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Sonic Battle

  • 2003
  • Game Boy Advance
  • Sonic Team
  • 32-bit handheld
  • 6th generation

History

Emerl, a Gizoid with an empty move list, learns by watching, and Sonic Team built Sonic Battle around the techniques he copies. Sega published the Game Boy Advance fighter in 2003. Bounded arenas replace the side-scrolling run: bodies move in a ring, throw, and spend specials they have actually acquired.

Story scenes fill Emerl's list as he meets the cast and borrows what they do. A skill he has never witnessed is a skill he cannot perform, so the campaign behaves like a lesson plan. Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Amy, Shadow, Rouge, and Cream serve as both teachers and opponents.

Loops, robot badniks, and a sprint to the right are not the structure. Spacing in the arena, the special you chose to equip, and the moment you spend it decide the exchange. Sonic Team treats the Gizoid's mimicry as the reason a move can pass from one fighter to another.

Sega's fighter keeps the cast recognizable and changes the verb from running to fighting. Emerl stays at the center even during a bout you play as somebody else. Copying is how the blank list becomes a full one.

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RAWG record

RAWG rating3.76 / 5
Ratings20
RAWG date2003-12-04
ESRB on RAWGNot listed
GenresAdventure, Fighting
DevelopersSonic Team
PublishersSEGA
Platforms on RAWGgame-boy-advance

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