DanceDream: Yeah, it didn't seem to work as well as you'd planned. Yeah, do not hurt the sidekick. It doesn't end well. As far as elements of a game go, graphics aren't that important in comparison to the gameplay, sound, and story. I've never actually played it either, because of how Tails is controlled in that game. Dunno if you can call them that, but they hold their feet close to each other and slide down a slope. Yeah, that was Battle. Yep. Loads and loads of characters. Better than loads and loads of loading. Forget confusion, it just doesn't make sense.

Adventures of Mario & Sonic: Generations

YOU'RE TOO SLOW!

After the incident with the doll (unfortunately, they were unable to find any sunshine. Tails told the doll he was very sorry), the younger Luigi and Tails were walking around the void, in hopes of finding something. Soon, they came across something that seemed to be a small street surrounded by buildings. Everything was whited out, including a statue of what seemed to be a rabbit in a dress with a strange blue pet.

"Something's wrong here..." Luigi said.

"Well, we have to fix it, wight?"

"I guess so. Let's go, kid!"

"A hallway... Opening out to a road... Why?"

"It's good for a running start," Tails pointed out.

"I guess so," Luigi said, running forward. It wasn't long until he left the building and stepped on the road in the sky high above the city below. There were a few skyscrapers and such, but Luigi wasn't thinking about that. He was hurtling down the road sliding on his back, screaming.

After a few seconds of moving at high speed, Luigi noticed that he was slowing down. He sighed in relief, and started walking down the highway in the sky slowly.

"Whee!" Unfortunately, he did not account for the possibility of a fuzzy orange ball rolling down the highway and plowing into his back. In that moment, he decided that rolling did not agree with him.

As they were slowing down from their roll, Luigi gave another sigh of relief... And then they rolled onto another dash pad like the one Luigi had stepped on at the beginning.

The pattern continued for awhile, until they were finally flung off the highway and onto the top of a skyscraper.

"Too... fast..." Luigi said, panting.

"Let's go again!" Tails exclaimed, dragging Luigi along as he flew towards another highway in the sky.

"Bro!" the older Luigi exclaimed, running up to Mario, "I thought you were asleep."

"Tell me next time you do a little heroing yourself, Luigi"

"Sonic!" Tails exclaimed, flying over, "So, how's it going?"

"Pretty good, but you just missed the BBBE."

"BBBE?"

"Best Boss Beating Ever! By the way, where's little you?"

"Wait, I thought he was with you..."

"But I thought..."

"Oh no!" Tails yelled, "My younger self is lost in time! What if... I dunno, something bad happens to him! What happens to me? Oh man, oh man, oh man, this is bad..."

"Don't worry about it," Mario said, "You-"

"How can you say he shouldn't worry?" Sonic asked, "Something bad could happen to him! Something awful! And then what happens to the Tails here and now, huh?"

"Calm down, time doesn't work that way!" Mario exclaimed. Sonic and Tails calmed down enough for Mario to explain.

"You can change the past," Mario explained, "But you can only change it so much. For the time-traveler, the past can only be changed to the point where their lives would still be the same. You can only change things that don't affect your own past, or make it so that your life will play out the same anyway."

"Basically," Luigi said, "Events have to play out the same way from your perspective, or you wouldn't have gone back in time in the first place."

"We still need to find him, though," Mario said, "We just shouldn't overreact."

"What do those shoes do, kid?"

"Gotta go fast!" Tails exclaimed, putting the shoes on and grabbing Luigi's hand.

"SLOW DOWN!" Luigi screamed, as he was dragged along the highway.

Mario and Sonic skidded to a stop from their recent run-in with Amy in front of a whited-out city.

"Think we lost her?" Sonic asked.

"I'm sure," Mario said, sniffing the air, "Hmm... I smell fox and spaghetti. Luigi was definitely here."

"And I bet the fox you smell is Tails. How do you do that, anyway? I can't smell anything over this stink..."

"Well..."

"This is fun!"

"I'll admit, hanging from a helicopter is better than racing around really fast. This would be totally dangerous and irresponsible if you couldn't fly."

"Sonic says that a lot," Tails said, as he jumped into an open window.

"Wait up!" Luigi jumped after Tails, running down the hallway to follow him.

Luigi reached the end of the hallway, to find... Some sort of glass balcony. "Who could have possibly thought this was a good idea?" he asked, as he stepped onto it.

"I dunno," Tails said, landing next to Luigi, "It's a nice view, though."

Then the window shattered, causing them to fall down the side of the building. After dodging helicopters, crashing through windows, avoiding support posts, and Tails laughing about it being fun while Luigi screamed his head off, Tails finally started flying and caught Luigi.

"Let's... Not do that again," Luigi said, as they landed in a hotel lobby.

"It was fun, though!"

"I'm pretty sure there's a lot of safer things to do."

"But I'm... un-finzabul! Normal stuff doesn't huwt me."

"Let's just go," Luigi said, walking out of the hotel into the white void, where two familiar figures were standing. One of them appeared to be retching.

"Oh, man, that's disgusting! What did you have to go and tell me that for?" Sonic asked, as he nearly threw up again.

"Well, you did ask."

"Bro!"

"Luigi!"

Mario and Luigi ran into a hug, glad to be reunited.

"Sonic!" Tails exclaimed, latching on to his big brother.

"Little bro! How's it going? Also, I need to talk to you about what Mario here just told me..."

Really, you probably don't want to know what Mario was talking about. It's nothing that you won't see in kids shows, though... I just wanted to avoid making this sort of joke.