Sonic Frontiers Prologue: Divergence Animation, Starring Knuckles, Is Out Now

This was actually a nice surprise imo. They at the very least portrayed Kunckles really well here. Great animation quality in that cartoony & anime mix style.

Nice to show us some Chao's!

I'm fine with a prologue but isn't this like the third one they did? Why can't all of this story stuff actually be IN the game???

This was very very good and cool!

If anything they are knocking it out of the park with these extras. If the game is just half as good as all these prologues we are in for an amazing treat!
...please don't destroy all my hopes on release Sega...

They should have put these prologues in the game instead of releasing them online.
Hopefully you can unlock them in game or something.

Really well done! Makes it that much tougher to make it another week before getting to dive into Starfall Islands

I loved this so much!!! And Knuckles wasn't portrayed as a moron! XD
I love this animation style man, I really wish they would do a series like this.

What a bumner Reiko Kodama passed away. I would see her name in the credits when I'd complete a Master System game. The news just got released.

Nice to see the Rad Red back in form. Possibly the best 6 minutes of November 2022 so far.

Sega has been doing these promotional comics and shorts since 2017 for their Sonic games. Wonder how people would react to the Sonic Forces prequel comics now, since those had 4 installments, and explained how Infinite met Eggman, why Silver came to the past, why Knuckles was leading the resistance, etc. If there is any similarities between the two comics, I suspect both won't be necessary for the main story, but fun nonetheless.

So glad there's a Japanese version available too, and Nobutoshi Canna is still voicing Knuckles, since his first voiced appearance! I noticed an all new English voice, sounds okay but I prefer the quality and consistency of the original Japanese dub. So glad Sonic has been a dual-audio series for nearly all games in the series.

@LexKitteh I'm fine with voice changes honestly. Can't have someone doing the same thing forever. Plus it gives new people a chance to flex their skills and improve their resume.

Glad we have our serious knuckles i couldn't forgive Sega for making him a dumb comic relief ruin his whole character I do like its callback to sonic adventure with Tikal.

Honestly why haven't they release this in the game rather see it online.

@Nikhogan This is like... It doesn't belong in the game. It's supplemental. In the game, you see how Sonic, Amy and Tails arrive in the Starfall Islands. Knuckles is there too, and this explains that. I'm sure the game will also fall you hope he got there, but not in the amount of detail you see here. It doesn't really belong in the game because its a little side story about a side character. It's a bonus.

Man the stuff I would do for some kind of Sonic show in this animation, loved this!👍Knuckles!!!🤜🤛

Knuckles is actually back! The animation was top tier and the story was great. I can’t wait for next week.

@ScribbleDot They did more with Knuckles in six minutes here than he’s gotten over the years in most forms of media. (The second Sonic movie is the other exception).

He’s not just an idiot here; Knuckles is exploring his island and helping the other creatures with little things as its guardian. We need more stuff like this!

THIS is the Sonic Prime I wanted! Uuugh this is so goooood!

Knuckles is really the most inconsistent characters I have ever seen in a franchise. He goes from lonely wolf, to hothead, to *****, to cool each era.

@PreMonition Exactly! It feels like Sonic team's working really hard to get Sonic back to what we really love. Watching this made me really happy.

Knuckle ain’t to pushover! Let’s go!

@RareFan To be fair the lone wolf area and hothead area were around the same, when they were still figuring his character out. The dumb knuckles was starting to seep through, then boom happened and, yeah, er, didn’t end well lol.

This was a great watch. I still feel that this should be in the game though. Story shouldn't be left out in a game.

This was so cool to watch! I wish Sonic Frontiers had 2D animated cutscenes like this one!

This was actually really good. The animation is smooth, the story beats are very similar to the adventure-era games, and the music is great. Knuckles is my favourite character in the series and it was nice to see him return to form here.

This actually made me kinda interested in picking up the game. But what I really want is a whole show done in this style.

The anime-esque animation looks so good! Being from the same studio as Castlevania shows it pretty well.