#Sonic frontiers gameplay screenshot series#

It was revealed in a very weird way, but it potentially tells us some very interesting things. Now, I want to emphasis that what I write today could age in different ways the more the month goes by. TheyвЂ™ll be releasing gameplay videos, trailers, interviews, hand-on impressions and more.

This is like a bad joke, then you find out the guy wasnвЂ™t kidding. We have our first official Sonic Frontiers gameplay screenshot. June 1st, IGNвЂ™s Cover Story for the month was Sonic Frontiers, with coverage of the game starting yesterday by the time of writing. This seriously seems like they took some realistic gameвЂ™s layout plopped in some Sonic rails and springs and added simple challenges to pad out the playtime by about 20 minutes and threw in Sonic and called it a dayвЂ¦ IвЂ™m sorry, but this is what theyвЂ™ve managed to put together since Sonic Forces released all the way back in 2017? Its almost been 5 years since their last horrible game and this is their follow-up game? They need a real visionary working there, whoever is in charge of their creative direction needs to be fired because this looks bad, unfinished, uninspired, and worst of all lazy. This is the first foray into an open world. Earlier in the week, we got our first glimpse of gameplay. Earlier today, a load of brand-new Sonic Frontiers screenshots were released by Sega showing off the expansive open-world looks in this upcoming title.

#Sonic frontiers gameplay screenshot series#

The video comes as part of IGNвЂ™s month-long showcase of the upcoming Switch title. In case the whole open-zone idea is eluding you, Sega also sent along a series of screenshots with the official Sonic Frontiers announcement, none of which feature the titular hedgehog. Even if thereвЂ™s more to the game, this looks woefully incomplete and almost needs an overhaul. Another gameplay video has surfaced for Sonic Frontiers with a specific focus on combat. TheyвЂ™re setting themselves up to fail by putting this unfinished game out by the end of the year. Well, as anyone whoвЂ™s played a Sonic The Hedgehog game in the last two decades will know, they almost always seem promising at first, before gradually seeming less and less so until the final. If a game isnвЂ™t ready for release, donвЂ™t release it.

This looks like a game that still has a year or two before its ready to be revealed rather than ready to officially show the public gameplay footage and have a release date later this year. But that leaves little room for Sonic to freeroam. ItвЂ™s too small to keep whatever gameplay loop, probably mission and such, not a long run from each other. The map is big enough for Sonic, but as a result itвЂ™s mostly empty and feels like youвЂ™re running just to run.

Yeah, IвЂ™ve played Sonic fan games with open worlds that look and play better with more to do. It will come down to go game/level design.