Talk:Knuckles' Chaotix

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[edit] A little cleaning needed

I noticed an inordinate amount of referral to the player in the second person in the level descriptions. Eric 04:14, September 7, 2005 (UTC)

I kind of rewrote the level section, but anyone else is welcome to expand it. In fact the whole page could benefit from some retouching here and there. --Steerpike 23:50, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
I believe we should touch up on the bosses. Also, I've noticed you've been improving various Sonic articles lately, Steerpike, thanks for that. -- RattleMan 00:04, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Japanese manual

Stop adding these references to the Japanese manual (or write it properly at least). I mean, there's no point here. The US/European story is a lot more relevant on the English Wikipedia. --Steerpike 17:08, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

I think it's quite relevant and bears equal importance. If it's not, someone should probably go through the rest of the articles in the English Wikipedia and erase anything that has to do with other cultures. The story of Chaotix was altered drastically in the jump to the US version, and was actually originally a more serious, well-thought-out sequel to Sonic & Knuckles, as opposed to this "Eggman's crashin' a theme park and Knuckles is a rentacop!! :D :D :D" nonsense. If anyone out there has a reliable translation of the Japanese manual story, your contribution would be greatly appreciated. If there is one thing I agree with, it's that it does need to be well written. --Matt S. 02:28, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
Actually, since the U.S. version came first by about a month, it should be the other way around... And the stoy's not exactly coherent either way. The Japanese version's story is equally guilty of a non-sensical plot, having resorted to series' buzzwords to get by. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 208.101.143.63 (talk) 12:11, 26 January 2007 (UTC).
It was still developed in Japan, and yes, that story DOES make more sense. The English manual doesn't even mention the Chaos Rings, which are a large part of the Japanese story, and just confuses players when they collect them in-game. Gurko 15:30, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
If it makes more sense, then why isn't the whole "omg anoter mystarieous echida issand iz unconvared" resolved or even mentioned ever again? All we get in the ending is either... I dunno, a giant Metal Sonic-like robot burninating the country side or everyone posing for the camera (except Heavy and Bomb are replaced by Sonic and Tails, as well as the Tornado)? <sarcasm> That is TOTALLY coherent with the Japanese story, and everything introduced in this game was resolved by Sonic Adventure </sarcasm>. And when did Sonic and his friends 'hide the secret of the rings from Eggman'? Also, if anything, the endings are somehow closer to the American story (the bad ending confirming that the island would be in ruins if Eggman succeeded, and the good ending... um... everyone's getting ready to party?). Face it, both stories are as terrible when it comes to explaining things in the game, you shouldn't just blindly accept Japan's explanation just for the sake of it being Japanese. But yes, we should include both, if only because they're much more radically different than usual. 208.101.130.232 13:34, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Gametap Links

While I am not personally a user, I think fans of the series should know about the Gametap site that offers the game for play on their computers, as this is a very rare game. Hence, it should, as is customary for nearly ANY re-release, have a section under Trivia. Seeing as this is the only re-release in the game's history, and as much would be expected for any other game, I'm putting it in Trivia. After all, it IS the only news about this game (besides its exclusion from Gems Collection) to come along in about the last decade, and writing it off as "irrelevent" is nearly equivalent to excluding re-releases such as Mega Collection from having their own articles.(Ctu2485 22:44, 21 June 2006 (UTC))

[edit] Trivia section

I've probably explained this a thousand times before on other Sonic related pages but: the whole idea of trivia runs contrary to the concept of an encyclopedia. Information on this page should be notable, not trivial. Now personally I don't mind to read a fun fact here and there but if a page *must* include trivia please 1) look to put it in another, more relevant, section of the article first and 2) keep the list as short as possible. I don't see the information on Gametap as a particulary noteworthy piece of trivia (which is in itself a contradiction in terms) but it might be useful to include it on a "production and release" section of this article. This hasn't been written yet but why not make the effort? The stuff about the working title and Sonic Crackers could be worked into it. The last paragraph could then discuss the various releases of the game.

And one last thing. I think the justification to include a certain piece of info in the article should be made by the person adding it in, not with me when I revert it. --Steerpike 15:56, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Why isn't this in the main series?

It may be the only Sonic-related game for the 32X, but it does introduce the Chaotix (besides Mighty, who appeared in SegaSonic the Hedgehog first) for Sonic Heroes and Shadow the Hedgehog. 208.101.130.232 13:37, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

I think it should be in the main series as well. Bottomlivefan95 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.149.193.37 (talk) 11:28, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

I say mainseries it!SLJCOAAATR 1 (talk) 20:46, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] copyright concern

Is the material quoted from the manual in the Storyline section copyright? Phina.v 12:13, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Chaoix.jpg

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BetacommandBot (talk) 20:50, 13 February 2008 (UTC)