Sega Announces new 2D Sonic title

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By the way you did here about this right?

http://gonintendo.com/viewstory.php?id=114998

Um...


This is the same guy that directed Sonic Heroes, Shadow the Hedgehog and NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams FYI. He is often credited for doing straightforward level designs and overuse of dashpads in the games he's in, with the exception of Sonic 3 because he was just one of the senior level design directors, not the only one. As far as I remember, there were 3 or 4 senior level designers in Sonic 3, including Hirokazu Yasuhara which always was a senior level designer in all classic Genesis Sonic games (and Sonic R).

Still, even on Sonic 3 you can tell some really straightforward level design bits that were probably made by him. Luckily they are very few and far in between the large exploration of the level design, in a way that they're actually somewhat a nice addition instead of a bad one.

Even though it is Iizuka, I still have high hopes that he won't screw up with this. He probably is the oldest member on Sonic Team there (considering the original trio of Sonic Team; Hirokazu Yasuhara, Naoto Oshima and Yuji Naka left) and if he's still there being an important member of Sonic Team, even after doing such horrible games as Shadow the Hedgehog, he still must be really good at something there.