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Gut Check: Sonic Frontiers (Early Access)
🕑 Added 2022-06-14 23:32:55 +0000 UTCHere's your early access post for the debut of Gut Check! This is an early draft render while I nail down little things that always go wrong during the process of rendering videos. For example, the credits layer is accidentally hidden in this version! There's also a few other small things that need touching up.
Comments
Sofox
I just finished playing Sonic the Hedgehog (2006), and when I was looking at gameplay footage for Sonic Frontiers as you were explaining your issues with the combat I was like "Wait, that's Shadow's moveset." So I totally see your point.
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The thing I keep thinking about Frontiers is "Sonic 06 aesthetic". Not that it IS Sonic 06 or will be a disaster just, its the same specific type of realistic aesthetic adjusted 16 years forward. Sonic's punch flurries also feel in line with Shadow's silly kung fu from that same game.
Ryan Bloom
Noted on the gatekeeping bit. High emotions and all that.
Jackson Wessling
I’m with you on this one Blaze. The cyberspace levels have me interested enough to see what they offer. Everything else you said is very much how I’m feeling now and I can only keep my fingers crossed til the game’s release hoping it’ll turn out fine (or at the very least better than Sonic Team’s past couple games). From what we’ve seen so far, the combat seems to be the best part, even for as un-Sonic like as it may look.
Melco Driggs
I will say the line about people not being into Sonic games if they like the look of Frontiers rubs me the wrong way (it feels presumptuous and a little gatekeep-y to me.) Other than that one thing, I did enjoy getting your thoughts on Frontiers, and I definitely see where Sonic throwing out melee attacks in a mainline game would be off-putting. "Do kids these days even get this reference" got a laugh out of me. Great stuff as always, looking forward to more of this series. C:
