Sonic Omens

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Sonic Omens
Developer(s)	Ouroboros Studio
Publisher(s)	Ouroboros Studio
Director(s)	Aleksey Dmitriev
Producer(s)
Designer(s)
Programmer(s)
Artist(s)
Writer(s)	Alexander Zhokhov
Composer(s)	John R1se Techno Cinema
Series
Engine	Unreal Engine 4
Platform(s)	Windows
Release	Episode 1 & 2 May 3, 2021 Episode 3 February 14, 2020 Episode 4 June 23, 2020 Episode 5, 6 & 7 August 10, 2020
Genre(s)	Platformer, action-adventure
Mode(s)	Single-player, Split-screen multiplayer
Cabinet
Arcade system
CPU
Sound
Display

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Sonic Omens (also named as «Sonic 2020») is a platform video game (fangame) in the Sonic The Hedgehog series developed by fan group Ouroboros Studio. The game takes place between two official games — Sonic Unleashed and Sonic Colors. It tells the story about the emeralds and why they were never used after «Lost World».

Gameplay

Sonic Omens is a platform game, which allows to play as Sonic The Hedgehog, Shadow The Hedgehog and Miles "Tails" Prowler.

Sonic and Shadow play fast-paced levels, using mixed gameplay of two games: Sonic Adventure 2, Sonic Unleashed. Fast platforming on high altitude from the first one and quick obstacle overcoming in narrow spaces from the second one. Sonic and Shadow have the same abilities which were used in many previous games: double jump, boost, homing attack, spin dash, stomp. But they also have their own special abilities. Sonic can use Bounce and Light Speed Dash, while Shadow uses the power of Chaos: Chaos Control, Chaos Blast, Chaos Spear. Both Sonic and Shadow have absolutely new abilities now (One per each). Sonic has Chip’s bracelet with a whip, which allows player to fly over an abyss like Indiana Jones. Shadow has a Chaos Dash, which helps to fly upwards or forwards. Sonic Omens uses the health system, which was previously used in many other official Sonic series games. Player collects rings, which are scattered throughout the levels. Taking damage from an enemy, while player has any rings, causes to the loss of all rings currently possessed, while being hit without having any rings causes to lose a life. The game does not have a life counter, so player is always being returned to the last checkpoint after death.

Tails gameplay represents a new, unique vision of Tornado ("Hyper Tornado" in this game) levels. It represents flights along linear sections with overcoming obstacles, which are different robots and various traps. Player has a full control over the aircraft, which can fire bullets and rockets. Boost is used to speed up, a quick step is to dodge enemy arracks. The plane has a health bar which increases by collecting rings and health boxes, and decreases by taking damage from robots and smashing into obstacles. The health system represents a Tails and Dr. Eggman gameplay from Sonic Adventure 2 - plane have a health bar which increases by collecting rings, health boxes and decreases by taking damage from enemies and smashing into obstacles. If the health bar reaches zero, player dies.

The game is divided into episodes. Each episode has 3 levels with a variety of locations (forests, jungle, beaches, cities, factories etc.). Levels are divided into two types: Reach the end of the level or Boss Fight. As the storyline develops, player will unlock new levels in Level Selection menu. Player can also rerun them later, playing as another character. The game also features a split screen multiplayer mode, in which two players can play any level (except bosses battles).

Plot

The main point of the plot is to link up two storylines of the official games - Unleashed and Lost World.. Storytelling is based around the question - "Why Chaos Emeralds are no longer used in recent sonic games?" and as the story progresses, the player gets the answer to this question. Omens's storyline is released by episodes, four of which have been released.

