History LetsPlay / SonicTheHedgehog2006

* ShoutOut: Several throughout, from ''StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' to ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'' to ''BigO'' to DragonForce.

*** Accustomization. It's like taking poison in small doses, eventually big doses don't affect you as much. It also didn;t hurt that he actually did get a full eight hours sleep, where the rest only got five.

->In the beginning, there was a [[SomethingAwful goon]] who was very fond of Sonic games. [[ItSeemedLikeAGoodIdeaAtTheTime This goon had an idea]]: play through SonicTheHedgehog2006 from start to finish in one sitting...

In 2008, SomethingAwful forum member {{pokecapn}} decided to make a LetsPlay of the 2006 ''[[SonicTheHedgehog2006 Sonic The Hedgehog]]'' game for the PS3. For this task, he enlisted the help of fellow goons [=KungFuJesus=], [=IlluminatusVespucci=], medibot, and John Condit. Somewhat atypically for LetsPlay, they decided to play through the whole game in one sitting.

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*** Accustomization. It's like taking poison in small doses, eventually big doses don't affect you as much.

* AerithAndBob: pokecapn, KungFuJesus, Illuminatusvespucci, {{Medibot}}..... and John Condit.

!!This [=~Let's Play~=] exhibits, or [[LampshadeHanging hangs lampshades on]], examples of:

*** It's important to note, at this point, that the guys started this far later than any sane and rational person should have based on their respective schedules; as a result, by the end of the LP they'd been up for nearly two days with next to no sleep. And "next to" only applies to medibot, who left for a catnap at one point. The others never slept a wink.

* AerithAndBob: pokecapn, KungFuJesus, Illuminatusvespucci, medibot..... and John Condit.

* TitleDrop: "The End of the World" section of the pokecapn LP is titled after the chorus from ''Rocket Man'' by Elton John, which Kung-Fu Jesus starts to [[NightmareFuel chant ''a la'' William Shatner at the 1978 Science Fiction Awards as they near utter oblivion.]]

* PrecisionFStrike: [[spoiler: medibot]] delivers a few during the course of the game (including a ClusterFBomb during [[ThatOneLevel Silver's billiard ball puzzle.]]) It's a little jarring considering how calm and sane he was compared to the other goons.

* ShoutOut: Several throughout, from ''StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' to ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'' to DragonForce.

* CatchPhrase: "''PHYSICS!''", mainly in Silver's story

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: medibot, who admittedly may just be like that in general. Mainly through his insistance that [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory each and every little thing in the game has some deep metaphorical and societal meaning.]]

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->In the beginning, there was a [[SomethingAwful goon]] who was very fond of Sonic games. [[ItSeemedLikeAGoodIdeaAtTheTime This goon had an idea]]: play through SonicTheHedgehog2006 from start to finish in one sitting.\\
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[[WhatWereYouThinking What gave him this idea, you may ask?]] Well, he had heard many things about Sonic 2006, all of them negative. A game universally panned by the gaming press, its GameRankings score of 45% was supported by tales of terrible controls, a terrible camera, an even worse story, [[LoadsAndLoadsOfLoading and the longest and most pointless load times this side of the new millennium]].\\
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Yet, as a Sonic game fan, he had heard these complaints in the past about the previous four 3D Sonic games. And while those games did have their quirks, they had plenty of charm, and plenty of addictive gameplay, and were overall great games (except for VideoGame/SonicHeroes). So, he thought to himself, maybe the reviewers are exaggerating like they did for the previous games. Maybe this game is simply mediocre.\\
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So, our intrepid goon set off on his adventure, gathering the necessary items to begin his quest. A borrowed PS3, a rental copy of Sonic 2006, and a posse of 4 daring goon adventurers. Hopes were high as the quest began, but it soon became clear that the goon wasn't dealing with a mediocre game, he was dealing with [[SoBadItsHorrible a trainwreck of the highest caliber]].\\
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The posse pressed forward, sequestering the necessary nutrition that would give them ideas. Ideas that they could use. [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere One member left the quest party at this point]], [[{{Determinator}} but the remaining 4 would not give up until this game was completed]].\\
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As time went on, hopes were repeatedly crushed. At several points, it seemed that all hope was lost, and that this project would come to an early demise. But the posse pressed on.\\
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Finally, after countless hours, the game was done, and a new legend was born: [[http://lparchive.org/LetsPlay/Sonic2006/ Let's Play Sonic 2006]]\\
'''Introduction'''

