Sega has provided a new look at the combat systems of Sonic Frontiers, the new open-world game, that gives the fastest hedgehog alive a few new tricks to use while he explores the mysterious Starfall islands. Sonic still has plenty of speed which will come in handy as he races across unfamiliar terrain, but with plenty of robotic enemies around him, he’ll be able to do more than just run and bounce around them.
Like other role-playing games, Sonic will have a skill tree with several nodes that you can invest experience points into, and Sega says that the skills you’ll be able to unlock can be used strategically in encounters.
Sonic can dodge, parry, counter, and combo his attacks, and he has both short and long-range options at his disposal. Sonic Boom, which is technically different to Guile’s attack because Sonic uses his legs instead of his fists, allows him to unleash a volley of deadly projectiles at enemies from a safe distance.