Yea, saying EVERY sonic game in the past few years was awful is a huge exaggeration.
Like Carc said, Secret Rings was great, and I found heroes to be enjoyable. Shadow the Hedgehog was a failed experiment(I remember the poll on sega's stie asking "which sonic character you would like to see have their own game?". I answered Knuckles. >_>) Adventures was meh.
Handhelds were all excellent though. Don't see how you can complain about those.
Riders…...was actually fun 4 player. XD
I wouldn't let shadow ruin sonic completely.
and this being on the DS makes me more confident it will be a reaction type RPG like superstar saga.
Loving this since sonic characters can be given more of a variety of attacks than mario and luigi, and I personally like sonic better.