User blog comment:WaterKirby1994/The Dreamcastian Dilemma/@comment-477304-20171208175338

Are you serious? Loads of people still love the Adventure games, even though they haven't aged well, people still call back to them. Generations did the era justice, there was no "Dreamcast Sonic" because Modern Sonic is Dreamcast Sonic, there was no Shadow the Hedgehog level because it's about Sonic's history, not Shadow's. Why should it matter if Perfect Chaos was nerfed? It was still a good boss fight that remained true to the original while providing a new twist. I also find it odd that you don't complain that Zavok and the Egg Dragoon were nerfed in Forces, yet in Generations it's a huge problem.

Whether or not a game references a past game isn't a mark of how good it is. It's like what I said about Generations in my blog, it's more than "I remember this" it's also a well made game. I think even newcomers would enjoy Generations based on gameplay alone. Forces may have call backs to Adventure 2, with the Avatar's lyrical theme songs that express their feelings, or how multiple levels are set in the same location, or how switch back and forth from multiple characters as you play through the stor, what about the game itself? What about the level design? What about the controls? What about the things that make a game a game? Maybe Forces makes you think "hey, this is like Sonic Adventure 2" but what more beyond that? What else does it offer?