I'm gonna have to say yes. The whole point of the game is to save Tails, and there's obviously a reason for Sonic to be saving Tails, right? Think about it. Why would Sonic be saving Tails? Why would Tails be in need of saving? Because something bad is going to happen to him otherwise, and that bad thing seems to be death. There's really no other explanation. It's very sinister, however. It's not the sort of thing you'd expect to see in a Sonic the Hedgehog game. I applaud the developers for putting it in, though. I mean, it would be even more sinister to think Sonic simply gave up trying to save his best friend, and that his best friend was just gonna be left waiting for the day Sonic would come to save him. It's very emotional. The developers are always taking risks like this, though. Remember E-102 Gamma? He killed his brothers, and then killed himself. Originally, the developers planned to make him shoot himself in the head, but they thought that would be too shocking, so they just made it appear as if he'd died in the explosion, although the truth is that he had the ability to recover, but the only way to free the bird inside him was to die, so he died.
