Serving is the 15th anniversary of the iconic Sonic.

Most fans were expecting a big to do with Sonic the Hedgehog and expected that Sonic team would, you know, put some effort in.

But then november 14th 2006 arrived and everyone witness to complete horror show Name's Dave with Watch Mojo.

And today we're here to explain what happened to Sonic the Hedgehog 2006.

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I don't care what some of you fans say.

Sonic 06 wasn't just bad.

It was dreadful, frustrating camera, horrible controls and seamlessly endless glitches and bugs were just a few debilitating issues.

I mean, let's be honest.

It was universally critically panned, and Sehgal was forced to make some serious damage control.

So, no, it's not a good game.

It's those Sonic fans who say it's still a good game.

No, you are wrong.

Sonic even leave here to go on another adventure.

Remember, please.

Definitely this game, along with other Sonic titles that received middling Metacritic scores, were eventually delisted in 2010 According to sagas former president of Europe Hogan Bus.

This was done to quote, increase the value of the Sonic brand.

I mean, it was like the game never existed.

It's all right.

But what exactly happened?

How did the highly anticipated Triple A release of one of gaming most iconic mascots turn into such a PR nightmare?

Well, let's take a look.

One of the major contributors to this tragedy was, ironically, Sonic Team's lack of thine face mentality.

Team was totally fragmented and had constantly shifting leadership and therefore a shifting direction.

The game's first director, then head of Sonic team and lead programmer of the original psych Siri's Eugene AKA, left the company midway through development to start his own game company probe in an interview with Game developer magazine not get stated, his reason was that he wanted to go back to being part of the development process as opposed to a management role.

Thus Sonny team lacked a Laida and other corps personnel behind the Classic Games had long moved on from the company.

A day of disaster Here are my records of this event.

Here's the thing, though On the surface, Sonic 06 actually have potential havoc.

Engine promised a different sonic experience and with the engine becoming a popular development tool within the industry mainly due to its physics engine Sonic team want to capitalize on the technology.

This allowed for a greater range and variety of physics, space game play mechanics as well as larger and more detail levels and the ability to navigate multiple paths with next Gen hardware.

Huh?

Technological leads aside, the company was also returning to the old school sonic roots, which greatly excited longtime fans of the series.

This change in direction was in response to criticism received from the team based Sonic Heroes and the Edge Lord Central Shadow the hedgehog.

To do this, the producers decided to reintroduce speed and branching Path lies as the most important game play mechanics.

This was a sonic anniversary, and on paper, a commemoration Done writes a celebration of the Siri's past and an introduction to new and exciting technological lakes that should have helped bury the franchise into the future.

But as we said it early up, the bus left to form his own company, after which Yojiro Ogawa took over the reins as against director, there's still a way to change this.

And then in Tendo, Sensei got the first ever suffered bellman kids for the way at the time, still called the Revolution made things even worse, like the hitch of 2006 was designed exclusively for the new batch of seventh generation consoles, and the team tailored the game and its technological leaps.

With the expected power.

The development gets one, not what Sega and Sonic team were expecting.

Reliance on motion detection aside, that we was far less powerful than the Xbox 360 on the PlayStation three.

Thus, their child would not be able to run on Nintendo's new system, least without not completely rework in the game.

But given the overwhelming prerelease hype, Sega didn't want to pass up on the way, so they decide to split up.

The already struggling Sonic team in to 1/2 continued to tackle Psycho six, while the other half, including director Ogawa, broke off to develop what would eventually be known as Sonic and the Secret rings for the way the strategic move inshore that Sonic Haddaway release.

But it also left Sonic 06 with a painfully small development team.

This is all so confusing with its direct and now on another title, Sean Nakamura was now appointed as Sonic Oh Sixes director with only months on hand before the game scheduled to be released and only half a team.

Yeah, I think it's safe to say no one would want to be in his shoes.

A lack of consistent leadership and a fragment of development team is already that.

But the game's biggest killer was time desperately wanted to have the game release for the 2006 holiday season not only with this proof financially feasible, but the game would miss Sonics 15th anniversary.

It was delayed any further.

So Sega Rush, Sonic team, and due to the immense pressure they were forced to ignore many of the Games technological issues, Sonic team was fully aware they had a broken and wifely incomplete game on their hands.

They also had to needlessly ignore the realities to get the game out on time teams head Takashi is a Cup told game and former worked.

We missed out on that really important time to polish and tune and manipulate the map and made sure that the gameplay felt good.

But it didn't have that.

It didn't turn out as good as the development team wanted.

You keep getting in my way, you pesky little hedgehog.

Sonic the Hedgehog for the Xbox 360 was released on November 14th 2006 and was met with immediate disdain.

The team's fears were realized.

Game was a complete mess, Philip glitches like load times, a terrible control scheme and all hard camera that often infuriated players.

However, even if you were to overlook the staggering amount of technical issues, a major note about the game story that courts controversy was the implied, interspecies romantic relationship between Sonic and the human princess Alise.

To this day, no one from Sonic team has commented on how such a storyline unfolded.

However, in an interview with games by Lisa's boys, actress Lacey Chabert defended the relationship, stating quote, It's not an inappropriate relationship.

Let's just say Sonic and Princess Alise have an attraction for each other.

She also dismissed the criticism as silly beliefs smile rather than celebrate the franchise's legacy and usher in an exciting new generation.

Sonic the Head Job 2006 all but killed the Siris on its reputation.

Sega Semi Holdings president Haruki set Army told CNBC that often the Sunako six disaster happened.

He vowed to quote, Never let it happen again.

And that he quote, told his development and sell scene that they should not release the game unless they 100% agree with and are confident with quality.

Come on, sonic boom happened under your watch, Mrs to Tommy.

How did you let that one slip?

The development of this game was like a game of Jenga.

Maybe it could have shouldered one or two obstacles, but enough blocks were dislodged over time that the whole thing crumbled.

This development story is a tragic one and approves that terrible games often made with good intention.

Not one person in particular is to blame for this atrocity.

Not even Sega and not Eugene, aka.

They were left with a fragmented development team.

They will quote off God by the weeds development kits, and they wanted to ensure the game's release for the Siri's 15th anniversary.

Yes, the latter part seems to be the primary reason behind the game's failure.

But you can't deny the intentions were good.

If there's one positive thing I can say about Sunako six, though, the South Jack was an epic bang, I don't think he's dead yet.

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