In 2008, SomethingAwful forum member pokecapn decided to make a LetsPlay of the 2006 ''[[SonicTheHedgehog2006 Sonic The Hedgehog]]'' game for the PS3. For this task, he enlisted the help of fellow goons [=KungFuJesus=], [=IlluminatusVespucci=], medibot, and John Condit. Somewhat atypically for LetsPlay, they decided to play through the whole game in one sitting.

To say that they didn't know what they were getting into is kind of an understatement.

Let's Play Sonic 2006 is the epic struggle between 5 (later reduced to four) poor souls against one of the worst video games from a big-name franchise ever made. Watch as the crew runs the full gamut of emotions from playful mocking, savage mocking, anger, depression, SanitySlippage and more. Marvel at how utterly broken the game in question is. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Laugh. Several times.]]

Can be found [[http://lparchive.org/LetsPlay/Sonic2006/ here]].

For a more [[SurprisinglyImprovedSequel upbeat]], but still very funny, take on a modern Sonic game, there's also their [[http://lparchive.org/LetsPlay/Sonic%20Unleashed/ follow-up LP]] of SonicUnleashed.
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!!This [=~Let's Play~=] exhibits, or [[LampshadeHanging hangs lampshades on]], examples of:
* AerithAndBob: pokecapn, KungFuJesus, Illuminatusvespucci, medibot..... [[AndZoidberg and John Condit]]
* {{Angrish}}: '''"MURDER!"'''
--> ''"There once was a man from soleanna who degenerated into making grunts because it's less mouth movement than cursing"''
** Inverted when [[http://www.viddler.com/explore/pokecapn/videos/38/ they finish the billiard ball puzzle (23:40)]]. Basically, a joy so great that it cannot be expressed in words; rather, it is done in a combination of a scream and an orgasm.
--->'''medibot:''' ''ALL GLORY TO THE CACTUS KING!''
* ApocalypticLog: The Lets Play itself documents the Goons descent into despair and madness.
* ArcFatigue: Some parts of this LetsPlay take an excruciatingly long time due to poor level design and bad controls.
** End Of The World took ''five half-hour parts'' to complete.
*** Which was partly due to [[spoiler: pokecapn giving up and passing the controller on to the others who had only about 10 minutes of playtime each]].
* AudienceParticipation: Throughout the LP, they issue challenges to the readers of the Lets Play thread.
** The timed comments on the Viddler pages.
* BerserkButton: The entire game, for both groups of players. Particularly End of the World and Sonic's Radical Train for pokecapn.
* BigNo: Lampshaded:
--> '''Shadow''' (falling into a pit): Noooooo!
--> '''pokecapn''': He seems to disagree.
--> '''medibot''': Why you gotta be such a negative Nancy, Rockman Charcoal?
* CaptainObvious: Every time it happens, the goons crack up with hysterics (except when Silver pointed out that his stages and bosses take too long), and sometimes shout CaptainObvious statements of their own, includng "People die when they're killed!" and "When people run, they move faster!"
* CatchPhrase: "''PHYSICS!''"
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: medibot, who admittedly may just be like that in general. Mainly through his insistance that [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory each and every little thing in the game has some deep metaphorical and societal meaning.]]
** Ironically [[spoiler: he ends up the most sane out of all the goons.]]
*** Accustomization. It's like taking poison in small doses, eventually big doses don't affect you as much.
** Lampshaded about halfway through. Kung-Fu Jesus calls medibot on the phone to see if he's up for more Sonic '06, and worries he might be... ''affected'':
--->'''Kung-Fu Jesus''': He sounded really out of it.
--->'''pokecapn''': As he always does?
* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: medibot tends to articulate ''precisely'' what makes the game so infuriating.
-->'''medibot:''' [[VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy Mario Galaxy]] did not have a ''perfect camera'', but it had a pretty good camera and it, you know, maybe didn't have ''perfect'' controls, but it had pretty good controls, so when the game says to me, "Alright, here is a clever challenge involving things that may temporarily alter the way you control your characters," I say, "Okay. That's fair. I'll give it a shot." Now, I might not get it my first try, I might not get it my ''tenth'' try, but at no point do I feel like I have been asked to do something that is simply unreasonable. ''This game'' is unreasonable.
* ClusterFBomb: A lot. Poor pokecapn.
