Sonic Jump (2012)

Sonic Jump
The app icon of Sonic Jump.
Development staff
Developer(s)	Hardlight Studio
Publisher(s)	Sega
Video game overview
Release date(s)	iOS INT 18 October 2012 Android INT 21 December 2012
Platform(s)	iOS devices Android
Media	Digital download
Game order
Preceded by	Sonic Jump 2
Followed by	Sonic Jump Fever

Sonic Jump is a downloadable game developed by Hardlight Studio. It was released in 2012 by Sega for mobile applications and since the release, the game has had updates with new characters, zones and modes. It is the spiritual remake of the older mobile phone game with the same name.

Plot

Dr. Eggman kidnaps animal friends, cages them in the prison unit of his Egg Mobile and flies with them high into the sky. When the chosen playable character witnesses the kidnapping, he/she decides to follow and stop the doctor to free the animal friends from their prisons. In each Zone, Eggman is defeated by the respective character and he retreats, but not before capturing more animal friends. After Eggman's final defeat in Mechanical Zone, the Doctor is seen fleeing towards Cosmic Zone when something hits him and he crashes back on Earth. The chosen playable character is then shown, at long last reunited with all the animal friends.

Gameplay

Like in the original Sonic Jump game, the goal is to get to the Goal Plate at the end of each act by jumping up from one platform to another. Like normally in Sonic games, collecting rings will protect the player from Badniks or spikes. The only way the player can defeat Badniks is to attack their underside. However, if the playable character falls off-screen, the stage is restarted at the beginning of the act. Also, as the player bounces higher, the camera follows as well and does not scroll back down if the player does fall down. There are different types of platforms, as the more sensitive ones will collapse when the player jumps off or even step on them. Each playable character has their own abilities to survive from many situations.

In addition to normal rings, the game has three collectible Red Star Rings per act. The game has springs which bounce the player higher. The game has also monitors, which usually contain different kinds of shields, bombs, magnets or shoes. There are also ring banks, which deposit the rings that the player has collected. With these rings, the player can purchase various items from the in-game store like characters, power-ups or wallpapers. The player can also pay to purchase more rings or characters.

The game has two modes: Story and Arcade. Story mode includes 48 levels, as each zone contains twelve acts and follows the game's plot. The story mode has also three bonus missions per act. The arcade mode is an infinite challenge, which only ends when the player falls or dies by hitting badnik or spikes. The player can challenge other players in Arcade mode to get the highest score on the leaderboards.

It was announced that the game will have free updates, including more playable characters and zones.

Arcade Mode

Arcade Mode contains endless versions of the various Zones which only end when the player falls or dies by hitting Badniks or other hazards without holding Rings. The player can challenge other players in Arcade mode to get the highest score on the leaderboards. Once a Zone is unlocked in Story Mode, it also becomes available in Arcade Mode. Each Zone comes with a preset leaderboard, consisting of height records from both playable and non-playable characters for the player to surpass. The preset leaderboards are the same for every Zone in the game.

Position	Icon	Character	Height
1		Shadow	5650m
2		Silver	3200m
3		Vector	2150m
4		Rouge	1600m
5		Blaze	1250m
6		Cream	1100m
7		Amy	950m
8		Knuckles	600m
9		Tails	150m

Points System

Rank	Points
	0 points
	16,000 points
	25,000 points
	32,000 points
	35,000 points

