A contrasted experience with excellent speed stages and frustrating Werehog sequences. The daytime stages alone justify the game for Sonic fans, but the nighttime sections weigh down the overall experience.
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Platforming by Sonic Team dualizing Sonic into hedgehog by day and Werehog by night. Published by Sega, released in November 2008 in Europe, Asia and North America. Sonic transformed by Dark Gaia into Werehog at night crossing the globe to reconstitute the planet shattered by Eggman, over eight fictional continents traversed inspired by real world including Apotos Greece, Mazuri Africa and Spagonia Italy, dual gameplay mixing Sonic 3D speed by day with high-speed stages and Werehog beat'em up by night with kung-fu combat, Hub Worlds mechanic for semi-open continent exploration, over twelve main missions and thirty side missions, English and Japanese voice-over, soundtrack by Tomoya Ohtani.
A Sonic adventure alternating pure speed by day and a Sonic transformed into a slower creature by night, a divisive choice that still splits fans of the hedgehog. Its edition covering the American and Asian markets stays sought by collectors of the series, keen to gather every regional variant. Its interest owes to this debated place in the Sonic saga and to a run less common than the European versions.
