You may remember that Sonic Superstars, a new 2.5D Sonic game, was officially announced by SEGA at Summer Game Fest just a couple of days ago. Since then, details about the new Sonic game have been gradually coming in from various gaming media outlets throughout the day today.
Well, we’ve learned some significant news from Sonic Team boss Takashi Iizuka tonight. Iizuka confirmed that Arzest are the ones developing the game. If that name sounds familiar to you, that’s because Arzest is the team behind Yoshi’s New Island, Hey! Pikmin and Balan Wonderworld. Arzest’s president is the original character designer for Sonic the Hedgehog, Naoto Ohshima.
As for the music, the music director is Jun Senoue. However, Iizuka mentions that he isn’t working on the game’s music alone. According to Iizuka, Senoue is “working with internal teams at Sega to create music in that classic Sonic vibe and he’s also working on some external teams such as Tee Lopes who helped out on Sonic Mania”.
ARZEST???? Bro wtf? The studio that gave us Yoshi’s New Island, Hey Pikmin and the developers for the Giant Bowser battles in the Inside Story Remake is making this??? Man that just shot my expectations
They also gave us Balan Wonderworld.
The studio that developed the worst yoshi’s island?!!!
superstars should’ve been developed by Dimps.
superstars? gamespot uploaded some gameplay and it looks more like super grind rails!
Takashi Iizuka. Give us a sonic game where we can play as shadow or port adventure, adventure 2, heroes, shadow the hedgehog or riders to nintendo switch. Port a sonic advance game so I can play as cream the rabbit.
Love how everyone here is $hitting on the developers because of the games they made back in the day. This doesn’t look nearly as bad as Yoshi or Pikmin and i more blame Yuji Naka and Square for Balan than anyone else. Naoto Oshima’s Art was the best part of that game.
I also find it funny that Oshima gets to work on Sonic again, while Naka is in prison XD. Damn lol.
Honestly, everything I’ve read has actually made me feel even more hype for this game; I don’t know why people are being so negative