A brand new Sonic Frontiers trailer was showcased throughout the Nintendo Direct Mini stream, firstly demonstrating what the sport will seem like on Nintendo Change when it launches later in 2022, and secondly revealing new linear Cyber House ranges.
Whereas there’s clearly some visible cutbacks in comparison with the gameplay that was revealed earlier this month, Sonic Frontiers appears fairly stable on Nintendo Change, with the flexibility to sprint, bounce and simply run actually quick across the mysterious island that you simply discover the blue hedgehog on on this sport.
There’s additionally fight in opposition to unusual angular enemies, with Sonic capable of pull of combos and use particular assault strikes to defeat them. It’s also possible to deflect enemy assaults with good timing.
Nevertheless, given the final air of dissatisfaction over the gameplay beforehand revealed, there’s maybe a glimmer of hope with the Cyber House degree that was revealed throughout this new trailer. These are extra linear ranges which you’ll race via, extra akin to the earlier 3D Sonic video games, with keys the reward on the finish of the extent to allow you to progress. Will these be the saving grace of the sport? Or will Sonic Frontiers as an entire exceed expectations?
Nicely, from what Miguel performed at Summer season Recreation Fest, the open world sections felt like taking part in “a hedgehog’s midlife disaster.” Within the full Sonic Frontier Preview, he wrote, “Sonic Frontiers is a large shift in scope and elegance for the franchise, and from what we’ve seen and performed, it’s not prone to stick the touchdown. It’s one factor to shift gears right into a wildly untraditional open-world expertise, but it surely’s one other factor to have it really feel so unfinished and half-baked. Only a few Sonic followers appear to have been asking for a sport like this, and if this demo was any indicator, they gained’t be swayed by it anytime quickly.”
Sonic Frontiers is coming to PlayStation, Xbox, Change and PC within the Vacation launch window of 2022.