Another Sonic Toys Party Trailer Leaks, Revealing New Characters & Details

[nuckles87]

It really does feel like everything about this game has been leaking like a sieve, huh? From early leaks of a "Fall Guys" Sonic game, to its name, to an old for-internal-use-only trailer, we now have...a second trailer leak!

Posted to Twitter and Youtube by long-running Sonic fan site Shadow of a Hedgehog City, this new trailer showcases far more characters and a different user interface. You can find the trailer below:
 

 

This new trailer gives us an idea of how the game's competition progression will work: three competitions on different maps. The maps "Chemical Plant Run" and "Green Hill Run" are shown

The trailer also shows off more of the in-game UI, including what appears to be a survival mode. Players need to avoid falling off a shrinking arena while battling a rampaging Death Egg Robot, which was seen in the previous trailer. Some sort of silver-covered Eggman can also be seen in the first image:

Finally, the end of the trailer shows us a wide selection of characters, far bigger than what the older internal trailer showcased. Alongside previously confirmed characters that included Sonic, Knuckles, Tails, Amy, Eggman Shadow, and Metal Sonic, a large number of new characters from Sonic's wider universe was shown. Cream, Rouge, Silver, Blaze, Espio, Charmy, Zavok, Jet, a bunch of characters based on the Sonic Forces' avatar, and more can all be seen in the character select. You can check them out in the gallery of screenshots from the trailer below:

Interestingly, one big difference between this trailer and the previous one is that the chao aren't universal, but only seen on a few characters. This could mean they are optional. The leaker Midori has stated that this is from a more recent build of the game.

Given the amount of leaks this game has had, one wonders if we're not far from a proper announcement. At the very least, it is SEGA's worst kept secret at this point. We don't know where this trailer came from, but the code covering it would suggest this was another one not meant to see the light of day. Hopefully, it won't be long before SEGA gives this thing a proper unveiling.

Assuming previous leaks remain accurate, Sonic Toys Party is expected sometime this summer.

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[Knight Terror]

Eggman and espio are cursed

[Maple Syrup]

They're all pretty cute! Especially Cream and Charmy! I still have a problem with the name though...

Edited March 28 by Maple Syrup

[SadVlad]

It looks very unstable. And I wonder if it's going to be an Apple Arcade exclusive. They might have addressed this already, but I'm not too in touch with the mainstream news of everything.

[Aroon]

Damn didn’t expect, Jet The Hawk join in Sonic Toy’s Party plus earlier give official art Jet today either!

[ShadowForever]

Hooray! They all look so cute! 

And, uh, Sonic the Knuckles, Sonic the Silver, Shadow the Eggman, and Tails the Dog? 

[Stasis]

Green Hill and Chemical Plant are here to stay.

[Iko]

I was sure that the other characters were definitely coming.

Anyway, in this trailer the game looks fine but seems like it's struggling for some reason... like the part where they slide on that slope in Green Hill, it does look janky, but maybe it's just appearance and the video itself skipping frames and lagging, I don't know,

Regarding the art style... I think Green Hill looks a bit too dark, not saturated enough, I don't know... and the characters don't look like toys, they look like chibi versions of the characters themselves, but the real ones. The fact that even in the mainline Sonic games, all the characters' 3D models look like plastic dolls probably doesn't help.

As someone who occasionally plays Fall Guys though, I think this game can be interesting if done right. I hope they don't focus too much on competition and leaderboards and leave it as a casual game like Fall Guys, where you just have fun and don't care if you win or lose.

I wonder if Dream Team and Toy Party run on the same framework... I know that they are from separated developers, but maybe, I don't know (andif that's the case, who did the framework out of the two teams?). I say this because I noticed that Dream Team has some gimmicks that appear just once or a few times and that are a bit too complex to program for being intended to be used only a couple of times: I'm talking mostly of the tube-planetoid physics like Sonic Lost World, they are rarely used in the game (Dream Team) though they require the whole gameplay to be designed with that gimmick in mind in order to work, it's hard to believe that it was a later, last minute addition to the game... since Toy Party seems to have some Lost World content in it, I wonder if the framework was created for Toy Party and was also used for Dream Team (this is just  a random theory and might be completely wrong).

Edited March 28 by Iko

[Jordan-Kim]

Dude, I can't wait to see more characters in Sonic Toys Party (such as Super Sonic, Classic Sonic, Zazz, Wave, Storm, Sticks, Werehog, Chaos, Eggman Nega, etc)

[Indigo Rush]

It looks like the embedded video has been copyright claimed. 

Lil Eggman looks funny. Love it.

[castell-neath]

Urgh. The Avatars.

Still.... Silver. So yay.

[Korbit]

Green hill zone, chemical plant zone, and splash hill music? Must be a Sonic spinoff! sigh