 I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON WITH SHADOW'S ARMS OR HANDS, BUT THAT'S NOT HOW ARMS OR HANDS WORK! OVERVIEW Sonic Adventure 2, originally made for the Dreamcast in 2001, for the most part is a 3-D action-adventure game developed by Sonic Team, and published by Sega. The game has since been re-released on the Nintendo Gamecube and renamed to Sonic Adventure 2 Battle in 2002, which included new features such as Chao Karate, expanding upon the multiplayer mode by including new abilities and upgrades and removing online play due to the Gamecube's lack of online support. The game was then re-released again in HD in 2012 and was available for the Playstation Network, Xbox Live Arcade and Steam, with content for the Battle edition available as downloadable content. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ MAIN CHARACTERS CLICK THE IMAGES FOR THE FULL DETAILS       _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ OTHER CHARACTERS        SIDE NOTE: THE DARK AND REGULAR CHAO ALSO HAVE A VARIANT THAT IS PLAYABLE IN THE 2P SHOOTING MODE (BUT NOT THE HERO CHAO FOR SOME REASON) _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ENEMIES -Artificial Chaos (multiple different versions) -Boos (real creative Sega) -E-1000 -Beetles (multiple different versions -Hornets (multiple different versions) -Rhinos (multiple different versions) -Jets (multiple different versions) -Hawks (multiple different versions) -Phoenix -E-32 Unidus -E-32 Gola _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ COLLECTABLES RINGS: A staple of the Sonic franchise. So long as you have one, you can get hit infinite times. The more you have at the end of the level, the higher the score and the more money you have to spend on your Chao's (more into that further down the thread). CHAOS DRIVES: Found inside enemies. Feed these pieces of metal to you Chao children, and they will earn different abilities depending on colour. | Green = Run | Purple = Fly | Red = Power | Yellow = Swim | ANIMALS: Found inside enemies, in the stage, in pipes and inside of boxes. You can also feed your Chao the souls of Animals to change their apperance and stats (we could go over them, but this thread is long enough!) EMBLEMS: What you get for beating a stage. Collect all 180 and unlock a 3D rendition of Green Hill Zone. Cool at the time, but now Sonic Generations is a thing, so gently caress that! You also unlock different items for your Chao to purchase, depending on how many you have, but I think it's random which one's generate each time you enter the store. CHAO BOXES: There are 3 in each stage. The first one you find will contain a key, which will take you to the Chao Hub World. The other two will have animals inside of them. ITEM CONTAINERS: Another staple in the Sonic series. Can contain: Rings, Speed-Up's, Invincibility,Shields, Electric Shields (attracts rings towards you), and 1-Up's. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAME MODES 1P MODE: Story or Stage Select. 2P MODE: Compete with a friend at racing, treasure hunting, shooting, kart racing (once you have unlocked it by beating both story modes), Chao Racing and Chao Karate-ing. EXTRAS: Tutorial, Emblem Collection, Sound Test, Kart Racing. OPTIONS: Let's you change the in-game settings. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ CHAO HUB WORLD CHAO GARDEN: Where the Chao live. Upon your first entry, you will see two eggs. If you wait long enough, pick up and shake the egg for a few seconds, or say screw all of that and do what a normal person would do and throw the egg into a wall, a Chao will be born. At first, you Chao is a complete trashbaby who is bad at sports, so I recommend feeding it fruit, Chaos Drives and Animals beforehand before you enter it into anything, because beyond the waterfall in the mountain is a place you can enter your Chao into Races and Karate fights. The prizes are lackluster, so for the LP, I won't be showing them all off, but I do believe you can get Emblems for completing them all so if your going for 100%, yeah, good luck! Raise your Chao enough with specific characters from the Hero or Dark campaign and they will involve into Hero or Dark Chao (or Neutral if you raised them equally as both campaigns or didn't raise them at all), which will unlock the Hero and Dark Gardens. If you plan on raising alot of Chao, then try to get this as fast as possible as too many Chao in one garden is hard to maintain and some may actually leave as a result. CHAO KINDERGARDEN: There is quite a bit to the Chao Kindergarden, some of which is more useful then others: BLACK MARKET: Best part about the Chao Kindergarden by far! Use your useless rear end rings to purchase different Chao eggs, fruit for raising your Chao faster, making them turn Dark, Neutral or Hero faster, keep their Happiness up faster and even fruit that acts as an aphrodisiac to make them mate. Also you can buy masks for your Chao to wear, if they are smart enough to anyways. Kinda cool, but also pointless. If you are serious about raising Chao, expect to spend alot of money here cause I know I did when I first played this! The more emblems you have, the rarer poo poo you can buy. CLASSROOM: Teaches your Chao different idle animations. Again, kinda cool but pointless because half the time, your Chao will try to swim but it can't and will instead try to drown itself because it's dumb and hates you! PRINCIPAL'S OFFICE: Basically where you go to learn the ins and outs of raising Chao. Good for first time players. DOCTOR'S OFFICE: Where you go to see the health of your Chao, its age, see its favourite food, how many awards it has won, and how many times they have transformed or reincarnated. FORTUNE TELLING HOUSE (you know, like all schools have!): Where you name your Chao. Either the Fortune Teller will give you a name at random or you can name it yourself. