Some time ago, thanks to this This Power Ring comic, that Archie can't use Cream in the original comic because she's off limits.
However.. Cream is a member of Team Rose from the Sonic Heroes games. And the events of Sonic Heroes lead into the game Shadow the Hedgehog, which precedes Sonic Next Gen...
...So, due to one little liscencing issue, are we going to have problems tying the events of those three games (which have a stong influence on the game-verse's continuity), or is there a solution here?
Otherwise, I was thinking Archie could do what it did with Sonic Adventure 2, Sonic Riders and Sonic Rush and simply introduce the characters with the assumption that the events of the game happen "off-camera" where the comic is concerned. Although you could have a special "after-action report" storyline in one comic recapping the events of those games to tie them into Mobius' continuity..
Ian has already stated: there will be no tie-in of Sonic Heroes, Shadow the Hedgehog, or Sonic Next, although elements of those games may be (and, in some cases, have been) included.
Additionally, even thought the events of SA2 and Sonic Riders are assumed to have taken place in some form, off screen, the events of Sonic Rush are not assumed to have done so (as far as I know).
Finally, if Sega ever mandated that Archie had to do a game adaptation that necessitated Cream's inclusion, then obviously Sega would allow them to use Cream, so I don't see any problem at all.
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...So, due to one little liscencing issue, are we going to have problems tying the events of those three games
Nah, coz the events of those three games didn't happen in the comics and if Sega said "do a Nextgen tie-in", the first two games' events could be easily substituted anyway.
As I did mention at Bumbleking, there's another possible continuity problem:
Blaze the Cat.
Possible Sonic-Next-Gen Spoilers (Select To Read): She's already been introduced into the comic, back in 160-161. Now, the next-gen Sonic game is apparently supposed to happen BEFORE Sonic Rush, as Blaze is supposed to come from the future of Mobius-Prime (Or in the game's case, Earth-Prime), travel into the present of Mobius-Prime (during the events of next-gen Sonic) and then later bound with Iblis' "flames of disaster" and sealed into the Nega-Dimension so the flames would never haunt the future. After this, Sonic would meet Blaze in the Nega-Dimention, and so on...
So, do you see the problem? Blaze has already been introduced in Sonic Rush with her Flame Powers. For Blaze to have these flame powers, Sonic Next-Gen would need to have ALREADY happened.
Unless the Blaze in Sonic Next and Sonic Rush are two different characters.
Actually I think it's an editorial decision to keep the Sonic X comic distinct, not SEGA. BTW, Sonic Rivals makes it not entirely obvious whether Blaze was actually from another dimension, because Eggman Nega is revealed to be from the future too.
Well, Emerald, I can think of a good possible solution to that. Of course,it's not really a solution per se, but when you take into consideration the storyline of '06, and of course certain characters in Archie and how to delight readers, without being cliche, I think it's a more than sufficient way to kill more than two birds with one stone:
Plotbunny Spoilers (Select To Read): Just have Zonic, on Blaze's request, send Sonic and his friends through time and space to the Soleanna Zone, where the StH '06 story takes place, to sort out the mess it eventually becomes in order to the balance of the zones and so that Soleanna Zone isn't destroyed beyond measure. Sonic and his friends don't have versions of themselves living here, hence why they were chosen to do the work.
Eggman kidnaps Elise, but Mephiles is the main bad guy, of course. His whole tricking Silver must stay, though he only makes it up after he first sees Sonic and Shadow in action against Shadow and after learning that Elise is starting to have deep feelings for Sonic, which would help him unleash Iblis. Shadow, however, doesn't travel back and seal him. The duke seals him when the accident happened, because having too much time travelling makes one's head hurt. That and the duke made the thing, the least he could do is make sure the halves are sealed up properly, aside from forcing it onto his daughter.
Also, instead of it being a "reset" where it never happened, when Elise saves the world, she destroys Solaris, but the price of using her power is that she and the Soleanna Zone Eggman end up losing their memories of what happened to. Everyone else remembers, thus strengthening everyone's resolve to preserve the Chaos Emeralds in their dimension.
And the Blaze of Sonic Rush is the same Blaze of '06, but Zonic prevents her from coming because she's technically already there.
Oh yeah, one more thing. Lara-Su/Silver FTW! :p
*shot*
Here's hoping for an Archie comic reset. nN
A reset? Just when it's getting good? ;o
Unless you're talking about introducing adaptations and then resetting the continuity to clear them up, but _that_ seems pretty silly to me.
Actually, Cook, your idea works for me...
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Here's hoping for an Archie comic reset. nN
uhhh, no. there's no reason to pull a Crisis on infinite earths here. ian has already demonstrated that he plans on cleaning up the comic as far as plotholes and stuff go.
