Sonic Battle

released on Dec 04, 2003

Sonic and pals are gearing up for some brawling action! Fight as one of nine characters including Sonic, Tails and Shadow! Knock 'em dead with special attacks and team-based assaults. Create and train fighting partner for 2-on-2 battles. Duke it out with your friends in 4 player battles. It is the second fighting game in the Sonic the Hedgehog series, the first being Sonic the Fighters. It is also the first Sonic fighting game to be on a handheld.


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Very cool art and story but my god is it boring to play

Sonic Battle is a game that shouldn’t be stuck on the GBA, as it has so much potential as a simple but fun fighting game.

I love the presentation, the jagged outlines and black borders give it a unique and striking look, and the way the sprites move are a fantastic evolution of the Advance sprites.

Combat wise it does work, every character has a few different options for special moves as well as their own basic attacks and movement. There’s also newcomer Emerl, who can copy other characters abilities through the games story mode, and he can become unbelievably powerful, something that would be fun to play against friends with their own emerls…

But what’s the likelihood of that happening now, you need link cables to play multiplayer and this game never got rereleased. Also levelling up Emerl takes forever, learning good skills is a nightmare, and equipping them requires so many skill points.

You also have to play this games story mode which… is awful. The story itself isn’t bad at all, it’s very similar in tone to the Adventure era, and I like how we see so many perspectives on the plot. But the structure kills it, as you repeat the same battles again and again and again. It’s incredibly tedious and I just can’t ever imagine completing this more than once.

It’s a shame because there’s tons of potential here, but Sonic Battle just ain’t there.

This is not the deepest fighting game but strangely enough it's one of the most entertaining in the entire series. The writing is so good that I'm kind of mad it was used for a little side game on GBA. The sprite work is unmatched, there will never be better sonic sprites than these in my opinion. Overall, extremely underrated and I think this is a must play for any sonic fan.

Weirdly fun. Writing was consistently okay, but some characters like Shadow and Amy are really entertaining to watch. Amy’s completely unhinged in this game and I love it. Combat is a bit simple, but quite fun. However, although there are ways to speed it up, improving Emerl is painfully slow, and the AI can get pretty frustrating sometimes. Still a rather underrated Sonic game that I do recommend to any Sonic fan who hasn’t played it.