Sonic Adventure 2: A-Button Challenge - Pyramid Cave (3)

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Sonic is obsessed with picking everything up, today. Maybe he thinks he's in a collectathon?

So in my LB of SA1 about two and a half years ago, I advertised a series I was gonna do where I'd complete levels in Sonic Adventure while jumping as few times as possible. I've done that. So I've decided that now, of all times, I should keep going with this. Welcome, one and all, to Let's Break Sonic Adventure 2 In A Different Way: A-Button Challenges!... or the SA2 No-Jump Run for short.

Deep within Sandopolis Zone, they say you can still hear the screams of lost souls who seriously thought they could handle the Pyramid Cave A-Button Challenge. Enter if you dare, and see what you can make of this place.

The SuperBounce:
Doing the Bounce Attack normally sends you bounding off in a direction related to the platform you bounded on. For a flat surface, you're going straight up (before directional input takes effect, anyway). For a slanted one, you'll lean toward the direction of the slant. Now, if you bound into a wall... what would happen? Obviously you'd bound against the wall. But then, bounding into a wall with a lot of forward momentum, the game gets very... um... confused. You should be bouncing up, plus forward motion conserved in the bound, and yet there's this wall (a surface you could run up if the ground beneath it wasn't flat), preventing you from going forward. So the obvious result is for the wall to propel you upwards.
Wait, what?
This'll even happen if the wall in question is shorter than Sonic (see Egg Golem speedruns or Sonic in Cosmic Wall for clearcut examples). Mastering the technique is an easy way to see a whole bunch of secrets throughout the game, as well as being a doorway to speedruns and low-score runs alike. If you get into the Adventure games like I do, first of all, you poor soul. Second, this is a trick to remember.

Skills beyond me (and a Dreamcast) prove a count of 0:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY5jEODkKSo
I aim to revisit next time I take on these challenges.



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