Sonic the Hedgehog Creator Yuji Naka Develops Original Action Game -

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Sonic the Hedgehog Creator Yuji Naka Develops Original Action Game

Naka joined Square Enix in January

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Yuji Naka, former head of the Sonic Team and lead programmer of the original Sonic the Hedgehog games for Sega Genesis, revealed on Twitter on Tuesday that he is working on an original action game at Square Enix. Naka joined Square Enix in January.
Naka joined Sega in 1984 and began developing the first Sonic the Hedgehog game in 1990. He left Sega and the Sonic Team in 2006 to form his own studio Prope. Naka has worked on games such as Ivy the Kiwi?, Fishing Resort, and Rodea the Sky Soldier at Prope.
Naka also served as production director and supervisor for the 1996 Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie OAV, as well as executive producer for the 2003 Sonic X television anime. Naka played Center in the 2014 Hi-sCool! Seha Girls anime series.

 

[break these cuffs]

Ivy the Kiwi?

Autism finds a way.

 

[Detrogen]

I really enjoyed Rodea, and it showed that Naka can put out some excellent, creative gameplay even this late into his career. I’d love to see what he can accomplish with a Square Enix budget.

 

[REGENDarySumanai]

I really enjoyed Rodea, and it showed that Naka can put out some excellent, creative gameplay even this late into his career. I’d love to see what he can accomplish with a Square Enix budget.

Only play the Wii version though.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

Autism finds a way.

Spoiler: Looks cute, I'd probably play it.

 

[XYZpdq]

Wasn't there some hoohah about how he didn't really have much to do with creating Sonic similar to that Megaman guy who didn't really create Megaman or something?

 

[Bungus Scrungus]

I always found it sad how in interviews, Yuji wished Sonic was more popular in Japan than he actually is. It's like how Shin Megami Tensei
(not Persona 3, 4, and 5) is like, a couple dozen thousand people fanbase over in the USA. I'm downplaying it a bit, though. It's definitely more than it was 10 years ago, while Sonic in Japan feels like it's only ever gotten a bit more popular in that time frame. It's always just been less than 100K people who have cared about that hedgehog, for what seems like a long while now, over there. Glad Yuji ain't done making games though; guy has some talent, and people who called him Sega's Miyamoto weren't wrong, I feel.

 

[Detrogen]

Spoiler: Looks cute, I'd probably play it.

I played it. It’s a decent puzzle game where you basically just place paths in place for Ivy to run on.