very funny that ign released two very unimpressive gameplay “trailers” for sonic frontiers and riled up personalities on the internet over how blatantly unpolished it was, and then ign releases their first impressions video and the staff member is just all “idk... it honestly could really amount to something here, i think the core idea is actually really working”
i do not share that optimism but at least the design goal is apparently 3D action game first, open world second, which at least somewhat justifies using the unleashed-like mechanics (which were never designed with open world exploration in mind) again