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ PLOT: VERY CONVOLUTED AND STUPID Basically, the Hero Team is trying to save the world and the Dark Team is trying to conquer it. Eggman finds his grandfather's creation in cryogenic sleep and when he awakes it, he discovers Shadow. Shadow says he'll grant Eggman one wish, because Hedgehog to Sonic Team means the same as Genie. Eggman tells Shadow he wants him to take over the world and Shadow tells him to meet him at the Space Colony ARK, a space station also designed by Eggman's grandfather and the place where Shadow was created and looked after by the doctor and Maria Robotnik, once he had more Chaos Emeralds. Shadow then steals a Chaos Emerald from a bank (just A bank, none imparticular), and Sonic is framed for it, even though Shadow is a black and red hedgehog and Sonic is blue, so everyone in the Sonic lore is either color blind or just really racist (since the word "black" comes up alot in this game). Sonic goes to prison, Amy and Tails break him out, because this is the worst prison on Sonic earth, and Sonic tracks down Shadow. Meanwhile, Knuckles and Rouge are fighting over the Master Emerald, a gem which Knuckles is the protector of (even though in none of the games does he know why, and after this game they drop that "Protector of the Master Emerald" poo poo forever and never return to it), and Rouge wants the gem because she is female and likes shiny, valuable things. But wait, Eggman also wants the Emerald, despite it not being a Chaos Emerald, because I guess he don't know the difference besides the fact that the Master Emerald is loving massive, and so when he tries to steal it, Knuckles shatters it, because he is an idiot. Anyways, Eggman, Shadow and Rouge all head to Eggman's secret pyramid base and agree to work with each other to find the Chaos Emeralds, because each of them have a reason to want to control a deadly laser cannon, Eggman for power, Shadow for revengance on the people of Sonic Earth for killing his caretaker Maria Robotnik and Rouge... actually I'm not 100% sure why she decided to join them in their cause. Maybe to exploit Eggman and Shadow's plans to the government and to confirm the existence of the ULTIMATE LIFEFORM, but that literally comes into play once and then never again. Almost like Sonic Team realized that yeah, that sounds really dumb! Also, there is an island with three Chaos Emerald's on them and Eggman wants to blow them up because he is a terrorist now I guess, which is a theory backed up by the fact that he moments after BLOWS UP THE loving MOON, because he can to which the public response is... "meh." After realizing no one on Sonic Earth gives a gently caress half of the moon has been blown to poo poo, Eggman realizes his plans for world domination may of perhaps failed as usual, and then Sonic, Knuckles, Tails and Amy discover Eggman secret pyramid base (which honestly meant that the base wasn't much of a secret, since they kinda just stumbled upon it), and steal a rocket ship Eggman just happens to of had. Knuckles then spins the ship out of control after the Master Emerald shards he collected fall out of the ship's cargo hull, but Sonic and Tails still make it to the Space Colony ARK. Tails then comes up with a plan to stop Eggman's plans, which involves tricking him with a fake Chaos Emerald that has the properties to counter-act the other Chaos Emeralds... somehow, which then destroys the laser cannon... somehow. The plan fails as Eggman captures Amy and Tails and tricks Sonic by luring him and trapping him into an escape pod rigged with explosives. Still holding the "fake" Chaos Emerald though, Sonic is still able to escape using the Emerald to teleport somewhere non-important, since that is a thing Chaos Emerald can do now, but this was a fake one, so wouldn't the same properties not apply... my brain hurts. Meanwhile, as Tails and Amy are to believe Sonic is dead, a completely unaware Knuckles and Rouge are on an entirely different orbit searching for Master Emerald pieces. The two then fight, but then Rouge almost falls into a lava pit and when Knuckles saves her life, she hands over the Master Emerald pieces as her way of saying thanks. Finally, something that kinda makes sense? Then Sonic and Shadow fight, and after Sonic wins, he destroys the Eclipse Cannon. