Archived from the original on 22 January 2022. The new Project Sonic 2022 logo promises big things this year. That's why we started this project we wanted to introduce those people to Sonic. When we made NiGHTS we received a lot of letters asking us what the Sonic Team was and who Sonic was. This game's been written for people who've never played a Sonic game before. One of the games which the Sonic Team did was Jam. ' Saturn Power: What can you tell us about Project Sonic? / Yuji Naka/ Naoto Oshima: Initially this project started as a company project. and Marza Animation Planet, was created to be presented in future games. As part of it, a new opening logo animation for the Sonic Team animated by flapper3 Inc. Outside the games like Sonic Frontiers and Sonic Origins, the producer and creative director Kazuyuki Hoshino revealed the goal for Project Sonic '22 being to expand the brand even further more mediums including as merchandise, social media, collaborations with artists and influencers. Over twenty years later, the Project Sonic label was re-introduced as Project Sonic '22 on 21 January 2022 in promotion for Sonic the Hedgehog titles and merchandise of that year, including Sonic Frontiers and the Sonic the Hedgehog 2 film. However, Sonic the Hedgehog Pocket Adventure, which was released in late 1999, would reused the artwork of the Project Sonic label on title cards for each Zone. įollowing 'phase 3', no more Sonic titles involved in Project Sonic were released. This was seemingly followed by 'phase 3', which involved the the Japanese Saturn release of Sonic 3D Blast. 'Phase 2', which was prepared by 'phase 1', later served as the introduction to Sonic R, which debuted in late 1997. For 'phase 1' of the project, Sonic Jam was designed to act as a second introduction to the Sonic franchise by containing Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Sonic the Hedgehog 3, and Sonic & Knuckles, and documentation on the the Sonic characters and their history. Alongside this announcement, the first title in the Project Sonic line was presented as well: Sonic Jam. Project Sonic was first announced at the Tokyo Game Show 1997 Spring. As such, Project Sonic was established to increase the number of Sonic titles on this system. Sega's then 32-bit console, the Sega Saturn, proved to be popular in Japan, but suffered in America and Europe due to a poor launch. Despite the commercial successes of the Sonic the Hedgehog series' first couple of main titles in Western territories, the series was given less attention in Japan. The purpose of the company project that would become known as Project Sonic was to increase the awareness of the Sonic the Hedgehog series among the people of Japan.

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