So if you only really care about Shadow The New Guy and are fixated on his arc the most, there's a decent chance you'll miss everything off about Adventure 2's story because those things simply aren't that obtrusive to the Shadow part.\

Thankfully, I care about more than Shadow. And I recognize it's NOT OK to be so limp in handling a series's past for the sake of new blood. Sadly, that limpness with the old is Shiro Maekawa's honest-to-God attitude with Sonic. BY HIS OWN FREE ADMISSION. And he exercised it behind Yuji Naka's back.\