Sonic 2022 Leak

>Title is Sonic ShArds (Yes, with a capital A), logo's subtitle font is Black Chancery with the capital A letter looking shattered to represent the main theme.
>Main story opens with Sonic, Tails and Knuckles getting transported via a random magic portal to a different planet.
>After the ending of Forces, Eggman tries to think of a new domination plan without the Phantom Ruby. Soon he finds that the Master Emeralds were teletransported to another world and he decides to start a Takeover with his Robot army there. When Eggman finds the 7 Emeralds, one of the ''Royals'' that lives in the invaded planet decides to shatter them and the pieces get lost over the near lands.
>After this (and Eggman putting his own ''Kingdom'' and starting plans to invade others.) the 6 Royals of the Land of ''Gerswind'' decide to summon the 3 bravest heroes that defeated the Eggman before he invaded. (No kidding they recon that Avatar and Classic Sonic were the ones to do most work apart from Modern Sonic and they take Knuckles and Tails which is also partially retcon due to what he did in Forces, Aka: Crouching in fear and saying dumb science stuff.)
>The theme of this game is: High Fantasy. Imagine like one of those generic isekais that are currently hip with the weebs right now, that is ShArds entire theming. Through there are some zones who use slightly more imaginative themes.
>First zone of the game is a Medieval European city titled ''Town of Opoella''. (An example that the insider gave me on how this act would look like: i.pinimg.com/originals/e4/69/e8/e469e8d3d46dfce1e615cbbc7c9a96c7.jpg)
>So basically it's a Hedge-hodgepodge of CD, Black Knight and Sonic Battle plots combined into 1 package already.
>Gameplay is split into 3 different characters and gameplay styles: Sonic, Tails and Knuckles.

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>Sonic still plays like everyone's favorite Modern Sonic kind of gameplay: Boost!
>Tails plays like he did in Adventure 1 and his levels are designed like that game's levels too. Just with some overall design tweaks.
>You would expect Knuckles to be gem hunting stages but NO! They're Beat 'em ups but unlike Werehog his levels are designed to be shorter. He can dig down with a certrain Shard equiped and it has different uses depending on your current movement plane (3D is a Combat mechanic where you dig down and can perform surprise attacks when rising up, and 2D is just Yellow Wisp).
>9 Zones in total with 6 stages in each one, there's a variated disribution between Characters per Zone (First Zone has 2 Sonic stages, 2 Tails stages and 1 Knuckles one). And outside of the first one, every Zone has a progressing theme of Eggman taking over it and you stumbling upon his mechanizing of the landscape.
>Final stage of every Zone is always a boss. There's a mix between actual Eggbosses and giant creatures under control of Eggman's tech shenanigans that you have to free by defeating them.
>Apart from the final goal and Red Rings, another element of extra content is found on some levels: Getting Emerald Shards
>Shortcuts are a little bit more engaging than most previous Boost games this time. To go with new collectibles and the decrease of Red Rings per stage (There are 3 now only).
>Game's gimmick is Emerald Shards. They are the replacement of Wisps and the character skills in Generations/Forces. There are three shards scattered around 3 different stages of every Zone between the First and Last one. And when you find them, you still have to activate them by a method I will detail later.
>The shards are divided between 2 secondary shards (Give you smaller bonuses like the skills in Generations or those tied to a specific Avatar animal in Forces) and 1 main shard across halves of the 7 Emeralds.

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>Some of the main shards skills are the afromentioned Digging skill, Light Dashing, Wall Jumping (Yes, those 2 are not part of the core movesets), ''Pixie Transform'' (You litteraly become a navi-like Fairy and it's litteraly just Green/Hover Wisp), ''Phantasm Shift'' (Blue/Cube Wisp except you switch up faster and is purple) ''Underwater Breathing'' (This one is litteraly required for an entire Zone of the game I'm not joking and it's just a safenet for you to not drown) and more.
>All shards have varying functions per character. For example a main Yellow shard gives Knuckles the Digging skill but it gives Sonic and Tails the Wall Jumping one.
>You can equip 4 secondary and 2 main shards at a time and make your own Emerald skillset that way.
>Hubworlds are back, bitches!
>They are laid out similarly to Unleashed with various NPCs to talk to, a main store and a Landmark alongside a Map that transports you to each respective stage in the Zone.
>Shop is divided by 2 sections:
>One is for stuff like lives and general helpful items.
>The other is the Gemsmith section that allows you to activate the shards you encountered. Apart from a fee of regular Rings, You'll need to collect at least 2 Red Rings in any of the stages of that zone to activate any shards.
>Missions are also back but only 4 per Zone, with 2 of them begin repeats of previous stages in different conditions. (Example: Getting to the end before your ghost, having Boost tripled but can't take a single hit, having a limited chaining attack in a Knuckles stage, etc...)

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Now for other things that don't really have relation with general gameplay
>Story outline is resumed as ''If Black Knight was written in Colors standards''. Basically no other preexisting Sonic characters show up apart from Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Eggman. (And another character that belongs in a group of other characters that the Sonic community hates... Yeah.)
>Knuckles getting included was kind of a miracle in and of itself. He was just included because of his ''Newfound fame across the fanbase'' (Aka: They saw people during the past decade memeing Knuckles to oblivion. From ''& Knuckles'' to Uganda Knuckles basically that's probally the reason why he is playable again. And also, Mania.)
>As for the new ''Royal'' characters, there are Seven of them and don't really have much screentime outside of when you first met them at the opening, when you meet each one by entering their respective Zones they rule over, and the final strech of the game. The animals that they are based off are: Ferret, Bat, Snake, Dolphin, Bee, Komodo Dragon and Hawk.
>Started Planning after Forces went gold. Development fully started in Spring 2018.
>Visual-wise I can confirm: It looks better than Unleashed. And there's been heavy optimizing work put to ensure nothing runs like Jungle Joyride did on the 7th gen console version of Unleashed.
>80% of Sonic Team has been working on ShArds since it began development. It seems like this probally caused other ST titles like Puyo Tetris 2 or an new IP project to take a backseat.
>Soundtrack is begin handled by Jun Senoue, Tee Lopes and Hyper Potions. But nethier of these 3 are the focus of the game's main song
>This Untitled song will be made and performed by ''Roselia''. The insider didn't give me any info and tried looking it up just to find a Pokemon and random anime girls. Maybe it's an Independant band?
>Aiming for Summer 2022 release
>Xbox Series X/S, Xbone, PS5/4, PC, NSW versions at launch. Amazon Luna version later

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Digits decide if MASSIVE flop
Put me in the screencap regardless.

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Ironic coming from a Nintendie

I said sanic, not sonic.