Sonic Frontiers

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User Score
8.6

Generally favorable reviews- based on 730 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 634 out of 730
  2. Mixed: 23 out of 730
  3. Negative: 73 out of 730

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  1. Iraklis
    Nov 18, 2022
    0
    If you remember the times when you thought Sonic was the coolest thing in the **** world, this game will bring those feelings back. The music is an MGR level masterpiece. The story re-establishes the cast as the likeable but flawed characters they are. It hints at a future game where the cast will play a bigger (and probably playable) role. It tries really hard to be cheesy at points andIf you remember the times when you thought Sonic was the coolest thing in the **** world, this game will bring those feelings back. The music is an MGR level masterpiece. The story re-establishes the cast as the likeable but flawed characters they are. It hints at a future game where the cast will play a bigger (and probably playable) role. It tries really hard to be cheesy at points and it is, but this is absolutely a plus.… Expand
  2. Sasquack
    Nov 14, 2022
    0
    Jogo muito bom, consigo sentir que neste ano o Sonic retornou a ter mais relevância que há 3 anos atrás.
  3. eye_micah
    Nov 16, 2022
    3
    Incredibly underwhelming. Lifeless, drab open zones with out of place looking springs, dash pads, and floating rails thrown everywhere. Awkward, uncomfortable camera and poorly designed bosses limited by it. Stiff, soulless movement and none of the charm in its setting that made past 3D Sonics so memorable. The story is decent and definitely a step in the right direction, but the actualIncredibly underwhelming. Lifeless, drab open zones with out of place looking springs, dash pads, and floating rails thrown everywhere. Awkward, uncomfortable camera and poorly designed bosses limited by it. Stiff, soulless movement and none of the charm in its setting that made past 3D Sonics so memorable. The story is decent and definitely a step in the right direction, but the actual game is very bad.

    If "bland Unreal Engine tech demo" is the style Sonic is aiming for in the future, I don't think I'm interested in this series anymore. Remember Speed Highway from Sonic Adventure 1? City Escape from SA2? Crisis City from Sonic '06? Say what you will about that last one, at least there are interesting visual elements going on in that stage. One of the best parts of any Sonic game is seeing the unique and stylized zones and areas Sonic Team crafts. Taking out that soul and replacing it with a safe, bland, generic open world is incredibly disappointing.    … Expand
  4. Miyagi41
    Nov 17, 2022
    2
    Well this game is buggy as **** **** empty and limited world, diealogues are ****ed up, boring music and ****ty story. Damn, how can sonic fanboys give this game a 10? That's way sonic is never gonna get good, they are blind by their own fanatism. Anyway, have a nice time making sonic a mediocre saga (more than it is right now); peace.
  5. lookto198776
    Nov 14, 2022
    0
    Very sad vision for the future of sonic. Empty world with terrible design, forgettable music, horrible performance, they need to start taking a different approach with sonic.
  6. TomasLacerda
    Nov 10, 2022
    4
    - Level design is utterly bad
    - Popping issues happen 24/7 no matter the rig
    - Story is shallow and characters interaction is really limited
    - World is dull and empty
    - Challenges are baby hard
    - Overall game is way too easy, seems to be aiming the 11 year olds

    + A small batch of levels are gorgeous and feel like nostalgic sonic
  7. shin777
    Nov 11, 2022
    0
    The open world is horrible and so boring.

    And cant play the game on steam deck outside home cause you put denuvo in all of your games, plus the slutter it causes....
  8. Junanagou
    Nov 12, 2022
    4
    Just because people LIKE a game doesn't mean that game is GREAT. People tend to forget this simple fact. I understand players are enjoying Sonic Frontiers but how dare they say it is good ?

    Technically obsolete, repetitive and boring, visually dull and bland, empty areas, pitiful mini-games which have nothing to so with Sonic (puzzles, hopscotch, ...) and those 2D sections everyone    Just because people LIKE a game doesn't mean that game is GREAT. People tend to forget this simple fact. I understand players are enjoying Sonic Frontiers but how dare they say it is good ?

