How did a hand-held spin-off have a more cohesive and well-written plot than most of the mainline games?

How did a hand-held spin-off have a more cohesive and well-written plot than most of the mainline games?

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THQ tried hard and that's why they didn't make it.

Worse yet, this was a fighting game wich are commonly know to have terrible plots.

I miss Emerl...

Kind of weird that Sonic and Emerl more or less ended up with a father/son relationship.

That and everyone was completely down with training Emerl to be this ultimate fighter, I remember almost everyone being impressed that you beat them without getting hit if you fight them during the last story. I know Shadow and Knuckles do.

isnt it the game where everybody wants to punch a fucking robot for no reason at all?

No.

This game was fun as fuck.

Also brought back Gamma. The best Sonic character ever. (If only by imitation)

Emerl growth on this game was very well done. The way that he learned maneirisms from the characters along with their powers was really nice to see.

>emerl dead
>gemerl fucking vanilla's rabbit pussy every night
no justice

Man, this game gave us the best sprites for newgrounds battle series.

Said robot can learn how to punch like them, which is why they want to punch him, to teach him.

The artstyle of this game was really neat.

>No playable overpowered Super Sonic and Super Shadow to play with
It pissed me off that the game had a challenge mode, but you get nothing for doing it.

This was the best representation of Shadow's fighting style, fuck.

I had to drop this game because I couldn't beat Omega. I think it was with Knuckles.

The ONLY Sonic game that don't make his side characters unbearable fucks.

>Hah!
>Wooom
I really liked the sound effects.

The AI is dumb as fuck, and will more times then not set their defend to the last thing you killed them with, so you can cheap em out with that bit of info.

Understandable for a GBA game.

I was a kid when I played that. The last cutscene gave me the feels.
Also the last fight with Eggman was a pain in the ass to defeat.

Best logo.

I always thought as a kid that the fire with the face was gonna be a character in the game.

Not only Shadow.
Sonic fought with breakdancing combos.
Tails fighting with his gadjets.
Cream was a monster and didn't even need to touch you.
Knuckles and his heavy hiting style, man you could feel that punches.

Best Sonic spinoff title

>couldn't play the mini games by yourself and COMs

I never got to try them out. Were they fun? Also they missed a huge opportunity not letting Sonic go Super for the last Emerl boss fight

i liked shadow's character in this, i never liked him before

There was no way to Sonic go super, since all the emeralds were absorbed by Emerl.
Sonic writers being coherent? Wtf?

>the way the screen shakes when Knuckle uses his explosive punch

Man, I wish this game was on the virtual e-shop

SA2 was pretty alright besides the stupid President shit.

>Actually sort of daww'd at the part where Rouge willingly gives back the Emerald Shards she stole from Chuckles

Wasn't Shadow using chaos powers without an emerald near the end there though

INITIATING
RECOVERY
MODE

stupid fanfic tier shit

only deviant art kiddies liked it

Almost all of Shadow's attacks are based around using chaos powers.

Its not the first time he's used chaos powers without an emerald, he does chaos control during the second boss fight with Sonic in SA2, 6 out of the 7 emeralds are in the cannon and the other is with Tails, and in Shadow's own game the final level has Black Doom steal all of the emeralds, but its literally impossible to beat the final level without chaos control, which you can use.

Truly was.

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I didn't embeded it before.

I could never beat the final Emerl boss.

It was just some absolute bs.

Yeah, it was just one fight tough after he gives the final emerald to emerl and demand a last challenge. They didn't tought about that or they assumed Shadow didn't need it.

Don't complain, you're created him.
I was proud.

Sonic could have also inherited that power too of since he could escape a pod with a fake emerald. That would explain how he can gather energy to make his self faster and create Power waves after SA2

Shadow specifically says after handing over his chaos emerald that he doesn't need it because "I have Maria in my heart.". Whatever that actually means is up for interpretation but they at least mention it. Maybe he just absorbed some of the energy from using it so often or something.

Who the fuck is Maria?

