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Sonic Frontiers Receives New Gameplay Footage, Story Details And More Shared

Aside from the Sonic Central presentation, IGN also published a new hands-on impressions video for Sonic Frontiers, as well as some new details about the game.

During their hands-on preview, the outlet managed to glean a wide variety of new information about the game, including details about its story, world, enemies, boss fights, and more. You can check out their gameplay video below, as well as a summary of some of the key tidbits shared:

Story & World

The story involves Sonic flying into a wormhole with Tails and Amy

Sonic gets separated from his friends on an isolated island

Sonic is guided by a mysterious AI voice that tasks him with finding the Chaos Emeralds

The soundtrack uses minimalist piano melodies

The landscape is littered with bumper springs, grindable rails, ramps, and more

Gameplay

Sonic can enter a line of rings to light speed dash

Sonic has a new array of incredibly flashy attacks

Sonic can quickly dodge and parry attacks with the right timing

Sonic’s homing attack is more impactful, and allows for multiple follow-ups

Completing puzzles and challenges uncovers sections of your map

One example of a puzzle has Sonic reorient a statue the correct way

another puzzle tasks Sonic with jumping back and forth between colored tiles

Sonic’s Cyloop ability is used to draw circles around certain objects to interact with them

Sonic can parry the blades or use the Cyloop to encircle the enemy

There are races against the clock where you have to get from point A to point B

Defeating enemies will reward you with EXP that you can use to purchase new skills

Skills are purchased via a skill tree

Enemies & Bosses

The landscape is filled with wandering enemies and mini-bosses

One enemy has an impenetrable shell that can expand into spinning blades

There are also a handful of enormous world bosses, one of which is named Asura

To beat Asura, you first have to bait the monster into slamming the ground

From here, you boost up its arm in order to reach the weak spots on its head

Sonic must hunt down and defeat these bosses in order to collect portal gears

Portal gears open up portals that lead to bite-sized linear stages

These classic levels each come with a handful of optional goals

Each goal rewards you with a vault key, which are used to unlock Chaos Emerald