For Sega and the iconic Blue Blur, that game is .
The crunch was legendary. In the final three months before release, developers were sleeping under desks. They knew the game was broken. The QA team filed over 1,000 critical bugs. Management overruled them. The game was stamped, shipped, and burned. Sonic Boom- Rise of Lyric
On paper, Rise of Lyric sounded incredible. Sega partnered with Big Red Button Entertainment (a studio founded by veterans of Crash Bandicoot and Jak & Daxter ) to create a separate continuity from the mainline Sonic games. For Sega and the iconic Blue Blur, that game is