Fan-made Sonic game prototype imagines open-world retro parkour

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Sonic superfans The Great Lange and Murasaki Fox have whipped up a prototype for a fan-made game called Sonic Utopia and it's got a heck of a trailer.
As you can see, Sonic Utopia reimagines the classic Sonic gameplay in an open-world 3D terrain. It looks kind of glorious, albeit in an early state. After all, The Great Lange created all the models and animation from scratch, along with most of the textures, sound and music. The engine too is proprietary, with Murasaki Fox taking credit for that one.
The mix of open-world exploration and suggested paths carved out in trails of rings suggests something like Mirror's Edge or Gravity Rush wherein you can explore at your own leisure, but the landscape will be peppered with checkpoint races that put your traversal talents to the test.
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