User blog comment:Speeddasher/Future Sonic Games. What do you want to see?/@comment-4802891-20120521092827/@comment-115265-20120521111527

Basically, I see Sonic and Shadow as the Ryu and Ken of the Sonic franchise. In my vision of Modern Shadow gameplay, just like Ken's gameplay evolution throughout the Street Fighter franchise, Shadow, while retaining similarities to Sonic's gameplay (Homing Attack, Light Dash, Boost, maybe a Spin Dash if Modern gameplay ever gets that), gets things that make him play differently, like the aforementioned Chaos Powers and their significant drain on the Boost Meter, maybe some tweaks on his acceleration (including his use of Boost Mode), which would make him different enough to be considered having different gameplay altogether.

To make things even, Sonic could gain a few moves that Shadow doesn't have. Like maybe the Bounce Bracelet's ability, Speed Break from Secret Rings, which, in my vision of Sonic's future gameplay, grants a short burst of speed that exceeds the speed of Boost Mode, and maybe a few other things. 'Course, he doesn't really need all that, as him lacking any of those sorts of gimmicks actually makes his gameplay a bit more difficult. I always see Sonic the Hedgehog's gameplay as being "the more simplistic his gameplay is and trickier the stages are, the harder the game gets". Playing as Sonic could essentially become "hard mode", although with Shadow's tweaks to make him different from Sonic, he has the same potential.