>>55753539Even tonally, Colors is closer to the classics than what ever the hell was going on in the mid to late 2000s. This notion that they were making fun of themselves constantly in Colors is flat out wrong. The jokes are just standard kids jokes that, sure, may not always land but it's false to claim they were meta outside of the copyright law line. You are confusing the Sonic twitter and Boom cartoon (which is really good btw) with the games. Even Generations, Lost World, and Forces never make jokes about the series. Also, how is Shadow to Black Knight even remotely like the classic games? Even SA2 is tonally and thematically different. Quite a jump from saving woodland animals from capture to government conspiracies and plotting revenge against all of humanity and then changing your mind at the last moment because you remembered what your friend with Space AIDS said.
People who actually grew up with the Genesis games don't ever perpetuate the lie that those games were a natural evolution, only the Adventure and Dark era fans do. I doubt you started in the early 90s with the classic games.
You're dense if you don't see the jump between the Genesis games and the 2000s 3D games in most regards. Even gameplay is mostly different. Only Adventure 1 and 2's speed levels are similar and even then that's only about 1/3rd of the game. Colors was liked because it was just one, solid gameplay style the whole way through.
Last thing, are you one of those fans that downplays the western influence in Sonic's character? He was designed specifically to appeal to Americans. Felix the Cat and Mickey Mouse-like design, villain is a Teddy Roosevelt look-alike. Not to mention, they literally released Sonic 1 in America first for that very reason and to this day, Japan doesn't care nearly as much about Sonic as the west does.
