>>530853749
I'm not even talking about gameplay or development, just the characterization. This idea that the Japanese don't make their own characters OOC is just fucking mass hysteria among windfags.
Sonic isn't a work of passion; it's a long-running video game series made by a corporation. It will necessarily chase trends to appeal to newer audiences, and thus, change its characters accordingly. There's literally nothing wrong with that, as that's basically what comics like DC and Marvel do with their characters, where it's just an all-you-can-eat buffet for whatever headcanon the current writer has. Like, imagine if Batman fans were as hyper-fixated on "Canon" as Sonicfags, how would that even make any sense?
There is no argument for consistency to be made here. None.
>>530854265
He wrote the script, not the story. He didn't create Sage or Eggdad.