Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24270839-20131212055952/@comment-24252369-20131226230334

Grazhero99 wrote: MoonMoonTheWolf wrote: Myself 123 wrote: Perhaps, but Sonic Generations was mainly fanservice, it was an anniversary game that was purposely created to celebrate 20 years of Sonic, a contrast to other anniversary games. It could be argued that Generations made the classic designs canon and that Sonic and the other characters actually went through a change, but Episode Metal retconned it back showing Metal Sonic just after his defeat at Stardust Speedway in his classic design. Classic and modern Metal Sonic both look the same (not counting Neo Metal Sonic).

Anyway, because of this scene and the modern-looking character designs of Sonic and Tails, it seems that Sonic 4 would take place between the classic games and before the modern games. wasn't that confirmed already? anyway, it's pretty obvious (to me at least) that sonic team or dimps or whoever developed sonic 4 doesn't really care about the continuity so even if classic and modern sonic DID have any real differences, it would be best to take it with a grain of salt because it would mean that they unintentionally retconned then classic characters out of existence. and this just occurred to me but what if modern metal sonic is one of his forms like neo metal sonic? just a thought

I don't think modern Metal Sonic is one of Metal Sonic's interchangeable forms (although it could be); I thought it was an upgraded or newer version of the original Metal Sonic (meaning the Metal Sonic project would also have age).

After playing both parts of the game (and Episode Metal), I agree with your theory that the developers of Sonic 4 weren't concerned about the timeline differences in the character looks and just used the most recent character models. This seems to have been a part of the game resembling the classic gameplay but having modern 3D visuals. The story itself seems to line up with the end of the classic story. It wasn't really made to be a "big important Sonic title"; rather a small game for phones to bring back the classic feel of the old games, so I'm confident that Sonic Generations was meant to be taken more seriously than Sonic 4 for the story. Otherwise it would have had voice acting, much more levels, more original bosses, more characters, and cutscenes. It didn't have any of these and feels more like a mini game to me.