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Yes, Phantasy Star Online was a whole new gaming experiance for me. I loved that game so much that I played it almost every night for hours for a solid year !

Yakumo

 

I was actually referring to the original Phantasy Star on the SMS. While I definitely clocked in thousands of hours on all the PSO platforms, I must say it is technically a huge failure. Bugs destroyed the online community... the GC one a mere few weeks before it was off the ground.

 

I've had the proverbial wool pulled over my eyes for so many years, but now I know most - if not all - Sonic games were hacks of previous engine technology and that Yuji Naka isn't the genius we were all led to believe. If anything, why haven't Naoto Ohshima or Hirokazu Yasuhara received more credit for their work on the series back when it was still fresh and relevant? Sega is well known for internal politics, clashing egos and poor business decisions, though I doubt any chapter in its history will be remembered for reasons worse than this. Can we say "cover up?"

 

It's just that - Naka taking credit for everything, becoming SOJ president because he 'created' Sonic. All that while Yasuhara or Ohshima get no credit at all. I don't know about Ohshima, but Yasuhara is a very modest and busy guy, not the type who gives interviews to every other magazine out there and talks about how much he enjoys his ferraris

Once again, note: I'm not bashing Naka or anything, I admire his coding and everything, but if you want to know why Sonic has this particular 'feel' to it, why the levels stick together perfectly and why it has been a major success, you're looking at the wrong direction if you think Naka 'made' Sonic.

 

The only person who remains consistently behind the scenes with every new Sonic game appears to be Takashi Iizuka, so perhaps he should be credited with more recent successes in the franchise? Naka got his foot in the door at Sega because of his incredible programming talents back in the day, but with the exception of perhaps Phantasy Star what has he really done to deserve his status now? Ohshima was known to give the odd interview, though he was always more interested in demonstrating his skills as opposed to just bragging about them at every possible opportunity. As with the whole of Sega, the Sonic Team of today is a mere shadow of its former self that has increasingly become reliant on its past. For a decade we were continuously reminded by several key members of Sonic Team that a sequel or remake to NiGHTS was out of the question because they felt such a move would cheapen the original, yet as soon as bored gamers lose count of Sonic rehashes they announce this very thing - a cry of desperation if ever there was one!

 

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