Sonic Team Would "Love" To Remaster The Advance Series, Says Takashi Iizuka

Would love to see it, or at least for them to be on NSO, but for a director, he seems to have little sway in what he directs his team to do! He would also love SA3 it seems. I admit that I don't know who dictates what he can or can't do, and that may be out of his hands. They were brilliant games though.

Wouldn't be averse to Sonic Battle coming back in some form too! Though I think I might be alone there.

One of the very few good games from this series.

I wouldn’t mind getting Sonic Heroes instead, although the Advance games definitely feel like they should be priority, especially with Sonic Movie 3 (unless this is a different Advance then the one I’m thinking of) (Edit: I mixed up adventure with advance, my bad 😆)

I get so wound up by this guy sometimes. He always goes on about good games like these and the Adventure series and then always reminds us that they're not going to remake them, meanwhile they remake tons of other games in the series. That comment about the chao garden the other day was equally ridiculous.

Doesn't need a remake/remaster treatment. Take notes of what Konami have been doing with their Collections and port them in one package. Seems like a no-brainer.

I would prefer the Adventure series to get remastered and/or give us a new Adventure game.

Sonic Team really doesn't seem to have a good idea of how to respond to fan requests, do they?
"we don't know what the future holds" ... ???
Guys, you're literally Sonic Team. The future of the Sonic series is whatever you want it to be.

And still no plans to remake Sonic Boom. Arguably the best Sonic games in the franchise.

They didn’t remake Sonic 1, 2, 3K and CD, they were essentially already done by a quality indie team. They just borked them into a single collection with a nonsensical frontend.

Would love for them to be released on NSO, but given that so many publishers prefer to do endless Collections, I doubt we'll ever see that day coming. We might get one title.

I was very surprised Capcom didn't do that with the Mega Man GB titles, so there's some hope in that regard!

Yes. It could work alongside sa3

@Bobb You are the first person in history to say that. Jokes aside, that's actually fairly normal. Some people don't get into a franchise until much later installments.

Sega Genesis will always be my favorites, but for those who grew up on the advance games it's a bummer they won't get a chance to re-experience it anytime soon. I'm heavily in favor of Sega team porting all their games to modern hardware just for the sake of preservation.

I actually have sonic advance 2-3 but I never had the first advance game. So having SA 1-3 on NSO or as a collection would be really cool.

I would love to play them as they are some of the few Sonic games I have never played. I have been enjoying the Castlevania Advance collection so much I think it would be great to see more games from that era come over as a collection.

C'mon Sega you're ignoring easy money now. Just look at Capcom and Konami and how they get their do profit with these legacy collections. The Castlevania Dominus and Advance Collections were hot sales wise and the Capcom Legacy and Fighting Collections are a goldmine for Capcom. You could earn big too if you stopped holding back on these legacy games you had in your grasp such as Yakuza Legacy Collection, Golden Axe Legacy Collection, Altered Beast Collection, Daytona USA Collection, Shinobi Legacy Collection, Sega Rally Collection, OutRun Trilogy, Sonic Advance Collection, Sonic Rush Collection, Crazy Taxi Trilogy, Sonic Adventure Collection, Shining Force Collection, Shenmue Trilogy, NiGHTS Trilogy, Skies of Arcadia HD Remake, Dragon Force HD Remake, Panzer Dragoon Saga HD Remake, Phantasy Star Legacy Collection, Thunderforce Collection, Space Harrier Collection, After Burner Collection, Virtua Fighter Collection, etc.

I'd like to see Sonic Battle remastered (or ported to NSO) as well.

No need for a graphic as games from that era still looks great. But some kind of collection would be good. I really like all 3 games, but the Chaos Emerald hunt and how to get them was totally garbage and frustrating, at lest in the first 2 games. If they could make that more fair, then it would be like new games.

