Sonic Team “Wants” to Remake The Advance Series, Says Takashi Iizuka

Like most Sonic fans, we here at Nintendo Life Love of GBAAdvanced‘Series. We have good memories playing through Advanced trios (and even indirectly related ones) Fighting RPG And marbles game spinoff) in the early 2000s, but except Sound Since the N-Gage and Virtual Console versions were released in Japan, we haven’t had a chance to play them on any new hardware since then.

Given how much fans love these games, a remake or remaster seems like a no-brainer, right? Well, in a recent interview with VGCSonic Team Leader Takashi Iizuka confessed that he would love to join.

When asked about the potential for a re-release of the Advance series (be it as a remastered collection or on the GBA NSO library), Iizuka quickly replied that there are currently no plans for any such remasters or remakes, but he added cryptically that “We don’t know what the future holds.”

Give the way Origin of Sonic reintroducing the original and CD versions of Blue Blur to fans, Iizuka said Sonic Team “would love” to do something similar for the Advance series, “if we get the chance”.

Here is the full excerpt from the VGC interview:

There are currently no plans for a Sonic Advance remake or remaster, but we don’t know what the future holds.

Katsuyuki Shigihara is the director of Sonic Origins, which took Sonic 1, 2, 3, and CD, and we remade it and put it out for the fans to enjoy. And if we had the opportunity, if there was a chance for the Advance series to get the same treatment, or whatever the circumstances might be, we’d love to do it.

Sure, “no plans” makes this not as much of a confirmation as you can get, but it’s still an interesting idea! Whatever ‘opportunity’ needs to arise, make it happen, Sega.

Elsewhere in the interview, Iizuka teased what we can expect from Sonic X Dark Generation‘new content and close all conversations of one Subtitle of Chao Garden.