Should the mainline Sonic series be rebooted?

[time gear]

It's not really much of a secret that the story/lore in Sonic games across the decades is an inconsistent mess. With this in mind, would it be worthwhile for SEGA to scrub the slate clean and start over with a new team of writers?

Personally, I'd be in favor of it. It would be a perfect chance to rebrand Sonic into one unified character again, and combine the best gameplay aspects of all the 3D games into one refined style with what has worked, what hasn't worked, and why in mind. The characters could be redefined into consistent personality types with more rock solid backstories, and the lore could start being more consistent. Perhaps it could take inspiration from both the Genesis/Mega Drive classics and the Adventure series for it's storytelling themes and artstyle aesthetic?

 

[Icarus]

A reboot would imply that Tails, Amy, Knuckles and Metal would not reappear in the first game of the reboot.

Sure, Sonic 2006 was a reboot and Sonic Adventure was a soft reboot (Angel Island and Metal Sonic are in it) but I don't want Sega to erase everything again.

Sonic Unleashed was also a soft reboot in a way as well.

 

[time gear]

A reboot would imply that Tails, Amy, Knuckles and Metal would not reappear in the first game of the reboot.

How so? They're already characters that exist. There's no rule that says a reboot has to start out only have Sonic and Eggman in it. You even make the argument that Sonic 06 is a reboot in your post, even though it has all the characters you listed minus Metal.

 

[SpoonMaster44]

Sonic reboots happen a lot and Sega dose it so sonic fans don't get angry remember this is there mascot after all I don't know any other company's that have backlash on there mascots so a reboot could be good but only if the games arnt some shitty stuff like terrible level design and bad story telling (ehrm.......... 06 and forces) but they could also be bad if they just remove everyone (like they did in boom where it was from the big cast to just sonic, metal, vector, amy, marine, knuckles, miles, and shadow and some random new fucks) so yeah that's really my opinion