Yuji Naka really fell off hard after Sonic Adventure 2 and commercial failures of Sega's hardware endeavors as a whole. Went from being Sega's golden child, to being arrested for securities fraud.

Allegedly he was extremely difficult to work with and would not share the Night's 3d game engine with an American team that was developing a 3d Sonic game for the Sega Saturn, effectively kneecapping a big part of that console's commercial viability

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adamrezich 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm going to go out on a limb and confidently assert that he didn't write a single line of the code that this article is about.

	▲	LarsDu88 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		He lead the team for most of development until leaving the company months before the horribly botched release. He mostly wrote most of the assembly code for the mainline sonic games in the 90s.