Open endings are good, especially when the product works wonderfully. Sonic 3 has obviously understood the recipe, with two post-credits scenes which already invited the viewer to prepare for the imminent arrival of a fourth part, still with the blue hedgehog as superstar. Paramount confirmed the information and announced the upcoming release of Sonic 4 on March 19, 2027reports the American media Deadline. That’s in a little over two years.
More than a billion dollars in revenue for the three Sonics
It must be said that with more than 420 million dollars brought in at the worldwide box office, a warm welcome remains as warm as ever for the mascot of Sega – 88% on RottenTomatoes from critics, 95% on the audience score – and more than 1 billion dollars in revenue for the trilogy, it was difficult to see how Paramount could afford not to do it again. Obviously, to date, there is no information on the plot, the casting or even the person who will be in charge of carrying out the new adventures of the blue hedgehog.
This being said, the end of Sonic 3 can give us some clues. Be careful, there will be spoilers if you haven’t seen the last part. Left for dead after the explosionEclipse Cannon, Shadow, the rival then ally of Sonic, has indeed survived, as evidenced by his shoes and the handcuffs that he picks up in the second post-credits scene. Nothing indicates, however, that the Dr Robotnik, he got away with it but given the quality of interpretation once again of Jim Carrey in the role, again, it’s hard to imagine the teams not finding a pirouette to bring him back.
Do the post-credits scenes really introduce Sonic 4?
It is in the first post-credits scene that the premises of the future scenario of Sonic 4. While he still races with Tails et KnucklesSonic finds himself in a park in New York and quickly confronted with a horde of robots that look just like him: Metal Sonican invention of Dr. Robotnik, which purists will have discovered in the game Sonic CD. Our hero owes his salvation only to the intervention of a hooded character with a hammer: it isAmy Roseanother character from Sonic CD and passionate lover of our hedgehog.
-With these two characters, we can imagine new confrontations to come with other robots and therefore Metal Sonic. The latter being linked to Dr Robotnikthis one would definitely come back. But under what version of himself, he who seemed to have made peace with Sonic at the end of 3? Some fans are already talking about time travel for Sonic 4… which would make sense after all. In short, that’s a lot of unanswered questions and theories to develop between now and March 2027.
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