I forgot to point out that the newest issue of Game Informer has an article called Where Sonic Went Wrong. It talks about how the sonic franchise has fallen, why, and how it's trying to build itself back up. I must admit I wasn't a fan of the game where Shadow had a gun and rode a motorcycle or the game that Sonic turns into a werehog. Even the game that Sonic was wielding a sword seemed like a strange idea.
But I did learn some interesting things from the article. For instance the reason Sonic Adventure 1 had 6 stories and Sonic Adventure 2 told only 2 stories was due to the fact that the team behind the sonic games was cut back from 120 people to 11.