Egg Flame

The Egg Flame^[1] (エッグフレイム^[2], Eggu Fureimu^?) is an enemy that appears in Sonic Unleashed. They are a mass-produced, fan-based Badnik created by Dr. Eggman. These robots are able to blow pillars of highly intense flames at their foes.

Appearance

The Egg Flames are bipedal robots with torsos in the shape of flat cylinders. They have a pair of small stubby legs on the bottom of their torsos and long segmented arms on the side of them. Sitting on the top of their torsos are two round orange lights, serving as their eyes. They are mainly colored red with black highlights, and have a yellow "belly" with a flamethrower in the middle.

Overview

The Egg Flames can be encountered in both the daytime and nighttime Action Stages/Stages of Sonic Unleashed. In the Xbox 360/PlayStation 3 version the Egg Flames appear in Savannah Citadel Day Act 1 and Cool Edge Night Act 1, while in the Wii/PlayStation 2 version the Egg Flames appear in Dragon Road's daytime Stage, Cool Edge nighttime Stages and Shamar Night Act III: Valley of Spirits.

In battle, the Egg Flames attack whenever they spot Sonic by periodically spewing fire for several seconds. In daytime stages, touching the flames will damage the player. Egg Flames can be easily destroyed by one hit with the Homing Attack. In the Xbox 360/PlayStation 3 version, getting hit by the Egg Flame in nighttime stages will set Sonic the Werehog ablaze and his health will drop until it wears off after a short while, the player loses a life or he touches water. Additionally on that version, whenever the Egg Flames are knocked away from their original position, they will dance around for a few seconds before resuming their attack. The Egg Flames don't have a lot of health, allowing the player to easily destroy them with a few attacks.

In the Xbox 360/PlayStation 3 version, in the nighttime Action Stages, the player can use the Egg Flames' attack against other enemies. By grabbing an Egg Flame, the player can use the Egg Flame's fire breath by pressing / while controlling the direction Sonic is facing with the analog stick. Enemies hit by the Egg Flames' breath are set ablaze and will run around in pain while continuously taking damage until they are defeated.

The Egg Flames' breath can also be used to unlock paths throughout Cool Edge by using it to melt frozen shrouds around doors and frozen pillars. In certain parts of Cool Edge where the Egg Flame is required to proceed through the stage, should the player accidentally destroy it or throw it off of the stage, another one will spawn at its original location.

In the mobile version of Sonic Unleashed, the Egg Flames appear in Level 8 - Spagonia Night. In gameplay, they are implanted on parts of buildings and will try to burn Sonic the Werehog with their flames to knock him off of the rails he can climb.

Personality

The Egg Flame have hot tempers so great that even their fellow robots keep away from them. They also appear to have a somewhat playful side, humorously dancing around in a ballerina-like fashion every now and again.^[1]

Powers and abilities

The Egg Flames each possess a superheater that allows them to blow pillars of flames at such high temperatures that they can instantly melt and/or vaporize solid ice layers.

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