A brand new Sonic the Hedgehog sport has simply been introduced. The Murder of Sonic The Hedgehog is free to play and out there now on PC and Mac, tasking gamers with fixing the beloved blue hedgehog’s homicide.
The participant’s investigations in The Murder of Sonic The Hedgehog will take the type of a point-and-click homicide thriller, as gamers flip as much as rejoice Amy Rose’s birthday by participating in a homicide thriller sport on a practice. In true Glass Onion type, the sport takes a flip for the extra reasonable when Sonic is got rid of for actual through the proceedings.
The Sonic Social workforce proudly presents: The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog!
A model new Sonic sport. Available proper now. On Steam. For FREE! pic.twitter.com/qOsvdwCU2b
— Sonic the Hedgehog (@sonic_hedgehog) March 31, 2023
The Murder of Sonic The Hedgehog has a really sturdy April Fools Day vibe and there’s a precedent for video games being joke-announced on April 1 earlier than changing into vastly standard with a group after which having to be created and shipped for actual. Hooked on You, a relationship sim that has you romancing and being romanced by Dead By Daylight‘s solid of killers, is a current instance and one NME rated.
In this case, evidently Sega determined to get forward of the followers and put the sport out concurrently the trailer saying the challenge.
“We’ve heard your feedback,” claims the trailer, which pokes enjoyable at among the extra vocal critics of titles like Sonic Frontiers or Sonic Origins, earlier than revealing that the workforce behind Sonic has taken a daring new path. One that leads with Sega’s conventional mascot being useless.
Sega is fast to make clear that the sport isn’t canon – so the story doesn’t happen within the established Sonic The Hedgehog universe.
In addition to the purpose and click on meat of the sport, it seems from the trailer that there will even be isometric platforming minigames, though as NME hasn’t performed the sport at time of publication it’s exhausting to know fairly how a lot sport there may be for keen thriller followers.
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