Arguably the most serious eggman has ever been, not counting adventure 2. He's actively trying to *KILL* sonic to the point where sonic literally tells him to simmer down. Eggman's a great villain, if I've ever seen one
In my opinion this is how Eggman should always be. Sonic was never a dark character, but Eggman is. He turns animals into Robots, takes hostages, tries to kill Sonic and his friends, manipulates them into fighting each other etc. He can be goofy, but when fighting should always be serious. I love it when a battle with Eggman has something at stake. Would be interesting to see a boss fight where Eggman captures Sonics friends, traps them in his machine and uses their powers against Sonic. The longer the battle continues, the more life energy of Sonics friends gets consumed. Sonic, although he doesn't want to usually be serious and is just a kid at heart, has to deal with this Eggman, fast and without actually inflicting damage to his friends, all while Eggman tries to really kill Sonic. I love when Eggman crosses the line and Sonic has to get serious. Makes beating Eggman very satisfying.
Sonic Unleashed has such a cinematic flair. It really feels like one of Sonic's greatest adventures, just because of those action shots and the music and the impact of every hit... it's so great.
"This gorge will be your tomb!" then that zoom in, wild evil laugh, and gearing up movement Eggman does at 1:30 shapes up to be the most epic intro to a boss battle I've ever seen in the whole Sonic series. Most fights Sonic just says, "oh, he's over here, gotta go!" and it fades to black as Sonic runs toward an empty space. But THIS, Eggman is FACE TO FACE, literally tells Sonic he's going to perish here, and then slides in one extra Mwahahaha to end it all. Wow.
this boss really changes up the formula too, with all the normal night stage bosses you have stuff like the dark gaia phoenix on dragon road with the water vases to put the fire out, the dark moray in cool edge where you use the nitrogen tanks to freeze it, and then the dark guardian where you push some boxes.......with the egg dragoon there's nothing special you need to do to deal damage, just wait for an opening. sidenote the music is absolutely phenomenal, I listen to this track on repeat like no joke. anyway, the coolest part in my opinion is the way the environment changes, you think the boss is gonna start out in the goal room of eggmanland or maybe another room after getting the temple, but nah he straight up just destroys the floor beneath you to reveal a huge pit that quite literally goes into the core of the planet. so now you're fighting on a falling platform, really awesome environment, fitting for the penultimate boss of the game. but THEN he decides "yeah lets just fuckin do it again" and so now you're FALLING WITH NO PLATFORM. even sonic is taken aback by eggman being so serious what with his line during this being "jeez eggman, simmer down!", which lets be real he's completely right eggman is genuinely being villainous this time around. so after you break through the doors at the bottom you barely land on a really small platform underneath the piece of the earth. BRO how do you make a boss THAT COOL, the environment actively changing throughout and as such changing what moves and attacks are used, for the player being more careful with their movements. NOT ONLY THAT but if you take too long on the bedrock platform he breaks it AGAIN to reveal ANOTHER SMALLER PLATFORM!!! this goes to show that they're actually punishing you for not taking enough priority in beating the dragoon. pretty much everything the boss is designed around is fantastic, if it were made a lot harder and was more extended I would unironically accept this as a final boss, he's the perfect penultimate bossfight.
That is one awesome way to start the endgame of Sonic Unleashed! Sonic himself also deserves some mention. He's at his most serious here as well (probably because he knows Eggman really wants him dead, or perhaps his werehog form makes him more serious, probably a little bit of both) and is well aware that his survival and the wellbeing of his friends are on the line and he must go all out too. If Sonic Unleashed was the last Sonic game in the series, then this would have been the final showdown to end all final showdowns! 😎
I agree. I love this game for its fantastic story, how long this game is, and this boss being my number 1 boss in Sonic history. The werehog might not fit Sonic, but it doesn't change who he is: A hero, fighter, and savior. I love this game soooo much!
@@dotproduct335 i beated the game in 4 hours and i was 10 or 11 years old. Sonic forces was SO easy it was insulting. I blame the haters and IGN for basically forcing sega to make easier games that meant for babies.
I just realized how badass Sonic’s fall recovery scene is. How he grunts with exertion with every move and how he yells before catching the last falling debris to prep himself for what’s about to happen! I’m sure he didn’t know if he was going to stick the landing and it shows!
