NEW Sega Leaks: They were, indeed, real! [2] (FRONTIERS SPOILERS PRESENT)

 

Back in April, I wrote a summary of what was essentially a giant breach in SEGA's internal security by an anonymous person that resulted in three major internal projects having parts of them outed.

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For those of you who don't remember, prior to Atlus' latest Persona Super Live concert, one Twitter user called "AVtoGAMEnoYAMI uploaded footage of an earlier version of 2022's Sonic Frontiers, test footage of a new Jet Set Radio game (which strangely lines up with SEGA's "Super Game" Initiative), and what we now know to be the full-on remake of the original Persona 3-- Persona 3: Reload.

Despite both my and seemingly everyone else's skepticism because of Yukari's character model, the Sonic Frontiers footage which both lined up with concept art seen within the game's art book and an early 4Chan leak, granted the post far more validity than it would've otherwise had. Lo and behold, the more hopeful of us were right. For more about what the common consensus was at the time, you can click here to learn about that. 

Now onto the present.

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In the game's latest trailer, particularly near the end, we see a bit of Yukari's all-out attack, which looks AWFULLY familiar...

Taken from Yukari trailer

Taken from April's leaks

For some general thoughts, I think the game looks pretty good overall, though I do wonder if there's an option to turn the motion blur off. That stuff makes me motion sick. Also, some of the UI and rearranged music isn't 100% jiving well with me, but everything else does. I'll save all of that for a separate post, though.

And going back to Frontiers, while everything here is about what you'd expect, one thing that did catch my eye once again upon playing the game's final update was something akin to the second half of this video.

Not a major thing so much as a technical detail I thought was kind of interesting, you fight the Supreme + End combo closer to the ground in a forest-y area. This seriously reminds me of the beta footage where the same thing was the case for the fight against Giganto. Additionally, and this is 100% a coincidence, the weird cord cast from the sky that hooks onto Supreme reminds me of the beam Sonic seemingly fires at Giganto as he brings the mech down. Even closer to that than this, is a similar cord Eggman uses to grab Supreme's gun partway through the fight, and that one's actually blue!

As for Jet Set Radio, we've heard no word on this since last time, meaning we're probably a ways off for that game's announcement.

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And that does that! After seeing the Persona 3 Reload Yukari trailer, I had to come back and update this with everything that we know now. When we get new developments on any of these, I'll be sure to say something, so stay tuned until then!