Sonny 2 is a fabulous flash game created by Armorgames. I already played the predecessor a while ago and liked it a lot. The sequel now is pretty similar. It contains more storyline, though, and luckily there are fewer bugs this time.
Here are couple of strategical hints that I found quit useful. I will continue to update and enhance these as I play the game.
If you have any additions or questions I am looking forward to your comments.
I am playing Biological on Heroic mode after having completed it on Challenging. Between the fights, put most points into vitality and some into strength and speed to deliver at least a little punch and have a good chance of hitting/crit/evasion. When buying or selecting items, keep those which add most to vitality and strength. Do NOT waste any points on Instinct, it is useless for the Biological.
Update for zone 6 and 7:
Starting with the second encounter in zone 6, you will need to be able to inflict lots and lots of damage. Usually, you have to respec there and put EVERY point into speed from there on. I will explain more in the walkthrough for zone 6.
Teammates
After a while you will get NPCs to join your party. In the inventory screen you can control which characters are part of your team by shift-clicking on their portrait.
When a fight starts, put Veradux to Relentless mode, to make sure that he attacks the same opponent in subsequent turns and to make it more predictable which one he attacks. On Relentless, he will attack the one with the lowest HP count. When the opponents have the same health, he usually picks the topmost enemy, so I usually engage that one too.
Roald kan be kept on Relentless most of the time. Only if you need his healing support effect it makes sense to temporarily switch him to Defensive.
Learn Crystallize as soon as possible and put all available points in it. It really helps making fights easier. If you encounter several opponents, you can keep some of them stunned with it. And for single opponents, use Crystallize to get a break to cooldown spells and heal your team.
Pause in Heroic??
A very useful "feature" I discovered accidentally when taking on the Mayor in zone 5. If you do a right-click on the game screen, there will be a context-dialog related to the browsers Flash plugin. Nothing special, but the good thing is: The game pauses while the dialog is displayed. Naturally, this is the case on Heroic difficulty as well, giving you endless time to think about your moves and effectively neutralizing that annoying timer... Enjoy!
EDIT: Apparently this does not work with all browser/OS combinations. It definitely works in Firefox under MacOS X.
Equipment
When I played the game, I went through two phases of equipment selection.
During the first five zones, I focussed on vitality-boosting equipment mostly. Afterwards, speed has absolutely highest priority, so you will want to put aside some nice clothes that increase your speed during the later zones.
You can (but most likely will not want to) respec to the speed build earlier than zone 6. That is because the Biologicals most destructive combo (Toxicant Form, Shadow Blend, Agile Exposure, Withdrawal) requires a lot of ability points. Additionally, some supporting spells like Crystallize, Disrupt, Reform and Integrity are mandatory.
Zone 1-5: Always prefer equipment with high vitality bonus, also for your teammates. Furthermore, I found it best to have Sonny have the lowest speed, but the highest HP.
The high HP count makes enemies attack you the least, and instead punch your teammates more, thus ensuring that you will be the Last Man Standing. That's especially nice because your NPCs completely fail at finishing off more than one enemy on their own.
Second, the low speed allows your teammates to carry out their moves before you do e.g. cast Crystallize, or Subversion. You will deliver a lot more damage especially if you need to stun-lock an enemy.
Zone 6-7: Select equipment first of all by its speed bonuses, and secondly by vitality. That helps in case you get hit a lot. Also, since you will have the lowest HP count of your team, most attackers will focus on you. Due to the high speed, they will miss most of the time, but you never know.
Here is a list of chapters of the walkthrough:
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I absolutly love your blog. It has that little extra which makes it fun to read :). What I was missing with your Sonny II-guide was a complete guide to how you distributed skills and stats. Anyway, 11/10
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