How to fix Sonic 06

 Kids,come along,sit by the fire and hear a story. There once was a strange hero called Sonic. He was a mutated blue hedgehog that was really cool, had an attitude and was the fastest thing alive ( he was the fastest thing alive,he was the fastest thing alive). He had many games and a couple cartoons. Some of them were good,some of them bad,but none of them was undeniably bad(except for Sonic R that shit was shit). But then the alien tribe known solely as SEGA changed that for once and for all.

 Sonic 06 started promising and was going to showcase the 7th gen of consoles. But what started like a promising demo reel ended up as a prophecy of Ubisoft. Graphics were going lower and lower, the artistic style was  all over the place and a very strange feeling that things were taking a direction we were not ready for. And Sega wasn't ready for it either. In a frantic effort to make the 15th anniversary of Sonic the game came out too early. The result was SHIT. Gameplay was all over the place and buggy as hell, animation was shit and inconsistent, and the story. GOD the story. So you know how when you put it down on paper Sonic is very much like Dragon Ball. You know the seven thingies, Knuckles is Picollo, Shadow is Vegetta etc. Well 06 is the Android/Cell saga, but, you know,shit. So we have a story with a ton of plot holes thanks to our favorite Random Hole Generator, time travel, as well as the fact that the story is shit by itself. But you can see the good ideas in the game. You can see what they tried to give us , but the game needed more time in the oven. Like 2-3 years of time. And some writers that weren't 7 years old and high on all the drugs.

 The story would be the quickest to solve as the ideas here are not completelly bad. The biggest fix is take out 80% of the time travelling . You can't trust this plot point. If BBC is fucking it up for 52 years, I can't trust Sega in their first go ( surprisingly their second go was much better). Now only Silver can time travel, and only to his timeline and Sonic's present. Yeah , he is Trunks. I know. But it is just gonna be better at this point if we keep it to explored territory.  The story starts the same. Mephilis tricks Silver and Blaze that Sonic fucked their timeline, so they goes back in time to stop him from  doing it with his Chaos Emeralds. At this point you explain that time travel is not too exact in locations and time. Why? Convenience for later. So while he is traveling , the Festival is happening,Elise is kidnapped,Sonic(with Tails and Knuckles) is going after her.  That is Sonic's main plot. Trying to save Elise. We are seeing his story from both his perspective and Elise's. As Eggman is trying to learn more about the Flames of Disaster he conducts test on Elise. Those tests put great pressure on the princess , who accidentally uses the powers of Iblis that is inside her. Sonic does not immediately save Elise this time around. He only saves her once, at a point where Eggman is paying attention to something else. That something else? Shadow. Like in the 06 he(along with Rouge) is trying to steal the Staff of Darkness from Eggman. And after getting a couple of clues he makes it. So we have a stand off. Shadow has the Staff, Eggman has Elise and wants the Staff, and Sonic wants Elise. In his effort to get the Staff he breaks it and freaks out,leaving Elise behind as he escapes. Mephilis is out, so Sonic takes Elise while Shadow stays to fight. He "wins" and Mephilis escapes, so Shadow goes to get info about Mephilis and all that. Eggman is hunting Sonic and Elise to get her back. In this time these two get the time to connect and she learns to use her power more. But in comes Silver, not in the town this time  but in the Jungle. He tries to wreck Sonic's ass but he is taken down by him and Elise, while Blaze is looking as she doesn't want to kill anyone. After some hunting Silver catches Sonic again in the Trainyard, but this time Shadow is in his way. We have the best scene in the game and Shadow tells Silver what happened in the past, with Iblis being locked in Elise and Mephilis being evil. Ohh and this time it was Elise's dad that made it all by himself. No time traveling Hedgehogs. You may notice that the new story is pretty much the same. Well now we get to the big differences.

 Silver goes to his timeline. Having learned what up as well as seeing some of Shadow's tricks he defeats Mephilis. He also traps Iblis inside Blaze this time, like in 06,but doesn't die. Sonic reaches Soleanna with Elise but as they are saying their goodbye BAM! Mephilis appears. And  he kills Sonic. Not in a cutscene. A fight is going on in game and it is impossible to win.  Sonic Dies. There is blood on his face, my God there is blood everywhere. Roll credits. Shadow's story: he reaches the fight but he is too late,Sonic is dead,roll credits. Silver's story: after imprisoning Iblis he tries to go back but time travel is finicky, he gets in too late, Sonic is dead, roll credits. "Good job, player. Now that you finished all the stories here is the final episode". Now you open with Sonic fighting Mephilis and losing . Shadow can't help, Silver can't help, the Sonic Friends can't help. As he is going down Elise is the first to reach him. He says something to her and leaves his "last breath". This is the final hit that breaks Elise(also NO KISS!!!11!). Iblis is free and Mephilis gets this timeline's Chaos Emeralds and Iblis so they can fuse. But Silver has his Emeralds. So he , the Sonic Friends (Tails, Knuckles.Blaze and  Rouge), Shadow AND Eggman take one each and give some life force to Sonic . Lo and behold, Sonic is not only alive but Super Sonic. He shares some power with the other two hedgehogs and together they wreck Mephilis this time. But he escapes again with everything he has. One stage later where all the hedgehogs are playable, Iblis and Mephilis fuse and we have the ultimate boss fight. And the good guys win. Iblis and Mephilis are separated, with Iblis returning to Elise while Mephilis disintegrates. So everyone goes back to their lifes and Elise is the best queen this world has ever seen. Much better, huh?

 Gameplay wise the changes are generally small. You make each hedgehog different gameplay wise, each to his own personal skills. Sonic has speed, Silver his telekinesis and Shadow gets Chaos Control.   Silver's gameplay was actually kinda good so we mostly polish things up. More Telekinesis puzzles , less telekinesis combat and less ball rolling. Sonic has almost zero combat and the gameplay is very much like Sonic Colors, minus the alien thingies. Shadow undergoes the most changes. He is more combat oriented and has Chaos Control.  This allows some minor time manipulation that allows a fight or flight style. He gets many opponents but he is not locked down in small arenas like God of War or Sonic boom . Killing enemies recharges Chaos Control faster, but considering the Sonic Way of keeping HP (i.e. the rings system) harder enemies are better left alone as you can only take 2-3 hits. And NO vehicles. Especially hovercrafts. Shadow is faster than Sonic, he can run on water and soil better than any vehicle. In the 2 boss fights and 1 stage where all Hedgehogs are playable, the player can change between them and is going to be forced to. In the stage some parts should be only able with one specific Hedgehog, while other parts require a combo. The bosses have attacks that "stop" one or two hedgehogs so the others need to come in and save the other. Furthermore , the bosses defend themselves in ways that combos are required. For examble Sonic and Shadow use their speed and time manipulation to allow Silver to throw something big. Or while Silver keeps the boss still from afar Shadow roundhouse kicks him. The boss, not Silver. That would be funny, but counterproductive.

 Yeah ,I know I just wrote a Sonic  fanfiction that shows how cool my fav characters can be in my head space. But my fanfiction is superior because, uuum, it involves a game and I am a person that tries to be a game developer and/or critic. And it doesn't involve hedgehog penises inserting some kind of orifice. So I think that is a big plus. And so is this:

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