Sonic X Shadow Generations

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Sonic X Shadow Generations
System(s): PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Steam, Epic Games Store
Publisher: Sega
Developer: Sonic Team
Distributor: Limited Run Games (Collector's Edition; US)
Genre: Action
Number of players: 1
Official in-game languages: English Français Italiano Deutsch Español Polski Português Русский 日本語 中文 한국어 ไทย
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Sonic X Shadow Generations (ソニック × シャドウ ジェネレーションズ) is an updated re-release of the 2011 game Sonic Generations. In addition to the base game, a brand new story campaign starring Shadow the Hedgehog, titled Shadow Generations, is included with its own levels and bosses. It was first announced via State of Play on January 31, 2024, and is scheduled to release on October 25, 2024.

Story

Sonic Generations

The story begins with the Sonic the Hedgehog of the Classic Era going out for a run through Green Hill Zone, when suddenly there was a tremor. The silent hedgehog disregards this at first, but then catches a glimpse of a mysterious entity emerging in the sky.

20 years later, Sonic's friends are seen in a field preparing a surprise birthday party with Tails in charge of organising things, and Knuckles, Amy, Cream, Rouge, Blaze and the Chaotix helping out. Sonic himself eventually arrives to witness everyone all set up and waiting for him. Tails explains to Sonic that it's difficult to surprise him, but the hedgehog assures him that they got him this time. The fox then gives Sonic a special birthday treat: A specially-wrapped chili dog. Right after taking his first bite, however, Sonic's chili dog was blown away by a mysterious entity known as the Time Eater, who appears in the sky and proceeds to suck all of Sonic's friends into portals. Sonic attempts to stop the entity from doing this, but is swatted away and knocked unconscious.

Sonic regains consciousness to find himself in a mysterious void known as the White Space, and in this void he sees a strange landmark that transports him to Green Hill. Upon blasting through the classic zone, Tails is brought back to life, now traumatized by the experience of "floating without a body in a weird black limbo". Sonic feels that the place he was in seemed awfully familiar, though Tails points out some strange-looking buildings up ahead, which Sonic promptly checks out. As Tails watches him go, he notices Classic Sonic pass by.

Sonic goes through Chemical Plant and Sky Sanctuary, rescuing Amy and Knuckles in the process. In the Chemical Plant, Sonic and Tails take notice to how familiar everything looks, with Tails feeling nervous from looking at the Mega Mack.

Soon, both Sonics find themselves in a dark hallway full of mirrors, and then notice each other, seeing each other as strange reflections in the mirror and mimicking each others moves. As they look at each other, they suddenly hear the echoing voice of Dr. Eggman taunting them, and Classic Sonic storms ahead in a flash. Modern Sonic then realizes that the other Sonic was not his reflection, but literally another Sonic, and tries to keep up with him, only to be shut out. Behind the door, Classic Sonic defeats the Death Egg Robot and then tries to pull Eggman out of the wreckage, only for the Time Eater to show up and take Eggman away, much to the doctor's horror.

Classic Sonic returns to the White Space to meet up with his present-day self, as well as Tails and another version of Tails that shows up out of nowhere. Both of them deduce that the presence of temporal doubles as well as the places and enemies from the past mean they are travelling through time and space. As the Sonics see the Time Eater roam to the next area, the two hedgehogs decide to team up to stop it, eventually rescuing Cream, Rouge and Espio and defeating Shadow.

The two Tailses work out more on what is going on, and learn that as the Time Eater goes through time, it sucks the life and color out of various places and leaves them in the White Space, but as the Sonics go through them, they restore life and color, so the hedgehogs have to work fast. Sonic then finds himself back at Station Square where he goes up against Perfect Chaos again.

Upon emerging victorious, Sonic and the other three notice that one of the Chaos Emeralds has found its way into the White Space, but it is powerless, and the Time Eater cannot touch it. Seeing that the Chaos Emeralds have helped them so many times in the past, they decide to collect them by working fast. By going through the remaining areas and rescuing Blaze, Vector and Charmy as well as defeating Silver, the red Chaos Emerald is restored, and Modern Sonic challenges his past self to a race to it, beating him to it with an Air Boost.

Sonic then goes through a gate that leads him to a showdown with Dr. Eggman in the Egg Dragoon, and emerges victorious. Tails and his past self find it strange that Eggman would be here despite having been kidnapped by the Time Eater back on board the Death Egg, and at that point the Time Eater shows up to kidnap Eggman again.

Eventually, the Sonics collect the remaining Chaos Emeralds and soon arrive at the Time Eater, only to discover that Dr. Eggman, along with his past self, is controlling it (as suspected earlier by Vector). After his recent defeat in Sonic Colors, Eggman discovers the primordial form of the Time Eater in deep space, and decided to use its properties of manipulating time and space to erase his past defeats. However, he realized he would not be able to do this alone, so he asked his past self to help him with modifying the Time Eater for their use. The two of them proceed to smash the two hedgehogs and prepare to finish them off for good, but then all of Sonic's friends show up to give their encouragement, allowing the Sonics to become their Super forms and destroy the Time Eater.

With the Time Eater's defeat, time resets to when Sonic's chili dog was blown away, allowing him to finish it while it was still warm, and allowing the birthday party to continue with the added attendance of Classic Sonic, Classic Tails, Shadow and Silver. Inspired by his future self, Classic Sonic even attempts to do the Air Boost. A time portal leading back to the past appears, with Classic Sonic and Tails going into it, and everybody else saying farewell to them, with Modern Sonic telling Classic Sonic to "enjoy his future".

