Sonic X Shadow Generations is out today in early access, letting anyone with the deluxe edition play ahead of its October 25 launch. Unsurprisingly, many are immediately blasting through the new story mode, Shadow Generations, to see all of the new content added in this release.
Spoiler warning for Shadow GenerationsAs we all expected, Shadow Generations is a tour of Shadow's past - or more accurately, his trauma. Here, he's reunited with some familiar faces, and by the end of the story, has reopened some old wounds.
More specifically, Shadow meets Maria again. She's pulled in from the past as Shadow makes his way through the story, letting the old friends see each other once again. She's there for most of the story, but because this is Shadow we're talking about, a good thing can't last forever.
The story ends with both Maria and Gerald Robotnik being sent back to the past - which dooms them both to their original fates. It's a bittersweet ending, with Maria accepting this, despite Shadow's desperation to save her this time. Very understandably, this all proves too much for the hedgehog, and as he runs away in the final moments of his story, we...
