User blog comment:WaterKirby1994/Sonic Storybook 3/@comment-31918337-20170902123924/@comment-2202259-20170902205248

Black Knight got some very high reviews, the only reason it didn't sell that well at 1st was because of the economic disaster at the time. The Sonic Game that destroyed itself was FreeRiders. Low quality voice acting, relying solely on peripheral that the game never should have been paired with, having extremely poor controls. The entire Riders series got screwed over because of Xbox making the game exclusive to their add on.

The reason I blame Generations is because it demanded all other projects be shelved until it was complete, then the most overrated Sonic Game ever made caused everyone to forget about the Storybook series except for the true fans of the Storybook series. Seeing as the Nintendo Wii was getting replaced & not thinking anyone would really care, they just cancelled the game, rather than risk the Storybook fans complaining the game was too similar to Secret Rings or wasn't good enough.