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Omar addresses player reaction to Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal. “With our previous game, it was a kind of shock to the fanbase how we designed it. There was more focus on exploration and less focus on speed. We’ve toned down on the exploration and put a bit more speed into Fire and Ice. In the previous game we dropped you into this enormous labyrinth, a Castlevania-style level design. Sonic fans were like, “What is this? I just want to run through and hit bounce pads and spring boards and speed boosts and ping-pong around.” So we’ve dialed down the length and the size of the levels and cut a linear path through the middle. The exploration now happens above and below it. So now you can have that classic experience of running through the level at high-speed if you want, but now you can also explore too.”

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“We’re thinking bigger than just the video game. We want to branch out into the Western market a bit more and update Sonic’s look and appeal to a younger age group – the new gamers. And so we wanted to do something exploration-based. We didn’t want to just reboot the classic series. We wanted to do something new – and not alienate the classic players.“