Tails the Two-Tailed Fox

== Introduction ==
Tails the Two-Tailed Fox is a Sonic spin-off game focusing on Miles "Tails" Prower as he tries to prove himself to his friends that he's a true hero on his own, released in August 20, 2023 on all current major platforms, and rated E10+ for everyone 10 and up and PEGI 7 in other regions. The gameplay is more combat-based with platforming but there is a sense of speed and momentum to it.
== Story ==
It was 1:00 AM in the night, Eggman fully powered up his laser death machine after hours of creating it, and he launched a deadly beam hitting the moon fully. Tails was working on his Tornado II while he heard a very quiet explosion sound, and rushed out of his workshop, to see the giant moon's pieces crash down on every single area in the Mystic Ruins, but his workshop was safe. Tails decides to take a nap and research it later. The next day, there was not a single piece of the moon in sight, and Eggman robots were wandering all around the area. He decided to find out what's going on by himself and goes to the Central City to alert everyone about Eggman's upcoming attack, but the train is blocked off by a huge snake bot that devours it and sucks out Tails' workshop into it's stomach, as the citizens in the train yell for help, and Tails decides to defeat it all by himself. Coincidentally, Sonic was also in that train and Tails saves him. Sonic congratulates Tails for saving everyone, but he needs to do more and tells him that he needs to go to Angel Island to meet up with Knuckles, who is protecting himself against these bots which now have a green aura around them, which after defeating them, Tails tries to research it bit by bit to figure out where the energy is from, but is interrupted by a signal from Amy in central city, who needs his help. Along the way, he finds a chaos emerald. Tails finally reaches Central City and finds a huge colossus bot that can generate multiple bee bots. With the help of Amy, Tails defeats the big colossus bot and an array of missiles get launched heading in his direction but get knocked the other way by Amy's hammer, and she tells him he needs to leave the area since it's now protected. Tails goes back to his workshop to research the weird green-ish substance, which he actually finds out it came from some death machine, which the color of it's beam was the exact same, so Tails had no choice, but to go to Eggman's evil lair, where he finds himself trapped in a room with a bunch of other bots, and goes through the vents to escape the room, he finds himself going back and forth and not finding an exit or an entrance to the main room, until he finds a secret room with all 7 chaos emerald powering up the laser death machine. He snatches all 7 of the chaos emeralds and runs but the laser death machine turns around and aims at him. Later, it transforms into a big giant robot and tears down the evil lair outside the secret room and flies up into space, aiming for it. With all 7 chaos emeralds in his possession, Tails uses them to transform into Super Tails, flickies swarm around him as he flies through the air and defeats the giant laser death machine robot all by himself, as he falls down to earth, he's knocked out unconscious but is waked up by Sonic and the rest of the crew who cheer him up and host a picnic congratulating him for saving the world from an evil threat. With Sonic, he looks over the horizon and Sonic tells him: "I don't think you need me anymore bud, you're your own hero." and waves at him, saying "Goodbye." Tails enjoys the sunset, and the screen fades into black
== Gameplay ==
This game takes huge inspiration from the Sonic Frontiers gameplay with the main focus being combat and platforming. The game takes place in an open zone area, but instead of focusing on speed, it's more focused on platforming. The first platforming challenges are easy but they get harder and harder as the game progresses and as you unlock more of them. The goal ring is always locked inside of a cage which you can't enter, even with glitches. You need to do all the necessary missions for the cage to open and for you to enter the goal ring. The goal ring executes a cutscene and then a boss fight, which after defeating it, the ranking system comes up and you're transported to the other world. There is really few puzzles in the world, but they're all optional and only give you chao drives for your chao garden.
=== Abilities ===
The abilities that Tails has are:
* Pressing the X button makes you jump, pressing it twice lets you fly. The length of the flight can be upgraded via the skill tree, while grabbing on a ledge/cliff, you can use it to make it to the platform
* Pressing the circle button initiates the Tails spin, which can get more powerful if you upgrade it from the skill tree.
* Pressing the square button initiates the ring toss, which you can also upgrade from the skill tree, and this time,the rings can be collected back
** Pressing these two buttons both will initiate a combo where Tails would perform a tails spin with an instant ring toss, but it would cause the ring meter to drastically go down, this can be upgraded via the skill tree
* Pressing triangle will make you punch an enemy, this feature is used best when combining it with other features, and it's commonly known as the most useless feature in the game
* By pressing R2, you can form a shield from your tails which would not allow the enemy to hit you, but he can still hit you in the back, but that can not be the case if the defense method is fully upgraded
* By pressing R1 and R2 simultaneously you can parry the enemies that are heading to you, you can't upgrade this feature however.
* Pressing L2 will give you a small inventory which you can swap out the ring capsules with other capsules that'll give you other powers like how it worked in the classic games, but they're only unlockable post-game
* Pressing L1 will reveal the full map
=== Combat ===
The combat is mainly focused around mashing buttons and upgrading your skills, the first motobug enemies in the first area don't need that much hits, but later on in the game, the enemies get harder and harder to defeat. The boss fights also require a bit of platforming to reach, then you start throwing hands against them. There's multiple moves Tails can do with an upgradable skill tree, where you can upgrade your ring count, attack, defenses, etc. There are also many combos that you can perform.
=== Chao Garden ===
The chao garden of this game is more reminiscent of SA2, you can upgrade chao using chao drives gained from puzzles and platforming challenges, chao cola which is unlockable from the shop and the animals/flickies which drop occasionally from the enemies.
== Cast ==
* Colleen O'Shaughnessy as Miles "Tails" Prower
* Roger Craig Smith as Sonic the Hedgehog
* Idris Elba as Knuckles the Echidna
* Cindy Robinson as Amy Rose
* Mike Pollock as Doctor Eggman
* Tomoko Sasaki as Chao
== Development ==
The game started development right after Sonic Frontiers' main development phase, as Iizuka wanted to make another spin-off game and decided to pitch an idea to SEGA for them to make one. Later, The official Sonic Twitter account tweeted out a poll, in late July asking "Who is your favorite Sonic character besides Sonic and Shadow?", the characters on the poll were Tails, Knuckles, Amy and Doctor Eggman. Since Tails managed to win the poll almost being beaten out by Knuckles, Sonic Team decided to develop a game based on Tails. They took many of the stuff they had in Sonic Frontiers, removed some elements and decided to tweak some things to make it stand out from Sonic Frontiers, removing the sense of speed and focusing more on combat/platforming, which Iizuka explained the reasoning it in an interview, saying that Tails is more of a flying character that will take advantage of his abilities, and he also said: "You can make a lot of cool and creative things with Tails' tails, so that's why we designed the combat around them", and puzzles were only chosen to be optional. They also decided to bring back the chao garden for the first time in a mainline Sonic game since Sonic Adventure 2, and they tied it in with the puzzles to make them somewhat useful. But there were some struggles during it's 1-ish year development cycle, mainly with the crunching of the development team, the crunch got so bad that they hired new people to take place of the workers who decided to leave because of the harsh restrictions. That led the game to be delayed from June 2023 to August 2023 where there was still cruch but it was a lot more bearable than before. Later, the game came out with still a few glitches kept in-tact.
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Category:Fan Games