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ THE ENDING As Sonic destroys the cannon, Eggman inserted the last Chaos Emerald required to operate it at full power. It is then revealed that the whole thing was a rouse, created by Gerald Robotnik, and that by inserting all 7 Chaos Emerald, the ARK would be on a collision course with Earth. A recorded message then plays with an imprisoned Gerald talking about how he felt nothing but vengeance for the people of Earth, after the government condemned his research for being too dangerous to the public and sending soldiers up to execute his entire crew, including his granddaughter Maria. Losing his sanity and on death row, Gerald's final words were" All of you ungrateful humans, who took everything away from me, will feel my loss, and despair!", before being executed and the message cutting off. Knowing how to stop the station from destroying Earth, Eggman urges everyone to work on accessing the cannon's core and neutralizing it. Everyone except Shadow, who acts all edgy and is full of angst until Amy pleads Shadow to help, which reminds him of Maria promise to help mankind, which he has misinterpreted this whole time as "seek revenge and destroy everything". It here where Shadow discovers he is in fact not the original ULTIMATE LIFEFORM, but rather there was prototype before him that looks something like this:  Not sure where in development Gerald decided to go from mutant robotic lizard creature to emotionless black hedgehog with rocket shoes, but whatever. After Shadow defeats his prototype, Knuckles uses the Master Emerald's power to disable the Chaos Emeralds and in a last attempt to destroy Earth, the Biolizard somehow fuses with the cannon to take control of the ARK. Sonic and Shadow then use the 7 Chaos Emeralds for their original intended purpose and become their super forms to fight the Biolizard for the last time. When the battle is said and done, Sonic boards the ARK but Shadow is unable to make it back in time and plummet towards Earth and his death. Then he comes back 2 years later in Sonic Hereos, because it's then revealed Shadow is an android and that they all have amnesia, because Sonic fans didn't want Shadow to die and also gently caress you. Then credits. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAMEPLAY SONIC/SHADOW STAGES: Just your standard "get to the finish as fast as you can" stages. Collect coins and other collectables as you go! Pretty basic and fun stages (some of them are anyways). KNUCKLES/ROUGE STAGES: Find three pieces of the Master Emerald to win. Score is affected on time and how often you used a monitor for hints. There is an indicator at the bottom stating when you are close to a piece (though unlike in Adventure 1, it only shows one at a time, making these stages worse). If it's greyed-out, then your are far from it, it is goes green, your getting closer, if it goes yellow, your close and if it goes red, your right on top of it. A "!" will appear if it is underground. You have to find the dig power-up first before you can dig, so these naturally won't show up until you have the digging power-up (for Knuckles it's Pumpkin Hill and for Rouge it's Egg Quarters). Rouge also has a driving stage, which is awful. TAILS/EGGMAN STATES: Mech stages. By far, the worst thing about this game! Your slow, clunky, control like garbage and your objective is to shoot poo poo and rack up as much of a combo as possible while getting a good time. Only redeeming factor is you can shoot Omochao, which is kinda fun to do because he is really annoying! Tails also has a driving stage, which is also awful. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ STAGES SONIC: CITY ESCAPE, METAL HARBOR, GREEN FOREST, PYRAMID CAVE, CRAZY GADGET, FINAL RUSH KNUCKLES: WILD CANYON, PUMPKIN HILL, AQUATIC MINE, DEATH CHAMBER, METEOR HERD TAILS: PRISON LANE, MISSION STREET, ROUTE 101, HIDDEN BASE, ETERNAL ENGINE EGGMAN: IRON GATE, SAND OCEAN, WEAPONS BED, LOST COLONY, COSMIC WALL SHADOW: RADICAL HIGHWAY, WHITE JUNGLE, SKY RAIL, FINAL CHASE ROUGE: DRY LAGOON, EGG QUARTERS, SECURITY HALL, ROUTE 280, MAD SPACE _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Q & A What kind of LP will this be?: This will be a VLP and an All A-Rank playthrough When will this be updated?: Whenever. How will these videos be broken down per episode?: Each video will be only one stage and a boss fight, if there is one until the story is completed. Once the story is completed, then the videos will be broken down per episode by overall stage completion (A-Ranking the extra 4 missions for one map in one video), as well as a bonus video at the end explaining Chao Garden. What version are you playing?: The Gamecube port because it's the one I know best. Will this be 100%?: No because part of getting 100% is raising your Chao to be good enough to win all the races and karate fights. If I were to do this, the Chao raising would be off-screen and the racing/karate bit would be most likely streamed and uploaded to YouTube. Will you be showing off multiplayer and Chao Garden?: Chao Garden for sure yes, and the multiplayer mode has been recorded. It won't be uploaded until way later however, as I'd like to get the story out of the way first. Why are you doing this?: Some people still defend this game, and I, even having prior nostalgia for this game, 100% agrees this game is a complete trashfire. In fact, all the 3D Sonic's are trashfires, with the exception in my opinion being Sonic Heroes. But only the Gamecube version, the other ones are trashfires! I wish there was a trashfire emote.  