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6/21/2025, 7:49:56 AM
IGNDC:: The City Escape level for Sonic and Radical Highway level for Shadow are fantastic, but I noticed these levels have similar landmarks found in San Francisco (the Golden Gate Bridge in Radical Highway, the really steep hills with cable cars in City Escape). Are most of the levels in SA2 based off certain real-life landmarks or landscapes?
TI: Since Sonic Team USA is residing around San Francisco and the Bay Area, we see a lot of the beautiful images here in San Francisco everyday. And we wanted to apply those elements in the game. Of course, the world of SA2 is a fictional world, so our intention is not to create a simulation of San Francisco but we're really inspired by what we see in the city.
As for the other stages, since we came to the US, we've gone on various trips to places in the US like Yosemite Park. Since most of our research [in level design] was predominately done in San Francisco, and that fact that we're developing SA2 in the US, we wanted to make SA2 have more of an American flavor... you'll see a lot of the settings inspired by America.
TI: Since Sonic Team USA is residing around San Francisco and the Bay Area, we see a lot of the beautiful images here in San Francisco everyday. And we wanted to apply those elements in the game. Of course, the world of SA2 is a fictional world, so our intention is not to create a simulation of San Francisco but we're really inspired by what we see in the city.
As for the other stages, since we came to the US, we've gone on various trips to places in the US like Yosemite Park. Since most of our research [in level design] was predominately done in San Francisco, and that fact that we're developing SA2 in the US, we wanted to make SA2 have more of an American flavor... you'll see a lot of the settings inspired by America.
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