It's a shame Sonic lost Chip's necklace after Unleashed

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It's a shame Sonic lost Chip's necklace after Unleashed

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After all that world building and climatic genius, they just silently throw away Chip's necklace and never bring him up again.

What a shame, it doesn't even look that bad. It seems like they might've actually fiddled with the idea of making it a permanent part of Sonic's design considering he puts it on his arm (perhaps part of Sonic Unleashed's 'soft-reboot' goal after the disaster of Sonic 06), and they either just forgot (possibly due to different writers) or intentionally decided to cut it.
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Re: It's a shame Sonic lost Chip's necklace after Unleashed

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We also never see Rouge with the Inhibitor Ring Sonic gave her after Shadow fell to Earth at the end of SA2, even though it seemed like something that would come up in one of the several games where Shadow and Rouge interact.

It does seem like they could have integrated the necklace into Sonic's design, similar to the way Secret Rings and Black Knight gave Sonic the Flame of Judgement and the big armored gauntlet (or, for that matter, the Soap Shoes in SA2). The Akinori era of Sonic games was always about experimental self-contained storytelling, I don't think they ever intended for it to be a permanent thing, but maybe the necklace could have been featured if more Unleashed side-content got produced along with Night of the Warhog and the animated shorts.

But yeah, there was a gigantic shift in the writing staff and overall direction of Sonic Team for Colors onward, honoring character development in Unleashed was never on their agenda. They only carried over trifling and stupid things, like Tails being a helpless tag-along with a tablet.
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