Sega admits Sonic is falling

[Koopaul]

A character's design has very little to do with a game's genre. Same goes with story and atmosphere. This is like a VG stereotype that games that have in-depth stories and deep characters have to be in RPG's or that colorful innocent characters can't be put in an action game.

Someday I'm gonna stick some badass anime-looking characters in a pointless party game in spite of this... Only not really.