I'd love a collection or NSO rerelease. I never played 2 or 3 and would love the opportunity to do so. The first one was great!

the phrases "we don’t know what the future holds" and "if the stars align" are so frustrating xD like why does it seem like everyone involved in Sega is under a tyranny and can't do what they want

Chuck Sonic the Hedgehog Pocket Adventure in too while you're at it!

If they ever remaster the Advance trilogy, they have to do two things:

Allow the player to revisit levels they already cleared like in the subsequent Rush games (only Advance 3 allows this, as far as I know).

And they need to make Advance 2's star rings permanent collectibles, so we're not forced to redo an entire level's worth just for another try at a Special Stage we've lost. Having to recollect these things every time is a big no. Either that or implement save states, because having to gather all Emeralds for every character just to unlock Amy is insane.

And maybe also reprogram Advance 1's Special Stage. The ring collision detection on that one was awful.

@Bobb It happens. We've had many ports of the original trilogy over the years with Origins being the definitive version, that now I believe Sega should start extending the same courtesy to other games in Sonic's latter history.

Underrated games.

@Serpenterror yessss to all of these. But are you wishfully thinking a threequel with a Night's trilogy? 😅

But seriously - sega need to look at Capcom and Konami - just port the shirt out of everything and stop ignoring the Saturn generation please!

Well, they have the power to do it. This was the last time they gave us proper pixel based Sonic games before they became psuedo 3D on the DS

@dudujencarelli

All Sonic Advance games have a level select screen. Sonic Advance 1 has a menu, Advance 2 has a world map, and Advance 3 has mini hub levels.

Put the Sonic Advance trilogy on NSO already you cowards!

@dudujencarelli You can also revisit levels in Sonic Advance 1 & 2. Also time trials.

@nebzila
Us: Man, the Adventure/Advance games are so good, you should bring them back!
Sega: Yeah, we should, but we can't.
Us: Why?
Sega: ...good question...
Us: ...
Sega: You want a new version of the original genesis games?

@dudujencarelli Or they could just reduce the number of those star rings to collect. Collecting those in the first place was just an unnecessary task, we should had just been allow to enter the special stage by just having at least one of those. Having two or three should give us two or three tries similar to how Sonic Origins did it.

@Alexface Well there's NiGHTS the original game, then there's that NiGHTS Christmas special, and then there's NiGHTS Journey of Dreams. I believe the Christmas special was bundle with a re-release at one point.

@Quiet2down Unironically, I like this game more than quite a few of their efforts. Secret Rings, for instance.

We're never getting these.

@nebzila agreed, he comes out with things like this all the time, yet we rarely ever see results. Incidentally, the Advance series has a Chao Garden, yet he seemed to tie the very concept to the Adventure series when asked about the absence of one since then. Strange.

@Serpenterror ah yeah ok. I didn't count Christmas Nights as a full game. It's more than a demo, not quite a game.
In the PS3/360 releases it was part of the package

@EarthboundBenjy I knew Advance 3's hub worlds facilitated revisiting the zones. I did not know about Adv 1 and 2's options. Given that I only played them on emulator, I always save-stated in the beginning of each zone or special stage. Always assumed you had to play them in one sitting like the original Genesis games.

We don't need a remaster, just put them on NSO or release a collection with art and stuff like Castlevania Advance Collection

They don't need to be remastered, just get the originals on NSO or a collection along with Sonic Pinball Party and Sonic Battle while you're at it and you get a winner.

The original Sonic Advance is pretty much the real Sonic 4 in everything but name. Never played Advance 2 or 3, but from what I've seen of them they're more like precursors of Sonic Rush, only without the Boost mechanic.

And today I was wondering why SEGA didn't release the Sonic Advance trilogy in the west on the Wii U Virtual Console when Japan got them.
And that's when I finally came to the realization, was it really because THQ distributed them over here? I've heard for years that may be the reason, but how much truth there is to that?
I mean, the THQ logo doesn't even appear when you boot up the games, are they even mentioned on the credits of the western versions?