Episode 1 - The Breakthrough

The story begins at Tails's house in the summer morning. The little fox wakes Sonic up after listening to the news from the radio. The radio host said that Dr. Eggman captured the chaos emerald from the new Gaia temple. Sonic decides to find evil scientist, and Tails offers him to check old Eggman’s Outpost, that is not so far away from his house. Not having time to finish work on the plane "Tornado" ("Hyper Tornado" in game), Tails, along with Sonic, goes to the base across the sea. While they were getting closer to the base, a storm has began. Due to bad weather and zero visibility, they face a squad of "G. U. N." robots, what is the reason of their fall to the Сhao island near the abandoned base. Waking up after the fall, they notice that eggman robots are operating on the island. Tails goes to save Chao from them, while Sonic heads towards Eggman's tower.Inside the tower, after their reunion, Sonic and Tails find an old computer. While Tails is trying to find useful information about Eggman's position, Sonic is being attacked by broken "Egg Dragoon" ("Dragoon E-Zero" in game) from Unleashed. After defeating him, Sonic pulls out a microchip from the robot, and with it Tails finds out Eggman's location. After returning home, Tails finishes the plane and, together with Sonic, goes in search of mad scientist.

Episode 2 - Temple of Sands

While flying over the desert Tails informs Sonic that Eggman's location comes from the Area 99 - a base organization "G. U. N." which it is forbidden to enter. Sonic breaks his way through to the base, while Tails flies around through the canyons. Inside the base, Sonic figures out that the signal is coming from under the base, which is built on top of an ancient temple. After meeting up with Tails inside the temple, they find Eggman stealing the red Chaos Emerald. He couldn't do it because something, that looks like a giant snake has come out from under the floor and threw Eggman aside. This creature wanted to do the same to Sonic and Tails, but they manage to escape on Tornado. After leaving the temple, they face the snake again and Sonic quickly guesses, where the red emerald from the temple is - it's in the monster's head, which serves as a source of energy for him. After pulling the emerald out of the creature, the red stone fell on the ground with a monster. Sonic picks up the emerald, and Tails points out that Eggman goes on to the next emerald. Without wasting any time, they are getting on the plane and start chasing him. The episode ends within the temple, after the escape of Sonic and Tails, when a mysterious hand touches a fresco, which depicts some ancient creature with all seven Chaos Emeralds. Passing a hand over it, an unknown voice says that "this chaos - just the first Omen".

Episode 3 - White Jungle

Later at night, Sonic and Tails continue to chase Eggman through the jungle. "G. U. N." robots join the chase, and they accidentally damage one of the Tornado's engines while trying to hit the evil scientist. Sonic decides to get out of the plane and clear the way for "G. U. N.". Foxkit reveals, that the signal from the emerald is coming from inside a giant tree in the jungle environment, and that he can't fly here, so Sonic enters it by himself and finds the yellow gem. However, when he takes it, the tree begins to flood with water. After getting out of the temple, Sonic runs down the trunk of a tree, trying to escape from the flow of water. Tails manages to save him from drowning just in time. Sonic shows him a yellow stone, but after a short period of time, the emerald begins to interact with t previously found red emerald, releasing a pillar of the brightest light into the sky. This light is seen by both Eggman and Shadow, the hero of the next episode. Tails asks Sonic to hide the emerald, but right after these words, something explodes in the aircraft's on-board controls and the plane starts to fall. Sonic hides the emerald and tries to call out Tails, but he turns out to be unconscious. They are crashing.

Episode 4 - Shadow of Water

The episode begins from Shadow's training in "G. U. N." simulation on their base. After training he comes to conference room, and gets information about Sonic's irresponsibility and Eggman's attack on sector "W". He receives an order to stop Eggman and deliver the emerald to them. After receiving assignment,he gets green Chaos Emerald and is being asked not to fail his mission. The sector "W" is located within the White Jungle, which has started to rot. Making his way through the army of Eggman's robots, Shadow contacts his partner, Rouge The Bat, to get more information about this sector. She tells him that the bright light was caused by two Chaos Emeralds, because they were without any contact with each other for too long, and that "started causing havoc". Shadow asks her to track his signal and goes to sector "W" to get the emerald. The sector "W" turns out to be a giant tree, where Sonic has taken the yellow Chaos Emerald, in previous episode. He gets to the temple and tells Rouge that the emerald has already been taken already and his guess falls on Eggman. Suddenly, the floor below him collapses and he falls down, releasing the emerald from his hands. Standing up after falling, Shadow realizes that he has fallen into a cave under a giant tree, with a hole in the center, where green stone has fallen to and began to glow. Suddenly a monster crawls out of this hole with Chaos Emerald in the forehead and attacks black hedgehog. During the battle, the cave begins to flood and Shadow begins to get out from this place. Having got to the surface, he is again attacked by a creature. The monster proved to be strong, so Shadow removes the restrictive rings and finally defeats him. After the victory, Shadow asks Rouge about this creature, but she "has no idea what that creature is". In the distance he notices Eggman, who is flying away. Shadow starts following him. The episode ends at the place where boss battle was. There, a mysterious artifact, which was left after monster’s defeat, starts to glow.

