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In observance of Pride Month, I decided to run my favorite character addon, who happens to be transgender, in the All Emeralds category. The results were pretty promising; I actually wonder if maybe I could do better than my current best in the Any% category if I decide to run it again. Of course, with Millie specifically, I'm the only one on the board so far as of this writing in any category, but that doesn't mean I'm not motivated to do better. Haha. Also, happy Pride! In case you haven't figured it out yet, as a viewer from before my current run of SRB2 videos at least, I'm trans! 🏳️‍⚧️ You can download Millie here: https://mb.srb2.org/addons/millie-blueyes-prower.7564/ Timestamps: 0:00 Greenflower Zone Act 1 0:49 Special Stage 1 1:34 Special Stage 2 2:48 Greenflower Zone Act 2 3:51 Special Stage 3 5:20 Special Stage 4 6:44 Greenflower Zone Act 3 7:21 Techno Hill Zone Act 1 9:04 Special Stage 5 10:28 Special Stage 6 11:54 Techno Hill Zone Act 2 13:44 Special Stage 7 16:08 Techno Hill Zone Act 3 16:36 Deep Sea Zone Act 1 17:42 Deep Sea Zone Act 2 19:51 Deep Sea Zone Act 3 20:41 Castle Eggman Zone Act 1 22:24 Castle Eggman Zone Act 2 24:41 Castle Eggman Zone Act 3 25:56 Arid Canyon Zone Act 1 27:20 Arid Canyon Zone Act 2 29:39 Arid Canyon Zone Act 3 30:51 Red Volcano Zone 32:44 Egg Rock Zone Act 1 34:32 Egg Rock Zone Act 2 37:14 Black Core Zone Act 1 38:23 Black Core Zone Act 2 40:25 Black Core Zone Act 3 42:20 Ending #SonicRoboBlast2 #VideoGames #Platformers #Speedrun #Speedrunning #SRB2 #SonicTheHedgehog #FanGame #ModdedSRB2 #MilliePrower #Tails #Transgender #Pride #PrideMonth #PrideMonth2026

Metal La-Flower is a much better character than regular La-Flower, and the real reason one would probably even bother playing this character pack according to the creator. I'm not even absolutely sure El-fire actually intended La-Flower to beat the game; she has the bare minimum of abilities required to do so. Metal La-Flower, on the other hand, does everything La-Flower does and a lot more, being a more typical player character. It's possible to do significantly better than I did here; I'm just bad. But the optimization potential is overall greater with Metal La-Flower than it is with regular La-Flower, I think. You can download The-Flower Characters here. You should try them; Metal La-Flower is really fun, and while my experience with regular La-Flower wasn't very positive, that doesn't mean she isn't worth trying. You might actually enjoy the challenge of trying to beat the game with nothing but jumping, spinning, and shield abilities more than I ever could: https://mb.srb2.org/addons/the-flower-characters.8587/ Timestamps: 0:00 Greenflower Zone Act 1 0:53 Special Stage 1 1:39 Special Stage 2 2:45 Greenflower Zone Act 2 4:07 Special Stage 3 5:29 Special Stage 4 6:55 Greenflower Zone Act 3 7:28 Techno Hill Zone Act 1 9:21 Special Stage 5 10:44 Special Stage 6 12:14 Techno Hill Zone Act 2 15:04 Special Stage 7 17:24 Techno Hill Zone Act 3 17:58 Deep Sea Zone Act 1 19:20 Deep Sea Zone Act 2 22:24 Deep Sea Zone Act 3 23:17 Castle Eggman Zone Act 1 26:00 Castle Eggman Zone Act 2 29:39 Castle Eggman Zone Act 3 31:08 Arid Canyon Zone Act 1 34:11 Arid Canyon Zone Act 2 36:37 Arid Canyon Zone Act 3 37:48 Red Volcano Zone 40:34 Egg Rock Zone Act 1 42:53 Egg Rock Zone Act 2 46:21 Black Core Zone Act 1 47:47 Black Core Zone Act 2 49:37 Black Core Zone Act 3 51:31 Ending #SonicRoboBlast2 #VideoGames #Platformers #Speedrun #Speedrunning #SRB2 #SonicTheHedgehog #FanGame #ModdedSRB2 #LaFlower #TheFlower #MetalLaFlower

