Blaze: Piercing the Flames

"Call Blaze to get through the flames and get the goal in time."

- Challenge Act description

Blaze: Piercing the Flames is challenge act that appeared in Sonic Generations''. ''It is the fourth act of Crisis City in the modern era. Accessed only by Modern Sonic after completing all of the era's stages.

Overview
The act is basically a modified version of the modern Crisis City. With more bridges, Iblis minions and large walls of fire. Several pools of lava exist in the act, with extra walls of flames that nearly block every possible path in the act. Some walls can be avoided, but some cannot. The Iblis' minions are more active than in the original stage. There are multiple Iblis Worms, Takers and Biters. Their projectiles are now faster, and appear in every part of the act.

Strategy
As said above, the challenge act just has some extra platforms that differ it from the Crisis City, so the experienced player can run in the act relaxed. In this stage, Sonic takes additional support from Blaze who can use her Pyrokinesis power to pierce through the flames, but not just that, she can also take down Iblis' minions as well. The first and second section of the act are nearly identical to the original stage, but with several flame walls that block all the way, which needs to call Blaze for them. After the second one, the player will change into a 2D perspective camera, where the extra areas begins. A plenty of calls should take down the Iblis takers along the fire walls, and continue move on. As the act approach to the end, the player has to jump on a falling platform to Homing Attack on Iblis Takers. However, the player has to call Blaze to destroy another wall of flame. When reaching the final, the player has to use Blaze several time to eliminate the flames and destroy the enemies. After that, the act is won.

Trivia

 * Strangely, when completing the stage, Blaze will say "I never thought I'd find myself in Crisis City again. This world is full of surprises", despite the fact that the plot of Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) has been erased and no one remembers it.