“I’ve played them a bit,” he tells Destructoid
How’s this for mixed messages? We were very careful yesterday to advise that time is a factor when responding to these E3 Q&As, especially when one of Sonic’s key creators, Yuji Naka, goes on the record to state he hadn’t played any of the new Sonic fare on display at this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo. It was all very strange since several photos have since surfaced with him present at the Sega booth.
As it turns out, he did get around to it, and made it known in a separate interview with a separate media entity. It was with Destructoid’s Dale North, and in it, Mr. Naka is careful not to give specific impressions of any particular title. He merely praised Sonic’s continued ability to flourish in his absence:
Yes, I’ve played them a bit. I’m happy to see that Sonic is still growing after my departure. All the people that worked under me are still continuing the legacy of Sonic, and I’m glad to see that as well.
Realize that next year Sonic will be 20 years old. I look at it this way: 20 years of age is old enough to go out on your own, not relying on your father anymore. In that way, it’s good to take a step back and see what Sonic does from now.
Much of the remaining meat within the Q&A, as was the case elsewhere, revolved around Ivy the Kiwi?, due to release domestically by XSEED Games later this Summer.
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What Naka said about 20 years is so true hppefully I`d do fine in 2014 ( when I turn 20)
First he didn’t, then he did…..
Oh Naka….
It must be hard to watch your son take the wrong path in life LOL.
Mr. Naka doesn’t want to put down Iizuka since they both worked on the originals, but Iizuka has made the series..uh…not as memorable in the past 3 or 4 years.
so i dont get it is he going to stop working or something. litte confused
yhe yhe, Sonic is doing much better than his supposed “father”…!
, I love Sonic4 and I love even more Sonic Colors 
Naka is jealous of all the Sonic Team / SEGA staff righ about now… prrrrrrrrrr
Sonic his doing GREAT, especially since Unleashed
yhe yhe, Sonic is doing much better than his supposed “father”…!
, I love Sonic4 and I love even more Sonic Colors 
Naka is jealous of all the Sonic Team / SEGA staff righ about now… prrrrrrrrrr
Sonic his doing GREAT, especially since Unleashed
In Naka’s mind he’s wondering what the hell did Sonic team do to Sonic in SU.
@The Informer
Naka is probably wondering,”When did my son be able to turn into a freaky crazed werewolf!?”. LOL.
@Sonic Unleashed
Sonic Unleashed and Colors are dramaticly different from the cool Adventure and Heroes series. Unleashed was just not that good level design and the werehog storyline was the worse thing ever for Sonic. Colors is the same problem: a terrible gimmicky storyline, a terrible character(Whisps), and not as creative level design. Naka kept the maturity and awesomeness/uncompromising spirit of Sonic. Have you ever thought that Naka left because he didn’t like how Sonic was going. Too bad he can’t change it now. But he doesn’t own Sonic so we the fans can say that we want Sonic’s Adventure days back. It all went downhill with Shadow’s disgusting game and the strangness that is STH 2006.
“Terrible Gimmicky Storyline”
Robotnik wants to take shit over, yeah..so gimmicky (havent even heard the whole story.
“a terrible character(Whisps)”.
Despite not having ANY personality traits and only serve as power ups.
Ahh extremesit Sonic fans, always taking the lazy way
@ Sonic Unleashed (SU)
How is Naka Jealous? All I’m seeing is that he’s very proud of Sonic Team. Not Jealous of them.
And how can you love two games that you haven’t played? That statement makes no sense.
@TrueRadiantFree i can agree with you about unleashed and i can agree with you on adventure series being alot better but how can you say sonic colors is bad when you havent played and from what i saw from the E3 reveal it looked pretty promisng and those “gimmicks” actually gives it a whole different feel i mean werent you tired of constantly always running in past sonic games without any platforming well sonic colors looked pretty good to me i think they even put more effort on sonic colors then in sonic 4 those bastards too bad i dont have a wii to play this or another next-gen console to play sonic 4 ep 1(hopefully they fix the game anyways)
ummmmmmm…….Tristan have you actually thought that Yuji Naka actually played the sonic games after Joystiq interviewed them think it through next time before saying your confused
@Sonic Unleashed(SU)
WTF are you smoking?