Sonic's 18th Birthday ^_^

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See, the latest Sonic game I ever played was Sonic Heroes, which killed off any interest to play anything else beyond that.

I will toss a hat in its direction for Metal Overlord though, or whatever final Metal Sonic was called. Too many Sonic games revolved around having some huge fucking being be the last boss. SA2 was tolerable if only for the fact the whole battle was a reference to the Final battle in S3K, and I oddly am fond of "Live and Learn". (Plus it killed off Shadow, which didn't stop them from producing Shadow the Hedgehog though....)

So yeah, I don't know how abysmal the later games have been, nor do I wanna find out for myself.

Sonic Heroes was pretty terrible imo. But look at the guy who directed it: Takashi Iizuka!
Takashi Iizuka is a big tumor to the Sonic franchise and for the whole SEGA company as far as I'm concerned.
1st - He directed Shadow the Hedgehog, Sonic Heroes and NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams. He transformed a cult-classic into a pile of shit.
2nd - He has dashpad fetish. He's the reason why you see so many useless dashpads on 3D games. I mean, what the fuck, what's the reason of a dashpad in a straight-forward, narrow road?!
3rd - The 1st point was convincing enough.

But you'd be surprised that Sonic Unleashed, Sonic and the Secret Rings, Sonic Rush/Rush Adventure, and even Sonic Riders could be pretty entertaining. Specially the first three, specially the 360/PS3 version of the first.
The rest is a pile of shit, really. Except for Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games, but that one was supervised by Miyamoto himself, so it couldn't go SEGA-wrong.