Trivia / Sonic Lost World

• Ascended Fanon: On a marketing scale, while the Japan dev team did not actually rely on the Sonic X-treme project for materials and inspiration, the fans have noticed the similarities, and Sega of America appears to welcome the comparisons.
• Development Gag:
  • The Deadly Six Edition features bosses from NiGHTS into Dreams…. Sonic X-treme was going to feature bosses designed with the NiGHTS engine, which could be one of the few intentional references to X-Treme's development.
  • Sonic knocks billiard balls into their holes as he rolls around whilst entombed inside a giant snowball in Frozen Factory. Believe it or not, there was a billiards mini-game in one of the many scrapped Sonic games from the mid-1990's, where Sonic had to act as the cue ball.
• First Appearance: Of the Deadly Six.
• Franchise Killer: The 3DS version was this for a certain value of "franchise." The Dimps-made line of handheld Sonic games were already shifted from being original titles to reformulated versions of the mainline console games thanks to the underperformance of Sonic Rush Adventure, but the negative reception to their 3DS version of Lost World ended the handheld line entirely, leading to Dimps retiring from the Sonic franchise. The next two handheld games in the franchise, Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal and Fire & Ice, were spinoffs in an Alternate Continuity, and developed by Sanzaru Games, but their own poor reception seems to have merely killed the handheld line entirely (though the Nintendo Switch marking the end of dedicated handheld systems also played a factor).
• Pre-Order Bonus:
  • Pre-ordering the game gives the player 25 extra lives on top of the regular four.
  • The first DLC pack for the Wii U version was exclusive to pre-orders, and granted access to the Nightmare Zone.
• What Could Have Been: According to an interview with Ken Pontac, Orbot and Cubot were almost scrapped from Lost World and the series, and he had to ask for their inclusion in the story. The source is the interview done by Roger from Sonic Dissected:
  Cubot and Orbot, yes. They almost got cut from the series. There were some questions from one of the groups of producers. They were great, but Eggman wouldn't have that kind of relationship with a pair of robots, and we ended up winning the argument because even if he doesn't or didn't have that, you can have it now if's really funny and works.
• Word of God: The Deadly Six were created by Sonic Team, according to Ken Pontac. Pontac and Graff only wrote their dialogue and the story while following an outline.
• You Sound Familiar: After being away from the franchise for years due to E-102 γ being destroyed and Dark Oak being exclusive to his series, Joji Nakata returns to the Sonic series as Zavok.

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