A brand new Sonic the Hedgehog recreation has simply been introduced. The Homicide 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 Homicide of Sonic The Hedgehog will take the type of a point-and-click homicide thriller, as gamers flip as much as have a good time Amy Rose’s birthday by participating in a homicide thriller recreation on a practice. In true Glass Onion fashion, the sport takes a flip for the extra lifelike when Sonic is got rid of for actual throughout the proceedings.
The Sonic Social staff proudly presents: The Homicide of Sonic the Hedgehog!
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The Homicide 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 turning into vastly fashionable with a neighborhood after which having to be created and shipped for actual. Hooked on You, a courting sim that has you romancing and being romanced by Useless By Daylight‘s forged of killers, is a latest instance and one NME rated.
On this case, it appears that evidently Sega determined to get forward of the followers and put the sport out similtaneously the trailer saying the challenge.
“We’ve heard your suggestions,” 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 staff behind Sonic has taken a daring new path. One which leads with Sega’s conventional mascot being lifeless.
Sega is fast to make clear that the sport just isn’t canon – so the story doesn’t happen within the established Sonic The Hedgehog universe.
Along with the purpose and click on meat of the sport, it seems from the trailer that there may even be isometric platforming minigames, though as NME hasn’t performed the sport at time of publication it’s onerous to know fairly how a lot recreation there’s for keen thriller followers.
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