{"id":2378,"date":"2022-06-18T06:30:39","date_gmt":"2022-06-18T06:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/18\/takashi-iizuka-sonic-frontiers-is-sonics-next-step-for-the-next-10-years\/"},"modified":"2022-06-18T06:30:39","modified_gmt":"2022-06-18T06:30:39","slug":"takashi-iizuka-sonic-frontiers-is-sonics-next-step-for-the-next-10-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/18\/takashi-iizuka-sonic-frontiers-is-sonics-next-step-for-the-next-10-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Takashi Iizuka: Sonic Frontiers Is Sonic&#8217;s &#8220;Next Step For The Next 10 Years&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;This is the third generation, almost&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Head of Sonic Team, Takashi Iizuka, has previously mentioned on a number of occasions how the &#8220;key point&#8221; in the history of the Sonic series was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/07\/sega_wants_to_take_good_care_of_2d_and_3d_sonic_in_the_future\">jump from 2D to 3D gameplay<\/a>. Now, later this year, Sega will take the Sonic the Hedgehog series to new heights with &#8220;open-zone&#8221; gameplay in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/sonic_frontiers\">Sonic Frontiers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a huge change for Sonic that Sega will apparently be building over the next 10 years, as mentioned by Iizuka during a recent interview with GamesBeat. He also used this moment to explain (once again) how Sonic&#8217;s first-generation games were &#8220;side-scrolling&#8221;, how the second generation was more modern gameplay (think <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gamecube\/sonic_adventure_dx_directors_cut\">Sonic Adventure<\/a>) and Sonic Frontiers is now the &#8220;next step&#8221; with its open-zone concept&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/06\/takashi-iizuka-sonic-frontiers-is-sonics-next-step-for-the-next-10-years\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Takashi Iizuka: Sonic Frontiers Is Sonic&#8217;s &#8220;Next Step For The Next 10 Years&#8221;<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;This is the third generation, almost&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Head of Sonic Team, Takashi Iizuka, has previously mentioned on a number of occasions how the &#8220;key point&#8221; in the history of the Sonic series was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/07\/sega_wants_to_take_good_care_of_2d_and_3d_sonic_in_the_future\">jump from 2D to 3D gameplay<\/a>. Now, later this year, Sega will take the Sonic the Hedgehog series to new heights with &#8220;open-zone&#8221; gameplay in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/sonic_frontiers\">Sonic Frontiers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a huge change for Sonic that Sega will apparently be building over the next 10 years, as mentioned by Iizuka during a recent interview with GamesBeat. He also used this moment to explain (once again) how Sonic&#8217;s first-generation games were &#8220;side-scrolling&#8221;, how the second generation was more modern gameplay (think <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gamecube\/sonic_adventure_dx_directors_cut\">Sonic Adventure<\/a>) and Sonic Frontiers is now the &#8220;next step&#8221; with its open-zone concept&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/06\/takashi-iizuka-sonic-frontiers-is-sonics-next-step-for-the-next-10-years\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}