4:17 Really love how Eggman starts to panic at the end and even love how it moves to Eggman's POV at the last seconds, showing that even Sonic has become somewhat of a monster as he usually just destroys his machines and thats the end of it but here, he's tearing the machine bit by bit and even aims for what basically is the pilot's cockpit and tears it apart and finishes off with Sonic punching the windshield but prehaps he's actually aimming at eggman. Good thing that glass is bullet-proof as it can somehow withstand a hit of Sonic werehog .
The metal and glass Eggman produced to construct his robots is equivalent to that of the armor on a tank. Seeing Sonic actively tear apart what is essentially a armored tank is terrifying to witness from Eggmans perspective.
@@somerandomdogontheinternet1338 I'd imagine Sonic would pull Eggman by the coat and start demanding that he fixes the mess he made before he decides to crack his head open.
Well, what did Eggman expect? After all, he was at least partly responsible for Sonic transforming into a werehog in the first place. Plus, I'd imagine that by this point, Sonic had pretty much decided he's had enough of Eggman's BS and he essentially let him have it.
Dan yeah I don’t get why in a fight characters will say stuff like “where are you?” or “Get back here!” I mean it’s a fight, they aren’t gonna want to let you win.
How to make this boss even more awesome: 1. Eggman's attacks should charge up a lot quicker 2. Eggman should move quicker around the field 3. More Egg Fighters towards the end of boss fight 4. Eggman's attacks simply need to pack more of a punch 5. Maybe some platforming sections in which you gave to reach the Dragoon by jumping across some rocks, I dunno 6. More witty banter between Sonic and Eggman during the fight
How about making both Eggman's Eggmobile the Ultra-Hyper Prototype-1 version of the Egg Dragoon fall, melting in the planet's core and along with Orbot, Cubot, Aiden Keogh? And switch out Sonic with Sprout's "Earth to Luna!" series' Luna. She could attack, with the Sonic-the-Werehog powered and styled punches, both Eggman's Eggmobile the Ultra-Hyper Prototype-1 version of the Egg Dragoon.
How about a new Sonic game featuring its QTE's, inspired by those of Sonic Unleashed, with both Miles "Tails" Prower and Marine the Raccoon as its playable heroes and Blaze's dimension as its setting, spindash64?
I love how Eggman is in this fight, you can’t tell he’s actually trying to kill Sonic and not just beat him and it’s amazing how desperate he gets in the dialogue
A lot of people pointed it out already but I *love* Mike Pollock's delivery with the voice lines during this fight. Yeah it's a bit of a "subtle" change but it sounds less dramatic in a theatrical sense and moreso... borderline unhinged. Basically relishing in the chance to finally honest-to-god kill Sonic once and for all, you can feel the hatred in each syllable heard. It's great!
Man, Sonic ripped this super robot apart WHILE falling to the core of the earth. This IS an intense fight believe it or not. And people say Werehog is bad.
This is genuinely the most perfect gameplay of this boss on the internet. First of all, it starts with Eggman saying "Checkmate, Sonic! Hope you've said your goodbyes!" Arguably the better fight quote. Secondly, the music is perfectly timed to literally *every* part of the fight. At 2:19, the QTE matches the music, then again at 2:30, when the music changes pace with the fight. Then, as soon as the QTE section ends, the music changes pace yet again. At 2:51, the music times up to the ground being broken, and then perfectly transitions to the second phase of the fight as the mantle is exposed. At 3:26, as Eggman is charging his barrage, the music swells up and releases accordingly. Finally, at 3:50, the second and last QTE section of the fight starts, the music responds in kind, suddenly becoming tense in nature. At 4:06, the music is perfectly timed to Sonic's jumps towards Eggman, and matches his foreboding nature as Eggman tells him to stay back. It then speeds up as he winds up his punch, and the track loops perfectly as he releases them. The music looping at this part is also very fitting, as Eggman had Sonic backed against a wall when it started, and at this point, the tables have completely turned. I cannot stop watching this, unlike those "20 SATISFYING VIDEOS, 99.9% FEEL SATISFIED AFTER WATCHING" videos, this is *actually* satisfying.
@@somerandomdogontheinternet1338 That would've probably ended the what seemed like the never-ending conflict between Sonic and Dr. Eggman, and it'd be satisfying for many, particularly those who hate Eggman although it would come at the cost of Sonic's morality. So I'm honestly glad Sonic just ripped Eggman out of his cockpit and threw him out of the arena.
