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==Gameplay==
In Sonic Shuffle, the player can select one of the main characters of the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise. The game supports 1 player in Story Mode and up to 4 players simultaneously in Versus Mode and the Sonic Room. The four players can play in teams and play against one another on a giant game board, going around and playing mini games to collect Emblems. Whoever has the most emblems at the end of each board wins. The overall goal of each board is to collect the most Precioustones, out of a total of 7. There are 5 boards in total: Emerald Coast, Fire Bird, Nature Zone, Riot Train, and Fourth Dimension Space.
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In ''Sonic Shuffle'', the player can select one of the main characters of the ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' franchise. The game supports 1 player in Story Mode and up to 4 players simultaneously in Versus Mode and the Sonic Room. The four players can play in teams and play against one another on a giant game board, going around and playing mini-games to collect [[Ring]]s. The overall goal of each board is to collect the most Precioustones, out of a total of 7 (though this number can be reduced in Versus Mode). After the final Precioustone is collected, everyone plays a "Stage Clear" mini-game for one last chance to collect Rings, and then [[Emblem]]s are handed out based on collected Precioustones and other accomplishments. Whoever has the most Emblems at the end of each board wins. There are 5 boards in total: [[Emerald Coast (Sonic Shuffle)|Emerald Coast]], [[Fire Bird]], [[Nature Zone]], [[Riot Train]], and [[Fourth Dimension Space]].
  
The game also features 8 playable characters (four of which need to be unlocked), each with their own unique abilities. The available characters are Sonic, [[Tails]], [[Amy]], and [[Knuckles]]. The unlockable characters are [[Super Sonic]], [[Big the Cat]], [[Gamma]], and [[Chao]].
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The game also features 8 playable characters (four of which need to be unlocked), each with their own unique abilities. The available characters are Sonic, [[Miles "Tails" Prower|Tails]], [[Amy Rose|Amy]], and [[Knuckles the Echidna|Knuckles]]. The unlockable characters are [[Super Sonic]], [[Big the Cat]], [[E-102 Gamma]], and [[Chao]].
  
The game features around 50 mini games and around 30 mini events. Mini games ranged in variety and challenge and they were divided by Teams of 2, Teams of 3 versus a Single Player and a Free-For-All. The mini events generally involved a little story, or event, and usually a choice given at the end to determine your prize or punishment. As well as having a single-player Story Mode and a two- to four-player Versus Mode, the game had a “Sonic Room” where you could play your favorite mini-games, after unlocking them, with your friends without starting a full game in a place called the "Toy Box", as well as a stereo to play your favorite soundtracks. Both of these must be unlocked by buying Photos from the Photo Album.
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The game features around 50 mini-games and around 30 mini-events. Mini-games ranged in variety and challenge and they were divided by Teams of 2, Teams of 3 versus a Single Player and a Free-For-All. The mini events generally involved a little story, or event, and usually a choice given at the end to determine a player's prize or punishment. As well as having a single-player Story Mode and a two- to four-player Versus Mode, the game had a “Sonic Room” where the player can play their favorite mini-games, after unlocking them, with their friends without starting a full game in a place called the "Toy Box", as well as a stereo to play their favorite songs in the game. Both of these must be unlocked by buying Photos from the Photo Album. Rings needed to buy the photos are accumulated in Story Mode.
  
The game play involves playing randomly given cards. The deck of cards has four of every card numbering 1-6 and four wild cards. Three of the wild cards have an “S” and the remaining card is the “EGGMAN” card. Playing the cards would dictate the distance your player would move on the board. The S cards could be played as a 7 if you had decent timing as the card changed from 1 to S. The "EGGMAN" card was bad fortune for one or all of the characters and would generally cause trouble for the players in myriad ways. A full game could take anywhere from 20 minutes to two and a half hours, depending on how many Precioustones you decided to be available to you at the beginning.
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The gameplay involves playing randomly given [[Magical Card]]s. The deck of cards has four of every card numbering 1-6 and four wild cards. Three of the wild cards have an “S” and the remaining card is the “EGGMAN” card. Playing the cards would dictate the distance your player would move on the board. The Special Cards can be used for movement, and can be played as a 7 if the player using one has decent timing as the card changed from 1 to S, but it can also be used to exchange cards with another player or steal up to 7 random cards from another player. The "EGGMAN" card was bad fortune for one or all of the characters and would generally cause trouble for the players in myriad ways. A full game could take anywhere from 20 minutes to two and a half hours, depending on how many Precioustones the players decided to be available to collect at the beginning.
  
