SEGA announced a brand new Sonic The Hedgehog game was in the works for 2022, sharing little details aside from a short cutscene and mysterious logo.
Since then rumor have been drawing a great amount of attention from fans. This rumor originated on 4chan, and is seen to be credible as it lines up with a few hidden things about the reveal trailer.
Take below as info from 4Chan …
The rumor supposedly leaks the game’s official title, as well as a number of key plot and gameplay details, so only read on past the spoiler warning if you’re fine with potential spoilers: The first key element of this rumor is a discovery shared by modder @PTKickass.
According to PTKickass’ post, the metadata for the new Sonic game trailer contains references to term “Sonic Rangers”, which some felt seemed like it could be the game’s unannounced title
References to Photoshop files, separate .mov file for the glitch effect, and a name that probably indicates that the CGI was rendered too many times before the final version of the teaser pic.twitter.com/Llfqy7FBoM
— PTKickass (@PTKickass) May 27, 2021
Running on this line of speculation, fans then managed to pull up some anonymous posts published on 4chan back in January 2021, where the user claimed to have focus tested a new Sonic game called “Sonic Rangers”.
This user described the game as being “open-world” in the style of Breath Of The Wild, and discussed his experience playing through a demo stage and a boss battle: There’s this too from back in January;
There's this too from back in January pic.twitter.com/9MWVXH3GDi
— NTom64 (@NTom64_Lyfe) May 27, 2021
This post was then followed up by another anonymous post published a few hours before the trailer was revealed on stream, sharing similar details:
Y'ALL THERE IS MORE. It was posted almost at the beginning of the stream and before the game title leaked pic.twitter.com/55xyw4aqAv
— Tio Nio (@nio_tio) May 27, 2021
But keep in mind these all are just rumors untill SEGA confirms anything.