Hey everyone, I notice this video is getting quite a bit more views now. Thanks so much for all the support! I plan to make a video similar to this one about Sonic Generations in the future. DOWN WITH MAD SPACE.

Eggman: You have ~10 mins. Child me: Oh, good. Sounds reasonable. Rouge: 5 mins will be plenty. Child me: ...why?

I enjoy every level except the kart racing stages. Also the Mad Space hints aren’t useless, they tell you the opposite of what to do, Also glad someone agrees Final Rush is the best level.

So mad space was already using the ability to alter gravity at that time? And then that Sonic lost world copied this mechanic from Mario galaxy, while Mario galaxy copied this from Sonic adventure 2.

I just replayed SA2B recently after watching your video and when I got to Mad Space, my final emerald piece was THAT emerald piece, I tried getting it initially thinking "okay, how bad could it really be to just land on the platform, line up with the emerald, and jump" but yes, it is indeed THAT BAD to get with the controls, so I feel your pain!

1:51 - That Speed Highway reference was cute lmao

31: Mad Space (Rouge the Bat) 30: Route 280 (Rouge the Bat) 29: Route 101 (Tails the Fox) 28: Eternal Engine (Tails the Fox) 27: Death Chamber (Knuckles the Echidna) 26: Lost Colony (Dr. Eggman) 25: Weapons Bed (Dr. Eggman) 24: Egg Quarters (Rouge the Bat) 23: Final Chase (Shadow the Hedgehog) 22: Hidden Base (Tails the Fox) 21: Pyramid Cave (Sonic the Hedgehog) 20: Iron Gate (Dr. Eggman) 19: Aquatic Mines (Knuckles the Echidna) 18: Dry Lagoon (Rouge the Bat) 17: Prison Lane (Tails the Fox) 16: Sand Ocean (Dr. Eggman) 15: Meteor Herd (Knuckles the Echidna) 14: Sky Rail (Shadow the Hedgehog) 13: Cosmic Wall (Dr. Eggman) 12: Crazy Gadget (Sonic the Hedgehog) 11: Cannon’s Core (All) 10: Security Hall (Rouge the Bat) 9: Mission Street (Tails the Fox) 8: Green Forest (Sonic the Hedgehog) 7: Metal Harbour (Sonic the Hedgehog) 6: Wild Canyon (Knuckles the Echidna) 5: White Jungle (Shadow the Hedgehog) 4: Final Rush (Sonic the Hedgehog) 3: Radical Highway (Shadow the Hedgehog) 2: Pumpkin Hill (Knuckles the Echidna) 1: City Escape (Sonic the Hedgehog)

For someone who hasn't played this game, you made it understandable and concise. You deserve more subs than this XD

wow 10,000 volts just got directly put into my system because this list. i guess you weren't lying.

I had the most trouble with the last room in Crazy Gadget and in the Knux section of Cannon's Core. Despite flying out of range of what a usual level would be, I'd throw Core somewhere in the middle. The time stop mechanic was interesting, and it's like combining an Ark level with SA1's Lost World in a way. If the Kart stages make it, then there we go. I'd even replay Mad Space over the Karts, so it's my bottom 3.

Hints in Mad Space aren't useless; you just have to use a bit of logic to figure out what's negated in the second hint. Usually it's easy, like "a high/low place". The first hint is always poetic and useless in every stage. The third hint tells you exactly where it is but adds a "not". I've never had issues with the hint system there.

i've never gotten past pumpkin hill but your voice is nice to listen to so i like it

If I ranked all of the stages and added points for each placement I think egg man and tails would be at the bottom for me. But this was a good list with well explained reasons for each placement

I actually like Mad Space. Sure, it's frustrating, and the control are shit, but i really like how big it is, and the gravity gimmick is pretty cool, even thought it's poorly executed. My favorite Rouge Level