** AtomicFBomb: A lot of these too.
* CrossesTheLineTwice: You might feel uncomfortable when listening to pokecapn freak out. Eventually, he'll get so bad that it crosses back over the line and becomes funny and schadenfreudic again....[[ZigZaggingTrope and then he crosses back over it and it becomes depressing again]].
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: Also a lot. Examples include the goons' reactions to the mach speed section of Radical Train, Shadow kicking Silver in the back of the head, and Eggman's chaos emerald scouter glasses.
** And don't forget [[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1937692/ Sanford Kong]]'s barrels!
** Also, upon beating [[ScrappyLevel End of the World]], after Kung-Fu Jesus spends the level [[SanitySlippage reciting song lyrics in monotone]]:
--> '''The Goons''': I COME FROM A LAND DOWN UNDER! WHERE BEER FLOWS AND MEN PLUNDER!
** PICKLE SURPRISE!!!
** Sonic [[TheVonTropeFamily Von]] Hedgehog!
** Their reactions to completing the [[ThatOnePuzzle aggrevating billiard ball puzzle]].
** When Rouge is {{expospeak}}ing about the government and economy of Soleanna: [[{{Borat}} "It exports potassium!"]]
** "Nature's Harmonic Four-Day TimeCube!"
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Near the end, [[spoiler: when Pokecapn really ''cannot'' withstand this game anymore, the other goons take over until he decides that he can, assigning themselves characters. Pretty much summed up with KFJ's exclamation of "Aah, teamwork!"]]
* DemonicSpiders: The things they dub "time dimensions" are single-handedly responsible for the majority of game overs in the last level.
* DespairEventHorizon: You can literally ''hear'' them cross it when Kung-Fu Jesus [[spoiler:begins ''chanting'' song lyrics]].
* {{Determinator}}: Whenever pokecapn gets a game over and he even thinks about just going to another hedgehog's episode, the other goons loudly shout him down and tell him to continue with the current hedgehog's story. They keep persevering even in the face of ThatOneLevel, SanitySlippage, and near-impossible-to-surmount brick walls like End of the World. Truly, the last video "[[SonicAdventure2 Rest easy, heroes]]" is well-named.
** In the last episode, one of them contemplates quitting if they can't finish ThatOneLevel in their next two tries. What follows is three voices simultaneously yelling "No." Almost a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming.
*** ''[[YourMileageMayVary Almost?]]''
* DissonantSerenity: In the penultimate video, Kung-Fu Jesus starts chanting lyrics in a monotone voice. It's quite jarring, really. Especially after all the [[ClusterFBomb "FUCK"s.]]
* ElmuhFuddSyndwome: Medibot.
* EndingFatigue: The last level takes up to FIVE VIDEOS (~30 minutes each) when it should take up to at least 12 minutes due to the DemonicSpider [[FanNickname time dimensions]].
* EngineeredPublicConfession: Narrowly averted.
-->'''Condit''': Maybe we should disconnect the mic before you give the Internet your credit card number?
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Medibot again.
* FanNickname: A variation: when they reconvened to do ''SonicUnleashed'', pokecapn's band usually referred to this game as ''[[SpeakOfTheDevil "that other game"]]'' whenever the subject came up. Not surprising considering the effect ''"that other game"'' had on their [[SanitySlippage sanity]]...
--> "NO! Shut up! Shut the fuck up right now! We vowed [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain never to speak]] of that whole ordeal..."
** They also refer to the magma-lizard enemies as "[[TheLegendOfZelda Dodongos]]" or "[[MichaelJackson Thriller lizards]]" (after the funny dance they do when Silver telekinetically picks them up).
** They dub the DemonicSpider black hole things from End Of The World "Time Dimensions".
** They also give Sonic the name [[Game/MegaMan Rockman]] Classic / Rockman Blue, Shadow the name Rockman Charcoal, and Silver the name Rockman Steel / Rockman Chrome.
* FauxSymbolism:
-->''"Are we dying for Sonic Team's sins?"''
-->''"Well, I '''am''' Kung-Fu Jesus."''
* FridgeLogic: Among other things, when they discover that [[spoiler:making the host cry will release Iblis]]:
-->"You know, you could have just, you know, [[spoiler:cut up some onions while she was around.]]"
