User blog comment:Sonamyfan666/Sonic Advance the real Sonic 4 so far./@comment-1669199-20120503022408/@comment-1669199-20120503024927

Doesn't really seem to matter since, again, the game is either hated or ignored entirely because it's not a console game. Advance did absolutely nothing to help the fanbase in the long run and, if anything, helped to devide it even more. Sonic Heroes was seen as the downfall of the high quality Sonic titles, but most fans seemed to take this downfall all the way back to 1998 when Sonic Adventure was first released, because that was the start of the new Sonic era that most fans loath with a passion. But the problem was that even during the Adventure days the fanbase was already beginning to grow unstable for various reasons, but Shadow the Hedgehog's game was supposedly the thing that made the fandom change into the mess it is now. Point is, the fanbase was beginning to get screwed up even before Advance came out, and since it came out in a era that isn't the classic era, is it really THAT hard to believe that it'll be automatically hated or ignored regardless of how good or bad the game is?