User blog comment:WaterKirby1994/Why Generations Shouldn't Have Been Praised/@comment-477304-20171114152221/@comment-25826354-20171114170522

I fail to grasp what you mean when you say it failed at giving nostalgia. Every single level in the game apart from ONE was from a previous game, every boss aside from ONE was from a previous game, it had the biggest cast of characters since 06, featured both songs from old games in their original forms and new remixes, AND actually had Classic Sonic in the game. I don't know why you were expecting Archie stuff since the game was celebrating Sonic the GAMING mascot, and I'm not sure what you mean by poorly executed. If you mean the paper thin plot, that's easily ignorable as it's basically just an excuse to play old Sonic levels. If you mean the actual level design, then I'm just not sure what to say.

Bare in mind, I'm not saying Forces is a bad game. I like it quite a bit. But it's a step down from Generations in most categories, and suffers from the same problem 06 and RoL had of wasted potential, though nowhere near the extreme of those games.