User blog comment:WaterKirby1994/Why Generations Shouldn't Have Been Praised/@comment-477304-20171114152221/@comment-2202259-20171114165550

Yes Forces wasn't perfect, although I still thought it had a lot more going for it than Generations did. The problem is Iizuka isn't half the leader Yuji Naka was when it comes to the direction of the Sonic series. Ever since Yuji Naka left Sonic Team lost its stuff, they succeed in 1 area, only to fail elsewhere.

The reason I was upset by the characters not being included in Generations was the fact that it was supposed to be about Nostalgia, yet it completely failed to capture the experience of 20 years for the Sonic Series. We can blame Ken Penders for the lack of Archie content in Gens, although that doesn't excuse the fact that several game characters were absent, & I don't remember there being a single reference to X in Gens either.

The actual execution for the stuff they chose to include in Generations was poorly done, in a way that it's almost like Iizuka had never actually payed any attention to the Dreamcast Era. The game itself felt more like a joke, yes I realize that Sonic had 1 of its cartoons as a gag series, although that's no excuse for abandoning the more serious aspects entirely.

Maybe it's the fact that I'm more used to disappointment from the Sonic Series these days. Forces did what it was supposed to do at least which was provide an epic in the Sonic series staring a character of your own creation. Generations though was probably the greatest disappointment being unexpected, claiming to cater to nostalgia yet failing miserably there, & overall just being an over glorified excuse for Sonic 4 having Homing Attack.