Sonic Central 2022 brings new clips for Frontiers and Prime

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Sonic Central 2022 has wrapped, with Sega showing off what’s to come with its famous mascot franchise within the next year. Running at 10 minutes, presenters were quick to get to each little clip. And little clips are what we got. Sega didn’t announce anything surprising this time around. There’s no Sonic Generations: Ultimate coming our way, friends. Instead, Sonic Central gave us brief glimpses of upcoming projects like Sonic Frontiers and Sonic Prime. Oh, and a whole lot of merchandise.

Sega wisely stuck its Sonic Frontiers clip near the end of the Sonic Central show. Coming in at around 10 seconds long, Sega showed off what looks to be another massive boss battle. Except this time, it looked pretty fantastic. Sonic faces larger-than-life enemies in the game, which you must defeat in the style of the Blue Blur. Last week’s teaser trailer showed a beast with lengthy arms for Sonic to run up before attacking a weak point.

It was fairly standard as Sonic bosses go. But this time, we see Sonic running along a winding platform created by the boss, with twists, turns, and loops. It made full use of Sonic Frontier‘s open world, flying over the green hills and creating a loop de loop with a bridge. It’s exactly the kind of boss fight I want to see in an open-world Sonic adventure.

Sonic Central also revealed a Sonic Frontiers Prologue, an animated special starring Knuckles. It was only a few seconds long but featured Knuckles once more standing guard in front of the Master Emerald. The rain-swept area itself is reminiscent of the Emerald’s resting place in Sonic Adventure. The special is scheduled to arrive before the launch of the game.

Moving on, Sonic is taking part in some collaborations. In August, skins for Knuckles,