The Sonic Stadium sat down with Sonic Team’s Takashi Iizuka to talk all things Sonic Lost World. You can find a roundup of his comments below.
– Prototypes for different geometries and stages started during Sonic Generations
– Development therefore began about 2.5 years ago
– Morio Kishimoto (Sonic Colors) is directing the Wii U version
– Heido Bayashi (Colors DS) is directing the 3DS version
– Tomoya Ohtani (Sonic Unleashed) is composing
– The gadgets you use to help Sonic are from Tails, not Eggman
– Sonic X-Treme didn’t influence Lost World
– 60 FPS
– Deadly Six are a new set of creatures never encountered before called “Zeti”
– They live in a unexplored area of Sonic’s world “Lost Hex” and Eggman is trying to force them to work with him and he loses control of them and he has to team up with Sonic to try and take them out
– Nintendo exclusivity allows the team to take advantages of a second screen and Sonic has done well on Nintendo platforms
– Single-player is GamePad only
– One person controls the Pro Controller in multiplayer
– Iizuka understands some of the Galaxy comparisons, but believes people will understand that it feels and moves like a Sonic game when they play it
