Sonic Team boss promises that Sonic Frontiers “isn’t similar at all” to Breath of the Wild

Takashi Iizuka, head of sonic equipmentwants you to know that sonic frontiers “looks nothing like” The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

It would be very fair to take a look at the upcoming Sonic Frontiers and think, ‘hey, this is giving off Breath of the Wild vibes’. It’s true that it’s a bit superficial, a kind of reductive reaction, but, come on, there was definitely some influence, right? Well, despite what seem to be pretty obvious similarities, Iizuka has said that the two aren’t similar in a recent interview with Shacknews (spotted by The player).

“Since the development [team’s] perspective, they’re going to go out there and make an action game,” Iizuka said. “So when they think of Breath of the Wild, they see Breath of the Wild definitely as an RPG, and it’s nothing like an action game. what are they doing.

“You know, yeah, there’s the same element of freedom that’s been applied to Breath of the Wild as an RPG, and they’re taking the high-speed linear action Sonic game and implementing the freedom there.

“But when we think about ‘is it an open world game? Is it similar to Breath of the Wild?’, a lot of people on the team love the Zelda series, they love Breath of the Wild, they’ve played it, but for They don’t really see a similarity between the games.”

Of course, in the interview, Iizuka talked about that open-zone style that is definitely not an open world, and how it’s different from other games. “This open area format has never been done before. We’re trying to find other titles on the market and couldn’t find anything that had that linear platform action game but in an open environment.”

If you are not very completist, you will not have to worry about beating all the bosses in the game, since it is not a requirement. But in turn, that meant Sonic Team had to make sure the bosses were fun in their own right.

Shadow fans may also be disappointed to learn that he won’t be in Frontiers, though Iizuka does want to bring him back.

Sonic has been doing incredibly well recently, with the second movie becoming the highest-grossing video game movie of all time earlier this year, and the entire game series now trading a massive 1.5 billion copies worldwide. the world.