User blog comment:Bionicleboy3000/Sonic CD - How did Amy get on Little Planet?/@comment-4220590-20120316104645/@comment-115265-20120316112510

I call the cards into question. Amy, young as she was, wouldn't be the most probable candidate of anyone in the Sonic cast at the time. Granted, we have a supersonic hedgehog, also young at the time of Sonic CD, beating the snot out of a malevolent robot-scientist-dictator, and a gadgeteer fox helping him out, also young at the time, and is still young to this day.

I don't see a young Amy truly going into the occult (we are talking about tarot cards, right?) so early in the franchise. In fact, I was surprised it was referenced at all. Confirmed in Chronicles, but that was a time when the Sonic video game universe was already fleshed out with a cast of characters ranging from the dark and serious to the bright and cheery. And Amy was older, then, and is older now, obviously.

Bottom line: I'm skeptical about this "tarot cards" thing simply because of the combined forces of the franchise's own age at the time, the nature of the cards, and the improbable age of Amy at the time, to say nothing of the atmosphere that games of this era had. Sonic CD was the exception that proved the rule of the bright and cheerful Sonic Classics, but it retained some of the cheerful formula, so long as the player would go with the Good Futures. Oh, and they would go with the Japanese soundtrack, too; US soundtrack brings Sonic CD to a whole new level of serious.