Sonic Group studio head Takashi Iizuka needs to make a Sonic the Hedgehog role-playing recreation “in some unspecified time in the future” earlier than he retires from Sega.
In an interview with Good Vibes Gaming, Iizuka was requested if he would work on a Sonic RPG sooner or later, and mentioned he was concerned with doing so and shocked Sonic Group had but to do it.
“Personally, I actually like role-playing video games,” Iizuka mentioned. “The RPG recreation format is a lot of enjoyable, and I’ve even thought to myself, ‘You realize, for the previous 30 years, we have not accomplished a Sonic RPG.’ And I am questioning myself. ‘Why have not we accomplished a Sonic RPG in all this time? How have we gotten to 30 years with no RPGs?!'”
Iizuka mentioned he would “hopefully” get to work on a Sonic RPG earlier than he retires from Sega, however made clear there was nothing “concrete” presently. “So, I might like to hopefully work on a Sonic RPG in some unspecified time in the future earlier than I retire from Sega,” he mentioned. “However , that is simply a dream proper now. There aren’t any concrete plans at this level.”
The one Sonic RPG launched up to now was Sonic Chronicles: The Darkish Brotherhood, a 2008 Nintendo DS recreation. Nevertheless, Mass Impact and Dragon Age developer Bioware labored on the mission and never Sonic Group.
In our assessment of Sonic Chronicles: The Darkish Brotherhood, IGN wrote: “There’s enjoyable to be had, and the sport does decide up after the primary few hours, however we would be shocked to see many DS avid gamers get behind Darkish Brotherhood whereas there are such a lot of superior role-playing video games on the platform. There’s a good design in right here someplace; it is simply misplaced within the shuffle of all of it.”
The closest that Sonic Group received to incorporating RPG-esque parts in a Sonic recreation was the blue hedgehog’s first 3D recreation, Sonic Journey, which carried out some RPG parts. In a cut commentary for Sonic Adventure DX, Iizuka defined that after work on NiGHTs into Desires, he approached Naka, proposing that Sonic Journey needs to be an RPG-style recreation.
Regardless of Sonic Group not making a Sonic RPG, the event studio has labored on role-playing video games together with the aforementioned Nights into Desires and the Phantasy Star On-line sequence.
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