Sonic can be seen racing around Starfall Islands, and facing down giant enemies. It is very much an announcement trailer, holding back gameplay and instead focusing on the new setting. TrailerĪs we mentioned previously, there has only been one cinematic trailer released for Sonic Frontiers so far. It would certainly be good to see some more gameplay before the official release date is revealed. Given that Holiday 2022 is only a few months away at this point, hopefully we will hear more on Sonic Frontiers very soon indeed.
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We’ve embedded the gameplay trailer below, but make sure to head over to IGN for the full scoop! In it, seven-minutes of uninterrupted gameplay were shown, as well as a look at traversal, and what enemies Sonic will be up against. Sonic Frontiers was given the spotlight in an exclusive reveal from IGN. Large open spaces for Sonic to speed around in. What we do know is that the game will feature open world sections. It shares a similar vibe to Breath of the Wild, with a more naturalistic and serene colour palette. If I remember correctly, that caused layoffs as well.‘landscapes brimming with dense forests, overflowing waterfalls, sizzling deserts and more!’Īs you can see in the trailer and screenshots in this article, Starfall Islands is quite unlike any other Sonic setting. Then there is Covid, which was during the development of Sonic Frontiers. This may have caused Forces to be worse than it would have been. With the Hedgehog Engine 2 being made during Rise of Lyric, and what happened after that, I have a feeling they lost a lot of their Generations team, work ethnics at Sega being another possible reason aside, before they started working on the actual game. The team behind Forces said that the Generations team was behind the Forces game. This was during Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric, which not only flopped and was bad, but caused a restructuring with lots of layoffs. Now, from what I remember, the first two years of that game was spent on making the Hedgehog Engine 2. Sonic Forces was, well, maybe starting development after Sonic Lost World. They had to tease Sonic Frontiers and Origins to fill the event. I imagine that if they only showed Sonic Colors Ultimate at Sonic Central, people would be really mad. Other factor is that probably Sonic Frontiers' and Origins announcements were premature because Sega was being pressured by fans to show some new gaming-related stuff.
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Imagine how much more people will be interested in buying Sonic games after Sonic Movie 2 and Sonic Prime. Maybe Sega saw how well the first movie did, and how Frontiers would perform way better if it were released in the same year as the second movie. We had to consider that Sonic Frontiers started development long before the first movie's release, and Sega wasn't counting with it. So, maybe Sega had a plan for the 30th anniversary and they decided to change it because they wanted to take advantage of the multimedia exposure. Sega wasn't expecting the first movie to be a hit, but it was, and it had a huge impact on Sonic's popularity. I think the lack of news is a combination of a lot of factors. I am not bashing anyone here too, just to be clear. I am not really complaining here, as I just wanted to point some things out. I am sure this happened when Sonic's model changed altogether with the transition from Classic Sonic to Modern Sonic when Sonic Adventure came along. That said, I have a feeling that Sonic's model could be different from the Forces model in Frontiers in many ways and yet people would still complain, even if it clearly is not the Forces model. Thing is, this is evolution, not the Darwin type, but the fact that Sonic's model has small changes over time, and future models, especially in the far future, may be drastically different from this model in some ways. That said, there may be similarities with past Sonic models like the Lost World and Sonic Generations as well as Unleashed. Okay, not to criticize, but first off, the way Sonic looks, if it is like the model used in Forces, they are probably trying to make it consistent with a few small tweaks.