Actually, I never liked Knuckles, even at the beginning. As a game, I had some fun with Sonic Adventure 2, but the fact that there were so many things wrong with it, and because it strayed too far from the original formula, irritated me. I saw the fall start with Sonic Adventure 2. Others saw the fall start with Sonic Heroes. I guess I lowered my dissapointment bar one game earlier than everyone else. Anyways, I think that Sonic and the Secret Rings is equivilent to Sonic Heroes, which isn't a good thing. You liked it, but many others did not, or at least not as much as the better Sonic games. I mean, it got around 70% in www.gamerankings.com, which is around what Sonic Heroes got, so that tells you something. A true Sonic game never gets reviews below 80%. Because Sonic and the Secret Rings did not get above 80%, it is considered, by many, to be one of the dissapointing games. If only Sonic went down with Sega, than none of this crap would have ever happened. Well, Sonic Adventure 2 would still exist, but at least none of the other, worse games that soon followed.







