At the TGA Awards last December, Sega officially unveiled Sonic: Frontier, an open-world game that attempts to reinvent the evergreen platformer action franchise in radical and novel ways. Fans of the series are clearly excited about the direction the upcoming new game is heading, and Sega seems to have big ambitions in that regard as well.
In a recent interview with GamesRadar, Team Sonic’s creative director Takashi Iizuka said that for Sonic Frontier, the studio is pushing itself to create some new content, echoing a similar announcement last year. With Sonic: Frontier, we’re challenging ourselves to create a new style of Sonic action-adventure game, he said. We’re expanding the Sonic universe once again, introducing new environments and extra features to create a new open-area experience.
Iizuka added that the development team wanted to elevate Sonic to a new generation, and said the game’s combat, mobile, and open-world design would help make that happen. We’re focused on elevating Sonic to a new generation and making sure it fully interprets the character fans to know and love, while still making his new form exciting.
We paid great attention to all the little details of Sonic, To ensure that Sonic’s signature speed and characteristics remain consistent across each game iteration. In Sonic: Frontier, we’re introducing a new fighting style that brings Sonic’s signature agility to the battlefield, while the new exploration option will obviously also take advantage of its signature speed characteristics. Sonic: Frontier will release this holiday season for PS5, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PC.