Sonic Heroes Arena

Sonic Heroes Arena is a fighting game and spiritual successor to Sonic the Fighters. While that game prevoiusly revolved around 3D fighting, this game revolves around being 2D 3-vs-3 in a similar vein to Dragon Ball Fighterz and Marvel vs Capcom 2.
== Story ==
Sonic has received an invitation to an all-new fighting tournament, this time having to fight in a 3-person squad. Of course, Sonic brings along his best buddies Tails and Knuckles. As Sonic gathers his friends, everyone else soon form their teams. Meanwhile, Dr. Eggman attempts to genetically engineer a new life form using the DNA of his cousin Maria. Maria was then reborn as a hedgehog. Eggman then manipulates her into thinking that she will be safe with him and informs her that Shadow is dangerous. Maria is hesitate to believe that but she slowly tries to remember her backstory.
=== Team Sonic story ===
Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles have entered the tournament, only for them to discover that one of the rules is to carry a Chaos Emerald and collect the others to win and make it to the goal. Sonic finds it boring due to the fact that racing to the goal is involved, and Knuckles just wants to beat up the contestants but Tails has a suspicious idea to why the tournament revolves around the Emeralds.
After defeating the champion, the team discuss
=== Team Dark/Maria story ===
Shadow manages to enter the tournament just to go up against Sonic, however Rouge notices something unusual about the Chaos Emeralds as a reward. She recalls hearing that Tails was working on making Chaos at peace but putting positive energy into the Chaos Emeralds. Shadow then senses that the Phantom Ruby had survived and believes Eggman might find it to replicate Chaos to bring destruction again.
At one point, the team runs into a lost hedgehog girl. Shadow notices that she looked familiar but can't seem to remember. Just as Shadow and the girl talk, theey were approached by Eggman, whom wanrs the girl about Shadow. The girl refuses to believe so and formerly introduces herself as Maria, which brings back memories of Shadow. Eggman then hypnotize her into fighting Shadow, causing him to hesitate for a bit but manages to fight her out of the control.
Leaving behind Rogue and Omega temporarily after beating the champion, Maria reconnects with Shadow, hoping he be at peace with the world. Shadow reassures Maria that he wants to find a another reason to fight and then realizes he values his rivalry with Sonic as more of a friendly fashion. Maria happily agrees with Shadow's change of life, and wishes for both he and Sonic to become stronger together.
=== Team Dimensions ===
As Sticks the Badger was relaxing, a dimensional rift occurs right in front of her. Believing that it's disrupting nature, Sticks decides to follow the spirit. Having to travel into another dimension, Sticks had to say goodbye to her friends. Along the way she runs into Mina Mongoose and Jule-Su who also had an encounter with the same spirit that invaded their worlds. 
After stopping the spirit that possessed the champion, the team notices that they have noting has happened since the spirit has been vanquished, Sticks had her hopes up believing that they might be able to go back to their worlds. However the trio then decides to stay here in the world they are in right now. 
=== Other Stories ===
There are other characters or teams that entered the tournament but are not relevant to the main plot. However they make an appearance in Story modes as opponents with no roles.
== Gameplay ==
As mentioned above, the game uses a 3-vs-3 style tag team gameplay. One of the mechanics involves powering up a chaos Emeralds which activates the Emerald Drive that happens when the other two characters on a team is K.O'd. During the Emerald Drive, the user's Health bar heals slowly and the Super Meter moves past level 5. The Supers in questions become more powerful.
== Characters ==
==== Team Sonic ====
* Sonic
* Tails
* Knuckles
==== Team Rose ====
* Amy
* Cream & Cheese
* Big
==== Team Dark ====
* Shadow
* Rogue
* Omega
==== Team Chaotix ====
* Vector & Charmy
* Espio
* Mighty
==== Team Resistance ====
* Silver
* Blaze
* Gadget
==== Team Dimensions ====
* Sticks
* Mina
* Jule-Su
==== Team Babylon ====
* Jet
* Wave
* Storm
==== Team Hooligans ====
* Bark
* Bean
* Fang
==== Team Eggman ====
* Dr. Eggman
* Metal Sonic
* Chaos
==== Team Showstoppers ====
A trio of amusement park performers who performs on a live stage superhero show. They fight in order to raise money to keep Twinkle park from closing down.
* Keith the Knight
* Neo the Pirate
* Eijiro the Warrior
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