Fun game. Rouge and Gamma are the best Non-Emerl fighting characters

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I like that he can use rudimentary chaos control powers by default. Having an emerald just amplifies those powers, or maybe it works like a Green Lantern in that it recharges his energy reserves. Phasing himself short distances and creating localized energy bursts doesn't seem to be a problem for him without an emerald, but he obviously needs more power to perform feats like teleporting the ARK.

Gerald's ded Grandaughter.

She's canon, play SA2

Fuck anyone who used E102's style card, especially if they were holding onto a full super gauge so it fucking oneshot you

>Tails lab endgame
What the fuck were they thinking?

Shit taste. Actual tier-list.

>Amy.
>Cream.
>Sonic.
>Tails.
>Shadow.
>Gamma or Omega.
>Rouge.
>Knuckles (sucks but true).
>Chaos.

Late cousin of Eggman and Granddaughter of a man who wanted to end all life on eath after her death in SA2.

Padding out the playtime with grinding to get the rest of the skill cards

>do 20 rounds
>don't get a single ultimate card

>mfw my first Ultimate Skill for Emeral was "Ultimate Fighting Stance"
>it's just Sonic's but sped up

Fuck. So true. I ended up using GS by how frustrated that made me.

To be fair, Knuckles has one of the best traps in the game, since it goes underground, so it would be useful for messing with real players who didn't see you plant it + being strong.

Cream should be first.

>Jump.
>Place Air trap.
>Stand on it.
>Everyone comes after you and is throw to the air.
>Jump again and place new trap.
>They all die.

His waifu.

You didn't had friends to play with? Actual tier-list for PVP.

>Amy
>Sonic/Tails/Shadow
>Cream/Knuckles
>Gamma/Rouge
>Chaos

Hehehehe

>Mfw my first was the Air Action

At first I was like, so its just sonic air dash, until I kept pressing it. I was untouchable

Rouge maybe just because of how weird her flight is and how she can keep doing air attacks, but Gamma's actually easy as hell to beat. INITIATING RECOVERY MODE is an easy block to charge your meter for free once you get used to it.

>20 Rounds.
>Can't die even once.
>No guaranteed reward.

Fuck that bs.

UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH UNH

Take this

I miss my Emerl. I don't remember whose moves he mostly had, but he had a sick white and red outfit

I remember not liking Shadow that much but his dive kicks and teleporting moves were really satisfying. Monster Hunter is the only game I can think of that reminds me of landing a good teleporting axe kick

STONE
FISTS

It made this possible.

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Best sprites.

>tfw ultimate chao tornado
>with cream's ultimate heal that heals you back to full in seconds, and also charges the super gauge super fast so you can have instant kill attacks basically all the time
I am become death

Why is Cream's stage where you fight her the Laboratory? What is she doing there?

Captured because she refused to fight. In the gameplay she actually stands still for three fights until she seems Emerl being beat up by robots. He didn't wanted to fight because he didn't wanted to see her cry anymore.

She then builds courage and starts to fight to protect Emerl. She's one of the most vicious characters in the game her traps kills in two hits her power deals tons of damage, her combos are fast and have good range and her recovery is the best hands down.

Wait, I thought her stage was the Library?

not library, I meant the museum

Was it? It's been a while. All I remember is her stage having lots of computers and monitors around assuming to play all her PC games

Is this where all those sprite animations began?

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This and Sonic the Fighters are pretty underrated. Really wish the series would dabble into more versus games, especially with it's large cast of characters. The soundtrack was especially sick for a GBA game.
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The teleport into energy sphere was the dopest shit, it just felt so fluid and right.

What was the plot of this game?

>borrowed this gem from older brother's friend
>wasn't allowed to customize emerl but still enjoyed it
Zach, if you happen to browse here, thanks for lending me some game boy games

Sonic finds random robot thrown away at the beach, gets surprised by the robot's ability to learn his moves, brings it to his pals so that it can fight with them and become stronger.
But then eggman wants it back.

>using GS
>not using combo cards instead
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>Shadow uses Chaos control with no emeralds
>Sonic reveals he was holding back during every game in the series all the time and is infact so fast and strong he can fight at faster than comprehension of the other characters including shadow and is so stromg he can beat Emerl with all of everyone techniques and all emeralds on his own.

Plot was mostly good but those felt like ass pulls.

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