Sonic Unleashed (PC) - Rooftop Run Act 1 (Night)
6SA Thread: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4084502
Discord: https://discord.gg/y6nMagmdDE
This stage is the platonic ideal of a Werehog level. If you don't find anything to appreciate here, you will not like any Werehog content. It's a great balance of exploration, fights, platforming, and feels mostly fair throughout, with a sensible escalation of both combat and platforming difficulty throughout. Secrets are fair, variety is high - it's good stuff.
Shame about that one part. Feels like I could have gotten an S-Rank here. Oh well!
Timestamps:
0:00 Getting to the stage (including shopping + Pickle)
3:51 Rooftop Run Act 1 (Night)
25:40 Outro: "Uncanny Camera" Cleared! (?)
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Sonic Unleashed was released in 2008 for XBox360 and PS3. Its ambitious engine struggled to perform well on both consoles, with the former being locked to 30 fps and the latter uncapped, but rarely reaching high values. Only ten years after its release, with being made available on XBox One, could the game reach its potential. And now, there is a fanmade PC port for people who don't own that console!
This is where you can get it: https://github.com/hedge-dev/UnleashedRecomp
You will need legally obtained files from both the game (360 version) and your console. I do own both.
I am going to show off Sonic Unleashed playing this PC port, because I really like the game, warts and were and all. It is really difficult to be optimal at Sonic Unleashed (both from a gameplay and a collecting all things perspective) and the game auto-saves, so I will approach this a bit more casually. I will make some mistakes and miss some things, at least at first. I do think that I'm competent enough to present this game in its best light and shadow - I hope you have fun with me!