Sonic Dimensions

Sonic Dimensions is a 2.5D platformer video game in the released on the Nintendo 3DS worldwide on November 12th, 2014. Releasing after Sonic Generations and Sonic Lost World, it was the first fully original Sonic series title developed for the Nintendo 3DS.
The game serves as a functional sequel to Sonic Rush and Sonic Rush Adventures for the Nintendo DS, maintaining the 2.5D boost platforming style and utilizing the Sol Dimension storyline as well as being codeveloped by Dimps. Unlike those titles, the game has fully three dimensional level graphics and has various rail grinding sections that occur fully in 3D, advertised as a spectacle that can only be appreciated on the 3DS system's stereoscopic graphics.
==Story==
===eShop Description===
===Sonic's Story===
Sonic the Hedgehog is having a friendly race with Knuckles the Echidna, Tails the Fox, and Amy the Hedgehog when the earth begins to shake beneath their feet before erupting into massive fissures that erupt black ink. Sonic quickly runs and pushes his friends to safety but trips and is taken into a fissure in the ground, passing out as he is brought from his dimension into the Sol Dimension. He is awoken in her dimension by the prodding of Marine the Racoon, who is equally confused as to how he traveled to her world. She tells him that Blaze was taken away during her fight with Eggman-Negative, and that she needs his help to continue saving the world.
He travels with her through Verdant Vista, a grassy knoll that has been overtaken by Eggman-Negative's machines. After reaching the peak of the biggest hill, Eggman-Negative appears to taunt Sonic before beckoning forth dozens of massive portals that reshape the environment. The hedgehog chases his enemy through the various portals and across the reshaped Verdant Vista until he eventually catches up to him, but he loses his tracks after taking down his giant robotic machine.
Although disappointed by losing track of Eggman-Negative, Sonic is more distressed after Amy appears from a nearby portal and berates him for worrying her so much by disappearing. Marine pleads with them both to focus on catching their villain, directing them towards the nearby Sapphire Forest that he has been tearing down to get more materials for his evil plans. The trio travel through the woods, narrowly avoiding robots armed with buzzsaws, and eventually reach a small shack filled with blueprints. The three heroes are surprised when Tabby the Koala emerges from beneath a pile of papers, having fallen asleep studying them.
Tabby informs the crew that he has been looking over the blueprints and believes that they are Eggman-Negatives secret plans for taking over the world, including making a device that can harvest Portal Energy from an unknown source. Sonic and friends tell Tabby about the portals they've already seen him use, and they decide to travel onwards towards Eggman-Negatives giant wood harvesting robot to try and get more information from it. After travelling through the woods and taking on the robotic behemoth, Tabby digs through its memory boards and finds new information about the source of the portals.
Tabby leads the group to Lethal Labryinth, an ancient temple complex mentioned in Eggman-Negatives notes as being the source of his new power. They travel through the opening rooms of the Labyrinth, avoiding ancient constructs that have awakened to defend their holy ground. The heroes pause to analyze a mural that seems to depict some sort of ancient being arising to destroy the world; after a moment of thought, Sonic and Amy both realize that the creatures looks exactly like the Chaos of their own world.
Travelling deeping into the heart of Lethal Labyrinth, the heroes come across a massive room with statues of echnidas that remind Sonic and Amy of Knuckles. After chuckling at the thought, Sonic collapses to the ground unconscious, his mind overtaken by a vision of the past where he takes the place of an echidna warrior fighting against a dark intruder. Although Sonic defeats it and awakens, he feels that the real truth was much worse, explaining the dire condition of the Labyrinth. After he tells the others what happens, Tabby gets a walky talky message from the Coconut Crew informing them of Eggman-Negative's location.
Sonic and friends travel to Dour Docks, where the local population is living under fear of Eggman-Negative's robot servants. The team smash their way onto the docked ship at port, where they see various robots onloading giant containers of dark energy. Marine has an idea to stay hidden on the ship so they can see where the energy is being taken, but as they travel deeper, a robot sentry notices them and they must take it down to remain unseen. They stow away on the ship, much to Sonic's chagrin, as the trip takes several days of waiting around.
Finally the ship arrives at Launch Station, where Eggman-Negative has brought dozens of ships full of Portal Energy for an unknown purpose. Sonic and the others travel through the island, avoiding numerous evil robots, until they reach the base of the massive tower in the center. Marine and Tabby work together to unscramble some of the messages being broadcast from the tower, revealing that Eggman-Negative is ordering his robots to bring the energy forward so he can feed it to some sort of massive creature that he will use to take over the world.
Fearing what could happen if his plan is allowed to succeed, the heroes proceed inwards towards the tower's core, smashing any pipes full of Portal Energy that they come across. Once they reach the center, they are ambushed by Eggman-Negative, who sends everyone but Sonic into various portals. Motivated by saving his friends, Sonic manages to escape his restraints and fights his alternate dimension nemesis, eventually succeeding and destroying his mech. However, Eggman-Negative does not take kindly to the interruption, and actives a failsafe that causes the tower to begin to collapse. Both Sonic and his enemy are sucked inwards by the collapsing tower, falling into a massive portal that was underneath them as they fought, leaving their combined fates unknown.