    Technically obsolete, repetitive and boring, visually dull and bland, empty areas, pitiful mini-games which have nothing to so with Sonic (puzzles, hopscotch, ...) and those 2D sections everyone hates.

    You want more ? Clipping everywhere, lags every two meters, zero stakes, shameless reuses of assets and level designs of stages from previous games, ... And an utterly lamentable final Boss.

    The worst part being it took not less than five years for SEGA to lay this steaming turd. If people are happy to have received this pathetic sub Sonic then their expectactions were miserably low.    … Expand
  9. xcvn
    Nov 10, 2022
    0
    One of the best sonic games ever to date, for once the story is actually good and not a cringe made up story for 7 year olds, the game feels more like a mix between sonic adventure 2 and sonic colors.
  10. Rakso78
    Nov 11, 2022
    0
    Poco atrapante y careciente se encaanto, un mundo abierto con un apartado artístico muy genérico
  11. Spassbremse
    Nov 18, 2022
    0
    Another absolutely underdeveloped mess from Sonic Team. Seriously, why do they keep pumping out broken garbage and the fanbase keeps lapping it up without any criticism? If this is all you want, this is all you're ever going to get, but good grief this game is broken, boring, janky nonsense.
  12. ScottPilgrim
    Nov 15, 2022
    0
    is basically unplayable on the steam deck. there are no shaders and you have to rely on proton . game was released too early
  13. SyCoREAPER
    Dec 22, 2022
    0
    Nearly unplayable.

    PS1 era camera, no sense of depth when jumping. I played 30 minutes before I couldn't take the camera anymore and got a refund. Graphically it's mediocre at best. A whopping two settings, High and Low. Caps at 60fps and doesn't run solid 60 on my 6800m, Cyberpunk runs at 60FPS FFS. This is such a poorly optimized game. Even putting frame rates aside, setting    Nearly unplayable.

    PS1 era camera, no sense of depth when jumping. I played 30 minutes before I couldn't take the camera anymore and got a refund.

    Graphically it's mediocre at best. A whopping two settings, High and Low. Caps at 60fps and doesn't run solid 60 on my 6800m, Cyberpunk runs at 60FPS FFS. This is such a poorly optimized game. Even putting frame rates aside, setting everything to max and just standing still, it's not visually. Impressive in any sense.

    The game itself isn't fun either. Devoid of anything to really do. It's a faux open world.. Not worth the full price or sale price I paid.    … Expand
  14. DolphinReviews
    Jan 14, 2023
    0
    - Poor performance. Constant stuttering. Unstable framerate.
    - Not Sonic. This isn't a Sonic game, this is a fan tech demo.
    - Unfitting graphics. gross realistic graphics instead of cartoon graphics.
    - Bad music. This is the first mainline Sonic game to have trash music.
  15. Knuckllesss
    Nov 15, 2022
    0
    Peak Fiction I loved it. I had so much fun it was just a genuinely good game. I wish the graphics and visuals were better but I had an amazing time regardless
  16. starenol
    Nov 18, 2022
    0
    There was a Sonic fanboy calling this garbage "a masterpiece, a peak game, an amazing experience" when it's actually a disasterpiece, a bottom of the barrel game, and a terrible experience.
  17. Zuglife
    Nov 19, 2022
    0
    Total Trash.
    What type of AAA game has load in like this.
    I would expect more for the least and this pricetag.
  18. DarkQuill
    Mar 1, 2023
    4
    The open world is fun to run around in, but doing any of the tasks within are boring. The combat has a lot of "needless depth" to it, where you CAN do all these bigger moves and combos, but your basic abilities more than suffice. The enemies are generic and bland as well, variations of "small shiny black robot with pointy arms" to "giant shiny black robot with stompy legs".

    The zones    The open world is fun to run around in, but doing any of the tasks within are boring. The combat has a lot of "needless depth" to it, where you CAN do all these bigger moves and combos, but your basic abilities more than suffice. The enemies are generic and bland as well, variations of "small shiny black robot with pointy arms" to "giant shiny black robot with stompy legs".