 
==Mini Games==
 
==Mini Games==

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Sonic Shuffle
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System(s): Sega Dreamcast
Publisher: Sega
Developer:
Genre: Table
Release Date RRP Code Rating
Sega Dreamcast
US
2000-11-14 $39.95[1] 51060
Sega Dreamcast
JP
2000-12-21 ¥5,800 HDR-0125
Sega Dreamcast
EU
2001-03-09  ? MK-51060-50

Sonic Shuffle (ソニックシャッフル) is a video game for the Sega Dreamcast and was Sega's answer to the successful Nintendo party game, Mario Party. The game was co-developed by Hudson Soft, who also developed Mario Party.

The story involves Sonic and his companions getting caught up in a mess in a land called Maginaryworld. A villain named Void has shattered the Precioustone into many pieces and Lumina Flowlight and the rest of Maginaryworld are counting on Sonic to restore it. At the end of the game it is revealed that Lumina and Void both are Illumina, the Goddess of the land who disappeared when the Precioustone was shattered. The game features around 50 mini games and around 30 mini events.

Despite Hudson's success with the Mario Party series, this game failed to meet expectations. It was criticized due to the confusing rules in some mini-games, excessive load times, poor music, an unfulfilled promise of network play, and an AI which would frequently cheat and steal the player's best cards. The game manual and in-game tutorial was largely unhelpful to players as well.

Gameplay

In Sonic Shuffle, the player can select one of the main characters of the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise. The game supports 1 player in Story Mode and up to 4 players simultaneously in Versus Mode and the Sonic Room. The four players can play in teams and play against one another on a giant game board, going around and playing mini-games to collect Rings. The overall goal of each board is to collect the most Precioustones, out of a total of 7 (though this number can be reduced in Versus Mode). After the final Precioustone is collected, everyone plays a "Stage Clear" mini-game for one last chance to collect Rings, and then Emblems are handed out based on collected Precioustones and other accomplishments. Whoever has the most Emblems at the end of each board wins. There are 5 boards in total: Emerald Coast, Fire Bird, Nature Zone, Riot Train, and Fourth Dimension Space.

The game also features 8 playable characters (four of which need to be unlocked), each with their own unique abilities. The available characters are Sonic, Tails, Amy, and Knuckles. The unlockable characters are Super Sonic, Big the Cat, E-102 Gamma, and Chao.

The game features around 50 mini-games and around 30 mini-events. Mini-games ranged in variety and challenge and they were divided by Teams of 2, Teams of 3 versus a Single Player and a Free-For-All. The mini events generally involved a little story, or event, and usually a choice given at the end to determine a player's prize or punishment. As well as having a single-player Story Mode and a two- to four-player Versus Mode, the game had a “Sonic Room” where the player can play their favorite mini-games, after unlocking them, with their friends without starting a full game in a place called the "Toy Box", as well as a stereo to play their favorite songs in the game. Both of these must be unlocked by buying Photos from the Photo Album. Rings needed to buy the photos are accumulated in Story Mode.

The gameplay involves playing randomly given Magical Cards. The deck of cards has four of every card numbering 1-6 and four wild cards. Three of the wild cards have an “S” and the remaining card is the “EGGMAN” card. Playing the cards would dictate the distance your player would move on the board. The Special Cards can be used for movement, and can be played as a 7 if the player using one has decent timing as the card changed from 1 to S, but it can also be used to exchange cards with another player or steal up to 7 random cards from another player. The "EGGMAN" card was bad fortune for one or all of the characters and would generally cause trouble for the players in myriad ways. A full game could take anywhere from 20 minutes to two and a half hours, depending on how many Precioustones the players decided to be available to collect at the beginning.

