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With the premiere ofSonic Prime’s third season on Netflix on the horizon, Sega Hardlight’sSonic Forces: Speed Battlemobile title will be adding one of the show’s debuting villains, Grim Sonic, to its roster of racers.Sonic Forces: Speed Battleis a mobile spin-off game developed by Sega Hardlight as a tie-in to the 2017 mainline console game. Whilethe originalSonic Forceswas seen as a middling game, Sega Hardlight would continue supporting its mobile counterpart, adding in a number of playable characters from alternate continuities and canons. This includes characters from the IDW Comics, the live-action movies, andSonic Prime.
Sonic Primecharacters were first added toSonic Forces: Speed Battleafter the release of the first season, making Tails Nine and Rusty Rose playable racers. Three more characters fromPrimewould be added toSpeed Battle, those beingSonic Prime’s version of Sonic using the Boscage Maze claws, the Boscage Maze version of Amy Rose, Thorn Rose, and the pirate-themed version of Knuckles, Knuckles the Dread. With the upcoming event focused on the third season ofPrime, it features a brand-new villain who was teased in the previews of the show, Alpha Grim Sonic.
According to a recentpost on Sonic Stadium, Alpha Grim Sonic, or simply Grim Sonic, is coming toSonic Forces: Speed Battlein a new event that will be running from January 9-16. This event will start a few days before the third and final season ofSonic Primepremieres on Netflix, as that will debut on January 11, so fans have a few days to unlock him before the episodes are available. Grim Sonic’s unique ability is “Grimions,” which creates a robotic army that will run forward and impede any racers ahead of the player.
Grim Sonic is a robot built by Tails Nine, created for the purpose of combating both Sonic and Shadow. He resembles Chaos Sonic, another robotic duplicate introduced inSonic Prime, but is a much more dangerous foe to Sonic. He’s essentially the show’s take onSonic’s iconic evil doppelgänger, Metal Sonic, with Grim Sonic possessing the same speed-based abilities as his organic counterpart. Based on trailers for the third season, Sonic and his friends will have to deal with robotic duplicates of themselves led by Nine in his conquest to use the Paradox Prism for his own goals.
AlongsideSonic Forces: Speed Battle, Sega Hardlight is also working onpost-launch content forSonic Dream Team, an Apple Arcade exclusive title that was released back in December. UnlikeSpeed Battle,Dream Teamis a 3D platforming game with six playable characters and twelve levels. Between the post-lauch content forDream Team, the premiere of Sonic Prime’s third season, and the ongoing releases of theSonicIDW comics, fans will clearly not be starved forSoniccontent in 2024.
