User blog comment:Sonamyfan666/Sonic Advance the real Sonic 4 so far./@comment-1669199-20120503022408/@comment-1669199-20120503023251

But Sonic Advance isn't Sonic 4, and even then the game is hated if not outright ignored because for some unexplained reason, "handhelds don't count". Forget the quality that game introduced along with the other handhelds, they apparently suck anyway just because they aren't exactly like the Genesis titles. So in all due honesty, I don't think most people would agree that Sonic Advance was a good Genesis follow up because of those reasons, and because it wasn't meant to be a follow up anyway.