Sonic Frontiers Review – The BEST Sonic Game?!

Yaya with the HEAT as always

he had us in the first half ngl

Outside of the clickbait title (c'mon, you're better than that), glad you enjoyed the game! I can't WAIT to play this game.

This has to be the weirdest Sonic game ever made. I've long yearned for a serious Sonic again since Unleashed and Black Knight, but this is sooo…..jarring. There are elements of a good story here and there with the whole Ancients backstory and SOME of the characters interactions, Sage is also an interesting concept yet she doesn't amount to do much. But then it falls flat so many small things that pile up into a big ball of mediocrity : the Pontac and Graff-like cringy jokes, constant use of memberberries lines referencing old games to the point of being a crutch (or straight up cringe like referencing Forces or namedropping Sticks from Boom), Eggman is barely in the game, Sonic and the main cast aren't insufferable (most of the time, at least, Sonic can be still painful at times, RCS's new voice direction just has me puzzled, he's not even trying anymore), they're just kinda there.

What bothers me the most is how low budget the animations are, since this game goes all this way to be open world, bringing assets that weren't seen since Unleashed or Generations like the direction cannons or the Light Speed Dash, a whole combat combo system, yet falls short on presentation. Also, Cyberspace stages are pathetic, literally Forces 2.0

It's like this game is trying to arch back to that mid 2000s feel you'd expect from Unleashed or 06, but still filtered through trash like Colors or Forces which drag it down. I can't call it exactly good, but it's not horrendous either. It's just so weirdly experimental…..And potentially, it has the foundation to lay out a decent new formula, if they iron out physics, Cyberspace (or action) stages level design, hub/action stage ratio, different character playstyles, and slightly better writing.

Ayo avataryaya I didn’t play the game yet I’m getting tomorrow around my birthday while I’m playing no more heroes 3 but thanks for not spoiling the story

Still can't determine if I'll drop the $70 on this game yet, but it does look like fun. I'm just not a fan of the games that are 'too' open world because then I never finish them.

Your dancing🤣 the song does slap though.

If only it had chao garden 😞

I'll buy that game tomorrow.

I heard that the final boss is different in hard mode. No spoilers but is that true?