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One last note towards the more... aggressive '06 critics; the game's 20th anniversary is next year. The blinding hatred I once had for the series during the 2010s is something I no longer feel the need to hold onto. Maybe it's time we all let go of the same for '06 too? (10/10)

Is it annoying that some fans use P-06 to defend or overlook retail '06's problems? Sure. But it shouldn't invalidate the praise they have for ideas '06 always had. Why else would so many be invested in a remake that takes said ideas and fully realises them for the better? (9/10)

By all means, don't stop debating the merits and flaws of individual titles, but I think it's unconstructive to just dismiss fans praising a game that was critically-panned 19 years ago as "revisionism" that's somehow going to cause harm to the entire franchise. (8/10)

If the fanbase were to agree on some kind of compromise, I think it should be this: If another fan praises a game we hate or inversely criticises a game we love, all the while not attacking or rage-baiting anyone who may disagree, we should just accept it and move on. (7/10)

I confess, I engaged in this sort of behaviour all the time in the 2010s. Colours, Lost World and Forces were games I treated as cartoonish boogeymen I couldn't help but take stabs at whenever I made a positive observation for older, more critically-derided Sonic games. (6/10)

I suppose problems arise when, in the act of giving praise to game of such infamy, the fan in question fires back against any and all legitimate criticism, or more worrying, uses their praise as backhanded mudslinging against newer Sonic games. (5/10)

The re-evaluation of entertainment is nothing new and will continue for any piece of media that received nothing but scorn and ridicule when it was first released; the Star Wars prequels, John Carpenter's The Thing, and yes, Sonic '06. (4/10)

If a dead horse has been kicked for so long it's nothing more than a pile of atoms, it's only natural for someone to stand up and say "you know what? I liked X for Y reasons". (3/10)

I think on a general level, fans praising '06, for whatever reason, can only be viewed as harmless. I've always believed there's more to gain from acknowledging the things the game did right than to parrot the same criticisms reviewers have spouted for almost 2 decades. (2/10)

3. I honestly feel like I'm losing my mind.