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Sonic and the Black Knight producer says the idea of Sonic using a sword could have been 'preposterous'
…after a sequence of sleepless nights that my boss came up to me and casually dropped on me the newss [sic] that it would be up to me to think of an idea for “the next one (in the Storybook series)”.
After much struggle that gave me both pain and joy, I finally decided to throw Sonic into a world of sword and magic. I confess that I’ve always wanted to see Sonic holding a sword.
Perhaps most challenging was to make Sonic have a sword. I had to hold on to the Sonicness. If he loses that as a result of having sword, then it would be preposterous. - Sonic Team Producer Tetsu Katano
When you have a game where the main character is a bipedal, super-fast, English-speaking hedgehog, I think you’re way past the point of preposterous.