Light Speed Shoes

The Light Speed Shoes or Light Shoes are an upgrade available to Sonic in Sonic Adventure and Sonic Adventure 2. They enable the hedgehog to use the Light Speed Dash move, flying along chains of rings. In subsequent games (like Sonic Heroes) Sonic has this ability inately and does not require a footwear upgrade to use it.

Sonic Adventure

• Purpose: Allows Sonic to use Light Dash, enabling him to race across a trail of rings.
• Location: Station Square sewers. After completing Windy Valley, go to the city hall section and drop down the open manhole in the road. The Light Speed Shoes are in this underground section.
• Requirements: Finished Windy Valley.
• Required For: The many vertical-ring-paths that Sonic runs into throughout his story. Indeed, you have to use the Light Speed Dash to get out of the sewer you pick the shoes up in.

Sonic Adventure 2

• Purpose: As in SA1, allows Sonic to use Light Dash.
• Location: Metal Harbor. After the first Point Marker, use Homing Attack on the GUN Beetle Robots to get to the other side. On that platform, there is a pulley that will take you to the Light Shoes.
• Requirements: None.
• Required For: Strictly speaking, nothing in the story requires this--you can manage everything except the final mission of Crazy Gadget without it (though you won't be able to get an A rank for Metal Harbor's second mission). However, the player is certainly meant to rely on this upgrade at points in both Metal Harbor and Crazy Gadget.
• Equivalent: Shadow's Air Shoes

See also

• Sonic Adventure upgrades
• Sonic Adventure 2 upgrades