Sonic Superstars is taking a special strategy to the story, together with with new enemy journey. The builders behind the sport have now given perception into its creation.
Sonic Crew artistic officer Takashi Iizuka instructed Recreation Informer that the crew “needed to have a brand new story,” which required a brand new character. It was additionally necessary to have an enemy “with some type of distinctive traits, some character backgrounds, some storytelling parts which are going to make the character distinctive and stand out and be a personality that individuals can type of relate to and empathize with and revel in as a personality on the earth”.
Iizuka stated:
“When talking with (Naoto) Ohshima-san about making a brand new recreation collectively, we needed to have a brand new story,” Iizuka says. “We considered, properly, what story can we’ve got? What characters are going to be there? And the way’s this all going to play out? As we had been speaking about that, we actually felt we wanted a brand new character for the story – we wish to introduce a brand new character. And we don’t simply wish to have a personality with no background with nothing occurring that’s simply going to ‘boop’ pop up on the earth. We actually wish to present a personality with some type of distinctive traits, some character backgrounds, some storytelling parts which are going to make the character distinctive and stand out and be a personality that individuals can type of relate to and empathize with and revel in as a personality on the earth, not simply because they’re there, however as a result of they imply one thing to the world.”
Iizuka went on to say that Sonic video games have a whole lot of “in your face” enemies. Nevertheless, for Sonic Superstars and Journey, “we needed to do one thing completely different.”
Concerning working with collectively on the brand new character, Ohshima and Iizuka stated:
“We despatched visuals backwards and forwards and had an ongoing dialogue about what the character ought to be like. Concepts got here up for the character’s actions and themes, like an armored lizard and the ouroboros. I labored on the design whereas discussing the concepts with Iizuka-san.”
“If you have a look at her, clearly she’s coated in armor, and the explanation why she’s coated in armor within the recreation is the bottom of her character is a sungazer lizard in English. In Japanese, it’s extra direct – it’s actually ‘armored lizard’ in Japanese. However the sungazer is that animal that was being referenced for the deign of Journey.”
Sonic Superstars might be on Change this fall.