User blog comment:TheLinkster/Who's your favorite Sonic Character?/@comment-878100-20110629152430/@comment-1669199-20110629164025

@Rainbow: You do realize that game was meant to have a much darker tone than a typical Sonic game so it could appeal to people who thought the Sonic series was too "kiddy", right? That's what game companies do with their products: They expand upon them and try out new ideas in order to get more people interested in them, and not all of them expect to get great results because they're technically just experimenting with things. Personally, I thought the idea of a darker Sonic game was interesting, but just as expected people who are too fixated on specific formulas went unecessarily crazy over it just because it had guns which hardly even acted like real guns during actual gameplay (and let me remind you that they're completely optional and you don't even need to use them) and because Sonic was just a side character in it. Also, don't compare this game to those overrated first person shooters, because they're hardly anything alike and last I checked CoD and Halo were FPS'es. The game's "failure" had to do with the fact that a lot of people didn't like the idea of something much more different than what they're used to. However, the only thing I'm hearing Shadow getting criticism for when it comes to his own game is pretty much the cursing (not his fault, blame the developers). Everything else that's apparently wrong with the actual character is apparently the whole game itself, which if you ask me is highly unfair and biased.