FORMAT PS5, PS4
ETA 8 NOV
PUB SEGA
DEV SONIC TEAM
PLAYERS 1
S onic fans have been used to ups and downs with each new iteration of their beloved blue hedgehog, and while Sonic Frontiers promises to take him in a genuinely new direction, there’s a palpable sense of nervous anticipation ahead of the game’s worldwide launch on 8 November, just a few weeks after this magazine hits shelves.
Standing steadfast and confident of where Sonic is headed, however, is Takashi Iizuka, who’s been heading the series and Sonic Team since 2008, and who we’re sitting down with to natter about all things speedy and blue. Of course, he’s been working with our favourite hedgehog for longer than that – in fact, he’s shown greater staying power than the hedgehog’s co-creators Yuji Naka and Naoto Ohshima, having been a member of Sonic Team since 1994 when he was a designer for Sonic 3. But his most influential move in his near-30 years working on the