@@PrincessQ-fj9ly your acting like Sonic has never killed someone before, what about the knight he decapitated in black knight? But yes I don’t think sonic would kill him
Sonic ( in his head): "This is what I think of Eggmanland! Should not have said "send all complains to me", Egghead!" Yeap. That part is the most amusing part of the original egg dragoon fight. Seems like in Sonic Colours, Eggman learnt his lesson...
Think about this. Eggman nearly had Sonic this time, not just as the Werehog, he wanted Sonic DEAD. It looked like he had a death warrant with Sonic’s name on it. Besides the rant. Look at of the Egg Dragoon’s attacks, they each have the element of the nighttime bosses in the game. The arm cannon’s machine gun has fire power of the Dark Gaia Phoenix, it also has the ice bomb of the Dark Moray. The drill has the lighting power of the Dark Guardian. When Eggman said this mech had Dark Gaia’s power, he meant it.
Yes, but this boss is still loads of fun despite being easy. After that comes Dark Gaia, which was quite challenging for me. (I got the Xbox 360 version btw)
I struggled with this fight when i was younger... but iirc it was purely because the fight was on a timer (If you didn't kill him fast enough you instadied)
Which part? The 30 minute long werehog stage, or the part the daytime stage that took child me literal DAYS to comeplete. Edit: I played the Wii version, which as I've been told is the best version between all 4 versions. Still need to try the new hardware version though to throw my own full opinion into it. Edit 2: By the way, Werehog was split up in the Wii version, making that part easier for me personally. Also, because I could switch it mid-game, controller options I used was GameCube Controller for daytime because I played Sonic Adventure 2 Battle and the waggle of the Wii remote, even if better than in other games, has slight delay, which really hurt Eggmanland S rank on my first 100%. I then used Wii remote with nunchuck because swinging big stick with werehog's moves is still better for my brain than button combos on a GameCube controller, with precision needed less so it's not that big of a downside. TL;DR: On the Wii version, I can switch controllers, so I use GameCube Controller on day sections and Wii remote with nunchuck in night versions of a stage for better game feel without much being lost.
This fight really shows how angry and fed up both eggman and sonic are. Eggman is visibly pissed, destroying terrain and pulling sonic down to the earths core in an attempt to kill him. Sonic isnt giving any witty remarks, justing rushing in anger through the fight, destroying the prototype and even going for a kill shot on eggman, camera even switches to eggmans perspective to show how intense the hit is and how much power is behind it.
This was the last time I felt like Eggman was truly trying to kill Sonic. Even bringing him to the depths of the earth to bury him. All the newer games just seems like he is fighting Sonic for sport.
this really showed eggman was tired of sonic interfering with his plans and tired of him entirely so he tried to literally kill him and that is why sonic had to tell eggman to simmer down
@@GetShrekd you can't crush someone with the sun. It is made out of gas. On top of that it was an illusion, which is way less threatening than personally taking Sonic to the depths of the Earth. Also there is literally so many things wrong with his "summon" sun to earth plan. If that illusion was even close to real, everyone would have died instantaneously including Eggman because he could see it. Even if eggman didn't die, he wouldn't want to kill everyone because he would rather enslave them in his mechs. Also Just look at Mercury. The planet wouldn't survive the sun literally being on it. Not to mention you wouldn't even be able to see because the sun would just engulf the planet because of the size difference and the entire place would be blinding with light. You actually shouldn't even be able to play the game at that point because the "sun" was poorly represented. The plan doesn't even match Eggman's character because he had been known to not go so far as to make a plan that would destroy the planet he is trying to take over. He has even sided with Sonic in order to defend the planet from greater evil. Forces has a ton of issues with it, and you are definitely barking up the wrong tree trying to use that failure of a game for an argument. Also Eggman had almost no interactions with Sonic in the game to even warrent him giving off an aura of him trying to kill Sonic. If you want to use Sonic forces, tell me why in quite literally the beginning of the game when Eggman won, he just put Sonic in Jail when he clearly could have killed him. So how is it that Eggman was trying to kill him when he literally took care of Sonic and even had to give him food for him to survive in the jail cell. At least in Unleashed, when he stole the power of the chaos emeralds, he ejected Sonic into Earth's gravitational pull because that was a reasonable effort to kill him. Honestly don't even know how Sonic survived that fall.
