It's been 15 years since Yuji Naka last anything to do with a Sonic the Hedgehog game. Having worked as the lead programmer on Sonic's original adventure, he left Sega in 2006 – not long after producing Sonic Riders – and since then, he's more recently popped up with Balan Wonderworld.
Despite this shift, he frequently talks about Sonic the Hedgehog news when given the chance. Yesterday's announcement revealed that the upcoming Sonic sequel is called – wait for it – Sonic The Hedgehog 2, accompanied by a brief visual teaser. It also reconfirmed a planned release date for April 8th 2022 .
Taking to Twitter after the announcement (credit to DualShockers for this translation), Naka expressed his delight, confirming:
I’m looking forward to the Sonic 2 movie. And as expected Tails is going to appear now. The release date has been confirmed too, so I’m really excited.
It's not the only time Naka's commented on Sonic recently. Last month, he surprised fans by revealing that he'd never heard of Sonic's alleged codename "Mr Needlemouse", something which had long been accepted by the wider community.
Do you share Yuji Naka's enthusiasm for the upcoming film? Let us know down below.
[source gonintendo.com]
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Having my own creation owned by someone else would be strange... I’d be really excited but also super anxious about how they’d treat it.
Tails, Knuckle and Amy should be in Sonic 2 movie.
He's excited about Balan Wonderworld too, so I'm not trusting his opinion at the moment
Sill have not watched the first one.
@Anti-Matter Definitely they should be in and I'd like more remixes of music from the games in it too. Maybe even some original Crush 40 and TJ Davis vocal tunes.
@Donnerkebab Actually I wouldn't say it was aimed squarely at young kids at all, but people of all ages. I don't like many kids films (pixar etc) but very much enjoyed the Sonic movie. It features
themes we can all relate to and Jim Carrey was definitely written to appeal to older viewers too with his throwback to his 90s persona.
@Noid Well be grateful you're not in the comic book industry then lol
As he should be its going to be great.
I really enjoyed the first Sonic movie and I look forward to the sequel. I hope Knuckles shows up as a villain with a redemption arc.
He really should be looking into getting balan delayed instead.
I liked the first one but didn't love it. The best thing about it was Jim carrey. That was the funniest thing he'd done since bruce almighty!
Universal has to get the ball rolling with marketing the Mario movie
Maybe instead of being excited for the movie, he should get back in charge of sonic games. We haven't had a good sonic game since the 90s.
Its a decent movie to take the kids to, but its nothing outstanding. Still, decent is pretty high up on the low bar standard of vg movies in general.
@TheFrenchiestFry Ugh, I'm completely burned out on comic book films. Too much of something you like can definitely a bad thing.
@weisske To be fair Yuji Naka is somewhat responsible since he bailed and left Sega in the middle of Sonic '06 development.
Instead of a smooth handover say like Miyamoto did with Mario & Zelda to Koizumi and Aonuma. The Sonic games were unstable for like 4 years with a different producer/director for each game until Colors.
Give me my girl Amy and i’ll be happy.
The movie and anime are one off few sonic content from past 10years that aren't garbage
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