Sonic Frontiers

 PlayStation 5
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8.2

Generally favorable reviews- based on 2952 Ratings

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  1. Sanningamesbr
    Nov 11, 2022
    0
    A sega tá de brincadeira com esse jogo, após o sucesso nos cinemas esperava mais.
  2. ThorCarmine
    Nov 9, 2022
    0
    While 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 doubleWhile 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.… Expand
  3. xipimax
    Nov 15, 2022
    4
    Me parece un juego bastante mejorable, entiendo que con Sonic venimos de donde venimos y ha habido juegos terribles y a lo mejor este no esta tan mal, sobretodo porque este recicla muchos niveles de juegos antiguos y algunos son bastante buenos, aunque en este juego se jueguen peor.

    Los niveles normales sin muchos comentarios, sonic lleva muerto en el 3d desde que dejaron de apostar por    Me parece un juego bastante mejorable, entiendo que con Sonic venimos de donde venimos y ha habido juegos terribles y a lo mejor este no esta tan mal, sobretodo porque este recicla muchos niveles de juegos antiguos y algunos son bastante buenos, aunque en este juego se jueguen peor.

    Los niveles normales sin muchos comentarios, sonic lleva muerto en el 3d desde que dejaron de apostar por un diseño de niveles competentes siendo el boost la prioridad absoluta, haciendo los niveles básicamente automáticos, y esto se ve en este juego comparando niveles de los adventures y de los posteriores.

    En cuanto al 2d, un poco más de lo mismo, demasiado centrado en el boost, pero bastante mal, el sonic rush usaba el boost de forma más estratégica y era un juegazo, en este el boost el el boton de correr de los marios si el botón de correr de los marios se pasará el nivel. además no se si es por el campo de visión o las distorsiones o el qué, pero en los niveles 2d se ve horrible, es muy molesto a la vista.

    Además de eso comentar que las físicas son horribles, sonic cuesta mucho de controlar en el aire, tiene el giro en el aire muy limitado incluso al usar el segundo salto, atacar los enemigos es muy lento y las rampas alteran la altura del salto de forma muy poco intuitiva, no depende de la velocidad y cuando estas bajando te baja mucho el salto cuando deberia ser mas perpendicular.

    El problema principal lo encuentro en el overworld, que precisamente es lo que la gente más alaba y realmente no lo entiendo.

    Entiendo que el concepto en si no esta tan mal, al final lo que es este sonic es un mario odyssey con speed, pero esta realmente muy mal ejecutado, correr con sonic es satisfactorio cuando estás en el suelo, pero dejando de lado correr un poco no hay nada más que hacer, al mundo le faltan elementos integrados de plataforma tal como pendientes, loopings y demás elementos típicos de la saga, algo más o menos como lo visto en el utopia, pero no hay nada.

    El resto de elementos del overworld estan muy mal ejecutados, dejare mas detalle en la reseña de steam.

    En resumen: El juego es más o menos disfrutable, al nivel de los más recientes, no es mejor que fuerces, si no fuera porque forces tiene los niveles del avatar, hay 2 partes en el juego, los niveles y el overworld, el overworld es un tramite para ver los videos de la historia y es la peor parte del juego, los niveles son pasables sin más, es cierto que hay algunos bastante buenos (sacados de los adventures y del generations) pero es eso, reciclados, para jugar lo poco bueno que tiene el juego es mejor disfrutar los originales, adventures 2 sigue siendo el mejor sonic y generations y manía son juegos bastante decentes que son más disfrutables que este juego, mi consejo es que si queréis sonic probeis dichos juegos. Y en general poco mas, el juego se ve empeñado también por otros problemas menores como una cámara muy errática y un popping monstruoso    … Expand
  4. Folks07
    Nov 20, 2022
    3
    Don´t listen to the fanboys. There is no other way to say it. This game is extremly badly developed. It looks and feels like a 1 man UE5 fan demo. Pop ins right in front of you even on the ps5/series X is a joke. Useless grind everywhere etc. etc. Don´t support this or games will continue to get worse, not better!
  5. Vigo
    Dec 14, 2022
    4
    Well since this POS site won't let me post long review for no reason Let's just sum this up with this game is not good. They may never get 3d sonic right but this was waste of time.
  6. Alexaurun
    Nov 20, 2022
    4
    Como acérrimo fan de Sonic me apena muchísimo tener que escribir esto

    Si lo comparo con otros juegos de Sonic, Sonic Frontiers es el 2º peor, tan solo por encima de Sonic the hedgehog 2006 (por motivos obvios, ya que ese juego tenía muchos fallos). No supera a ningún Sonic Adventure, ni a Colours, ni a Generations, Unleashed, ni a Heroes ni por supuesto, al criticado injustamente Forces    Como acérrimo fan de Sonic me apena muchísimo tener que escribir esto

    Si lo comparo con otros juegos de Sonic, Sonic Frontiers es el 2º peor, tan solo por encima de Sonic the hedgehog 2006 (por motivos obvios, ya que ese juego tenía muchos fallos). No supera a ningún Sonic Adventure, ni a Colours, ni a Generations, Unleashed, ni a Heroes ni por supuesto, al criticado injustamente Forces

    ¿Qué ha pasado con Sonic Frontiers? Pues que es un juego donde fallan todos los elementos de la franquicia Sonic: No tenemos el estilo visual colorido, ni la música tan chula de siempre (la OST de frontiers tiene sus momentos, pero la mayoría del tiempo la música es aburrida), ni los enemigos de la franquicia de siempre

