I got a loose copy of Sonic 06 just because it's the game Mephiles came from and a DVD case, I'm gonna draw Mephiles as the case art and like have him just like showing off the beans and also have like all four of his forms on the case and probably end up referencing the cover of a adult magazine or something for the poses because I am not normal about Mephiles and have a hacked Vita and 2DS with him as the background of both, my Mephiles plush has a popped seam hidden by a scarf as it just keeps repopping and I gave up on fixing it. The Mephiles body pillow I bought on TEMU using a customized single sided body pillow cover listing and a drawing I made of Mephiles.
I will have to wait for my dad to repair one of the 360s (have one with fans that are louder than reasonable, like lawnmower loud, and one with a failing disk drive that requires multiple tries to read disks after a particularly humid summer) to try the game for the first time, like actually play it to as far as someone who's bad at platformers can get (I can't easily judge distance, as long as the game is more fun than Billy the Wizard for the Wii I'll be fine with playing it, and since 06 has Mephiles it'll be played 'til the disk gets disk rot so bad it isn't able to be recognized by the 360, I'll even have the disk downloaded to the 360 to quiet the disk drive.
Somehow I didn't see this until now, but nice!
Be mindful if this is your first time playing the game: It's absolutely a slog to get through if you don't know the tricks and bugs to make it easier.
A few tips, and I use "few" loosely :
Omega can glide upwards if you hit a corner just right. Use this to get higher up in places like Dusty Desert to have more momentum to bypass the platforming. He does not run out of glide energy due to that part not being implemented, so you can just hold the glide button after reaching as high as you want and just cost to your target.
Do not try to climb the walls as Knuckles or Rouge in Flame Core. The Game Grumps aren't lying on that, the hit detection is atrocious and you will have too much problems trying to jump loose.
Some levels work the same was as the old Sonic Adventure Clipping Glitch. You can skip certain character sections by hitting the right spot on some gates. Check for some of them on YouTube, there's some great examples.
The Box Mission where you count the boxes? Get some paper ready, because the loading time can either make you forget, or there's a few trick question moments that will send you back to square one. Every. Single. Action. There. Is. A. Loading. Screen.
Don't bother with the Billiards of Doom with Silver in Dusty Desert. Just grab some boxes, put them by the door, jump on the highest one, use Psychoknesis by levitating while on top of the box. You will clip through the door and completely skip the puzzle, saving you a good four or five minutes.
Silver has limited psychic abilities to use constantly without draining the gauge. Repeatedly tap the hover button quickly as you leap across any sort of pit and aim for the nearest ledge, platform, or pole. It's tough, but if you master this, you don't need to use Silver on those stupid mercury balls in Aquatic Base, and just leapfrog onto the poles of each laser gate.
Sonic's shoe gems are totally botched. The best gems are the Red one ((slows down time as long as you hold the action button down)), the Yellow one ((creates a static force that collects nearby rings, but it doesn't shield you)), and the Purple one ((most expensive, can be obtained after grinding or replaying the last level if desperate, it shrinks you down and makes you a tiny bit faster, and UNLIMITED JUMP ability to where you can hit the geometry of the sky or take a running leap and spam it to cross areas quickly without platforming))
Silver's powers are nerfed. Just grab things with them and throw. The fancy tricks are hard to do, unless you have a lot of debris to double tap the triggers to do some huge levitation launch or something.
Sand will kill you. Do not touch the sand.
Water will kill you. Do not touch the water.
Lava will only kill you if you don't have any Rings left. Keep ahold of at least one Ring and you can cross it with some damage.
Don't fight the camera. If the camera is on autopilot, just let go of the controls until you coast to a stop. This is why that one loop in Wave Ocean is an early mood killer. You don't fight the camera. Just don't.
Silver can't do Light Speed Dash. At all. He also can't Spin Dash.
Don't play the Multiplayer. It's not fun. Silver is too OP.
Mephiles' boss battles are relatively scripted. You cannot hit him before using Chaos Boost, UNLESS there is a small window for a glitch where you land a hit before the guage runs out the first time.
Iblis' boss battles are also quite scripted. Once he throws the fireball at you in the Phase 3 stage with Silver, use the Psychoknesis power to stop it and launch it back. This move is never explained or used anywhere again. Be sure to hit him enough before that, or he will just walk up and smash the last platform and trigger a lost life.
Shadow's hovercraft can and will capsize in water and sand. Do not move too fast in them, you will die.
Shadow's beefy tank of a car is really powerful to smash through things, but is difficult to turn on a dime. It uses the same driving principles as a GTA car, and you need to be careful taking tight turns. Use it to crash down the searchlights by getting a vantage point and shooting missiles. It's way more efficient than climbing the towers yourself.
Shadow's motorcycle. It's pretty cool. There is no easy way to do the Mach Speed portion of Radical Train, just try no to swerve unless needed, or you will ride off a cliff and die.
Tails' Dummy Rings, contrary to popular belief, are in fact really easy to distinguish from real Rings. The Dummy Rings tip over and fall down, the real Rings do not.
When attacked by a horde of robots or monsters, aim for either the biggest one or the one in the center first. Sometimes their destruction will set off a chain reaction that clears the rest out faster and gets you bonus points.
Hold down the trigger button while using Chaos Spear as Shadow to lock you in the air and rotate wherever you want to aim. He will jump up just a little bit and you can use that as momentum to pass difficult platforming.
Don't use Amy's invisibility skills unless required. You have no protection while invisible.
Blaze is fast, but she will shoot off in the aimed direction if you try to do a fire claw move without a wall or spring nearby.
Want to hear the Japanese voice tracks? Set the Xbox 360 console to Japanese ((and remember your steps to get to the settings to set it back later, if you can't read it)), and it will active the game's Japanese audio tracks, and switch out "Sweet Dreams 06 AKON MIX" for "SWEET SWEET SWEET 06 AKON MIX", which is the same song, except that Dreams Come True's portion is now entirely in Japanese. Also, all the text will be in Japanese. The subtitles will be in Japanese, except for Sonic's "Engrish" phrases. But also, you'll get to hear Mephiles say "Boku wa-" when introducing himself, and also "Nani??" when Shadow rejects his offer the last time. I recommend this option after you've gotten incredibly familiar with the game's settings and dialogue.
You can load up your own music, by the way! Do you have any songs saved into the Xbox hard drive after ripping music discs on it? Or maybe you have a USB stick or music playing with USB compatibility? Plug that bad boy in and hit the big shiny button in the middle of the controller to pull up the mini-menu and select your tracks through the media player, and now all incidental music has been replaced with your loaded playlist.
Alternately, wanna see something really creepy? Do the exact same steps for the music player, but then PAUSE ((not STOP)) the music. Jump back into the game. Notice anything? That's right, all ambient music has been completely stopped, and the only sounds are your footstep and character sounds. Soleanna is incredibly dead without the music, especially with the NPCs on loop. This also applies to the in-engine cutscenes. Awkward silences abound!
This game is spiritually a successor to Sonic Adventure and Sonic Adventure 2, and it shows. Keep any eye out for visual references and level gimmick callbacks.
Dusty Desert can go fall in a ditch
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