Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-33076309-20170724235436/@comment-3364901-20171101192546

MenInBlak wrote: He's not taken nearly as seriously at the beginning of the game, it's at the end where he goes totally insane and basically uses his most powerful minion ever as a pawn in order to make his death egg robot the most powerful thing in the entire universe.

probably so Sonic Team can make him more comedic again in future games, or at the least capable of "moral flexibility" - for games they likely don't want to turn Eggman as evil as he can be in other media as they will need him and Sonic to work together for plot-reasons (plus as I said before they likely don't want to alienate fans from games, who prefer a slightly less malevolent Eggman).