{"id":439725,"date":"2025-11-07T12:19:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T12:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/sonic-frontiers-drops-the-blue-blur-into-his-first-open-world-game\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T12:19:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T12:19:40","slug":"sonic-frontiers-drops-the-blue-blur-into-his-first-open-world-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/sonic-frontiers-drops-the-blue-blur-into-his-first-open-world-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonic Frontiers Drops The Blue Blur Into His First Open World Game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/sonic-frontiers-drops-the-blue-blur-into-his-first-open-world-game.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" alt=\"\" typeof=\"Image\" class=\"image-style-body-default\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Tonight\u2019s Game Awards revealed that Sonic Frontiers is the official title for the next 3D Sonic game, and the hedgehog is expanding his horizons to a bigger world than ever.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Frontiers is an open-world game \u2013 or open-zone as Sega describes it \u2013 developed by Sonic Team Japan and led by Sonic Forces\/Sonic Lost World director, Morio Kishimoto. Sonic embarks on an adventure to the Starfall Islands, a collection&nbsp;of forests, deserts, waterfalls, among other biomes. It&#8217;s unsure what to expect, but based on the trailer, Sonic has some titanic opposition standing in his way. Fans of the Sonic comic books should be happy to know that Ian Flynn, head writer of IDW&#8217;s current Sonic the Hedgehog comic and former lead writer of the Archie Comics Sonic series, is penning Frontier&#8217;s narrative.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a target='_blank' href='https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/the-game-awards-2021\/2021\/12\/09\/sonic-frontiers-drops-the-blue-blur-into-his-first-open-world-game' rel=\"noopener\">Click here to watch embedded media<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sonic Frontiers doesn\u2019t have an exact release date, but it\u2019s coming during the 2022 holiday season for current and last-gen consoles.&nbsp;It\u2019s cool to see Sonic tackling a true open-world for the first time. Hopefully, it borrows some tips from another high-speed 3D platformer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/opinion\/2021\/12\/06\/solar-ash-is-a-great-starting-point-for-the-next-3d-sonic-game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Solar Ash<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>What do you think of Sonic Frontiers? Do you believe Sonic can work in an open world? Let us know in the comments!<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/the-game-awards-2021\/2021\/12\/09\/sonic-frontiers-drops-the-blue-blur-into-his-first-open-world-game\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight\u2019s Game Awards revealed that Sonic Frontiers is the official title for the next 3D Sonic game, and the hedgehog is expanding his horizons to a bigger world than ever.&nbsp; Frontiers is an open-world game \u2013 or open-zone as Sega describes it \u2013 developed by Sonic Team Japan and led by Sonic Forces\/Sonic Lost World director, Morio Kishimoto. Sonic embarks on an adventure to the Starfall Islands, a collection&nbsp;of forests, deserts, waterfalls, among other biomes. It&#8217;s unsure what to expect, but based on the trailer, Sonic has some titanic opposition standing in his way. Fans of the Sonic comic books should be happy to know that Ian Flynn, head writer of IDW&#8217;s current Sonic the Hedgehog comic and former lead writer of the Archie Comics&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/sonic-frontiers-drops-the-blue-blur-into-his-first-open-world-game\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":439726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-informer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sonic Frontiers Drops The Blue Blur Into His First Open World Game | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" 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