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Nitpicks and headscratchers about Sonic the Hedgehog games.
In Sonic R, why was Amy Rose in a car and the others on foot (with the exception of Eggman, who rides in his hovercraft)? Sure, she may not be as fast as Sonic, but neither are Tails and Knuckles, and they go on foot. How come Amy gets a car and they don't? The Sonic Advance games show that Amy is at least as fast as those two, so it doesn't really make sense for her to need a vehicle.
How the heck can Eggman (or Robotnik, whatever) run faster than Sonic in the classic games? I get that from a gameplay perspective, it's to stop us skipping the final boss, but from a story perspective it makes no sense.
Sonic being able to walk on the bottom of a body of water makes absolutely no sense. Even if Sonic can't swim, he still shouldn't be able to sink to the bottom like that unless he was INCREDIBLY dense. And if he is that dense then he shouldn't also be able to run across the surface of water, no matter how fast he's going.
The multiple stories in Sonic 3 & Knuckles are confusing when you try to make sense of the plot. Which order do the stories happen in? We know Knuckles's story happens after Sonic's, but what about Sonic and Tails? How do things like having Sonic & Tails together, Sonic alone and Tails alone factor in? Sonic's story is different from Tails's when they're on their own, so it doesn't make sense to interpret their individual stories as "the two of them together, you just only see one of them" or something. Tails's story ends when he gets the Master Emerald back from the Eggmobile, and his ending shows him returning it safely to Angel Island. But when Sonic beats Eggmobile, he progresses to The Doomsday Zone to fight Eggman in space to retrieve the Master Emerald. If Tails and Sonic's stories happen together, then if Tails already got the Master Emerald back, what is Sonic fighting for? For that matter, every character's ending shows them with the Master Emerald. Is there more than one Master Emerald? Or does it keep getting stolen again? Knuckles must be a pretty lousy guardian if he lets the Master Emerald get stolen so soon after getting it back. Also, Knuckles's ending in that game shows the Floating Island rising up until just before the boundary between the sky and outer space. The air would be so cold and thin up there that everyone on the island should have frozen and died.
For that matter, in Sonic's story, both Marble Garden Zone and Sky Sanctuary Zone collapse at the end of the levels. Yet in Knuckles's story, they're still there. Since Knuckles's story happens after Sonic's, shouldn't they still be collapsed? Or did Sonic returning the Master Emerald magically restore them? For that matter, why exactly DOES Sky Sanctuary collapse? We know Marble Garden Zone collapses because Eggman uses his Drill Mobile to break it (which just raises further questions about how on Earth he can put out enough power to break something so big with such a small vehicle), but there aren't any significant impacts on Sky Sanctuary to break it. It just seems to sort of... fall apart on its own.
During the levels that take place in space (like The Doomsday Zone), Sonic can survive because he's Super Sonic, who is invincible. But when he returns to normal, he falls down to Earth and loses a life. Since he's in space, he shouldn't fall down since he should be out of range of the Earth's gravitational pull. He should just suffocate and possibly swell up and explode due to differences in pressure. Though that admittedly wouldn't look very good in a kid's game.
How can Super Sonic survive being in outer space, but can't survive being crushed or falling down a pit? How come he can tear through Eggman's robots without blinking an eye, yet being punched in the face or having a rock pushed at him turns him back to normal Sonic? I guess you could handwave it by saying that Knuckles has power over the Chaos Emeralds, but still...
When Knuckles steals the Chaos Emeralds, why does he hide them in Special Stages instead of putting them in a more secure location?
Just how tough are Sonic, Tails, Knuckles etc. to be able to damage something made of metal just by ramming it with their bodies? Why doesn't Eggman build his mechs out of stronger materials?
The Nostalgia Critic already said this, but what's the deal with Sonic and chili dogs? It seems like a pretty random favourite food for him to have. Knuckles's favourite food is apparently grapes, which is even more random (especially since, in real life, echidnas eat insects). And what about the other characters? How come we never learn what they like to eat? Apart from Professor Pickle, who likes cucumber sandwiches, but he only appears in one game. Other continuities put Robotnik/Eggman's favourite food as eggs, but there's nothing in the actual games to support this (the one time we do see him eating, it's a giant sub sandwich).
