By far one of my most popular videos on my Youtube channel is a montage about glitches in Sonic 2006. With the release of Sonic Boom, a lot of people have been wondering if I was going to a video for that.

I've ended up committing to three (!) Sonic Boom videos, the first one being embedded above there. I also have plans to do a video review, as well as a second montage video -- I ended up with a lot of footage of the game breaking over and over and over, and figured nobody would want to sit through 30-45 solid minutes of that stuff.

Unfortunately, as with a lot of things in life, I figured the glitch montage would go quickly so I could focus on the video review, but, well, it's been over a month already and only the first montage is out. A combination of crummy video capture hardware mixed with Holiday insanity mixed with whatever else. It's been tough to focus.

I'm getting back on track now, though. Great things are coming!

The music fade out when you were walking away from Amy was a true stroke of genius.

Watched your original Sonic 06 video, I've seen most of those bugs but it was awesome to see reasons why they might be happening.

The video is great and all, but I'm more impressed that you finished the game.

@sunbrozak: Eh, I dunno. I've finished Sonic 2006 twice now (once originally, and once for a charity stream). Sonic Boom's not a great game but I'd hardly call it unplayable.

Would you say it was better than '06? I tried playing that back in the day, reached the "twist" after beating the three main stories, and couldn't play much longer than that.

thought the video was very fun, maybe that will be the lasting appeal of Sonic Boom, a poor quality game that has all sorts of intriguing oddities when it breaks in strange ways.

The Last Story is "special"

It's absolutely better than Sonic 2006, but we're also kind of dealing in shades of "this turd doesn't smell as bad as some of the turds I've smelled."

Sonic Boom is overall a buggier, glitchier game than Sonic 2006, but its bugs are a lot less severe, I guess. Like there's stuff in Sonic 2006 that makes it skirt the edge of being objectively unplayable in the "I am physically unable to progress any further because the game doesn't work right." way.

That almost never happens in Sonic Boom. There's a lot of broken stuff, but it never outright bars your progress like Sonic 2006. They at least have that going for them.

I don't know how else to respond besides this.

I can't believe you played from start to finish. You brave soul.

Wow, these glitches are ridiculous, but I bet it didn't affect the money they made at all. Sonic fans buy Sonic and I don't think they pay much attention to quality.

Fun video. I played through the whole game and I really didn't have any bad glitches. I guess I got lucky?

@delerat: yo, check the Miiverse for this game. It's bananas.

@dprotp said:

I am constantly glad that the Miiverse exists.

Actually... I don't think Sonic Boom ever surfaced on sales charts. If I remember right, Sonic Lost World barely broke 100k sales in its launch month. Four months in, it was at around 700k. That's abysmal.

Sonic Boom on the Wii U, from what's come out, did maybe a fourth of that. It could actually be the worst selling Sonic game in recent history.

Has anyone ever told you that you sound exactly like Curtis Armstrong? (It's surprisingly hard to find a good clip of that guy.)

Great video by the way, made me check out your fun adventures with Sonic '06.

This game should be banned purely on the basis of that awful, awful Knuckles model...

@privodotmenit: Really? I never found the character design of Sonic great but I think the thing this game had going for it was that the characters at least look different. Though it being a tie in for a cartoon explains that.

Yes and no. Somebody once told me I sounded like Snot from American Dad, who is a parody of Booger from Revenge of the Nerds, both of which are played by Curtis Armstrong. You are the first person to hit the nail on the head directly.

I personally don't really hear the resemblance, but then again, of course I wouldn't.

Holy gee does this game look like crap graphically compared to other recent Sonic games. I wonder why that is.

@steadying: Really? I don't think it looks so bad, outside of the obvious stuff like... shadows disappearing, or the draw distance messing up. Oh, and I guess they had to really reduce the texture quality in order to have enough memory for split screen co-op.

Actually, I guess in that context, yeah, it doesn't look great.

I've just started watching the Game Grumps's playthrough of this, and in the seventh episode Barry shows some really janky stuff of how they have badly patched the cutscenes together. I'm so glad I'm no big Sonic fan, really, because I would so disapointed at yet another bad Sonic game.

I really like watching others play through bad games though. =D