Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-27168366-20160109214941/@comment-679780-20160612104735

ShadowStar8080 wrote: Well when Tails was knocked unconscious from the plane crash in Sonic Adventure, he had a dream of him walking in a forest (I haven't played the game in ages so I probably might have gotten some things wrong I apologize if so) and the Sonic zoomed past, so I am guessing that Tails met Sonic in a forest somewhere.

However in Sonic the Hedgehog 2, its explained that Tails met Sonic on West Island when he wanted to show Sonic his plane called the Tornado. So its hard to decide which one is true.

But in my opinion, the classic Sonic and the modern Sonic are set in different universes. So in the modern era, Tails met Sonic in a thick forest, but in the classic era, Tails met Sonic on West Island. :-) Y'know, you are right on that andas someone who pays attention to canon, I won't ignore it.

The flashback in Sonic Adventure coincides with what was written in the manual. div class="quote"> Japanese manual: One day, not long after Sonic had been on the island, Sonic noticed something tagging along to his rear. He turned around to see a little fox. When the fox realized he had been seen, he scurried into the shadows under the palm trees. But when Sonic turned and ran off, the fox followed behind him as fast as he could.

After a while, Sonic said "Well, he can do whatever he wants." and left it at that, not taking particular interest in whatever it was the fox was doing.

"Miles Prower" was the fox's name. Miles actually had two tails, which is why the animals on the island all called him "Tails". They teased him a lot because of those two tails. But when he saw Sonic come to the island, he changed.

"I want to be cool, too!" he resolved. After that, he started tagging along behind Sonic for all hours of the day.

Then came that one early afternoon. Miles found a beautiful aeroplane down at the beach. Miles loved all sorts of machines and vehicles, and he practically tripped over himself running towards the plane.

That slim fuselage, and those wings that could cut like a knife! Fascinated by this beautiful craft, Miles ran around to see the other side, and there he stopped dead in his tracks. Sonic was taking a nap under the wing. Miles turned right around and went back to the other side of the plane, and then it happened…

A flash shown off in the woods.

The manual states that Tails first tailed Sonic without his consent when they first met but didn't started hanging out together until the very begining of Sonic 2.

While the flashback depicts Modern Tails chasing Modern SOnic through Mystic Ruins jungles, there are three explanations for that:
 * Sonic Team didn't see the relevence of making Dreamcast Emerald Hill for that sole scene.
 * Sonic Team didn't see the relevence of using classic models to depict their youth in the flashback, despite the fact the Sonic R models they had would suffice.
 * Just some gameplay footage of Sonic 2 would of been enough for the scene, but perhaps SOnic team didn't think so.

I recall Amy Rose also has a flashback of Sonic and Amy escaping from Metal Sonic through unspecific locations that looked nothing from Sonic CD, but Im sure these memories were from Sonic CD.

I dunno why Sega couldn't use Sonic R models or simply old gameplay footage for these memories.