Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2's Delay Gives Sonic Frontiers Some Breathing Room

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2022 could be the year that Sonic the Hedgehog reinvents itself. Sega and Sonic Team's upcoming game, Sonic Frontiers, is already poised to break some major franchise conventions with its semi-open world, but the exact extent of the game's innovation remains to be seen. Regardless of the current mystery around the game, Sonic Frontiers has the potential to be an important game this year, although it'll have to compete with a lot of other 2022 releases in order to make an impact. 2022 happens to contain a variety of long-awaited video game releases belonging to all genres, and Sonic Frontiers will have to fight quite a few of them for visibility.

Notably, though, Sonic Frontiers doesn't have to worry about Zelda for now. Nintendo just delayed Breath of the Wild's sequel into spring 2023, meaning Sonic Frontiers has lost a major competitor in the action-adventure space. Breath of the Wild 2's delay is especially important because of how many people compared Sonic Frontiers to BotW when Sonic Team first revealed it. Releasing alongside the BotW sequel could have been uncomfortable for Sonic Frontiers, given all the DNA that it shares with the original game, and it could've hampered sales as well. A wonderful opportunity to seize on the action-adventure market seems to have landed in Sonic Frontiers' lap.

Sonic Frontiers' Central Mystery Could Benefit From Time Travel

There's no denying the similarities between Sonic Frontiers and Zelda: Breath of the Wild. The Sonic Frontiers trailers show off a grassy open world that'll presumably serve as a gateway to various other vibrant and exciting biomes, just like how Breath of the Wild's open world is structured. The Sonic game's story seems to have similar elements as well. Sonic