Current Events > Sonic Heroes' levels were almost entirely done by one man in six months

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Takashi Iizuka lost 22 pounds from the sheer workload

did he also QA them, integrate them into the project, concept them, manage their tasks, etc

Were they good?

MistyFan462 posted...

Were they good?

No

Sonic Heroes' levels were almost entirely done by one man in six months

Yeah, we could tell.

I liked the team concept, but the game's level designs were nothing to win awards over.

In terms of sheer workload that's pretty impressive, but honestly it's not that good a game.

Tom Clark posted...

In terms of sheer workload that's pretty impressive, but honestly it's not that good a game.

It's impressive and also makes a lot of sense if it's true...because most of the levels suffer from the same design flaws as one another. Awkward camera angles, frustrating rail grinding segments, and platforms with no guard-rails...which is frustrating when several of the game's attacks force your character to move forward at high speeds and launch straight off the edge.

Poor guy. It makes sense now why the game is so bad.

I mean the levels werent that bad

Its more the fact that you had to play through them 4 times with barely any variation outside of Team Chaotix missions to get the true ending

Alpha218 posted...

I mean the levels werent that bad

They were passable at best, and horrendous at worst. Most of them were just a series of flat platforms with damage-sponge enemies. They were tedious, and the amount of time it took to kill the enemies made it that much more likely for poor level design to result in a cheap death eventually. Which made replaying the level over again feel terrible.

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Probably. And then they hired the same DeviantArt user over a decade later to write Suicide Squad.