Let's Play Introduction
Why? What? How?
Am I glad you asked! All these questions and more will be answered if you click on the header image or the handy link below it.
This chart is explained in the video, but you can refer to it here for the possible full extent of what I might end up doing.
Short text version
Why?
I played this game first to laugh at, as my first Sonic game. It was a predictable desaster, but boy did I have fun getting drunk with my buddy. But his PS3 broke, and I still don't have one, so we never finished it. Even back then, there were some segments where I thought "man, this was genuinely great, why can't the whole game be like this?". But mostly, the awful physics and broken gameplay prevented me from really enjoying it.
Over the following years, I played more 3D Sonics, realized that most of them have terrible physics, got used to many of them, and kept thinking of this terrible, terrible game. I had to at least finish it, right? Then I found out that you can emulate it, put a few online sessions on with the same buddy, we had some fun again but I realized: hey, I'm actually good at this now. And it's actually kinda fun?
I finished the game, and started to look for the Silver Medals, because I love collectibles in any game, and it's fun enough to look for them here too. Then I started to think about S-Ranking. Then raocow started his excellent blind LP where he excelled at the game and had a lot of fun, and that was the final push I needed to start one of my own. Yes, I like the game now, I think it's a lot of fun BOTH to laugh at and to play it like a "normal" game.
What?
Everything!
Ideally.
I can't promise that I'll get all Gold Medals, because I have a full-time job, some of this shit is hard and often for the wrong reasons, and honestly, you're not missing much if you don't see "do the mandatory 5 minutes boss fight again, but without getting hit in the last second" videos. I'll try, though! And you'll see all Stories, all Silver Medals, and the DLCs. Especially Very Hard, which I'm blind to, really interests me.
I will not talk about the story in videos, but feel absolutely free to talk about it in the thread, in case you didn't get around to it during raocow's LP.
How?
Like raocow, I'm using xenia, an XBox 360 emulator in development. Many games don't run - I still haven't played Sonic Unleashed, for instance - but through some divine stroke of luck, Sonic 2006 works perfectly with very small issues (textures sometimes need manual fixing, sounds play a bit late, and the cutscenes tend to desynch). Please don't ask me where to get the ISO for the game, or the DLC content. I can link you a video showing you how to install it though, in case you happen to obtain the files.
Videos
Intro Movie
To Wave Ocean
Wave Ocean
To Dusty Desert
Egg-Cerberus
Dusty Desert
Silver the Hedgehog
Town Mission 2-4
To White Acropolis
White Acropolis
Crisis City
Flame Core
Iblis Phase 2
To Radical Train
Town Mission 6-10
Radical Train
Tropical Jungle
Wave Ocean : Tails
To Kingdom Valley
Kingdom Valley
S-Rank
To Aquatic Base
Aquatic Base
Aquatic Base Hard Mode
Egg-Wyvern
Ending and Credits
Town Mission 13-17
Soleanna Silvers
Intro Movie
Crisis City
Iblis Phase 1
To Tropical Jungle
Tropical Jungle
Extra : Blaze
To Dusty Desert
Town Mission 1-7
Dusty Desert
Sonic the Hedgehog
Town Mission 8+9 AND To White Acropolis
White Acropolis
White Acropolis
To Radical Train
Radical Train
Shadow the Hedgehog
Aquatic Base
To Kingdom Valley
Kingdom Valley
Flame Core
Iblis Phase 3
Ending and credits
Town Mission 13 + 15
Soleanna Silvers
Intro Movie
White Acropolis
Egg-Cerberus
To Kingdom Valley + Town Missions 1-6
Kingdom Valley
Kingdom Valley S-Rank
Crisis City
Flame Core
Iblis Phase 2
Tropical Jungle : Rouge
Mephiles Phase 1
To Radical Train + Town Missions 7-10
Radical Train
Silver the Hedgehog
Aquatic Base
To Wave Ocean + Town Missions 11-14
Wave Ocean
To Dusty Desert + Town Mission 15
Dusty Desert
Mephiles Phase 2
Ending and Credits
Soleanna Silvers
Last Story
Opening
End of the World
End of the World S-Rank
Solaris
Ending
Recorded and published before the thread started:
[DLC] Sonic Boss Rush (blind)
[DLC] Silver Boss Rush (blind)
[DLC] Shadow Boss Rush (S-Rank)
This is an open-spoiler Let's Play. The story will not be treated as a mystery, and you can talk about any level by any character. Feel free to ask me "will you show off [x]".