Mad Space at last. Already I fully sgree lmao. I cannot stand playing that stage, ESPECIALLY the 100 rings it takes me like half an hour it feels like. One thing I disagree with is Mission Street. I absolutely hate that stage just because of the 100 ring mission. There aren't even 100 on the stage so you have to get to the end without getting hit collecting as many rings as possible and replay part of the stage. For me it's genuinely the hardest bonus mission in the entire game and I always dread replaying it whenever I replay the game. It's nice to see Meteor Herd so high, I've always loved that stage, I would have put Cosmic Wall as the highest mech stage personally, I think the low gravity just enhances the mech gameplay so much. Also agree with Final Rush being the best. City Escape is great but the Final rush is so satisfying to play, it's the perfect sonic stage imo. Great video!

nice video!

Good list. The only disagreement I have would be with your point on if Final Rush showed up earlier in the game, that it would be as iconic as City Escape, or enjoyed more. As cool as the stage is, it is not designed well enough to be an intro stage for new players, and it's music/set pieces don't really match the same excitement that City Escape provides. Regardless of my opinion, I think you make a really valid argument, and I think it's really close between those two stages for top spot

YOU WERE RIGTH! IT DID SHOCK ME

I think the slow elevators leading to Shadow were meant to be a reference to Akira, but it's totally not worth it

I wouldn’t agree with some rankings being mission street and final rush since I don’t like those 2 as much compared to other levels but this video was entertaining

I was surprised you had eternal engine so high up, I figured cosmic wall would be the highest shooter stage. But I agree about final rush being the best sonic stage

Very unique list. Personally, I would say I dislike Eternal Engine as much as others dislike Mad Space. I always get very frustrated with that stage. I feel like all the pitfalls and air locks there exacerbate the clunky jumping physics of the mech. The Artificial Chaos in Eternal Engine are also the most annoying in the game, having to wait until they stick their heads out of their bodies before you can shoot them, by which time they've already stabbed you with their lightning-fast tendrils. I used to like Meteor Herd a lot, but grew to hate it when I tried to collect 100 rings there. Many times I would be at about 80 rings and then, unless I had a shield, a meteor would hit me out of nowhere and take them all away. I also find the verticality of Meteor Herd to be somewhat tedious to navigate. The stages I tend to most look forward to playing would be City Escape, Metal Harbor, Pumpkin Hill, Aquatic Mine, Pyramid Cave, Crazy Gadget, Dry Lagoon, Sand Ocean, Radical Highway, Weapons Bed, Security Hall, White Jungle, and Cosmic Wall.

Rouge and Knuckles stages always felt like a chore

Subbed🎉

Gotta be honest. Sonic adventure 1 was better. It had a hub world, better running animations, better treasure hunting stages. The story is just as good and all the stages are just more fun

amy usually gets done dirty every time she is playable too, maybe rouge and her need to be playable again soon so sega will get them right

I'm shocked pyramid cave is as low as it is on the list. Thinking about it, it is probably the worst sonic stage, but it's not bad at all. I'd definitely place it above hidden base and lost colony to name a few. Of course, that's my opinion though. I know the speedrun tricks to break that level in half, so I probably have some bias considering how cool of a level it is to speedrun. Regardless, I always love it when people can back up their hot takes. Awesome video!

Great video. Screw Mad Space.

for the reverse clues just pause the game and take all the time to read what they say lol

Final rush was the most frusterating to get every emblem in though.

Surprised Green Hill wasn't on this.

I fucking hate the one where you have to chase after the president using tails.

Your voice sounds so eerily similar to robbit watch. XD He does yokai watch content.

Mad Space, personally wasn't THAT bad, but I agree it's frustrating

I’m with SomeCallMeJohnny on this one, I just don’t enjoy the treasure hunting stages, but I enjoy the others pretty well. Edit: Except Pumpkin Hill is pretty tolerable, because of the atmosphere, the song and pretty intuitive level design.

Good video. I have many opinions different from this but I want to mention the most different one. Hidden Base should be WAY higher. I don’t buy the complains with Hidden Base because you can destroy the dynamite from a long distance. I also like how much open space there is in that level, how has the least dick-ish enemy placement, and how much horizontal movement is emphasize which leads to it having a fast pace.

