Official 
post (which disavows Roger Craig Smith)
Seriously why. Sonic and the Black Knight was the last one and it was also the last time you could beat the final boss to a kickaas buttrock theme song. Why don't we have this anymore?
Yea...........
To me Forces is the end of a trilogy comprised of it, Colours and also Lost World, which, there are game elements of Lost World I like but holy shit why are these games so drained of charm??? Like what happened to the studio that used to make Shadow the Hedgehog and stuff??