Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24270839-20131212055952/@comment-24252369-20131224214752

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. Is there a difference between classic and modern Metal Sonic (not counting Neo Metal Sonic)?

And how do we know that Sonic 4 takes place that far in the modern era? The other character designs look modern but Sonic 4 could have taken place sometime just before Sonic Adventure.