The last one would have to be Sonic Frontiers. I think that was a major test that determined the future of the Sonic series. I’ve wanted to make an open-world Sonic for about 10 years now, but Sonic, whose core appeal is “running courses,” and an open world are not a good match. “It’s not going to be fun if Sonic is just sitting around in a vast space,” and that brought back trauma from the early stages of “Sonic Adventure” development, so I couldn’t quite bring myself to do it. But in the end, director Kishimoto (Kishimoto Morio) agonized over it and came up with the open zone concept. I think it became a title that took a great step that will determine the future of Sonic. |
