>>111740499Oh you poor child, that is not we meant.
Ok, you might want to sit down for this one.
Knuckles Chaotix was NOT developed by Sonic Team.
It was developed using a small internal development team featuring some Sonic Team staff that used one of their failed prototypes, SONIC CRACKER, as a base.
They never made the game, but because it's a SAWNIK game, ST owns the rights to all the concepts and characters. It's how they where able to use Espio in Fighters.
This is why Sonic Team has never officially acknowledged KC as one of the mainline games, nor ever re-uploaded it on any collection. This is why devs have to sneak in references to Chaotix via song and design cameos. This is why Iizuka retconned Vector, Espio, & Charmy into bumbling detectives and why he insists they be classified as "new modern characters" instead of "classic characters".
On the plus side, it means the Chaotix are not relegated to garbage mandates that bar Classic chaarcters from being in Modern Sonic.
On the bad, it means their classic debut only lives on in the mind of those that remember, relegating your argument as moot. Also, it casts doubt onto whether they could appear in Sonic Mania 2.
