The fella that showed up yesterday returned and with another old friend, and after a good while of messing around with PMEX Remix once again [Deathborn is hilarious, but even more hilarious is playing as X in the Les Vagas stage because of the huge screen size while the boundaries can save you a handful of times from dying lol], I pulled out Hotshot Racing, which I hadn't tried in a good while but had remembered after one of them was talking about Sonic and SEGA All Stars Racing having similar drifts to Outrun 2 [since it was developed by the same studio], and that's because HR is also made by the same devs at Sumo Digital.
There were no Burnout style takedowns, but it was REALLY funny most of the time [as in, when I wasn't getting sent into a fence] when either AI cars or just any of us were pushing violently any cars into the fence and causing them to crash out. We actually played through all 5 cups in one sitting in Normal difficulty with how it had us hooked, although the AI in the final cup gave 'em even more trouble than usual.
I also did try the Expert GPs in single player - I barely got Gold in the first GP between a succesful first place in the first track...and then stumbling along the other three tracks but the AI deciding to play nice for me to keep the GP lead. Didn't have the same luck in GP 2 [got Silver] and GP 3 [Already hard from the get go - mess up in a critical moment of any race and that may be goodbye for ya], but will probably give it another shot another day.
An old friend showed up out of nowhere at like 5pm with a controller, so we ended up playing a good chunk of PMEX Remix [he was mentioning many times how several of the new characters he used to play or know had some funny differences], then we tried this Shrimp Game on Roblox after I showed him a funny clip we found, as he could play on his phone [After a few attempts, I eventually got a win lol] - and then I ended up spending quite a bit trying out this other roblox game, Superstar Racers, as he mentioned was cool when he noticed it was on the frontpage.
He was right - the game SHREDS for being in Roblox, when the game lets you run around to gain momentum, do a mid-air jump and dive, and the dives bump you upwards a bit if you hit a wall or platform. So you can imagine how inventive you can be with the controls when you get a handle of what it lets you do - and more so when the practice levels available at the start if you aren't looking into multiplayer yet take full advantage of that. I did try several times to get to the end of the Medium Practice course until I eventually got a run where, while had a delayed start and end, at least made it to the second to last platform that I always missed to reach in previous attempts.
Initial confusion in Cannon Core aside [Figuring out proper timing for that one Tails wall where you have to destroy it while hovering over nothing, looking up how to get the Air Necklace to actually explore with Knuckles's section, that sand slide with Sonic], it was cool to see a final gauntlet like that followed by the Biolizard fight as Shadow [good thing you can return to it even if you lose all your lives] and the final LIVE AND LEARN. So yeah, that's Sonic Adventure 2 finally completed on my book for good without a shadow of a doubt.
On one hand, I had started SA2 on PC the morning before I went to watch the third Sonic movie at December 30th, leaving it up to Death Chamber [I think], then retaking Hero Story today up until I completed it - and then went through the entirety of Dark Story in one sitting. So yeah, now Last Story is the last one remaining, but on the flipside I was paying visits to the Chao Garden between most levels to tune up my Chao with the stuff I obtained on them.
It is always funny to sometimes come back to this game and have a blast - which seems to depend of the server. At least in 2fort, the vanilla game rules make it so that there's a funnily higher chance to frontrun - although on the flipside, if you get PUNKED too hard early or right near the end, you're screwed lol [It's hilarious when I get benefitted by the vanilla odds though - triple sneakers in second place my beloved]