* GagDub: An erasure of the audio at the beginning of Shadow's Story forced them to provide the voices for the now completely silent cutscenes, resulting in such hilarity as a CrossDressingVoices Rouge, a [[MetalGear Solid Snake]] [[{{Expy}} ripoff]] Shadow, and [[MetalGear Liquid Snake]] as [[strike: Mephiles]] [[FanNickname Mephistophiles]]. Sadly none of them thought to follow up Shadow's line of "Who are you?" with "I'm ''you''! I'm your ''[[JustForPun shadow]]''!" at the time.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: They manage to hold on to a their sanity for most of Sonic's section of the game... And then they get to the 3 trials. About 19 minutes in to the video, [[spoiler: Sonic is killed by bending lasers that come out of nowhere.]] The goons react to this by [[spoiler: [[NightmareFuel chanting insane lyrics in synchronicity.]] ''"[[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/412418 It's a LASER!]]"'']] After this, [[ItGotWorse insanity kicks in]].
* {{Ho Yay}}: ''"I only like medibot when his shirt's off."''
* InterspeciesRomance: The implications of this prompted them to issue a challenge to create the worst Sonic fanart ever:
-->If Sonic and Elise's love on the battlefield truly bloomed, there would be an inevitable conclusion. The challenge is for you to draw fanart of Princess Elise giving birth to a hedgehog (specifically, her and Sonic's child). With this, the thread about the worst Sonic game will have created the worst Sonic fanart.
** Even funnier if you remember the second challenge they issued:
--->The challenge is for you to find the worst Sonic fanart.
* IfYouDieICallYourStuff: Medibot wants Elise's stuff very close to the end.
* TheJimmyHartVersion: The goons note that one of the battle tunes sounds like [[Game/MegaMan Flash Man's theme]], and the Kingdom Valley music sounds like ChronoCross.
* LargeHam: While pokecapn is mainly angry at the game and IlluminatusVespucci remains the voice of reason, Kung-Fu Jesus and medibot deliver this trope in spades.
* LaughingMad: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtSPq0n9Rx8 What Kung-Fu Jesus was reduced to]].
* LoadsAndLoadsOfLoading: pokecapn calculated the total loading times in his group's videos spent en route to beating the game. The total result? ''Eleven point eighty-eight percent of the entire game.'' '''Over two hours.'''
** One viddler user decided to count them all. There were ''[[BeyondTheImpossible 539]]'', or one loading screen every two minutes and fifteen seconds of footage.
* MadnessMantra: At the very end, Medibot begins chanting "JUNK!" over and over, usually at a stupidly-caused death.
* MalevolentArchitecture: In Kingdom Valley, while the goons were on the stairs of a tower, the stairs without warning fall causing Sonic's death in an IWannaBeTheGuy like fashion.
** The pillars in the hall of the billiard ball puzzle constantly interfered with the goons' attempts to get the ball in the hole.
* OnlySaneMan: [[spoiler: medibot]]. Well, only man with a some shreds of sanity by the end of the LP.
* ParrotExposition: In keeping up with the Shadow/Solid Snake RunningGag, the goons will have Shadow mimic Snake's habit of repeating the last words of the person he's speaking to.
* PerfectlyCromulentWord: Several coined by medibot over the course of the LP.
-->'''pokecapn:''' And I lost my ability to homing attack... ''why?!''\\
'''medibot:''' 'Cause he hit you with a... with a chuffleguff.\\
'''pokecapn:''' I was not hit until I hit the ground.\\
'''Condit:''' It's because it was a chuffleguff. It doesn't actually hit you. It just makes you junk.\\
'''Kung-Fu Jesus:''' Oh, yeah. "Chuffleguff" means "{{Game Breaking Bug}}s." The game breaking in the other way, you know, the bad way.
* PrecisionFStrike: [[spoiler: medibot]] delivers a few during the course of the game (including a ClusterFBomb and [[CountryMatters Precision C Strike]] during [[ThatOneLevel Silver's billiard ball puzzle.]]) It's a little jarring considering how calm and sane he was compared to the other goons.
* {{Rule 34}}: Deliberately invoked so that the "worst Sonic game would produce the worst Sonic fanart ever."
* RuleOfSymbolism: One of the goons put together a death reel of Sonic's branch of the story. It ends with a clip of a train wreck.
* RunningGag: Whenever the gameplay mechanics are being particularly uncooperative, medibot shouts [[WreakingHavok "PHYSICS!"]]
** Part of the way through the LP, they start using "physics" as a verb, an early sign of their SanitySlippage.
** They also refer to Sonic, Shadow and Silver as [[Game/MegaMan "Rockman Blue, Rockman Charcoal and Rockman Steel"]].
** There's also the recurrent comments on the PS3 version's inexplicable lack of gondolas.
** "Into the pewl!" whenever they physics an enemy into water.
* SanDimasTime:
-->'''Sonic''': If we don't return in time, Elise will die on board Eggman's battleship.
-->'''Kung-Fu Jesus''': What? If you don't return in time? What?! But... you can return any time you want, that's the thing, you can go back to whenever you want!
-->'''[=IlluminatusVespucci=]''': People never seem to realize this when they have time machines.
* SanitySlippage: Over the course of the whole playthrough (medibot: "Who...in their right mind...would frost a ''cake''...with their ''butt?''"), but emphasized extremely well in the five videos detailing their attempts to get through [[ThatOneLevel End of the World]], which are named after the FiveStagesOfGrief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. [[spoiler:It eventually gets to the point where Kung-Fu Jesus starts reciting song lyrics in monotone, and when they finally, ''finally'' complete the level, they all burst into song.]]
** The crew even start with a reasonable amount of optimism. This has eroded by the time they reach Radical Train, and then... ItGotWorse.
** Don't forget "ALL THE BACON IN THE WORLD COULDN'T SAVE YOU NOW!!! 'CAUSE! IT'S A LASER! IT'S A LASER! IT'S A LASER!
*** The period characterized as "Depression" actually occupies part of "Bargaining" and "Acceptance" as well. You can tell where it is because for the entirety of this period, all four guys are ''dead silent''.
*** It's important to note, at this point, that the guys started this far later than any sane and rational person should have based on their respective schedules; as a result, by the end of the LP they'd been up for nearly two days with next to no sleep. And "next to" only applies to medibot, who left for a catnap at one point. The others never slept a wink.
* SchmuckBait: The reason pokecapn started this LP in the first place was because he heard the game was bad from reviewers, and [[EightPointEight given their history of reviewing Sonic games]], didn't believe it could really be that bad. However, in pokecapn's own words, he got a train wreck.
* ShoutOut: Several throughout, from StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries to NeonGenesisEvangelion to DragonForce.
* StupidStatementDanceMix:
** [[http://tindeck.com/listen/cqqw Radical Train]]
** [[http://tindeck.com/listen/lulu Shit Pickle]]
** [[http://tindeck.com/listen/bvjb Junk]]
* [[SoOkayItsAverage So Okay Compared To The Rest Of The Game It Is Phenomenal]]: They praised some of the early bosses and the White Acropolis level in particular for being actually pretty fun. They did however immediately point out afterwards though that they would have been considered barely passable in some of the other games.
* SorryILeftTheBGMOn: Used to censor their credit card information and phone numbers.
* TemptingFate: In three different levels in Sonic's story, Sonic or Tails warns the player about falling into lava/water/bottomless pits. All three times, the goons manage to fall off within ''seconds''.
** Kung-Fu Jesus at one point declares "We've reached that time during which the game has really done most of what it can do in terms of being awful." Immediately upon saying this, an explosive crate flung by an orange [[DemonicSpiders Time Dimension]] blasts pokecapn out of the air, and shortly thereafter he tries to jump to the next platform only to be kept hovering between instant death from a black Time Dimension and instant death from the quicksand.
* TenMinuteRetirement: [[spoiler:"I'm done. I'm done. I can't play a game ''this'' fundamentally broken. This is completely done."]]
* ThatOneLevel: The reason why End of the World, Sonic and Shadow's Radical Train, and Silver's Dusty Desert are all agreed-upon? These guys' experiences.
* ThatOnePuzzle: The entire crew was stuck on Silver's billiard ball puzzle for [+30 minutes.+]
* TitleDrop: "The End of the World" section of the pokecapn LP is titled after the chorus from ''Rocket Man'' by Elton John, which Kung-Fu Jesus starts to [[NightmareFuel chant ''a la'' William Shatner at the 1978 Science Fiction Awards as they near utter oblivion.]]
-->'''Kung-Fu Jesus''': "''And I think it's gonna be a long, long time. 'Til.. touchdown... brings me 'round again to find.''"
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: The goons make a point of ordering General Tso's Chicken, as it will make them "full of ideas". [[spoiler: Kung-Fu Jesus ends up not liking the chicken.]]
** Let this be a lesson to you-if you would like ideas, make sure you get a varied diet of ideas-rich foods.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome: Their [[CrowningMomentOfFunny reaction]] to Robotnik's scouter-glasses.
* TheWoobie: All of them. Especially when they get to End Of The World.
** IronWoobie: For sticking through the whole of the game without quitting.
* XMeetsY: The whole LetsPlay is reminiscent of a IWannaBeTheGuy or KaizoMarioWorld run put under a Sonic filter.

