It also doesn’t help that the Console Wars book basically hero-worships him. The book seems to have used Kalinske’s words as a primary source. Making the entire book suspicious. It’s not like there are any sources to validate the wilder claims made either.

Or maybe they didn’t believe in Arzest. That was also a strange choice. Of all people, they picked Arzest. There was no way Arzest could make a game that could compete directly with Mario’s best. Sonic Mania 2 made by the team that made the first definitely could tho. Sonic lost a good chance here.

It’s weird that they didn’t delay the game considering they’ve been putting more effort in Japan to make Sonic popular. Like the game could have released later. Sonic wasn’t exactly starving for content this year. And they could have used the time to improve the game.

The style is very similar to the previous one clone chaos