SonicJPNews archive blog: Sonic Adventure 2
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Showing posts with label Sonic Adventure 2. Show all posts

2020/11/15

Early concept art of Sonic Adventure, Sonic Adventure 2 and Sonic Heroes

News from 2020.11.15. 
Archived on 2021.01.24
 
This year again, Sonic Team of the US took part to the ExtraLife4Kids livestream event and promised some special contents for reaching set goals.

Roger Craig Smith was among many guests who joined the stream, and just in time, Aaron Webber's name suddenly popped up with the ring SFX, informing about the donation he made. How cool!

And so we reached the donation goals all together, getting early concept art of Sonic Adventure, Sonic Adventure 2 and Sonic Heroes! 


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2019/05/05

Maekawa-san on SA2 analysis - "Did SA2 take Sonic's life?"

News from 2019.05.05
Archived on 2019.05.06

Do you like heavy and serious stories for Sonic?

Then you definitely like Maekawa-san's script.

He is the man who wrote scenario&plot for Sonic Adventure 2, Sonic Heroes, Sonic the Hedgehog 2006, and Sonic and the Black Knight, along with his other contributions to the series as game planner and designer.

And today, he stumbled upon a fan's analysis on how Sonic Adventure 2, for it being a masterpiece, "ended Sonic":




Here are my translations and response:



I knew he was joking in his last tweet, but still I felt that he was shocked by hearing this and wanted to encourage him. Because I really love the Sonic scenario he writes and want him back in Sonic Team again for more great stories that give people hope, joy and life lessons.

And even though SA2 was the most successful work in Sonic series, there were many games which came afterwards and had great stories with good balance of comedy and seriousness - incuding Maekawa-san's other works. My top favorites are Sonic World Adventure and the Storybook series (Sonic and the Secret Rings, Sonic and the Black Knight). There are still many games I haven't played, but I hear that Sonic Heroes and Sonic Battle have good stories too.
So even though I partially understand the theory of this fan, I don't agree with it 100%. It's more of the problem of stories from Sonic Colors and on which in some parts lacked the basic essence of character personalities and consistensy as a story. Sure, because I first played Sonic World Adventure and Storybook series and grew up with this cool and caring Sonic, this one would stay as my ideal Sonic. I was also playing Colors a short while later, and thought that story itself is really good - just some of Sonic's lines and his actions in cutscenes were a little too childish compared to the Sonic I met in previous three works. Then Generations came in, with the cool Sonic again but lacking much story. Well, for this one being an anniversary title, I could take it easily. Then Lost World, Boom, and Forces. I had hard time finding the Sonic I knew from few years ago. Sure he had cool moments, but somehow he didn't shine much as a character like before. It's in the story, it's i nthe lines, it's in the actions - all these factors affect a character's impression, And this has changed a lot over the last decade.
It's true that I have hard time accepting Sonic who acts self-centered rather than trying to help others in needs. I do have high ideal of Sonic's character - but so was the depiction of him in the past series  for a very long time. The main points are even written in their character description on official website. And it's been working well. Why did they change it then? Why did they hire somebody who has zero understanding towards Sonic universe as scenario writer?

I hope Sonic Team will have better people for plot and scenario writer who can convey the already establihed personalities of Sonic characters through the game. A game first needs good action, and second they need good stage design, and third, if the game is character-driven, a good story to make players want to continue playing. + great music to make everything better. Sonic Team never fails with the last point, but for other three they sometimes seem to have difficulties with some of them.

Maekawa-san himself has been saying that if he has a chance, he would gladly take the opportunity to write more stories for Sonic series. It would be wonderful if this can be realized.

SEGA, please hire Maekawa-san again for Sonic plots and scenarios! Please---!

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2019/04/18

Maekawa-san on Maria's Adios/Sayonara difference

News from 2019.04.19
Archived on 2019.04.26

Maekawa-san explains this goodbye line of Maria in SA2:

A fan addressed a rumor about the difference of Maria's line between Japanese and English versions that says Maekawa-san changed the line from 'Adios...Shadow the Hedgehog' (Japanese version) to  'Sayonara...Shadow the Hedgehog' (English version) as an homage to Terminator 2's Spanish version and Japanese versions.

Maekawa-san replied as follows:
"For this, I was told that 'adios' in English version would make people think of a Mexican, and also it wouldn't make the line as impressing as it should be, so I changed it to SAYONARA."
- Shiro Maekawa

Interesting that foreign languages in diffrent cultures give different impressions!
Spanish is more foreign than English for Japanese, so it gives stronger impression to us.
It must be different in regions close to Latin America where Spanish is more common.

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2019/04/12

Hiroshi Nishiyama-san re-joined SEGA!

News from 2019.04.11-12
Archived on 2019.04.23

News to Sonic Team in America!
Hiroshi Nishiyama-san, an artist who mainly worked on Sonic series as concept artist and Field Art Director, has re-joined SEGA!


He also joined the official Sonic Streaming and showed his sketchbook filled with concept arts of Sonic Adventure series we know very well!! So cool!!



Let's hope him joining SEGA again will be another good influence to direct Sonic series in new and better way!

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2019/03/19

Senoue-san at LP Listening Room of Technics

News from 2019.03.19
Archived on 2019.03.20

It's the Day of Music in Japan and SEGA official tweeted about Panasonic's Technics Listening Room once again!

Ohtani-san have been here with Aoi Yuuki-san, bringing his Sonic Forces LPs to have an interview.

This time, Senoue-san came here with his Sonic Adventure & Sonic Adventure 2 LPs and had interview!


"The Day of Music.
Have you ever been 'cuddled' in sounds?
If you come to Panasonic's Technics Listening Room with your LPs, you can experience it with the highest quality of sounds! Of course you can bring 'Sonic Adventure's LP!"

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