And I continue to maintain that's a dumbass comparison on the basis of actual aesthetics (no one has even bothered to do even a half-ass job at screenshot comparison), tone, narrative and surrounding gameplay context, developer pedigree- basically everything that matters when it comes to game development. It would be as much of a dumbass comparison as if Sonic showed up as a cameo, and people were grossed out because Sonic himself is in 06 or, hell, if people used this same reference point to dog Sonic Mania. It's nothing but a childish emotional reaction based in nothing but a decade-old game that isn't even relevant to the franchise it belongs to anymore. Hell, it wasn't even relevant when Unleashed came out. Dumb, dumb, dumb comparisons all around.