Despite it's flaws however, I do still enjoy playing this game very much. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ VIDEOS CITY ESCAPE _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Mission 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=perCTUKvGXQ Missions 2 - 5: WIP! _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ WILD CANYON _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Mission 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YQ2lTXRPA8 Mission 2 - 5: WIP! _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ PRISON LANE _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Mission 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqIia2CHi8U Mission 2 - 5: WIP! _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ METAL HARBOR _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Mission 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE3EUk1Hsh8 Mission 2 - 5: WIP! Fail Reel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiR3LglQFZ8 Will be updated periodically once more videos are finished and up on YouTube. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Chameo Five fucked around with this message at 09:45 on Jan 19, 2017 |
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I guess I should post here to reserve the thread, huh? Well truth is, this is my first official LP I've actually worked on, so it may be a bit rough round the edges, but I hope people appreciate and enjoy the amount of work, effort and research I put into the thread and into the videos themselves. Then again, probably not. I am just another lovely SA LPer after all!
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Jan 10, 2017 18:24
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This looks like a good start. I've played and watched the Adventure games a lot, and can both appreciate and criticize them a lot. I hope you have fun getting the A ranks.
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Editing through this recording session, I realize that these videos so far have been of subpar quality, so if you are just watching this now, Episodes 1 - 4 aren't really the best looking videos out there, especially Episode 2! I'm using an Elgato to record this however, so I'm gonna tweak my settings a bit and do some test recordings of Green Forest, just so I can level out the low quality problems these videos have been having whenever I upload them to YouTube. They will however still be at most 720p because it's a Gamecube I'm recording this off of. Chameo Five fucked around with this message at 22:40 on Jan 10, 2017 |
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Jan 10, 2017 22:32
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God, I'd almost forgotten about the VO timing issues in this game.
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It's been a week since I updated this, and once I get into the extra missions, updates will become even less frequent, but I was tinkering the idea of a fail reel for some of these stages, to show of the numerous failed attempts I had at attempting to A-Rank. Let me know in the thread if you all think this is a good idea or not!
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Also I've now changed my username to Scratch Creations on YouTube, just so there is no confusion, so from Green Forest and on, I now go by Scratch Creations and not Chameo Five. I will still stay as Chameo Five here however, cause I don't have the cash to change my username atm.
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You might want to include each episode in a new post. I didn't even know you had done more than one episode until I looked back at the first post.
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HomestarCanter posted:You might want to include each episode in a new post. I didn't even know you had done more than one episode until I looked back at the first post. You've got a point there. I guess from here on out, I'll post the thumbnail image for each episode once I get it out on YouTube, just to notify those interested in this thread
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You're pretty good at this game. I remember stumbling through every level and dying multiple times on the first level as a kid. Also, in my opinion, this was the first decent Sonic game. I hated playing the original Sonics, with their ridiculously fast levels and bad platforming. Just because you're going in an upside-down circle, doesn't mean that it's platforming!
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I've just started playing the steam version of this game, I'm going to use these vids as a guide. Thank you for your public service in wrestling through this game!
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I can only imagine how much more frustrating saying "gently caress you, space rocket  " is when you're trying to A rank the level on top.
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All the videos have been taken down.  EDIT: It appears the OP has left SA, judging by his last post in the Gas Chamber. Oh well. GenderSelectScreen fucked around with this message at 19:45 on Jan 24, 2017 |
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