Quote Originally Posted by The Glyphstone View Post
How terrible, exactly, is the average Sonic game? Say, on a scale from Superman 64 to Battletoads.
Eh, they're too all over the map to have an average. A few of the past couple of decades have been actually somewhat good, like Sonic Generations or Sonic Adventure 2 - just not as good as you'd want for what's supposed to be a big AAA franchise.

But on the other hand you have things ranging from Sonic and the Black Knight, which is a mediocre at best game with an odd premise, down to Sonic '06, which is at times a nearly unplayable mess on top of having a weird story that romantically paired Sonic with a human girl. Or there's Sonic Unleashed, where Sonic becomes a Werewolf - or Werehog, as the game insists on calling it despite him clearly having wolf-like features in that form - which IIRC played like an awkward Prince of Persia ripoff during the night segments, but on the other hand the day segments in it where you play as normal Sonic were the first sign of them finding ways to make him work again in 3D and later became the basis for the gameplay of Sonic Colors and Generations, two of the better games. Or there was Sonic and the Secret Rings, which was a Wii title with terrible motion controls that rendered it a massive pain in the ass to even try to play.

Yeah, it's pretty hard to find an average when the games basically jump around the entire "not good" spectrum.