@@Chibuga if you're going to start adding realism to this for no reason at all, sonic shouldn't even be able to be alive in the earth's core in Unleashed, being that close to magma burns you alive. you shouldn't be able to stay on a platform going that fast towards the core, either, you would be lifted off the ground. that makes no sense, therefore it means eggman in Unleashed isn't serious about killing sonic? trying to use realism as a way of saying something is bad in a sonic game is donkey brained. eggman still wanted to kill everyone with the sun he used, it would still do that if it hit. that isn't playing for sport, he was trying to win. maybe if you weren't so close minded you could see that and I don't give a shit about your plot analysis, your original comment is dumb as fuck. even disregarding forces, he was trying to suck the life out of the earth in lost world, and was ready to kill him in space with enslaved wisp power
@@Chibuga besides it's already been explained why he kept him alive. he wanted to finish building his empire to show sonic what he'd achieved while he was imprisoned before finishing him off
A few observations: 1) Sonic Unleashed is pretty great 2) Is it just me or does Eggman go HARD in this fight, like he's out for BLOOD 3) ...Why do the quicktime events sound like doorbells?
1) Yep! 2) He's out for the kill. Sonic has just undone the victory Eggman finally had after all these games - Dark Gaia, Eggmanland. He's finally had enough of Sonic. 3) ...No idea.
The fact that eggman is willing to go to the bottom of the earth where he could die himself just to murder sonic speaks about the hatred this man has in his heart.
I love this boss fight so much just because of how savage Sonic is. He is straight up tearing the Egg Dragoon apart until Eggman begins to beg Sonic to stop.
Me too. You can tell at the end of this fight that Eggman's really seeing for himself the monster he literally created. 4:02 and 4:07 really shows how scared he is of Sonic now and how Sonic himself has made it crystal clear that he's had enough of Eggman's BS and essentially let him have it.
Superplanet That is so true. I have seen people who don't want to play the game because they heard that the werehog sections are one of the worst things ever. Besides, using combos on a load of enemies is really fun and satisfying. The only thing I didn't like about the werehog was that there was no drop shadow when platforming, which caused unfair deaths at times but the werehog really isn't horrible.
Lucky Dog it certainly has great combos, especially when I had the legend of Spyro series where their combos were repetitive as hell, at least Unleashed made it interesting.
Not really, the only thing that wears it down is the werehog stages, just because it slows the adrenaline filled day sections down to a halt for long and drab locations which you wouldn’t really mind in a day setting because you’d be moving to fast to care and they are cool spectacles on their own, but night time stages are just shorter arenas with bits of black goo blocking the way, if sonic team was to remaster the game (which they most likely won’t) I wouldn’t say take out the night stages, because they do have potential, just make it a little more fast paced, give the locations more to be desired for, take out the god awful puzzles, and maybe a few different enemy types to make it interesting
Lucky Dog It's actually the tedious coin hunting that turned me off. I want to get back to the game and actually beat it, but I need a strategy guide to find the coins and the only prima guides found on Amazon is for the vastly inferior Playstation 2 port. There's also needing to photograph dancing drunkards with no mention of where to find them nor what they look like other than their intro cutscene and the fact the camera only holds two pieces of film at once and it isn't clear how to fill it back up.
Comparing Mike Pollock here to his voice acting in Forces, he is so much more sinister and passionate in his voice acting here in Unleashed. I love how he says "OHH HOHOHOHOHO" as if he's confident that with this new mech he can obliterate Sonic and complete his evil plans. I get chills down my spine when he says "This gorge will be your tomb", he really doesn't mess around in Unleashed. Then we have Forces, where his voice acting is really bland compared to Unleashed. "HA my own genius scares me sometimes" just doesn't make me feel like Eggman was a threat in Forces, he felt more like Bowser from New Super Mario Bros. I hope Mike Pollock can get his true passionate voice back for the next Sonic game in 2021.
This will always be the best version of the Egg Dragoon boss fight. So much intensity, action and atmosphere. Plus I love the cinematic attacks that you can perform with the QTEs. It shits all over Generations and Forces' versions of this fight. Plus this fight works so much better with the Werehog, it's much more fun than with regular Sonic.
