and he knew they wouldn't have enough time to put it together.

As he said in an interview, too much ideas and things were being developed and put together at the same time without much thought, plan, or 'fleshing out'. Through research of development, Bob Rafei, the director of the game, Went through trouble with the game as well. and it looked like a really fun platformer to play with friends. seeing the original concept art for the levels, hubs, objects and characters, vehicles, weapons, modes and most prerelease material leaked online, we can really see the adventurous vision the developers had in mind. The trailer featured tons of scrapped ideas and lots of polish in terms of graphics, Showing that the enerbeam and combat in the game was capable of much more, as well as a possible Chao Garden being shown, plus, tons of Concept Art of characters that aren't seen in the final game at all are shown. Trailers for a prototype version for Boom: Rise of Lyric were leaked, with the game originally being known as 'Sonic Synergy'. Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric, while it was panned by critics and Sonic fans, Had potential to be a decent fun co-op platformer.

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