While he enjoyed his brief trips into Cyber Space, he struggled with controlling Sonic as the game seemed to want him to, calling his movement “floaty” and missing the “signature Sonic flow” that the best Sonic titles have taken advantage of. Last month at the Tokyo Game Show, our own Jacob Bukacek got a chance to get some hands-on time with a demo for Sonic Frontiers and walked away with mixed emotions. Other hidden challenges also lie waiting in Cyber Space, including fishing minigames hosted by Big the Cat, so the promise of new levels that draw upon Sonic and his friend’s storied past is a strong motivator to see through the expected twenty to thirty hour completion time.
After defeating large-scale bosses, Sonic will acquire pieces to portals that allow him to enter Cyber Space, which host familiar Sonic levels that contain optional challenges and play out from both the side-scrolling and behind-the-back perspectives. Along his journey, Sonic will encounter new kinds of robotic enemies that will force him to expand his prowess in combat, as players can now dodge and parry while fighting foes and use the Cyloop to weaken them.
SONIC UNLEASHED 2D FAN GAME UPGRADE
In addition to platforming challenges placed throughout the islands that feature familiar gadgets like springs and boost pads, the Starfall Islands are littered with collectibles including Kocos that upgrade Sonic’s abilities and Memory Tokens that will help Sonic track down his allies. In addition to Sonic’s familiar abilities such as homing dashes, grinding on rails and running on walls, the blue blur can now also perform the Cyloop, allowing players to outline different shapes with Sonic’s movements to grant him faster speeds or create a circle of light to interact with objects. Sonic lands in the Starfall Islands, a vast open zone populated with different biomes and dangerous threats as Sonic looks to collect the Chaos Emeralds and find his friends. How would the gameplay and open space take advantage of Sonic’s blistering speeds? Would there be a wide enough variety of things to do in the open world that don’t solely involve Sonic’s ability to rapidly reach the finish line? The past year of new trailers and gameplay have undeniably been a bumpy road for Sonic Frontiers, but with launch approaching in just under a month, we now have a better sense of what players can expect when Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Amy are sucked through a mysterious wormhole and separated from one another.
After nearly five years since the last attempt at a 3D Sonic title, Sonic Team has returned with a brand new vision for the speedy blue hedgehog that looks to take advantage of what worked so well for The Legend of Zelda, Grand Theft Auto and many others before it: the freedom of open world gaming.įirst announced nearly a year ago at the Game Awards, the promise of an open world Sonic game raised many questions for casual and passionate Sonic fans. They haven’t always been miserable to play, as fan favorites like Sonic Adventure 2 and Sonic Colors have overcome the hurdles in ways that Sonic 2006 and others have repeatedly stumbled over, but even the stronger entries have never laid a clear path forward for how Sonic games can survive in the 21st century without returning to its 2D roots like in Sonic Mania. For most of its existence, Sonic the Hedgehog has struggled to adapt to the arrival and evolution of 3D gaming.
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