Now you know how I feel, Ritz.
I hate Shadow, because he is not what Sonic fans want. I'm not talking about the people who have playen the games since Sonic Adventure, I'm talking about the people who have playen Sonic all of their lives. Sonic Team thinks that we're all skateboarding, Mountain Dew drinking, "Xtreme" badasses. That is not who we are, or what we want. We want good, old-fashioned Sonic the Hedgehog gameplay and style. Not this hedgehog with a gun, in the same boring gamplay we have seen for years. You may think I'm contradicting myself, and you might say "But isn't Sonic the same gameplay we've seen for years?". That may be true, but Sonic Team kept the games creative, original, and most importantly of all, fun.
I have literatly have played Sonic the Hedgehog all of my life. I was born in the same year and month that Sonic the Hedgehog 2 came out in. It was the very first video game I ever played in my life, and my all time favorite. I had some of the best memories of my life playing Sonic 1, 2, and 3. That is because of how fun they were, not how edgy and action-packed they were. I didn't care about anything in video games except how fun they were back then, and I still do.
Just because most gamers who have playen Sonic have grown up, doesn't mean Sonic should, too.