SonicFrontiers may be the start of a new era for the Blue Blur, but it still makes sure to stop and pay respects to the series' past.
Throughout my nearly 20 hours of playing through Sonic Frontiers, running through Starfall Islands, and getting to the bottom of Sonic’s friends getting stuck in digital purgatory, I kept getting blasts from the past. The newly released adventure is filled with wonderful callbacks to previous games, both in terms of gameplay and story canon. It may be a brand new “open-zone” game, but it beautifully blends modern open-zone gameplay mechanics with classic side-scrolling ones.
The wheel comes full circle All the references that Sonic Frontiers made to previous installments are thanks to writer Ian Flynn’s wealth of lore knowledge that spans back decades. Flynn famously wrote the Blue Blur’s comics at Archie and IDW , with each mention being what he terms a Flynn-ism. Case in point, the game makes several references to the Knuckles’ history in the series, including Sonic 3 & Knuckles and Sonic Adventure.
Knuckles later discovers a pyramid-like bunker in the game, which brings him back to the moment he first met Sonic and Tails on Angel Island. The flashback is not a CGI recreation of Knuckles knocking Sonic out of his super form and taking all the Chaos Emeralds, but rather a direct screenshot from the classic Sega Genesis game with the red echidna flashing his infamous chuckling grin.
Other moments and characters from the series are mentioned in passing, whether Sonic is talking to his friends or to himself. For instance, Sonic asks if the visions Knuckles got during his Cyber Space imprisonment were similar to the visions Tikal gave him in Sonic Adventure as he was collecting shards of the Master Emerald. Tails mentions his mental breakdown after Infinite beat Sonic in Forces.
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