SEGA Heroes

SEGA Heroes is a mobile game developed and published by Sega. The game is a role-playing puzzle game starring various characters from Sega franchises, including Sonic the Hedgehog, Shinobi, Super Monkey Ball and Golden Axe. The game will include events, a PvP arena, bosses, and a survival mode. Players will be able to upgrade their characters and "Quest through SEGA history, as you build an all-star team".

Story
An evil being named Dremagen (the master of a thousand dimensions) begins to collect heroes from across different worlds and rule them all. She does so with a clone army she made of the heroes.

In the dimension that Dremagen forced several heroes into, Amy Rose meets Ax Battler and requests his assistance to help their friends. They soon run into a clone of Joe Musashi and manage to defeat him. Afterwards, the duo meet up with AiAi and continue their quest with him. Along the way, they run into opponents that are helping Dremagen's cause, such as Mr. X, Shadow and Dr. Eggman. Thus Amy, Ax, and AiAi team up with more heroes to take down Dremagen.

Gameplay
SEGA Heroes is a match-3 game. By matching at least three tiles of the same color, the character assigned that color will attack. Enemies can be targeted by tapping them before a move is made, and once targeted, all attacks will be directed at that enemy. Each move is counted as a turn, and will allow the enemy's cooldown timer to decrease by one. When an enemy's timer becomes an "!", it will attack after the player makes their next move.

Matching purple Rally tiles will fill up the Rally Meter. Each Rally Level increases ally damage by 0.1x. Some characters gain added effects once a certain Rally Level is reached.

Matching tiles in such a way to cause more matches to happen will allow the the player's team to attack more in one turn.

Matching four tiles at once will create a Star Tile on the spot the player moved to, which, when matched, will cause the character of that color to use his/her Star Skill.

Matching five or more tiles at once will create a Super Star Tile, which will clear a 3x3 area surrounding it when activated and allow that character to use his/her Star Skill. Any Star Tiles cleared in the blast will activate, allowing those characters to also use their Star Skills. Some characters gain an added effect when their Star Skill is activated by a Super Star Tile.

Rally Star Tiles and Super Star Tiles add five mana to the Rally Meter.

Clearing tiles will give Mana to the appropriate color. A Mana bar is located beneath each of the player's party's portraits. Once the Mana bar is full, tapping the character's portrait will activate his/her MAX Skill. Each character has his/her own amount of Mana needed to be able to use his/her MAX skill. Matches made by the enemy team do not count towards the player's own team's Mana.

If a MAX Skill causes matches to happen, it will still be the user's turn afterwards.

Certain status effects can disable characters, and they will not be able to either attack, use MAX Skills, or both.

When the board currently has no possible matches, it will reset to a state where matches are possible.

Buffs and Debuffs
1Elemental Weakness does not currently appear.

Upgrading
Characters can be upgraded by using resources that can be collected through gameplay.

Player Level
Player Level determines the maximum level that characters can reach and increases Energy available in both campaigns. At certain levels, more features in the game become available. Experience is needed to level up and can be acquired through Daily Quests and completing Stages in the Campaign, Beyondering, and XP Rush Events.

Character Levels
Characters can be leveled up through Training. The maximum level characters can reach is equal to the player's current Player Level. At certain levels, Skills and the ability to upgrade them become available. Training increases Power, Health, Match Damage, and Skill Attack/Healing Power (certain percentages and number of turns are unaffected).

Promotions
Promotions require the appropriate amount of Hero Shards for that specific Hero and uses Gold. Promotion consumes the Hero Shards used for that Promotion. Promoting a character increases a character's Power, Health, Match Damage, and Skill Attack/Healing Power (percentages and number of turns are unaffected).

Enhancements
Characters can be Enhanced after every level that is a multiple of 10 and requires Spirit Stones. Enhancements increase Health, Match Damage, and Skills.

Hero Skills
Hero Skills vary for each character, but all require Reagents, Skill Stones and Gold to upgrade. It should be noted that the Max value for damage or healing skills is based on Max Skill Level, Max Star level, and Max Character level at the same time. They scale with the power of the character. Preview Next Level only considers the next Skill Level.

Rarity
The Rarity of a character predetermines his max Power, and Match Damage. Health is character specific however, ranging from Cream and Cheese (Common) with the least (147,720) to Death Adder (Epic) with the most (413,613). It should be noted that some characters can boost their strength and health further with Passive skills.

Music
During the initial release, there were only three songs in the game. Two of them are from former games and one seemed to be an entirely new song. Since then, the unidentified song has been replaced by tunes from various Sega games, giving each world a theme.

Trivia
The Hermit appears as a cameo as part of Dr. Curien’s “Unleash Creature” attack.
 * This game was initially known as SEGA Legends.
 * When Amy meets Joe Musashi for the first time, she does not think highly of him as she has a friend who is a ninja as well, referring to Espio the Chameleon. Similarly, a discussion between Amy and detective Blaze Fielding references fellow private eye Vector the Crocodile.
 * Ax calling Amy a rabbit (despite her appearance) may be a tongue in cheek reference to Sonic the Hedgehog's original design, where he was formerly a rabbit.
 * Froggy appears as a cameo during Big the Cat's victory animation. He is also referenced multiple times during the campaign.
 * An orca makes a cameo appearance as part of Big the Cat's "Whale!" attack.
 * Phantasy Star is the first series to have more than one Legendary (Alis Landale and Lassic).
 * It is also the first to have more than one Legendary in a set.
 * Sega Heroes is one of few globally released games to not refer to the House of the Dead series as just Curien Mansion, but as its proper name.
 * Evidentially, this game takes place after the events of the respective heroes' stories, as when Ax Battler condemns Death Adder for killing his mother as protest for why he does not trust him (though Tyris is still alive in this game), Death Adder retorts that Ax killed him causing his own ire. They think little of the oddity, however.
 * The special Trophy events seem to play theme music most closely resembling the theme of the event.