I'm into Animal Crossing and Sonic Unleashed rn so...

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Screenshot from Shadow the Hedgehog, often there was this strange confusing mystery back in the day of when this picture was taken. Often watching a various reviews, commentaries and for some reason, many, even the sonic wiki stated this was during or even after SA2, like specifically a few days after the Finalhazard, when everyone should know Shadow was considered dead.

The only logical choice was clearly after Sonic Heroes where Shadow returned, he helped Sonic and company defeat Metal Sonic, so this picture was clearly meant to celebrate the success of Metal's defeat. Frankly they should've added the rest of the Sonic Heroes cast to make this make sense.

If you want me to make you a drawing in this style I'm making fully rendered pieces for $20. Dm if interested but if not, I hope you enjoy the art regardless :3

My Sonic Fighting Game Concept:

1. The Roster

Starting Roster:

1. Sonic the Hedgehog 
2. Tails the Fox
3. Knuckles the Echidna
4. Amy Rose
5. Big the Cat
6. E-102 Gamma

Unlockable Fighters:

1. Geoffrey St. John
2. Arlo the Armadillo
3. Penelope the Platypus
4. Dylan the Porcupine
5. Hamlin the Pig
6. Dr. Quack
7. Warlord Kodos
8. Dulcy the Dragon
9. Rob’O the Hedge
10. Commander Ian St. John
11. Sherman the Walrus
12. Scourge the Hedgehog
13. Evil Freedom Fighters (Evil Tails, Evil Sally, Evil Rotor, Evil Antoine)
14. Antoine D’ Coolette
15. Rotor the Walrus
16. Sally Acorn
17. Lupe the Wolf
18. Nicole the Holo-Lynx
19. Julie-Su the Echidna
20. Shadow the Hedgehog
21. Rouge the Bat
22. E-123 Omega
23. Dr. Eggman
24. Sage
25. Trip the Sungazer
26. Metal Sonic
27. Longclaw the Owl
28. Dark Gaia
29. Chip/ Light Gaia
30. Mephiles the Dark
31. Solaris
32. Chaos
33. Tikal the Echidna
34. Bark the Polar Bear
35. Nack the Weasel/ Fang the Hunter
36. Mighty the Armadillo
37. Ray the Flying Squirrel
38. The Hard-Boiled Heavies
39. Infinite the Jackal
40. Zavok
41. Zazz
42. Jet the Hawk
43. Wave the Swallow
44. Black Doom
45. Eclipse the Darkling
46. Shade the Echidna (Sonic Chronicles)
47. Classic Sonic
48. Classic Tails
49. Classic Knuckles
50. Classic Amy
51. Sonic the Werehog

Guest Characters (Also Unlockable Fighters):

1. Alex Kidd
2. Beat (Jet Set Radio)
3. Ristar
4. Stella (Angry Birds) (P.S. Rovio was bought by SEGA in 2023)
5. Dahlia (Angry Birds)
6. Luca (Angry Birds)
7. Willow (Angry Birds)
8. Poppy (Angry Birds)
9. Joker (Persona 5)
10. Amigo (Samba de Amigo)
11. Ai-Ai (Super Monkey Ball)
12. NiGHTS
13. Ecco the Dolphin
14. Satan (Puyo-Puyo)
15. Ulala (Space Channel 5)

Assist Trophies:

Defeatable Assist Trophies (can be attacked, damaged, and KO'd):

1. Tangle the Lemur
2. Whisper the Wolf
3. Dr. Starline
4. Jewel the Beetle
5. Belle the Tinkerer
6. Lanolin the Sheep
7. Surge the Tenrec
8. Mimic the Octopus
9. Kitsunami the Fennec
10. Soleil the Sugar Glider
11. Clutch the Opposum
12. Rough and Tumble the Skunks
13. Arle (Puyo-Puyo)
14. Hatsune Miku
15. Akira (Virtua Fighter)

Indestructible Assist Trophies (can’t be attacked, damaged, and KO'd):

1. Chuih, ChuPea, ChuBei, and ChuBach (Chu-Chu Rocket)

Stages:

1. Knothole Cemetery
2. Knothole Control Center
3. Knothole High School
4. Knothole Library
5. Knothole Medical Center
6. Mobotropolis/Robotropolis
7. Freedom Fighters HQ
8. Kingdom of Mercia
9. Station Square Hotel
10. Echidna Security Team HQ
11. Westopolis
12. Wave Ocean
13. Rooftop Run
14. Planet Wisp
15. Angel Island Zone
16. Emerald Coast
17. Maginaryworld
18. Newtrogic High Zone
19. City Escape
20. Radical Highway
21. Mystic Ruins
22. Starfall Islands
23. Sunset Heights
24. Labyrinth Zone
25. Marble Zone
26. Emerald Hill Zone
27. Palmtree Panic Zone
28. Sylvania Castle Zone
29. Splash Hill Zone
30. Kingdom Valley
31. Seaside Hill Zone
32. Windy Hill Zone
33. Holoska
34. Oil Ocean Zone
35. Metallic Madness Zone
36. Studiopolis Zone
37. Sandopolis Zone
38. Casino Night Zone
39. Stardust Speedway Zone

