Sonic the Hedgehog 2 No-Death Playthrough (Wii Virtual Console)

This is a capture of me playing through Sonic the Hedgehog 2 for the Sega Genesis. This was played on the Wii Virtual Console and recorded directly from my Wii (not the Wii U). I'm collecting all of the Chaos Emeralds in this playthrough.

Following up on my Sonic the Hedgehog playthrough from a few years, here’s Sonic 2. I have actually beaten this game before, but this is the first time posting footage on my channel.

Sonic 2 for the Genesis (as well as the Game Gear) is one of the few Sonic games that I managed to play as a kid. I only had Nintendo systems growing up, but one of my friends had a Sega Genesis, so I got a play some different games at his house whenever I visited. During one of my last visits to this friend’s house I was surprised to see that he and his older brother were playing Sonic 2, and they had a group of people already gathered in his room to witness the new game.

I eventually got my chance to play it, but surprisingly, I was handed the second controller so I could use the new character: Tails. Even though Tails would constantly fall behind Sonic and fly off the screen, I loved the character for the simple fact that he was invincible. Everyone took advantage of this by having me fight the bosses while Sonic stood safely off to the side. Sadly though, we didn’t beat the game. But it was a smart strategy, and a feature that Nintendo would later implement in the Super Mario Bros. games with Nabbit. Sadly, after that single day, I didn’t get to revisit Sonic 2 until almost 20 years later when I finally purchased a copy of the game on the Wii Virtual Console.

Sonic 2 is a massive improvement over the first game because of the faster, flowing level design, the spin dash attack, and of course, Tails. While other people don’t seem to talk about it much, for me, this game’s defining feature is its cooperative two-player mode (I don’t mean the splitscreen vs mode). But as much as I would like to post a two-player playthrough by having someone control Tails (something I never see anyone else doing), I don’t seem to have anyone available to help with that. Perhaps I can manage that somewhere down the road with Sonic Mania.

For this playthrough I collected all of the Chaos Emeralds in the first two stages to get them out of the way and to have access to Super Sonic for the rest of the game. The bonus stages took quite a bit of memorization, and this was another no-death run, so I had to put some real work into this recording over the course of a month. Enjoy.

Recorded with the Hauppauge HD PVR and the Wii's component cables at 60 frames per second.

I'm using a Wii Remote.