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At a secret booth at this year’s Tokyo Game Show, a Sonic Team representative gave us a rare look at how modern 3D Sonic games are made. Their latest effort, Sonic Unleashed, features Sonic as a werehog slowly combating enemies in an outdoor European café. No joke. They must have played the original Sonic games and said “this is fun, but what if we made it slower, clunkier, hairier, and more European?” Thus, Sonic Unleashed was born. Before being taken backstage by Sega (who has been taking Sonic fans in the backstage since the mid 90s), we mumbled to ourselves, “do these idiots have a giant wheel where they come up with all these terrible ideas?” Lo and behold, we were right on the money!
The appropriately titled “Destroy Sonic Super Wheel” has been responsible for many Sonic advancements over the years, such as atrocious camera, awful faux-metal soundtracks, boring sub-plots featuring his shitty friends, and even Richard Simmons. The brain-melting image of Shadow the Hedgehog riding a motorcycle while firing guns into the sunset can also be chalked up to the fateful wheel.
When asked how they came up with the idea for a wheel, Sega noted that it originally came from a dartboard full of inventive concepts about how to properly execute a device that could be used to conceive future Sonic the Hedgehog games.
More on this story as it draws the shortest straw with its name on it out of a hat being held by the 21st finger that flipped a quarter.
1 comment 
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10.15.2008 ,
at 10:06 am
Come oooooon Big the Cat!
