"Home is where your friends are, as they say, and that's Green Hill, where the best beaches, palm trees and chili dogs, are just the tip of the iceberg. We've saved this place a million times, from this doofus. And then there's Shadow. It's complicated, more on him later. The fact is, we never lose! 'Cause when you got a crew like mine, there's nothing that can stop you!" While Sonic cares for his friends just as much as the main series Sonic, he can be a bit blind to the values that the original had, with a flashback indicating he didn't exactly know what friendship (something that the main series Sonic is always able to cheer on and encourage for comparison) was about when Amy and the others tried to gift him with the memories of their friendship. Additionally, a major conflict for this series is that Sonic has an inability to listen to his friend’s warnings and fears, and chooses to heroically but impulsively speed ahead instead. Though he does manage to realize and develop past this as he helps his friends' counterparts in the Boscage Maze reconcile.