Episode 5 - Banished

Eggman gets to the fallen Tornado in the morning and finds Sonic and Tails in the cut, takes the emeralds they found in previous episodes. Waking up after the blackout, Sonic sees that Tails is still unconscious. Shadow gets to the plane, who rudely reports that the disappearance of the Chaos Emeralds has awakened something that "desires destruction" and he is instructed to take the Chaos Emeralds from the Egghead. Sonic is not going to go astray, because he wants to settle accounts with him for the tragedy on Chao Island. Shadow reminds him that he couldn't save the island that time, unlike G.U.N. and his now deceased friend. For such impudence, Sonic is the first to attack the black hedgehog. A fight begins, during which Sonic accuses him that it was because of him that he could not do it. The fight is stopped by the awakened Tails, who delays Shadow for a while, giving odds to the blue hedgehog to get to the doctor first. Having neutralized Tails, Shadow gets out of the jungle and begins to run after Sonic along the abandoned United Railroads.

During the chase, Rouge reports on the radio that Eggman was waiting for them and therefore fortified his positions here, and he himself escapes by train to a nearby city. Having managed to get on the train, Shadow catches up with Sonic at the entrance to the city. Almost reaching the beginning of the train, unexpectedly for both hedgehogs, a huge bird-shaped robot flies out of the car and blows up the train with an energy beam. Sonic managed to get away from the explosion and went on to catch up with Eggman. Shadow was less fortunate, he was filled up with debris. Freed, he believes that Eggman, for some reason, is in despair, since this time there is no clear plan in his actions, as if everything is done in haste. Shadow climbs a nearby tall building and begins to report to Rouge on Eggman's location. His report is interrupted by a mysterious stranger who handed him an emerald before being sent on a mission, who reports on the radio that he has completed his part of the task and G.U.N. agents will take care of the rest. After listening to the stranger, Shadow accepts his message with a smirk.

Meanwhile, Sonic overtakes the doctor on his robotic bird and engages him in battle on the city highway. After defeating and disabling him, Eggman is detained by G.U.N. agents, who in turn take the emeralds for themselves. Sonic didn't expect this turn and starts to get into an argument. To his objections, he is answered that he violated his part of the agreement with "G. U. N" on the protection of emeralds, so now only they are engaged in their protection. At this time, Eggman is trying to report important information to agents regarding emeralds, but does not have time to do so. Unexpectedly for all those present, a series of explosions sweep through the highways, destroying part of the G. U. N. squad. From the clouds of smoke and dust, a mysterious tall figure comes out towards everyone, introducing himself to Sonic as the Exiled, and he addresses the hedgehog itself as the "Keeper of the Light". He takes all three Chaos Emeralds, and then says that he no longer needs "G.U.N" and sends his robots (methadrons) to finish off the rest of the squad. Sonic asks him to return the emeralds, but as soon as it is pronounced from his mouth, the hedgehog falls to the floor from a powerful blow from the back. The immobilized Sonic sees Shadow approach the Exiled and give him a green emerald, whose blinding glow makes the blue hedgehog fall asleep.

In a dream, Sonic finds himself on the seashore near Tails' hangar. A man in a white coat stands on the edge of the shore, admiring the northern lights that flaunt high in the night sky. Sonic approaches him and by the long red bangs he immediately recognizes who is standing in front of him - Chris (Christopher Thorndike from the anime Sonic X). Chris says that the Chaos Emeralds have reliably connected two once-severed worlds, thanks to which you no longer have to fight for resources on the planet, because "the energy of Chaos is enough for everyone." Now both worlds can strive "for a better future. Together. Isn't that right...my friend?".

