Sonic Unleashed (PC) - Arid Sands Act 1 (Day)

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This stage is really cool as it goes from city to desert to the temple ruins. Being fast here is a big ask, there's tons of tiny and big shortcuts and optimizations and plenty of ways to screw up fiddly 2D sections. Somehow, I don't, much. Still only a middling rank! I'm looking forward to revisiting these stages later.

Also, we do some sidequesting to get it out of the way. Idk man this one just doesn't sit right with me.

Timestamps:
0:00 Getting to the stage
1:00 Arid Sands Act 1 (Day)
5:42 Some talking to NPCs
6:05 Sidequest: Top Top Tea 1
7:16 Sidequest: Elder's Call
8:55 Sidequest: Final Exam
11:17 Outro: Ana's happiness, Musaid's...idk man

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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/Unleashe...
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!