Sonic Superstars (ソニックスーパースターズ Sonikku Sūpāsutāzu) is a 2.5D platforming title in the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise developed by Arzest. It was released worldwide on October 17, 2023.
Gameplay[]
Sonic Superstars is a 2.5D Sonic game in the style of the Classic Sonic games.
New to the series is a four player co-op multiplayer option, allowing four friends to play together as the four main playable characters, each of whom have their own special actions:
- Sonic the Hedgehog: Can perform the drop dash
- Tails: Can fly for short periods of time
- Knuckles the Echidna: Can glide and climb walls
- Amy Rose: Can attack with her hammer and has a double jump
In addition to the character's individual abilities, the Chaos Emeralds now grant new power ups known as Emerald Power:
- Ivy (Green): Allows the character to spawn a growable ivy vine that grows allowing them to reach higher up areas. The vine's direction is controllable
- Avatar (Blue): Generates an army of clones that run across the screen dealing damage and collecting rings
- Slow (Yellow): Allows the player to slow down time around them.
- Extra (Silver): This Chaos Emerald gives a character a new ability.
- Sonic obtains the homing dash
- Tails gets a tail spin attack
- Knuckles obtains a new punch move
- Amy can throw her hammer
- Trip obtains fire breath
- Water (Cyan): Transforms the player character into a liquid that cannot drown, be crushed and can travel across large bodies of water and up waterfalls.
- Vision (Purple): Allows the player to see hidden platforms and items.
- Bullet (Red): Turns the player into a fireball that can be launched repeatedly in any direction.
Once the story mode has been beaten once, the players will unlock a new single player campaign featuring Trip.
There is also a multiplayer battle mode where players can play as customisable Eggman Robots known as 'Metal Fighters' in various challenges such as combat, racing and collecting. This can be player either offline or online.
Characters[]
Playable characters[]
- Sonic the Hedgehog
- Miles "Tails" Prower
- Super Tails
- Knuckles the Echidna
- Amy Rose
- Super Amy
- Trip the Sungazer (first appearance)
- Dragon Form
- Metal Fighter (Battle Mode)
- Metal Sonic
- Metal Amy
- Metal Tails
- Metal Knuckles
- Mecha Sonic
Non-playable characters[]
DLC Skins[]
An additional feature for Sonic Superstars is the addition of skins for the characters. These include the following:
- Lego Sonic
- Lego Tails
- Lego Knuckles
- Lego Amy
- Lego Dr. Eggman
- Comic Sonic (has a cel shaded look with flat color and a black outline)
- Comic Tails (has a cel shaded look with flat color and a black outline)
- Comic Knuckles (has a cel shaded look with flat color and a black outline)
- Comic Amy (has a cel shaded look with flat color and a black outline)
- Rabbit: Skin for Sonic based on his original rabbit concept design
- Holiday Costume Sonic: Sonic wearing a Santa outfit
- Shadow: Sonic wearing a Shadow onesie. His face is still Sonic's
- Modern Outfit Amy Rose: Classic Amy wearing the modern Amy dress
- Retro Amy: Amy wearing a blue waitress dress and apron complete with red bow. IHOP exclusive through to 5th May 2024.
Trivia[]
- Whilst Sonic obtains Super Sonic form through the Chaos Emeralds, Tails, Knuckles and Amy do not recieve their official Super forms, instead simply becoming 'Superpowered' instead. Trip however changes her form into that of a dragon.
- This is the first physical appearance of Fang in a video game since Sonic the Fighters in 1996. He has since appeared as an illusion in Sonic Mania, and on Wanted Posters in Sonic Generations.
- Frozen Base Zone Act 2 is a shout out to Fantasy Zone.
- Additionally each of the characters' mechas for this level are based on Eggman's Egg Mobile design from the game the character debuted in (Tails uses the Egg Mobile design from Sonic 2 for example).
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