What Do You Mean!? - Sonic Frontiers Final Horizon Update
0From my sixth Sonic Frontiers stream (for the Final Horizon update)
I used the training to figure out how to do the cyknuckle so I could finally get to the chaos emerald. And this happened....
About (Per Wikipedia):
Sonic Frontiers is a 2022 platform game developed by Sonic Team and published by Sega. As Sonic, the player explores the Starfall Islands to collect the Chaos Emeralds, after Sonic and his friends are separated when falling through a wormhole. Frontiers integrates traditional Sonic the Hedgehog elements—such as platforming, rings, and grind rails—into the series' first open world. While exploring the open world, players can complete challenges, fight robotic enemies, and access "Cyber Space" levels inspired by previous Sonic games.
Following the release of Sonic Forces (2017), Sonic Team began exploring approaches for its next game. Takashi Iizuka, head of Sonic Team, wanted Frontiers to be a model for future titles, as Sonic Adventure had done in 1998. Sonic Team settled on an open-ended design, and focused on adapting Sonic's abilities to an open world. Frontiers was announced in December 2021.
Sonic Frontiers was released for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S on November 8, 2022. It received mixed reviews from critics, with praise given to the visuals, story, and soundtrack, but criticism for some technical issues; the controls and combat divided critics. The game was received more favorably by fans of the series. It was a commercial success, selling 3.5 million copies by May 2023.
Marketing and release
Sega planned to release Sonic Frontiers in 2021 to coincide with the franchise's 30th anniversary but delayed it by one year for quality control. Frontiers finished development on October 22, 2022, and released on November 8, 2022, for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
Sega unveiled a teaser trailer, featuring Sonic running through a forest, at the end of a 30th-anniversary livestream on May 27, 2021. The title was not announced, but the trailer metadata and a Sega press release included the title Sonic Rangers. Iizuka later said that he felt the game was teased prematurely, but believed it necessary given that it was the series's 30th anniversary and that Sonic Team had not announced a game since Forces. Sega trademarked the name Sonic Frontiers in November 2021 and announced it the following month at the Game Awards 2021 in December.
Sega collaborated with video game news website IGN to promote Frontiers throughout June 2022. A trailer featured during the opening night of Gamescom on August 23, 2022. In Japan, the game offered DLC in collaboration with VTuber Inugami Korone, available by pre-ordering the game. Additional information serving as a prelude to Frontiers was sold as pre-release promotional material, titled Sonic Frontiers Prologue. These included an eight-page comic, Sonic Frontiers Prologue: Convergence, released in October 2022, and an accompanying animated short, Sonic Frontiers Prologue: Divergence, released on November 1. The comic was drawn by Evan Stanley, an artist and writer on IDW's Sonic comic series, while animation was directed by Tyson Hesse; both were written by Flynn.
Sonic Frontiers sold in physical and digital versions, offering in-game items as pre-order bonuses, as well as a Digital Deluxe edition, which includes additional items, a digital artbook and a mini digital soundtrack covering Kronos Island. Signing up for the official newsletter before January 31, 2023, gave players a free DLC code to unlock Sonic's Soap shoes from Sonic Adventure 2 (2001). Frontiers received a free DLC pack on November 14, 2022, that included additional cosmetics inspired by Capcom's Monster Hunter series as well as a cooking minigame. Several content updates were announced shortly before The Game Awards 2022. The first, titled "Sights, Sounds, and Speed", included a Battle Rush mode where Sonic fights an island's enemies back to back, a Cyber Space Challenge mode where Sonic completes an island's Cyber Space levels back to back, a photo mode, and a jukebox that plays various music from Sonic's history obtained through "Sound Memories". The second update, "Sonic's Birthday Bash", includes several quality of life updates and birthday cosmetic items, as well as New Koco used to increase the boost gauge, New Game +, Action Chain Challenges, and the return of the Spin Dash. The third and final major update for the game, "The Final Horizon", released September 28, 2023, includes Tails, Knuckles and Amy as additional playable characters, and an overhaul of the game's climax and new challenges.
Some retailers sold copies of Sonic Frontiers before the street date, and the Nintendo Switch version was uploaded online. The composer, Tomoya Ohtani, said he was saddened by the leaks and urged players to not spoil the game.
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