The master emerald shrine and the chaos emeralds are merely used as a reactor/engine as Eggman doesn't need the chaos emeralds when he has the Phantom Ruby and the copy of it he made. Angel Island may be converted into a flying fortress similar to the Black Corps' Battle Temple in Shadow the Hedgehog. The sand in Dusty Desert is now safe to walk on as Eggman is extracting all of the quicksand's water, White Acropolis is now a private ski resort for Eggman's inner circle and the old Soleanna Castle and Kingdom Valley (still in use as of the new timeline Solaris made Sonic and Elise create at the end of New Sonic) is Eggman's personal holiday home, the canyon with the upward flowing waterfalls is his private surfing pool.ģ. (Soleanna in the Sonic universe is in Egypt, near the Nile Delta by the way)Īs for the city itself, it's now the centre of science and tourism in the Robotnik Regime. Solaris could even team up with all the three heroes at the final battle, lending them his power to boost them even further.
Infinite just uses the purest, most perfect of the copies.) Soleanna, with Princess Elise leading the human side of the resistance, possibly even seeing the reformed Solaris himself restoring her and Sonic's memory of the 2006 events, explaining that he created the original Phantom Ruby, intending it for Classic Sonic in the past as a gift to help him against Eggman, but Eggman got to it first and modern Eggman reverse engineered it. The former staff of Prison Island and the US United Federation (from Gerald Robotnik's time, including the members of his firing squad provided they are still alive) are hunted down by Infinite and publicly executed by the Doctor himself.Ģ. Station Square/Central City and Westopolis should return for one, possibly with a sort of "City 17" vibe. Not this boring World Adventure style map screen. Then Eggman uses his Stardust Speedway laser at the end, even though it would make more sense for him and Infinite to make the sun plummet at this point regardless of its position, forcing you to speed up and/or try to deflect it with your fake-ruby prototype a couple of times to buy a couple of extra seconds.īesides using Super Sonic, I'd have loved to see levels and Adventure Fields in locations from all past games, under Eggman's control and see what it's like for the citizens living there under his rule, and giving more reasons why him taking over the world is bad, like Wolfenstein: The New Order and New Colossus did.
That is the best time for a timed mission, despite the level being hard as hell, but the sun seems to teleport much higher into the sky than it is in the cutscenes during the actual level and only falls a little bit at a certain point. Then there's the earth being thrown into the sun. While the removal of the drifting could be seen as a good thing, as you say, it can make the Genocide City levels (what I think Metropolis actually is) a little harder. The boost hell you described manifested for me as the gun bonus where you speed up upon landing, which I used in a tricky Chemical Plant secret level (with the exploding boxes) without realising I had until I died multiple times. I agree with everything you said, as I also love this game and those are the same critiques I had when first playing on Xbox and Switch last year.