If you caught the trailer for The Legend of Sonic: Breath of the Hedgehog yesterday – sorry, Sonic Frontiers – you might have heard a mysterious, ghostly voice near the start of the clip.
As you'll no doubt recall, the newly released footage begins with Sonic being chased through a forest. After a few seconds, he stops in his tracks, distracted by a voice calling out to him, seemingly coming from a great distance or maybe even another world entirely.
The footage shown during The Game Awards never reveals the owner of the mysterious voice, but subtitles present in the Xbox version of the trailer (up above) seem to give the game away. That's right, the voice you can hear is Amy's.
A user on the SonicRetro forums also claims that Japanese Sonic voice actor Junichi Kanemaru posted a tweet revealing that the voice you can hear was indeed Amy, although the tweet has since been deleted.
As is often the case, Sonic Frontier's debut trailer has left us with more questions than answers, but at least we've been able to answer one of its mysteries. Now we just have to wait a whole year to play it!
[source youtube.com, via forums.sonicretro.org]
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I just wonder how they will fit sonic in an open space like this, if done right, it will be amazing, But mess up, and it will fall, this might have been very hard for them to do.
Ghost girl was human in all the leaks. I'm glad they did Amy instead
So, is Amy trapped inside a giant evil being that was sealed 100 years ago? Hmm...
@Leprecorn Like really, we know how that when't.
bruhh they didnt call it "legend of zelda breath of links mouth"
Would have been nice to see actual gameplay
To my knowledge, Junichi Kanemaru is Sonic's Japanese voice, not Amy's.🤔
@Snatcher pretty sure Sonic 06 did this for the same obvious reasons things are usually done in Fiction - the creators felt like it and had no legitimate reasons not to. It's not like the game invented the notion of interspecies romance (or ship teases) either.
@Rushiosan implying Ganon would be able to survive Amy for that long.
This looks horrible. Like empty and boring. Nothing is going on.
It is way to realistic looking for a Sonic game. They already tried this with Sonic 06, and it was also horrible.
It's like the developers wanted to make a realistic looking open world game, and made these nice looking sceneries and locations. Then management just put Sonic in there.
This does not look and feel like a Sonic game. The esthetics are all off.
If a Mario game looked like this, people in here would go nuts. I do not know what SEGA was thinking? This is not a Sonic game!!!
It looks neat and clean, if it wasn't a Sonic game. Make another game then, and leave Sonic out of this!
@dres what are you talking about? Mario Odyssey had real humans in New Donk City and the Dragon as a fight. Mario managed not to stand out (at least not too much), yeah? we should keep our expectations low but don't bash a game that hasn't released dude
@dres Apparently the open world I'd only half of the game. There will be portals that take you into more themed, track based levels like the classic style.
That's what I heard a while back from a leaked play tester
@Fujimoto-San I agree we shouldn't bash a game that hasn't released, but it's difficult to counter the point that this looks nothing like a sonic game... the World they've shown off in this trailer looks generic and has literally zero sonic references in it. Way too early to draw conclusions, but it's not a great start.
@Fujimoto-San
I did not like the dragon fight at all. It was totally out of place. But it was at least a very small part of the game.
New Donk City wasn't my favorite either, but it still had some Mario element here and there. It worked ok in the end.
This Sonic trailer form SEGA, is the same as if Nintendo had only released the dragon fight parts for the first trailer of Mario Odyssey. People would have hated it.
I hope what Bizzyb is saying is true. And this is just a small part of the game.
Why do people get excited about this crap. Open boring and empty locations for Sonic to run around in? Sure, it looks neat and beautiful, and the graphics are very realistic. But it doesn't work for a Sonic game.
I really HOPE that this game is good. I'm not a sonic fan, but I still want his games to be...passible at least.
Sonic forces wasint a bad idea on concept, but was not executed well. Here's to hoping that the game is good. But for now, ill keep my expectations on the floor for this one.
Sonic...
Sonic.
Open your eyes.
Take the [mobian] slate from the pedistal.
Remember everyone, Zelda invented 3D open-world games. /s
I think I’d prefer this engine and game world used in a phantasy star online title.
Not Sonic.
@Savino
Hear this man!
@Savino Or hire the fans to make this game.
"Open your eyes, Sonic" lol!
But I thought the voice came from Tails....
Open world Sonic, hmm... Time to fire up the bike on BOTW to simulate the feel...
Ahh, so the plot of the game is just Sonic trying to get away from Amy.
People saying this doesn't fit Sonic acting like literally no Sonic game ever has also 'not fit' Sonic
Whether it's guns, hoverboards, space, swords, werewolf, war, pandemic, ancient tribe, solar god, time travel, alien invasion, or the newest one... open world space to run in (obviously the weirdest of the lot) I'll always welcome it
Amy is best Hedgehog 🥰
@dres why assume it wouldn't work? it's never been done before and it has the chance to be a decent 3D Sonic at worst and the best Sonic game in years at best.
