History Videogame / SonicTheHedgehog2006

* {{Jerkass}}: Mephiles. Crave to destroy everything until there is nothing left of existance, turns friends against each other to achieve his goals, and laughed sadistically at Elise crying over him killing Sonic.

* DamselInDistress: Eggman kidnaps Princess Elise as part of his plot. Then she gets rescued, only to be kidnapped again. Over the course of the game Elise is kidnapped by Eggman no less tan five times.

* CosmicRetcon: In the final story, [[spoiler: after the defeat of Solaris by our trio of Super Golden hedgehogs, Sonic and Elise are sent back to the past, where the flame of Solaris is. Elise questions whatever to snuff the flame in order to save the world, as it would mean that she meeting Sonic never happened. She cries, saying she doesn't care about the world, but Sonic calms her down by telling her to [[ArcWords just smile]]. Elise then snuffs the flame, rewriting reality to mean Solaris never existed, and none of the events of the game happened. The final scene of the game has Elise during the Sun Festival, smiling as she feels a familiar feeling by sensing Sonic's wind, while Sonic watches from the distance - with the game implying he does remember.]]

* ResetButtonEnding: The Last Episode ends with [[spoiler: the entire game's storyline being undone and the ceremony from the opening cutscene going down without a hitch.]]

* WinsByDoingAbsolutelyNothing: In Wave Ocean and Kingdom Valley, Shadow has to fly a hang glider while being attacked. The MercyInvincibility is so generous and the sections so short that it's entirely possible to get through without touching the controller. The hang glider section in Crisis City actually does require you do do something, though.

* WinsByDoingAbsolutelyNothing: In one section, Shadow has to fly a hang glider while being attacked. The MercyInvincibility is so generous and the section so short that it's entirely possible to get through without touching the controller.
** You can actually do it in ''two'' of the hang glider sections; both the one in Wave Ocean and the one in Kingdom Valley. The one in Crisis City actually does require you do do something, though.

** BigBadWannabe: [[spoiler:Despite his efforts, Eggman is this in the full story. Solaris is the true BigBad.]]

* GuideDangIt: In some sections, there's no clear indication of what you're supposed to do or where to go. In some cases, not even the ''official game guide'' is much help.

* SatelliteCharacter: Notably, Blaze is downgraded to being one to Silver, obstensively as a sister figure of sorts. In fact, no one else (not even Mephiles or Sonic) ever acknowledges her presence, directly or otherwise! So little attention is paid to Blaze that, combined with her [[OffscreenTeleportation repeated vanishing]], you could conclude that she is a figment of Silver's imagination and her presence would make just as much sense as ever.

* CameraScrew: Easily the most dangerous thing in the game, combined with the buggy level geometry. The camera won't focus on Iblis despite the fact that Iblis has very huge telegraphs for his attacks that you need to be able to see, certain vertices will cause the camera to instantly flip to the other side of you, resulting in a nauseating experience wherein your hedgehog runs back and forth over the vertex, and there are several "scripted" spring sequences where the camera points at a platform instead of the next spring in the line. Even during regular platforming and combat, the camera rotates very slowly (far slower than is necessary for a fast-paced action platformer) and easily gets stuck on level geometry.

* ManipulativeBastard: Mephiles.

* SuperTitle64Advance: [[FanNickname Unofficially]], the game is often referred to as ''Sonic 360'', thanks to the Xbox 360 tech demo shown at E3 2005 which provided the first glimpse of the game. It was also known as ''Sonic Next''/''Sonic Next Gen'' before its formal reveal at E3 2006.

* FanRemake: ''Sonic P-06'' is an attempt at remaking ''Sonic the Hedgehog (2006)'' in the Unity engine for PC with more responsive controls, improved framerate, updated graphics, and visual effects, new character animations, and fixing the game's glitches.

* OnlyOneSaveFile: Unlike the previous "''Adventure''"-era games which offers multiple save files, this game only uses on for each Xbox/[=PlayStation=] profile account.

* PlotHole: This game is practically Swiss cheese with the amount of plot holes it has, but just one example involves Blaze asking Silver what he saw after returning from the past with Shadow. The problem? Blaze wasn't around to see Silver going back in time with Shadow, as she suddenly disappears shortly before Silver begins Radical Train!

JustForFun/TheOneWith Sonic [[SaveThePrincess rescuing a princess]] from Dr. Eggman, Shadow fighting a conniving {{doppelganger}}, Silver fighting [[EvilIsBurningHot a raging fire demon]], and TimeTravel. [[ObviousBeta Also glitches]]. [[GameBreakingBug Lots and lots of glitches]]. [[LoadsAndLoadsOfLoading And loading]].

** Amy's line as she defends Sonic from Silver's assassination attempt, punctuated by a camera zoom-in with each syllable: "Abso-lutely not!"

* MarathonLevel: The End of the World, featuring seven of the characters with [[CheckPointStarvation no checkpoints]] (aside from transitioning from one character to another).

* AbortedArc: The introductory cutscene has Sonic saving Elise from Eggman. During a split second, Elise mistakes Sonic for Silver and says "you...no, it can't be". Despite the two ocassions in which Silver attacks Sonic, this is never brought up again. While in Silver's story it would be revealed Silver gave Elise the Blue Chaos Emerald, he did so when she was asleep, and nothing similar to what the introduction suggest happens between the two characters.

* AllTheWorldsAreAStage: The final stage, End of the World, is split into seven parts, one for each stage in the game (with the exceptions of Radical Train and Aquatic Base).

* TheDulcineaEffect: Hits this game pretty hard. For starters, Sonic saves Elise at the very start of his story for, in his own words, "No special reason." Not ten minutes after Sonic whisks Elise away from Eggman's onslaught, she gets captured again and Sonic decides to rescue her for the duration of his story. Even after they just barely met without even exchanging a real conversation with one another.

JustForFun/TheOneWith Sonic [[SaveThePrincess rescuing a princess]] from Dr. Eggman, Shadow fighting a conniving {{doppelganger}}, Silver fighting [[EvilIsBurningHot a raging fire demon]], and TimeTravel. [[ObviousBeta Also glitches]]. [[GameBreakingBug Lots and lots of glitches]]. [[LoadsAndLoadsOfLoading And Loading]].

JustForFun/TheOneWith Sonic [[SaveThePrincess rescuing a princess]] from Dr. Eggman, Shadow fighting a conniving {{doppelganger}}, Silver fighting [[EvilIsBurningHot a raging fire demon]], and TimeTravel.

Other characters (e.g. Tails, Knuckles, E-123 Omega) are also playable, though in a less prominent capacity. They are typically reserved for parts of certain levels or their own, smaller levels. Tails, Knuckles, and Rouge control similarly to how they did in the ''Sonic Adventure'' games, while Blaze plays like Sonic and Omega is reminiscent of Gamma from ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure''

''Sonic the Hedgehog'', commonly referred to as ''Sonic (2006)'' or simply ''Sonic '06'' to differentiate it from the series and [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog1 its first game]], was released at the end of that year for the UsefulNotes/XBox360 and UsefulNotes/PlayStation3. The game was made to commemorate the 15th anniversary of [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog the titular franchise]].

** A minor one, but a G.U.N. agent named Herman tells Shadow in the Hub World that Shadow "took a test years ago". While it is true the franchise runs in ComicBookTime, it's highly impossible Shadow took a test to become a G.U.N. agent years ago without any member of the cast aging. Is this an hyperbole? Who knows.

* InterspeciesRomance: It's [[ImpliedTrope heavily implied]] that Sonic and Elise are in love. Elise is specifically treated a distinct option in the Test of Love.