    The zones themselves are boring and are all based on the awful Boost gameplay that people think is good for some reason. It is however, still leagues better than 06, Forces, Unleashed, Heroes, etc.
    The story is another "I'll go save all my useless friends" throwaway, as Sonic games almost always are nowadays.

    The music is okay, but the cool-factor is outweighed by the fact that Sonic himself is not as cool as the music/lyrics try to make him out to be. Better to just download the music and listen while playing a better game.

    A large story-based content update was announced so there's a chance it will improve the gameplay some more, but there's a whole bunch of cosmetic/misc/junk stuff before that comes out that will likely interest very few players.

    To top it all off, it has Denuvo. This causes the game to microstutter at times. Even if it didn't though, I still don't think this game would be worth pirating at this stage. A decent improvement after the last 17 years of disappointment, but mediocre at best.    … Expand
  19. Szy33
    Nov 29, 2022
    0
    How can you play this game it is like poop graphics is like 2005 game 2008 dead cells graphics is better than this graphics it is like generate world in game engine
  20. ThassiaF
    Dec 6, 2022
    2
    Plays worse than Sonic Adventure 2, comands and skills are confusing, the music is strange and story is not so good. At least visuals are good
  21. EdwardTheCat
    Dec 27, 2022
    2
    It's the same formula from previous games but now with repetitive combat. The games itself feels too fragmented and undefined. Cyberpace stages feeling the same as Sonic Forces and Sonic Colors but with even less challenge. The overworld feels bland with scattered gimmicks all over. The narrative is very confusing, and the characters are too gloomy all the time, trying to be "serious". TheIt's the same formula from previous games but now with repetitive combat. The games itself feels too fragmented and undefined. Cyberpace stages feeling the same as Sonic Forces and Sonic Colors but with even less challenge. The overworld feels bland with scattered gimmicks all over. The narrative is very confusing, and the characters are too gloomy all the time, trying to be "serious". The music most times is either not exciting or it doesn't fit the mood.
    It's a game that has Sonic in it, but it doesn't feel like a Sonic game.    … Expand
  22. 30THM4N3
    Jun 21, 2023
    4
    i hate this game , is there stuff i liked ? of course , the platforming is good , the design of cyberspace stages , and sonic abilities are great , and some stuff about the story is good , and the amazing music , and how the world is full with stuff you can do in it , is pretty good , same goes for the challenges , you can go and leave them all , they just give you upgrades and makes thei hate this game , is there stuff i liked ? of course , the platforming is good , the design of cyberspace stages , and sonic abilities are great , and some stuff about the story is good , and the amazing music , and how the world is full with stuff you can do in it , is pretty good , same goes for the challenges , you can go and leave them all , they just give you upgrades and makes the map on the menu expanded , which is the least usefull things you would need , unlike the platforming that gives you the gears to go to the cyberspace levels that gives you the keys , and the combat that could gives you anything , so its good to give up on those boring minigames , and even if you want to play them , everything you does in quick , so if there is something bad , its not getting annoying , because the worst about any game have bad moments , its if they get too long , and here everything does quickly , but i hate everything elss , i hate the broken travelling , i hate the oversimplified minigames , i hate the graphics , i hate the sucks combat , i hate the boring cutscenes , and the story not progess , i hate the developers laziness , and taken stages from generation , unleashed and adventure 2 cause they can't do something new , I HATE SONIC FRONTIERS!… Expand
  23. TreasureOrTrash
    Sep 8, 2023
    0
    Trash!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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#6 Most Discussed PC Game of 2022

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Metascore
75

Generally favorable reviews - based on 13 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 13
  3. Negative: 0 out of 13
  1. Ragequit.gr
    Dec 9, 2022
    83
    Sonic's entry into new, for him, gaming paths is overall successful, despite any problems. With a little polish and attention to detail, the next game in the series has the foundations in place to finally look eternal rival Mario in his three-dimensional, bubbly eyes.
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  2. GameStar
    Nov 29, 2022
    62
    As a 3D Sonic a step in the right direction. The open world has a lot to offer but gets lost in redundancy.
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  3. PC Games
    Nov 26, 2022
    70
    Quotation forthcoming.
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