Why can't we get a Sonic game with nothing but running? Because Sonic runs too fast...

A snippet from an IGN Three Red Lights podcast, with David Clayman referencing a conversation he had with the Sonic Unleashed team…

“I asked one of the developers at TGS, you know I was like, come on everybody just wants Sonic running, like whats up with the werehog? And he was like, well, heres the deal… he runs at this miles per hour, kilometers per hour, and he laid out all of the statistics on how fast this hedgehog goes, and he was like In order to make a game where Sonic is running and everybody enjoys the whole thing we’d have to design this many miles of level, and it was some ungodly number. And he’s like and that would be like maybe a three hour game and I was like wow, well that kinda stinks and he’s like yeah, so we gotta do this other stuff.”

Hell, all the old games could be beaten in 3 hours or less, and they were awesome. I’ll take a 3 hour fantastic game over a 10 hour sub-par one.

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