Sonic Frontiers Update: How to Unlock Spin Dash

By Tanner Dedmon

Sonic Frontiers was part of Sonic the Hedgehog's birthday celebrations this week with a new update for the game now available. The "Birthday Bash" update as it's been called includes a bunch of fixes and adjustments for the game, but more importantly than those improvements is the return of one of the most iconic Sonic the Hedgehog moves of all time: the Spin Dash. This is the move that Sonic uses to curl up into a ball and speed around like the Blue Blur he is, and now, you can traverse Sonic Frontiers using that move.

If that wasn't enough, the same update also added a New Game+ mode to Sonic Frontiers which gives you a reason to actually go and use the Sonic Frontiers Spin Dash ability if you'd already beaten the game before. It's not a move that's available right from the start, however, so how do you unlock Spin Dash in Sonic Frontiers?

How to Unlock Spin Dash in Sonic Frontiers

Thankfully, Sonic the Hedgehog fans were quick to figure out how to unlock the Spin Dash move now that it's in Sonic Frontiers. You'll notice in the patch notes further down for this update that the patch added new "Action Chain Challenge" for Sonic to try. To get Spin Dash, you'll have to get an S-Rank in all of those challenges.

That might not be what players want to hear if they were expecting to Spin Dash from the get go right after downloading the update, but one of the fans who alread got the move said that it only took them about 2-3 hours to get Spin Dash, so if you're starting a new game with New Game+, it shouldn't be too much of an issue to get this move along the way.

Aside from the Spin Dash mode, there's more to check out in the Birthday Bash update. The full patch notes for the Sonic Frontiers Birthday Bash update can be found below:

Sonic Frontiers Patch Notes

  • Birthday Celebration – The Starfall Islands have been decked out to celebrate Sonic's birthday! Check out the decorations and party with a new costume for Sonic's big day!
  • Action Chain Challenge – new challenges have been added to the Open Zones. Aim for the high score!
  • New Skill: Spin Dash – The legendary Sonic move returns! Unlock the Spin Dash and discover new ways to traverse the Starfall
  • Islands.
  • New Koco – There's new kinds of Koco waiting to be found on the Starfall Islands. Keep an eye out for their fun outfits!
  • New Game + – Relive the story of Sonic Frontiers with all your stats and skills carried over from your previous playthrough.
  • This update also includes additional changes to improve your experience while exploring the Starfall Islands.
  • Added a function to display percent completion for each island – available on the transition screen between islands, island selection screen, and island clear screen.
  • Added new "Frontier Elite" costume.
  • Added an ability to change the rate of deceleration when jumping.
  • Added a "NEW" icon that will be displayed when extra content is newly added.
  • Added an ability to turn on/off the "BGM change" function in Cyber Space.
  • The tower difficulty on Rhea Island has been reduced for Easy mode.
  • When the following time-saving actions are used in Cyber Space, colored marks will now appear in the results:
    • Homing Dash: White
    • Spin Dash: Red
    • Change in deceleration rate when jumping: Yellow
    • Cyber Space Power Boost: Blue
  • Added a feature to reset clear time and rank in Arcade mode, Cyber Space, Battle Rush, etc.
  • Added an ON/OFF option to set whether the camera will use dramatic angles when skills are used.
  • Added an option to set the deceleration rate to reach a complete stop.
  • Added an ON/OFF option to set whether to maintain a boost during a jump.
  • Added 24 songs to the Juke Box. Added Sound Memories on each island.
  • Additional bug fixes.
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