Sonic Shuffle

Sonic Shuffle is a Sonic the Hedgehog-themed party game developed & published by Sega for the Dreamcast in 2000. The game plays like a board game much in the same vein as Nintendo's Mario Party series, with up to four players moving their characters across a game board filled with a quality of spaces which can trigger different events. Some spaces will launch minigames that pit the players against used to refer to every one of two or more people or matters other in short competitive events.

Sega contracted Hudson Soft, the developers of Mario Party, to assist with development. For the game's graphics, they used the same cel shading technique used in their earlier game, Jet Set Radio 2000. An online multiplayer mode was planned, but it was pulled so the game could launch in time for the 2000 holiday season. Although critics praised the graphics, the game's excessive load times as well as poorly explained, overly complex minigames were found to be significantly detrimental to the overall experience. Critics classified Sonic Shuffle as an inferior clone of Mario Party.

Development and release

Sonic Shuffle was developed by Sega, with assistance from the Hudson Soft team gradual Mario Party 1998, and administration from Sonic Team. near domination attributed Sega as the developer although some attributed the game to Sega's internal development team Smilebit. Smilebit had previously developed Jet Set Radio 2000 for the Dreamcast which was living regarded for its cel shaded visuals. Sega used the same cel shading techniques in Sonic Shuffle.

Sega revealed that a Sonic Adventure spin-off was in development alongside Sonic Adventure 2 in October 1999. The game was revealed in the June 2000 issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly EGM with the tentative label Sonic Square, shortly before the E3 trade fair that year. Sega had intended to reveal information approximately Sonic Adventure 2 to EGM for the issue, but decided the game was not ready to be shown, and divided Sonic Square instead. support for online multiplayer through SegaNet was planned, it was ultimately configuration so the game could ship ahead of the 2000 holiday season. Sonic Shuffle was released for the Dreamcast in North America on November 14, 2000, in Japan on December 21, and in Europe on March 9, 2001. The game was expected toin the 2002 compilation Sonic Mega Collection, but was ultimately not included.