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Ian didn't go through half of what Iizuka went through. The man almost died making Heroes. He's not comparable to Nakamura either.
>but 06 failed
That had nothing to do with anything Nakamura did. You already know the circumstances of why that game was a failure; we don't need to keep repeating how SEGA sabotaged Sonic Team by denying Naka's pay request and splitting up the entire dev team for no reason.
Ian isn't a game developer. That's the difference between him and previous writers, barring Pontaff. Maekawa was a game developer first and foremost, and a writer second. This is why I'm always fucking baffled when Ian's dick suckers cry about him not having as much control as Sonic Team writers. HE'S NOT QUALIFIED. He's not a game designer; he can't integrate a story into gameplay like Maekawa, Nishiyama, Yoshimura, Miyamoto, Oshima, and Naka could. He simply is not as qualified. It's called ludonarrative harmony, something Frontiers fails at, because the writer isn't a part of the fucking development team. The communication between Sonic Team and Ian is so bad that Kishimoto kept contradicting anything Ian would say on his bumblekast.
>Flynn: The End is just a random alien who talked hot shit about itself. It's dead, it blew up.
>Kishimoto: The End is the concept of death itself and cannot be killed.
Ian is the same bitch that tried to argue The End was just yapping its mouth off when it directly contradicts Kishimoto's vision. Another instance is Sonic's abilities in Frontiers.
>Ian: I don't know if all his moves come from Cyberspace. You know what? Yes they do. You have to buy them from the Elders. (You also have to buy tricks and basic spinball moves, and the shockwave kick that already came from Lost World, so Ian's argument makes no sense)
>Kishimoto: The only move Sonic gained was Cyloop from The End.
Ian doesn't know what he's doing half the time.