Even if it's false, that really has nothing to do with "what time would this have happened" anyway. Since that's more what was in question.
Omega getting false videos isn't that odd. It's not like he could tell otherwise naturally if they're real or not. It's just a person playing a video, and Omega wasn't in the future with memories to confirm nor deny.
That said, I saw the point of that scene to show that Shadow doesn't give a rat's ass and he won't fall for the manipulation. Mephiles is a problem now, and that's all that matters to him. Fake or not, that has no relevance to why the story piece was put in.
Shadow?Mephiles tells Omega that he was the one who sealed Shadow away (which is consistent with his creation being to keep Shadow contained, as confirmed in his profile on Sonic Channel), and even questions if Omega forgot. Immediately after this interaction, Omega admits to Shadow that he was the one who sealed Shadow.
So yeah, while it was definitely with the intent to manipulate, I believe Mephiles was telling the truth.
...I completely forgot that Omega was from the future time instead of traveling through time. Though I'm not sure if the ending part has the present Omega or the future Omega, but it's likely the latter(since he's well aware of what's going on).
It's been a while, but I think Rouge gives Omega a Chaos Emerald in the present so he can give it Shadow in the future timeline.
My theory is Omega erases his own memories cause he had no reasonable way to figure out how to deal with his feelings about sealing Shadow away. He's a war machine as is, so asking for therapy isn't the easiest thing to do(if he could even get it, since he is an A.I. We don't know how well the world is when it comes to helping Artificial Intelligence with their psychological problems). Besides that, only Eggman and Gerald really understood A.I. heavily, and they're both not ultimately sane. Eggman might also be dead too, so there's like no real options for the poor guy.
Shadow?I started with Adventure.
"Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try."I played a bit of Sonic when I was younger, but nothing really caught me. Then SA1 came out and I fell in love with the game, and moreso with SA2. Been a Sonic fan since, though again, S3&K was the only one I really enjoyed out of the original Sonic games. May have been the various powerups completely change up how you can go in the level. The Bubble Shield being my favorite for that bounce jump.
Edited by ScubaWolf on Mar 27th 2023 at 7:19:37 AM
"In a move surprising absolutely no one"I think a good Sonic RPG would be received about as well as the good Mario RPGs were - very well.
RPGs are a pretty decent direction to go for spinoffs if you can pull them off, because if you hit that sweet spot between simple and complex they can be accessible to basically everybody, both kids and adults. And they're great for worldbuilding.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Mar 27th 2023 at 11:02:37 AM
An RPG would be a great way to introduce a story to the series...
Goodness knows it needs one.
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However, we don't know exactly how far into those 200 later years he was captured. It has to be some time before it, since Silver's future is already a wasteland. Considering the characters ages are around the teens, and that there had to be some time when Iblis more or less started the war, I'd say we have maybe, what, 150 years for him to be sealed away? Do note I'm giving an arbitrary 30 years for the place to go to waste and another 20 for when Silver was born.
Regardless, we just know it had to be some time before Iblis' attack started. The only other possibility is they think Shadow was connected to Mephiles(which isn't technically wrong, just not for the reason they think it is), and that's part of why they feared his power, but it never comes up when Omega explains it. Shadow did start off as a hidden project and was feared even back then, so the conclusion of him being sealed isn't... hard to believe anyway. They fear what they don't understand, etc.
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