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Sonic Frontiers linear cyberspace levels embargo gets lifted on June 29
- Thread starter Rychu
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Mediocre reception to our big comeback game but lets embargo the parts people are excited about for 2 weeks!
As someone who has been playing Sonic Generations lately, it's like they just took the Sonic Generations formula but turned the abstract world from that game into a more interactive and far more robust open-ish world.
"how can we fuck over anything good in this game? I know! not tell people of all the good points until late"
- Sega
People are excited about it based on leaks outside of segas control. This marketing plan was put in to place ages ago I'm sure, they aren't choosing to not react, they're just sticking to their marketing plan.
As weird as it may be.
Are you speaking about the cyberspace levels footage that leaked or about the open world? They are two separate things.
I think I was misinterpreting it entirely because I did not realize they were two separate things.
This game seems weird. I'm into it.
The gameplay loop is:
Explore the open world >>> collect stuff in the open world >>> do puzzles to unlock more of the map >>> complete objectives for EXP to level up your movement branch and combat skill branch in skill tree >>> defeat mini bosses to get gears >>> use those gears to open vaults that allow you to play linear cyberspace levels that have been described as classic Unleashed/Generations style boost levels >>> get chaos emeralds for completing the level >>> rinse and repeat.
There are apparently 28 total cyberspace levels but we have not seen actual footage of a full level because it's under embargo until June 29. It was part of the demo the media played but they aren't allowed to mention anything about that part of the game or show any footage of it.
Mitchell from IGN said on Twitter yesterday that there will be "at least one IGN First video dropping on IGN's YouTube channel every week for the rest of June" so I think it's more likely that IGN is going to have a story reveal video, a cyberspace reveal video and maybe something else. Maybe IGN has to reveal the cyberspace exclusively and talk about it for a few days before the rest of the media can comment on what they played, not sure.
I strongly doubt a Nintendo Direct trailer because we only got 30 seconds of footage during that sonic central and then "tune into IGN throughout June to see more!"
I'm actually weirdly becoming pretty excited for this game. Might be a perfect "swimming in sevens" type title.
That's generally what I was expecting, it would be dumb if the game just consisted of that boring looking island. Interested to see if the game looks better once we get an idea of what it looks like without Sega trying its best to sabotage it.
Such wierd marketing. I bet they did not count on it also being at SGF and there was some marketing misscomunications
