Complete walkthrough for Part 16 of Sonic the Hedgehog, covering Crisis City, Flame Core, Iblis Phase 2 boss fight, and New City missions. Includes S-rank tips and strategies.
Walkthrough
- 1ACT 4: CRISIS CITY
- Act type: Boarding, Super Speed Area
- 2Mission Name: Find the Database!
- 3Difficulty: Medium, Super Speed Area Hard
- 4Enemy Type: Monsters
- 5Tips: Boarding has many rails. Beware of flying cars in the Super Speed area.
- 6After beating this level, you will unlock the Shadow Episode.
- 7S-rank: Achievable with just the Rings in the Super Speed area. Tap Attack for Light Dash Rings, steer gently, and jump over pipes and boxes. Consider using Red Gem for the first part and focusing on Rings in the second. If you don't get enough Rings, restart the Super Speed area before reaching the goal.
- 8ACT 5: FLAME CORE
- Act type: Support Character
- 9Support Character: Knuckles (meet halfway). Use Knuckles to turn on all lights to continue.
- 10Mission Name: Find the Chaos Emerald!
- 11Difficulty: Medium-hard
- 12Enemy Type: Monsters
- 13Tips: If you fall into lava with Rings, you'll survive and find a nearby platform. Run on walls without boosting first to stay on. Use Homing Attack or Light Dash to cross gaps. For Knuckles' part, either kill enemies first, then turn on lights starting from the top, or run through quickly ignoring enemies.
- 14S-rank Tip: Kill a decent amount of enemies in a reasonable time.
- 15BOSS 3: IBLIS PHASE 2
- Mission Name: Defeat Iblis!
- 16Difficulty: Medium
- 17How to beat him: On floating platforms, avoid Iblis's flaming rock attacks by jumping. When more platforms fall, you can reach the orb lights. Homing Attack the lights, or use Iblis's thrown rocks to light them up. When Iblis tries to eat the light, Homing Attack his head. After a hit, more platforms will fall, destroying those near Iblis; wait for new ones. When his health is low, stay away from Iblis, as he will charge differently. He will knock himself out in the middle of the platforms, allowing for a final hit.
- 18S-rank Tips: You have few chances to hit Iblis. Collect almost all 60 Rings on the field.
- 19Gem Cheats: Yellow Gem is helpful. Red Gem doesn't reduce overall time. Purple Gem allows infinite jumps to light orbs early. Light the orb and stay on it to get hits in when Iblis attacks.
- 20NEW CITY: MIDDLE OF TOWN, NEAR SHOP FACING GATE TO CASTLE TOWN
- Mission Name: Collect information about Elise!
- 21Support Characters: Tails and Knuckles follow.
- 22New Items in Shop: Bounce Bracelet, 2000 Rings. You must buy this item to continue the story.
- 23Where to go: Go to the shop (yellow monitor) and buy the Bounce Bracelet. If you lack Rings, do Town Missions. Head to the Train Station: go toward the Castle Town gate, turn right into the street before it. At the end of the street by the big red building, turn right. Take the next left to reach the train station. It's guarded. Turn left, see a hint ring and a pillar with a green glowing arrow. Jump and press Attack to use Bounce Attack on top.
Tips
- Try releasing the Jump button in the middle of the ramp instead of at the very tip to activate it, reducing the chance of falling off.
- The switch after the Snowboarding Section is under an ice patch; use a Kick to destroy it. (Hard Mode: The switch is under a pile of boxes.)
- Sonic can destroy searchlights with Homing Attack; Tails can fly over and use bombs.
- S-rank Tips: Kill extra enemies with Tails by activating Search Lights, then destroy the lights for more points. Alternatively, go through the level very quickly, killing only a few high-points robots.
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