Thank you to @tiniestturtles for the thumbnail and the amazing Sega Am2 Guile model!!!
Also shout outs to @GriffyBones for playing online thru a ps3 emulator of a port for a Sega Model 2 game with me.
Check out the Sonic the Fighters Discord:
#BRINGBARKBACK
makreel
08.07.2023Had no idea Sonic and Tails were hidden deep within Fighting Vipers' code, that's rad! Sonic the Fighters is such a cool game, it has that trademark AM2 charm all over it
Fwendly Mushwoom
07.07.2023Sonic has such a huge cast of characters these days, it's the perfect franchise for its own fighting game spinoff! When are we getting a Sonic The Fighters 2, Sega?
cute bridge
07.07.2023Would love to see a modern port on PC.
Alface935
07.07.20232:00 Godammit this rocks so hard
ehhorve
07.07.2023had to stop at the start, GOOD GREEFING GRAEVEE, wut a strange statement. my first issue with it is ross's game dungeon. he had an episode focused on sonic heroes, he didnt grow up with him, and he likes sonic. in fact, the reason he likes sonic is in a way not that obvious to people who HAVE grown up with sonic.
my second issue with the staetment is you DON'T have to like sonic to like his games. I don't like him, my sibling cant STAND him because he's an attention sucking black hole, and yet we still play the games.
my third issue is the phrase that he's cool. sure? I mean, in a, airheaded skinny school jock way I guess. see, what's great about the series is that it has all the flavors of cool, knuckles is wisened guadian cool, rouge is bond spy cool, shadow is goth mist cool, tails is tech cool, cream is secret weapon cool, shadow is militaric chief cool, the black arms and doom are fantastic fiendish foes, and eggman is the best person in the games. Even simple silver is a tele-kinetik psycho-path (or was it the other way around?), compare all that to sonic, he's not real impressive.
Fgn Taco
07.07.2023Honestly if they took sonic smack down or something and they brung those developers to make a sonic fighting game I’d buy it day 1
Lateniterainer
07.07.2023A few years back I hosted a tournament of this game just for me and some friends and it was an absolute blast. The game is not only fun, but more deep than you'd think so it felt like there was a level of skill as we played more. Bark is my boy
nimhard
07.07.2023As a fellow Sonic fan and Fighting game fan I feel honored and represented by this video.
bigmuthafooka
07.07.2023why wasn’t this packaged with the Saturn or at least a release? could the Saturns hardware not capable? this game would have been way better than the Sonic 3D blast remake
Neo Qwerty 『Venom Strike』
07.07.2023I'm going to be real: as a casual Sonic fan who came in from Sonic Adventure 1, the game with a fishing game in it and a virtual pet garden I spent more time in than the actual game…
Sonic The Fighters was the best part of the Collection. I don't remember if it was on Gems or Plus (I had both since they both had different titles on them and I have a PS2 and GC anyway) but I have the demo/select theme stuck in my HEAD rent free. It played a LOT like a (much harder) Flying Dragon and I've only managed to finish it by finding the cheese moves to break shields and how to bait the AI into letting me break them and then into not reacting in time for my attacks.
But it was REALLY fun once I found the strategy, even the cheese wasn't 100% reliable and I'd sometimes get curbstomped trying to pull it off. I still beat the game with each character once, it was absolutely worth it to feel the satisfaction of having completed it.
CallMeJYNX _
07.07.2023need a video on "Street Fighter Online"
BubbyNE
06.07.2023I love seeing people’s reactions to Bark deleting health bars in this game, dude’s just built different lol
yung Meheecan
06.07.2023Does anybody even play this game online for the PS3?
Yorigami
06.07.2023If you hate sonic the fighters, then you're talking mad shit for someone in pop gun range
Lazy_FigetSpinner_From222
06.07.2023What song did you use for your intro it sounds so familiar
Un gato
06.07.2023Hola
EpicTails
06.07.2023bean's a duck not a woodpecker
Sprint Master
06.07.2023I love this game! The music is criminally unheard of, my favorite being the Death Eggs Eye stage. I think the track name is “Can’t let go” or something. Perfect music for the absolute horror that awaits you being Metal Sonic. That fight gives me nightmares! Unfortunately Sonic the Fighters isn’t very popular in the fighting community because it’s not tournament friendly. There is insane rubber banding in the HP allowing anyone to make a comeback.
John Doe
06.07.2023Honestly, this game gets a bad rap it's not great but it knew what it was and it did it well enough. The HD version looks fairly good too.
Scorpius Jones
06.07.2023Nah.
SevaSentinel
06.07.2023He can also really move. And has an attitude.
Joseph
05.07.2023It’s worth noting STF, is backwards compatible on Xbox One / Series consoles. So outside of Gems. That’s the easiest way to get hold of it.
Partridge Productions
05.07.2023I remember watching Nathaniel Bandy play this, all his takes just felt like him complaining about fighting games, incredibly lukewarm.
