I'm actually very happy to see Sonic Team returning to elements of a previous game rather than hitting the big red REBOOT button. Playing Wii Unleashed and then Colors seems to be much more of a direct sequel than Heroes, Shadow and '06 ever were. Of course, the difference is that Heroes, Shadow and '06 were better off being scrapped and started from scratch for the next game. Unleashed, however, had done a lot of things right and deserved to be retooled for the next game.
My hope is that in 2011 we get a game that takes what worked in the HD Unleashed and improves on what didn't work.
I disagree, Sonic 06 was designed to be Sonic Adventure 3 and Shadow the Hedgehog had tons of art designed around Sonic Adventure 2 locations. I mean, look at Adventure 1 and 2, not only are they greatly different from one another, but they are not much like the Genesis games either.
As for the general optimism for Sonic Colors, I agree. I just will never like the title or that there is a level full of pastries. What is this? A Mario game?
Also, I hate how the two games are going to have the same title again even though they are largely different games. At least add a subtitle to one of them, better yet change both titles to be something different.
[spoiler:1t5zg0gf]And why make Shitty Rush 3 when everyone would prefer something closer to Sonic the Hedgehog 4 on DS?[/spoiler:1t5zg0gf]