personally i don't actually like beating games outside of the mario series. and even then there are some i don't like to beat. Mainly because the sense of closure it gives. I'd rather just imagine how it happened. It also saved me from the heartbreak of the Journey of Dreams "True Ending" obtained by A ranking every mission. Until i looked it up on youtube and found out that
I cried for weeks over him. That's also what i would have done at the end of SA2B if i hadn't played heroes before seeing the ending.
i don't get why people hate it as much as they do. Okay so the treasure hunting sections are pretty bad and rouge seems to be unlikable to most people. I've seen worse characters, but i can dig it. The levels with sonic and shadow were great. And Shadow was a good anti hero, until the "canon" shadow the hedgehog bullshit of him losing his memories and being rewritten as a character that exists only to exist. Just like the role Knuckles played in shadow the hedgehog.
Sega, if you read this, give Shadow back his memories and put him back like he was and maybe i won't burn your house down D:<