Sonic Frontiers Now Has A Trailer With An Itemised List Of What To Expect

If you are anything like me, and indulging in at least a rudimentary interest in what the heck is going on in Sonic Frontiers – you’ll be pleased to know that the new Overview Trailer gives you a proper breakdown on precisely what’s going on.

Take a squiz:

Right, so:

• Sonic and Friends were doing a thing, looking for Chaos Emeralds
• Tails and Amy were at least with him
• They got sucked into a dimensional portal
• He ended up in a place called CYBER SPACE (Notice the separate words, it isn’t ‘cyberspace’ like normal everyday IT people deal with, obviously)
• It’s a DIGITAL world
• His friends are missing, and now he is on a big weird island filled with ruins, grindrails and springs
• Big weird robots are also here
• There is OPEN ZONE gameplay. OPEN ZONE is still an awkward term that I can’t quite get behind
• You can do puzzles and junk to unlock and complete more traditional sonic-esque levels
• Some cool giant robot boss fights?
• Enjoy some HIGH SPEED, OPEN ZONE gameplay. Nope, OPEN ZONE still does nothing for me
• New combat system, with combos. Oh, but you can turn on AUTO COMBO to…uh, ignore the combo system?
• Sonic can do neat loopy trail drawing as a mechanic to do puzzles and battle enemies – “CYLOOP”
• Dodges? Parries? Counters? What is this, Street Fighter Third Strike?
• OPEN ZONE

So, the scope is blown wide open. There is a ton going on – and after quite a handful of marketing materials I finally have a grasp on what to actually expect.

It has me properly interested now. I may not be positively VIBRATING with anticipation, but it’s a marked improvement on the initial gameplay reveal that had the game looking clunky and soulless.

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