Board Thread:Speculation, Theories, and Rumors/@comment-679780-20150901194232/@comment-25400375-20151016003218

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.