Sonic and the Black Knight Dragon Boss Footage!

Sonic takes on a dragon! Read more for exclusive info from the blog of a Sega employee who's played the game!

"In the beginning we get a big cut scene in which Sonic is summoned by Merlina, we dont see Sonic prior to this so the first we actually see him hes plummeting to earth bellowing in terror. Before face-planting. Sonic then has to do some acrobatics in order to save his two Chili Dogs that hed obviously just bought. Confronted by the evil warriors of the Black Knight and the frightened girl who pleads with him for help Sonic shrugs and, after eating one of the Chili Dogs (yes, he coolly makes everyone wait for him to do something) admits hes rather familiar with the drill and proceeds to kick some booty. There are various things that will seem familiar to you but as Sonic himself remarks during the tutorial (yes, there is a tutorial process but it is MUCH better than the one on Secret Rings) The rules seem a bit different this time.
Indeed, theres actually a slight twist in the plot as Sonic is essentially starting as the bad guy trying to stop the legitimate, if corrupted, King. As such he is quickly dubbed a naive. Now, as you go through stages youll spot lots of fairies. They look like Chao heads!
Yellow Fairies - These give you rings so collect them, you can also get rings through other means such as smashing pots.

Red Fairies - These give a significant boost to your soul gauge, which makes a return from SatSR the long lines of pearls are replaced by juicy red apples this time around.

Blue Fairies - Youll find these in strings across your path and they will give you a significant speed boost - they are your dash pads.

Missions

Stages increase in length as you go through unsurprisingly, some are simple races through whilst others will see you doing various heroic deeds which range from simply helping you to master certain techniques to specific tasks to please the Lady of the Lake, who look remarkably like Amy - which leads to some awkwardness! In one mission you will have to give the townspeople rings, this involves firstly doing away with any foes around that are terrorizing them then pressing the Z button to instigate a conversation. Youll then have to do a little QTE which I assure you is a lot easier and quicker than a certain flying level in Unleashed. Success will give them 20 rings and will make them very happy. Failure will leave them disappointed and you wont be able to try again with them, so beware. If you overshoot you can do a quick somersault backwards by the way. Once youve done this the first time youll soon spot the odd villager in other stages who has a speech bubble over their head. Talking to them will start another QTE for ring and success will gain you a mystery present.

Unlockables, Collectibles & The Art Contest

As you pass through the game youll find and gain all sorts of little collectables that you will have to identify outside of levels. There are 200 in all to collect and include special badges of rank should you defeat a lot of foes, etc. Youll be able to trade these with friends over Nintendo Wi-Fi.

Youll also unlock special media as you go in a vault similar to the book from SatSR, Ive seen character art, cut scenes, music and art all mentioned as well as one tab for character voices hmmmm. But one of the first things youll get is three videos. These videos contain the European/Australian, American/Canadian and Japanese winners of the Sonic & The Black Knight art contest with their names emblazoned across the bottom! Seriously, they all look really good!
Tails Doll appears in an SOA one! So you get Tails Doll AND Fang/Nack in there as well as Tikal and I mightve even spotted an appearance of Bean and Bark whistle past not sure on the last one.

Versus The Knights

I played through until I got passed Knuckles (Gawain), who is the second of the knights you will face on your way up to fighting the Black Knight himself. Knuckles is very honourable naturally enough and has grave doubts about his Kings actions which deeply trouble him whilst Shadow (Lancelot) shows unwavering loyalty despite the Black Knights meanings.

The 1-on-1 duels are fast, furious and intense!

Also, during cutscenes where you encounter the Knight of the Round table in the back ground youll here instrumental versions of musical themes associated with them. Shadow had Throw It All Away whilst Knuckles, who was not dozing in the dusk, has his instrumental of Unknown from M.E.. I didnt get to Blaze (Percival) so Ill be very interested as to what hers might be because shes never really had a theme.'"
Exciting isnt it? Ill have more soon

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[mryoshifreak]

WOW that dragon looks amazing!!!!!!!

[tomaspepino]

that dragon is very stupid, his moviments are soo ridiculous

[HAKANTUNCER123456789]

ia m better than him

[shadic1010]

i beat this dragon in 10 seconds b4.

[worksa7]

They should have had him like run up his neck or something....you know...use his speed in SOME way...

[noahbro123]

thats because its just a training dragon

[PhazonPhantom]

Lol Knight of the wind sounds so crap in this early version. You sure its not kareoke night?

[ziquanmaster]

Never knew dragons were such lazy fighters. lol

[alvarignogauchigno]

what do you mean?

[SilverXTikal]

Wow. The creators actually said that? When? ...Where?

Boy, that sure takes away quite a bit of my respect for those guys. That's aweful.

[jaybon5]

little hint when fighting dragons dont guard it barely works u need to jump back then when hes done quickly attack while hes stuck