Appearances

Playable characters

Icon	Name	Unlocking Requirement	Abilities	Description	Quotes at the End of an Act
	Sonic the Hedgehog	None	Double Jump	His love of speed makes Sonic the fastest.	"Piece of cake." "Perfect!" "Okay!" "Yes!" "Finished!"
	Miles "Tails" Prower	Purchase for 2500 Rings at level 17	Double Jump Controlled descent	Twin tail gliding gives Tails a controlled descent.	"Pretty good." "You can count on me." "Look! I did it!" "All right." "Yeah." "Yay!"
	Knuckles the Echidna	Purchase for 2500 Rings at level 20	High Double Jump	Knuckles powers his way quickly to the top.	"Ha ha!" "Heh heh heh. How's that?" "That was perfect!" "Yeah!" "Nice."
	Amy Rose	Purchase for 2500 Rings at level 25	Double Jump Slow ascent Slow descent Piko Piko Hammer: High attack range during double jump	Smash enemies with Amy's Piko Piko Hammer.	"That was easy!" "He he ha ha." "Oh yes!" "I did it!" "Yay!"
	Blaze the Cat	None (unlocked during the Global Challenge to jump 384,403 km to the moon)	Double Jump Fire-spin: High attack range during double jump	Boost upwards with Blaze's fire-spin.	"My skills are superior." "That's right!" "Yes." "Hmph. I did it." "Heh heh."
	Rouge the Bat	Purchase for 2500 Rings at level 28	Double Jump Slow ascent Slow descent Wings: Stays in mid-air for a short time after double jump	Rouge uses her wings for additional hover control.	"Nice one." "Perfect." "Yeah." "Ooh."
	Silver the Hedgehog	Purchase for 2500 Rings at level 30	Double Jump Slow ascent Slow descent Levitate: Stays in mid-air for a short time after double jump Psychic shield: Destroys enemies during or shortly after using Levitate.	Silver produces a protective psychic shield when levitating.	"Not bad all in all." "That was easy!" "Got it!" "All right!" (said 3 different ways)
	Shadow the Hedgehog	Unknown
	Cream the Rabbit	Unknown
File:Sonic Jump -Vector Icon.png	Vector the Crocodile	Unknown

Animal Friends

• Flicky
• Pocky
• Cucky
• Picky
• Pecky

Badniks

• Crabmeat
• Buzz Bomber
• Caterkiller
• Bomb
• Bubbles
• Spikes
• Bat Brain
• E-06 Bladed Spinner
• Moto Bug

Zones

Icon	Name	Availability	Boss Fight
	Green Hill Zone	Default	Dr. Eggman & Electric Egg Mobile
	Mountain Zone	Clear the first Boss Act of Green Hill Zone	Dr. Eggman & Electric Egg Mobile equipped with lasers
	Jungle Zone	Clear the first Boss Act of Mountain Zone	Dr. Eggman & Electric Egg Mobile equipped with rockets
	Blue Sky Zone	Clear the first Boss Act of Jungle Zone	Dr. Eggman & Electric Egg Mobile equipped with bombs
	Mechanical Zone	Clear the first Boss Act of Blue Sky Zone	Dr. Eggman & Electric Egg Mobile equipped with lasers and rockets

Reception

Reception for Sonic Jump has been mostly positive, scoring 77/100 from Metacritic based on 13 reviews.

The game has been downloaded at least 8 million times.

Trivia

• The first update of game was released on 26 November 2012. It added Amy Rose as a playable character, Blue Sky Zone and a new mode known as Global Challenge, which required players to collectively jump high enough to reach the moon. Upon clearing this challenge, Blaze the Cat was unlocked as a playable character.
• This game has often been incorrectly identified as a Doodle Jump clone. This is invalid, because the original Sonic Jump was released on 2005 in Japan (2007 elsewhere). Doodle Jump came out four years later on 2009 while the sequel of Sonic Jump, Sonic Jump 2 came out on 2008.
• Unlike the normal Sonic level routine, this game has eleven acts per Zone (twelve after the Boss update).
• Silver the Hedgehog and Rouge the Bat were added in an update on 19 December 2012.
• This update, titled Boss Battles, made act 6 of every zone another Boss Battle, and added an eleventh act to make up for it.

Cosmic Zone's icon

• Cosmic Zone is the only zone not appearing in this remake, but there is a music track and an icon (see right) hinting Cosmic Zone hidden in the game's files.
  • The Story Mode's ending also shows Dr. Eggman in Cosmic Zone, although he is actually defeated in Mechanical Zone.
• Athough it is an app, this is the only game in the series where Rouge and Silver appear and Shadow does not.
• Assets found in the game's files hint at future playability for the characters Shadow, Cream and Vector.
  • However, Hardlight stated on Facebook that they have no plans to put additional characters in the game.

Gallery

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Videos

See also

• Sonic Jump
• Sonic Jump 2
• Sonic Jump Fever

External links

• SEGA Blog
• JoyStia

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