Sonic P-06 (4.0) - Shadow ⋙ Crisis City [Cheat: No Inhibitor Rings]
Normally, you have to achieve S Rank on all of the Shadow’s stages and collect Memory Shard (Light) in Dusty Desert, which gives you the ability to remove Shadow’s Inhibitor Rings.
Or (in the first Shadow Release only, . 4.0, as I’m calling it) you can simply press K on a keyboard, which puts Shadow in the permanent Uninhibited state. Pressing K again disables this state. Since it’s not an intended way to enter the Uninhibited state, let’s consider it as a cheat. Chaos Boost is not used here, since even on level 1 it depletes the bar at the max speed, eventually kicking you out of the both Uninhibited and Chaos Boost states.
It’s possible that pressing K to toggle the Uninhibited state was added for the debug purposes and ChaosX simply forgot to remove it. In Shadow Release 1.5 (I’m gonna call it 4.5), it doesn’t work anymore. That leaves just the intended way of removing Shadow’s Inhibitor Rings: collect the Memory Shard (even if you’ve done it in the in