#8.3.23

just played Sonic 4 episode I from start to finish collecting all Chaos Emeralds too, because hey I bought the game on steam a while ago and huh I have a good PC now so let’s make it play a 2010 mobile game. Game’s whatever, super easy to get lives in since lol I had 71 at the end of the game. Mostly it just made me think about like 2 specific alternate timelines. The one in which the game isn’t called Sonic 4 and releases as like Sonic Mobile or whatever - I don’t think much would change there but certainly the general reception would probably be a lot higher since in not being named as a direct sequel to the Genesis trilogy people would almost definitely be way more forgiving of it. And the timeline where it and episode II sell better enough to where they went ahead with making episode III. Not really anywhere else that timeline goes, ep III probs has Knuckles and if it’s as big an improvement from ep II as ep II was from ep I, then hey ep III probably would’ve been pretty sick. But oh well lol.