In terms of epic Unleashed takes the cake, but Sonic generations actually shakes the fight up by using the completed version of this boss though it doesn't incorporate the qtes which made it so awesome. As for forces, it just used a scrapped model from generations and was a just a filler boss in an engine test game. Tragically forces had the potential to succeed unleashed in terms of epicness but having fatass sonic meant he needed a boss when the custom could've easily made this a level length boss
Sonic generations had to remove a lot of the epicness for modern sonic to fight, in forces it was just a reused model because forces is one of the tech demo games.
This fight holds the same appeal that Kirby Super Star Ultra's "Masked Dedede" does for me. The hero's rival is giving their all. They're serious this time, but also not serious enough to completely lose the sillier qualities that we all love. It truly feels like a final showdown that displays the rivalry in its full glory.
a delicate point on an otherwise armored machine that lights up and serves as a possible weak point logic would dictate that it's a power cell of some kind. hence the lighting up.
Honestly that falling cut scene is just perfect (it gives me the greatest nostalgic feeling whenever I watch it), it produces a great location for my favorite bosses in video game history. The music is honestly unbelievably perfect. I just love it too much.
Probably because this is a hint of what Sonic would be capable of if Eggman pushed him too far, and I think Eggman knows it. With the speeds Sonic is capable of obtaining, along with the fact that he can frequently tear through solid metal with ease, the not so good doctor is probably grateful deep down that Sonic is so casual and jokey most of the time, as the Blue Blur could reduce him to a greasy smear without even trying.
It's cool how Dark Gaia's power seems to be on the same level, if not stronger, than the Chaos Emeralds. It powered Eggmanland, helped create his machines, and the only power that ever hurt Super Sonic. It seems the only downside is that it drives the user mad as shown with Werehog's viciousness and Eggman out for blood in this fight
To me, the ultimate moment that defines the concept of: "Sonic Vs Eggman." Just the viceral hatrid and energy of Eggman's Yelling, The Music... If this were a Modern Sonic fight, I'm VERY Sure I would call this my Favorite Eggman Boss Fight Too.
MOST. EPIC. BOSS. IN. THIS. SERIES. PERIOD. And wanna know the best part? This *isn't* even... the... FINAL... BOSS!!! When people bash this game they only play like the first 4 levels and give up like the little pussies that they are. Unleashed is an incredible video game. Simply amazing. I've never seen so much effort put into every little detail in a game before. What a blessing. I'll always defend you, Sonic Unleashed.
Fighting a super polished and supercharged looking extermination robot while falling down to the core, GRADUALLY tearing it apart is a special kind of badass.
This in my opinion is the best fight in the entire sonic franchise when it comes to sonic vs eggman. The cutscene before the actual battle has such a cinematic flare to it, the music is menacing and to top it all off, they’re falling down to the earths core. Such a good fight
Years later I only now realize how ferocious Sonic was. I got a grasp on how damn crazy Eggman was, but running it back to see how Sonic was just about ready to break the glass and, in my head, grab Eggman by scruff, makes me recoil a bit. Like, imagine your nemesis who is usually level headed and lets you off the hook commonly cause he knows you can't exactly do much, suddenly starts breaking up your entire machine and little hovercraft that has the power of a GOD inside it, and has the DURABILITY OF WHAT COULD BE A TANK.
I just love how parts of the battle are matching with the bgm Perfectly! Just listen to the "raging/falling down" part, the bit when he deploys the wing units and the final sequence as well. I don't know if you intentionally practiced it to get these results or this was random, but either way Epic Job! :D
I'm sorry for all you fans out there that love the Generations boss fight and I like it too but in my opinion you cannot compare the Generations boss fight to this (and I said in my opinion so so don't kill me for saying this)
Jashaun Strother I say you can't compare them, and basically all the bosses of Generations to the original, cause they are two different situations. Egg Dragoon: The music and battle is different cause 1) Eggman is pissed and wants to kill you and 2) it's the Werehog fighting, while in Generations Eggman is calmer and it's Hedgehog Sonic, on top of that, Sonic has fought him before and knows what to do, even with the new upgrades and being in his normal form another example is Prefect Chaos. Adventure version sounds more upbeat and is easier cause (Super) Sonic wasn't trying to actually beat him, but purify him, he knew he could do it without fail. While the Generations version is reversed. Sonic is in his normal form and can't just purify him, he has to actually fight the beast, so it sounds more intense and darker while being a harder and longer fight than before cause now it is. And probably the best example is the Big Arms on the 3ds versions. Considered the harder classic Sonic boss can be beaten in 40 seconds in the 3ds Generations version. Why? cause (in real life the original was a final boss while the Generations one was the first boss, but game wise) Sonic has seen and knows how to beat'em no problem now, so it's not a problem.
