>>15985276
People were shitting on Sonic before '06. Shadow and Heroes before it both got a lot of flack, and there were also a lot of people shitting on the Gamecube rereleases of Adventure 1 and 2. Heroes and Shadow I think are both okay games, not at all deserving of being called shit, but they're also not great, and Shadow was an easy target, being seen as "edgy" for the sake of it, without seeing that the plot of the game was actually about him learning to not be edgy.
Adventure 1 and 2 were both received extremely well on the Dreamcast, but the Gamecube rereleases, despite being some of the best selling games on the system, got more backlash. I blame the fact that the games were actually older than that, made on a less powerful console, and the rereleases actually made some negative changes. So on a technical level, they could be seen as less technically impressive than a lot of Gamecube games. On a fun level, I think they're excellent regardless. Also, Nintenyearolds still being butthurt over their rival's mascot.
Regardless, Sonic '06 was marketed from the start as "going back to the roots," in response to criticism of the last few games. Heroes and Shadow were definitely away from the roots, with their various gimmicks making them immediately different from a regular Sonic game (even though when you actually play them they play pretty similar). Sonic '06 included enemies and stuff from the earliest games in the series, with redesigns to make them look "realistic" to take advantage of the graphics on the new systems it was being made for. They even just called it "Sonic the Hedgehog," to signify going back to the roots. But it was rushed like hell and suffered terribly for it.
Then lots of people who didn't even play it jumped on the bandwagon and started missing the reasons it was actually bad. Namely the fucking load times, which are always ridiculous, but make the Town Stage missions practically unplayable. The glitches are mostly not the type of things that would actually make it difficult to play the game, but they'd watch compilations on youtube and exaggerate how bad they were. They were there, but didn't make the game "unplayable." Hell, to this day I see people claiming the game is a reboot, which is patently ridiculous, with the story clearly following on from Shadow the Hedgehog. But fuck it, they never even played it.
I lost my train of thought. But in conclusion, Sonic Shuffle is awesome and better than Mario Party. Using the VMU to pick cards instead of rolling dice makes it more than an RNG simulator, which makes it a much better game.
>>15985496
Sonic Adventure 2 is a score attack game, but people don't realize it. The Story Mode is basically just practice. The real meat of the game comes from trying to beat all the extra missions and get A Ranks on every mission. That's when you really get to see its depth and intricacy.
>>15986740
Sonic was always just Goku or any other shonen anime hero. Sonic was always just a shonen anime in video game form, and that's what it should be. The western localizations of Sonic are the ones that were more assholes. Really, the OVA version acts pretty much like the earlier 3D games.
Now where that changes is in/after Unleashed. After '06 they decided the problem wasn't releasing an alpha prototype, it was everything else, from the basic gameplay style to the fact that they had a story. So Unleashed has a lot less plot, but it still has some, and it also focuses on Sonic as a character more than anything before it. But people still got mad about the Werehog, so Sonic Team went all the way and got rid of the story entirely too. And every game since has had no story or characterization to speak of, except for Forces, which was clearly made after they heard of Adventurefags wanting those games back, but nobody who worked on Adventure works there anymore, so they did a quick google search, saw the deviantart fanfiction that everyone makes fun of, and made a game based on that, instead of actually making a story like Adventure, which was just continuing the story of the Genesis games.