Mini Games

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Play Order

  • Sonic Slot - Each players plays on a slot machine that first displays 999, then counts down. Turn order in the main game is based upon how close each player stops the slots to 000 without going under.
  • Sonic Darts - The four players each throw darts at a moving target. Turn order in the main game is based upon the proximity of the players' darts to the center of the target.
  • Sonic Hi Lo - A simple game of hi lo, with all four players playing at once. The players must act fast to get the card that they want. The winner moves first on the game board.

Boards

Manuals

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Voice actors

Role Japanese Voice Actor English Voice Actor
Sonic the Hedgehog

/ Super Sonic

Junichi Kanemaru Ryan Drummond
Miles "Tails" Prower Atsuki Murata Corey Bringas
Knuckles the Echidna Nobutoshi Canna Ryan Drummond
Amy Rose Emi Motoi Jennifer Douillard
Big the Cat Syun Yashiro Jon St. John
E-102 Gamma Steve Broadie Steve Broadie
Dr. Eggman Chikao Ohtsuka Deem Bristow
Lumina Flowlight Ikue Ohtani Elara Distler
Void Urara Takano Lani Minella
Illumina Yuko Minaguchi Elara Distler
Chao Tomoko Sasaki Tomoko Sasaki
  • Unlike in Sonic Adventure, there is not any voice option to switch between Japanese and English voice languages. These are defaulted according to the regional version, with the Western versions using the English voices and the Japanese version using the Japanese ones. The voice language option was once again restored for Sonic Adventure 2.
  • Unlike in the English dub of Sonic Adventure, Ryan Drummond not only voices Sonic (and counterpart Super Sonic), but also Knuckles. Following Sonic Shuffle, the role was given to Scott Dreier in Sonic Adventure 2.
  • This was Corey Bringas' last game as Miles "Tails" Prower, because his voice was noticably deeper. His brother Connor Bringas voiced Tails in the following game, Sonic Adventure 2.
  • Amy's Japanese voice is provided by actress Emi Motoi rather than cast regular Taeko Kawata, who was on maternity leave at the time.
  • E-102 Gamma is voiced by Steve Broadie in both Japanese and English versions of the game.

