The Chao Garden lives in Sonic 3’s new trailer

There are a fistful of specifications Parmount’s 3rd Sonic feature needs to get correct successful bid for it to consciousness for illustration a due adjustment of Sonic Adventure 2, and the movie’s latest trailer makes it look for illustration it has the Chao Garden (arguably the champion portion of the game) connected lock.

Though it features a fewer much shots of the Robotniks (Jim Carey) and Shadow the Hedgehog (Keanu Reeves) plotting to obliterate the earth, the item of Sonic the Hedgehog 3’s caller trailer are its caller shots of the Chao Garden. While Sonic Adventure 2’s Chao Garden was fundamentally a daycare to raise magical small creatures, the movie reimagines it arsenic a Chuck E. Cheese-like edifice wherever Sonic (Ben Schwartz) and his unit for illustration to bent retired arsenic Chao mascots creation astir connected stage. 

Given each the Chao merch connected display, you’d almost deliberation the mini blob creatures were the Pokémon of the live-action Sonic’s world successful position of being portion of a beloved video crippled franchise. But these kids and Knuckles (Idris Elba) each look to person seen Detective Pikachu, implying that the movie was a successful movie adjustment successful their world arsenic well. Though Sonic’s Google Maps joke falls a small flat, the shots of Shadow utilizing a weird orb to terrorize everyone gives him a spot of a Mewtwo vibe that feels fitting, fixed his being thing of a misunderstood villain.

And while there’s nary motion whether Rouge the Bat will make an appearance, the trailer’s a bully reminder that the movie’s December 20th premiere is going to beryllium an explosive one.