Why Sega didn't try making a Sonic game inspired by Kirby and the Forgotten Land?

[Ikagura]

Literally the first true 3D Kirby game and it was a successful transition to 3D.

To better illustrate what I meant here's an old Robo Blast 2 mod: https://youtu.be/k4E77qUXZAE

[Sixtyfivekills]

Because Sonic had a successful transition to 3D with Sonic Adventure, simple.

[Princess Luna]

Dude yo should get a job in Sega

[Duckilous]

Originally posted by Princess Luna:

Dude yo should get a job in Sega

No, you really don't want them to.

[Princess Luna]

Originally posted by Duckilous:

Originally posted by Princess Luna:

Dude yo should get a job in Sega

No, you really don't want them to.

Yes i was kidding

[Duckilous]

Originally posted by Princess Luna:

Originally posted by Duckilous:

No, you really don't want them to.

Yes i was kidding

I probably should've seen that one coming.

[NBOX21]

Because they didn't need to, plain and simple.
I don't want Sonic to be a Kirby clone just like how I don't want Sonic to be a Mario clone.
I just want Sonic to be Sonic.

Also, as mentioned above, we already had a successful 3D formula for Sonic, it's called Sonic Adventure. Yet Sonic Team for some reason refuses to go back to this winning formula that so many people adored back in 1998 and still do to this day.

[Ashura]

I think the more important detail to mention here is that Kirby and the Forgotten Land literally came out this year. Even if SEGA / Sonic Team were going to make a game inspired by it, it'd need more development time than 8 months.

[Gabeznl]

Originally posted by Sixtyfivekills:

Because Sonic had a successful transition to 3D with Sonic Adventure, simple.

You mean, the only successful transition to 3D? Because the other tries, after the release of this game, were a failure.

[Gabeznl]

Originally posted by NBOX21:

Because they didn't need to, plain and simple.
I don't want Sonic to be a Kirby clone just like how I don't want Sonic to be a Mario clone.
I just want Sonic to be Sonic.

Also, as mentioned above, we already had a successful 3D formula for Sonic, it's called Sonic Adventure. Yet Sonic Team for some reason refuses to go back to this winning formula that so many people adored back in 1998 and still do to this day.

Agreed. I haven't seen any personality or love given to Sonic games by it's developers. Sonic Team doesn't want to do Sonic Games anymore. They aren't good developers, but in the end, they just want to receive the money.

[Ezodagrom]

Originally posted by Ikagura:

Literally the first true 3D Kirby game and it was a successful transition to 3D.

1: Kirby and the Forgotten Land released this year, games take a very long time to create, if SEGA were to make a Sonic game inspired by this Kirby game, it would have been in at least 2 or 3 years from now.
It's likely that Sonic Frontiers started development before this Kirby game even, how would they take inspiration from something that didn't exist yet?

2: SEGA trying to make a Sonic game inspired by another successful franchise (Mario) is how we got Sonic Lost World. I prefer for Sonic games to do their own thing.

[Sixtyfivekills]

Originally posted by Gabeznl:

Originally posted by Sixtyfivekills:

Because Sonic had a successful transition to 3D with Sonic Adventure, simple.

You mean, the only successful transition to 3D? Because the other tries, after the release of this game, were a failure.

Adventure 2, Heroes, Unleashed and racing spinoffs were all good.

It's like if I said Sonic 3 is the only good 2D game.

[Ikagura]

Originally posted by Ezodagrom:

2: SEGA trying to make a Sonic game inspired by another successful franchise (Mario) is how we got Sonic Lost World. I prefer for Sonic games to do their own thing.

Strangely, Sonic Colors was made for Mario fans as well.


And what if the things that Sonic games are currently doing are bad? Just wondering.

[Super Sand Lesbian Gayku]

The reason why they don't go back to the Adventure formula is because this knowledge is probably all gone now. It looks like ST has been desesperately clinging to the boost formula for years and it's probably because they have not enough ressources to do anything else. To go back to the Adventure structure that would require to be reverse ingeniered. If they really wanted to achieve that, they should probably call the dude from project 06 because he has rebuilt a difficult Adventure game with a lot of variety and he has been doing this for years.

But even if they stay with the current structure, I don't think it would be the worst offense personnally. What annoys me the most is they never tried much to expand it. it feels like a prison at some point; We are stuck with half of Sonic Unleashed rules forever! The reason I enjoyed the 2000s so much is essentially because the series wasn't bound to a dead code; it still felt alive and damn I miss that thirst for variety! I assume that you guys all saw the Frontiers Prologue with Knuckles; How many of you had the though ''that'd be so awesome to kick ass with Knuckles like that in-game''? and how many of you know it probably won't be the case because we are conditionned to know that the only possibility with this structure is doing Sonic stuff? Sonic has become way to rigid IMO but the most important issue was to fix the tone, since it was litterally demoralising the fans and hopefully it looks like they are on a healing path for that matter (hope i'm not being fooled). I'm willing to support an imperfect product that respects the Sonic principles rather than a Sonic-Colors-Mario-wannabe with cringe content.

[SeleDreams]

Originally posted by Sixtyfivekills:

Originally posted by Gabeznl:

You mean, the only successful transition to 3D? Because the other tries, after the release of this game, were a failure.

Adventure 2, Heroes, Unleashed and racing spinoffs were all good.

It's like if I said Sonic 3 is the only good 2D game.

for unleashed I'd disagree, the werehog was a big chore, for the rest though i agree, tho tbf Sonic R is one of the 3d racing spinoffs and it was kinda mediocre aside from the music

[Sixtyfivekills]

Originally posted by SeleDreams:

Originally posted by Sixtyfivekills:

Adventure 2, Heroes, Unleashed and racing spinoffs were all good.

It's like if I said Sonic 3 is the only good 2D game.

for unleashed I'd disagree, the werehog was a big chore, for the rest though i agree, tho tbf Sonic R is one of the 3d racing spinoffs and it was kinda mediocre aside from the music

At least it was so short to the point where it doesn't overstay its welcome. Also helps that I experienced it inside a Collection otherwise I would've been pissed if I spent $60 for it, assuming that was its price.