>>41470929Nah dude, at the very least sonic fans have an excuse because Sega is always trying to reinvent the wheel and sometimes they land on gold like Rush, Colors, Gens and Mania.
Pokemon fans have had to slowly watch GF pump out the same game since gen 6 only they remove significant chunks along the way without adding anything of worth or actually improving the game.
I mean, imagine this Sega makes Sonic 3K, then they make Sonic 3K 2.5 and then they have Sonic 4 (good version) and sonic 4.5.
Then they make Sonic 5 which is just Sonic 1 enemies over again with an exact copy of green hill with no changes or addition to the level design and the only new mechanic is Darkspine sonic which you can only use after you beat the third stage. It also runs at half the framerate.
Then there's Sonic 6 all level design is now just literally holding down right and pressing jump every once in a while Darkspine is still there but its the exact same and postgame only. Sonic's new move is the lightspeed attack but in 2d and it wipes out every enemy in a stage when it's used. The level design for every stage screams Green Hill or Emerald Hill, insta shield is gone, Tails can't fly again and knuckles isn't playable anymore.
Now you have sonic 7. First stage is traditional Sonic then it goes to a hub stage from advance 3 as a one act stage to itself and the rest of the game is traditional sonic.
Darkspine and light speed is gone replaced with NSMBs mega mushroom.
Insta shield doesn't come back and Tails still can't fly. The antagonist is Dr. NOTabadguytotally and he wants to save South Island from eggman's reckless use of emeralds which will affect the world 1000 years later so he summons shadow who fucks shit up before you befriend him. Oh yeah and shadow's level is green hill
All the while the sonic people who grew up with sonic is praising every game from sonic 5 onwards.
That's what it would be like if sonic were like Pokemon.
