Sonic Frontiers does exactly what I’d initially hoped Sonic Adventure 2 would have. It wasn’t objectively bad by any means, but it wasn’t what I had enjoyed about Sonic Adventure. Those huge hub areas were lost in exchange for one compact, focused level after another. While Sonic Adventure 2 was in many ways technically superior, it cut out the part that I viewed as the adventure. It gave Sonic what was for the time, a large area to run around it that supported his speed. Running around those open “adventure fields” of Station Square and the Mystic Ruins as Sonic felt incredibly free. Don’t get me wrong, on a technical level Sonic Adventure is a borderline broken game and entire segments of its multipart campaign ultimately fall short of their ambition, but it was that ambition and scale that kept me coming back. When I got my Dreamcast on Christmas day 1999 along with a copy of Sonic Adventure, I was entranced. But if you’re like me, Sonic Frontiers may just be an admittedly imperfect look into exactly what 3D Sonic should be. It doesn’t mean that every 3D Sonic fan will like it, it's arguably at its worst when it is being what 3D Sonic has largely been for the last 20 years. That doesn’t mean that Sonic Frontiers is some perfect game that will reinvent the series, in fact it is crawling with flaws. But that is what I would use the golden keys for.Sonic Frontiers is the sequel that 7-year-old me wanted to Sonic Adventure. “When you look at all the games that are out there now and knowing the kind of expectations for the next Sonic Adventure game would be, it would take a whole of investment from the company, a lot of development time, and a lot of game volume to really bring something to market. I really want to continue creating the Adventure series.” I was there for and was there for those are my games. “Instead of a feature, I would like to use these golden keys to kind of make the next Sonic Adventure game. Still, Sonic Adventure 3 would be Iizuka’s choice for the next Sonic game after development of Sonic Frontiers ends. It would need much more investment to make than it would have back in the days of the Dreamcast. Iizuka said that creating a fresh new Sonic Adventure game in 2023 would require a massive budget from SEGA due to its scale. Sonic Team head, Takashi Iizuka, has reiterated in a recent interview that he really wants to make a new entry in the Sonic Adventure franchise, ideally Sonic Adventure 3.
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