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My immediate assumption when I heard that Sonic was on the run from the government was that he's an escaped genetic experiment and Robotnik is a military scientist in charge of the project. There might even be a nod to the old Kintobor material if they want to give him an origin beyond "obese mad sc...

I'm more bothered that he gave a purely phonetic rendering of the Romaji without regard to the context, as the ship's name is obviously LUNAR FOX even in the game.

I'm still not convinced this is translated correctly. Go a few lines further and Eggman says, "Now that the Chaos Emeralds are gone from this island, I ... shall build a great fortress from now on," indicating that there was more than one on the island and now they are all gone as a result of this l...

That they aren't a product of chaos energy is untrue, however; Chaotix features Chaos Rings molded from Master Emerald energy, and Sonic R features a ring dispenser in Reactive Factory which is presumably fueled/stocked by one of the Chaos Emeralds featured there, either directly or with residual e...

The only thing I can really think of is the Mystic Melody and the associated pedestals and materialing platforms. If you really wanted to stretch, I guess you could say that their aesthetics closely resemble that of the Knuckles Tribe ruins in SA1, so they possibly share some sort of connection to ...

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Lots of Sonic islands have magical elements Can you name an example? The Sonic 1 manual gives the Chaos Emeralds an air of mysticism by stating they give energy to living beings, but I've always seen them as a kind of natural technology. They're a power source that certain organisms can draw from a...

Archie claimed the paperwork was lost in a fire. Ken ended up getting ownership of a sizable number of characters, which he appears to have done nothing with in the last 5 years. Sega should still own the SatAM characters, and last year they won the lawsuit with Scott Fulop, so Mammoth Mogul should ...

http://www.gameinformer.com/themes/blogs/generic/post.aspx?WeblogApp=features&y=2018&m=02&d=15&WeblogPostName=writer-ian-flynn-discusses-giving-the-sonic-comic-series-a-fresh-start&GroupKeys= When I got on the original book, there was already something like 15 years of continuity. ... With IDW Sonic...

If so, that could be a nod to Super Sonic Dance Attack, a song from the album Inter Galactica Dance Club - Super Sonic Dance Attack , which features the lyrics "I killed Samus," followed by the death sound effect from Metroid, but that's WAY more obscure that I would expect. Also, I've been led to b...

I love this discussion. I especially like the idea of the Avians being the rivals of the Echidnas. Sonic Riders doesn't give a timeframe for when they arrived on Earth, but it could easily fit. Too bad the whole Echidnan epoch will never be explored ever again! The Flicky birds that follow you at th...

Sorry, I was off about Sonic 4 influencing Sonic CD. I was thinking of this interview , but the guy backpedaled later so that CD's placement could remain nebulous. It was definitely a big deal to introduce the Power of the Stars as a force stronger than the Chaos and Sol Emeralds (not sure if it mea...

I like to think that CD came before S2 because Bulma was the first supporting character that Goku met on his journey. Go on, laugh. And yes, I know Sonic 4 puts it after but I don't count games with unfinished stories as canon (like Chronicles, and you could make the same argument against the Rush g...

Ah, so you're beginning with the assumption that the Game Gear games take place between S2 and S3 because of when they came out? I don't give that too much weight for the pre-Adventure games - I just put them wherever they fit. I mean, technically S2 8-bit came out a month before S2, though obviousl...

Minor nitpick, but is there really anything to suggest that Nightopia / Maginary World are the same thing aside from the NiGHTS cameo? The NiGHTS pinball machine suggests that either the game NiGHTs into Dreams exists in Sonic's world or Nightopia exists. It could be a separate thing from Maginary ...

If they had embraced the fanfic nature of the plot and gone full parody with it, all of the game's technical flaws would be forgiven (if not incorporated as an intentional part of the parody). Tails Doll, Sonic.exe, motorcycles and more realistic guns for the avatar, main characters dying left and r...

If we are to consider StF and the GG games as canon Several nods from Sonic Mania imply that they are! Oh, and speaking of G Sonic, its intro shows the 5 emeralds splitting from a single, larger emerald. It's probably just an artistic way of showing the 5 emeralds being scattered. A few Chaos Emera...

http://78.media.tumblr.com/e7ee7f36bfef6ee9fc46cc78b2397209/tumblr_op4eibKyVJ1s6ylubo1_1280.jpg A bitter, washed up Sonic the Hedgehog on crutches drowning his sorrows in a bar having completely ruined his knees with 26 years of high impact running. He’s crying over a tattered photo of Amy Rose and...

Footage of the dance has emerged:

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I love Tails's expression. Someone has to have done that on purpose.

Why do you people still invest in this franchise? I mean, Mania was the exception, but you knew this game was going to be shit and by buying it you are only supporting Sonic Team's bad, bad decision making. Only two people so far have said they actually played the game, and one of them actually lik...

The writing is astonishingly bad. Not Heroes-era sort of bad, just really incompetent storytelling. I wasn't sure what to make of it at first because Pontac, while I hate his treatment of the characters and setting, has always shown basic literary proficiency. The credits held the answer: the first ...

For that matter, is Sonic Generations? Did Sonic, in the middle of a play through of Sonic 1, get warped from South Island, to West Side Island (Chemical Plant), then to Little Planet (Stardust Speedway), then to Angel Island as the Death Egg is taking off (Sky Sanctuary) and then back in time to t...

When keeping that context in mind "The Doomsday Zone" is basically "the place of the fateful day" which is a cool connection to the whole event being prophesied, because, again, we see that battle on the Hidden Palace mural. So it's not just a catchy name for "Eggman is trying to destroy the world ...

Probably just lazy programming. I could be easier to shove in a timer script than to go and change the end-of-level sequence to boot you to the menu.

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I'm not sure if this ranks above or below ShTH's guns and almost-swearing or the Elise love story on the Bizarro meter. This doesn't seem to be about raising awareness of the game. Fallen away Sonic fans will surely have heard about Mania, and in the process been exposed to its antithetical counterp...