Board Thread:Sonic Boom/@comment-25180578-20150528175145/@comment-679780-20150822115537

Volectro wrote: Enda McNabola wrote: For such a prequel game to the show, it lacks some continuity like what happened to Metal and the Lyric robots and why they dontv appear in the show, or why reference to events in the game arent made. Well there is one connection between the two: The Enerbeam. Yeah but Bill Freiberger has stated that the reason the Enerbeam has not appeared too often in the Sonic Boom television series is because that, while it is good for gameplay, it is not very useful in a comedy show. 

Not to mention it functions differently to its game counterpart.


 * In SB:RoL Tails contructed the Enerbeam from Ancient tech used to restrain victims. He remade the shackles into bracelets for each of his friends so that can lasso and grapple certain enemies and hooks. In the NDS games the enerbeams have semi-unexplaned origin and magenta coloured but that could simply be programmers found it unneeded effort to colour co-ordinate it.
 * In the cartoon, none of the characters have the bracelets, only Tails seems able to use the Enerbeam (If it's even called that anymore) and does so by adjusting the buckle on his belt to charge it.

Even in a comedy show I can imagine practical use for the Enerbeam. In fact I can imagine a whole episode of the cast relying on the Enerbeam for everyday tasks to the point of laziness. Like trying to fetch the TV remote or cups of coffee.