Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24270839-20131212055952/@comment-24252369-20131222015948

Ah right, sorry I thought you meant Sonic Central. Looks like I just read it wrong.

If you're bringing up Tails acting differently in Lost World, then I would think that this is irrelevant because Tails never acted like he was 8 in any of the games; he always acted like he was at least 12 (except for Sonic Heroes, in which he sounded somewhat like he was 8 due to his voice actor in that game. Maybe that's why they said he was 8 in that same game? As an excuse for the bad voice actor?).

As for an age update, I've been starting to think that Sega might no longer be interested in giving their characters ages. After all, the last time thay did this was 10 years ago. They could very well be starting to do what most other games do, which is not give their characters ages. Like Mario, for example. In all the Mario games I've ever played, none of the characters have been given ages. This is probably because they don't need them; and fans could still estimate the age ranges of the characters based on their looks and personalities.

Zelda, another Nintendo title, also doesn't have ages for the characters (as far as I know). It's cool though because in some games Link is seen as being a young boy, whereas in other games he's portrayed as being in his late teens/early adulthood (Twilight Princess). Not giving characters ages could more easily allow for different game stories to obviously happen in different parts of the characters' lives with minimum need for timeline explanation.

Because of this, and to end fan arguments, I wouldn't be surprised if Soinc Channel removed their versions of the character's ages in the near future and Sega continues to not give the Sonic characters ages. Instead they could leave it to the characters' looks and behavoir for fans to etimate an appropriate and suitible age range, like they can do with other games.

I hope they'll do this eventually.