Sonic Unleashed + Shadow's Fury

Sonic Unleashed + Shadow's Fury, known in Japan as Sonic World Adventure DX + Anger of Shadow (ソニックワールドアドベンチャーDX +怒りの影 Sonikku Wārudo Adobenchā DX + ikari no kage), is an enhanced remake of the 2008 game Sonic Unleashed released for the GhostDrive. Intended to make up for the sheer amount of potential Unleashed wasted, it changes the gameplay quite a bit while also retaining the good parts of it, and adds a new side story known as Shadow's Fury, revolving around Shadow the Hedgehog.
==Sonic Unleashed==
The remake of the original Sonic Unleashed game boasts updated graphics, music, and many other details and additions to improve the gameplay.
===Gameplay Changes===
*The game as a whole uses the HD versions as a base, but some of the gameplay features and improvements of the non-HD versions, such as Action Chains and Medals not being mandatory collectables, are preset. However, by contrast, the Tornado Defense minigame has been removed alongside the requirement of collecting Skills and leveling up.
**Instead, the Tornado levels are replaced with new levels that have Sonic hopping between airships, with brief slow-motion moments akin to Flowmotion in the Kingdom Hearts series.
*Separate nighttime levels no longer exist. Instead, Sonic is able to transform into the Werehog by the press of a button, which also shifts the level to nighttime. At night, the level may differ in layout, offering potential shortcuts. Switching between the forms incurs a five-second cooldown however.
**As a result, Sonic's Werehog form now plays much differently, being more akin to a character action game such as Devil May Cry or Bayonetta. As a result, Sonic gains Ranks whenever he uses moves akin to the ranks given out when finishing levels, and these are used to fill the Unleashed Bar. When it's full, Sonic can go into Unleashed Mode and gain heightened attack speed and power.
**Enemies defeated in Werehog form drop one ring each, to compensate for the Werehog form being both slower and more vulnerable in combat.
**Due to this gameplay shift, levels have been restructured considerably, with most overhauled or even removed in favor of replacements.
*Sonic's overall gameplay is now more akin to that of Sonic Generations, taking several refinements from it.
*The life system has been removed, much like in Sonic Forces.
*There are no longer any 2D sections, thus the game is solely in 3D.
*The beginning tutorials of the game are no longer as segmented, and moreso consist of two larger tutorial levels.
*The Town Stages now have outskirts where Sonic can practice using his full moveset. He's also able to use the Boost in these areas without the need for Rings.
*Eggmanland has been completely overhauled due to complaints about how tedious it was, consisting of a more straightforward design.
===Story Changes===
*All characters are now voiced by their voice actors from Sonic Free Riders onwards when possible.
*Sonic's ability to freely shift between hedgehog and Werehog forms is now explained by the presence of Chip, who awakens the powers necessary.
*Cubot from Sonic Colors now appears alongside Orbot, with several new scenes featuring comical interactions between them. However, the two of them play a larger role in the Shadow's Fury mode.
*Chip has been toned down slightly in terms of his dialogue, now being written so that he's less talkative, and a bit more serious at times.
==Shadow's Fury==
Shadow's Fury is the new mode exclusive to Sonic Unleashed + Shadow's Fury, consisting of a full campaign in which the player controls Shadow the Hedgehog.
===Story===
====Black Arms Containment Facility/Dense Tundra====
Shadow the Hedgehog, alongside Rouge the Bat and E-123 Omega, are infiltrating one of Eggman's bases around the same time Sonic is attacking Eggman's flagship. With Shadow at the helm, they're blasting through Eggman's robots in search of "the vault". Eventually, the team reaches a large lab with a strange, spiderlike robot in it. Calling itself the Armsbot, it seems to be a mechanical entity infused with the energy of the Black Comet. Shadow and the team manage to defeat the Armsbot, but around the time it falls, a series of explosions begin to rock the facility. Outside, the world can be seen cracking apart due to Eggman awakening Dark Gaia. Shadow seems to collide with the remnants of the Armsbot as the scene cuts to black.
