Sonic Team boss Takashi Iizuka has stated thatSonic the Hedgehog‘s older fans are a tough audience, and that trying to keep them happy while providing gameplay innovations has always been a problem. He’s hopingSonic Generationswill fix that, though.
“Our team are always trying to present new gameplay innovations so it’s hard to please fans who like the gameplay from the older games,” he told ONM. “However, we have included the older gameplay as part of Sonic’s 20th Anniversary, so we think the fans of the older games will enjoy it [Generations] as well. We are also looking into continuing theSonic 4series which was released on WiiWare, and we’ll keep developing titles so more fans will enjoy the games.”
While I think some of the hardcore fans out there areimpossibleto please (the kind of psychos who doreally longYoutube videos comparingSonic 2andSonic 4‘s rolling physics), I don’t think it’s too tough to satisfy the majority of older fans. Just make a game that, y’know, doesn’t completely suck.
Iizuka: ‘It’s hard to please old Sonic fans’[ONM]
