Tails Flyers

Tails Flyers is a platform video game that is a spinoff of the Sonic the Hedgehog series, developed by Sora Ltd. & Bandai Namco and published by Sega. It was released on December 3, 2024 for the Sega Globe. 
Tails Flyers marks the first playable appearance of Tails’s siblings, Kyle O’Meter-Prower and Zooey Prower. It received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised its unique flying-based platformer gameplay and its similarities to the Super Mario series, but criticized its plot for being a little simplistic in comparison to Sonic Adventure 3 and Sonic Battalion.
== Plot ==
The game begins with Speedy the Bird, an old enemy of Tails, who is attempting to rebuild the Battle Bird Armada, which he was originally part of. He gets a plan to mutate Flickies by stealing Dr. Eggman’s mutation technology. Just then, Fiona Fox-Prower arrives at Speedy’s secret base and the two of them make a deal that Fiona can help Speedy rebuild the Battle Bird Armade, as long as Speedy can give her a good amount of money and help her get revenge on Tails and the rest of her family.
Shortly after the MetaRex attacked, everyone has left the tropical island that they visited for a celebratory vacation, except Tails and his family, as well as Tails’s recent girlfriend, Nicole the Holo-Lynx. Tails practices his flying so he can reach higher heights than ever before and his siblings and Nicole watch him. He eventually beats his record and Nicole gives him a kiss and his siblings celebrate to congratulate him. Just then, with the EggNet, an Eggman network which she acquired a while ago, Nicole finds that Eggman’s base is being broken into by Speedy and Fiona and they are mutations Flickies. They tell Tails’s parents that they are going to stop these new foes and Tails’s parents tell them that they need to try to bring Fiona back to the family, as she has been brainwashed for 12 years. This is Kyle and Zooey’s first mission.
They use Tails’s plane, the Hurricane, to get to Eggman’s base, which is being broken into. They fight against Speedy, but eventually, many Flickies turn into smart, evil sentient beings and attack the gang. They flee the base in the Hurricane, but they get attacked on by Flickies in stolen Eggman technology. 
They eventually escape, but Nicole gets a distress call from Tails’s parents, who tell her that they are captured in a ship by their daughter, Fiona and a mysterious army of birds, referring to the Flickies. They decide to stop their enemies and save Tails’s parents by creating a cure for the Flickies and reverting them to their original forms.
== Gameplay ==
Tails Flyers is a 3D platformer that revolves mostly around the ability to fly. It is similar to the flying gameplay in previous Sonic gameplay, but more non-linear. However, it is still straight enough to be a platformer. Also, some parts of the game are puzzle-based and sometimes, some pieces of machinery require fixing. The stages use the 3 acts system from the classic games and Sonic Heroes. It has 4 playable characters, Tails, Nicole, Kyle, and Zooey, who all have nearly identical abilities, but their weapon-based attacks are all different. Tails uses a ray-gun, Nicole uses electricity powers, Kyle uses knives, and Zooey uses classic cartoon bombs.