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The music track "Rooftop Run (Night)" in Sonic Unleashed contains a well-known and common jazz lick (1–2–♭3–4–2–♭7–1) which would go viral and become known as "The Lick" in 2011, three years after Sonic Unleashed's release.
The Lick in Sonic Unleashed:
https://youtu.be/CFlW5WwlxGE?si=KUEmae8FM3rQjnKJ&t=30
Other examples of The Lick:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krDxhnaKD7Q&ab_channel=AlexHeitlinger
Source for "The Lick" name originating in 2011:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/twentieth-century-music/article/abs/virals-memes-and-the-licks-circulation-through-online-jazz-communities/143D4DD73A586587D5EC9E7EF0CEDF7F
https://youtu.be/CFlW5WwlxGE?si=KUEmae8FM3rQjnKJ&t=30
Other examples of The Lick:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krDxhnaKD7Q&ab_channel=AlexHeitlinger
Source for "The Lick" name originating in 2011:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/twentieth-century-music/article/abs/virals-memes-and-the-licks-circulation-through-online-jazz-communities/143D4DD73A586587D5EC9E7EF0CEDF7F
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In the Xbox 360 release of the game, you can turn off a stage's music by playing personal music via the Xbox Guide and then pausing it, allowing for harder-to-hear ambient/field recordings that play in the background of certain stages to be heard. For instance, one spot in the Nighttime Spagonia hub area plays a sound clip of someone whistling while taking a shower; the song being whistled is Sonic Unleashed’s theme song "The World Adventure", and a shortened edit of the same whistling is featured in the first teaser trailer for the game.
Ambient Nighttime Spagonia sounds:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehFJ0UDisVQ
Sonic Unleashed first teaser trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSw4lCjJBe8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehFJ0UDisVQ
Sonic Unleashed first teaser trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSw4lCjJBe8
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In the Daytime Spagonia stage (Rooftop Run) on both the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of Sonic Unleashed, in the middle of one of the curves, a pedestrian will be reading a newspaper. Upon further inspection, there is a, albeit blurred, picture of the box art for Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) to the upper right of the paper.
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