Why is Shadow the Hedgehog such a bad game?

[Yoder]

I enjoyed the game, though it was pretty average on my scale. I dislike the homing jump with a burning passion as it often jets you off the edge of the level without giving you a chance to come back (and its darn slow). Some of the weapons could have had better uses (aside from button-mashing), and a few missions are very difficult (destroying the alien ship and destroying the president's escape vehicle come to mind). Also, some of the leevl's, like Cosmic fall, had you confused as to where to go and what to do next (and where you actually could go that wasn't sealed off by a pathing blocker.

Saying the graphics were od DC quality (and saying it like its a bad thing) is rather silly, becuase both the DC and GC are a part of the same generation of consoles. Also, they possess equal graphical power (regardless of whether DC's was ever fully-explored or not).