{"id":3813,"date":"2022-06-14T04:50:20","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T04:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/uncategorized\/sonic-frontiers-preview-folks-our-blue-boy-is-back\/"},"modified":"2022-06-14T04:50:24","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T04:50:24","slug":"sonic-frontiers-preview-folks-our-blue-boy-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/game-previews\/sonic-frontiers-preview-folks-our-blue-boy-is-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonic Frontiers Preview: Folks, Our Blue Boy Is Back"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Sonic Frontiers<\/a> demo from this weekend\u2019s Summer Game Fest event in Los Angeles<\/a> starts with a short cutscene. A bewildered Sonic the Hedgehog finds himself on an unfamiliar island, separated from his friends Tails and Amy. A talking drone gives Sonic some cryptic direction about collecting goobers to save his friends, or something. While they chat, we inexplicably cut to an extreme-closeup of Sonic\u2019s hands. After a few quips and some light exposition, I gain control of Sonic and slam down on the turbo button, which I refuse to let go off for the entire length of the demo. Moments later, I try to run up a stone staircase but instead get launched into the air at a 45, then watch as Sonic helplessly tumbles down a cliff while the screen fades to black. I didn\u2019t play nearly enough to decide whether or not this is a good<\/em> Sonic game, but it is certainly a<\/em> Sonic game.<\/p>\n

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The Sonic Frontiers demo from this weekend\u2019s Summer Game Fest event in Los Angeles starts with a short cutscene. A bewildered Sonic the Hedgehog finds himself on an unfamiliar island, separated from his friends Tails and Amy. A talking drone gives Sonic some cryptic direction about collecting goobers to save his friends, or something. While […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-previews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3815,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3813\/revisions\/3815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}