===Blaze's Story===
Blaze the Cat is fighting her nemesis, Eggman-Negative, who is seconds away from activating a machine that will let him conquer the world. Blaze appears to stop the machine, using fire to scorch the various computers in his headquarters, but instead sends them into overdrive. Eggman-Negative is overtaken with meniacal laughter as various portals begin to pop in and out of existence throughout the room. Blaze makes one last attempt to attack her enemy, but he swiftly moves his arm to the side, causing a portal across the room to quickly move and engulf Blaze, sending her through space and time into another dimension.
When Blaze awakens from her journey, she vaguely sees Eggman's silhoette and jumps up to the fight him. He shouts at her to wait and she realizes that he is actually Dr. Eggman from Sonic's world, and he tells her to look at the sky, where she witnesses a massive, inky monster engulfing the sun and shooting out portals in every direction. Eggman convinces her that they must flee the city before it is destroyed, insisting that he does not wish for the world to be destroyed before he can conquer it any more than she does before.
Blaze travels quickly through Wisdom City, deftly avoiding inky tentacle creatures and portal monsters. After reaching the center of the city, Eggman notices a sound coming from a pile of rubble, and uses his mech to lift it up and reveal Tails trapped underneath. Although he is at first surprised to see Blaze working with Eggman, he agrees to accompany them out towards the missile silos at the edge of the city, hoping to continue his search for the lost Sonic. After reaching the silos and defeating the creature guarding it, Eggman and Tails work together to turn on the ballistic missiles and send them at the monster, but it simply absorbs them and grows stronger. Enraged by the attack, it slams into the city, causing it to sink into the ground, taking Blaze, Eggman, and Tails with it.
Blaze and her allies awaken deep under the ground in Vibrant Caverns, now covered with paintlike goop. Eggman is angry when he discovers that the mining bots he placed deep underground in the caverns no longer obey him, causing additional difficulties as the partners travel through the caverns. After encountering a crystal grotto deep within the caves, the trio come across Knuckles, who is desperately smashing the crystals in search of the Chaos Emeralds. Blaze reveals that she already found some previously, and Knuckles decides to come with them, informing them of his quest to bring the Chaos Emeralds back together to stop the strange behaviour of the Master Emerald. 
Eventually, Blaze and her allies destroy a malfunctioning mining machine and ride it along until it reaches the exit of the caverns. Knuckles wants to travel back to Angel Island, but the only way to gain that much height without a plane is to travel to Eggman's decrepit Space Elevator. The ragtag team travels up the narrow passageway while avoiding more inky creatures, eventually making it to the halfway mark. From there, Eggman calls forth a squadron of nanobots to form a new bridge all the way to their destination, although it is constantly besieged by monsters, including a massive one at the very end which threatens to plunge them all back to the surface.
After finally reaching Angel Island, Knuckles leads the group through old echidna ruins, accidentally awakening massive stone guardians that attack the intruders. They eventually come upon a temple containing a mural that seems to describe the monster that is threatening the world, but Knuckles and Tails realize that it is actually talking about Chaos, the protector of the Master Emerald. Eggman theorizes that some sort of evil energy has caused it to react violently, much like when he tried to control it before. 
They continue along until they reach the sanctum of the Master Emerald. Upon seeing it, Blaze collapses to the ground, overtaken by a vision of the past when the echidna peoples fought against a dark intruder to protect the Master Emerald, taking the place of the soldier who ultimately repelled the monster. She wakes up from her vision and tells the others of what she saw, pondering about whether her own world has an equivalent for the Master Emerald and Chaos. Tails has an idea to borrow some of the Master Emerald's power as well as Eggman's nanomachines to create a plane, which the team uses to fly towards the monster that they have begun to call Entropy.
They reach Entropy as it travels towards Magmatic Crater, where a massive meteorite was said to have fallen a million years before. Entropy swipes their plane out of the sky, causing them to land at the rim of the crater, and they decide to travel inwards to find what it must be heading towards. After reaching the center of the crater, they find an entryway to a deep cave system that they believe must contain the fabled meteorite, but Entropy begins chasing them through the cramped tunnels. After they finally reach the meteorite, Blaze begins to use it to repel Entropy, but even after seemingly defeating it the monster continues to move further and further in, leaving the team's fate unknown.
===Final Story===
Sonic and Blaze both awaken next to one another in a strange, Dark Dimension, illuminated only by a single flame. They explain their situations to one another, realizing that their worlds and all of their friends have been lost possibly to this same place. Blaze begins to use her fire powers to light up the world around them, and Sonic follows her trail of fire as he speeds through the world looking for their lost friends. They continue working in tandem until they come across a grotto filled with mushrooms that light up in a change reaction once they are exposed to Sonic's speed.
