Sonic Adventure 2 - Death Chamber - m4 (No joystick + Cruise Control DOWN) - 4:32.39

If Egg Quarters is where you first learn the joy of playing no joystick, cruise control down, then Death Chamber is where you throw away all the joy and replace it with something else. I don't really know what, just probably not something very nice.

For one, the stage itself is twice as big, while you only get another 2 minutes of time on mission 4. Sure you don't have the patrol robots getting in your way, but neither do you have a predictable linear circuit that you can just keep going around until you find the keys. Oh, and you also have hourglass doors, which put on even more time pressure.

And did I mention Death Chamber is a lot less flat than Egg Quarters? Some way or another you're going to spend some time climbing up things, and of course when the cruise control is on down, that's a lot harder than it needs to be. The camera also has a penchant for not wanting to squeeze in between you and a wall when you get some short distance away from the wall, so just grabbing it can be troublesome. There's even a few places where the camera won't respond to L or R at all! Close to the end, with about 1:00 left on the clock, the entryway to the red room is just such a place, and in addition Knuckles just wants to push against the boxes right there rather than punch them down, which was nearly a run-breaker until I got the right timing.

Only a few layouts are realistically completable within the 5:00 limit, and then there's the matter of actually making good on one that is. To hell with quality, you just take whatever you can get when trying this stuff. Good luck.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• sonic
• adventure
• two
• sa2
• death
• chamber
• knuckles
• challenge

[OwnageCorp]

Hey,what if you tried to combine challnges like cruise control/ low score

[SadisticMystic]

Since cruise control only really works for K/R, which are the same characters for which low scoring is almost completely trivial, I have a pretty good idea of what would happen if I tried that: not a whole lot.

[Timic83amv]

sadisticmystic is lucky he dosent have the aussie version of sa2 XD

[SadisticMystic]

What is there some debilitating handicap on the controls in PAL?

Can it really be worse than this self-inflicted one?

[DarkSonic94]

This is impressive, its hard and fun to do that =P..

It is possible do a level with any character without jumping?, maybe you can record a video doing that if its possible in some level =S.. 5/5 stars!

[SadisticMystic]

Try searching for "A button challenge 0" some time. I hear that's a pretty good way of precluding jumps.

[soralifestory]

this was the last time we saw e 102 gamma before omegas overpowered ass

[shadictehwerehog]

I unsubscribed to subscribe again.

[genowhril809]

this makes me wanna play this again D:

[lightsen]

hey mine does that, i thought it was just age getting to it or something, it makes sonic's pyramid gollum boss really annoying when you have to jump up the ledges and keep dashing off the edge XD is there anyway to stop it from happening?

[EkimCF]

60Hz mode ftw.

[gambitking128]

cruise control COULD work for E/T but it would be as hard as turning a cat in to a 30 year old asian prostitute

[electroboy2007]

with all the speedruns its probably something like 2 or 3

[Timic83amv]

crap, forgot to mention its SA2B lol, you probably dont have pyramid run on DC version