After a rather heavy-handed tease earlier this week, Sega has just unveiled the new Sonic the Hedgehog game at The Game Awards 2021: Sonic Frontiers.
Sonic news has been sparse over the last few years. While the first ever footage of Sonic Frontiers – which was unnamed at the time – debuted at Sonic Central 2021, there wasn’t a whole lot of information we could garner from it. All we really got to see were Sonic’s iconic trainers as he sprinted through a nondescript forest.
Now, seven months later, we’ve finally been given a more detailed look at what’s to come for the world’s fastest hedgehog.
As you can see from the clip above, it looks like rumors of the next Sonic game following a similar design ethos to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild were true. Admittedly we still haven’t seen any gameplay, but the environmental design and some of the shots in the trailer look like deliberate adages to Nintendo’s blockbuster.
Sonic Frontiers will mark the Blue Blur’s first new outing since the double whammy of Sonic Mania and Sonic Forces back in 2017. According to the trailer, it’s due to launch for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S and Nintendo Switch in Holiday 2022.
Written by Cian Maher on behalf of GLHF.
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