Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-679780-20170306231922/@comment-477304-20170309132452

Luma.dash wrote: I don't get why there is a confusion in Blaze's backstory. In all simplification, Blaze from Sonic 2006 is the same one from Rush with all of the Sol Emeralds and being from the sol dimension. She just crossed over to Silver's future according to the official guide, and since nothing contradicts that, then it is true.

For Sonic not knowing Blaze and vice versa, this happens because mostly the main series games eliminate actions done in sideways games, as Sonic 06 takes priority over Sonic Rush, and at the same time, games like Sonic Rush do not have a link to connect it with the other games. If we take it in the continuity side, Sonic 06 may have happened before Sonic Rush, or the developers just ignored the events in Rush. Taking into consideration, that Sonic 06 was meant to be a reboot for all the series. Guides don't tend to provide the most accurate information regarding characters, even if it take that into consideration, why would Blaze go to Sonic's future in the first place? Plus, there was no information regarding Blaze's origins in '06, making it seem lkke she's a denizen of Silver's time. Silver's doesn't make sense either; Blaze becomes a vessel for the Flames of Disaster and then asks to be sent to another dimension. Which means she's either: A) Perfectly fine with giving up her duty of guardian of the Sol Emeralds to live a life solitude in another dimension, or B) Willing to endanger her own dimension with Iblis in order to save Silver's time.

That might make sense, had Iizuka not already stated that Rush happened first and everyone had "amnesia," eitherway it seems reckless for Sonic Team to add a new character and then immediately rewrite her backstory simply because her debut was on a handheld. Honestly, I think they added Blaze because she was a new character and wanted to give her as much exposure as possible. As for the Sonic '06 was a reboot thing, I think peoole take that too literally; looking at the game, it doesn't appear to be a hard reboot, nothing is reestablished and no radical concepts that are completely different to the previous games were added either. I think it's safe to say that if Sonic '06 was intended to be a reboot, it was as a soft one and more about changing the tone and look of the series rather than creating a new canon.