In the next Sonic game, they should just make him red for no reason. It's in the prerelease and everything, there's no lore reason for it or anything, and when Iizuka is asked about Sonic's new look, he simply states, "Yes, we thought that creating a Sonic game where Sonic was a different color might be interesting...so we wanted to do that. I really like red, personally, and a lot of our team does as well." Game comes out, and whether its bad or good or mediocre, people cannot stop talking about how Sonic is red. There's a mod that changes Sonic's fur back to blue within 17 minutes of the game's release. 20 years from the game's release, when Sonic fans do retrospectives, they're like "the one where he's red or something" and then talk about it. A Sonic fan makes a three-and-a-half-hour-long video titled "Why Red Sonic Will Always Be Special To Me." The next Sonic game to release after the one where he's red, he'll be back to blue, and there will be parades in the streets, the live chat in the E3 livestream is praising the hedgehog like he's Jesus Christ walking down the streets of Jerusalem, Mega Man Twitter makes a post that says "Congrats, Sonic! Blue was always your color." A generation of young and inexperienced Sonic fans are weirded out and wondering why he keeps changing the color of his fur in every other game. SegaSonic Bros fans are popping off, wondering when Yellow Sonic's turn to shine will be. Yuji Naka gets released from prison and his first act upon returning to the outside world is going on Twitter to post "why is he red".
Nothing against the game - I just haven't been keeping up with it all that much. Been too busy with Fraymakers brainrot