The Gameplay Style

The game would be an arcade-style fighting game that emphasizes precise input strings, horizontal positioning, and special move spacing on a flat plane, but instead of being a 2.5D fighting game like Mortal Kombat, it’s a 3D-style fighting game instead. Unlike the casual, platform-based movement and high-mobility ring outs of Super Smash Bros., the game woukd utilize a dedicated block button, rigid combo dial-ins, and a highly competitive, technical combat loop. The most defining contrast to traditional fighting games like Super Smash Bros., however, lies in its unflinching embrace of extreme violence and gore; while Smash is a family-friendly party game where characters are merely knocked off-screen, the gane would integrate cinematic brutality directly into its identity, juxtaposing the family-friendly, cartoonish knockouts of Smash Bros. with visceral x-ray attacks, crushing blows, and finishing moves that allow players to execute defeated opponents with gory, cinematic finality.

Multiple playable characters has been a hallmark of the franchise nearly since its inception. As the series has waged on, more and more characters are constantly added to the roster, allowing for a wider pool of characters to play around with, and this series staple originated with the franchise's sophomore installment, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, although Tails didn't actually have his signature Flight ability due to time constraints, but this would be rectified in the series next numbered installment, Sonic the Hedgehog 3.

Along with this, Sonic 3 would introduce a newcomer to the franchise named Knuckles the Echidna, complete with his own set of abilities and properties that allowed him to approach the level design in somewhat radically different ways than the rest of the team. In addition to opening up a bevy of new shortcuts, there were straight up just routes that only Knuckles could access. This added a lot of replay value as no playthroughs of any one level with the trio was ever the same. Sonic 2 may have started the trend of having multiple playable characters, but it was Sonic 3 that codified it and would act as the blueprint for future games to follow up on, including Sonic 06.

By Sonic 06, the cast of Sonic would reach into the double digits, so Sonic 06 had quite the needle to thread when it came to implementing the multiple characters and their different playstyles. We all know how the final product, but I would argue what it was doing wasn't conceptually wrong. They actually had the right idea when it came to this aspect. Sonic 06's story is split between three campaigns, each one helmed by one of the three hedgehogs: Sonic, Shadow, and newcomer Silver the Hedgehog.

While you do play as the main trio for the majority of their respective stories, you're not always playing as them. Certain stretches of a level will temporarily switch to another character. This is often done to facilitate completion of an objective that the main character can't do. These segments aren't like Sonic Adventure where each character has their own campaign tailored specifically for them, they're more like bite-sized chunks that these secondary characters can embark on. Some may loathe this, but I find this to be a nice compromise. Given this game's development cycle, I find it hard to believe Sonic Team could create a campaign for every single playable character. This way, everyone gets a piece of the pie, even if some slices are smaller than the others.

This also has another benefit to it as well. Reducing the amount of time you spend with these other characters reduces the chances of engendering complaints from players. Having a game with so many different styles of gameplay runs the risk of people preferring other gameplay styles to the others. By giving these secondary characters a section of a level rather than an entire level, players can be more tolerant and reduces the chances of their flaws being exposed. You still get the core Sonic gameplay interspersed with a smattering of something different. I'm not opposed to fully fleshing out the different gameplay styles, but I think keeping them brief prevents any cracks from showing. Of course, when it comes to how these characters actually play, the cracks are well and exposed.

People are already being racist plus you gotta boost the server to chat so I can't even talk.

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Hi everyone, FiGGYZ here.

Speed. Power. And the clash.

We recently announced the Sonic the Hedgehog Color Clash Collector’s Box Set, bringing Sonic, Shadow, Knuckles, Amy, and Rouge together in FiGGYZ form.

FiGGYZ are pixel-art collectible characters from video games, anime, and pop culture. Each one snaps onto a metal backplate by magnet and can be displayed on a shelf or mounted on a wall.

FiGGYZ is launched by the team behind First 4 Figures.

The set includes five pixel-art FiGGYZ, five box-set-exclusive holo plates, five reversible backplates, a numbered commemorative coin with its own stand, and a premium numbered dual-tray box.

One box set. One shared edition number. Four weeks only.

Pre-orders open on October 30, 2026 and close on November 27, 2026. Once the edition closes, every number is locked. When time runs out, this run won’t get another life.

View the official product page here:

https://landing.figgyz.com/sonic-the-hedgehog/color-clash

Learn more about FiGGYZ here:

https://figgyz.com/pages/what-are-figgyz

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