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The Sonic the Hedgehog Continuity Thread of Love and Timelines

Discussion in 'General Sonic Discussion' started by dredd, Jul 6, 2020.

  1. Starduster

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  2. Deep Dive Devin

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    Maybe we're getting a year of Silver after all.
     
  3. Starduster

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    Slow down there, hoss - next year is Blaze’s time to shine!

    Right? :ohdear:
     
  4. Kilo

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    I'd genuinely love for a year of Silver at this point. While Fast Friends and Fearless Year of Shadow was about course correction for the main cast, having any character development for Silver would be good.
     
  5. Deep Dive Devin

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    I really was just joking because Evan Stanley likes him and got her start drawing a fancomic starring Silver. I still don't want or really think a "year of Silver" would actually be successful at all. I think it's pretty hard to center an entire year of marketing around a character that's only playable in like three games, and the only one anyone actually bought is Sonic friggin 06.
     
  6. BlackHole

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    Perhaps she'll finally make Sonic Team stick to the Sonic Unleashed/Sonic Colours Earth rather than pingponging between it and the actual Earth :eng99:
     
  7. Deep Dive Devin

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    Technically the version from Shadow the hedgehog was modified from real Earth anyway, but the oceans are apparently checkerboarded with a myriad of enormous multi-biome mini-continents, and no world map has ever really depicted those anyway.
     
  8. Starduster

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    Yeah I don’t think it’s to the setting’s benefit to depict a hard and fast world geography since then it’s just a constant cycle of “well here’s this NEW place that just wasn’t on the map before”! IDW has already depicted Spagonia (sans humans, frustratingly). Since the Great Continuity Consolidation of 2022, I’ve not really had any reason doubt that we’re working with Unleashed’s pastiche of our Earth.
     
  9. BlackHole

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    The Earth seen in Shadow Generations is our Earth, with the ARK overlooking North America, so...

    Which is frustrating since the globe in Gerald's Journal is the Sonic Unleashed one. Sonic Frontiers also has North America visible while fighting The End, hence the pingponging.

    It's not like they don't have the assets either, since they had the same Earth design in Sonic Colours prerendered.
     
  10. Blue Spikeball

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    Unleashed retconned the Earth's layout, so of course Gerald's Journal would go with Unleashed's depiction. I'm pretty sure North America exists in the Unleashed version too, it's just (probably) not called that.
     
  11. BlackHole

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    It doesn't. Earth is depicted very differently to our Earth. Which I don't mind, I just wish they'd pick one and stick with it.
     
  12. Overlord

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    Just call it Mobius and have done with it *runs*
     
  13. Deep Dive Devin

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    We're not talking about the planet's name?
     
  14. BlackHole

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    It's a discussion about the planet, that was a joke about how discussions regarding any aspect of the planet frequently descends into the older western media stuff.

    No, that's Mars now.
     
  15. Impish

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    Couldn't the aftermath of Dark Gaia in Unleashed have rearranged the continents to make both work? Sure its not been mentioned, but these people were still engaged in regular business as usual while the world was still shattered. Maybe they aren't that bothered about borders or consistent geography.
     
  16. BlackHole

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    The issue is Gerald's journal shows the Earth as the Sonic Unleashed version, so it was like that 50 years ago, then Shadow overlooking Earth shows the North American continent in Shadow Generations.

    Of course, there's lots of little discrepancies with the Journal. The Abraham Confusion, Maria giving Shadow his airshoes and gloves as he first wakes up, only for the game to show he already had them, etcetc.
     
  17. Vertette

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    That last one is at least understandable because do you really want to see Shadow's bare hands and feet?
     
  18. Linkabel

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  19. BlackHole

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    You forget which fanbase this is, and the depravity it hath sunk to in the past.

    Do not tempt that which we have sealed away.

    It begins. You've doomed us all, Vertette.
     
  20. Vertette

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    You need Jesus.