Episode 6 - Reunion of the Worlds

Sonic woke up on Eggman's ship, which is a robotic bird that he fought until he passed out. He is met by Tails and Eggman. The latter, after the awakening of the hedgehog, begins to bring everyone up to date.

After Chris returned to his world (occurs in episode 77 of the anime Sonic X), he had a dream to unite his world with the world in which Sonic, Tails, Eggman lives in one to build a better future for all inhabitants these planets. Through his ambition, he was able to become the head of the G.U.N. organization, abolish their military methods, and make his dream come true. Also, after the unification of the worlds, he found a new friend - the Exiled Metarex, together with whom they sought to make the world a better place. Unfortunately, since Chris moved to another world twice in a short period of time, his body began to age rapidly, because of which he could only live for 15 years.

After the death of their leader, the G.U.N. went back to the old ways and, in front of the Exiled, destroyed the life work of his now deceased friend. After that, the Exiled began to pursue his own goals - the manipulation of time. To do this, he conspired with Shadow to collect all the Chaos Emeralds. And to achieve his goal, he needs to destroy all seven Chaos Emeralds, which are enough to achieve energy sufficient to "break a hole in the fabric of time and space."

Tails does not believe this, saying that "such a destructive force would destroy life as we know it". The Doctor retorts that it's worth believing, as the monsters they've all encountered are very powerful and are directly related to the emeralds. These creatures are called Omens, each of which, in the event of an impending threat to the stones, awakens to "protect its master." As an example of their incredible strength, the doctor cites Ember, a phoenix-shaped Omen that single-handedly destroyed his entire fleet when he reached the blue Chaos Emerald. Sonic, after all that has been said, calls on everyone to stop the Exile together, with which everyone on the ship agrees. Tails notices on one of Eggman's monitors a photograph of a certain tower-shaped fortress. The Doctor notices that the monitor shows their main target - the Citadel of the Exiled, in the area of ​​​​which the doctor's ship is located. Sonic and Tails decide to get to her on the Tornado, which the fox, along with Eggman, was transferred to the ship while Sonic was out. After the crash in the jungle, the plane is inoperable, which is why Tails and Eggman have to restore it to working order. After patching it up, the doctor warns the fox that the engine is running at half its original power, which is why they won't be able to fly high. Tails thanks him for his concern and, together with Sonic, fly out of Eggman's ship towards the fortress.

Tails and Sonic work their way through the rift to the citadel while Eggman distracts the main perimeter security. Meeting near the Citadel, the doctor is attacked by Ember, who destroys the doctor's ship and is about to do the same to the Tornado.

At this time, the citadel begins to take off. At its top is Shadow, hoping that Sonic will not lure Ember to the tower. Suddenly, the silhouette of Maria appears in front of him, which shocks him and puts him into a stupor. After trying to touch the hologram, Maria disappears and a powerful beam of light, released by someone behind her before she disappeared, throws the hedgehog into the wall. This someone turns out to be an Exiled who used Shadow for two years for his own purposes and thanks to the illusion technology of the "G.U.N.". The Metarex says he "played his part well" and that he no longer needs him. Being in an unprecedented rage for betrayal and deceit, Shadow removes his restrictive rings, entering into a deadly fight with the Exiled. Explosions begin at the top of the citadel.

Having successfully left the Omen and reached the wall of the citadel tower, the heroes decide to split up: Tails takes on Ember, and Sonic stops the Exiled in the citadel itself. Sonic jumps on a rocket fired by a fox, and with the help of it breaks through the wall of the tower, flies into it and starts looking for the Metarex.