In Sonic Colours, when Tails and Sonic are riding the elevator up to Eggman's Interstellar Amusement Park, Tails says "Wow, this thing's got some crazy fast acceleration!" "Acceleration" is actually the rate at which your speed increases, so "crazy fast acceleration" really doesn't make sense unless you mean it's rapidly speeding up, but the elevator is travelling at a continuous pace. Obviously Tails meant to say "crazy fast speed", which is itself kind of a redundant statement - just "This thing is crazy fast!" would have done. Given how smart Tails is supposed to be, he shouldn't make a mistake like that.
How can Tails fly by twirling his tails around without getting them twisted around each other? We clearly see he moves them both in opposite directions, so they should get tangled up whenever he tries to fly.
In Sonic R again, why exactly do you lose your Chaos Emerald if you don't come first in the race? Does the Emerald think you're not worthy if you don't win? There's nothing to really explain why it happens.
Why did SEGA take away Tails's and Knuckles's ability to go Super? In Sonic Heroes, we could have had all three members of Team Sonic going Super, but instead Sonic went Super Sonic and the other two just got surrounded by magical bubbles or something.
In Sonic Generations, how come we got Classic Sonic, Classic Tails, Classic Eggman and Classic Metal Sonic, but no Classic Amy or Classic Knuckles?
I get that Tails says Green Hill Zone doesn't look familiar to him in Sonic Generations as kind of a nod to him not being in Sonic the Hedgehog, the game that it was originally featured in, but don't both of them visit Green Hill Zone in Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood? I'm going off memory here so I'm probably wrong, but I seem to remember Green Hill Zone being an area in that game. And Sonic Chronicles was made before Sonic Generations, so it doesn't make sense for Tails to say he doesn't find Green Hill Zone familiar when he's obviously been there before. Especially if we assume that Sunset Hill in Sonic Advance 3 is Green Hill Zone at sunset (which is never confirmed one way or the other, but they have similar names and layouts), and Tails can go through that Zone just like everyone else.
In Sonic R, why was Amy Rose in a car and the others on foot (with the exception of Eggman, who rides in his hovercraft)? Sure, she may not be as fast as Sonic, but neither are Tails and Knuckles, and they go on foot. How come Amy gets a car and they don't? The Sonic Advance games show that Amy is at least as fast as those two, so it doesn't really make sense for her to need a vehicle.
How the heck can Eggman (or Robotnik, whatever) run faster than Sonic in the classic games? I get that from a gameplay perspective, it's to stop us skipping the final boss, but from a story perspective it makes no sense.
Sonic being able to walk on the bottom of a body of water makes absolutely no sense. Even if Sonic can't swim, he still shouldn't be able to sink to the bottom like that unless he was INCREDIBLY dense. And if he is that dense then he shouldn't also be able to run across the surface of water, no matter how fast he's going.
The multiple stories in Sonic 3 & Knuckles are confusing when you try to make sense of the plot. Which order do the stories happen in? We know Knuckles's story happens after Sonic's, but what about Sonic and Tails? How do things like having Sonic & Tails together, Sonic alone and Tails alone factor in? Sonic's story is different from Tails's when they're on their own, so it doesn't make sense to interpret their individual stories as "the two of them together, you just only see one of them" or something. Tails's story ends when he gets the Master Emerald back from the Eggmobile, and his ending shows him returning it safely to Angel Island. But when Sonic beats Eggmobile, he progresses to The Doomsday Zone to fight Eggman in space to retrieve the Master Emerald. If Tails and Sonic's stories happen together, then if Tails already got the Master Emerald back, what is Sonic fighting for? For that matter, every character's ending shows them with the Master Emerald. Is there more than one Master Emerald? Or does it keep getting stolen again? Knuckles must be a pretty lousy guardian if he lets the Master Emerald get stolen so soon after getting it back. Also, Knuckles's ending in that game shows the Floating Island rising up until just before the boundary between the sky and outer space. The air would be so cold and thin up there that everyone on the island should have frozen and died.
