10 Video Game Enemies We Can't Believe Got Cut
3. Sonic Adventure - Sky Chase Dragon
Whether or not Sonic Adventure’s roster of characters and playstyles are a high or a low for the game is at the eye of the beholder. Personally, I’m a fan of just how many different ideas Sega managed to fit into the blue hedgehog’s first real 3D adventure although some are definitely stronger than others.
Looking at you, Big the Cat and your Sega Bass Masters bulls***.
Twice during the story, Sonic and Tails give nod to both Sega’s Panzer Dragoon series and Sonic the Hedgehog 2 by flying their by-plane towards Robotnik’s Egg Carrier. The stages themselves are certainly some of the weakest in the game as they don’t really amount to much beyond locking targets and firing over and over.
It turns out that’s because something was missing and that something was a robotic dragon.
Eggman’s most ambitious machine to that point, if hacked into the game, will follow the plane breathing fire. Even though it wasn’t finished and therefore can’t hurt you, it’s a sight to see and certainly adds some much needed threat and wow factor to the stages of Sonic Adventure that drag the most.
When you realise that the original concept for Sky Chase was to include a set of boss fights it all starts to make a lot more sense as to why they feel so empty.