Sonic Championship

Sonic Championship (Japanese: ソニック・チャンピオンズ Sonic Champions) is a 3D action fighting game based upon Sega's flagship multimedia franchise, Sonic the Hedgehog. The game, which is developed by Existence Software, is considered by the development team to be a spiritual successor to the 1996 title Sonic the Fighters; despite this, both games are fairly different, and really only share the fighting game genre. Yu Suzuki, creator of the Virtua Fighter series and the producer of Sonic the Fighters oversaw the game's development.
Despite being announced at the Fantendo Spooky Scary Showcase 2017 with a scheduled release in 2018, Existence Software considers this their contribution to the 25th anniversary of the Sonic the Hedgehog series, which happened in 2016. This is due to the game containing characters and locations from throughout the history of the Sonic series, instead of limiting this content strictly to those that have appeared in more recent instalments.
The game includes an in-game shop where players can purchase new characters, costumes, stages, and music tracks using an in-game currency (which can also be purchased with real world currencies). Existence Software and Sega have stated that more content will be released through this shop after the game's initial launch.
== Gameplay ==
Unlike its spiritual predecessor, Sonic Championship is a 3D fighting game based upon the traditional game format popularized by Karate Champ and the Street Fighter series. The aim of the game is to deplete the opponent's health bar by performing different combinations of attacks against them. In Sonic Championship, the player has three different attacks with which they can accomplish this: standard attacks, heavy attacks, and special attacks. Additionally, sometimes attacks will cause the target to drop rings; collecting rings fills up the Chaos Gauge, which allows the fighter to enter their Super state, increasing their speed and attack power substantially.
In addition to traditional fighting game mechanics, Sonic Championship also puts a focus on speed and mobility- for instance, attacks will be more powerful depending on how quickly buttons are tapped in succession. Additionally, while all stages are 2D planes, they may have objects in the background with which fighters can interact with. Some objects will allow for unique movement options, while others may be used as weapons.
== Story ==
== Playable Characters ==
The base game will contain 30 playable characters, with additional characters being released through the in-game store. All of the additional characters can be purchased using real world money or Rings earned by playing the game.
=== Base Game ===
All eleven fighters from the 2012 HD rerelease of Sonic the Fighters return in Sonic Championship, alongside 19 characters that did not appear in that game.
 
=== Post-Release ===
 
== Stages ==
All playable characters will receive a "home stage" - a stage that they are most associated with and fought on in arcade mode. 32 stages will be present in the base game, with each of the original 30 characters receiving their own stage, with two additional stages based on locales from other Sega series.
=== Base Game ===
== Non-Playable Characters ==
== Trivia ==
* The name Sonic Championship was thought to have been inspired by the fact that some of the Sonic the Fighters western arcade cabinets displayed the name "Sonic Championship". The game's director has since revealed that this is purely coincidental - the name and logo were originally drafted to be used for a sequel to the 2012 racing game Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed.
* In Japan, a Limited Edition version for the Nintendo Switch was released that included a download code for the HD version of Sonic the Fighters. This was the only way that game was playable on the Switch until it was eventually released as a separate digital download on the Nintendo eShop.
Certain character renders were created by Nibroc-Rock from DeviantART. Assets used in character and stage preview images were created by jevangod from VGBA and NuryRush from DeviantART.
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