Not gonna lie, I don't enjoy playing this character very much. She has the absolute bare minimum of abilities required to beat the game, and that means she softlocks in almost every Deep Sea Zone Act 2 path except the one I took. I'm quite positive there's some optimizations to do for a better time than I did, but as things stand... no thanks, I'm good. lol Metal La-Flower is much more fun for me. You can download The-Flower Characters here. You should try them; Metal La-Flower is really fun, and while my experience with regular La-Flower wasn't very positive, that doesn't mean she isn't worth trying. You might actually enjoy the challenge of trying to beat the game with nothing but jumping, spinning, and shield abilities more than I ever could: https://mb.srb2.org/addons/the-flower-characters.8587/ Timestamps: 0:00 Greenflower Zone Act 1 1:01 Special Stage 1 1:46 Special Stage 2 2:52 Greenflower Zone Act 2 4:10 Special Stage 3 5:37 Special Stage 4 7:04 Greenflower Zone Act 3 7:53 Techno Hill Zone Act 1 10:16 Special Stage 5 11:37 Special Stage 6 13:06 Techno Hill Zone Act 2 15:29 Special Stage 7 17:46 Techno Hill Zone Act 3 18:15 Deep Sea Zone Act 1 19:49 Deep Sea Zone Act 2 23:00 Deep Sea Zone Act 3 23:49 Castle Eggman Zone Act 1 26:03 Castle Eggman Zone Act 2 29:33 Castle Eggman Zone Act 3 31:07 Arid Canyon Zone Act 1 35:20 Arid Canyon Zone Act 2 37:48 Arid Canyon Zone Act 3 39:40 Red Volcano Zone 42:40 Egg Rock Zone Act 1 45:14 Egg Rock Zone Act 2 49:03 Black Core Zone Act 1 50:41 Black Core Zone Act 2 52:45 Black Core Zone Act 3 56:06 Ending #SonicRoboBlast2 #VideoGames #Platformers #Speedrun #Speedrunning #SRB2 #SonicTheHedgehog #FanGame #ModdedSRB2 #LaFlower #TheFlower

Fang was easier than Amy, but by no means did that mean the run was easy. I did take significantly less time to get a good run, though. You can download The-Flower here: https://mb.srb2.org/addons/the-flower.7514/ Timestamps: 0:00 Act 1 0:43 Act 2 1:06 Secret 2 1:30 Act 2 2:28 Pizza Time 4:24 Lap 2 #SonicRoboBlast2 #VideoGames #Platformers #Speedrun #Speedrunning #SRB2 #SonicTheHedgehog #FanGame #PizzaTower #ModdedSRB2 #FangTheHunter #FangTheSniper #NackTheWeasel

I always forget how many Crawlas are in these old versions of the levels, especially old Castle Eggman in particular. Seriously, they apparently loved to spam Badniks back in the Final Demo years these levels came from. The level designers are much more thoughtful about how enemies are deployed nowadays, so I guess that goes to show how far they've come. Despite being part of the vanilla game like all the other bonus zones, there's no leaderboard for FDZ yet. By the time there is one, I intend to get a significantly better time on it than this. I made a lot of mistakes that I could absolutely do better about. But yeah, it's no mystery to me how the levels got remade in the ways that they did; these versions are kind of awful. Although, the GFZ and THZ represented here were the current versions of those stages when I first started playing this game many years ago; by then, CEZ had already been remade. Then they eventually remade it again, along with almost every other zone. Timestamps: 0:00 Greenflower Zone 0:57 Techno Hill Zone 2:48 Castle Eggman Zone 5:26 Knuckles "boss" #SonicRoboBlast2 #VideoGames #Platformers #Speedrun #Speedrunning #SRB2 #MetalSonic #SonicTheHedgehog #FanGame

