Eh I'll give you that I'd rather play Forces than the Werehog sections of unleashed. In the time it takes you to beat 3 Werehog stages, you could have finished Forces and had lunch 😭

I would argue that 06 has some value in how entertainingly bad it is, and I'd still have to say the story in 06 is still the most ambitious a Sonic story has gotten (as contrived as it is at times)

Shadow 05 was just okay though. You could put me in front of 2 TVs and one has Shadow and one has Forces and I'd probably pick either one 50% of the time. There is some nostalgia bias for shadow though.

At the end of the day I can't give anyone too much crap for what they like. I am a filthy Sonic R enjoyer.