Sega talks about Sonic 4 problems.

Sonic 4 was Sonic's return to it's classic gameplay style but not everyone enjoyed it as Sega thought they would.


In our review of Sonic 4 we talked about how Sonic wasn't what it was back in the day even though there was a lot of hype for it's return to classic side scrolling. The controls were bad and Sonic didn't really respond to the users command. In a talk with Iizuka-san's he said:

"In this title, we have not done a straight port of the gameplay [from the Genesis games], but rather updated it with actions which could not be done in the previous titles, like ceiling-running. These changes probably made for a different feel to the longtime Sonic fans. We’re happy for feedback like this, and we'll make sure we can improve the quality even further in upcoming titles."

Sonic 4 was a nice try but it wasn't up to par with the classic Sonic style of gameplay. Sonic 4 is an episodic game and Episode 2 should be arriving later next year, hopefully Sega could fix all these issues before release and Episode 1 could be fixed with an update but at this time the game is what it is. You either love it or hate it.

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