Sonic Unleashed recently hit most major platforms just last month, and while critics say its better than previous titles, it still isn't the next gen Sonic everyone is hoping for. One of the main reasons labeled by critics are the Werehog sections, where you trade speed for strength and bash the hell of Dr Eggman's minions brawler style. Apparently these levels sucked, so why were they included? Because according to one Sonic Unleashed developer Sonic's most liked feature, his speed, makes level crafting incredibly hard.

"I asked one of the developers at TGS, you know I was like, come on everybody just wants Sonic running, like whats up with the werehog? And he was like, well, heres the deal... he runs at this miles per hour, kilometers per hour, and he laid out all of the statistics on how fast this hedgehog goes, and he was like In order to make a game where Sonic is running and everybody enjoys the whole thing we'd have to design this many miles of level, and it was some ungodly number. And he's like and that would be like maybe a three hour game and I was like wow, well that kinda stinks and he's like yeah, so we gotta do this other stuff."

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