Marcadet
05.07.2023Sonic the Fighters is my most played game on the Gems Collection! I beat the arcade mode with everyone
Bobby Joe The Unicornbro
05.07.2023finally somebody defending this game! I still want to slap eye patch wolf for calling it bad.
Geo
05.07.2023I think the reason everyone dunked on this game is purely because it has Sonic’s name attached to it. Sonic fans are ruthless.
Yoshibro26
05.07.2023Not popular or maybe good enough to get a sequel
User
05.07.2023Really underrated.
Fightarcade
05.07.20233:17 Pepsiman!
LegoLoco7
05.07.2023I'm glad the HD remaster is backwards compatible on Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S, as that's how I remember getting into this game. I tried emulating it in Xenia to play on PC, but it was slow, and only the demo version for whatever reason. But, alas, I love this game, and I used to play online matches with certain people from a group chat I'm in on Xbox; it was really fun. It's also fun to play through this game, though Metal Sonic drives me up a wall. I'm not perfect with the controls, though, and would love to practice them more. It's the one fighting game I've seriously gotten into.
Marques Gorham
05.07.2023Fighting games as time passes are getting more and more popular. Thanks to franchises like Tekken, Mortal combat and street fighter Actually, some of the best most accepted game genres to turn non game franchise into are fighting take for instance dragon ball fighterZ for instance or power rangers Fight games are the biggest their ever been especially with so many people in the community Like Maximilian pushing so many more people to get into fighting games and as a fan of fighting games I'm proud with how far fighting games have come 👍👍
Wreck-It Rolfe
03.07.2023I first played Sonic The Fighters on the Sonic Gems collection too.
I didn't play it much, but enjoyed what I did play.
Wreck-It Rolfe
03.07.2023It's a shame more of Sonic's movement isn't in Smash Bros
Dark Synergy
03.07.2023This was a great video and pretty much agree with almost everything you said however theirs one major issue. This game is playable bonus game via Lost judgment the Yakuza spin-off. As much as I love you the Yakuza games, hearing that I can finally play sonic the fighters via my PS4/PS5 is what lead me to buy Lost judgment ASAP! If you can please spread the word,more people need to know this!
Abdel Ali
03.07.2023Honey the Cat is my favorite underutilized Sonic character out there, I really like Fighting Vipers and seeing Honey turned into a Sonic OC it's so cool, and yeah having more Sega characters turned into Sonic OCs is what we need, and I mean whatever Sega owned characters.
Like imagine not only a Yakuza man Sonic OC, but a Joker and a Bayonetta OC, I mean we basically had Joker with his costume on Sonic Force but what about the actual character, and imagine a Cereza the Sonic OC, if she gets togheter with Rouge the world will implode of all that much sass.
Abdel Ali
03.07.2023What dissappoints me even more of the Sonic Origins collection, is that the expansion pack was Game Gear games, and thought they would do Saturn games, because I really want to try Sonic R and Sonic the Fighters in a modern console, hell, they could pull what Nintendid with the Mini SNES releasing the then lost Starfox 2 and they could've unearthed Sonic Xtreme, but I digress…
Huahai Shen
03.07.2023Sonic the fighters, sonic, he can really fight, sonic, the controls are tight, sonic, he's the mashest thing in guilty gear strive.
noob_original
03.07.2023I always really liked this game back then, i used to replay the demo since i didnt buy the full game lol
NoriNori
03.07.2023I remember seeing this game in a Sega magazine and really wanting to play it as a kid.
Walker Sunrise Channel
03.07.2023Honestly, now that Sega is fully bringing Fang back into the fold with Superstars, I’d love to see Bean and Bark, too. It’s no accident the three of them would usually cameo together, and in both of the American comic adaptations (Archie and IDW) the three typically come as a unit, referred to as Team Hooligans and living up to that moniker XD
DUCK_T0PIA
02.07.2023I’m glad there’s a small fanbase for Sonic The Fighters online. It was my favorite game to play growing up and I recently got to play it on an arcade cabinet with my gf!
Thank you for shedding some positive light on this game!
Chozo 713
02.07.2023Nice 🙂
Chozo 713
02.07.2023#SonictheFighters4president
Zechariah Caraballo
02.07.2023Please take about sonic smack down it's so fun, I wish Sega would hire the devs and make sonic smackdown an official game
Retro Skaff
02.07.2023My favorite's the desert.
D.R. 7
02.07.2023I swear the entire sonic fan base is like
(Game comes out) it’s ass
(13 years later) this game is legendary
Peonicle
02.07.2023Yesss we need to spread how cool this game is
Julio Gallegos
02.07.2023I remember getting gems collection and playing the he'll out of this. When sonic riders came out around the same time I thought bean was in sonic riders too turns out its just another green bird
Michael Foster
02.07.2023I have this game on the Xbox 360.
Ezra Wyvern
02.07.2023I've always liked this game. And especially it's soundtrack.