Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-30756957-20160826223127/@comment-25622445-20160928234209

It's a long running franchise, there is bound to be some bad as well as some good games, it's the same for any long-running franchise, good writers (or video game developers) sometimes have bad ideas, Sonic Team has produced some great content, like Sonic the Hedgehog 2 or Sonic Adventure, as well as some bad content, like Sonic '06. Keep in mind that Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric wasn't developed by Sonic Team, but by a third party developer.

Other third party developers have also made some great content, look at the Game Gear games, most were fun and enjoyable to play, even the hard-as-f### Sonic 2 for the Game Gear and Master System (Sonic Labyrinth sucked though, I have to put that out there, so did Sonic Blast (not 3d Blast, another bland game). The point being, one shouldn't judge a franchise entirely by its bad content, one should strive to not repeat that experience, but you should look at the whole, not just the bad parts of any given franchise.