#SONIC FRONTIERS LEAKS SERIES#
#SONIC FRONTIERS LEAKS TV#

Following a wave of fan backlash - including some calls for Sega to delay the game - Sega’s Takashi Iizuka, who runs Sonic Team, addressed the criticism.

#SONIC FRONTIERS LEAKS SERIES#

The series did not help the game’s image. And then, of course, ten days later sees the all-but-guaranteed sales juggernaut of the season: Pokémon Scarlet and Violet.Įarlier this summer, IGN ran a series of videos exploring more of Sonic Frontiers, including how combat works and what the open-world actually plays like. Sonic Frontiers itself will share a release date with Skull and Bones, the repeatedly delayed Ubisoft pirate game (née an Assassin’s Creed spinoff), which comes out just one day before Sony publishes the most anticipated game of the year: God of War Ragnarök. That’s followed immediately by a new Call of Duty game. About a week prior, WB Games will release Gotham Knights, an open-world co-op action game based on DC antiheroes. If the leak turns out to be true, Sonic Frontiers is landing during the busiest release stretch of the year. (Those BotW comparisons were indeed apt.)Ī representative for Sega did not respond to a request for comment in time for publication. At the end of the clip, it culminates with the crunchy guitar so commonly associated with the series, as Sonic ascends a cliff and gazes at a mountain range. It’s brief - just 30 seconds long - but does seem more “like a Sonic game” than previous footage, showing Sonic tearing through natural environments: a forest, a mechanised bridge, the walls of a canyon. The ad itself was quickly set to private, but not before several unaffiliated accounts grabbed and reuploaded it. As previously confirmed, it’ll come out on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Switch, and PC.

#SONIC FRONTIERS LEAKS TV#

The game is set to be one of the headliners for today’s Gamescom Opening Night Live showcase, but ahead of the event, Sega seems to have inadvertently published a Japanese TV spot pegging a November 8, 2022, release date for Sonic Frontiers. More time in the oven sure seems to be the last thing Sonic Frontiers is gonna get. Read More: Sonic Frontiers Dev Says Negative Reactions Are Because People ‘Don’t Understand’ It It felt empty, and failed to capture the bravado that defined its predecessors, and made (some of) them such a blast to play. The consensus, more or less, was basically: This thing needs a bit more time in the oven. Initially given a late 2022 release date, previews this summer lambasted how it did not feel like a Sonic game (in other words, no loop-de-loops). Frontiers came across as Sonic designed by way of a Breath of a Wild checklist. Sonic Frontiers, first announced during the 2021 Game Awards, is the blue hedgehog’s first foray into an open-world format.

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