The First Level of Sonic games notes

Sonic Adventure is not even good

27:37 "Instead, Sonic is just one of the most horribly mismanaged franchises in history"

29:02 "we see a shift to a light-hearted, self-aware Sonic who couldn't be more of a far cry from the surreal, adolescent angst of games past"

Sonic Unleashed's opening track (Windmill Isle) is really good

Sonic Lost World = Super Sonic Galaxy except bad?!

37:10 [on Sonic Boom] "But it's arguably the most incomplete triple-A game launched since Sonic '06, and the fact that the Sonic name can even carry those titles speaks volumes for how lowly SEGA regards its most popular brand"
"Their incessant demand for reboots, cranked out fast by developers who haven't proven their competency and don't even have the time or assets to, repeatedly ended with the fracturing of teams and the cheapening of the brand. After Shadow, the damage was done: critics could no longer take Sonic seriously again."

39:05 "And when you get down to business, Sonic's not about playing well: Sonic is about the politics of marketing."