Sonic fans irate over Sonic Frontiers, #DelaySonicFrontiers trends

sportskeeda.com:

Sonic Frontiers was revealed this week as an open-world Sonic title that is presently in development. A 7-minute video was shown, which received nearly 50,000 dislikes and 72,000 likes. This revelation led to worry, fear, and frustration from the Sonic fanbase, as they expected and hoped for better to come from this game.

As a result, #DelaySonicFrontiers trended on Twitter during the week, with fans making their opinion clear.

Thousands of fans took to Twitter to make their opinions clear about Sonic Frontiers, complaining loudly and frequently about what they have seen across a pair of videos. The main complaints involved stiff animation, lack of movement from Sonic, and a mostly empty game world.

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Fans have been waiting for years for news about a new Sonic title and many are ultimately disappointed at what they have seen. Other complaints include all of the dash panels into springs and automated movement. This was seen in previous Sonic games that weren’t warmly welcomed by the fanbase, such as Sonic the Hedgehog (Sonic ‘06).

The Sonic fanbase has been burned by disappointing releases before, and are making their feelings well-known to the developers, in hopes that they will listen. SEGA has changed their minds before, such as the Sonic the Hedgehog film, with how appalling the original character design was.

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While some are hopeful that a delay of a year could help fix things and make the game an overall enjoyable experience, not everyone agrees. Another sentiment is that the game’s approach, as a vast, open-world experience, inspired by the movies is not the game fans wanted.

According to some Twitter users, it is time for Sonic fans to put their feet