Sonic Unleashed Blog Updated

IGN’s Sonic Unleashed blog was updated today giving us our second look at the inner workings of Sonic Unleashed and you’re really going to want to check this one out. Yoshihisa Hashimot, Sonic Unleashed Project Manager speaks candidly about his thought process in trying to unleash the ‘true’ Sonic The Hedgehog.

Seemingly as frustrated as the rest of us at Sonic’s recent dip in quality Yoshihisa Hashimot quielty planned a revolution from the start;

I kept asking myself “Is this the Sonic that fans really want to see?” It looked to me that Sonic was a bit restrained. I could hear his cry; “I want to run faster! I want to run freely!” For years to come as I worked steadily to build my career at Sonic Team for Sega, I kept my belief that “the true Sonic the Hedgehog could be even better!”

The blog entry goes on to talk about the best uses of 2D and 3D action, how some of Sonic’s new moves were thought up and even some insight into the inner workings of the Hedgehog Engine. One thing that Yoshihisa Hashimot is quick to stress is that this isn’t a nostalgic look back at the older 2D Sonic games but actually the ultimate Sonic game released thus far.

I’ve been asked a lot of times if “Sonic is going back to its roots” in interviews. My answer is always “No.” Sonic Unleashed still retains the spirit from his Genesis days, which is his origin. But it’s only one of the many amazing qualities of Sonic Unleashed. We are learning from and taking good bits from his origin but we are not “going back” at all. And actually, I wanted to “go beyond” the origin.

Judging by the heated comments that have been left on various stories about Unleashed here at TSSZ, opinion about this game is as divided as the gameplay is between Sonic and the Werehog. Oddly talk of the Werehog has been avoided in this blog entry all together.