Sonic Frontiers Animated Prologue Shows Knuckles in Action

The official Sonic the Hedgehog YouTube channel has uploaded an animated short titled “Sonic Frontiers Prologue: Divergence.” Starring Knuckles, the short reveals how he wound up on the island players explore in Sonic Frontiers. The entire six-minute animation can be viewed below.

In the trailer, Knuckles provides a voice-over explanation of his background up until now, including the fact that he was tasked with guarding the Master Emerald, a relic that hasn’t appeared in the Sonic series for quite some time. The trailer ends with Knuckles absolutely demolishing some robots, and while we’ve received no indication that he will be playable in Sonic Frontiers, that sequence makes me hope he will be.

Knuckles has been a core Sonic character for most of the franchise’s existence, so it’s not surprising that he’s making an appearance in the blue blur’s latest adventure. While this animated prologue gives us insight into how he wound up on the island, it’s still not entirely clear why, especially when it comes to the appearance of Sage (a new character introduced in Sonic Frontiers) at the end of the trailer. We’ll have to wait for the full game to find out.

Sonic news was everywhere in the last month. A December 14 release date was confirmed. Sonic PrimeSonic Frontiers received a trailer showing Super Sonic being playable in Sonic Frontiers. Also, we discovered that Sonic has been selling over 1.5 Billion copies around the world. You can read more Sonic news in our earlier cover story. Stay tuned to Sonic Frontiers for further coverage on the game’s release date of November 8.