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Message: [QUOTE="Ikagura, post: 175128, member: 6930"] I find it weird how Sonic SatAM and Underground both shared the same kind of setting (Robotnik having already "won" his conquest of the world) and design (for the Doctor) yet still is its own continuity with its own plot instead of being a continuation of the former. Sonic X is still the only japan made fully-fledged anime despite that the franchise is from Japan (he got more comics than mangas too). Boom was also the only continuity that was explicitly an alternative series but at that point why having the Sonic IP stitched to it? I almost believe it was a last hour change. I consider it a spinoff the same way that Smash Bros isn't canon to any of the franchises it represented (Brawl introduced the "World of Trophies" which implies it's its own thing). I could believe that Sega AM2's games could share the same universe in the same way Yu Suzuki's games are being referenced in all of his work. Mania Adventure absolutely implies that it takes place right after Forces (from Classic's pov) but in the same time this could be just a small bonus movie not meant to be taken as canon the same way you could say that Sonic X having Adventure, SA2 and Battle isn't canon to the games either. Forces still messed up the whole "you're that Sonic from another dimension" when Generations said it was a younger, less experienced Sonic. I could accept that Generations changed Classic's perspective from Modern so that there could be a "split" in the timeline where, instead of going to Sonic 4 Episode 1&2, he went for Sonic Mania instead as Dr. Robotnik knew that his future self is basically a loser that couldn't beat Sonic in all the time between Sonic 2 and Sonic Colours (which was the then-latest entry before this one) thus leading to Classic's pov to be parallel to Modern until Forces reunited them again. My only issue is that the latest entries for a decade are almost all reusing older levels and relying on nostalgia. It's fine when a game does that from time to time but Sonic is still stuck in the past (which is ironic for someone loving to go forward). Sega and the current Sonic Team are not confident enough to even have a fully fledged Shadow the Hedgehog game and needed to transplant it to a remaster of a well-liked game (with the same mechanic as the then-latest entry for its hub). Even Superstar couldn't be a good sequel to Mania despite that they got the formula right. [/QUOTE]

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