Sega Announces new 2D Sonic title

[Vipershark]

sonic CD/Advance/Rush/Pocket Adventure/even SA2.

they're all sequels, none of the correlate to the first three, neither the first three correlate each other.

As I said, I don't consider Sonic CD to be canon. (Yes, it is canon, but there isn't really much explanation as to where it fits into the series.)

The Advance games don't really have any sort of story or continuity aside from ROBOTNIK ATTACKING BEAT HIM. They're good old platformers, which isn't a bad thing.

I've never played sonic rush adventure, so I can't comment on that series. If I recall correctly though, aren't blaze and nega-robotnik in it as well? There seems to be some sort of continuity between them.

I've never played pocket adventure, so I won't comment on that.

SA2 does have a small bit of continuity from SA1, though. The story doesn't really tell you, but it's obvious that SA2 happens after the events of SA1.

Basically, what I'm trying to say is that this is all about continuity.

While yes, they're all the same series, I consider the different "spinoffs" (used very loosely to describe the different series such as rush, advance, adventure, etc) to be different universes, per se.

What this means is that all the games within a universe should follow the story of that universe.

It's obvious that Sonic 3 directly follows Sonic 2, and there is significant story to back this up. The same goes for S&K to sonic 3, even though it's technically one game. While I don't know how sonic 1 leads into sonic 2, there is an official story somewhere.

But from what I gather, Sonic 4 completely destroys the continuity built up the the past four games in the "Genesis Universe". There appears to be absolutely no reason for any of the events that are happening to happen.

See what I'm saying? This is where my problem lies. I'd be completely fine with this game if it was called ANYTHING other than Sonic 4. Yeah, the whole rehashing thing would still be sort of a dick move on sega's part, but at least the game wouldn't completely destory the series.