What Would You Do Differently? The Dreamcast Era

[Mike Arcade]

Welcome to WWYDD, this time regarding everyone's favorite swan song to Sega's Hardware life...the Dreamcast.

Specifically that of Sonic's brief time on there and the games made around this era, so what could have been different for our favorite blue hedgehog in this era? Well let's see here...

How would you handle the whole "Faker" plot that got Sonic captured by GUN at the beginning of SA2?

[WarTraveller]

7 hours ago, Mike Arcade said:

How would you handle the whole "Faker" plot that got Sonic captured by GUN at the beginning of SA2?

Terios.

...Really is that simple. The script was obviously written with his design in mind and for some inane reason it was just never changed or attempted to be justified when Shadow's design was finalised. That isn't to say that Shadow wouldn't be in the game or that Terios would replace him; perhaps Terios was another prototype (doubling as a Development Gag, therefore) between Shadow and Biolizard, disguising as Sonic and taking the emerald for Eggman. The game could even open with a playable version of this event, allowing a better idea of how Sonic ended up in the situation he is in. Then, perhaps after a while, Terios decides he doesn't like being evil and tries to befriend Sonic, up to the point that he switches place with him when Eggman drops that capsule into the atmosphere, killing him and leaving Shadow to be sweet-talked by Chris Amy and then finishing what Terios started.

[WarTraveller]

OR better yet, he is disguised as Sonic when he switches places in the pod, and it's left ambiguous wherever or not the Sonic remaining is actually him...or Terios in disguise.

[TheRedStranger]

How would you handle Chaos and his origin as a character?