Our love for Sonic 4 Episode 1 is well established but we won’t be getting the second installment of the revived franchise this year. Sonic Team’s Takashi Iikuza has told Eurogamer that 2011 is entirely focused on Sonic’s 20th anniversary and Sonic Generations, which is intended as a kind of greatest hits package for the spiny blue mammal. We’ll see Sonic 4 Episode 2 in 2012.
Iikuza says: “It was always the plan. We knew about the anniversary year and Generations was planned way in advance. It was always our plan to release Sonic 4 Episode 2 after Generations.” Pushed on whether we’ll see a Sonic 4 Episode 3, he refused to comment one way or the other. Still there’s always that Sonic CD revival on Xbox Live Arcade to cling on to while we wait for Sonic 4 Episode 2 to spin into view.
