Developers from the Sonic Frontiers team have shed some light on the project's road to release, revealing tha🔴t in many ways, it was a make-or-break moment for the series.

sat down with thr🌱ee developers on the action-platformer, which marked the Blue Blur's first time zipping across an open-world setting. With such a drastically different, bigger structure than previous outings, the pressure on the team was at an all-time high.

, designer Yuki Takahashi said the game took five years to fully make with a maximum of 120 developers working on it. While experimenting with a new 'open-zone' structure for Sonic, the team was supposedly "filled with a sense of crisis… we have to create something new… if we fail here, there will be no chance."

Sonic The Hedgehog would have likely continued in some form, regardless of Frontier's success or lack thereof. B🅠ut had Sonic Frontiers underperformed, future titles could have seen an even more limited scope or budget. 

Thankfully for momentum-cravers, the opposite happened: Sonic Frontiers propelled the series to its 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:"biggest year" ever. Publisher Sega then announced that 澳﷽洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:its sequel ꦫwould enjoy an even bigger budget. "I would like to use the knowledge gained here to further evolve the reborn third generation of Sonic," programmer Yuki Mitsuish💫i says. Hopefully, the bigger budget facilitates thಌat. 

What does that "third generation" entail? Well, presumably more open-world Sonic games, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:no 🌃more pixel art entries for a wh💜ile, and, probably, more films. Sonic The Hedgehog 3 opens later this year, featuring a hopefully moody Shadow and 澳ܫ洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Jim Carrey's return as supervillain Dr. Eggman. 

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