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PostPosted: January 6th, 2009, 1:43 am 
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Credit to Alvin Flummux over at GRCade for spotting this story...

tssznews.com has an interesting article, with sources and links, about a blogger who years ago, seemed to have more insight regarding Nights: Journey of Dreams than anyone else.

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In particular, it reveals an internal strife between Sonic Team and Sega of Japan, highlighted by the fact that NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams was originally developed as an Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 title - going so far as to say he (Ben Andac) played an Xbox 360 build of NiGHTS at one point. Upon witnessing the overnight success of the Wii, Sega of Japan apparently forced Sonic Team to retool the game for Nintendo’s lower-spec platform, something its producer (Takashi Iizuka) was not happy about. Despite the shift in platform, the game’s fast-approaching release date and limited development budget remained firmly unchanged, giving Sonic Team roughly one year to rebuild NiGHTS exclusively for the Wii (when most games typically take two years or more to develop).


The story gets more interesting. In the blogger's tirade, he went on to mention the mechanics of Sonic Unleashed, a year before they were made public.

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“Sonic Team are a relic from a past age who have overstayed their welcome. For the same marketing reasons that their name was initially kept (and has since backfired) they should be dissolved - it may already be too late for NiGHTS (and I really hope it isn’t and they manage to turn it around, which with Iizuka-san’s passion for the project is a possibility), but for the good of the company’s image; for the future of Sega’s other prestigious IPs and lastly for its iconic mascot it needs to be done… before they release another Sonic game with a transforming Evil ‘Night’ Sonic who looks like a werewolf and can stretch his arms out Dhalsim-style. It will happen, mark my words.“


After publishing said comment, the blog suffered a quick mass-deletion of posts, and was then replaced with:

[quote]The sidebar of his blog now contains a typical “My opinions are my own and do not reflect upon my employer, and I will not discuss my job with youâ€

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After having seen Phantasy Star Universe and such, yeah, downhill it is. I haven't played any Sonic games since SA2, which was mildly played at most.

The news about NiGHTS is jsut disheartening though. Proof of money being the end point, and the least amount of work possible being what they are willing to give anymore.

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maybe if sega had listened to good advice they would be where they where in the early 90's. put the dead horse down, stop beating it.

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Wait... I thought it was already understood that Sonic Team was (and has been) garbage for some time now.

And Fey, DON'T play anything past SA2. For the love of all that is holy, stay away. And btw... Unleashed was a freaking ruin. So far I haven't found one single person to say that game was good. I was watching the episode of Noobtoob that featured Sonic Unleashed and they made that damn statment that everyone else makes, "This was suppose to be the game to bring back the franchise."

... facepalm ...

I had to do <a href="http://www.noobtoob.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11099&start=0">something.</a> (I used a pic Ix posted way back when.)

Anyway, I think that, "before they release another Sonic game with a transforming Evil ‘Night’ Sonic who looks like a werewolf and can stretch his arms out Dhalsim-style. It will happen, mark my words" was funny as hell. I mean, they areally are scraping at the bottom of the bucket and it shows. But people will always buy these games for some unknown reason. And with that money, Sega will continue to make them.

Only we can stop this...

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