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Sonic Frontiers releases later this year for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, and PC.Įmail, leave a comment below, and follow us on Twitter. Netflix and Sega have only shared a few short clips so far, all of which are set in Green Hill Zone, with the only other characters besides Sonic so far being Shadow (who’ll also show up in the next movie) and, bizarrely, Big the Cat. The show will be a multiverse story of some kind, with Sonic once again needing to save his friends and foil whatever Dr Eggman’s newest scheme is. This is according to an interview with Toru Nakahara, a producer on both the live action Sonic movies. It looks like the last months of 2022 are going to be big for Sonic fans, as the Netflix series, Sonic Prime, is apparently releasing in December, just a month after Sonic Frontiers. It’s only 30 seconds long and doesn’t reveal any new details, aside from a short snippet of what sounds like the game’s vocal theme. The website was first spotted by Reddit user FahdaadTD, and you can visit it yourself here.Ī new trailer for the game has been found in Japan as well and has since made its way online. Aside from re-confirming that Tails, Knuckles, and Amy will appear, there’s a notable black blob that is no doubt hiding more characters that haven’t been announced for the game yet. I want to see them pull out all the stops, and I hope they've done it here.Fans on Twitter have managed to enlarge the image to see what else it contains. That's admirable, but it's got to be creatively stifling. Sorry if that last bit sounded snarky, but seriously I've read interviews where Sonic Team members admit they make big game design decisions based on fan reactions and feedback. fans like creating original characters, right? Let's make a whole game about that." It looks like they're doing something that they want to do, rather than doing things like "uuuuhh. Ever since then, Sonic Team have been scrambling to find a way to make a game that appeases fan expectations or leans on nostalgia rather than doing truly creative things. Sega themselves even joke about how bad that game was. Yuji Naka then planned a return to form with only Sonic, rebooting to the degree that he called the game simply "Sonic the Hedgehog," but serious development troubles (and it was long ago, but I think I remember reading Sega was pressuring him to make it more like the popular Sonic X anime by including, you guessed it, more playable friends) caused Naka and a sizeable portion of Sonic Team to sorta give up and bail, and the game that was left in the wake was the infamously bad "Sonic 06," as we call it. It was even a part of the "Sonic Cycle" graphic that circulated for years that Sega would introduce a game and show off Sonic, people would get excited, then the second trailer would show new friends with different gimmicks, and people would get worried. Fans were letting it be known that they wanted to go back to core speed-based and momentum-based gameplay where you play as Sonic. This was really noticable with Sonic Heroes, where there are so many characters that you play three at once and still have four separate teams for a total of twelve(!) playable characters. There was definitely a section of the fandom (though I won't say it was the whole fandom) who started getting turned off post-Adventure when it seemed to them like there were too many "new friends" with different playstyles being focused on.
