The Forgotten Sonic Moves

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Published 2024-07-30
It's crazy to consider that over the course of Sonic's ENTIRE 30 Year History Sonic Team have STILL yet to figure out a consistent playstyle for their titular character in 3D - and so today I wanna talk about those inconsistencies!

...for fun!

0:00 They Fixed the Lore!
1:40 Gameplay Still Isn't Perfect Though...
3:48 The Spin Dash Vs. Boost
7:19 Random Abilities That Rarely Return
13:02 Rings!
14:57 Why Does This Keep Happening???
19:10 Conclusion

Edited by -    / @simplydad  
Twitter - twitter.com/_SplashDash

All Comments (21)
  • @Itz_Kwame
    He can’t even compete in the Olympics anymore due to this amnesia🤦🏾‍♂️
  • @Koko-cy4ff
    The springs actually do have different functionality. You cannot use the homing attack on the classic springs. And... that's it. But there is a difference!
  • Watching this video made me realize how inconsistent this franchise’s game design is and how many moves it doesn’t have anymore, and also how the rules break even with the very same moveset
  • Fun fact: the spin dash is actually in the PS2/Wii version of Unleashed. If you press the boost button right when GO appears you'll spin dash. Get the timing perfect and you'll also fill up a boost bar for free
  • @SwellStuff483
    It will never not piss me off that Sonic doesn’t have the drift in Cyberspace since the left shoulder button (which is used for the Sonic Boom attack in the overworld) doesn’t do anything.
  • @reginlief1
    Classic being from a different dimension wouldn’t have been lame if they did what I THOUGHT they were doing with that plot. The phantom Ruby was already doing some weird dimension-y stuff in mania. I was confident the villains Infinte was using were plucked from timelines that they had been victorious in. A chaos that had wiped out all life, a shadow that had followed through with his plans, a zavok that… lost hexed all over the place? Idk I never played lost world. Instead, they’re just… projections? Copies? They’re lame. The phantom Ruby was undermined and a great potential story arc for all four of those villains was missed. Just IMAGINE shadow talking to a past self that didn’t realise Maria’s true last wish…
  • Funnily enough, Frontiers technically goes back to the way the boost gauge fills up in Unleashed in Generations as well because collecting rings while boosting (when you don't have an unlimited boost that is) will fill your gauge back up slowly, so collecting rings while boosting is useful in Cyber Space. Just a fin tidbit. They're going back to how it works in Unleashed and Generations in Shadow Generations, so that's fun. They better have the wall jump in there too.
  • @JasLamArr91
    Hot Take: I liked the parkour in Lost World. It was wonky though.
  • @pass_
    can't wait for sonic to use the infinate jumping mini sonic crystal in sonic movie 3
  • @MaeMaeMochii
    I don’t know why but I’ve always had a love for the Super Peel Out. I think it’s one of the best things to be introduced to a Sonic game but it needs to be in more modern titles!
  • @FanYTXP
    In Sonic Lost World there's forgotten move, When Sonic's uncurling from the Spindash and spinning without the Ball Graphic, just hold down the Spindash botton again you literally do this by spinning in the Water without fall it
  • @Slimeonian
    14:55 oh my god…. I never realised LS Mark and SplashDash were the same person. I may be stupid
  • @fryguy9704
    At least all of us can agree that Sonic’s moves change almost every week.
  • @rhonddaboy13
    To quote Shadow's song Never Turn Back: "I take one step forward and two steps back," Pretty much that with different choices of gameplay.
  • @11:40-.-Don't worry, the final Avatar solo level is The only level where you can wall jump. It can't be done in any other level, which is why mark forgot about it. And technically, Sonic never did the wall jump, so he is not wrong.
  • @GUNS_jk
    I like the way they handled Boost and Spindash in Frontiers. Boost to go fast yet glued to the ground and Spindash to go fast and basically enable physics. I like those options.
  • @Danominator
    When you said "Sonic Moves" I thought you were talking about his dance numbers in those commercials from the 2000s And that's not even mentioning Shadow