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Judy Totoya speaks about the making of Sonic 2 - why Wood Zone was cancelled

Discussion in 'General Sonic Discussion' started by darylbaxter, Nov 26, 2022.

  1. XCubed

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    It’s now December. Spoilers from April are fair game at this point :V
     
  2. Nik Pi

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    Off-topic a bit, but anyway

    Wasn't it discussed on this forum, many years ago, that drx missed post-NA prototype, which had a Mystic Cave zone? Well, or something like that? If so, they were probably just preparing the ground for him, unless of course it was just a demonstration made for the show.
     
  3. Billy

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    We can only speculate. Why "YU2"? Why "Carol Yas"? Other than being required to pick a anti-poaching pseudonym, of course. I went ahead and asked Totoya on Twitter, but I'm not expecting a response.
     
  4. E107- Theta

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    that is one of my favorite classic sonic deisigns.
     
  5. Yash

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    That’s weird, I just checked and it does in my copy, that my dad got from a goblin under a bridge near Sega’s headquarters after he answered three riddles.

    This is worse than when I found out the title screen isn’t supposed to change to Tails crying blood out of hyper-realistic eyes if you beat the game without getting all the Chaos Emeralds.
     
  6. Dek Rollins

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    Don't we actually know this one? I thought it was documented that this was a direct reference to Yu Suzuki whom he looked up to.
     
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  7. DigitalDuck

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    Dunno if it was necessarily "looking up to", but yes, it's because there was already a Yu, so Naka was Yu 2.

    Carol Yas isn't too hard to figure out either - Yas is clearly just Yasuhara shortened, and Carol is most likely a corruption of Karo swapping the middle syllables of hi [ro] [ka] zu. And Bigisland is self-explanatory - it's a literal translation of oo shima.

    Judy Totoya is more mysterious. I'm wondering if Judy comes from guchi but that seems like a bit of a stretch. There's probably characters that can be read multiple ways. Or maybe it's nothing to do with the name at all and there's some other meaning behind it.

    Maybe he's a big fan of Judy Garland, and another name for a garland is a corolla, and there's a Toyota Corolla and it was Judy Toyota all along...
     
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  8. Londinium

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    They're crediting the Toyota Corolla that reliably got them to work at super sonic speeds everyday
     
  9. Nik Pi

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    I think I confused Judy Totoya with Shinobu Toyoda :p
     
  10. saxman

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    Well that's some logic if I've ever heard it! :V
     
  11. Dek Rollins

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    Batman would be proud
     
  12. qwertysonic

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    I think I had the same issue.
     
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