You know what Sonic Mania needs? More friends You can have a

Advance 2 and 3 did that pretty well. Totally unnecessary in Mania since it's trying to appeal to regular people instead of today's Sonic fans, that's what Forces is for.

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>>387177520
That's why I want Taxman and Stealth to make this after Mania 2.

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>>387177520
Don't worry, mods will fix this. If Mania attracts even one-quarter of the people who hack the Genesis games we are going to see some SHIT

>Shadow
How would this work continuity wise if Shadow is sealed in a pod in an underground government base during Mania?

>>387178363
It's Classic Shadow so it's okay. Worst case, retcon it like Sonic '06 did.

>>387178890
Sonic 06 retcon'd Shadow's backstory?

>>387178965
Yeah, he apparently met Mephilis before the events of SA2, back when he was supposedly sealed away.

No. Just no. Adding a ton of shitty characters like Chaotix and Shadow is what killed the Sonic series in the first place.

Sonic Mania will sell like hot cakes and prove to all of you 3D Sonic fags that no-one cares about the story and a multitude of shitty characters in Sonic games, just the solid gameplay.

>>387177520

Part of me feels like Mighty or Vector might be unlocks given the Chaotix reference we got.

>>387179086
Sonic isn't dead and friends haven't been an issue since the adventure games where they had stupid alternative objectives.

>>387179029
Oh, if i recall correctly that's from when Shadow went back in time in that game.

>>387179086
They were a problem in Adventure/2 because Adventure was a poorly designed game. Selectable characters (best example that comes to mind is the bonus characters from super meat boy) shouldn't be a problem if they're handled properly.

>>387179086
What killed Sonic wasn't the new characters it was Sega's insistence on making new characters into an entirely different game.

>>387179098
Did Mighty even have any special abilities in Knuckles' Chaotix besides climbing walls?

>>387177520
SHIT ROCK YEAH

>>387179086
>>387179554
What killed Sonic for so long is the insistence on making the plot and poorly thought out worldbuilding front and center.

Not gonna happen. In the world of "I'm such a nerd" popular culture, Sonic's friends are regarded as the Jews of the video game universe.

WatchMojo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwANzNcGdWM&t=2m31s

Guru Larry: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hi98oP_7Wk&t=2m55s

Ign's top ten video game characters that need to die:
>"When were Sonic games awesome? When it was just Sonic the Hedgehog on Genesis. As soon as Tails, Knuckles, and the slew of other weird, furry folks showed up, things started getting iffy with this franchise. SEGA needs to pull a Mega Man and get back to basics -- dump the dead weight, and give us a 16-bit sidescroller when we tear through a level on a quest to stop Robotnik and get wings. We don't want 3D, we don't want guns, and we don't want werehog. You can either put all the arbitrary characters into a bus and have Robotnik blow it up or just never mention them again. Either way, we'd be happy and the franchise would be saved."

Gamesradar and Gameinformer even had lists of the ten worst Sonic characters.

>"Yes, you read that correctly. The final and most important entrant into this list of the top 10 worst Sonic friends is the one that started it all: Miles "Tails" Prower. You might find yourself confused at this entry, somehow deluding yourself into thinking Tails is "alright" because he was introduced during the golden years of Sonic's past. However, you are deluded. Tails is the worst Sonic friend ever because he started it all. The very first Sonic sequel, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, introduced the concept of the very first Sonic friend, Miles Prower. It was the beginning of a tradition that would end with roughly 500,000 Sonic friends spread across years of shovelware and shite."

The gaming general public hates Sonic characters.

>>387179715
I thought the plot of Sonic Adventure 1 was a good balance.

>>387179751
Fuck these bandwagon normies.
>SONIC SHOULD ONLY BE SONIC, NO ONE ELSE
They're the reason we had that shitty dry spell after 06 and before Generations where SEGA tried to pretend like Tails, Knuckles, and Amy were the only non-Sonic characters allowed to ever appear or be mentioned.

>>387180030
And for the record, that shit just makes for an uninteresting universe.
Look at the huge cast of the Mario games, they're what makes Mario interesting. People who want the same few characters to ever appear in Sonic forever will then turn around and complain about the toads in modern Paper Mario.

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>>387179751

>mfw the only game Tails had good characterization in was fucking Battle of all things

Is it true that Bean and Fang are in the game as non-playable characters?

>>387179823
Well your opinion is shit.

>>387180412
As wanted posters and the magician boss turns into them

>>387180901

Ian must be doing backflips right now.

>>387181034
Because he picked up on characters that didn't make the survival to Adventure?

>>387179086
Sonic has added new characters every game since Sonic 2.

>>387181168

You've gotta remember it was his stories about Nack, Bean, and Bark that ended up landing him in the comic.