>>56598134I feel like game journos wanted to finally have that one lynchpin moment to try and squash most platformer/"childish" mascot characters so they could try and force the industry into movieshit so film/book/play critics wouldn't laugh at them nonstop. And Sonic 06 (especially with The Kiss(tm) happening) was the perfect moment for them to run with it and hope they could remove the game out of the actual video game just so they could pretend they didn't get blown out at film school.
