Rev Up Those Sonic Cycles

[Clutch]

Before I retort Clutch, I need to clarify something the team behind Sonic Adventure and Sonic Adventure 2 were they two different teams or the same team?

As I understand it, Sonic Adventure was made by Sonic Team in Japan. Sonic Adventure 2 was made by "Sonic Team USA", started by a few members of the old Adventure team (including Iizuka) who relocated to California. Supposedly it was handled that was so that the Japanese team could focus on making non-Sonic titles while someone else kept the franchise alive (it's also why so many SA2 levels look like San Fransisco).

I hear you and Koops plea, but think about it logically the only way to make modern have more freedom we'd be going back to Adventure and with the current track record that'd probably be the best improvement. I stand behind the game dev team though, because if I was going back to Adventure I'd have to make the worlds 2 times bigger and I'd need more time to develop more ideas on how to make Modern able to venture pretty much everywhere in 3D space without reducing his velocity.

He shouldn't come to a dead stop, but his speed doesn't have to be consistent. Plus when they make a game like Unleashed, that's still a big world: the justification for the Werehog was that they had to pad out the game, because Sonic's Day levels took up too much space to make more of, but they didn't last long enough to justify a full game.

I understand perfectly and I feel the same way, I'd rather have awesome exploration AND speed not one over the other, but I don't see from what they currently have with modern is a bad thing. In fact since the first Greenhill Zone it's always been very basic and easy to speed through, maybe the exploration get's more major for Modern in later levels? I think it'd be best to wait and see another Modern Zone before we start finding faults.

Maybe. If nothing else I hope levels like Speed Highway (probable) and City Escape (pretty much confirmed via news of the remix) don't have any less freedom than they originally did.

...Except maybe during the Truck sequence. That was funny for being off-the-wall and ridiculous, but you shouldn't be expected to navigate obstacles you can't even see ahead of you.