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In the original Sonic Generations, you could unlock piles and piles of concept art, music, and information about previous Sonic games through collectibles in levels and completing challenge acts. With Shadow’s own starring journey added inSonic X Shadow Generations, he has a hoard of artwork and the like to unlock too.
For Shadow, it works a little differently though. More of his collectibles are hidden within levels, and the artworks and music you so covet are hidden across the open-world hub, White Space. There is a very large amount to find here, so let’s get you started on where to find every one of the Collection Boxes.
How Do You Unlock Collection Boxes?
When you encounter a Collection Box, your first thought might be to just run up and open it. Discovering it in the first place is its own challenge, right? Except Shadow Generations wants you to work a little bit harder than that. Each type of chest has a respective key it requires, and these keys are hidden throughout both the Main Acts and the Challenge Acts.
In total, that gives us96 Collection Boxes to open, which means you have to find every single key in every single Act to unlock all of them. There are no extras.
Not every piece of Music and Artwork is found in Collection Boxes, plenty of them acquired from Challenge Acts as well.All of Shadow’s History is found in Collection Boxes, however.
Where To Find Every Collection Box
Of the 96 Collection Boxes to be found, every single one of them are found in White Space, andnone are permanently missable. This gives you plenty of freedom to discover them at your own pace. Even if you find a Collection Box but can’t open it immediately, it will become marked on the map in red so you know where to find it once you have its respective key.
You will need tofinish the story of Shadow Generationsbefore you can acquire every single Collection Box.
The vast majority of the chests are hiding in plain sight, with their distinctive colours making them all the easier to discover. That said,some are intentionally hiddenin quite out of the way locations, so here are some tips to make your searching a bit easier.
The only issue with this final bit of advice isthe game’s draw distance. Often times, some Collection Boxes won’t have spawned in yet, so make sure toexamine everything up close.
A major piece of information to keep in mind. Once you unlock Radical Highway, a series of road appearing leading up to the great sphere in the sky, but disappears once you complete the game.There are two Collection Boxes hidden up here, though thankfully the pathway up can be restored by activating the newly added Doom Sphere in the centre of White Space.
Another location to take note of isthe underground section. It can initially be accessed by a well near the centre of the map, though can later also be accessed through a cave at the bottom of the Chaos Island area. There aremultiple Collection Boxes hidden in here, the majority of which require Doom Morph to be able to reach.
The final tricky Collection Boxes are hidden in the upper level of the Citadel in the Rail Canyon area, whichrequire Doom Blast to reach.When using Doom Blast on the enemy used to reach the Biolizard boss fight,aim them a little higher. There won’t be a lock-on point here, but you should see the ledge. Follow them up here to find two more Collection Boxes.
We’ve also detailedthe location of every single one of the 96 Collection Boxesin the images above if any of them prove particularly difficult to find.
Is There A Reward For Opening Every Collection Box?
Each Collection Box comes with with its own reward, though finding all of them is a gargantuan task that is surely worthy of an extra prize, right? Nope, sadly not.
What you get when you open a Collection Box is all you will ever get, even when you finally open all 96 of them. A small conciliation prize comes in the form of theAll Collection Boxes Opened trophy, though not much else.
