With theTokyo Game Showreturning to an in-person format for the first time since 2022, the development team behind theSonic the Hedgehogseries is running ahead of the game, releasing a new trailer just hours ahead of the show’s opening.
While the crew atSonic TeamandSegahad already released a trailer for the game late last month atGamescom, many longtime fans have been eagerly awaiting the return of Super Sonic. The new trailer preceding TGS delivers on that front, showing the titular hedgehog ascending to the top of a towering enemy to retrieve one of the chaos emeralds. With all seven emeralds assembled, the trailer then shows Sonic levitating into the sky and bursting with energy before making a high-speed flight directly toward’s the giant’s maw.
The little blue hedgehog made his first golden warrior-style transformation back in 1992’s Sonic the Hedgehog 2, and his glowing, spiky appearance has, over the years, drawn some similarities to the Super Saiyan form achieved by multiple characters in the Dragon Ball anime/manga franchise (although Goku beat Sonic to the punch by more than a year). The trailer shouldn’t do much to separate the two, as the midpoint shows the titanic enemy pitching Sonic across a landscape, and his body crashes straight through a couple of skinny stone spires before slamming into the side of a mesa.
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The trailer also gives a glimpse into some of the landscapes Sonic will be racing through in the Starfell Islands, which include an overflowing volcano, a sun-scorched desert, and a foggy, mountainous region with ruinous arches and what appears to be a giant, double-barreled turret silhouetted by the sky.
Sonic Frontiers is scheduled to hit all current and last-gen consoles and PC on November 8. Preorders are available now, and the game’sofficial Web siteshows those who make their purchases early will receive bonus skill points in addition to red seeds of power and blue seeds of defense power-up items. Additionally, Sega is releasing a Digital Deluxe Edition that will come packaged with in-game items (additional gloves and shoes, chaos emerald vault keys, memory tokens, and a portal gear) as well as a digital art book and “mini soundtrack” with 25 tracks.
The Tokyo Game Show, Japan’s largest annual video game conference, was forced into an online-only format for the last two years because of the Covid-19 pandemic. The four-day event reopens its doors in a physical format September 15 at 10:00 a.m. Japan Standard Time (9 p.m. September 14 EST; Midnight September 15 PST). The show will still bestreamingonline, and its official website provides English-language channels for viewers.
