Sonic the Hedgehog fans have endured quite the rollercoaster ride over the years. The franchise's approach to open-world gameplay has been inconsistent, resulting in a series that tries to reinvent its core gameplay with each release, up to Sonic Frontiers. Following the poor sales of 2014's Sonic Boom: The Rise of Lyric, it appeared that combining the blue blur and modern open-world gameplay would simply never work. However, last year's Sonic Frontiers proved that theory wrong, introducing traversal and combat that, though imperfect, felt like a natural evolution for the Sonic IP. With the 10-year anniversary of Sonic Boom in 2024, a remake of the title could find redemption by adapting the ideas and improvements featured in Sonic Frontiers.