If you are a fan of Sonic the Hedgehog, chances are that light has been dimming with each subsequent Sonic title, from Sonic Riders to the most recent Sonic Unleashed.
But turns out that there is a clear and deliberate reason why the development team, Sonic Team, keeps on doing what they are doing to “screw” up Sonic, for lack of a better term.
And that reason is actually pretty dry and simple . . . according to them, Sonic is simply so fast that if they made the game a pure running game (like everybody wants, classic Sonic speed), he would go so fast that they would need literally an ungodly amount of “miles” of terrain for him to traverse. So much so, that they have not even attempted to try it, because it would simply TAKE TOO LONG . . .
Very interesting indeed. You can read the exact quote over at indoorheroes.
* Thanks to VGFanArt for the Sonic Superspeed Artwork