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NEWS: Sega Unveils Sonic Frontiers Game for 2022 Holiday Season




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NJ_



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 09, 2021 9:54 pm Reply with quote
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Sonic Mania, the latest main game in the franchise, shipped in August 2017 for PS4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC.


Ignoring Forces are we? Laughing

Interesting note:

https://www.gameinformer.com/the-game-awards-2021/2021/12/09/sonic-frontiers-drops-the-blue-blur-into-his-first-open-world-game

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Frontiers is an open-world game – or open-zone as Sega describes it – developed by Sonic Team Japan and led by Sonic Forces/Sonic Lost World director, Morio Kishimoto. Sonic embarks on an adventure to the Starfall Islands, a collection of forests, deserts, waterfalls, among other biomes. It's unsure what to expect, but based on the trailer, Sonic has some titanic opposition standing in his way. Fans of the Sonic comic books should be happy to know that Ian Flynn, head writer of IDW's current Sonic the Hedgehog comic and former lead writer of the Archie Comics Sonic series, is penning Frontier's narrative.
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crazieanimefan1



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 09, 2021 10:09 pm Reply with quote
Open world Sonic? Nice. Yet I got some BotW vibes as well.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 09, 2021 10:37 pm Reply with quote
Ah, I see everyone has entered the hopeful anticipation stage of the Sonic Cycle. Laughing
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 10, 2021 1:55 am Reply with quote
At least classic sonic hasn't shown up at all. Here's hoping the actual game is good.
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This is the first game post Ken Pontac and Warren Graff game, so I wonder if they will still do the modern ironic humour or not. Personily I would have liked for Shiro Maekawa to have returned as writer. In terms of playable characters, being open world could have you switch between them for different tasks, ie reach high places as Tails and dig as Knuckles. But they may just have you play as Sonic, even though the novelty of that ran out after Generations.
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Silver Kirin



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PostPosted: Fri Dec 10, 2021 11:47 am Reply with quote
I also felt some BotW vibes from the trailer, I'm not a big fan of a Sonic game with realistic looking backgrounds, though the series has experimented with that style in Adventure (which was realistic for the time) and 2006 (with disastrous consequences). On the postive side, Ian Flynn is writing the game which is cool. On the "negative" side, I was surprised that SEGA included the Switch as a platform, at least from the trailer it seems like it has some complex graphics and I don't think the Switch can handle it without some serious drawbacks, though perhaps Sega knows that Sonic sells well on Nintendo and cannot skip the platform.
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 10, 2021 3:46 pm Reply with quote
Not a lot of gameplay, which is concerning, but the environments look beautiful and the Open World gives me Adventure vibes.

Ian Flynn being involved in writing it means this might be the best Sonic game story in years.
MarshalBanana wrote:
This is the first game post Ken Pontac and Warren Graff game, so I wonder if they will still do the modern ironic humour or not. Personily I would have liked for Shiro Maekawa to have returned as writer. In terms of playable characters, being open world could have you switch between them for different tasks, ie reach high places as Tails and dig as Knuckles. But they may just have you play as Sonic, even though the novelty of that ran out after Generations.

Flynn does a good job of writing humor, and in-character humor of the Sonic cast.
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