Quit Arguing Over The Length Of Sonic’s Hair In Sonic Frontiers

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Sonic the Hedgehog fans love to fight over the most trivial bullshit. Whether it's about character shipping, Shadow the Hedgehog getting Flanderized beyond recognition, Sonic Forces being a great Sonic game (it's not), or if Sega should return to the Adventure formula in future Sonic games, there's always a huge social media debate over the state of the Sonic franchise. Now a new debate has erupted like an underwater volcano: Sonic's hair length in Sonic Frontiers.

We received a new trailer for Sonic Frontiers at The Game Awards over a month ago, and judging by the open-world environment of Starfall Islands, the game's plot written by Ian Flynn of IDW Sonic comic book fame, and Roger Craig Smith and others reprising their roles, it's gearing up to be a better Sonic game than its predecessors of the last decade. Sonic's model in the trailer looks fantastic, but his in-game model is making fans pull their hair out — literally. Fans on both Twitter and Reddit have noticed that the character model for the Blue Blur in Frontiers bears some resemblance to his model in Sonic Forces, where his quills are a centimeter shorter than normal and the shade of his blue fur is just as light as Classic Sonic's, if not close to that. They hoped that the Forces model shown in the trailer and on the game's official website would be a placeholder since the game is still in the early stages of development, as did I. Then I realized is Sonic Team is really reusing the Forces model in Frontiers. It wouldn't be the first time a new game has reused old assets from a previous game, therefore it shouldn't matter how long Sonic's quills are.

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