Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24074103-20131122113452/@comment-24875466-20131130140659

Mystic Monkey wrote: I just said Sonic Wind could simply be a gameplay mechanic to equal Shadow's Chaos Spear. They both function almost exactly the same thing.

Plus, you're forgetting a rather crucial thing, Sonic Wind was made for Sonic's verses mode, these verses games have no influence on lore, canon etc. (For example, a convenient layer of snow for Downtown Race) this explain how Rouge the Bat can manipulate the darkness or Knuckles can summon lightning despite the weather, mid-day or out into space.

But primary gameplay wise, the special attacks cannot be used. Sure during boss fights against fellow Sonic characters they had these abilities but simply to spice up the battle and have health meters to be more boss like. True. But if put storywise, I guess I could say that Sonic doesn't use this attack a whole lot.