Definitely disagree with some of these (sand ocean and eternal engine) but overall this is a very well thought out list. Well done m8

Pyramid cave is the best stage in the game

What about Cannon's Core?

Green Forest is peak 🤷🏾‍♂️

My favorite is White jungle

I personally think aquatic base is worse, don’t get me wrong, mad space is still trash but at least it’s open and you have some idea of where to go if you read the backwards hint boxes correctly, but levels like aquatic base and death chamber are just cramped, huge corianders that do not work with the treasure hunting gameplay, I genuinely hate corridor treasure hunting levels as they don’t work with the character s known for exploration of open levels.

21:27 I'm going to need to disagree on this. NOT on your assessment of Final Rush being better, but on switching their order. City Escape NEEDS to be the first, and Final Rush NEEDS to be the last. If City Escape didn't train players on how to control Sonic and how rails work, Final Rush would be regarded as a Kaizo Trap hellscape of a level. Imagine a 9 year old with no prior gaming experience being thrown into that first rail grind and not getting any tips on how it works

overall i mostly agreer but i feel metal harbor is above final rush also wheres green hill lol

I only have two disagreements. 1) My favorite stage is Metal Harbor, but I'm willing to concede that the reason is probably because it also has my favorite music track in the game, which I know you did not take into consideration in your list. 2) I didn't like the mech stages as much as you did. Great list, though. I found myself nodding along quite often.

the fact that this man has only 40 subs, just reallt sucks

I hate Mad Space... it's extremely huge, it's confusing, the controls are messed up, and you sometimes can't escape a planet!

Now imagine mad space without the radar...

I might be one of few, but I actually enjoy all the treasure hunting stages. They have a lot of strategy to them. Expecting to master the different levels on your first run through is unlikely, but having to slow down and get good at something is not inherently bad. I can understand that they really break the pacing if you prefer high-speed game play. Also if you find omochao he directly tells you in mad space that the level is designed to confuse you. As a 10 yr old I just pulled out a pen and paper and got to writing. Eventually I just learned to read backwards.

the 5 worst mad space death chamber eternal engine mission street sand ocean The 5 best metal harbor city escape radical highway white jungle final rush

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This is a really solid list. The only thing I heavily disagree with is Security Hall being Rouge's best stage; I absolutely hated that stage as a kid (most likely due to the timer), and even now I would say it's her second worst after Mad Space. Edit: Seeing some people say that the Mad Space hints aren't useless. Actually, the devs messed up and sometimes the hints are straight up wrong in that level. As far as I know that's the only level with this issue.

Eternal Engine made me cry when I was a kid

I think mad space is much better than one stage. AQUATIC FUCKING MINE. I spent 30 minutes to beat the stage. I would get a single beep for 25 FUCKINGMINUTES.

Final Chase is the worst speed stage but I'd still put it above a lot of the Treasure Hunting and Mech stages. Also if you have mods for the game, you can give Shadow an instant spin dash like Sonic has in SA1 which allows you to spin dash on the spinning cylinders, making the stage much more bearable and actually pretty damn enjoyable. The level unmodded though does have some really cool ideas and there are a few really cool skips you can do to skip over a lot of the more frustrating sections of the level I disagree with your placement of Pyramid Cave, while it's not one of my favourite speed stages, it's still very much enjoyable. Those long hallways you speak of do have a lot of rings you can jump through for extra points but it's also fun to just spin dash through them because of the downward slope of these hallways. The only issue with this stage is the key finding sections which drag the pace a little bit but they're not that bad

For Final Chase, skill issue lol.

I love this entire game but i hated every other mission that wasnt the first/story, ruined all the stages for me ☠️☠️😭😭

Weapons Bed: "Cheap enemy placement and explosions are pretty rampant. If you go too fast you might take a permanent swim at the bottom of the ocean." Eternal Engine: "Its not hard because of cheap bullshit." Be for real, you're capping. You just put this here to be controversial.

