Line #5 Awesome/SonicUnleashed


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4	Awesome moments in ''VideoGame/SonicUnleashed''.
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6	* The first of two final boss fights starts off with a bang. Sonic and Chip have just finished restoring the Chaos Emeralds, and things look like they're about to go back to normal... then Eggman shows up and wrecks the ground beneath them. Sonic the Werehog then starts the actual fight against the Egg Dragoon on a chunk of rock falling towards the molten mantle.
7	** Right before the battle, Sonic the Werehog, in freefall, saves Chip, swings off of loose debris, grinds along the wall, and manages a ThreePointLanding onto the remainder of the floor, all one-handed and in ten seconds. Too bad the werehog isn't always that agile.
8	** The finisher (at least in the HD version) — Sonic jumps on the Egg Dragoon, has Eggman stab it with its own drill, punches the Egg Mobile out of its holders, then grabs it and just throws it away while the main body of the mech explodes. If that wasn't enough to repair the werehog's reputation, nothing is.
9	** The Egg Dragoon battle might or might not be a homage to Olga Flow from Phantasy Star Online (just look up footage of both bosses). So does that make Olga Flow a crowning moment by extension?
10	* Then right after that, Dark Gaia fully awakes and [[EvilIsNotAToy swats Eggman the hell away]] (no EnemyMine required) and ''eats'' the energies fueling the Werehog transformation, forcibly reverting Sonic to normal. Not to be outdone, Chip (who recently remembered his identity as Light Gaia) summons the seven Temples of Gaia to create a Humongous Mecha of his own — through sheer willpower!
11	* And, at least in the [=PS3=]/360 Version, Chip gets his own CMOA. After he, in the Gaia Colossus, and Super Sonic reach Perfect Dark Gaia's shield, Chip forces his way inside it, with much effort on his part, to distract Dark Gaia as Super Sonic takes out the 'snakes' creating said shield.
12	** This isn't mentioning the fact that after Super Sonic rescues him from Perfect Dark Gaia's grip, Dark Gaia goes all-out and fires a huge beam at Chip. He sits there, holds the beam back until it gives out, winds up, and delivers the left haymaker of goddamn justice right to Dark Gaia's face. Dark Gaia is so stunned that he doesn't even ''notice'' Super Sonic breaking the light barrier on an intercept course.
13	** The Wii/[=PS2=] version of the fight is perhaps even more awesome, with Sonic orbiting around Perfect Dark Gaia while collecting rings and dodging claw swipes, then he '''''charges at Perfect Dark Gaia's eyes and bashes them to pieces, dodging meteorites the whole way'''''.
14	* The first Werehog boss fight, where he picks up a whole Phoenix and slams it down on the ground, howling triumphantly and smashing his fists together.
15	* WHAT ABOUT EGGMAN!?! He faked a Wily surrender, and just when Sonic thinks he just defeated Eggman, Eggman uses a machine to suck all of the power out of Sonic, the best part being that Sonic was in his Super form, and then, he finally builds Eggman Land, something he has promised to do for THE ENTIRE SERIES!!
16	** As a level, it does not disappoint. Considered by many to be the hardest level in the game and one of the hardest, if not the hardest, level of the ''entire Sonic franchise.''
17	* One of the truly most awesome parts of Unleashed. "Holy crap, it's Sonic! And he's actually going fast!"
18	** This is also the first time that the Boost formula, first introduced in ''VideoGame/SonicRush'', was used for a main 3D installment. And at the time, despite many being iffy on the Nighttime stages back then, the Daytime stages were ''just'' what were needed to get Sonic back on his feet after ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006''. It was such a tried and true gameplay style that it was utilized in [[VideoGame/SonicColors three]] [[VideoGame/SonicGenerations more]] [[VideoGame/SonicForces games]]! When Sega has enough faith in a gameplay style to use it in more than just two games, you know they struck gold the first time.
19	* It might not be obvious, but you'll [[FridgeBrilliance eventually realize it after a while]]: Eggman's tried (and usually failed) to keep several {{Eldritch Abomination}}s and supernatural entities on his side through controlling them, and for one game, Sonic gets his own supernatural entity in the form of Chip by [[PalsWithJesus befriending him]].
20	* Eggman manages to score another CMOA off of his occasional [[CrazyPrepared bouts of sheer genius]] at the start of ''Unleashed''. After tearing through an army of robots and dodging Eggman's display of [[MoreDakka sheer]] [[MacrossMissileMassacre firepower]], Sonic wastes no time utilizing the Chaos Emeralds and forcing Eggman to bail all the way back to his orbital platform, where he is next seen groveling before Super Sonic. [[KillHimAlready Sonic wastes time trying to redeem Eggman when all of this was just a ploy]] [[NiceJobBreakingItHero to harness the Chaos Emeralds to split the planet open and release Dark Gaia, super-powered hedgehog be damned]]. Made even more awesome when you realize this is the first time Super Sonic was directly CANCELLED by outside forces. Repeat:''' ''SUPER SONIC'' has been negated by ''EGGMAN''!'''
21	** Eggman's role in the Unleashed intro was awesome, yes, but remember how awesome Sonic was as well. (Video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8IxgooL480 here]]). Highlights include sliding underneath a robot, spinning around said robot, then '''plowing through more robots with his fist.'''
22	** About the "first time" for Sonic getting forcibly depowered: technically, [[VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles Knuckles was the first]]. Still awesome for Eggman, though.
23	** Forget all of that — that intro is just awesome for the staff and the viewers. Imagine how much effort it took to animate all of it, and they did it perfectly!
24	** And don't forget the fact that right after Sonic was "defeated" and the world shattered, Eggman's already got his robot armies taking over various regions and causing trouble. For what was a presumed off-screen adventure leading up to Sonic destroying entire ships in space and decimating Eggman's armies, ''Eggman had an entire reserve army ready for his plans ahead of time.''
25	** One more thing: the music. '''Holy shit, the music.''' To wit: [[PsychoStrings the violins start playing like a horror film]] when Eggman lays his trap, then there's a DAAAH-DUUUUUN when Eggman cracks open the earth. But during Sonic's transformation, things start getting creepy, as we see a beast with purple claws rising up out of the crust, as well as shots of Sonic getting feral, and the strings are rising, rising, rising... until Sonic the Werehog lets his first roar out, and '''the music EXPLODES.''' Ladies and gentlemen, '''[[EldritchAbomination DARK GAIA]]'''.
26	** The implication that Sonic managed to go through an entire adventure prior to the intro, collect all the Chaos Emeralds and find a way to launch himself into space hard enough to burst into Eggman's flagship and deliver an explosive entry. He just had an OffscreenMomentOfAwesome, still tears through part of Eggman's fleet like a hot knife through butter, and when he's down and out, he still gets back up again for a whole 'nother go like his loss didn't even happen! And while Eggman does mobilize a reserve set of forces across the world for his resumed takeover, he ''never'' pulls out quite as many stops as he did here, not even with [[ThatOneLevel Eggmanland]], showing that despite all of his scheming, Sonic still managed to hit him where it hurt and made it count.
27	* You gotta give props to the Mazurian tribe when they're being interrogated by Eggman and his army of robots. While obviously frightened, they still hold their ground pretty damn well.
28	-->'''Kwod''': "We're not telling you anything!" ''[Hurls a stone at Eggman]''

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