Breaking through a bunch of traps and an army of metadrones, Sonic overtakes the Exile. standing in front of something resembling a portal with altars in which all seven Chaos Emeralds lie. Metarex tells the hedgehog that he was late and after these words, behind the back of the Metarex, it starts to run. Above the citadel, a ray of light rises into the sky. A protective field forms around the portal. Sonic starts to fight his way through. In the altars themselves, the emeralds gradually begin to crumble, releasing all their energy and giving it to the portal. Sonic at the last moment manages to break through the defense, run to the portal and pick up the last emerald that has not yet been destroyed. But the Exile manages to grab the blue hedgehog, snatches the emerald from it and inserts it back into the altar. A dialogue arises between them, during which Sonic learns that the Exile wants to fulfill his only innermost desire - to return home and that the destruction of the Chaos Emeralds will lead to the death of the Omens of a reality in which they no longer exist.

At this time, they ate standing on their feet after the fight with the Exiled Shadow, hiding behind a pillar not far from them, about to strike a decisive blow. He throws a Chaos Spear at one of the portal's anchorages, causing the other anchorages to fail and the portal, along with the floor, to fall to the bottom floor. At the moment the portal falls, the energy of Chaos is transferred from it to Chip's bracelet on Sonic's arm. Sonic hears Chip reminding him that he will always protect him and the blue hedgehog takes the form of Super Sonic. But before he could land even one blow, the Metarex knocks him to the ground, knocking his super form down. Falling down, Sonic sees that now all the power of Chaos is imprisoned in Chip's bracelet, with which he can transform into a super form. Accepting this, Sonic enters the final battle with the Metarex.

Episode 7 - The Last Sign

During the fight, Sonic severely damages the generator on the Exiled's chest, throwing the Metarex out of the tower, they begin to fight in the air, where as they collide with each other, they fall to the top of the citadel's tower. At the moment of the fall, the Exiled one grabs the hedgehog with one hand, preventing it from rising. Sonic tries to reach for the bracelet that slipped from his hand when he fell, but he manages to do it. The Exiled says that the hope of changing the world died with Chris and Sonic can't do anything about it. Sonic flatly refuses to believe this, shouting that Chris has already changed the world and that he has no right to "judge the world that you refused!". Gathering all his strength, he breaks out of the grip, takes and puts on the bracelet. Turning into super form again, Sonic engages the Metarex in the final battle. In the end, the hedgehog kicks the Metarex into the wall, finally destroying the generator on his chest, causing the Exiled to use up all of his life energy, leaving him to live for minutes.

Before his death, the Exiled comes to the realization that the energy of the seven emeralds, which was once guarded by the Omens, was transferred into the possession of Sonic, thereby becoming the last protector of the energy of Chaos - the Last Omen. Asking him if he really became one, Sonic refutes this, saying that he is a simple guy who enjoys the life that he now has without any regrets. And at the end he says his name. After listening to him, the Exiled addresses him by name for the first time, saying that after the death of Chris, his only desire was to see his world, which he had once been deprived of, at any cost. The exile says that he is returning home and after these words he dies.

Standing in front of the Metarex's body, Sonic turns to the Omens, who await his next move. Remembering the words of the Exiled that without the energy of Chaos the world will be doomed to death from the Signs themselves, Sonic makes a very difficult decision for him to destroy the bracelet that reminds him of a friend sleeping a thousand years of sleep. The hedgehog splits the bracelet and releases the energy of Chaos. It spreads throughout the planet, returning it to its former life and causing the Omens to evaporate into oblivion.

The last episode of the game ends with Sonic, Tails, and Eggman standing on a hill looking out over the Exiled's stronghold.

Post-credits scene

It shows what happened to the characters after the events of the game. Knuckles leaves Angel Island as his mission is complete: the destruction of the Chaos Emeralds has caused the Master Emerald to lose its power, causing it to shatter into small pieces. Shadow visits Rouge, Tails is in his hangar fixing his laptop, and Sonic visits Chris' grave, placing a bouquet of flowers on it.

