Obscure, irrelevant things you find odd in Sonic games

Maybe the localizers got the controls mixed up with the Wii version? IIRC you do drift with B in that version.

 

No, you can definitely drift with B/Circle in Unleashed according to everything I've read. The Japanese manual says to use B/Circle as well, so it's not a localisation thing. I guess I just don't remember playing it for the first time if that's how the game communicates it to you. I always remember using the triggers, but that could be from going from Generations back to Unleashed.

The button-less drift is super intriguing to me though.

Can you link the forum post you found regarding it?

 

So you're saying the localizers fucked us over again?

 

Near at the cliffs, at the very top of the monstrously high depths approaching the primordial seas of fairies, greets your eyes of the fantastical jungle in this wondrous land that is...
GameFAQs.

Buried deep in the ancient GameFAQs forums, someone by the name of Detha mentions the alternate method for drifting using the analog stick.

 

Oh, I saw that while searching. He says he’s using the triggers to do it, not that he’s doing it with only the analogue stick. Or at least that’s how I’m reading it.

This seems like he’s saying, “Don’t use the B button because the triggers do the same job.”

 

...okay, re-reading that post more closely, it describes not one, but three alternate methods?
I gotta check back on Unleashed again, what in the world?

 

Okay, came back with a recording of whatever weirdness this is. Apologies for the crusty quality: I don't have a capture card and I only have a CRT.


Edit: ninja'd

It's quite baffling to see it in action: I can't figure out how or why braking and then turning causes Sonic to drift. I've been playing this game for a couple of years, and while I'm aware of glitches like M-Speed and the X Y Y clip I don't know how this works exactly. Thanks for the clear video oliver!

 

OH DEAR GOD THIS FEELS SO FORBIDDEN

SONIC DRIFTING IN THE QUICKSTEP ROADS???? HELLO????


I know this game in and out for years, I know what does and doesn't work and this feels so cursed what the actual fuck
Did I just accidentally discover a forbidden strat what applications does this have?
Someone forward this to the SU speedrunners

 

I love how we came full circle, the thread started with Sonic's drift and ends with an accidental discovery about Sonic's drift

 

>ends


This isn't just the beginning, this is where

 

It's odd that Sonic manages to grind in his normal shoes. It made sense for him to be able to grind in Sonic Adventure 2, but in games since it shouldn't be possible as those shoes aren't designed for grinding.

inb4 someone says 'he's a fast blue hedgehog it doesn't have to make sense'

 

I'd always imagined that the constant gunk, debris, and dust that he runs through in every level effectively lubes and greases his shoes like those old school rubber rainboots to such a staggering degree that sparks start flying off every time he grinds. Just look at how his shoes start spraying sparks on Eggmanland in SU holy crap

If he'd actually tried doing anything else with those makeshift rails something like this would happen

 

You got it wrong: Sonic is the avatar of speed and is allowed to do anything cool involving speed by divine right.

 

The colors of the four chao stats have always been pretty unusual to me. Fly is purple, and clearly a reference to Nights. Power is red, which makes sense--it's both Knuckles' color, and a fitting color for strength in general. Swim however is yelllow, and Run green. You'd think Swim would be blue, but I can see the catch there: blue would make people think of Sonic, and thus it'd be Run. But blue also makes people think of water...still, yellow is an odd choice for Swim. Is it because of Tails? But Tails' color should be used for Fly if anything. Green for Run I guess is because green is a common color for wind.

 

I wonder if the omission of blue chaos drives was intentional.

 

I'd guess none of the stats were assigned the color blue because regular Chao are blue in their original form. Therefore blue = no stat alignment.

 

The colours of the Chaos Drives correspond to the small animals. Notably, there are animals which are assigned a blue colour, which the wiki describes as "random".