- Publisher: Sega
- Release Date: Nov 8, 2022
- Also On: PC, PlayStation 4, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X
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Nov 13, 2022For a game that relies on a certain level of fluidity in its core mechanics, Sonic Frontiers often feels thoughtless.
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Nov 7, 2022There’s a real tonal dissonance in Sonic Frontiers. It wants to be a fun platformer. It wants to be a high-speed exploration puzzler. It also wants you to feel a sense of power as you take on towering bosses, and save a world from certain destruction. But in striving for success on multiple fronts, it achieves none of these goals – instead arriving as an ambitious but lukewarm adventure-platformer pockmarked by deflating choices.
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Nov 7, 2022Sonic Frontiers features the kind of lightweight yet engaging storytelling that should easily enrapture fans young and old – though I'd hate to be a child forced to play through some of the abysmal platforming featured throughout. Was taking Sonic open world an ambitious endeavor? Yes. Did it pay off? Absolutely not.
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Feb 22, 2023There is nothing remotely redeeming about this game. Nothing that even the most die-hard loyal Sonic Fans would or should advocate for. I hope that one day someone who cares enough about this franchise could give us something-anything of substance. A fan can hope, can’t they? A fan can hope.
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Edge MagazineDec 1, 2022A game that never feels comfortable giving you full command of its star. We're left feeling blue, but not in the way Sonic Team intended. [Issue#379, p.118]
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Nov 7, 2022While not outright broken like Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) or Sonic Boom, Sonic Frontiers is a heavily misguided game that muffles good ideas with questionable narrative, technical, and gameplay design decisions. Sonic Team continues to demonstrate that it's not quite sure what to do with the blue blur, taking a wild swing with a game that tries to rival open-world games rather than double down on the strengths of newer titles like Sonic Generations and Sonic Mania, or older successes like the Sonic Adventure series.
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Nov 14, 2022The first step for the future of Sonic: The Hedgehog. Ambitious, brave and fresh ideas and concepts for the Sega mascot, but need to improve his visuals and rethink a few things to be the game that Sonic deserves.
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Nov 7, 2022Sonic Frontiers isn't the disappointment the Sonic Cycle has conditioned us to expect, nor is it the masterpiece Sega fans have been hoping for. It's a super-speedy step in the right direction for the series though, and hopefully lays the foundation for a truly incredible followup.
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Nov 7, 2022Despite the joys offered, Sonic Frontiers is a hot mess of a reinvention that can't commit to its new direction.
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Nov 7, 2022As frustrating as Sonic Frontiers can be, I can’t say I didn’t enjoy this new, more flexible take on the timeworn series. Sure, the story, while intriguing at times, didn’t do much to keep me hooked aside from some unexpectedly funny deliveries from Sonic (who constantly brushes off lore dumps from other characters by saying he’s either gone through worse or he’s just here to save his friends). What’s more, the game often felt more like a checklist than, well, a game. I completed more minigames than I could count. The list of frustrations goes on. It’s unfortunate to see a Sonic game that tries, and often succeeds, in retreading past foundations and applying them to a different setting. But the highs of fighting the Titans or playing remakes of classic levels can’t justify the frustrations that constantly put stops along the way.
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Nov 21, 2022I love Sonic. I can’t overstate this enough. And when you love something the way I love Sonic, you want to see them be the best they can be. Sonic Frontiers is nowhere close to being the best. There is a lot of a really good game, but it’s buried and obscured by frustrating mechanics and baffling design decisions.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 2,382 out of 2952
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Mixed: 167 out of 2952
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Negative: 403 out of 2952
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Nov 9, 2022This is really the right next step into the franchise and im so happy super sonic is finally useful again please go play the game is great
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Nov 9, 2022
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Nov 12, 2022Pretty good game after years of ass, third island sucks tho but this game is definitely a “good game” and is rare to say with sonic