The Egg Breaker is a humanoid battle mecha built and piloted by Dr. Eggman. It appears as one of the two Eggman bosses in Shadow the Hedgehog.
Description[]
Appearance[]
The Egg Breaker is a humanoid mech that somewhat resembles the Egg Emperor from Sonic Heroes, except it bears a red and blue paint scheme instead of gold, and its right hand is a giant spiked ball that it can throw, which is used to try to crush enemies and create shock-waves. Eggman's Egg Mobile rests in the robot's head, fuctioning as the cockpit.
Capabilities[]
The Egg Breaker is slow-moving, but quite strong. It is armed with a variety of weapons: a spike ball that can be swung around or launched like a grenade (it doesn't explode and will be retrieved shortly after impact), and lasers fired from the eyes. It can also produce shockwaves after jumping and landing on the ground with enough force. Its head is its weak spot, which can be destroyed by sustained gunfire.
Battle[]
The Egg Breaker appears as a boss in Shadow the Hedgehog, being fought after all missions in Cryptic Castle, Mad Matrix, and Iron Jungle. The guide for these battles are, respectively, Amy, Espio, and Omega.
Cryptic Castle[]
The battle takes place on a circular platform. There is a trail of rings around the platform and ghosts sit at the very edge. During this battle, Eggman will attempt to smash the player shouting "Lights out!" as his main attack. If the player gets too far away from him, he will fire his spiked ball at them. The Egg Breaker's third attack is the deadliest. It will spin around and around as it swings its spiked ball, making it invulnerable to all attacks.
Mad Matrix[]
Since Mad Matrix is supposed to be part of the digital realm, the Egg Breaker that Shadow fights here is more likely a security program and not a physical machine. The battle takes place inside a cylinder-shaped room with a trail of Rings going around it. There are floating cubes above that have Egg Pawns and jars of Rings on them. The only way to get up there is by using an ascending bar of light. Eggman attacks similar to the way he did at Cryptic Castle. But this time, he'll spin and send out bombs with his face on them while shouting "You know what they say, the more the merrier!". This fight is also harder because of the Egg Pawns helping the Egg Breaker being armed with Egg Bazookas, ensuring Shadow takes damage from being caught in the explosions of the rockets.
Iron Jungle[]
The battle takes place inside Eggman's base; another circular room. There is a platform in the centre. Near the outside of the circle, there are two turrets and two rockets. This Egg Breaker battle is vastly different from the previous two. Eggman doesn't engage in hand-to-hand combat with the player as he did before. Instead, he sits on the central platform and fires lasers from the Egg Breaker's eyes. The easiest way to defeat it is by using the turrets. However, the Egg Breaker's lasers will eventually destroy the turrets, leaving only the machine guns behind. Another method of attack is using the rockets to get to the Egg Breaker's level. After it gets down to half HP, the Egg Breaker will jump off the platform. It will still fire lasers rather than attacking directly, unless the player gets too close. Despite all of this, it is considered to be the easiest of the Egg Breaker battles because of the absences of the close-range attacks it uses with its spiked ball and the easy access to powerful weapons.
See also[]
An autonomous Badnik version of the Egg Breaker also exists, which has appeared both in the IDW Sonic the Hedgehog comics and in the Sonic X Shadow Generations promotional anime.