When Shadow wakes up, he finds himself looking a bit different: he's larger, spikes are protruding out his back, and one of his arms is akin to a giant cannon of sorts. Shadow kneels in pain for some reason as well, due to the energy overtaking him. Wandering the frigid tundra of Holoska, taking out the Eggman-loyal robots in the area, he later manages to shift back to his original form. After experimenting for a few seconds, he realizes he ingested part of the Armsbot's DNA and can transform into a Black Arms. However, this discovery is cut short by Shadow noticing a pack of Black Arms harassing several hikers. Smirking, he goes to save them. Despite defeating the Black Arms, the hikers run away from Shadow due to seeing him as a monster.
====Egg Battleship/Angel Island Outskirts====
Shadow, wandering the frozen wastes, notices a wrecked Eggman battleship pulling in Black Arms. Curious, he goes to investigate, where he finds Orbot and Cubot gathering what Black Arms they could find, with Orbot insisting that Eggman will turn him into scrap if he doesn't get them back. Shadow, in his Black Arms form, sneaks onto the ship under the guise of being one of several Black Arms the two robots are bringing back to Eggman, and as it takes off, returns to his normal form. From there, he storms the ship, eliminating both Black Arms and Eggman robots. Eventually, he reaches the bridge of the ship, where Orbot and Cubot, confused, think he's Sonic. Shadow simply laughs in response, telling them that he's "no ordinary hedgehog". Orbot and Cubot, intimidated, break out the Egg Mech and proceed to take on Shadow. Seeing as how his speed is useless in a cramped room, Shadow turns into his Black Arms form, shocking the two robots.
Shadow manages to tear apart the Egg Mech, but it ends up hitting the control panel of the ship. Shadow is then given several minutes to run for an escape pod aboard the battleship, eventually securing one. Orbot and Cubot manage to escape in one as well, but the two pods end up going in separate directions. Meanwhile, the Black Arms end up overrunning the ship as it crashes on a small island in the ocean.
When Shadow emerges from his escape pod, he finds that he's on Angel Island, more specifically the outskirts of it. Surprisingly, it's unaffected by Dark Gaia's reawakening. Shadow decides to venture through the island to find a way off it.
====Adabat Coast/Gaion Wastes====
Shadow eventually manages to get through the jungles of Angel Island, coming across the Master Emerald's shrine. There, Knuckles can be seen sleeping next to it, with Shadow jolting him awake. Knuckles, shocked, asks Shadow if there's more attackers coming for the island. When Shadow says no, Knuckles points towards the nearby mainland, where a large bluish-purple fog can be seen consuming a nearby jungle. Knuckles explains to Shadow that a few of the creatures managed to fly up to the island, but he pushed them back. Despite Shadow recognizing that the Black Arms are his primary enemy at the moment, he explains to Knuckles that he was already heading that way, but he'll keep an eye out for the monsters. From there, he skydives off of Angel Island as Knuckles watches, screaming to Shadow that he won't survive the fall.
Contrary to what Knuckles said, Shadow utilizes a Boost to land on the surface of the water, letting loose a large wave in the process. From there, he begins to run at a high speed as he notices bluish-purple monsters rising from the ocean. Recognizing them as the ones Knuckles told him about, he hits them with Homing Attacks before continuing to run along the water. The journey along the Adabat Coast is rough, but Shadow makes it through. When he arrives in Adabat, Shadow notices a few Black Arms running into the foggy landscape Knuckles showed him, known as the Gaion Wastes.
Within the Gaion Wastes, Shadow notices the stray Black Arms nodding at the minions of Dark Gaia, before lunging at Shadow together. As Shadow navigates the foggy, ruined wastes, he takes on more of Dark Gaia's minions, before being stopped by a large, hulking robot, with a feminine figure on its shoulder. The robot identifies itself as E-666 Alpha, and the feminine figure as the Dark Knight. Declaring themselves to be minions of Dark Gaia, they order Shadow to leave or be assimilated into their ranks. Shadow, enraged, takes them on.
