Board Thread:Sonic News Channel/@comment-26567650-20150225032845/@comment-679780-20150225214808

MrBreada wrote: Beren Camlost wrote: How could you be so cold-hearted? Sonic X-Treme's gameplay seems very un-Sonic like to me. Then again, I hate the Sonic the Hedgehog series overall. It was the revolutionary point in Sonic's history that Sega decided against.

The same could be said for Sonic Adventure. Many complained about Sonic's new style and how his traditional 2D sidescrolling gameplay was reformatted for the additional dimensions. Sonic Xtreme was a mutation of the evolution of Sonic's games that didn't make it in the gene pool but still important in what is Sonic today.