Ultimate Sonic

Ultimate Sonic is not just any fan game I have planned, but hopefully my best fan game with the best I can provide for it. I hope to design my own "Hedgehog Engine" which will be as easy as Sonic Adventure gameplay but all the fun of Sonic Unleashed. The character controls will also be different, I intend that Knuckles and Tails will be able to use the Spin Dash whom haven't been able to do it since Sonic & Knuckles.

Story
The game has two events that are happening around Sonic and his friends. Both plots are a threat to the world, which ever to dominate or destroy. As the game is still in heavy planning, comments, critism and suggestion is encouraged on the discussion page. While a fan game, it is aimed at the majority of Sonic fans than just personal tastes.

Chaos VS Darkness
Angel Island has fallen and the Master Emerald's brilliant green light is now just a dim glow. Knuckles, along with Sonic and Tails are not sure why Angel Island has fallen.

Tikal the Echidna, a once mortal, now angelic being appears to the heroes and tells a demonic being known as Mephiles the Dark who has disturbed the balance of chaos. The name is new to the heroes but Mephiles has ties with Sonic.

Mephiles comes from Oblivion as Tikal from the Special Zone. He grew on the darkness that made the dimension and was eventually able to return to the world he was lost from. His disturbance is why the Master Emerald is weak as he wants to find the Chaos Emeralds, particularly one emerald coloured black.

Eggman Empire
The evil genius Dr. Ivo Robotnik plans for his empire is to restore the Death Egg and with the data files has stolen from Space Colony ARK, to create his own Eclipse Cannon to threat the world with. However he needs the seven Chaos Emeralds.

This time he has help from a sniper that once worked for him. But can he really trust him?

Gameplay
A large map set 3x3 is planned with 9 Adventure Fields of large sizes. Each field will have less than 3 Action Stages (some just one or two, Chao Sanctuary will have no Action Stages) and the controls will be slightly different than usual Sonic gameplay but remenese the Sonic Adventure controls but speed faster than Sonic Unleashed.

Controls
The controls have been planned years before Sonic Next-Gen and Sonic Unleashed. If Ultimate Sonic would of been made sooner it would of reintroduced "ducking" before Sonic Unleashed. Originally from the early 2D Sonic games when pressing ↓ would make the playing character crouch down, this way the character can Spin Dash by pressing the jump button. In this game, Spin dashing is done by holding down the right analogue stick and pressing jump to begin Spin Charge and while holding down, tilt the analogue stick to aim, letting go to Spin Dash. All characters will be able to perform Spin Dash.

Pressing the Jump button while in mid-air will also result in Homing attack (Sonic, Shadow), Flight (Tails) or Glide (Knuckles, Rouge).

Each hero have there own various skills. The Action Button varies those skills like Sonic and Shadows Speed Boost or Knuckles's punching. During there stories they will find an artifact which will give them new powers to be used with the Ability Button.

The use of "button 3" is for dodging or use in quick time events. It, along with 'button 2' is also used for talk with people and interaction with certain things. In cannon games the Action Button performs these functions but at minor annoyance chance may perform default function, with two buttons for talk and interaction would make interacting with NPC or events more easier.

Heroes
There will be a maximum of 3 characters to play as each with there own story as well as secondary playable characters in certain characters stories. It will depend on planning. But the story will be told from 3 points of views.

Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic is as usual at the center of these events. Tails alerted him that Angel Island has fallen on to the mountains at Northern Kingdom and thus the pair investigate.

Miles "Tails" Prower
Sonic's closest friend and genius. Surveying ths skies he witness the fall of Angel Island which he reports to Sonic.

Knuckles the Echidna
Knuckles is the guardian of the Master Emerald as well as Angel Island where it resides. When Angel Island landed in the mountains this caused tremours across the island. For safety, Knuckles relocated the Emerald Shrine to the Hidden Palace at the heart of Angel Island.

Allies
These characters are Non-Playable characters.

Tikal the Echidna
In ancient times, Tikal was once a mortal daughter of Cheif Pachacamac of the Knuckle Tribe. Now she is an angelic being who resides in the Special Zone. She has returned to Sonic and friends in dire need of help in fear of Mephiles.

Chaos
Chaos is a living manifestation of chaos and water. He was usurped as God of Destruction by Mephiles and has since gone.

(Chaos may not be in the final production of the game being a minor character.)

Cream the Rabbit
Cream is on holiday with her mum Vanilla and her best friend Cheese. They are at Chao Sanctuary, a village where chao and people live in peace with many chao gardens.

Cream will be your teacher in raising chao and such.

Amy Rose
Young Amy is a lovestruck hedgehog stalking scouting for Sonic wherever he may be, even though at times when she finds Sonic, trouble tends to find her.

Amy's own story in Ultimate Sonic can be downloaded unlocking her as a playable hero.

Shadow the Hedgehog
A dark hedgehog who is a military agent of GUN who also to take the doctor down, unlike Sonic, he has his orders to do this but also to retrieve what is stolen from him.

Shadow's own story in Ultimate Sonic can be downloaded unlocking him as a playable hero.

Rouge the Bat
This sexy bat is a secret agent of GUN. With an interest on the events unfolding as well as Shadow's friend she decides to help him with his mission in hopes of oppotunity to collect precious treasures.

Rouge's own story in Ultimate Sonic can be downloaded unlocking her as a playable hero.

Villains
These characters are Non-Playable characters. (Maybe)

Dr. Eggman
Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik is in preperation for his latest attempts to establish his Eggman Empire and to take over the world. He has stolen data from ARK in hopes to create his own ultimate weapon, the Eclipse Cannon, which he will install into his latest Death Egg.

Nack the Weasel
A treasure hunter with a shady past who proposes to help Dr. Eggman. The two once worked together over a decade ago with Nack fleeing after his greed got the better of him. Now he propose to assist the doctor but why should Robotnik trust him?

Mephiles the Dark
Mephiles comes from Oblivion, a demonic hedgehog like character with a past only a few truely know. For some reason he wants vengence on Sonic and is also interested in the Chaos Emeralds. He is also looking for the black Chaos Emerald which he can draw incredible powers from.

Music
Various original themes and songs are planned for this game. Each playable character will have a theme which is a remix cover of various classic music from zones before Sonic Adventure.

One particular song that will be requested for the game will be Reach for the Goal by shadowlink4321, the use of his song has not been requested yet due the game not beginning it's development but if accepted it is hoped the song will be either Sonics theme or the games main theme.

Selected themes
The themes have not been composed or lyrics written yet, however these are the planned music to be remixed for character themes

And for the DLC characters

Downloadable Content
Like the Sonic Dreamcast games there will be a variety of DLC that will allow characters, events and challenges in the game. Such events for Halloween and Christmas events.

Also the DLC characters Amy, Shadow and Rouge will also be exclusive story characters explaining events in the games story left untold. These downloads are optional so not to over-populate the playable characters.