In the grotto, the two find petrified versions of their friends which they are unable to break free. A voice calls out to Sonic and Blaze from the center of the grotto, and the two turn to see a dark figure in the center who they both recognize as the evil intruder from their memories. The intruder calls itself Space Eater, and explains that it sustains itself by traveling through the dimensions of the multiverse and engorging itself on those dimension's magical sources of energy. 
Sonic and Blaze return to their visions of the past in the Sol Dimension, where they see the Space Eater wiping away the echidnas and taking that dimension's Master Emerald from them. It is revealed that the intruder took into itself all of the energy from the Master Emerald, leaving only a nearly useless hunk of rock that it flung into another dimension. Blaze recognizes this chunk of rock as the meteorite that Entropy coveted; in fact, Entropy was her world's Chaos, who after millions of years of anger at losing the Master Emerald eventually developed the power to travel through space so that it could finally recover it.
Unfortunately, Eggman-Negative tried to harvest the enraged energy of Entropy for his own selfish gains. The Space Eater reveals that drawing upon this energy caused both Sonic and Blaze's worlds to become unstable, and that they had already collapsed onto themselves. The Space Eater would be able to restore the two universes, but only if Sonic agreed to give up his world's Master Emerald and both of their dimensions' Chaos and Sol Emeralds. Realizing that this would create another monster like Chaos, and unwilling to give in to such a greedy demand, Sonic refuses, and he and Blaze begin to fight the Space Eater. If Sonic collected the Sol Emeralds, he will use them to transform into Solar Sonic; likewise, Blaze will use the Chaos Emeralds to become Super Blaze. Their combined forces are able to take down Space Eater despite his many tricks and usage of bending space.
As the Space Eater begins to lose his shape, he realizes that he is outmatched by the power of the two friends and gives up his demands, agreeing to restore their two universes so long as they help him do so. They lend their power to the recreation of the twin dimensions, which also brings their petrified friends back to life who cheer them on as they do so. After everything is brought back to normal, Sonic and Blaze give the Space Eater one parting gift as thanks: a struggling and bound Eggman-Negative, which the Space Eater takes away to another dimension.
Sonic, Blaze, and their friends all party together as it is revealed that their dimensions have now become permanently connected with numerous bright and newly stable portals, and with the removal of Eggman-Negative, a new era of prosperity is brought to the Sol Dimension. Meanwhile, Dr. Eggman laughs as he begins to plot his next plan to take over both worlds another day, having learned a few tricks from working with Tails.
==Sol Shards==
After Eggman-Negative shatters the barrier separating the Sol Dimension from Sonic's world, the shattered fragments of the barrier fall upon the two lands as Sol Shards, which contain untold power. The Sol Shards serve as the primary collectible across stages; they can be earned by completing stages skillfully, and they can be spent to uncover secrets and acquire unique cosmetic items.
Upon completing an Act for the first time, the player will receive ten Sol Shards for each second they beat the time limit of the Act by and, for non-boss Acts, they will receive ten Sol Shards for every Ring they completed the level with. After completing a level that has already been finished, the player will instead receive Sol Shards only for beating their previous records; for example, after beating a level five seconds faster than their previous fastest finish, they will get fifty Sol Shards. When playing as Sonic or Blaze in the other's respective levels after beating the main story, each level has entirely new records, effectively doubling the number of Sol Shards the player can get.
The primary use of Sol Shards is to uncover maps of each Act. While exploring each non-boss Act, the player's map on the bottom screen is initially covered by fog. At any time, they can press the Radar button, pausing the game and allowing them to begin wiping away fog using the stylus. Each portion of fog removed consumes a Sol Shard, and the player can only clear away fog that is a certain distance away from segments of the area they have already visited, stopping them from immediately revealing the entire map.
Between Acts, Sonic and Blaze can each visit their world's Workshop menu, where Sonic is assisted by Marine and Blaze is initially assisted by Dr. Eggman; after completing the main story, both Sonic and Blaze are instead helped by a combined team of Tails and Marine. From the Workship, the player can purchase items from three different varieties of cosmetics, each using Sol Shards.
* Chao Garden While exploring each Act, Sonic and Blaze will find various Chao Garden items, including Chao eggs, tool blueprints, and captured Animals. Before they can use these items in the Chao Garden, they must first unlock them at the Workshop, where their assistance will use the power of the Sol Shards to correspondingly incubate the egg, craft the tool, or free the Animals.
* Figurines Sonic and Blaze can redeem their Sol Shards at a gachapon capsule machine that will give them a random figurine based on an enemy, ally, or stage object they have encountered so far on their adventure. The player can then use these figures in the Sonic AR mode or display them in their decorated Chao Garden.
* Holograms A feature inspired by Fire Emblem Awakening's support system. The player's assistants have each put together a hologram room where the characters can enjoy some relaxation between Acts. After using Sol Shards to create a new hologram, the player will get to enjoy a voice acted conversation between two or more characters enjoying the hologram and getting into humorous antics.
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