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This was some of the purest happycow we've seen.

I'm honestly surprised this level made the top 10 because, in spite of its obvious merits, it felt woefully incomplete without the Marilyn Monroe reveal.

The falling rocks background in Subterranean Shrine was really cool. I was surprised it didn't use "Running Hell" for the music since it had Cave Story music in the other section and the background looks similar to the falling rocks section in Cave Story, but the track they used was a bett...

I never understood why so many people seemed to dislike Tails, but having finally experienced the 3D/voice acting era of Sonic games, i can now say i understand it. He's still my favorite Sonic character just because the Genesis games were the only Sonic anything i knew at all for a long time, and i...

I'm not sure if it's actually that common and maybe it's just a handful of recent levels, but the biggest trend jumping out to me right now is pipes that lead to side room challenges for dagadons. I guess probably because it feels more specific than the more common elements that have been cropping u...

That's true, originally he only even started playing the other 3 missions to train himself up for each level's hard mode, and now he wants to get hard mode out of the way so he can deal with the actual hard ones after.

Tails giving up with the president right in front of him and closing ground makes even less sense when Tails tells Sonic he needs a few more minutes approximately one minute earlier. At this point it doesn't bother me though since i've accepted that Tails operates on a plane of logic and morality co...

Congratulations to raocow on getting every rank on a single level.

I counseled a group of Jr High kids at a summer camp and they were saying "bae" but this was 5+ years ago so maybe they've stopped by now.

One small issue with Swiss Sparkles Inc. is if you don't die between the midpoint and the 1-up checkpoint, there doesn't seem to be any way to tell which door goes to which section in the respawn room other than trial and error. It might not even be clear that both sets of doors weren't always there...

I think Down Monty Mountain making the secret exit only accessible by solving a puzzle and doing some tricky jumps dodging around the pollen while balancing on the mole is a clever way of signaling that it unlocks a hard-mode path without explicitly saying it. By making you go the extra step and put...

Finding skulls in the sealed vaults of a paramilitary group's base is incredibly unsettling. Like orders of magnitude more so than digging them out of archaeological sites.

Probably not intentional, but raocow talking about how interesting the concept of downward autoscrolling while swimming was because he didn't remember encountering that idea before ended up being a nice stealth burn on the downward autoscrolling swimming level he got so bored with the other day. It'...

For what it's worth, as painful as it was to get there the final run did look really cool.

It's a nice coincidence that 57th place is shared by an author and level name that combine to make a thing, and it's even a gaming-relevant thing.

That was some impressive reflexive playing from raocow on the last section of Mars Colonization.

That was a really cool auto-level. Leave it to SomeGuy to put together something so intricate and tightly designed.

If you don't finish your WizardBurgers, you don't get any VIP for dessert.

raocow, first playthrough of City Escape: "This is one of the greatest first levels of any video game ever, look how amazing it is"
raocow, having to play all the missions: "Iron Gate is the better starting level"

I like how they distinguished the prototype ultimate life form from normal lizards by pointing out that this one is biological.

The ending confirms that Sonic getting the magic gloves did indeed save, because he clearly used them on Shadow.

They really wanted Sonic to be the all-important, only-he-can-do-it character to reach the core and save everyone while his friends (and enemies) support him with side missions in other parts of the colony, but they also really wanted Sonic to have people to talk to in the cutscene.

I think it's great, i just don't trust Sega to make avant-garde masterpieces on purpose. (For the record, that teacher was also happy with the outcome even though he didn't do it on purpose because it meant he got to run his entire show commercial free, and since he didn't actually work there they c...

Back when i lived in a fairly small town, my art teacher didn't really work for the radio station but they let him fill in as a DJ on random nights. One night, he was supposed to do his show after the baseball game ended, and they were short on staff so they asked him to come in early and operate th...

From watching the Dark story, i thought the implication of Sonic using Chaos Control in Shadow's boss fight was that Sonic and friends had managed to pull a bait and switch on Eggman where Sonic actually had the real emerald all along and Tails had the fake one. That would have also explained why th...

Knuckles did also have that scene where he blocked Amy from going into the sewers and then got run over by Tails which was very important to the story

Oh wow, i didnt even notice Omochao repeatedly getting sucked into the vacuum of space in an endless loop. That's two semi-immortal characters from raocow LPs within the past year who have met that exact horrific fate (Royal from Iconoclasts).

Tails at the Chao garden: