Sonic The Hedgehog (Failed Naughty Dog Pitch)

Sonic the Hedgehog (or Sonic rush) is a failed pitch made by naughty dog, it was meant to be another dark and gritty take on the sonic franchise as a sub franchise like sonic boom.
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Development: After The failure of sonic boom rise of lyric and shattered crystal Sega tried once more to make a another sub series, this time taking it into a darker direction.
Sega then teamed up with Naughty Dog after the success of the last of us but mostly the jak series, Sega asked Naughty Dog to make a pitch for the game to see what they can come up with.
Naughty Dog then made a Story pitch and concept art of this new game, the game was simply called "Sonic The Hedgehog" or " Sonic rush" Naughty Dog looked all over sonic media and used the Satam cartoon as a base, the Story involved The Sonic Characters being a lab experiment gone wrong and mobius being earth itself that was mutated from government experiments.
For instance Green Hill Zone was once an Island But after a Nuclear Explosion it Mutated that resemble something like in the games.
This was enough for Sega To Allow them to continue their game, Naughty Dog Then Spend The Next Six months plotting and building the world of the game.
Members who worked on The Adventure games and unleashed were also hired to work on the game.
the gameplay would of use The adventure style gameplay and somehow used the boost gimmick from unleashed, the playable characters were sonic tails and at one point the freedom fighters
sonic and tails would of had the adventure style gameplay , sonic also would of had all running like in lost world and a tornado move, tails could of course fly but also had gadgets he could use like bombs, he could also hack into computers which might come in handy to stop robotnik
princess Sally and aintone would of been done in a hack and slash as she could use her ring blades from the rebooted archie comics and aintone had two swords he could use,  bunnie would of been done in a third person shooter sort of way and rotor would of been stealth based.
However the freedom fighters where scrapped by Sega as they had another lawsuit with archie, so naughty dog had to try again, they new playable characters were sonic tails knuckles the chaotix and blaze the cat who would of been the focus of the story.
You see the old script borrowed elements from satam and the archie comics, but after another lawsuit they had to rewrite the script.
This new one still involved earth being mutated and still cared ideas from the old script, but with blaze added the new story was to be about blaze coming from her dimension to sonic's and like in the rush games her goal was to find the sol emeralds.
And like in rush she meets cream cheese knuckles Amy and eventually Sonic, This would of lead two Sonic and Blaze becoming allies and Eventually a close friendship, it was also decided by Sega to try once more to give sonic a love interest and thought Blaze would of been a Good choice.
It also would of been revealed Blaze dimension was similar to sonic's with earth being Mutated but Instead of sonic and tails it was blaze and marine the raccoon.
Boss battles would of feature both old and new, Sega asked for  fang the sniper along with bean the dynamite bark The polar bear along with metal sonic to be the first few bosses with  robotnik as the final boss, the game also would of had original boss made for the game .
Naughty Dog also planned to use scrapped concepts from the cancelled Jan and daxter 4 game, and use them for environments and city's for the games open world.
Cancellation: the game was cancelled because Sega found the pitch to far from the sonic games and was worried that it might bombed like sonic boom, Sega then Cancelled Sonic 2015 and replaced it with the upcoming sonic mania and sonic forces.
Trivia:  the game was planned to be a Xbox and ps4 title.
Sega planned to market the game big, this went from a six issue comic book tie in to a planned toy line and possibly a cartoon.
Much like rush we would of saw two sides of sonic and blazes story as the player could choose which character story they would play first.
The plot also would of been an origin story for sonic as for 90 percent of the game he would of been brown and somewhere at the end he would of turn blue
If this game became a success it would of lead to a sequel that would of explored sonic and blazes relationship further
Their was talks about whether sonic and Sally would be a couple in this game.
Amy rose was planned to be a boss like in heroes, like in heroes her role in this game would of been chasing sonic and forcing him to marry her, this would of had the boss take place in a wedding Amy had set up.
The fight would of end with the place collapsing resulting in her death.
Shadow at one point was going to be a boss but was scrapped
The game was planned to be released in 2017
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