Sonic Adventure 2 - Did You Know Gaming? Feat. Jimmy Whetzel

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In this episode we take a look at the facts, secrets and history of Sonic Adventure 2. Find out how a reference to the AIDS virus sparked the creation of Shadow the Hedgehog, why the game's cut-scenes are so jarring, how America inspired Sonic Team, and how a sponsorship deal changed the face of Sonic.

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Research and Writing by Seumidh MacDonald

[DustyMusician]

Shadow: "Fake? You're not even good enough to-"
Sonic: "I'LL MAKE YOU EAT THOSE WORDS!!!"
Shadow: "Don't interrupt me."

[bup]

It's Sonic interrupting Shadow in the "I'll make you eat those words" cutscene that makes it so good in my opinion. It just feels so much more relatable since Sonic is really pissed off.

[nyxterx]

I vote for Sonic 06...the world MUST know what the fuck happened.

[shellshock]

Mario 64 + outdated = Best game of all time.
Ocarina of time + outdated = Best game of all time
Pokemon Red + outdated = Best game of all time
Crash + outdated = Best game of all time
Spyro + outdated = Best game of all time
Sonic adventure 1-2 + outdated = Worst game ever
Seems legit

[WildWesternWolf]

God the soundtrack for that game was the best I couldn't get enough of it

[Ithritable]

In all my life, I never knew rail grinding shoes actually existed in real life.

[AverageBananas]

Maria died of videogame AIDS? Well that 's depressing...

[MinimiMax]

How do you make a black hedgehog when trying to create immortality? You had ONE JOB, damn it!

[cosmiccosmo]

Honestly having them talk over each other makes the conversations seem a lot more realistic

[chadtronic]

This game was Chao Adventure 2 for me.

[moodzigaming]

Sonic Adventure 2 was one of my favorite games growing up. Loved the rock soundtrack. Who else played on Gamecube?

[hawkeyeninja]

Sonic adventure 2 was my shit, one of my favorite games ever

[cannonfodder]

It's crazy how similar Sonic's Japanese and English voices are

[MichaelJCaboose]

Am I the only one around here that truly, genuinely liked this game? I can understand the love of the original 2D versions, and I understand the criticism of Sonic 06 and beyond, but this game is way different, I feel, and is in a class of its own in terms of Sonic games. I loved it, and if there happened to be a new game very similar in variable play style and feel (and pace, above-par control, etc) I would absolutely buy it.

[keystrix]

Did you know that Rouge the Bat has jiggle physics in this game? It's true. When I saw it, I laughed for about 10 minutes straight.

[HackCentury]

Just realized all the captions in the game are in Comic Sans...

[Thomi]

Its not impossible that the moon rotates towards the earth, since the synchronous rotation comes from the moon being slightly bent though earths gravity which makes it elliptical which also makes that the wider side of that ellipse is dragged more towards the earth which over millions of years made the moon rotate at the speed that it goes around the earth. So if one side was missing, the heavier, undamaged side of the moon would over time turn towards the earth. Correct me if im wrong.

[xXOpenYourHeartXx]

1:20 THAT'S ME GETTING TAKASHI IIZUKA'S WHAT THE HECK?!?!?!

[CLH]

The best part about SA2 (or, the Dreamcast version of SA2) is the fact that you can find Big the Cat in almost every stage, just standing around. I used to think that it was just done as a joke, but there's a reason behind it.

Turns out, the director of the game was so angry about the negative response to Big that he took personal offense to it and decided to throw Big into random parts of the game as revenge.

Sadly, they were almost all scrapped from the Gamecube port (not sure about the PC and other ports of the game).

[DShephard]

If the moon had suddenly lost half its mass, would it still keep its synchronous rotation?