Near the end of the battle, Shadow, in his Black Arms form, is cornered by E-666 Alpha, who points his minigun arm at the hedgehog. As Shadow grunts and struggles to escape, his heartbeat begins to intensify, to the point where he eventually lets out a massive blast of energy across the Gaion Wastes, rendering the fog moot and causing the minions of Dark Gaia to flee. In the process however, he returns to his hedgehog form before fainting as E-666 Alpha and the Dark Knight look at his body. The camera then pans over to show that they are, in fact, E-123 Omega and Rouge the Bat. Rouge suggests they bring Shadow to the nearest town to recuperate, and Omega nods in response, tossing Shadow onto his shoulder.
===Gameplay===
Shadow's Fury plays similarly to the main game, with the player controlling Shadow instead of Sonic. Shadow plays the same in his hedgehog form, but transforms into Black Arms Shadow instead of a Werehog. Black Arms Shadow is much different from the Werehog, due to the inclusion of a cannon arm that can fire off projectiles, giving a shooter-esque feel to some segments much like in Shadow the Hedgehog.
While Shadow usually goes through the same locales as Sonic, he does so in a different order as well as different parts of the areas. In addition, Shadow doesn't have any Town Stages, instead simply going from level to level.
===Levels===
Levels 	Levels
Black Arms Containment Facility	Serving as a tutorial level, the Black Arms Containment Facility is raided by Team Dark when they find out about its existence. It also holds the Armsbot boss.
Dense Tundra 	Located in the frigid wasteland of Holoska, the Dense Tundra was where the Black Arms Containment Facility was located prior to Dark Gaia's awakening. Shadow uses this simple, snowy area to practice his new abilities in his Black Arms form.
Egg Battleship 	A giant warship lent to Orbot and Cubot for the purpose of rounding up the stray Black Arms, the Egg Battleship is moreso a storage vessel than a combat one, storing various experiments and weapons Eggman created but never used. One of these is sure to be a deadly threat to Shadow however...
Angel Island Outskirts 	The jungles in the outskirts of Angel Island are full of stray Eggman robots left over from the doctor's last invasion, and are quite rugged. Shadow needs to venture through it to find a way off the island.
Adabat Coast 	Below Angel Island, and near the jungles of Adabat, the Adabat Coast is a massive chain of islands and ruins sticking out of the ocean, with fishlike minions of Dark Gaia infesting the waters recently. Due to the large amount of water, Shadow needs to keep running along the water, otherwise he'll drown!
Gaion Wastes 	This section of jungle was once a beautiful part of Adabat, but has been overrun with the minions of Dark Gaia ever since the incident. Shadow needs to liberate this area from the invaders, but maybe a certain figure might show up...
===Bosses===
Levels 	Levels
Armsbot 	Created by Dr. Eggman as an experiment with the remaining Black Arms, the Armsbot is essentially a spider-like robot infused with the energies of the Black Arms.
The Armsbot is fought within a long hallway, occasionally chasing Shadow down it, and also crawling onto the ceiling and jumping down. It can also drop bombs and ambush Shadow from the ceiling, so you'll need to rely on carefully timing Homing Attacks to take it down.
Egg Mech 	Another leftover Eggman weapon due to its need for two pilots, Orbot and Cubot have brought the Egg Mech into action to eliminate Shadow. Throughout the fight, the two might even bicker with each other!
The Egg Mech is fought in a large, circular room, with Shadow needing to use his Black Arms form to take out the thing. Occasionally, weak spots will be visible on the Egg Mech, requiring the use of the Black Arms form's projectile attacks to injure the Egg Mech. The mech itself primarily shoots missiles Shadow needs to hit back with attacks, laser beams that move along the ground, and a earth-shaking punch that will create a shockwave along the ground.
E-666 Alpha & The Dark Knight	These two...somewhat familiar individuals seem to be an old Eggman robot and a female bat infused with Dark Gaia's energies. They fight as a team, with Alpha fighting up close, and the Dark Knight often staying behind.
Shadow is required to shift between both of his forms to take on this duo, with his hedgehog form being necessary to outspeed and attack Alpha, and his Black Arms form necessary to shoot at the fast-moving Dark Knight. Occasionally, the duo might utilize an attack in which Alpha uses a flamethrower to spew purple flames towards the Dark Knight, who then lunges forward with a fiery, explosive kick.
==Trivia==
*Originally, Ghostrealm Studios was going to remake both of the Sonic Adventure games. However, Unleashed was chosen due to it having more potential for a remake.
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