This is probably the most amount of research I've had to do for any of my videos so far. Even for something like my Complete Classic Story video, I already knew most of that beforehand. For this, I knew a fair amount of these things. But a lot I had to discover.
Sorry about my voice getting a bit hoarse toward the end there. I did this whole recording at once and talking for a while is not something I have a lot of experience with.
If you've watched my Sonic stuff in the past, you'll know there is a fair amount of reiterating here. I've said a good amount of this before. But I wanted to consolidate all of this information into a single place so someone could easily learn it all if they were curious. Hope it succeeds at that. And if there's any interesting stuff I missed, please do put it in the comments.
btw, if you haven't I highly recommend watching the GDC talk with Hirokazu Yasuhara and Naoto Ooshima. It's very interesting.
Shout outs to GameApologist for the info on Mecha Sonic being a Mecha Godzilla reference.
Here's also some links to the fan games and mods I used in this video.
Sonic Overture: https://sonicfangameshq.com/forums/showcase/sonic-overture-sage-2014-demo.44/
Sonic X-Treme Unity: https://gamejolt.com/games/sonic-x-treme-unity/291545
Mecha 3 Sonic in SA1: https://gamebanana.com/mods/248042
Terios in SA2: https://gamebanana.com/wips/51075
And here's all my other Sonic mod recommendations: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Uk5U8jY_RPZF9m_gmPfSOfCngAOSAxy393dsQVPoOyQ/edit#gid=0
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Intro 0:00
Feels the Rabbit 1:19
Sonic's Origin 4:36
Miyazaki Inspirations 17:09
Madonna 18:27
Sonic's Band 19:55
Time Travel in Sonic 2 22:02
SegaSonic Bros. 23:53
Tails Sky Patrol 24:40
Sonic X-Treme 26:19
Sonic Adventure on Saturn 35:15
Mecha Sonic 3 40:26
Terios 43:20
Sonic Heroes Cut Characters 46:53
Blaze's Cultural Inspirations 50:56
My Incorrect Sonic Rivals Theory 51:53
Sonic Boom Before Sonic Boom 53:49