For that matter, in Sonic's story, both Marble Garden Zone and Sky Sanctuary Zone collapse at the end of the levels. Yet in Knuckles's story, they're still there. Since Knuckles's story happens after Sonic's, shouldn't they still be collapsed? Or did Sonic returning the Master Emerald magically restore them? For that matter, why exactly DOES Sky Sanctuary collapse? We know Marble Garden Zone collapses because Eggman uses his Drill Mobile to break it (which just raises further questions about how on Earth he can put out enough power to break something so big with such a small vehicle), but there aren't any significant impacts on Sky Sanctuary to break it. It just seems to sort of... fall apart on its own.
During the levels that take place in space (like The Doomsday Zone), Sonic can survive because he's Super Sonic, who is invincible. But when he returns to normal, he falls down to Earth and loses a life. Since he's in space, he shouldn't fall down since he should be out of range of the Earth's gravitational pull. He should just suffocate and possibly swell up and explode due to differences in pressure. Though that admittedly wouldn't look very good in a kid's game.
How can Super Sonic survive being in outer space, but can't survive being crushed or falling down a pit? How come he can tear through Eggman's robots without blinking an eye, yet being punched in the face or having a rock pushed at him turns him back to normal Sonic? I guess you could handwave it by saying that Knuckles has power over the Chaos Emeralds, but still...
When Knuckles steals the Chaos Emeralds, why does he hide them in Special Stages instead of putting them in a more secure location?
Just how tough are Sonic, Tails, Knuckles etc. to be able to damage something made of metal just by ramming it with their bodies? Why doesn't Eggman build his mechs out of stronger materials?
The Nostalgia Critic already said this, but what's the deal with Sonic and chili dogs? It seems like a pretty random favourite food for him to have. Knuckles's favourite food is apparently grapes, which is even more random (especially since, in real life, echidnas eat insects). And what about the other characters? How come we never learn what they like to eat? Apart from Professor Pickle, who likes cucumber sandwiches, but he only appears in one game. Other continuities put Robotnik/Eggman's favourite food as eggs, but there's nothing in the actual games to support this (the one time we do see him eating, it's a giant sub sandwich).
In Sonic Colours, when Tails and Sonic are riding the elevator up to Eggman's Interstellar Amusement Park, Tails says "Wow, this thing's got some crazy fast acceleration!" "Acceleration" is actually the rate at which your speed increases, so "crazy fast acceleration" really doesn't make sense unless you mean it's rapidly speeding up, but the elevator is travelling at a continuous pace. Obviously Tails meant to say "crazy fast speed", which is itself kind of a redundant statement - just "This thing is crazy fast!" would have done. Given how smart Tails is supposed to be, he shouldn't make a mistake like that.
How can Tails fly by twirling his tails around without getting them twisted around each other? We clearly see he moves them both in opposite directions, so they should get tangled up whenever he tries to fly.
In Sonic R again, why exactly do you lose your Chaos Emerald if you don't come first in the race? Does the Emerald think you're not worthy if you don't win? There's nothing to really explain why it happens.
Why did SEGA take away Tails's and Knuckles's ability to go Super? In Sonic Heroes, we could have had all three members of Team Sonic going Super, but instead Sonic went Super Sonic and the other two just got surrounded by magical bubbles or something.
In Sonic Generations, how come we got Classic Sonic, Classic Tails, Classic Eggman and Classic Metal Sonic, but no Classic Amy or Classic Knuckles?
I get that Tails says Green Hill Zone doesn't look familiar to him in Sonic Generations as kind of a nod to him not being in Sonic the Hedgehog, the game that it was originally featured in, but don't both of them visit Green Hill Zone in Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood? I'm going off memory here so I'm probably wrong, but I seem to remember Green Hill Zone being an area in that game. And Sonic Chronicles was made before Sonic Generations, so it doesn't make sense for Tails to say he doesn't find Green Hill Zone familiar when he's obviously been there before. Especially if we assume that Sunset Hill in Sonic Advance 3 is Green Hill Zone at sunset (which is never confirmed one way or the other, but they have similar names and layouts), and Tails can go through that Zone just like everyone else.
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