Sonic Shuffle is a video game for the Sega Dreamcast and was Sega's answer to the successful Nintendo party game, Mario Party. (And was co-developed by Hudson Soft, the developers of Mario Party.)
In Sonic Shuffle, the player can play as one of the main characters of the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise. The game supports up to 4 players and allows for players to play in teams and play against one another on a giant game board, going around and playing mini games to collect Emblems. Whoever has the most emblems at the end of each board wins.
The overall goal of the game is to collect the most precioustones. The game featured 5 different “game boards” and had 8 playable characters, 4 of which needed to be unlocked: Sonic, Tails, Amy, Knuckles, Super Sonic, Big the Cat, Gamma, and Chao. Each character had a special ability that was unique to them.
The story involves Sonic and company getting caught up in a mess in a land called Maginary World. A villain named Void has shattered the Precioustone into many pieces. Lumina Flowlight and the rest of Maginary world are counting on Sonic to restore it.
The game featured around 50 mini games and around 30 mini events. Mini games ranged from 1 vs 3 to every one for them selves. The mini events generally involved a little story and choice given at the end to determine your prize or punishment. As well as having a single player story line it had a vs mode for 4 people to play, also it had a “Sonic Room” where you could play your favorite mini games with your friends without starting a full game.
The game play involved playing randomly given cards. The deck of cards had four of every number 1-6 and four wild cards. Three of the wild cards had an “S” and the remaining card was the “EGGMAN” card. Playing the cards would dictate the distance your player would move on the board the S cards could be played as a 7 if you had decent timing as the card changed from 1 to S. The EGGMAN card was bad fortune for 1 or all of the characters and would generally cause trouble for the players in a myriad of ways. A full game could take anywhere from 20 min to 2.5 hours depending on how long you wanted to make it.
Sonic Shuffle wasn't as successful as its competitor. Most of this is due to its mini-games, many of which were confusing or frustating. The loading times between the mini-games and the boards were too long. Additionally, the Computer-Controlled players would very often cheat at the game - stealing the best cards from the other players to win minigames and get to the Precioustones first. This made playing Sonic Shuffle with Computer-Controlled players extremely difficult.
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