Sega Announces new 2D Sonic title

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How is Sonic CD not canon when it introduced Amy and Metal Sonic and was directly referenced in Sonic Adventure?

And taking in consideration that Eggman is rebuilding all of his machines in Sonic 4, the Metal Sonic silhouette might mean that Eggman rebuilt Metal Sonic all over and not that it had just been built.

Ah, whatever, it's not like Sonic 4 Episode 1 actually has a storyline.

I personally don't consider it to be canon.

My opinion. Never said it wasn't actually canon.

how does the cannon of the storyline affects the game's mechanics. in a platformer. with no storyline whatsoever. in what we already know is not a sequel but a remake of the series.

i'd like to know.

e: because my point is actually, storyline in the platformers is at best used to give some sort fo continuity between the games, but its not like it affects drastically how the game moves or the ignorance of said storyline affects what one percives from the game or how its played. it just puts some sense as to why would you go over and over afterthe same fat old man. unlike in the later 3D games where it is part of the game itself.

your argument still makes no sense whatsoever and tyvon's post is still correct

not to mention that there definitely is a canon story in the original games, although there is no actual text telling it.
I personally don't know the part that has the transition from Sonic 1 to Sonic 2, but if you pay attention, sonic 2 through S&K all tell a different part of the same story.

In S2, sonic fights robotnik who eventually boards his wing fortress and flies up to the death egg
sonic follows, and defeats him
at the end of the game he jumps from the death egg and lands on tails' plane

this is where s3 starts and obviously by the cutscene at the beginning it happens directly after s2.
sonic has already collected all the emeralds (from s2), and lands on angel island where he meets knuckes and finds out robotnik is still up to no good

eventually sonic chases robotnik to the launch base, where he launches the death egg again after it gets destroyed in sonic 2
this is where S&K begins and knuckles' story branches off

sonic falls from the launching rocket and lands in mushroom hill
he then eventually gets aboard the death egg yet again, and destroys it for the second time, then chases down robotnik who has stolen the master emerald as a last ditch effort

knuckles' S&K story (when you're playing as him only; it's different when you play as sonic) begins and takes place a few hours after sonic's story ends, which is why he never actually fights robotnik (aside from the oversight in flying battery 2 where they didn't include the robo egg sprite) and instead has to fight robo-egg who is still following robotnik's programming and activates metal sonic mk II

how does any of this already established story lead into sonic 4