The only issue with this fight is that it takes part at the point of the game where the werehog has become far too OP since you've shovelled so many upgrades into him, they should have made it so the Egg Dragoon just freaking tanked up the health like the Death Egg Robot.
+Skwalker Personnally, he's not this squishy when it's the first time you fight him. I had to use a second avatar for play a new game and, only for the challenge, I didn't put upgrade on Strength
This is one awesome way to start the endgame of Sonic Unleashed! Dr. Eggman is arguably at his most serious since Sonic Adventure 2. At this point, he's done D-O-N-E DONE with Sonic and is ready to kill him once and for all. Sonic himself also deserves some mention. He's at his most serious here as well (probably because he knows Eggman really wants him dead, or perhaps his werehog form makes him more serious, probably a little bit of both) and is well aware that his survival and the wellbeing of his friends are on the line and he must go all out too. If Sonic Unleashed was the last Sonic game in the series, then this would have been the final showdown to end all final showdowns! 😎
Are we going to talk about Eggman's egg mobile glass? What the actual heck is that made of? it withstood his damn punch and let me remind you his PUNCH BROKE THE STEEL VAULT BACK IN MAZURI
It took me over 11 years to realize what those cylindrical units Sonic tore off after the first quick time event actually did, as the Egg Dragoon overall seems almost entirely unaffected. They were shield generators. Up until he tore them off, a likely near invulnerable or at least durable energy shield was protecting the eggmobile’s cockpit. But it vanished the moment those cylinders were torn off.
@@klpliper5783 I mean this is the same 300 IQ mad scientist who not only builds colossal airships like Final Fortress (which knuckles states makes the Egg Carrier look small in comparison), dragged entire planets across the universe to chain up, and canonically built a freaking Dyson sphere. But also made a robot based entirely upon weaponized slot machine gameplay that attacks itself and even powers up his opponent’s most destructive attack (Egg Dealer). And on another occasion was stupid enough to build a lava and Sonic-Proof machine that is impervious to anything but its own mines that it explicitly directs back into itself as a form of attack. (Lava Reef Act 2 boss in S3&K) I guess what I’m trying to say is he either let his own hubris get the better of him, or used some arbitrary or ignorant reasoning in his choice of where to put the shield generators. This logic is probably the same kind he employs in this very confrontation where he fires a massive drill rocket making up like a tenth of the machine’s mass at Sonic while he’s directly in front of the vulnerable power core he otherwise keeps at melee level with his enemy.
I like to call this battle "Eggman has gone fucking insane" and understandably so, hell even sonic tells him to "simmer down" Dragoon was made to counter sonic the hedgehog, the NORMAL sonic the hedgehog, NOT sonic the werehog He got his ass handed to him just because he wasn't expecting to fight a werewolf
People don’t like the werehog, i mean i get sonic is supposed to be fast, but that doesn’t mean he isn’t a good fighter. They really did a good job at fleshing out the werehog, the combat is addicting and fun as hell, the platforming can be annoying but you get used to it. Sucks that people hated the werehog because they just want the same thing over and over, and apparently it seems mario is the only one allowed to have a gimmick
Eggman split the planet apart, awoken a centuries old demon entity of the earth to harness its energy source, transformed Sonic into a werehog using dark energy not caring wether it killed Sonic or not, kicked sonic out of a space base to fall to his death back to earth thousands of miles away, scattered the chaos emeralds across the planet and drained them of all its power, and used a whole continent of the Earth to create Eggman land to try and end sonic once and for all. Then he drags sonic down to the earths core with a robot specifically designed to kill sonic while yelling death threats, I don’t feel bad. Eggman was asking for this one.
When you put it that way, yikes. A few things I wanna point out tho: while Eggman didn't really care for Sonic's transforming, it wasn't his intention to. The energy of dark gaia just so have happened to infest in Sonic. Also, the chaos emeralds didn't scatter, Sonic had all of them in his possession