SGF23: Sonic Superstars interview with Takashi Iizuka

Gamertag Radio

Other Games, Video Games, Leisure, Games

4.2 • 523 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

🔗️ Recording | Apple Podcasts | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

My Interview with Sonic Team Creative Officer, Takashi Iizuka about Sonic Superstars.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Ladies and Jim, gentlemen.
0:03.0	This is GamerTag Radio with your host, Danny Peña, Paris Lily, and Peter Toledo.
0:09.0	Hi, I'm a creative officer.
0:13.0	Hi, my name is Takashi Izuka.
0:15.0	I'm the creative officer.
0:17.0	Awesome.
0:18.0	So, first of all, thank you for having us a conversation here, man.
0:22.9	I'm very excited to see Sonic Superstars, was not expecting the game to be announced at all.
0:29.5	Very different than the previous 2D games from you guys.
0:33.9	Why this change?
0:34.9	Why 2D?
0:36.5	And also adding all the new elements in the game too, all the new features?
0:40.3	Last year, this, modern Sonic series,
0:45.3	on Sonic Frontier, a big evolution,
0:48.3	but this year, this is, this is a 2D side-scroll classic Sonic
0:55.0	to make up to jump up so that this project,
0:59.0	this project started.
1:01.0	Last year, we had a great evolution in the modern Sonic series with Sonic Frontiers.
1:09.0	And this year we really wanted to take the 2D side-scrolling gameplay
1:12.6	and really jump it up and take it to the next level.
1:15.6	So I know there's new mechanics, game mechanics,
1:19.6	where I could select water and I think like spikes and stuff like that.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Gamertag Radio, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Gamertag Radio and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.