Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4452849-20140209142518/@comment-5487126-20140419190732

Y'know, for all the game references (primarily to the Sonic Adventure duology and, to a lesser extent, Sonic Heroes; Sonic Colors has so far been mentioned only once in the new continuity---specifically, in STH #252), it's fairly obvious by now that the new continuity won't exactly be following the games. As if it's not obvious enough already, the story we're currently being treated to is an adaptation of Sonic Unleashed---or so it seems. We've got a much longer plot, different locations, and a lot of plot differences (the reason the world broke up, how Prof. Pickle was rescued, Sonic not becoming a Werehog until much later and for different reasons, Chip not being introduced until later, etc.). Plus, it looks like some of the drama featured in the old continuity yet remains.

By far the biggest and most notable difference between game and comic versions of Sonic Unleashed is the much bigger and more diverse amount of characters: on top of the (main) characters in Sonic Unleashed (Sonic, Tails, Amy, Dr. Eggman, Orbot, Prof. Pickle, Chip, and Dark Gaia), we've got:

- Knuckles (who I hear was GOING to be in Sonic Unleashed, but was pulled out for reasons unknown)

- Cubot

- The Knothole Freedom Fighters (Sally, NICOLE, Antoine, Bunnie, and Rotor)

- Dr. Charles (Uncle Chuck) Hedgehog

- The Chaotix

- Nack, Bean, and Bark

- Muttski

- Many comic-exclusive characters (so far, only the Egg Army falls into this category, but there's more characters coming---I'm almost sure of it).