Sonic Frontiers is an entire new approach for long-time followers of the franchise to place the blue blur by way of his paces, lastly bringing Sonic into an open-world, 3D setting.
It’s a change that hasn’t sat properly with everybody in how its been executed, however simply as Sonic Adventures, the primary 3D foray for Sonic was when it launched, Sonic Frontiers is to be the brand new basis for future Sonic video games.
SEGA’s group lead on Sonic, Takashi Iizuka says so himself in a current interview, calling Sonic Frontiers the brand new “cornerstone” for the franchises future.
“Our purpose for Sonic Frontiers was to create a recreation that might be the cornerstone of future Sonic video games. It’s a brand-new method for the franchise, however we have now been acutely aware to honour Sonic’s roots as properly – the sport nonetheless must really feel like a Sonic recreation.”
Sonic Frontiers hasn’t been the tour de drive for Sonic that each fan was anticipating, however it does convey an entire lot of recent concepts to the sequence.
Additional iterations on the brand new open-world construction and focusing in on what labored properly this time round with Frontiers may lead in the direction of among the finest Sonic titles we’ve ever seen.
Supply – [Sector, via TheGamer]