rev up the sonic cycle: Sonic Mania

[Kriven]

As for Chao Garden - oh god, I know it has a massive following from the SA2 NGC 'my first Sonic game' generation but I honestly hope it never returns. The further we get away from that kind of stuff the better.

I always thought the Chao Garden could be fleshed out into its own spin-off game... In my head, basically an RPG which utilizes the battle system from Sonic Chronicles with the raising and mini-games from SA/2. When you're in the garden, you would control Tikal who can go around and pat the Chao and all that, but when you leave you get to select a team of your own Chao to take with you out into the world, and they go out engaging Eggman's robots and bringing back Small Animals and those fake emerald shards to either make themselves more powerful or to assist in raising new Chao. At some point you could even get the Chao Walker mechs from SA2B multiplayer.