{"id":12183,"date":"2022-06-15T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/sonic-frontiers-director-tries-to-explain-its-open-zone-gameplay-just-describes-an-open-world-game\/"},"modified":"2022-06-15T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T21:30:00","slug":"sonic-frontiers-director-tries-to-explain-its-open-zone-gameplay-just-describes-an-open-world-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/sonic-frontiers-director-tries-to-explain-its-open-zone-gameplay-just-describes-an-open-world-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonic Frontiers Director Tries To Explain Its \u2018Open Zone\u2019 Gameplay, Just Describes An Open-World Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Morio Kishimoto, longtime Sonic Team dev and director of <em>Sonic Frontiers<\/em>, recently did his best to clarify what Sega means when it hypes up the game\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/sonic-frontiers-demo-impressions-sega-open-world-delay-1849059374\">\u201copen zone\u201d mechanics<\/a>. But his explanation seems to confirm the phrase is just a trumped-up marketing term rather than some sort of indication that <em>Frontiers<\/em> is\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/sonic-frontiers-sega-open-zone-world-gameplay-morio-kis-1849067383\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source &#8211; kotaku.com<\/p>\n<p>All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morio Kishimoto, longtime Sonic Team dev and director of Sonic Frontiers, recently did his best to clarify what Sega means when it hypes up the game\u2019s \u201copen zone\u201d mechanics. 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