Board Thread:Speculation, Theories, and Rumors/@comment-679780-20150901194232/@comment-679780-20151016004910

Observer Supreme wrote: Mystic Monkey wrote: Observer Supreme wrote: I actually find Chronicles to be canonical to the games that take place on an alternate Earth. So what if the maps were a little screwy? It doesn't matter to me much. Besides, as far as I know, Penders is the one who keeps messing up with his petty royalties or whatever they're called. And while I understand the preferences for Archie to have made an independent Sonic, one could argue that there were a good amount of flaws regardless of the time they were made in. An alternate Earth I can udnerstand, but can't say same Earth or canon to the major Sonic games.

As a long-time Sonic fan, it irks me whenever Green HIll Zone is not part of South Island. I know the old canon is dated, even by Sega's standards, but it still bothers me. So they made a map error. They probably just didn't have enough time to get everything together. Or maybe South Island is close to the UF mainland and only gets its name from being south of the North Pole. The overworld map of the games show Green Hill Zone, Central City and Mystic Ruins as one landmass.

To me this is "all kinds of wrong", for starters while the distance between Mystic Ruins and Station Square has never been specified in Sonic Adventure other than a train journey, Sonic Chronicles has a span of ocean between the two. That is, if the small town near Blue Ridge Zone can be called "Station Square" or whats left of it after Sonic Adventure.

Another thing is in Shadow's game, Central City is shown as a major city located on the mainlands, this is evident with. Central City is also large enough to have many "zones", the majority of them seen in Sonic Adventure 2 and Shadow's game.

This could either mean Mystic Ruins and Central City are actually on South Island (plausible with either Spring Yard Zone or Star Light Zone and Jungle Zone for Mystic Ruins) and Station Square could be located on Westside Island, but there is very little evidence to support all this.

Yeah, go ahead and accuse me of putting way too much thought into all this, but I pay attention to such details.