User blog comment:WaterKirby1994/Why Generations Shouldn't Have Been Praised/@comment-27387232-20171114171947/@comment-2202259-20171114195201

Forces was a brand new experience in that never before have you been able to create your own character for the Sonic Series & have them be the center of attention for roughly half the story. At the same time it really tries to bring back feelings from the Dreamcast Era with Episode Shadow. The reason Shadow wasn't a boss was probably because you play as Shadow.

As for Chaos he can't do much without the Chaos Emeralds, however I admit it would have been cool if the phantom ruby was used to create a Perfect Chaos fought by Modern Sonic & Custom Hero together using Double Boost, with Sonic commenting that the fake wasn't nearly as strong as the real Perfect Chaos. Episode Shadow probably could have had a boss fight against a fake Shadow that Infinite created, which used quotes from Shadow the Hedgehog Multiplayer. At least Shadow vs Infinite (Jungle) is probably possible in the game.

Not sure how it's Hypocritical to like the direction that Forces is taking the series.