Sonic Adventure 3: Chrono Crisis

Sonic Adventure 3: Chrono Crisis is a 2026 platformer game developed by Sonic Team and published by Sega. The game was released for Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S on November 15, 2026 to celebrate the Sonic series' 35th anniversary and the 20th anniversary of the Sonic the Hedgehog (2006).
It is a remake of the 2006 game Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) with alterations to the storyline that brings plot elements from the first two Sonic Adventure games, making it a direct sequel of Sonic Adventure 2 instead of a reboot and fan-favorite features from the Adventure games such as Chao Garden was returned.
In contrast to original game it was based, Sonic Adventure 3: Chrono Crisis was critically acclaimed and saw tremendous commercial success, almost rivaling Sonic Frontiers and was nominated for The Game Award for The Game of The Year.
== Gameplay ==
The gameplay was heavily borrowed from Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) with improvements inspired by ChaosX's Project 06 fan remake. As in the original game, players can explore hub worlds to converse with townspeople and perform missions to advance the story, but this time the hub worlds was heavily revamped to make it less sparse and has minigames and visitable chao gardens. The main playable characters are three hedgehogs: Sonic, Shadow, and Silver, who feature in separate campaigns titled "episodes". A bonus "Last Episode", which involves all three hedgehogs and concludes the storyline, is unlocked upon completing the first three and after finishing the "Last Episode", the players unlocked another bonus episode that takes place after the completion of the game's storyline called "New Dawn" where Sonic and his friends can partake in additional town missions and minigames. 
Action stages was redesigned with multitude of alternate paths, catering players who prefer exploration or speedrunning playstyle. 
Players can choose different control style and difficulty modes to suit their abilities.
==== Control Style ====
* Classic - resembles the first two Adventure games and original 06, with spin dash used to gain speed for Sonic and Shadow.
* Modern - resembles the control used on Unleashed, Colors, Generations and Forces, with boost mechanic used to gain speed for Sonic and Shadow. Silver's gameplay remains the same.
==== Difficulty Modes ====
* Easy - inspired by Sonic Colors Ultimate. 1-UP/life system are absent and players can retry the stage as they please. Bosses also takes less hits to defeat.
* Normal - same as in the original 06
* Hard - same as Normal, but bosses takes more hits to defeat and has more gimmicky attacks, such as the black hole during Solaris boss fight.
== Plot ==
=== Episodes ===
==== Sonic Episode (under construction) ====
Sometime after the event of Shadow the Hedgehog (2005), Sonic, Tails, and Amy are relaxing somewhere on South Island, planning their well-deserved summer vacation to celebrate their newfound peace. Tails then read the news about upcoming Festival of the Sun and had the brilliant idea of making Soleanna their destination, with Amy noting how romantic Soleanna appeared in the photos she had seen and Tails intrigued by the rumor of the Grand Duchy of Soleanna researching time-space control using chaos energy. A day later, the party departed using the Tornado biplane. 
When they finally arrived in Soleanna, they saw a glimpse of Eggman's Egg Carrier in the sky, indicating an impending threat from Eggman that would ruin their vacation. Later that day, Soleanna celebrates the Festival of the Sun to honor their god of light, Solaris. The ruler Princess Elise III lights the ceremonial torch, only to see a vision of a giant beast burning the city. Suddenly, missiles strike and Dr. Eggman arrives in his Egg Mobile flanked by robots. He reveals his intentions to kidnap Elise for her Chaos Emerald and her secrets of the Flames of Disaster. However, Sonic the Hedgehog appears and defeats the robots, before lifting Elise to escape with her. While Sonic fights more robots in Soleanna Castle Town and his friend escorting the crowds to safety, Eggman successfully kidnaps Elise with the help of Metal Sonic, but she throws Sonic her Chaos Emerald and orders her chao, Victoria, to stay with Sonic before she being brought aboard the Egg Carrier.
