GRTV: Vi snackar nya Sonic med Big Red Button

Bob Rafei har både Crash Bandicoot och Jak & Daxter på sin meritlista från den tid han jobbade hos Naughty Dog. Nu jobbar han med att förnya Sonic the Hedgehog hos Big Red Button i och med Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric, och vi fick chansen att prata om just detta med honom. Bland annat fick vi veta hur de ska undvika att göra andra figurer än Sonic tråkiga att spela med:

"The goal was to make sure that the other three characters [apart from Sonic] were just as compelling. So all the changes that we've done to the characters and all the modifications to support our character adventure story so that way when you run to the controller and the first kid is picking up Sonic the other kids are not disappointed cause they have to pick Amy or Knuckles or Tails."

Sonic Team själva jobbar med egna projekt, men har enligt Rafei varit ytterst hjälpsamma och ändå bidragit till Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric:

"The advantage of working with Sega and Sonic Team is that they have been living with this franchise for 20 years. They really understand it. Sonic Team in particular. So when we were looking at where's our boundaries of how far do we go to make modifications, Sonic Team were very instrumental to...

First of all, they were very open minded in all the changes that we were looking to do, the modifications. And eventually we found the guardrails that would be part of our exploration of what makes Sonic no longer a Sonic experience. And we found that out by the wacky ideas that we put on the table and ultimately what you see today was a combination of all the things that we felt were within the Sonic DNA, but tweaked in a slightly different way to give you a different kind of experience."

Vill du veta mer om Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric rekommenderar vi denna hjärtliga intervju som är smockfylld med godsaker från kottens underbara värld.