Looks like I just barely managed to get a Lap 2 Amy run after all! It was very, very difficult to do, though. And just because I could, I went through it with every Secret Eye in the level. I enjoyed this so much, I decided I'll do a Lap 2 run with every vanilla character, plus Shadow; since he got a whole other level in The-Flower made just for him and his abilities, I figure for the purposes of what is now a series of videos centered around The-Flour, he's an honorary vanilla character. You can download The-Flower here: https://mb.srb2.org/addons/the-flower.7514/ Timestamps: 0:00 Act 1 0:22 Secret 1 0:42 Act 1 1:13 Act 2 1:36 Secret 2 1:59 Act 2 2:39 Secret 3 3:04 Act 2 3:48 Pizza Time 5:41 Lap 2 #SonicRoboBlast2 #VideoGames #Platformers #Speedrun #Speedrunning #SRB2 #SonicTheHedgehog #FanGame #PizzaTower #ModdedSRB2 #AmyRose #AmyRoseTheHedgehog

Thok-spam to victory, yaaay. Not really, though, but there's a lot of it. First ever speedrun with Sonic, and it's not even in a level I can submit to a leaderboard. We're getting some Pizza Tower with our Sonic Robo Blast 2 this time. This comes from a level pack known as The-Flower, which I will link shortly. It's a nice, fun pack, IMO, even if it is a larger variation of Greenflower Zone over and over again, made all kinds of different ways thematically. As for The-Flour itself, I wanted to challenge myself by beating Lap 2 as fast as possible; a Lap 1 speedrun is simple enough, but as Vanilla Sonic without Chaos Emeralds, you're not making it through Lap 2 if you don't haul ass with thok-spam. Metal Sonic will probably have an easier time, I think; I'm skeptical if anyone else in the vanilla roster can clear Lap 2 at all, though I feel somewhat confident Tails and Knuckles can manage it. Fang and Amy might be too slow unless there's some speed shoes they can hit on the way. I'm so mad about how I fell down on the way to Pillar John, though. If I hadn't decided to do a thok at that moment, which to my surprise at the time, slowed me down enough that I ended up in the water, that would have probably been an easy sub-5 minutes run. So it goes, I guess. You can download The-Flower here: https://mb.srb2.org/addons/the-flower.7514/ #SonicRoboBlast2 #VideoGames #Platformers #Speedrun #Speedrunning #SRB2 #SonicTheHedgehog #FanGame #PizzaTower #ModdedSRB2

This one is just conquering a personal demon of mine. Amy feels really bad to play in this level compared to everyone else. I know Karpnado insists Sonic's line is actually harder, but between Amy and Sonic, Amy is the one I actually managed to Game Over with in the regular single player campaign on this level, not Sonic. #SonicRoboBlast2 #VideoGames #Platformers #Speedrun #Speedrunning #SRB2 #MetalSonic #SonicTheHedgehog #FanGame

Still can't get the speed shoes consistently yet, but I did finally get them for a better time here! Also, I turned on 3D models because I'm hoping it will help with depth perception. Not every character I have or play has a model associated with it, at least not yet, but enough of them do that I can play without somebody being an eyesore. Although I've noticed the enemy Metal Sonic and Fang in Black Core Zone Act 2 and Arid Canyon Act 3 respectively have some missing animations in theirs. Seems like an oversight. Everyone and everything else's models seem to work fine. It's the Jeck Jims pack, if you're wondering; comes standard with the game since 2.2.7, from what I understand. If I find a model pack that covers more ground than this one, especially one that has a Millie and a Metal 3.0, I'll go ahead and use that one instead. #SonicRoboBlast2 #VideoGames #Platformers #Speedrun #Speedrunning #SRB2 #MetalSonic #SonicTheHedgehog #FanGame

This level was giving me trouble on my Any% attempts, so I decided to practice the route a bit. The WR route for this IL is still far beyond my reach at the moment, but this should be good enough for a full run worth posting; expect something similar on Techno Hill Act 2 when I get around to doing that. #SonicRoboBlast2 #SRB2 #SonicTheHedgehog #Speedrunning #Speedrun #VideoGames #FanGame