==== Shadow Episode (under construction) ====
==== Silver Episode (under construction) ====
Silver the Hedgehog lives approximately 20 years in the future, in a world completely ravaged by an immortal fire monster known as Iblis with only a few populace survived, and he's the part of Future Resistance Army where he, accompanied by Blaze the Cat, work to help those living on the ruined future by hunting Iblis's incarnations, escorting vulnerable civilians, patrolling settlements, and delivering important supplies. Silver fights Iblis every time he resurrects, but to no avail. Suddenly a black Shadow-like being come to help in their latest battle against Iblis in Crisis City, and after the battle Silver thanked that being for the help. He introduces himself as Mephiles, the time traveler who have seen the events in different timelines, and he thought the Silver's future was devastating even for him, then he'll promise to tell the duo a way to banish Iblis once and forever if they met him at abandoned building in Crisis City. Blaze was highly skeptical at first, but Silver assures her that in this dire situation, they should accept whoever gives them a helping hand, in which Blaze reluctantly agrees. Afterwards, they decided to met Mephiles. Silver laments to Mephiles about how frustrated he is by the futility of their efforts and how he failed to save his family from Iblis' terror. Mephiles offer a simple solution: stop Iblis from ever existing in the first place.
==== Last Episode (under construction) ====
==== New Dawn (post-game episode, under construction) ====
== Characters ==
=== Playable characters ===
* Amy Rose
* Blaze the Cat
* E-123 Omega
* Knuckles the Echidna
* Miles "Tails" Prower
* Rouge the Bat
* Shadow the Hedgehog
** Super Shadow
* Silver the Hedgehog (first appearance)
** Super Silver (first appearance)
* Sonic the Hedgehog
** Super Sonic
* Mephiles the Dark (Act Trial only)
* Metal Sonic (Act Trial only)
* Chao (Chao Garden only)
=== Non-playable characters ===
* Accordion Player (only appearance)
* Adrianna (only appearance)
* Alan (only appearance)
* Alberto Robert (only appearance)
* Alfano (only appearance)
* Anna (only appearance)
* Antonio (only appearance)
* Aristo (only appearance)
* Beltran the Terrier (only appearance)
* Berruni (only appearance)
* Bianca (only appearance)
* Big the Cat
* Bishop (only appearance)
* Chaos
* Cheese
* Claudia (only appearance)
* Club SEGA Attendant (first appearance)
* Cream the Rabbit
* Dante (only appearance)
* Dr. Eggman
* Duchess of Soleanna (mentioned)
* Duke of Soleanna (first appearance)
* Eduardo (only appearance)
* Elaina the Cat (only appearance)
* Elkan (only appearance)
* Fabrizia the Pug (only appearance)
* Frances (only appearance)
* Francesca (only appearance)
* G.U.N. Commander
* G.U.N. Soldier
* Galienna (only appearance)
* Gold the Tenrec (first appearance)
* Hatsun (only appearance)
* Herman (only appearance)
* Horatio (only appearance)	
* Iblis (first appearance)
* Isabella (only appearance)
* Ken Williams (only appearance)
* Ladies-in-waiting (only appearance)
* Liza (only appearance)
* Lord Regis (only appearance)
* Luca (only appearance)
* Mancini (only appearance)
* Maria Robotnik (mentioned)
* Martino the Ibex (only appearance)
* Mels (only appearance)
* Mikhail (only appearance)
* Nicolo (only appearance)
* Pachacamac (mentioned)
* Paganini (only appearance)
* Park Ranger (only appearance)
* Parr (only appearance)
* Paula (only appearance)
* Pele (only appearance)
* Pinto (only appearance)
* Porta (only appearance)
* Priest (only appearance)
* Princess Elise the Third (first appearance)
* Prodi (only appearance)
* Prof. Gerald Robotnik (mentioned)
* Puccini (only appearance)
* Renzo (only appearance)	
* Roberta (only appearance)
* Romano the Wolf (only appearance)
* Rossi (only appearance)
* Sabrina (only appearance)
* Sally Acorn
* Sandro (only appearance)
* Solaris (only appearance)
* Soleanna Boys (only appearance)
** Pucci (only appearance)
* Soleanna Royal Guards (only appearance)
** Alessio (only appearance)
** Fabio (only appearance)
** Giorgio (only appearance)
** Guido (only appearance)
** Pietro (only appearance)
* Solomon (only appearance)
* Solsaliente (only appearance)
** Monica (only appearance)
* Sonic Man (first appearance)
* Sophia (only appearance)
* Street Painter (only appearance)
* Street Food Vendor (only appearance)
* Sticks the Badger
* Tangle the Lemur
* Tikal the Echidna
* Titania the Tenrec (first appearance)
* Tour Guide (only appearance)
* Unnamed Refugees (only appearance)
* Vanilla the Rabbit
* Venice the Hedgehog (first appearance)
* Victoria (first appearance)
* Zof (only appearance)
== Downloadable Contents ==
=== Seekers of Hope ===
This DLC takes place during the Silver's ruined future. The gameplay can be best described as fusion of Monster Hunter and Fallout series of games. Players assumes the role of an player-created Avatar who is the recruit of Future Resistance Army, led by Sally Acorn. Since avatars are not born with special combat abilities possessed by main protagonists, they are equipped with 'Chaos Weapon', a weapon powered by positive chaos energy that can repel Iblis's forces, which almost functions similarly as Wispons from Sonic Forces and can be upgraded. 
