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Takashi Iizuka, a key figure in Sega’s Sonic Franchise, told IGN’s Jeffrey Vega about the unique difficulty the company faced in giving the Blue Blur a playable skin in Fortnite.
While Shadow is somewhat famous for being an edgy, pistol-toting anti-hero, Sonic is a totally different character. The yang to Shadow’s yin, Sonic is an upbeat hedgehog who uses his extremely fast speed (and occasionally, the power of the Chaos Emeralds) to take down enemies.
That’s why Sega balked when it was first approached by Epic games with the idea of giving Shadow and Sonic their own Fortnite skins, according to Sonic Creative Officer Takashi Iizuka. Luckily, they were able to come up with a creative solution: Why not make a new Sonic variant?
“Epic Games came and spoke with us a couple years ago about putting Sonic in Fortnite, but Sonic is a character that will never hold a gun,” he told us. “And when thinking about the design of Fortnite, it was really hard to think about Sonic being in the game. But this time, we were able to take creative liberties and created Android Sonic.”
In the same vein as Metal Sonic, the team cooked up an Android version
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