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Sonic Boom Knuckles infinite jumping glitch found: Can skip 80% of game. 1hr speedrun

I can't get over how bad the writing and voice acting is, I know the series has never been a shining example of writing and voice acting, but it was sorta passable when not occasional cringe-worthy. This is just bad.

I wonder when the agreement was made to bring this game to the WiiU?

Probably years ago when the deal for three exclusive Sonic games was made.

Amazing how out of the three games, we can almost objectively say Lost World was the magnum opus of the deal..
 
The voice actors are a lot better than the actual script

also, he just equipped the Fastball Special glyph before the prompt showed up asking him if he wanted to equip glyphs. GOTTA GO FAST

Yeah, the VAs themselves don't seem horribly bad.
But still.

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Wow, this got no attention?
I like it.


We need to have a serious debate about 2014 vs 2006. So we can truly know.
I'm still tempted to go with 06 since it was the first game of a new generation and a flagship title, while this game is outsourced and not as important to Sonic (but...it does have a concurrent show and merchandise though)
 
The writing is really bad but remember this isn't really aimed for grown men and women who argue on forums. This is for the kids. Think of the children!!!

I'm just glad Nickelodeon wasn't airing shit like this when I was growing up.
 
The writing is really bad but remember this isn't really aimed for grown men and women who argue on forums. This is for the kids. Think of the children!!!

I'm just glad Nickelodeon wasn't airing shit like this when I was growing up.

Regular Show and Adventure Time have more than proved that kids also like good writting, this is just shit all around.
 
Regular Show and Adventure Time have more than proved that kids also like good writting, this is just shit all around.
Eh, lets not go here.

We are entering Irrelevant old man territory.

Lets try and not be irrelevant old people today, eh.
 
Darkspinessonic is playing the 3DS version now: www.twitch.tv/darkspinessonic

He's the one who discovered the infinite jump glitch with Knuckles in the Wii U version, tune into this stream and see what he discovers in the 3DS version! (While he's casually playing through it lol)
 
go where? that things targeted at kids don't have to be shitty?

Here's the thing thing though.

Do you know how many things we liked as kids that adults think is shit that we really, REALLY like.

I'm not in the business of telling kids what they should like. It tends to be the thing you think is the shittest, for the reasons you think its shit. Thats just life.

I'm talking about the cartoon by the way.

But yeah...
 
Darkspinessonic is playing the 3DS version now: www.twitch.tv/darkspinessonic

He's the one who discovered the infinite jump glitch with Knuckles in the Wii U version, tune into this stream and see what he discovers in the 3DS version! (While he's casually playing through it lol)

WOW.

They marketed Shattered Crystal as a game that took place after Rise of Lyric. The game starts in a way that implies neither fucking game is actually related.

Sure, that's minor, but I know for a fact they marketed the games as a connected duology, but apparently that's also smoke and mirrors...
 
So with this being a part of the exclusivity deal with Sonic and Nintendo, is it basically the equivalent of a band releasing a greatest hits album just to fill out a contract with a record company? Because it sure as shit seems like it.
 
After the infamous Capcom deal and now this "three exclusive sonic game" deal, I have no faith in third party exclusive deals with Nintendo. Just make your 1st party games good, throw money at your second party devs, and moneyhat weird/creative third party games that no one else will fund. And fill out your VC library and localize more games, digitally if necessary.

That's what I want from Nintendo.
 
Is this game as bad as sonic 2006?

This is a really hard question to answer. They're both VERY, VERY BAD GAMES, but in vastly different ways. The only comparison you can really draw is that both games suck and have Sonic in them.

It's kinda funny. In a fucked up way, I almost like trash-awful Sonic games better than the good ones. It's kind of nice to have a Sonic game I can laugh at again.
 
We need to have a serious debate about 2014 vs 2006. So we can truly know.
I'm still tempted to go with 06 since it was the first game of a new generation and a flagship title, while this game is outsourced and not as important to Sonic (but...it does have a concurrent show and merchandise though)

The answer is Shadow the Hedgehog.

I still can't believe that game actually exists.
 
So with this being a part of the exclusivity deal with Sonic and Nintendo, is it basically the equivalent of a band releasing a greatest hits album just to fill out a contract with a record company? Because it sure as shit seems like it.

No, in that case this would have been a compilation of the greatest Sonic games, spawning the old classics and new goodies like Colors and Generations, and you can bet it'd have been infinitely better than this. This is more like "guys, still keep the files of those songs we played while drunk?"
 
glitch is knuckle's double jump resets after you pause the game, letting you pretty much skip many portions of the game, including the final boss.
Holly shit, my ~6 years old self found this glitch in Contra 2 and for the next few years I tried it in almost every game I played. It's amazing how something as simple as this got past QA(what QA?!).
 
I can forgive some of the technical problems & a couple of the game's shortcomings. But this exploit is truly something to behold.

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I can't get over how bad the writing and voice acting is, I know the series has never been a shining example of writing and voice acting, but it was sorta passable when not occasional cringe-worthy. This is just bad.

I think the voice acting is fine, as is proved by the TV show. But the writing is mostly garbage, and the mixing is the worst. I wonder if the lines were given to the actors individually and told "just do it."
 
People are unironically saying that Sonic '06 was good to great in the chat of the 3DS speedrun stream. Someone honestly argued that "if more people played it, then maybe less people would just go with the popular internet opinion" which is amazing. The only reason people dislike Sonic '06 is because the people who like it haven't played it yet, apparently.
 
Sonic Adventure 1 came out in December 1998 in Japan.
Sonic 06 came out in Fall 2006.
Sonic Boom came out Fall 2014.

The Sonic 06 cycle is real, every 8 years a turrible Sonic game comes out. The next terrible Sonic will be out in the fall of 2022.
 
Sonic Adventure 1 came out in December 1998 in Japan.
Sonic 06 came out in Fall 2006.
Sonic Boom came out Fall 2014.

The Sonic 06 cycle is real, every 8 years a turrible Sonic game comes out. The next terrible Sonic will be out in the fall of 2022.
but sa2 was the awful one
 
I can't get over how bad the writing and voice acting is, I know the series has never been a shining example of writing and voice acting, but it was sorta passable when not occasional cringe-worthy. This is just bad.

I wonder when the agreement was made to bring this game to the WiiU?

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I dare you to say that again.
 
Sonic Adventure 1 came out in December 1998 in Japan.
Sonic 06 came out in Fall 2006.
Sonic Boom came out Fall 2014.

The Sonic 06 cycle is real, every 8 years a turrible Sonic game comes out. The next terrible Sonic will be out in the fall of 2022.

Sonic Adventure 1 was great though. I think you're thinking of Sonic Shuffle. Maybe Adventure 2?
 
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