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OliviaTremor posted...

I don't think Sonic games are graded on an unfair curve. Sonic games are in general not great.

The reviews of Sonic games made me come to a firm conclusion of how awful video game reviewers are. Sonic 2006 actually got a lot of great reviews despite being a game that looked like it didn't even come out of beta. That's because reviewers were "conditioned" to give long-running popular series like Sonic good reviews no matter what they thought of it. After that game became infamous for being terrible, the reviews for later games were rated worse (worse than '06!) despite being arguably good. Maybe you can excuse Unleashed getting bad reviews for the Werehog gameplay, but Colors was genuinely a return to form that got middling reviews because it still had the stigma of "Sonic games are bad now" on it. However Sonic games started regaining their respect again after that, so when Generations came out the reviews rated it higher, saying that the games had finally gotten good again, when the gameplay was basically on par with Colors and Unleashed's daytime stages. It's moronic.

Video game reviewers don't even bother having their own opinion, they just copy whatever public opinion is, but unfortunately are always behind. Since Lost World and Boom soured the series in people's minds I don't doubt that the reviews for this one will suffer no matter what the quality of it actually is.
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