Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-32055665-20170610165552/@comment-1942179-20190223234244

Sonic has never been able to keep a consistent canon, even before 06. From character's ages and personalities to locations and objects. You almost never see the same city or zone referenced more than once unless it's a deliberate throwback stage like what Generations or Mania did, or if it's Green Hill zone. And I swear Tails' age was retconned to 8 back in Sonic Heroes but I don't remember where I read that he was older before then.

And when was the last time we ever saw the Master Emerald? I think the last game it was ever relevant was Sonic Advance 3. (Correct me if I'm wrong.) Speaking of emeralds, the Chaos Emeralds pre Adventure 1 have NEVER been consistent. For Sonic 1-3 it was like each island had their own set of emeralds, and in 3 they introduced the Super Emeralds and then never brought that up again. Knuckles' personality has gone through so many phases before landing on dumb muscle, and even then they don't always stick with it.

Honestly Sonic Canon is one of the messiest things you could ever try to keep up with. It's like opening up a jigsaw puzzle with only half the pieces from three different sets. As for whether or not the franchise will continue from here on out, I'd say yes, but it may be a while before we see another mainstream game released. Maybe they'll bring something to the table at E3 this year?