SEGA announced quite a while back that it is working on bringing back some of its classic IPs such as Crazy Taxi, Golden Axe, Jet Set Radio and more. In a new interview SEGA president and COO, Shuji Utsumi, said that he can’t wait to see and hear peoples impressions of the finished products. He stated that the development teams have been working carefully to “retain the essence of the original while adapting it to modern tastes.” Here’s what Mr. Utsumi said about the projects via machine translation.
In June, the new Crazy Taxi title, Crazy Taxi: World Tour, greatly excited Sega fans. In addition to Crazy Taxi, we hear you are also developing new titles based on legacy IPs. How is that progressing?
Utsumi: We are currently developing titles such as “[Title of previous title ]” and “[ Title of previous title],” which we have already announced. I can’t give you any details yet, but I’m very much looking forward to them. I would love for longtime fans to give us their honest opinions. At the same time, I would like people who are unfamiliar with the series to see that “Sega makes games like this too.” We will be making sure to retain the essence of the original while adapting it to modern tastes. We are currently developing titles such as Jet Set Radio and Streets of Rage.
By “modern tastes”, they mean GenAI assets, ’cause lately, they’ve been falling in LOVE with it.
Nights is one of them.
We at Sega are proud to introduce to you Green Hill Zone for the seventh time that still uses the same assets from 2011’s Sonic Generations
Don’t be insincere, Sega, you have no desire to hear what long time fans’ opinions are. They’re only looking for that unfamiliar customer that doesn’t know how much the quality has dropped, lol
I really don’t want to support them if they’re going to make games with genAI slop. I won’t be buying crazy taxi. I don’t care if it’s only at one point of development, if I hear any of that was used I’m not buying.
Bring back Big the Cat
He was already brought back in Crossworlds. He didn’t leave.
Not good enough. He needed to be a playable character in Frontiers and Superstars
The reason why sega has been struggling financially is because big the cat isn’t in enough games. The one million people who bought sonic racing crossworlds only bought it to see big the cat. If they made a big the cat game, it would outsell gtA6 in milliseconds.
Which is ironic because a Big the Cat game would play exactly like GTA but your homie is a frog