User blog comment:Smash The Echidna/Splice The Hedgehog Updates Blog/@comment-2219543-20120627201519/@comment-1942179-20120627201806

You don't really know much about this story, do you?

No, they are not. In fact, Smash isn't even that much of a main character in this game. He joins your party very late in comparison to the others. And Sonic is pretty much a guest character; He's not the main character either.