After the credits, we see that Dr. Eggman and his past self are now stranded in White Space, which is now completely empty as all the places have been returned to their respective places in space-time. The two argue over the plan they came up with, even questioning if they ever win.

Shadow Generations

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Gameplay

Sonic Generations

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Shadow Generations

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Characters

	Modern Sonic
	Classic Sonic
	Shadow the Hedgehog

Achievements

Main article: Sonic X Shadow Generations/Achievements

History

Development

Main article: Sonic X Shadow Generations/Development

Versions

Localised names

Also known as

Language	Localised Name	English Translation
English	Sonic X Shadow Generations	Sonic X Shadow Generations
English (US)	Sonic X Shadow Generations	Sonic X Shadow Generations
Japanese	ソニック × シャドウ ジェネレーションズ	Sonic X Shadow Generations
Korean	소닉×섀도우 제너레이션즈	Sonic X Shadow Generations

Downloadable content

Main article: Sonic X Shadow Generations/Downloadable content

Production credits

Main article: sega:Sonic X Shadow Generations/Production credits

Promotional material

Main article: Sonic X Shadow Generations/Promotional material

Artwork

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  Key Art (JP)

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  Key Art 2

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  Key Art 3

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  Homepage BG image

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  Shadow

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  Shadow

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  Modern Sonic

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  Classic Sonic

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  Black Doom

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  Shadow in his Doom Morph form

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  Shadow using his new Doom Surf power

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  Shadow in his Doom Wing form

Logos

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  Logo

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  Logo (JP)

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  Logo (Sonic Generations)

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  Logo (Shadow Generations)

Character skins

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  Terios Skin

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  Sonic Adventure Legacy Skin

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  Sonic Jam Legacy Skin

CoroCoro Comic manga series

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  Character design of Shadow (CoroCoro Comic manga series)

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  CoroCoro Comic manga series pt.1 (cover)

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  Illustration of Shadow by manga artist Yuuki Imada

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  Drawing of Shadow posing in a martial arts stance by manga artist Yuuki Imada

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  Drawing of Shadow by manga artist Yuuki Imada

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  Drawing of Shadow casting a shadow (by Yuuki Imada)

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  Release day illustration by Yuuki Imada

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  "One Day Before Launch" illustration by manga artist Yuuki Imada

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  "4 Days Until Launch" illustration by Yuuki Imada

Soundtrack (pre-release)

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  Kingdom Valley: Act 1 (Trailer ver.) Single cover

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  Space Colony Ark: Act1 (TeddyLoid x Jun Senoue Remix) (Trailer ver.) Single cover

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  Chaos Island: Act1 (Trailer ver.) Single cover

External links

• Official website: JP/Asia, US/EU/AU
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  Announcement trailer
• Sonic X Shadow Generations on Steam
• Sonic X Shadow Generations on Epic Games Store
• Sonic X Shadow Generations on PlayStation Store:
• Sonic X Shadow Generations on PlayStation Store (Digital Deluxe Edition):
• Sonic X Shadow Generations on Xbox.com: US
• Sonic X Shadow Generations on Xbox.com (Digital Deluxe Edition): US
• Nintendo catalogue pages:
• Nintendo catalogue pages (Digital Deluxe Edition):
• Sonic X Shadow Generations Collector's Edition on Limited Run Games: PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Switch, PC

References

Sonic the Hedgehog games for the following systems
	2017  Sonic Mania | Sonic Forces     2018  Sonic Mania Plus | Sonic Forces & Sonic Mania Plus Double Pack     2019  Team Sonic Racing     2021  Sonic Colours: Ultimate     2022  Sonic Origins | Sonic Frontiers     2023  Sonic Origins Plus | Sonic Superstars     2024  Sonic X Shadow Generations

	2017  Sonic Mania | Sonic Forces     2018  Sonic Mania Plus | Sonic Forces & Sonic Mania Plus Double Pack     2019  Team Sonic Racing     2021  Sonic Colours: Ultimate     2022  Sonic Speed Simulator | Sonic Origins | Sonic Frontiers     2023  Sonic Origins Plus | Sonic Superstars     2024  Sonic X Shadow Generations

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2017  Sonic Mania | Sonic Forces     2018  Sonic Mania Plus | Sega Ages Sonic the Hedgehog | Sonic Forces & Sonic Mania Plus Double Pack | 2 Hits Pack     2019  Team Sonic Racing | Sonic Mania Plus & Team Sonic Racing | Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020     2020  Sega Ages Sonic the Hedgehog 2 | Sonic Mania + Team Sonic Racing Double Pack     2021  Sonic Colours: Ultimate     2022  Sonic Origins | Sonic Frontiers     2023  Sonic Origins Plus | Sonic Superstars     2024  Sonic X Shadow Generations      Demos  Sonic Forces Demo Version

2010  Sonic the Hedgehog | Sonic Spinball | Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine | Sonic 3D: Flickies' Island | Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing     2011  Sonic the Hedgehog 2 | Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles | Sonic Adventure | Sonic Generations     2012  Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode I | Sonic the Hedgehog CD | Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode II | Sonic Adventure 2     2013  Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed     2015  Sonic Lost World     2017  Sonic Mania | Sonic Forces     2019  Team Sonic Racing     2022  Sonic Origins | Sonic Frontiers     2023  Sonic Colours: Ultimate | The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog | Sonic Superstars     2024  Sonic X Shadow Generations      Prototypes  Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode II (Beta 8)

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	2021  Sonic Mania | Sonic Colours: Ultimate     2022  Sonic Origins     2023  Sonic Superstars | Sonic Frontiers     2024  Sonic X Shadow Generations