Board Thread:Sonic News and Updates/@comment-24108393-20131118164338/@comment-24252369-20131209075409

Mystic Monkey wrote: S&tSR and S&tBK are set in alternate dimensions and regarded as spin-off's as while the characters looks exactly like Sonic's friends, they're actually counterparts native to those worlds.

The crucial thing that ties these spin-off's to the canon is the fact Sonic himself visits these worlds. Shahra brought Sonic to Arabia through the book. However, in S&tBK, a book is never really shown and Merlina merely summons Sonic to Grand Kingdom through a portal.

Sonic is the alien to these world and tends to mistake it's characters for his friends when really they never met him.

Yes! It makes sense now! Now it is clear how those games are canon. I wasn't aware that the characters in those games simply looked identcal to Sonic's friends but were actually alternate-dimensional beings.

Thank you for explaining that!