But with a little tinkering, the new PC versions also let players scale the game window to any arbitrary resolution, expanding the visible playfield without scaling up the games' core pixel graphics. That's an interesting-enough hacking/coding achievement on its own. That means these heavily enhanced versions of the early '90s Genesis games-developed by Christian Whitehead using the same revamped Retro/Star Engine that powers Sonic Mania-can now be easily recompiled for play on new platforms including the PlayStation Vita, the Nintendo Switch, and Windows/Mac computers. Most current-gen AAA games are priced between $60 and $70 due to enhanced graphics, controls, and the engines they run on, but some have balked at Frontiers’ price tag not only because it's "too expensive," but because they can't remember the last time a Sonic game cost that much.Further Reading Beyond emulation: The massive effort to reverse-engineer N64 source codeA group of coders has decompiled the source code for Sonic the Hedgehog and its 1992 sequel from their well-regarded 2013 smartphone remakes. It's a big gamble to go all in on, but also a sore point for some Sonic fans.
In fact, Sega is so sure about Sonic Frontiers that it's pricing the game at $60 - or in the case of the Digital Deluxe Edition, $70 - and putting it in direct competition with God of War: Ragnarok and Pokemon Scarlet and Violet in November.
Hell, I'm feeling more confident about this game than I ever felt for some of its predecessors.
Now the game is less than two months away from release, and with the reveal of four more trailers, two alternative rock songs taking us back to 2007 (Vandalize by One OK Rock and I'm Here by To Octavia's Merry Kirk-Holmes), and Super Sonic making his triumphant return at the Tokyo Game Show, Sega seems confident that it will be a big deal for the franchise. Back in May, I wrote about how Sonic Frontiers miraculously avoided the controversial Sonic Cycle by keeping updates dry between its first teaser trailer and its official announcement trailer at The Game Awards last year.
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