Sonic Forces Trailer, My Thoughts

From the makers of Sonic Generations and Sonic Colors comes a new Sonic game coming to the Nintendo Switch. That's right, it's time to unleash the Sonic Forces!

The trailer begins with a giant robot wrecking a city. Oh no, Dr. Eggman got his hands on MechaGodzilla, and has modified it to take over the world. There's flames everywhere, and carnage litters the streets. But Sonic is going to save the day...well, Sonics are going to save the day.

Yup, much like in Generations, there seems to be an option to play as either the modern Sonic or the classic Sonic from the Genesis-era. The trailer seems to hint that also like in Generations, modern Sonic's levels will be 3D, and Classic Sonic's levels will be in 2.5D-style. It also reveals a third option one could take.

Your own custom character. Yup, this game allows one to play as a custom character of your own creation. And considering the Sonic fanbase love creating their own custom characters, I think they would love this feature. We see Custom using a grapping hook in a cutscene. Perhaps that's a weapon option a custom character can use.

From the footage we see, Custom's gameplay can fit either Classic's 2.5D-style, or Modern's 3-D-style levels. I wonder if one can choose which type of levels your custom character can use. Or maybe they play both. Who knows?

We then see Custom and the Sonic facing off against a group of villains: Shadow the Hedgehog, Metal Sonic, one of the Deadly Six from Sonic: Lost World, and Chaos. Quite an assembly of villains there. But wait, there's more! We get a new one! Yup, a new villain. This one looks like someone stuck Sonic and Alucard from Hellsing in a blender. From what I understand, this new villain is called Infinite, and he uses red and black cubes to attack. Hey, if it worked for the Borg...

Also, from what I heard, this game is going to be showing Sonic as a resistance fighter. Hey, the games are finally catching up to the comics on that. It's also different from what we usually see in the games. In the games, Robotnik is usually the threat the gets beaten before he achieves his goal of conquering the world. I imagine for comic readers, Sonic the resistance fighter is a regular deal, so the game will be nothing new for them on that. But I bet for people who don't regularly read Sonic's comics, just play the games, this will be a neat new thing.

Sonic Forces looks like it will be fun. If I get a Switch, I'll give it a try.