Yet, as a Sonic game fan, he had heard these complaints in the past about the previous four 3D Sonic games. And while those games did have their quirks, they had plenty of charm, and plenty of addictive gameplay, and were overall great games (except for SonicHeroes). So, he thought to himself, maybe the reviewers are exaggerating like they did for the previous games. Maybe this game is simply mediocre.\\

'''Kung-Fu Jesus:''' Oh, yeah. "Chuffleguff" means "GameBreakingBugs." The game breaking in the other way, you know, the bad way.

To say that they didn't know what they were getting into is kind of an {{Understatement}}.

-->'''medibot:''' [[SuperMarioGalaxy Mario Galaxy]] did not have a ''perfect camera'', but it had a pretty good camera and it, you know, maybe didn't have ''perfect'' controls, but it had pretty good controls, so when the game says to me, "Alright, here is a clever challenge involving things that may temporarily alter the way you control your characters," I say, "Okay. That's fair. I'll give it a shot." Now, I might not get it my first try, I might not get it my ''tenth'' try, but at no point do I feel like I have been asked to do something that is simply unreasonable. ''This game'' is unreasonable.

* AerithAndBob: pokecapn, KungFuJesus, Illuminatusvespucci, medibot..... and John Condit

* PrecisionFStrike: [[spoiler: medibot]] delivers a few during the course of the game (including a ClusterFBomb during [[ThatOneLevel Silver's billiard ball puzzle.]]) It's a little jarring considering how calm and sane he was compared to the other goons.