Those familiar with the prior games will get the general gist: characters from both Mario and
Sonic franchises team up to compete in a wide variety of Olympic - related events, while at the same time being wacky and causing hilarity.
Not exact matches
We don't know whether
Sonic's addition will come as a part of a story pack, level pack,
team pack or fun pack and we don't know what additional characters from the
Sonic franchise will also be appearing.
While a far cry from an official announcement or tease,
Sonic Team producer Shun Nakamura expressed explicit interest in making a new entry in the Samba de Amigo
franchise for Nintendo's latest portable console.
From the
team that brought you
Sonic Colors and Generations, comes the next exciting title in the
Sonic franchise,
Sonic Forces.
Unlike some lesser games in the
franchise, there's nothing cynical about
Sonic Forces — I felt like
Sonic Team was doing their best to entertain me every minute I was playing.
After years of people saying the
Sonic the Hedgehog
franchise was dying,
Sonic Team had finally breathed life back into the series.
It seems
Sonic Team has finally listened to fans and been able to improve their standing even among critics of the
franchise.
For the first next - gen outing of Sega's most famous mascot character,
Sonic Team have chosen to return to the name of the first game in the whole
franchise.
Using the name
Sonic the Hedgehog, the title of the glorious 16 - bit debut of the character which came to define two generations of console battles, might initially imply that the
team intends for this to be a much - needed reboot of the series; boiling it down to the absolute basics of what made it good and fun in the first place, stripping away the accumulated weight of years and finding the key elements that drove the
franchise forward in the first place.
Sega
teams up with Cook & Becker and releases the «Official
Sonic the Hedgehog 25th Anniversary Art Book» by celebrating illustrations, promotional artworks, and rare material from the
Sonic the Hedgehog
franchise within its 1991 — 2016 time - span.
They believed that
Sonic Team could deliver one more magical entry into the storied
franchise.
Rob Fahey's 2/10 review of the Xbox 360 version of
Sonic the Hedgehog was a savage indictment of all that has gone wrong with the
franchise since the
Sonic Team was effectively disbanded (though arguably the rot set in soon after 1995's
Sonic and Knuckles).
We don't know whether
Sonic's addition will come as a part of a story pack, level pack,
team pack or fun pack and we don't know what additional characters from the
Sonic franchise will also be appearing.
While
Sonic Team continued to helm a console
franchise that drove hardware throughout the Dreamcast era, handheld
Sonic was out on its own a bit earlier, justifying an existence that didn't push first - party technology.
SEGAbits and
Sonic Retro
team up to bring you a podcast focused on SEGA's new
Sonic Boom
franchise!
It's unfortunate too seeing how much the
franchise has been associated by
Sonic Team and their
Sonic titles over the years.
When
Sonic Generations was released last year, I remember talk from
Sonic Team explaining that Generations was something of a bookend or capstone to the entire
franchise and that things would be different from there on.
What are your thoughts if
Sonic Team themselves can produce another game in the
franchise for the Switch?
At that point it seemed
Sonic Team had got their act together and found a formula for
Sonic that worked in 3D, though soon after
Sonic Team seemingly reverted back to their ways of old by introducing
Sonic Lost World, and giving more focus to the
Sonic Boom
franchise, even though the only successful part of that is the TV show.
So the idea is that the
team will discuss the future of
Sonic, which is kind of weird because 2017 was suppose to be the big change for the
Sonic the Hedgehog
franchise.