It has semi-open world maps and a hub world located on the Resistance's base, which at release only Crisis City and Flame Core-themed map are included. Players can choose between single-player and online co-op mode, in single-player mode randomly generated avatars and occasionally protagonists from the main game will join the quest to help the player.
== Changes from the original ==
* Complete graphic overhaul to make it more cartoony and vibrant, closer to the art style of Unleashed and Generations.
* Elise's resurrection kiss in the Last Episode are replaced by tears.
* Addition of Chao Garden.
* Eggman now uses his modern design from Unleashed.
* Human NPCs now have a Pixar-esque design from Unleashed, with anthropomorphic animals also joined as NPCs.
* Various new areas on the hub world.
* Addition of minigames, including fishing and playable arcade machines.
* Remixed soundtracks, with option to play soundtracks from the original 06 and songs from other Sonic games during gameplay.
* Various new town missions.
* Up to 4K 120FPS resolution with HDR and VRR support.
* DualSense and Joy-con haptic feedback support.
* Playable Mephiles and Metal Sonic on Act Trial (unlocked after completing Last Episode).
* Unlockable outfit and accessories for Sonic, Shadow and Silver (not usable during the Super/Hyper Transformation).
* The ruined future now has its own hub world, located on the Resistance HQ near Crisis City
* Amiibo support for Switch 2 version, that'll unlock Nintendo-themed outfits and accessories for Sonic, Shadow and Silver
== Trivia ==
* There are various references and callbacks to past Sonic games, and other Sonic media like comics and TV Shows, including:
** Knuckles and Elise recites the Tikal's prayer "The servers are the seven chaos..." during the Last Episode when they tried to revive Sonic using the power of 7 Chaos Emeralds and a Master Emerald, referencing the last story portion of the first two Adventure titles.
** Amy says "If that giant talking egg crashes the Festival of the Sun, he'll know what happens next!" when she sees the Egg Carrier hovering in the sky upon Team Sonic's arrival in Soleanna, referencing the first Sonic Adventure.
** Sonic breaks the fourth wall, saying "Strangely, I didn't hear a disembodied robotic voice that says 'Future' as we traveled through time." when Sonic and his team was sent to the ruined future by Eggman's time machine, referencing Sonic CD.
** Elise says "I jog because Sonic said to me that if I have time to worry, then I should run. He truly inspires me to be as fast and strong as him!" when she meets Amy while she was taking a jog in the morning, referencing the Episode 42 of Sonic X.
** Various Chao in Space references can be seen, such as torn down billboards advertising Chao in Space III in Crisis City during the ruined Silver's future, and carousel ride designed after the spaceship from Chao in Space short at Dario's Wonderland in New Dawn episode
** One of the old books in the Soleanna Royal Library mentions the event involving Pachacamac and the Knuckles Clan in the past, also a reference to Sonic Adventure. The ancient Soleannan civilization considered using Solaris' power as a last resort if the Knuckles Clan invaded them, but their plan had not come to fruition when Pachacamac and his men were defeated by Perfect Chaos, thus rendering Solaris' weaponization unnecessary, and Soleanna continued to thrive to the present day.
** Dario's Wonderland amusement park design was inspired by Twinkle Park action stage from Sonic Adventure.
** Some of the unlockable outfits and accessories were carried over from Sonic Forces: Speed Battle and Sonic Colors Ultimate
*This is the first game in the Sonic series to feature localized text in Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch and Hindi, and localized dub in Brazilian Portuguese, Hindi, Dutch, Swedish, Turkish, Arabic, Korean, Czech, Polish, Indonesian, and Chinese with voice actors from Sonic Prime reprising their roles.
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