Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-679780-20170306231922/@comment-679780-20170310172516

Danijo wrote: The canon timeline of the handheld series seems to bother me mostly. Sega seems to not bother acknowledging  the Gamegear quadrilogy, the Sonic Advance trilogy, and Sonic Pocket Adventure.

Added to the fact that sonic Generations 3DS story is confusing doesn't exactly help matters. Spin-offs MIGHT be an exception...somehwat. Way I see it:
 * Sonic 1 for Game Gear is Sonic taking a detour of South Island, but still same ending to the Mega Drive version.
 * Sonic 2 manual unspecifically takes place before or after Sonic 2. (Personally I think the game is how Sonic and Tails first met.)
 * Chaos and Triple Trouble could either be independant adventures or alternative adventures to Sonic 3.
 * Sonic Blast is an alternate game to Sonic 3D Blast.

Sonic Pocket Adventure is the very game where the Classic Eggman dons his modern appearance and Sonic and his friends mature to their modern selves. Eitherway the games before this are still not regarded as canon due to being made for secondary consoles

The Advance trilogy are all adventures that happened outside of the Adventure duology (+Heroes) but still share same canon because Cream is added into Sonic Adventure and later games. Same goes for Rush (which mostly takes place in Sol outside of canon dimension), maybe Rivals also. The Sonic Riders and Storybook games, while regarded as spinoffs, are also take place in Sonic's downtime when not having major adventures.


 * Sonic Generations and Lost World for the N3DS are semi-alternative adventures. They tell the exact same story yet slightly different dialogue or events, but still same ending.
 * Sonic Colours for the N3DS shares more canon with it's main counterpart than the other games, enlighting us to where the story takes place in parts that were unmentioned in the main game. Like what other things Sonic got up to on the planets other than running through Acts and fighting robots, or where did Yacker go in Asteroid Coaster. However the game could still be regarded as semi-alternative just like the other N3DS games.

Sonic Chronicles takes place in the unspecific near-future. So even after Sonic '17 or the next major game comes out, Sonic Chronicles will still take place after it. But due to Ken Penders lawsuit that denies Sonic Team from continuing Chronicles, it's content may no longer be canon. And since Gemerl only apeared in the one game, Sonic Battle may no longer be regarded as canon either. Both games did had geology that contradicted canon as well as questionable gameplay elements.