![]() ![]() Taking these games back to their roots has no doubt allowed Sega and Nintendo to focus their efforts and produce gorgeous-looking games with smaller teams in shorter production cycles. Game development has become bloated and ruinously expensive, with open 3D environments requiring years of work, vast teams and bleeding-edge physics engines. (I can’t go on, it’s too painful.) Anyway, in 2023, where the companies have moved in very different directions, the arrival of Super Mario Wonder and Sonic Superstars (with Knuckles pictured top right) so close together feels more like a statement about the industry than an attempt to outdo each other. For every Sonic Rush, there’s a Shadow the Hedgehog. While Mario games have consistently been wonderful explorations of design and technology – Super Mario 64, Super Mario Galaxy, Super Mario Odyssey – Sonic’s back catalogue is … patchy. For years, Mario has won this battle easily.
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