Sonic Superstars Was Almost Made By The Mania Team
It has been a weekend filled with big video game news between Summer Game Fest's opening night, today's Xbox Showcase, and everything in between. Sonic Superstars was one of the weekend's early surprises, an all-new 2D sidescroller starring the blue blur launching later this year. The bad news is the team behind Sonic Mania isn't the one working on Superstars.
Sonic Team's Takashi Iizuka told VGC at Summer Game Fest that despite speaking with the Mania team about the future of 2D Sonic, plans to have it work on the next game fell through. There's a silver lining though, and it's a pretty significant one. While the developers behind Mania haven't worked on Superstars, one of the minds behind the very first Sonic game has.
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“I’m friends with a lot of my old coworkers and I was having a conversation with [Naoto] Ohshima-san about how we should make a Sonic game together,” Iizuka explained. “He’s the original creator of Sonic the Hedgehog, and so we had a conversation about whether his company Arzest would be interested in working on a Sonic game .”
Ohshima was interested in working on a Sonic game, and Arzest, along with Sega's Sonic Team are the studios behind Sonic Superstars. Exciting stuff as not only did Ohshima work on the original Sonic game and Sonic CD, but he also designed some of the iconic levels in that very first game. Suffice to say, even though no old levels will be returning for the new game, it's going to give off significant retro Sonic vibes.
It's not only the return of Ohshima that will ensure that. Iizuka confirmed in the same interview that Jun Senoue has been working on Superstars too. Senoue was a composer for Sonic 3 and has
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