We have got simply over every week to go till Sonic Frontiers is lastly out, and in preparation for its launch, Sonic Workforce head Takashi Iizuka has sat down with Shacknews to speak about what this “open-zone” Sonic title will deliver to the desk (thanks, TheGamer!).
Throughout the interview, the dialogue quickly turned to the Koco, creatures that you may acquire all through the sport, with comparisons being drawn with Zelda: Breath of the Wild’s Korok Seeds. And again when Sonic Frontiers was first revealed, many thought this new imaginative and prescient for Sonic was taking inspiration from Nintendo’s huge open-world recreation. However Izuka means that, except for the “freedom”, the 2 are very completely different video games.
Within the video (timestamped above at 9:20), Izuka lays out why each video games ought to be thought-about as completely different:
“From the event [team’s] perspective, they are going out and making an motion recreation. So when they consider Breath of the Wild, they see Breath of the Wild positively as a role-playing recreation, and it is not related in any respect to the motion recreation that they are making… There is similar factor of freedom that has been utilized to Breath of the Wild as a role-playing recreation, they usually’re taking the linear high-speed motion Sonic recreation and implementing freedom into there.”
Izuka instantly units the 2 video games aside by defining their genres — Sonic Frontiers as an motion recreation, and Breath of the Wild as a role-playing recreation. Regardless that each video games take a longtime franchise and pop their characters into a brand new, more-open setting, they do sufficient otherwise to face very separate.
Consequently, many followers noticed similarities between the 2 video games with every new trailer — us included! — however Izuka thinks the 2 video games aren’t related in any respect, regardless of the group’s love for Breath of the Wild:
“However after we take into consideration, ‘is it an open world recreation? Is it much like Breath of the Wild?’, lots of people on the group love the Zelda sequence, they love Breath of the Wild, they’ve performed it, however to them, they do not actually see a similarity between the video games.”
The entire interview is not simply concerning the Breath of the Wild comparisons all of us like to make, although, as Izuka additionally touches on Cyber House, the sport’s fight, and the rationale that Tails, Knuckles, and Amy are all within the recreation. We’ll quickly get to search out out for ourselves whether or not Sonic within the open-zone formulation is a hit, as Sonic Frontiers launches on eighth November on Change.
Within the meantime, you’ll be able to take a look at the sport’s prologue comedian which establishes the rationale Sonic has gone to the Starfall Islands, and we’re additionally resulting from get an animated prequel quick starring Knuckles earlier than the sport’s launch: