Sonic Radiance

Sonic Radiance is a Sonic game released for the Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch. A short animated teaser was released during Sega's online games showcase of 2020 as a replacement for E3, originally under the name Sonic Colors II. It received its official name during a February 2021 Nintendo Direct. It is a spiritual successor to Sonic Colors and brings back many elements from that game, including the Wisps. Like that game, Dr. Eggman is using many different planets, this time from other dimensions, in order to build his empire, and Sonic, Tails, and their old friend Yacker must stop him from succeeding. The game was released on June 21, 2021 as part of Sonic's 30th Anniversary.
==Story==
The story begins with Sonic and Tails, two best buddies who are hanging out at the beach, specifically the one at Emerald Coast. However, while enjoying their day, Sonic notices a giant machine in the sky... (rest of the story to come).
==Gameplay==
There are two styles of gameplay in Sonic Radiance and both of them are played in the 2D and 3D perspectives. In one style you control Sonic, who controls like he did in Sonic Unleashed and Sonic Generations, albeit with using White Wisps to fill the Boost Gauge instead of rings. In the other, you play as Tails, who instead operates in a slower style replicating the formula from the Sonic Adventure games and the Genesis games. While Sonic's gameplay focuses on speed and quick decision making, Tails' gameplay focuses more on exploration and finding different pathways to find hidden extras. 
===Controls (Sonic)===
*Run
*Jump
*Air Dash
*Homing Attack
*Quick Step
*Drift
*Boost
*Air Boost
*Stomp
*Slide
===Controls (Tails)===
*Run
*Jump
*Air Dash
*Homing Attack
*Slow Fall
*Spin Dash
==Characters==
When you play an act for the first time, only Sonic/Tails are available, but after beating it for the first time, the other characters in their party become available for use. Each character has an advantage available to them during gameplay to make them slightly distinct from other characters.
===Team Sonic===
*Sonic the Hedgehog: Runs the fastest in his group.
*Shadow the Hedgehog: Has the best aerial mobility and the longest ranged homing attack.
*Blaze the Cat: Has a bigger Boost Gauge.
===Team Tails===
*Miles "Tails" Prower: Descends the slowest of his group.
*Knuckles the Echidna: Only loses half of his rings when an enemy attacks him.
*Silver the Hedgehog: Spin Dash goes farther.
==Wisps==
There are a total of 13 Wisps available in the game (15 if the Boost and Shield Wisps are counted). 8 of them are used by Sonic and 7 of them are used by Tails. 4 of these Wisps are new in this game.
===Sonic===
*White Boost: Lets Sonic boost at the speed of sound.
*Cyan Laser: Fires Sonic at incredible speeds. Can use diamonds to find hidden areas.
*Yellow Drill: Lets Sonic burrow underground and find hidden areas.
*Green Hover: Lets Sonic fly in the air. Can do the lightspeed dash on ring trails.
*Pink Spikes: Turns Sonic into a spiky ball that can scale walls and ceilings. Can do the Spin Dash in this form.
*Indigo Asteroid: Turns Sonic into Saturn and can break down debris to find hidden objects or areas. Can also float while in this state and enter special rooms that can only be entered in this form.
*Brown Boomerang (new): Turns Sonic into a boomerang that can he can control and hit switches that are out of reach. Since he can't move up and down, it must be activated at the required elevation.
*Navy Shark (new): Sonic can swim around the water as a shark, giving him better control. Can perform bites to get rid of threats ahead and gain slight speed boosts. Essentially replaces the Yellow Drill's underwater variant from previous games.
===Tails===
*Army Shield (new): Gives Tails a shield that can protect him from one hit against an enemy.
*Orange Rocket: Blasts Tails off into the sky and he free falls back down. In 3D, the rocket can be aimed.
*Red Burst: Turns Tails into a flame ball that can jump in the air repeatedly and perform powerful burst jumps.
*Gray Quake: Turns Tails into an iron ball that can roll over enemies, perform shocking ground pounds, and climb up walls.
*Crimson Eagle: The Eagle flies in a straight line. It can dash towards groups of items, and can be used to find hidden areas.
*Jade Ghost: Turns Tails into a ghost, which can possess enemies, and perform some of their moves to solve certain puzzles.
*Teal Blade (new): Briefly turns Tails into a big sword, performs numerous slashes on normally unbreakable objects, then turns back to normal.
== Areas ==
There are 7 main areas that are explored in Sonic Radiance. All of these areas were once large planets from separate dimensions until Eggman fused them all together into one large super-planet. Each area contains 9 total stages: 3 Sonic Acts, 3 Tails Acts, a Rival Battle, a Boss Battle, and a Special Act, which is unlocked by collecting all of the red rings in a world, and is used to collect a Chaos Emerald.
== Bosses ==
There are a total of 15 bosses in the game. Each world splits them into Rival fights and Boss fights. Rival fights can only be fought as Sonic (the Sonic fight has the player play as Shadow), and the Boss fights only allow Sonic or Tails to be playable.
===Rivals===
*Area 1 - Knuckles
*Area 2 - Shadow
*Area 3 - Orbot & Cubot
*Area 4 - Blaze
*Area 5 - Silver
*Area 6 - Metal Sonic
*Planet Wisp - Sonic