History VideoGame / SonicRivals

* SchrodingersCanon: In one hand, the ''Rivals'' games have to be canon in order to explain how Sonic becomes familiar with Silver following ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'' being RetGone. However, this subseries has never been officially released in Japan (despite Iizuka writing them) and Eggman Nega's obviously rewritten background adds several continuity-related problems that have yet to be answered to this day.

* SchrodingersCanon: In one hand, the ''Rivals'' games have to be canon in order to explain how Sonic becomes familiar with Silver following ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'' being RetGone. However, this subseries has never been officially released in Japan (despite Iizuka writing them) and Eggman Nega's obviously rewritten background has only added more continuity problems that have yet to be answered to this day.

* SchrodingersCanon: In one hand, the ''Rivals'' games have to be canon in order to explain how Sonic becomes familiar with Silver following ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'' being RetGone, but this subseries has never been officially released in Japan (despite Iizuka writing them) and Eggman Nega's obviously rewritten background has only added more continuity problems that have yet to be answered to this day.

''Sonic Rivals'' is a 2006 ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' platform-racing game for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable, published by Creator/{{Sega}} and developed by [[Creator/DigitalEclipse Backbone Entertainment]] in 2006 (with a sequel, ''Sonic Rivals 2'', released in 2007).

* {{Retcon}}: [[spoiler:Eggman Nega was altered from being Eggman's counterpart from AlternateUniverse in ''VideoGame/SonicRushSeries'', to being his IdenticalGrandson from Silver's future and not thinking fondly of Eggman.]]

* RecycledPremise: Silver's story involves [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006 going back in time to save the future from a lizard-like fire demon who was unleashed into the world]]. To rub it in even further, said demon resides in a ravaged lava-filled city.

* EvilerThanThou: Unlike the [[VideoGame/SonicRushSeries last time]] where [[spoiler:Eggman and Eggman Nega were the BigBadDuumvirate, here Nega takes Eggman captive before the events of the game and intends to sacrifice him as fuel in his device in order to destroy the world.]]

* MagicalCamera: [[spoiler:Eggman Nega's]] camera can turn whatever it's pointing at into a card, which is how the BigBad takes captive those who are dear to player characters and wants to try to do the same with the world. According to Tails, it uses unknown technology to turn matter into data.

* PhantomZonePicture: In the first game, Tails, Amy, Rogue, the Master Emerald and [[spoiler:Dr Eggman]] were turned into cards by [[spoiler:Eggman Nega]]'s camera, who intends to do the same with the planet and gets captured himself in the ending.

* NoCanonForTheWicked: In the first game, Metal Sonic -- who was [[spoiler:reprogrammed into serving Eggman Nega]] -- is the only playable character who isn't playable in story mode. Averted in the second game, where he teams up with Shadow and gets his own story.

* EvilerThanThou: Unlike the [[VideoGame/SonicRushSeries last time]] where [[spoiler:Eggman and Eggman Nega were the BigBadDuumvirate, here Nega takes Egmman captive before the events of the game and intends to sacrifice him as fuel in his device in order to destroy the world.]]

* CoolTrain: The final boss of the first game is Egg Destroyer, a train that also works like a space rocket and the player has to break apart in a sequence. [[spoiler:It's made by Eggman Nega to travel far from Earth and capture it with his card-making camera, with the front stylized after his face.]]