Sonic Frontiers Beats God of War Ragnarok to Win Major Award

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Sonic Frontiers managed to beat God of War Ragnarok and Horizon Forbidden West to win a major Japanese gaming award. This is a huge victory for the Sonic Frontiers. Last year, the open-zone adventure was in the running for winning the Player's Voice award at The Game Awards 2022, with candidates including Elden Ring, God of War Ragnarok, and Genshin Impact among others. Despite strong support for Frontiers, Genshin Impact won. The latest award for Frontiers was also user based, though it managed to come up victorious this time around.

Sonic Frontiers won big at the Famitsu Dengeki Game Awards 2022, which covered the entirety of games that were actually released in 2022, with categories such as best voice performance, best gaming character, the game with the best graphics, and so on. The ceremony was held earlier this week, announcing the winners based on user votes. The action-adventure category consisted of Sonic Frontiers, God of War Ragnarok, and Horizon Forbidden West as the nominated games, with Frontiers managing to beat the other two for the award.

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One of the big things about this victory is that, historically, the Sonic franchise hasn't been as popular in its home country as opposed to the West. Considering that Sonic Frontiers exceeded its forecasted sales predictions, selling nearly 3 million copies by the end of its fiscal year, this is a major sign that Japanese fans were won over by the game, especially in comparison to critically acclaimed games like Ragnarok and Forbidden West.

The director of Sonic Frontiers, Morio Kishimoto, commented on this momentous victory on Twitter, where he notes that it was a huge honor. He pointed out that before the game's