Sonic Unleashed/Awesome


 * Right before the battle with the Egg Dragoon, Sonic the werehog, in freefall, saves Chip, swings off of loose debris, grinds along the wall, and manages a Three Point Landing onto the remainder of the floor all one-handed and in ten seconds. Too bad the werehog isn't always that agile.
 * The first of two final boss fights starts off with a bang. Sonic and Chip have just finished restoring the Chaos Emeralds and things look like they're about to go back to normal... then Eggman shows up and wrecks the ground beneath them. Sonic the Werehog then starts the actual fight against the Egg Dragoon on a chunk of rock falling towards the molten mantle.
 * The finisher, Sonic jumps on the Egg Dragoon, has Eggman stab it with it's own drill, punches the Egg-O-Matic out of it's holders, then grabs it and just throws it away while the main body of the mech explodes. If that wasn't enough to repair the werehog's reputation, nothing is.
 * The Egg Dragoon battle might or might not be a homage to Olga Flow from Phantasy Star Online (just look up footage of both bosses). So does that make Olga Flow a crowning moment by extension?
 * Then right after that, Dark Gaia fully awakes and swats Eggman the hell away (no Enemy Mine required) and EATS the energies fueling Werehog transformation, forcibly reverting Sonic to normal. Not to be outdone, Chip (who recently remembered his identity as Light Gaia) summons the seven Temples of Gaia to create a Humongous Mecha of his own - through sheer willpower!
 * And, at least in the Play Station 3/360 Version, Chip gets his own CMOA. After he, in the Gaia Colossus, and Super Sonic reach Perfect Dark Gaia's shield, Chip forces his way inside it, with much effort on his part, to distract Dark Gaia as Super Sonic takes out the 'snakes' creating said shield.
 * This isn't mentioning the fact that after Super Sonic rescues him from Perfect Dark Gaia's grip, Dark Gaia goes all out and fires a huge beam at Chip. He sits there, holds the beam back until it gives out, winds up, and delivers the left haymaker of goddamn justice right to Dark Gaia's face. Dark Gaia is so stunned he doesn't even notice Super Sonic breaking the light barrier on an intercept course.
 * Don't forget the other Werehog fights, where he Picks up a whole Phoenix and slams it down on the ground, howling triumphantly and smashing his fists together was pretty awesome.
 * And let's not forget how 90% of the final battle against Perfect Dark Gaia is one tremendous Ni GHTS homage. Seriously. 2D flying, paraloops, Gillwing's scream (just slightly higher-pitched) when you destroy the heads...this after the lackluster Journey of Dreams was almost enough to restore my faith in Sega.
 * WHAT ABOUT EGGMAN!?! He faked a Wily surrender, and just when Sonic thinks he just defeated Eggman, Eggman uses a machine to suck all of the power out of Sonic, the best part being it was in Super form, and then, He finally builds Eggman Land, something he promised to do in, oh, I don't know, THE ENTIRE SERIES!?!
 * Sadly, everyone here has missed the true most awesome part of Unleashed. "Holy crap, it's Sonic! And he's actually going fast!"
 * It might not be obvious, but you'll eventually realize it after a while: Eggman's tried (and usually failed) to keep several Eldritch Abominations and supernatural entities on his side through controlling them, and for one game, Sonic gets his own supernatural entity in the form of Chip by befriending him.
 * Eggman manages to score another CMOA off of his occasional bouts of sheer genius at the start of Unleashed. After tearing through an army of robots and dodging Eggman's display of sheer firepower, Sonic wastes no time utilizing the Chaos Emeralds and forcing Eggman to bail all the way back to his orbital platform, where he is next seen groveling before Super Sonic. Sonic wastes time trying to redeem Eggman when all of this was just a ploy to harness the Chaos Emeralds to split the planet open and release Dark Gaia, super-powered hedgehog be damned. Made even more awesome when you realize this is the first time Super Sonic was directly CANCELLED by outside forces. I repeat: SUPER SONIC has been negated by EGGMAN!
 * Uh, hello? Eggman's role in the Unleashed intro was awesome, yes, but are we completely forgetting how awesome Sonic was as well? (Video here). Highlights include sliding underneath a robot, spinning around said robot, then plowing through more robots with his fist.