Prototype via Sega

Information nigh Sonic Frontiers has been a little scarce since the game's trailer dropped at The Game Awards dorsum in December. At present Sonic Team's creative officeholder Takashi Iizuka has come out with more information about the next highly-anticipated Sonic championship.

In an interview with GamesRadar, Iizuka said that the disquisitional failure of Sonic Forces forced the developers at Sonic Team to reconsider everything they've done, writing a plot in which Dr. Eggman finally took over the world, rehashing Classic Sonic, and restricting Sonic's movements and expressions. Now with the PlayStation v and Xbox Series X/South on the market, they're working on Sonic Frontiers from the footing upward, reworking Sonic's cadre movements and giving him new combat styles to suit the new open up-world environment he'll be running around in while making sure he'south better represented equally the speedy blue hedgehog fans accept known and loved for over 30 years.

"We focused on bringing Sonic to the next level and ensuring that he is fully represented every bit the character that fans know and love while making this new form exciting," Iizuka said. "Nosotros pay extremely close attention to getting all the little Sonic details right to make sure that Sonic's signature speed and characteristics remain consistent across every gaming iteration. With Sonic Frontiers, we'll innovate new combat styles to bring Sonic's signature dexterity onto the battlefield, and the new exploration options evidently play into his iconic speedy nature."

Sonic Squad has a history of experimenting with different gameplay styles for every Sonic game, and each style they attempt is either a hit or a miss. Based on Iizuka's testimony on how the Sonic Frontiers' evolution is going, they seem to be bringing their A-game.

Sonic Frontiers is fix to release Holiday 2022 on PS5, PS4, Xbox Serial Ten/S, Xbox I, Nintendo Switch, and PC.