Bad analogy fallacy.  Can't compare 2 characters that aren't alike.  Sonic and Shadow are two different characters while a gun and sword are two different weapons.  Not to mention building on the premise that just because Shadow the Hedgehog was a bad game for other reasons than just having a gun is hasty generalization of Sonic and the Black Knight which you obviously haven't played. 

All I said is that Sonic and the Black Knight was reviewed badly because people thought it was more of hack and slash which it wasn't.  It was a fast paced Sonic game where the only downside was is you would have to slice up some enemies and slow yourself down.

I also find it extremely comical that IGN reviewed Sonic Unleashed only .3 higher (4.5) than they did the abortion that was Sonic the Hedgehog (4.2).

you kno its the cool thing nowadays to hate SONIC... SONIC06 and Unleshed shouldn't be in the same sentence..though i actually enjoyed 06

I loved this game on the Wii. The daytime levels were very straightforward and a ton of fun.

"I also find it extremely comical that IGN reviewed Sonic Unleashed only .3 higher (4.5) than they did the abortion that was Sonic the Hedgehog (4.2)."

The game was released. Hence it was not aborted.

"Abomination" may have been the word he was looking for.

it was good in my opinion lol

ever since sega left the consoule race sonic games suck the big one.

I still find those words really out of place. Even as hyperbole, these are about video games.

Sonic unleashed is no doubt a step in the right direction

As I see it, the werehod is the bad side of 3D sonic, and the Sonic levels are the good side. Now that they have extracted the werehog from Sonic, all they need to do is to kill the werehog and Sonic will be good again^^