I'm starting to believe that it was just that SEGA couldn't be arsed to bring the trilogy to the Wii U VC on the west. If the originals being released by THQ was really a problem, they could've released the Japanese versions instead. There's little to no language barrier on them.

Sega seems to enjoy ignoring their entire GBA catalogue.

@PikminMarioKirby Fellow Heroes enjoyer, I see.

Sega can be so allergic to doing the thing that makes sense. But seeing how they can fumble so much with emulation or experimenting with mediocre results, it’s maybe for the better they don’t get involved in their own history

I would love to see a trilogy collection of this remastered. They were my favorites during the time of the GBA. Hopefully we'll get this and it not be on the NSO Expansion.

Just put them on NSO. But all the GBA games so far are first party so maybe third party publishers can’t or won’t put their games on the service.

Boy, he says that a lot… we love to do this, we’d love to do that… and then show absolutely no evidence they actually want to do that

@PikminMarioKirby You might be confusing the Advance games with the Adventure games. The 3rd Sonic movie is focusing a lot on Sonic Adventure 2.

Played the first one a couple of months ago on the Pocket and I've got the other two lined up to play in the future. I really don't think they need a remake... they're pretty average.

SEGA should just sell Sonic and let someone else have a go. Seriously. Remaking the Advance games is a joke - take their template and make better 2D Sonic games from them. Its really REALLY not that difficult at all. Why do SEGA struggle so? Just give up then and let someone else do it properly!

They don't really need ground-up remakes. No idea why companies don't look at others like Capcom, Konami, & Digital Eclipse making all these easy to make, easy to sell, hard to screw up collections that people want.

The Advance and Rush games were very fun to me. Pretty entertaining 2D Sonic games right there.

Sonic Advance was my first proper introduction to Sonic. I dabbled with it here and there on a friend's Game Gear. Completely loved Rush, Rush Adventure and Colors on DS. I would completely support a Sonic Advance HD remake.

I enjoyed the advanced games. Being one of the first sonic games on a Nintendo console, It felt like classic sonic with an adventure feel or vise versa.

I would buy them all if they were made available for the Switch! And even though a remaster would be cool, I would buy them not remastered instantly.

@PikminMarioKirby I would love to see 'Sonic Heroes' get remastered too or at least released on the Nintendo eShop or X Box Marketplace and I find it disappointing how 'Sonic 3D Blast', 'Sonic Adventure 1 and 2', 'Sonic Unleashed', 'Sonic the Hedgehog (2006), 'Sonic Colours' and soon, 'Sonic Generations' have all been released or made available on newer consoles while 'Sonic Heroes' has been forgotten about by Sega when it was one of the best 3D Sonic games and a lot of Sonic fans I know loved it and would like it to get re-released.

I think they should bring out a 3D Collection like Nintendo did with 'Super Mario 3D All Stars' with 'Sonic Adventure 1 and 2', 'Sonic Heroes', 'Sonic Unleashed' and 'Sonic 3D Blast.'

Didn't own a GBA back in the day, so never played them or Sonic Battle. The closest I got to playing the Sonic Advanced games was the Ultimate Flash Sonic game 20 years ago (remember that game). So as a Sonic fan i always wanted to play them, so a Sonic Advanced collection would be great. If they want to throw Sonic Battle in the collection too I'll be alright with that 😉

That would be neat. The Sonic Advance trilogy makes me nostalgic for my college years. Sonic Advance 2 kinda bugged me with how it dealt with accessing special stages, but at least using Tails and Cream made it bearable.

@JohnnyMind
one thing which would be cool with a remaster is if they could end up making them widescreen like the origins collection games (though hopefully without the launch bugs) since sonic is one of the franchises which i feel benefits from widescreen the most and having a wider screen space in the advance series feels like it could help with some of the advance trilogies more infamous aspects (obstacles tend to come out of nowhere in some of them)

either way im always up for some retro collections.