@nocdaes we don't know that. SEGA hasn't shown off the antagonist either but there could be locations and references to other Sonic games. I get Sonic and The Black Knight vibes from it. BoTW2 hasn't shown us anything too different from the first game with few exceptions but people are still hyped for it. SEGA is no Nintendo don't get me wrong but I do think it's safe to be "cautiously excited". I am concerned by the lack of gameplay though as they pulled a similar stunt with Forces
First Kirby, now this. Hope one of them succeeds applying open world to their classic gameplay, both could turn out amazing... Both could turn out terrible as well... Will hold out for the first reviews to drop before I consider buying either.
So does that mean this is a true sequel to Sonic CD?
I don’t get the hate for this one. As someone who has found almost every Sonic game mediocre at best, this actually looks like it’s trying something conceptually bold for once, which will require a lot of work to pull off well. I think as a concept it’s very promising.
Of course, the proof is in how it will actually play. But Sonic’s speed could work VERY well in a huge open environment. It makes a lot of sense to me.
@rushiosan im sure she can wait 200 more hours
before we save her
Calling it now, Amy has been captured by a mysterious force and turned into a robotic enemy that he has to fight and convert back to his side and it turns out that her soul has been replaced by the soul of another being that used to live here on this giant landscape that actually ends up being a living being the size of a planet.
I don't hate the idea of an open world Sonic, but that video really could have used some enemies and springboards, and power-ups or at least some NPC's scattered around. As-is it looks rather plain and generic, for a Sonic game it should have some loop-de-loops and half pipes, etc. Like Mario and Zelda had big open worlds but there was always something to do everywhere, this just looks empty. But it's a long ways off from release and I only saw it for a few seconds, so hopefully it turns out a lot better than the video makes it look.
Chris Pr- oh. Never mind.
@Savino You'd think they'd do Sonic Mania-type games released alongside games like this so at least if one fails, they have the other Sonic game as a back up option to make some money.
Sonic Breath of the Wild.
@Blurro True that.
@Nintendo_Thumb For all we know that could still happen. Usually this applies more to Nintendo but early trailers rarely play all their cards at once. Especially for a trailer that showed no gameplay for a game comming out practically releasing In a whole year
Princess Amy is trapped fighting against Calamity Robotnik...
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In...um...Green Hills Castle?
...
I got nothing, it's some sort of famous Sonic castle.
I really hope it's a original character.
@CreatiScope well we will have sonic origins before sonic movie 2. But along side Frontiers nothing.....
Funny how Amy is confirmed for this game but doesn't appear to be in the new movie. Maybe they decided to reveal this early for Amy fans who were disappointed by her not being in the new movie. I think we will see Amy (and Shadow) for sure if they make a third movie though.
@358dayswaterson I hope we get a second game collection with Sonic Adventure 1 and 2, Sonic Heroes, Sonic Unleashed and Sonic Generations. Sonic Origins is just the same games we have already had in multiple previous Sonic collections.
@Nintendo_Thumb I agree but I think it will have a lot of enemies in it and I also think we will get to play as other characters like Tails, Knuckles, Amy and Shadow. Amy being confirmed for the game means other characters will most likely be involved too.
@Debbiee yeah that would be awesome. And are you hyped for sonic Frontiers?
@RubyDevilNine sonic fans never seise to amaze me....so toxic, starting arguments for no reason 😑
@dres yeah your just a salty old man who doesn't want sonic to succeed so
1. You can leave
2. Shut your mouth and speak positive
3. THIS GAME IS AMBITIOUS AND THATS WHAT WE NEED!
4. Ian flynn is writing the story for this game so we can at least rest assured knowing the story will be good.
@Clear-green-track-pi Yes. I am. It looks like it could be a great game and I am curious to see if most of the game is going to resemble what we saw in the trailer or there are going to be parts of it that resemble some of the other levels in the older Sonic games like the Chemical Plant, Casino Night, Mushroom Hill and Emerald Coast for example 'cause that would be fun. I am also hoping we get to play as Tails, Knuckles and Amy and I think Tails especially would be fun to play as in a game like this.
@RubyDevilNine Elba is a fine knuckles. And knuckles from sa1+2 is trash imo.
@Debbiee I'm just happy we are getting a 3d game and not a trash boost game. (Though the leaks say we will have cyberspace boost levels in the style of sonic unleashed+generations)
@RubyDevilNine 1.you sold 2.and you are a troll saying idris is trash.
all your comments on this topic are negative
1. you said who would want a open zone sonic game
2. you said that idris was not a good knuckles.
3. your just salty
@SwissCheese i have faith in this title.
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