Sonic Boom + The New Sonic Cast?

Reboot the series all you want ok, but why change the character designs? They had the perfect bend of cutery and badassery, they were just perfect. Is there anyone out there that can say there was a flaw in the designs used in all previous games, seriously?

Now Tails looks ok, but Knuckles is horrendous, Sonic isn't far off with his oversized legs and torso and even Amy looks bad with that stick body that doesn't match the other 2. Heck the fawk is wrong with the head of the new character? its like a boomerang itself.

This reminds me of Crash bandicoot when it was sold over to valve. A lot of similar changes were made to the whole franchise that ended up burying the character forever.

Wow, this design conversation was past old. Also, I believe they were going for the oversized pigtails look for Sticks.