The Chao Garden lives in Sonic 3’s new trailer

There are a fistful of details Parmount’s 3rd Sonic feature needs to get close successful bid for it to consciousness similar a due adaptation of Sonic Adventure 2, and the movie’s latest trailer makes it look similar 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 rise magical small creatures, the movie reimagines it arsenic a Chuck E. Cheese-like edifice wherever Sonic (Ben Schwartz) and his unit similar to bent retired arsenic Chao mascots creation astir connected stage. 

Given each the Chao merch connected display, you’d astir deliberation the tiny blob creatures were the Pokémon of the live-action Sonic’s satellite successful presumption 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 palmy movie adaptation successful their satellite arsenic well. Though Sonic’s Google Maps gag 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 portion there’s nary motion whether Rouge the Bat volition marque an appearance, the trailer’s a bully reminder that the movie’s December 20th premiere is going to beryllium an explosive one.