What Sonic Frontiers Could Learn From Horizon Forbidden West's Mount Riding
Open world games almost always offer players some kind of mount that makes the world easier to travel on foot. Elden Ring features the trusty summoned steed Torrent, Horizon Forbidden West allows players to override nearby machines before mounting them, Zelda: Breath of the Wild's world map is littered with stables, and so on. Without conveniences like these, traveling across open-world games would be much more laborious. Nevertheless, Sonic Frontiers' open-zone world may not feature mounts, even if it does have huge maps. That's because Sonic Frontiers has the unique perk of the titular protagonist's incredible running speeds, which will almost certainly forgo the need for a steed.
Still, one wonders how Sonic Frontiers will allow players to manage Sonic's speed. Getting access to his top speeds would be great, but players won't necessarily want to run at the speed of sound all the time, or else they're bound to miss out on a lot of Sonic Frontiers' side content. Thankfully, Horizon Forbidden West may already provide Sonic Frontiers with a great blueprint for representing Sonic's running speed. As long as players can control how fast Sonic runs while getting a thrilling sensation out of his top speed, Sonic Frontiers' traversal will be solid.
Sonic Frontiers' Open Zones Have a Lot of Open World Competition in 2022
Like many open-world games with mounts, Horizon Forbidden West allows Aloy to manage the speed of her mounts; most of Forbidden West's rideable machines can walk, jog, or sprint to suit Aloy's needs. While that doesn't set Forbidden West apart, the aesthetic of a machine at full sprint does. When Aloy's machine is running at breakneck speed, players might notice the edges of their screen blurring around them,
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