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>The "Sonic R has a terrible OST" meme still persists among some retards today.
It was less a meme and moreso just the reality of the average opinion at the time. When most Sonic fans played R, it was via emulation in the early 2000s, and chances are you had to be a teenager or older to be capable of doing this, so the music was all just dropped on fat, ascerbic manchildren with desktops who thought the only way video game music could be "good" was if it sounded like Duel of Fates and had indiscernible latin chanting laced throughout it. Flowery techno/pop, as much as it suited Sonics OG Japanese image, was simply not the kind of thing the average gamer would enjoy or even tolerate for more than three seconds during that time.

The 2000s was just a horrid time for video game opinions all around. It was the "brown n' bloom" era; the time of Halo, GTA3, and MGS2. As systems became capable of more realistic graphics, anything unironically upbeat or "kiddy" was simply discriminated against as a general rule. Just look at fan reactions to Mario Sunshine or Wind Waker at the time. Sunshine is particularly funny because the Mario series was NEVER "gritty", but the fact that Nintendo was using the extra graphical prowess of the Gamecube to make embrace the bright cartoony-ness of Mario's world just triggered the fuck out of tons of people.

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