The truth about Nintendo

[Zod95]

MDMAlliance said:

Zod95 said:

Final-Fan said:

Sonic had 7 vocal and twenty-whatever instrumental not because vocal is harder but because if all the songs were instrumental it would distract players from, you know, PLAYING THE GAME. Most of the music is probably background music, meant to add depth or mood or whatever to the setting unobtrusively, not call attention to itself with yelling lyrics

The vocals were to the opening and the 6 characters and the instrumental were to the levels. In Sonic Adventure 2, they actually made also a vocal to the first level and it made a great impact, not distracting at all, just great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCs42XSwI-c

 

You clearly have no idea about anything you're talking about, do you?  Did you NOT know that many boarding games (skate boarding or whatever) have music with singing in it?  It was a trend and had NOTHING, and I repeat, NOTHING to do with "evolution" and everything to do with the genre.  While I'm not saying Sonic is a sports game, I am saying that the reason for using the vocals is pretty clear.

That question made me laugh, as you assume that City Escape is just about boarding gameplay. Furthermore, that was the first level of the game (Sonic Team ussually puts more effort in the first levels), which is about San Francisco (the city they just have moved into) and it had the right to a tailored vocal music track.

I'm pretty sure that if they were willing to invest on all levels the same time / effort / money they had invested on City Escape, most of them (if not all) would have vocal tracks.