Sonic Adventure 3: Friends and Foes (video game)

Sonic Adventure 3: Friends and Foes is a 2014 action/adventure platformer game developed by Sonic Team and released by Sega for the Playstation 4, Xbox ONE and Wii.U consoles in late 2014. The game primarily allows you to choose Sonic, Blaze, Knuckles, and Tails across several stages. Minor characters like Tails, Rouge, and Silver become playable in the game too as "amigo characters".

Gameplay
Sonic Adventure 3: Friends and Foes is a platform game in which the player characters are the titular Sonic, Blaze, Tails or Knuckles. Sonic's levels generally focus on speed, with some sections having him run at full speed while dodging obstacles. Blaze is also a speed character like Sonic, but it's more harder and focuses more on strategy and agility more than speed. Tails returns in a mech battle suit, a la Sonic Adventure 2. It's more of a "tower defense" where you shoot at all enemies in order to get pass a stage. Knuckles' levels focus on time and treasure hunting, where you must find shards of the shattered Master Emerald in order to fix it. The player may manually switch to an amigo character by pressing a button, each with their own abilities. Although every character plays the same levels, each character's unique abilities allows the player to go to different areas of each stage and deny the player from accessing certain items. Sonic, Blaze, Tails, and Knuckles start the game with five lives. A life is lost when the characters are struck by an enemy attack without rings or suffer any other type of damage. Characters may lose lives even if they have rings, if they fall to a bottomless pit, drown, crushed, or submerge in lava. If the player runs out of lives, the game is over. The goal of the game is to complete all four stories and unlock the Last Story. In each story, the player navigates through Town Stages where they can converse with townspeople to progress the story. The main gameplay takes place in Adventure Stages which become accessible as the game progresses. Some Adventure Stages require certain abilities to access; for example, one stage requires the Light Speed Dash move to be unlocked. While in an Adventure Field, special hub worlds the characters go to after each Stage, players can take Mission Stages to earn rings, which can be spent on upgrades and even outfits to their characters.

Several downloadable extensions have been released that add features to single-player gameplay. These include "Very Hard" mode, a more difficult version of the game; "Boss Attack" modes, which allow a playable character to engage in continuous battles with all of the game's bosses; and "Team Attack Amigo" mode, which sends players through a multitude of levels in a set order, changing to a different amigo character every two levels, culminating in a boss fight.[4] The game also features multiplayer modes: "Tag", where four players must work together to clear levels and collect Chaos Emeralds; "Battle", where four players race against each other; and "Survival", where two players run at a fast pace regardless of their abilities while dodging obstacles that are thrown onto the course, and whoever loses a life first loses. and also minigames too, like kart racing and pinball.

Plot

The game starts out in Fate City Central, one of the hub worlds, in the year 2006, and within minutes, Eggman shows up, and unleashes Metal Sonic on him. Upon defeating Metal Sonic, Sonic begins to gloat about his victory and taunts Eggman. Annoyed, Eggman shows Sonic a secret weapon he was working on 7 years ago. He fires the weapon on Sonic after his sarcastic remarks about the weapon. This renders Sonic unconscious. Eggman leaves in his mobile cockpit, about to wreack havoc on the city. Meanwhile, a pale, evil copy of Sonic appeared, and unnotably goes off in search of Eggman, his creator.

Sonic wakes up, with his memory about what happened in the last 12 hours in a fog. He runs off, looking for Tails. Sonic finds Tails in the train station, and informs Sonic that Eggman is at Emerald Coast with Metal Sonic looking for the 4th Chaos Emerald. Sonic thanks him, and runs off to an Adventure Stage leading to Emerald Coast.

Sonic finally confronts Eggman, but then realizes that it's not Metal Sonic, and it's actually his evil twin copy. Sonic jokingly compliments himself in front of his copy. They both soon realize that the world is not big enough for two Sonic's and then they violently battle each other.

Eggman calls out for the evil Sonic copy (now known as Evil Sonic) saying that he has found what they were looking for. Sonic uses chaos control to teleport away in the middle of a battle. Sonic was suprised to see that he can use Chaos Control without an Emerald, and runs out looking for Help.

Meanwhile, Shadow is in eastern Europe looking for Rouge, who is held hostage in Nova Prospekt, a high security prison at a beach surrounded by a moat. Shadow rescues Rouge, only to be surrounded by robots, and seeing that Eggman has appeared with a strange amulet in his hand. Shadow questions Eggman's amulet. Out of anger, Eggman accidently drops the amulet, freeing a large black fist that helps Shadow and Rouge by destroying all the robots and flinging Eggman someone else trying to flee. The fist lands into the ground, and steals Shadow's shadow, and a figure matching Shadow's shape is emitted from purple fog.

The figure named Mephiles praises Shadow for freeing him from dormance, and gets into his face. Harassed, Shadow pulls out a gun from his hand and fires it, but the bullet was seemingly dissolved before hitting Mephiles. He soon traps Shadow and Rouge inside a purple forcefield and all three of them disappear into another timeline.

Sonic and Tails met up with Knuckles at the dockyards of Fate City. Knuckles informs Sonic that Eggman kidnapped Amy Rose and left the city with her. He gives him a note by Eggman, to go to Windy Peak and give him 150 rings, as part of a ransom to free Amy Rose. Tails and Knuckles thinks that he's bluffing, but Sonic chooses to go regardless, saying that he will "thank him personally."

Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles fought through Windy Acropolis and arrive at Eggman's base. Eggman shows Amy Rose and opens a hole to put the rings in. Sonic throws a bag filled with 150 rings into a hole. It was too late for the team to find out it was a trap, as Eggman slammed a button on a control panel emitting a purple electric forcefield that held them captive. Eggman soon pulls down a lever, that vaporizes Team Sonic. The shocked Amy Rose falls to her knees and cries, but Eggman informs her that they are not dead, but were teleported to another timeline.

Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles finds Shadow and Rouge in the ruins of Windy Acropolis in the future, approximately 15 years. They also find out that they are in the middle of a war going on since Eggman's reign. Shadow informs the trio that in order to return home, they must find two Chaos Emeralds, thinking that if they embrace the two together, they can create a hole in time and space.

Shadow and Rouge fought through the future and found a Chaos Emerald in the apocalyptic war theme of Fate City. They also encounter E123 Omega, who is in standby mode. They left Omega behind and took the last train out of Fate City before it explodes savagely.

Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles also escaped the city, but with no luck of finding a Chaos Emerald. They meet up with Shadow and Rouge in the volcanic badlands of the Mystic Ruins. Tails recieved data from his PDA indicating there is a Chaos Emerald in a more dangerous part of the Mystic Ruins. Knuckles volunteers to find the Chaos Emerald, heading off with Rouge. Knuckles and Rouge worked together to find six shards of the sapphire Chaos Emerald, putting it back together. They reunite with  Sonic and Tails. They were waiting for Shadow to come back because he needed to "handle some problems alone", but were soon stopped by the interruption of the Fate City Imbecile Suppression Team (FCIST). They incapacitated and threw Tails, Sonic, Knuckles, and Rouge into a van, stealing 2 of their Chaos Emeralds, and left off without a trace.

Sonic wakes up in a jail cell in a decaying prison on the Moon, along with Tails, Knuckles, and Rouge. Knuckles argues with Sonic and Tails that it was a bad idea to team up with Shadow, but the fight was broken up by Rouge, saying that if they don't man up now, they may never get back home. Team Sonic apologized each other, and tried to figure of a way to get out. Tails spot an air vent and crawled inside, but finds himself inside a huge engine room, where he finds Shadow The Hedgehog locked inside in solitary confinement. Tails frees Shadow by hacking the codepad with his PDA. Tails asked Shadow why he was locked up in solitare, and Shadow answered him by saying that "injured 14 guards". Tails and Shadow were then ambushed by robots, and made a truce and fought their ways out of the engine room.

Sonic was playing old western blues on a harmonica in boredom, and Rouge and Knuckles were sleeping next to each other. Tails and Shadow showed, waking up Knuckles and Rouge, and freeing Sonic from boredom. Tails opens up the barred door by hacking into the codepad again using the PDA. They were soon caught by a passing prison guard before Shadow knocks him out by whacking him on the shoulder, but then they sounded off an alarm. They all split up, making it difficult for the prison guards to catch them all.

Team Sonic, Shadow, and Rouge met up in a control room, only to be trapped in an electric cage. A pack of prison guards show up, and reveals Mario, who is the warden and mastermind of the moon prison. He is not suprised to see Sonic, but was astonished to see Shadow and Rouge. Tails asks Mario why he arrested them and held them prison on the moon. Mario soon tells them a story of when he was very popular back in the late 1980s, saying that he was nominated and won "Game Of The Year" 6 times in a row, before being dethroned by the appearance of Sonic The Hedgehog in 1991. This caused him to lose his girlfriend, Peach. Luigi, who tried to cheer Mario up with encouraging words, was shunned, and Mario says that he is not his brother anymore. He soon thought of a foolproof plan to get his revenge on Sonic, spanning over 30 years. He says that by using 2 of the Chaos Emeralds he found, he could make a comeback game that will cause SEGA to go bankrupt, and Sonic to seemingly "vanish" from the video game universe. He then tells the guards to not even bother prisoning them, Sonic giving out a sigh in relief, but then Mario tells the guards to kill Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles, sparing Shadow and Rouge but putting them in life in solitary confinement.

Right after Mario sentences the team to death, Blaze appears and kicked Mario in the groin, and fights all the guards off. She tells the team to leave now, giving them the fighting chance to get home before it's too late, but Shadow chooses to stay with Blaze, helping her hold off the guards. Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, and Rouge run off.

After handling all the guards, Shadow warns Blaze to take the last escape pod out of the base. Blaze says that she won't leave him behind, but Shadow tells her to go anyway. Blaze takes off. Shadow goes into the engine room, and plants am artificially made bomb (He calls it a "Chaos Bomb") on one of the engines, and contacts Tails via his PDA on his wrist that the base is going to blow in 15 minutes.

Team Sonic and Rouge finally got to the place where the 2 stolen Chaos Emeralds were found, and were ready to use them to get home, but was stopped by Fire Mario. He punches Sonic in the face, and they both fell into a stadium where they continue to fight.

Sonic successfully defeats Mario, and then Tails, Knuckles and Rouge came in. Sonic and Knuckles embraced the two Chaos Emeralds, creating a portal. Tails warns everybody that they have 15 seconds left before the place slows up. Tails, Rouge, and Knuckles jumped through the portal, and Sonic hesitated, thinking to himself that he couldn't leave Mario behind. In the last second, he drags the unconscious Mario into the portal with him, before the moonbase exploded, crumbling and destroying half of the moon. Shadow did not make it, and was presumed to be dead.

Sonic finally makes it out of the portal, with Mario coming on, regaining consciousness. Knuckles, Tails, and Rouge comes in, and Knuckles handcuffed Mario. Mario sighs and rethinks his life. They soon worried about Shadow and Blaze, if he made it out or not. Sonic soon forgets about it saying that he was nothing but trouble, but wanted to thank him for helping the team. The group was soon dismissed when Rouge was given a call by G.U.N. to return to the base, and when Tails said he needed to work on his Tornado, and when Knuckles said that he left his oven on.