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SEGA has been very tight-lipped throughout the development of Sonic Frontiers, their upcoming open-world entry that will take the long-running franchise in a supposedly vastly new direction. With June upon us, game companies are ready to show off their projects, and among them will be SEGA, finally giving us an update on the game. A 30-second teaser video was uploaded today, giving fans something to get them hooked prior to the full showcase. In the video, Sonic is shown running around a large landscape, fighting enemies, grinding on rails, and even going up against a giant robot boss.

News outlet IGN is promising exclusive coverage as June goes on, with the next teaser to be revealed tomorrow, at 9am PST.

 

[Deleted member 532471]

The game looks pretty good, thank God


It's funny to me.how they abandoned sonic zap though, it had such a nice ring to it

 

[Kamiyama]

Looks like they really are recycling PSO2 NGS's empty plains in this one.

 

[Moon164]

This looks pretty damn good and much better than I expected, but now I'm kind of worried that the Nintendo Switch version will suffer severe downgrades and the PS4 version (Which is where I intend to play) not being able to run at 60fps like Sonic Frontiers , Team Sonic Rancing and basically any Sonic released for the console.

I gotta say, Sonic does not look like he belongs in that environment, the art style really feels like it's conflicting with what Sonic games are meant to look like. Like say what you will about Lost World, but that art style felt undeniably Sonic. This feels like a non-celshaded BOTW mod that has replaced Link with Sonic. Gameplay may still be great, but I'm not crazy about this art style for a Sonic game.

I think seeing Sonic in realistic environments has been what Sonic games were supposed to look like for about 20 years now.

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Sonic Adventure 2 :

Shadow the Hedgehog :

Sonic 2006 :

Sonic Unleashed :

Sonic and the Black Knight :

Sonic Colors :

I really don't know what people mean by that, Sonic has been in realistic settings one way or another since we got out of 16-bit.

About Art-Style, it's basically the same as Sonic and the Black Knight :

Actually, it reminds me more of Phantasy Star Online 2 than Breath of the Wild.

 

[driverdis]

I can’t wait for the day1 inclusion of Denuvo.

 

[Bladexdsl]

the cycle is complete

we have sonic if the wild! it looks like they have taken everything that makes a good sonic game thrown it out thr window and replaced with with mindless battles. not impressed AT ALL.

move over sonic boom we got a new champion

 

[lordelan]

I really want this to do well because from what I see it's promising! But I am curious how the hell a switch would be able to run this...

I don't care tbh. Steam Deck all the way.
Looks really good. Hopefully the world is full of life though.

 

[Dr_Faustus]

Looks awful to me. I don't get all the positive reception. I think people are just so desperate for a Sonic game to be good they'll go wild over anything that isn't outright bullshit.

I am pretty sure this is known to most on the outside looking in as "The Sonic Cycle"

As for me, I know many are considering this Sonic's "BotW" but it comes off to me more like No Man's Sky at launch AKA: "A lot of space to explore, but nothing to really do that isn't going to be repetitive and boring to players very fast".

 

[PacBunnyXV07]

So how many of you expecting Chao Garden?

 

[godreborn]

Looks awful to me. I don't get all the positive reception. I think people are just so desperate for a Sonic game to be good they'll go wild over anything that isn't outright bullshit.

Where's the platforming? Where's the stylised worlds, loops and springs? To me it really looks like one of those "Nintendo hire this man" unreal engine videos.

The focus on combat in this clip also doesn't inspire any confidence - remember Unleashed?

Oh well as least I have Origins to look forward to.

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I was thinking the same. it's just another 3d sonic game, all the elements seem to be in place, and I've always hated 3d sonic. sonic is one of those games that doesn't seem to translate well to 3dl, so I think it should stick to 2d.

 

[raxadian]

Even the first level of Sonic Adventure alone had more enemies that this trailer.

 

[KingVamp]

replaced with with mindless battles.

Funny, considering before you could just boost through enemies without them even being able to fight back.

 

[SexiestManAlive]

Funny, considering before you could just boost through enemies without them even being able to fight back.

lmfao, ikr.

 

[SexiestManAlive]

it has issues, but overall I think it may be interesting, im excited, and remember we still have a whole month of info coming.

 

[HarveyHouston]

while also re adding sonic 06 to xbox storefront if i remember correctly.

Yes, that's even more puzzling.

 

[Dax_Fame]

Breath of the Botnik