was Sonic Rush, but the first CONSOLE Sonic game to have S-Ranks was Sonic '06.

  • @iscremintothevoid
    @iscremintothevoid 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    51:13 I didn't, but I'm sorry, please don't hurt me

  • @chadmacquiddy4314
    @chadmacquiddy4314 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

    As someone who is 25 years old and relates to your story so much, i did this last year, and it was the most vindicating experience of my life. The hill is real boys.

    • @jjcoola998
      @jjcoola998 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I did this with Metroid on NES , it's such a good feeling

  • @SonicIsNo.1
    @SonicIsNo.1 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Shoutout to the man 100 percenting 2001 greatest game
    While getting a hair trim

  • @LiamSFG405
    @LiamSFG405 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +130

    I listened/watched the streams on my way home from my new job. I want to let you know it was the exact nostalgia-comfort I needed navigating a new disheartening work situations

    • @tetrahedronX7
      @tetrahedronX7 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I have no nostalgia

    • @LiamSFG405
      @LiamSFG405 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@tetrahedronX7 I hate gen z and their “hate everything” mentality.

    • @l33machine
      @l33machine 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Hope you work situation gets better broski

    • @elibonham4388
      @elibonham4388 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      What r u doing for work this was nostolgia for me too

    • @tetrahedronX7
      @tetrahedronX7 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@LiamSFG405 what are you a millenial?

  • @JukeyPlays
    @JukeyPlays 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +47

    Loving the fandub references, great video Jacob! Keep it up :) I wish you all the best and hope you have a great day:)

    • @nikk-named
      @nikk-named 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      I will never be able to see the cutscenes without the fandub playing in the back of my mind ever again. And it's such a worthy sacrifice.

  • @TheCreationOfDread
    @TheCreationOfDread 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    25:20
    Rouge said "Fox Boy" not *PIANO* Boy

  • @D157urb3d0
    @D157urb3d0 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +70

    This truly was a great time watching Alpharad Live and Learn.

  • @larvasupershow
    @larvasupershow 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

    This is, no joke, my favorite video game. So happy to see you commit yourself to this!

  • @TheCreationOfDread
    @TheCreationOfDread 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    9:44
    Knuckles rams into Rouge

  • @TheRealAlmostHooman
    @TheRealAlmostHooman 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    I love it when Mr. Rad puts on a suit for an ad read. Really trying to make it feel more professional. It was an especially nice touch to where colors that matched his bottled lol

  • @HerMajestyVelvet
    @HerMajestyVelvet 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

    I remember playing this game a few years ago (11 years old) and saying out loud: “people love this?”
    And I’m now one of those people I made fun of years ago, bc I too have been Sonic Adventure 2 pilled

  • @RadicalKongsyom
    @RadicalKongsyom 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Petition for alpharad to 100% sonic shuffle

  • @pinkrainmoon
    @pinkrainmoon 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    i love the longer video formats, they're perfect for when i want to eat a large meal and watch entertainment like medieval royalty

  • @AceofShadow
    @AceofShadow 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    The big fan theory for how Gerald went from the Bio-lizard to a hedgehog is that Shadow was based off the Super Sonic mural on Angel Island. The military wanted something that strong to be their ultimate weapon and Gerald wanted something immortal and immune to sickness to be used as a method of inventing a cure for Maria's not A.I.D's. He started with the Bio-lizard because lizards are good at healing which was a good base for immortality.

  • @harrymillar4193
    @harrymillar4193 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Seeing all the references to Snapcube makes me happy that I have good taste XD

  • @joope125
    @joope125 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    29:30 This is the genius that can happen when you don't overthink it. This is the brilliance that you scrub out when you revise too hard.

  • @CultripFounded
    @CultripFounded 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    I remember playing this game as a kid, and I discovered the super bounce on my own, but I also discovered that with a chao if you drop the stat increasing items in front of them instead of running into them they give the item back and you can use it again so I used that to get chaos stats really fast

  • @BiolizardthePrototype
    @BiolizardthePrototype 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I felt inspired to do this as well. Just got all 180 Emblems off a fresh save file. It took me 22 hours spread out across 4 days, but I did it.
    And I can flex because I didn't use no damn spreadsheet or walkthrough or exploit or anything. 22 years of playing this game has finally paid off

  • @kevincornelius9358
    @kevincornelius9358 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    I did this exact thing last year. I never 100% the game and saw the secret level so I decided to play through it again. After months of playing (largely due to the Chaos) I finally completed it! Felt like a major objective in my life was complete.

    • @MonsterSlam12
      @MonsterSlam12 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Screw the chao garden lol

    • @kevincornelius9358
      @kevincornelius9358 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@MonsterSlam12 Yeah unlike Alpharad, I actually took the time to raise the Chao and buff its stats up so I can clear those races and karate.

  • @sielaff2112
    @sielaff2112 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    49:10 "there is still danger lurking around every turn" I see what you did there alpha

  • @JoJoNewGamePlus
    @JoJoNewGamePlus 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    44:05 No Alpharad I binged the whole thing 💀💀

  • @Norcoo
    @Norcoo 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    I've attempted this when I was a kid (without any guides or googling) and oh man I got sooo mad. Mad props to you and even more props to your editor because DAMN that's a lot of footage to go through

  • @Yeppi_07
    @Yeppi_07 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    40:20 Amazingly I haven't even realized it was so repetitive until you mention it. Great work, your videos are great. Trying to learn how you do it ;)

  • @starcatvibe
    @starcatvibe 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    beating cannons core without the air necklace is still my biggest feat to THIS DAY

    • @DarioAcereto
      @DarioAcereto 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's also mine, ha. It's also mine...

  • @rileyhoward7344
    @rileyhoward7344 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    this was not a video i watched spread out over four lunches, but a video i watched all in one go whilst crocheting a blue bunny. its absolutely gonna help me when i finally go back to tackle cannons core tho !!

  • @AncientSmithingStone
    @AncientSmithingStone 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I watched this whole video in one sitting and I gotta say, Quality. The amount of time spent on the run and editing made for a great video. I love watching these videos and it always gives me inspiration to make a video on my other account. Editing isn't the easiest task so I gotta give kudos when the mandom edits the videos himself and writing the scrips.

  • @HappyGaming-ib9ic
    @HappyGaming-ib9ic 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    20 years of trying 20 years of frustration Alpharad beats sonic adventure 2

  • @andrewmcmillin
    @andrewmcmillin 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    The first ever video I saw of Alpharad’s was corrupted chao garden and after that I was an immediate fan. Watching this video is bringing me back to that and reigniting the hope that someday Alpharad toys around with those game corruption mods for other games.

  • @celestialsylveon6453
    @celestialsylveon6453 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Yo shoutouts to 1:11:44 for playing the Evo version of Get Over The Barrier! I love the Trails series and would be delighted to see your thoughts on it someday!

    • @siphons5737
      @siphons5737 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      oh that would be awesome, but I don't think he will since it's a very long serie that take a lot of time to be able to be appreciated and not know enough, just hearing more of trails music in popular videos is enough for me

    • @celestialsylveon6453
      @celestialsylveon6453 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@siphons5737 Yeah I don't see it as likely but the more people bringing it up to him the more likely he'll check it out. And yeah it's always neat when some Falcom music show up on a random video :D

  • @SmashBroRazz
    @SmashBroRazz 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I love that you called out exactly what I do with videos such as these, which is to watch in chunks while eating; made me feel seen lol. Subbed! And bravo!

  • @HarmonyplusChaos
    @HarmonyplusChaos 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I will say, honestly, that this kind of video is GREAT and I totally don't actually mind you explaining stuff at all.
    Good stuff!