Development

Development of Sonic Omens began in 2019. At that time, two people worked on the project - animator Alexei "BOLT" Dmitriev and programmer Mikhail "nekashap" Rodionov (by the end of development, the team grew to 8 people). The game was created on the Unreal Engine 4 engine, and the Infinity Engine framework was taken as the basis for the gameplay. (a toolkit for creating fan-made blue hedgehog games on UE4, which was released in 2019 by an unknown Japanese programmer under the pseudonym Oban). On February 14, 2020, Game Jolt released the first version of the game to the public under the title Sonic 2020: Episode White Jungle,, and the developers introduced themselves as "Mania Team". Players had access to 3 levels (one of which was a remake of the White Jungle level from Sonic Adventure 2 with the same name), transitions between which were carried out through self-made and voiced cutscenes on the game engine (which will continue to be released in the future with each new episode). The game made it possible to complete all levels for both hedgehogs, as well as a two-player mode. Fans warmly received the first version of the game and were interested in the further development of the project and the release of new episodes.

4 months after the release of White Jungle, Mania Team on Sonic's birthday (June 23) released a new version of the game with a new episode called Sonic 2020: Episode Shadow of Water. 2 new levels have been added to the game, new abilities for Shadow (Chaos Spear, Chaos Blast and Chaos Dash) and the boss - Vortex. A lot of work has also been done on the optimization and polishing of the last episode of White Jungle. During development, two composers joined the team - Evgeny "John R1se" Akimbaev and Danny "Techno Cinema" Burns, who will write the original soundtrack for the game throughout all episodes. By the release of Shadow of Water, all music, with the exception of the White Jungle level, was original.

In the next update, the team released 2 episodes at once - The Breakthrough and Temple of Sands. The reason was that the previously released episodes were chronologically 3 and 4, and the new episodes were supposed to show the beginning of the story and connect it with the White Jungle episode, due to which players will receive a complete timeline of events from 1 to 4 episodes in one update. The development of the 1st and 2nd episodes took 8 months. During this time, the release dates of the update were postponed several times due to lack of time for testing, and from 2021, the indie community of animators and 3D artists Ouroboros Studio (formed in 2017) began to respond with the release of further episodes. On May 3, 2021, the developers released an update along with the rebranding of the game - Sonic Omens: Episode The Breakthrough & Temple of Sands. In the update, Sonic gained two new abilities - Light Speed ​​Attack and energy lasso. He was also voiced by another actor. 4 new levels, 2 bosses (Dragoon E-Zero and Gnarl) were added to the game, as well as a completely new type of gameplay - flights on Hyper Tornado. The next update will be the largest in the history of Sonic Omens development.

After the release of episodes 1 and 2, Ouroboros Studio began developing the remaining three episodes - The Exiled, Worlds Colliding and The Last Omen. All three were planned to be released in one major update. During development, the project manager, Alexei "BOLT" Dmitriev, and the team also managed to recruit musician Lee "Bentley Jones" Brotherton, known for his successful collaboration with Sega. Thanks to this, the game received its own vocal composition The Weight of The World, where Evgeny "John R1se" Akimbaev was responsible for the music, and Lee "Bentley Jones" Brotherton was responsible for the text and vocal performance. More than one year later, on August 10, 2022, the last three episodes became available to players, and the game itself began to be considered completely completed. New episodes added 3 new levels, 3 bosses (Metal Ember, Maria and Exiled). and the final boss made it possible to play as Super Sonic in battle with him.

After the release of all episodes, Ouroboros Studio continued to support the game. A month and a half later, they released patch 3.0.1, which made a large number of edits to the last three episodes. And 5 months later, on the imminent 3rd anniversary of the project, they released update 3.2.0, which added the ability to play for Super Sonic at all high-speed levels and bosses, convenient auto-aim for Chaos Spear for Shadow, reduced the size of the game from 15 GB to 8 GB and made a huge number of fixes and improvements in the gameplay and optimization.

External links

• Playground — Энтузиаст представил Sonic Omens — полностью бесплатную 3D-игру дополненную CGI-заставками
• IMDb — Sonic Omens IMDb
• Sonic Omens - Official Site
• Sonic Omens on Game Jolt. Game Jolt.
• DTF — Sonic 2020 фанатская игра на движке Sonic Infinity Engine
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• Playground — Sonic 2020 — впечатляющая фанатская игра на Unreal Engine 4
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• TV Tropes — Sonic Omens

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