Sonic Superstars really is bringing something totally new to the 32-year-old series

Whenever you boot up a Sonic recreation – whether or not it is one of many GOAT’d authentic trilogy titles for the Mega Drive, or one of many lesser-regarded 3D titles of the latter years – you understand it is a Sonic recreation. These sharps strains that denote velocity giving solution to parabolic swoops and curves, the extraordinary inexperienced of nature set in opposition to the bizarre orange of manufactured brick… Sonic has an immediately recognisable identification. And has had for over three many years.

The identical is true of Sonic Superstars – the brand new recreation annuonced by Sega at this week’s Summer season Video games Fest.

If you happen to watch the launch trailer (above) you may discover some fantastic, classic-inspired 2D gameplay – although the writer will likely be fast to make sure you’re calling it 2.5D, per the advertising and marketing spiel. The sport is clearly impressed by the unique trilogy of video games (& Knuckles) and provides a few of its personal attention-grabbing components into the combination, too.

While you may suppose we have completed all this earlier than, there’s one thing wholly new within the recreation – and it is coming from somebody that actually does know Sonic inside out: Sonic’s authentic designer.

Naoto Ohshima is again on the dev group for this title, and it definitely feels like he is the one responsble for considering up whoever – or no matter – the large dangerous goes to be. Per GameInformer (by way of a tweet), Ohshima has made “a brand new character for Sonic and his mates to face” in Sonic Superstars – the primary time he is been instantly concerned with the collection since 1998 and Sonic Journey. Ohshima additionally designed Eggman, again within the day, so secure to say he is aware of a factor or two about making iconic villains.

You possibly can play as Tails, Knuckles, and Amy Rose in Sonic Superstars, and you may even soar in with three different co-op mates on the identical time, if that is your jam. The 2D platformer will likely be arriving on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox Sequence S, Xbox One, and Nintendo Swap in fall 2023.