30. Mad Space whoever designed this level deserves hell 29. Route 280 kart level 28. Route 101 kart level 27. Death Chamber not absolutely awful like many say, but I find myself running around trying to get the radar to go green for befuddling amounts of time 26. Sand Ocean this level is so incredibly slow and without the thrusters it's even worse. cool vibes tho 25. Lost Colony not that bad of a level but why in the name of god is it so dark 24. Mission Street janky ahh design, really puts the jank of the mech controls to its fullest potential 23. Egg Quarters just easier Death Chamber with water, very intimidating considering how early in the story you play it 22. Aquatic Mine I hate water I hate water I hate water I hate water 21. Hidden Base tons of cheap deaths, super slow 20. Prison Lane almost a good level but so many sections that stop you dead in your tracks 19. Eternal Engine challenging but sometimes annoying, feels like an eternity 18. Security Hall timer used to terrify me as a child, not that bad now, solid 17. Dry Lagoon very nice vibes and fairly fun but traversal is tedious 16. Weapons Bed very lazy design and throws a ton of annoying enemies at you but it still quite fun 15. Iron Gate just a solid level 14. Meteor Herd quite cool, not much to say 13. Sky Rail wasted potential, but fun nonetheless 12. Crazy Gadget a very good challenge once you've practiced it, admittedly some very cheap parts though 11. Pyramid Cave would be very fun if not for those damn ghosts, also the hoops you jump through are.. inconvenient to jump through 10. White Jungle solid level, just not especially great 9. Cosmic Wall everything that makes weapons bed fun and more, and actually well designed 8. Final Chase honestly a pretty fun level once you get used to the gimmick, really feels like you're chasing someone down 7. Pumpkin Hill classic, cool vibes, although not very fun to traverse 6. Wild Canyon fun to traverse, fair emerald placement, very good introduction to treasure hunt levels 5. Metal Harbor running up to the rocket and getting bounced off the corner of the guardrails because you spindashed slightly wrong is infuriating, boarding section is annoying, that said very fun level otherwise 4. Radical Highway goofy hitboxes for the rails on the bridges, only issue tho 3. Green Forest very good level, quite cinematic, strangely easy 2. City Escape classic, very good introduction to the game 1. Final Rush most fun level in the game, makes very good use of Sonic's moveset, makes you feel good at the game

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Final Rush always felt clanky to me, for exemple you can die if you go too fast on some of the rails, and man does it feel wrong trying not to go too fast in a sonic game

The main too disagreements I have with this list. 1. Aquatic mine should be lower. I'd swap it with Shadows ARK stage. 2. Sand Ocean is too high I think.

For me Crazy Gadget was the bottom of the pit, most asshole stage ever. The gravity switches have the most bullshit hitboxes, the artificial chaos are spread like butter on bread, the platforming is so deadly and risky, the end of the stage has an unfair gravity switch placement pattern that kills you half the time, and the lost chao mission made me tear my hair out. Oml

1. green forest 2. meteor herd 3. dry lagoon 4. wild canyon 5. aquatic mine 6. cosmic wall 7. pyramid cave 8. city escape 9. pumpkin hill 10. security hall 11. metal harbor 12. white jungle 13. hidden base 14. death chamber 15. prison lane 16. egg quarters 17. sand ocean 18. final chase 19. lost colony 20. iron gate 21. weapons bed 22. sky rail 23. mad space 24. crazy gadget 25. route 101 26. eternal engine 27. radical highway 28. final rush 29. route 280 30. cannon's core 31. mission street

This guy has such good taste

Estoy en desacuerdo con final chase pero estoy deacuerdo con final rush

i disagree with the placement of crazy gadget. the gravity mechanic of that stage made me rage quit.

Honestly, didn’t disagree once

In my opinion, the game would be the best if Tails, Knuckles and Rouge weren't playable. Their levels sucks! It gets worse when you try to do the challenges. The controls of the game are terrible, too. Only Sonic Team could think placing most of the moves on a single button would be a good idea.