Talk:Hyper Form/@comment-3419031-20120127162735/@comment-4323233-20120217135916

This is the next stage up, not the same thing.

To take the Sonic series as the example, in Sonikc 3 & Knuckles there are upgraded Chaos Emeralds known as the Super Emeralds. Proof that the forms aren ot the same thing come when collecting all the emeralds as Sonic and/or Knuckles compared to collecting them all as Tails. Sonic and Knuckles get their hyper forms from the Super Emeralds. Tails can only go Super with the same Emeralds.

The main difference between Hyper and Super in that game? Hyper gets a permanent bubble shield effect (as in Hyper Sonic and Hyper Knuckles can't drown. Super Tails still can drown (unless he grabs a bubble shield since the bubble and lightning shield effects do still work with Super form. lightning shield still works with Hyper form as well), but...)

tl;dr: Sonic 3 & Knuckles provides proof that Super is different from Hyper.