Production credits

Producer: Hirokazu Kojima
Supervisors: Akinori Nishiyama (Sonic Team), Yuji Uekawa (Sonic Team)
Production Manager: Masato Shibata
Project Leader: Bill Ritch
Lead Game Designer: Hidenori Oikawa
Game Designers: Koichi Takeshita, Daisuke Takeuchi
Lead Programmer: Yasuhiro Kosaka
Board & System Programmers: Masatoshi Sugibayashi, Hideki Nishimoto, Shoichi Tahata, Tetsuharu Takashima, Takuya Suzuki, Yoshitaka Shibata, Yoko Miyabayashi
Lead Artist: Hisashi Kubo
Board & System Artists: Toshiro Okamoto, Taiichi Matsuda, Norihiro Kanie, Masahide Inaba, Hideki Soma, Motoshi Kuwahara
Mini-Event Artist: Akihiro Shibata
Lead Character Artist: Manabu Yanagisawa
Character Artists: Yasuhiro Fujii, Yuji Yano, Chiaki Nishiki, Masahiro Kamohara, Megumi Okazaki, Akemi Ihara
Cinematic Director: Shoji Mizuno
Cinematic Assistant Directors: Toshifumi Sekijima, Naoto Yoshimi
Cinematic Producer: Nobuya Okabe
Cinematic Assistant Producer: Satoshi Nagaoka
Cinematic Animation Director: Masayuki Goto
Cinematic Artists: Naoto Onuki, Takayuki Hayama, Shin Katada, Masanori Kubota, Tomoya Ohata, Ryoko Suzuki, Kazuyo Yoshida, Fumihito Saito
Cinematic Engineers: Jin Kamohara, Zenjiro Motono
Mini-Game Design Leads: Issei Takahashi, Hop, Jinichi Fuyuki, Katsuhiko Sugiyama, Tomosuke Kashiwabara, Hiro Yokoyamax, Hisanori Fukuoka, Hiroyuki Yagi, Tetsuya Ishikawa, Koichiro Genda, Kouji Inokuchi, Kazunori Sato
Mini-Game Programmers: Juhyoung Kang, Tomokazu Ninomiya, Junsoo Bae, Sangyoun Lee, Donghyun Ban, Dandy Arai, Tetsuma Yoshida, Norihisa Takabatake, Naoki Hirasawa, Donpei Morita, Yoshinori Koiwa, Nobuyuki Mark Kimura, Tsuyoshi Tsuchimoto, Hisanori Fukuoka, Takahiko Murakami, Kazunori Sato, Shin Fukumoto, Hirotaka Iwayama, Keisuke Hino
Mini-Game Artists: Tomoyoshi Miyashita, Takeshi Murata, Hideto Ishikawa, Haeyoung Park, Misun Yang, Huichung Lee, Hyungjin Kim, Akira Katagi, Akiyoshi Otsuka, Minoru Sato, Kazuhiro Hayashida, Yoshikazu Aoki, Kouji Kato, Hironobu Hatta, Koichi Sakuma, Hiroyuki Kikkawa, Toshinori Tabata, Gengo Ito, Hideyuki Katsuyama, Hideaki Honjo, Noriaki Kawakami
Sound Production Managers: Keisuke Mitsui, Kenichi Funayama, Hidenobu "Kalta" Otsuki
Music Director: Akihiro Satoh
Sound Effect Director: Osamu Narita
Sound Effect Engineer: Hiroyuki Tsuboguchi
Opening Movie Music: Kazuhiko Sawaguchi
Opening Movie Music Engineer: Hironao Yamamoto
Music Composition, Arrangement & Programming: Kaltek Music Engine, Hidenobu "Kalta" Otsuki, Ryo "L.D." Fukuda, Takeo "3-Jya" Suzuki, Yoshitaka "Sat" Hirota, Kazumi Mitome
Quality Assurance Managers: Hiroyuki Ohta, Shota Takahashi, Tetsuya Komatsu
Voice Acting Supervisor: Eriko Kimura
Voice Acting Producer: Hiroyuki Inage
Voice Acting (Japanese): Junichi Kanemaru, Atsuki Murata, Nobutoshi Canna, Emi Motoi, Chikao Ohtsuka, Shun Yashiro, Ikue Ohtani, Urara Takano, Yuko Minaguchi
Localization Producer: Osamu Shibamiya
Assisting Producer: Jason Kuo
Test Lead: Rick "Maverick" Ribble Jr
Product Manager: Rich Briggs
Marketing Director: John Golden
Creative Services: Bob Schonfisch, Angela Santos, Laura Belzer, Simon McIlroy
Public Relations: Heather Hawkins, Gwen Marker
Voice Casting, Directing & Production: Pro-Motions Productions, Lethal Sounds
Voice Acting (English): Lani Minella, Ryan Drummond, Jon St. John, Elara Distler, Corey Bringas, Jenny Douillard, Deem Bristow
Voice Recording Engineer: Rick Bowman
Voice Acting Supervisors: Jun Senoue (Sonic Team USA), Keith Palmer (Sonic Team USA)
Special Thanks: Takayuki Kawagoe (Smilebit), Yoichi Shimosato (Smilebit), Jin Shimazaki, Hiroshi Igari, Tetsuo Inoue, Jun Kanda, MP Team, all the family members of the team for waiting so patiently to see us again
Presented by SEGA
© SEGA CORPORATION, 2000

Artwork

Wallpaper

Official wallpaper found on the Sonic Shuffle disc:

Physical scans




Sega Dreamcast
40 Sonic Retro Average
Based on 1 review
Publication Score Source
Edge (UK) 40 №94, p97
Dreamcast, US
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Dreamcast, US (Not for Resale)
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Dreamcast, EU
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Cover
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Disc
Dreamcast, EU (White Label)
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Dreamcast, JP
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Dreamcast, PT
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Dreamcast, JP, Sample
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External links

References


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Sonic the Hedgehog games for the following systems
Sega Dreamcast
 1998  Sonic Adventure     1999  Sonic Adventure International     2000  Sonic Shuffle     2001  Sonic Adventure 2 | Sonic Adventure 2 Birthday Pack | Sega Smash Pack Volume 1