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Credit to this fan game goes to ChaosX. The footage used in this video is from the 4.0 or initial Shadow Release. If you wish to download this fan game for yourself, I will provide a link to the latest version they have released: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8lUisWw0Z4&t=3s

On ChaosX's birthday, we were blessed with a special gift from them: The Shadow release. It was a long time coming for everyone who kept up to date on this project. I didn't learn about this until a couple of days after I had S ranked the previous version of this fan game. My timing was impeccable...

Anyway, Shadow's stages for the most part I find gave me an easier time with S ranking them. Since Shadow has to deal with more enemies than Sonic does, this gives you a lot more opportunities to increase your score from your kill count.

Now when it comes to the spotlight section at the end of the stage, you're supposed to find the buggy and use its missiles to destroy them, but I discovered that you can just homing attack spam to destroy them in this version. Sure its not the intended way to destroy them, but its funnier!

Shadow's new additions is that he can Spin Dash, something he could not do in the original version, and Chaos Blast has been given a much boost so that it has the range from Shadow the Hedgehog plus the instant kill properties from 06. Seriously, Chaos Blast has such a pathetic range in the original that I never use. Hell, I forget I even have it.

Rouge has also gotten an upgrade as well, now being able to use her melee attacks from Sonic Adventure 2, something she really needed since she otherwise could only use bombs in the original. BTW, the bombs kinda look like Poke Balls to me.

I'll get to Omega's changes soon enough... Just gotta wait until we reach the stages where he's playable, then I'll took about that.