Sonic Frontiers

Sonic Frontiers (ソニック フロンティア Sonikku Furontia) is a game in the Sonic the Hedgehog series that released on the 4th of November in celebration of the franchise's 30th anniversary. The game is developed by Sonic Team, and is published by Sega for the PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X and Series S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC via Steam. Sonic Frontiers follows Sonic the Hedgehog as he journeys across the Starfall Islands in his race to stop an ancient technology unleashed by Dr. Eggman.

The game marks the first "open-zone" experience in the Sonic series,where players will be able to explore lush and expansive landscapes using Sonic's signature speed and abilities. The storyline itself has been written by long-time head writer for several of the Sonic series' spin-offs, Ian Flynn.

Plot
The Game starts off with Dr Eggman creating an AI called SAGE (SONIC AMATEUR GENOCIDE ENGINE), Which is based on the Phantom Ruby's Powers. It will allow the user to manipulate time and space, also giving them unlimited power. Eggman was about to use this on his Badniks, when he finds outs there is a more powerful robot army he can use.

It cuts to Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Amy who are going on vacation to Starfall Islands, 7 Islands filled with beautiful landscapes for each one, as they're sick and tired of seeing the same places at home.

After they arrive at the Spring Valleys, Tails, Knuckles and Amy go relax on the beach resort while sonic explores the Island. He then gets ambushed by a mysterious group of robots, but gets saved by 3 Ghosts, Princess Lah, and her 2 servants Su and Uh who can form into Baker. They explain that their home is being attacked by a native group of robots that were stopped many years ago from Sonic's Ancestor. Now they say that Eggman had reawakened these robots with SAGE.



Sonic tells the band of ghosts that he has to warn his friends, when he comes back, they've left. Sonic wonders where they are and contacts Tails, there's no signal from him leading to the conclusion that they were kidnapped. Sonic wonders how he can stop Eggman once again, the Ghosts tell Sonic that Eggman has gotten all the Chaos Emeralds and has set up terminals in each island to further power-up the SAGEbots, they only way to stop the towers is to collect spirit crystals which are spread all over the Island.

Sonic after finding a certain amount of crystals, Sonic breaks through the tower and gets transported to Eggman's Cyberspace Realm, which if he clears in time he'll obtain an Emerald, if he doesn't, he will die. Sonic clears the Tower and gets the chaos emeralds. Sonic then goes to the Spring Village to meet up with the Band of Ghosts, He sees Eggman is attacking with a Tree Monster powered by SAGE technology. Sonic uses the power of the Emerald to destroy the robot.

After that, Sonic & The Band of Ghosts open up 2 other Islands, Metallic Metropolis and Rocky Junkyard, which house 2 other Emerald Towers. Sonic wonders where his friends is and worries about them, Lah reminds him that he will eventually find them. Sonic more optimistic rushes to the next 2 Islands.

It cuts to Eggman, who now is wondering how to control the SAGE AI and the Robots for his own gain, wondering if he should power it down A Mysterious voice cuts in and says SAGE is perfect the way it is. Eggman wonders who said that and introduces it's SAGE, which has adapted and could now speak, Eggman tries to downgrade it's hardware as it is too unstable but Eggman fails. SAGE then takes Metal Sonic and uses him to keep an eye on Eggman and kill Sonic.

After Sonic destroys the 2 Emerald Towers, An Egg Titan shows up in Spring Valley, Sonic destroys the Titan and sees Tails was being held captive in the Titan, Sonic saves Tails and talks to him about what happened. Tails explains that a few Sage Guardians had captured them and turned them into Egg Titans.