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>But of course Colors and Gens were the ones everyone salivated over so we've been stuck with that shit for the longest time.
Honestly Generations deserves the praise. It refined everything Unleashed built upon, even though the latter still does a few things better.
Colors' success was 100% because people were tired of gimmicky Sonic games though. I understand but it really was a step down in every single way, except art direction.