Live and Learn 8 Bit Remix - Sonic Adventure 2

when i discovered ultrabox months ago and found that it had a bpm restriction of 500 (for the uninitiated, i transcribe all covers at double the original bpm just because it makes the whole process a lot smoother and a lot more fun) soon after i realized that i wanted to make live and learn for the new years celebration video, and here we are. 2023 was a great fuckin' year all in all. tomorrow marks the third anniversary of the first video i put up on this channel. like many of the old ones, it is now privated. you can still see some old shitty ones, though. anyways, i don't feel like complaining today. it's almost the new year and i don't want to bring the mood down as i tend to do in these today. so instead of talking about how much i dislike sonic adventure 2, i'll talk about what i like about it. for starters, the emerald hunting stages are fun. sa1 for as much as i dearly love it kinda felt like a lot of the emerald hunting stages were half-assed and an afterthought due to the reuse of areas from sonic's levels. "wahhh wahhh but eggo, tails' stages use entire sonic levels and you don't complain about that" you are right, i don't complain because that fits well with the lore and with the gameplay. tails' story is about him becoming independant and capable removed from sonic and through the races the player can easily imagine tails gaining the confidence to do what he does by the end of his story. it's about building him up from his attatchment to sonic, so using sonic and his levels as setpieces are perfectly fine. anyways, i do think that the emerald stages in sa2 are better designed, but the controls are fucking awful as they are for like 67% of the characters in the game. pumpkin hill terrified me as a young lad for a reason that i could never put my finger on and i attribute that stage to the fact of certian skyboxes in games unnerving me to this day. rail grinding is cool and probably the only (3d) sonic game to pull it off well. actually having to actively control the momentum and balance is a lot better than the fucking boring autoplay transportation that rails are in current day sonic. jumping to and from rails can be a giant pain in the ass but it feels great. the soundtrack is great but that is a given and mutually understood, so really it doesn't need to be pointed out. i don't want to talk about le graphics because graphics[slur]s are subhuman and always will be, and i don't really like the style of the game very much, so i've pretty much talked about the only things that i really do like about sa2. the style of 2 felt too drab 90% of the time for me. sa1 had style in spades - every area was colorful or had impressive lighting and the only stages that really do it for me in sa2 are final rush and final chase: the last fucking stages of each story. i also really don't care for the story in sa2, it's kind of gay. sa1 knocked the stories out of the park with having some intertwine and having others removed from the main plot and doing them all so incredibly well. big only kind of relates to the main story and gamma is removed from every other story bar amy. big isn't that bad. his sections can be short if you get good and play them correctly and even if you don't, fishing on the dreamcast is so soulful that i don't know why anyone would complain about it. big gay youtube reviewers over the years have gaslit every secondary who didn't play either game in to believing that sa2 is this beacon of quality and kino and that sa1 is a broken janky mess that is only redeemed by fucking gamma. fuck that shit. why would you ever listen to youtuber cucks who let their wives get fucked by unbroken bucks when you could either form your own opinion (seriously, people need to form their opinions on shit) or listen to me and my objectively correct opinions? the latter is a joke (i hate that i have to spell it out, poes law or whatever) because the internet would be boring if everyone had the same opinion, but for cryin' out loud, motherfuckers need to form their own opinions on things. sonic is a fun series. part of the charm of the community is how it is inseperable from the reputation garnered by the loud tard fans from over the years and how that filters out a lot of people who would do nothing more than shit up the communities. i myself am neither here nor there on the greater sonic community universe because i think there are some good parts and some bad parts. i think that most sonic youtubers are gay and that sonic and tails r is highly overrated, but i do like and appreciate a ton of the earnest fan efforts like forces overclocked and sonic gt built off the already incredible bumper engine and the copious amounts of fun rom hacks. i'm running low on space here. thanks for watching, i really do appreciate it. i'll continue to make videos on the internet regardless of whether one or one thousand people watch. making stuff is awesome. i'll see you next week. have a wonderful day, gentlemen. god bless. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K71nvYxKuMc