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Speaking of combat, we're not sure what to make of it yet. This works on larger baddies as well, potentially forcing them to drop their guard or exposing a weak spot. If enemies are in the loop, they'll be popped into the air where you can give them a few smacks. You can trace a shape on the ground, and closing it will cause some sort of reaction inside. It has a few uses, but comes most handy in combat. The Cyloop ability Sonic has in this game is a nice addition to his moveset, too.

All we really know is that we genuinely quite enjoyed simply moving around in Frontiers' grassy plains. Maybe, just maybe, Sonic Team has ironed out some of the rough edges that have made the character so finicky in the past. We played with the slightly slower control method, which may have been why jumps felt easier to predict and perform. It's possibly down to the game offering you far more open space to just run around in - there are far fewer opportunities to inadvertently fling the mascot to his doom. It's difficult to pinpoint precisely what is different, but it is different, in a good way. We're somewhat surprised to find we have more control over Sonic's movements than we recall from previous 3D games. To be honest, we're not too fussed about all that we want to feel how Sonic controls, because that's been our main grievance with the blue blur since he discovered the Z-axis. Starfall Islands will make up the bulk of the game, and the hedgehog's main objective is to search these environments for the chaos emeralds so he can save his colourful friends and return home.

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After finally playing it for ourselves, we more or less understand where that sentiment is coming from.Ī brief cutscene tells us Sonic has escaped Cyber Space and arrived on the first of a series of islands.

Opinions on Frontiers have been all over the place since its reveal earlier this year, but hands-on accounts ( including our own from Gamescom) have been relatively positive. The earliest footage of the game was hardly encouraging, and that's without considering the hedgehog's spotty history of 3D platformers. Our expectations for Sonic Team's latest attempt were, frankly, quite low before sitting down to play it. We're obviously being a little facetious here, but it's basically the truth. Had we really just enjoyed a 3D Sonic game? Is such a thing even possible? Are we simply sleep-deprived and dehydrated? For science, and our own sanity, we had to check.

The trouble is, after playing the 15-minute slice of the 'open zone' experience for the first time, we realised something rather shocking. Normally, we wouldn't put ourselves through a Sonic demo more than necessary, and the queue was, as you'd expect, constantly lengthy. We played Sonic Frontiers at EGX not once, but twice.

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