    En definitiva, lo que tenemos es un juego que ha mezclado géneros que por separado han triunfado: Monster Hunter, The legend of Zelda, Phantasy Star, Shadows of Colossus, etc. pero juntos, no pegan ni con cola. Da la sensación de que han metido a Sonic con calzador. Luego, con las críticas del pasado verano, han hecho el "esfuerzo" de meter las fases del ciberespacio, pero seguramente, lo han hecho a prisa y corriendo y les han quedado unas fases muy cortas (y para colmo, es lo único auténtico de la franquicia Sonic). Como resultado, tenemos un juego muy irregular, que de ninguna manera, puede convertirse en la piedra angular de los próximos años. Ahora toca esperar a las auténticas ventas a ver si este juego "convence aunque sea económicamente a SEGA" o les da un baño de realidad pues no es de recibo hacer un mundo abierto que está desierto y construido adrede, para alargar artificialmente la duración del juego. Más les hubiese valido haber seguido con la magnífica fórmula de los Sonic Adventure o del Generations

    Gráficos 5

    El juego es bello en las fases del ciberespacio, pero en el mundo abierto deja mucho que desear. El modelado de los enemigos de las islas de Starfall es lamentable

    Sonido 6

    Es lo único que destaca del juego y lo hace por momentos. La música "triste" o "relajante" no le pega nada al erizo

    Jugabilidad 3

    Se salva de la quema las fases del ciberespacio. Las del mundo abierto no tienen sentido y está todo hecho para que pierdas el tiempo dando vueltas por escenarios vacíos y el juego dure entre 15 y 20 horas. Una vez platinado no merece la pena rejugarlo

    Total 4

    Los aspectos jugables pesan mucho en la calificación y hacen que el juego no sea divertido en su conjunto. Se salvan las fases del ciberespacio pero son demasiado cortas

    As a diehard Sonic fan, it pains me a lot to have to write this

    If I compare it with other Sonic games, Sonic Frontiers is the 2nd worst, only above Sonic the hedgehog 2006 (for obvious reasons, since that game had a lot of bugs). It doesn't beat any Sonic Adventure, nor Colours, nor Generations, Unleashed, nor Heroes, nor of course, the unfairly criticized Forces

    What happened with Sonic Frontiers? Well, it's a game where all the elements of the Sonic franchise fail: We don't have the colorful visual style, nor the cool music as always (the OST of Frontiers has its moments, but most of the time the music is boring), nor the enemies of the franchise as always

    In short, what we have is a game that has mixed genres that separately have succeeded: Monster Hunter, The legend of Zelda, Phantasy Star, Shadows of Colossus, etc. but together, they don't fit together at all. It feels like Sonic has been shoehorned in. Then, with the criticisms of last summer, they have made the "effort" to put the cyberspace stages, but surely, they have done it in a hurry and in a hurry and they have left some very short stages (and to top it off, it is the only authentic thing of the Sonic franchise). As a result, we have a very irregular game, that in no way, can become the cornerstone of the next years. Now we have to wait for the real sales to see if this game "convinces even economically to SEGA" or gives them a bath of reality because it is not acceptable to make an open world that is deserted and built on purpose, to artificially lengthen the duration of the game. It would have been better for them to have continued with the magnificent formula of Sonic Adventure or Generations

    Graphics 5

    The game is beautiful in the cyberspace stages, but in the open world it leaves much to be desired. The modeling of the enemies on the Starfall islands is pitiful

    Sound 6

    This is the only thing that stands out in the game, and it does so at times.The "sad" or "relaxing" music doesn't suit the hedgehog at all

    Gameplay 3

    The cyberspace stages are saved from burning. The open world ones make no sense and everything is made for you to waste your time walking around empty scenarios and the game lasts between 15 and 20 hours.Once platinum is not worth replaying it

    Total 4

    The playable aspects weigh heavily on the rating and make the game not fun as a whole.The cyberspace stages are saved but they are too short    … Expand
  7. EXplosion981
    Nov 15, 2022
    0
    The first Sonic game written by Ian 'donut steal' Flynn. It's not only the worst Sonic game ever made, making 06 **** blush with the lack of technical skill on display, but it's just one long fetch-quest. It fails as a Sonic game, it fails as a game, and it has the nerve to ask you for AAA price somehow.
  8. scamo73
    Nov 15, 2022
    0
    The open world in this game is as empty as my soul after wasting hours of my life wandering into these poorly rendered purgatory
  9. Critical_Joe
    Apr 9, 2023
    3
    Nasty pop in from environments, some levels are really badly designed and every enemy I faced was a chore (maybe with the exception of some like the button robot, which was really quick).

    Feels like this game was pieced together by a committee in order to produce below average rubbish.
  10. 360barrier
    Nov 15, 2022
    1
    Graphics are not good. It looks so bad they could have released this on a ps2 and probably would get away with it
  11. Dwideshrude
    Nov 26, 2022
    0
    Thank you to Sonic Team for continuing to push the envelope on how janky and terrible a game can feel to play, with each release, one upping themselves. This is the most unplayable Sonic to date. They did it. The absolute mad lads.(appearantly people and bots copying them are rating the game a 10 because Dunky didnt like it? Or something? who cares? you people are cringe. Play the game. ItThank you to Sonic Team for continuing to push the envelope on how janky and terrible a game can feel to play, with each release, one upping themselves. This is the most unplayable Sonic to date. They did it. The absolute mad lads.(appearantly people and bots copying them are rating the game a 10 because Dunky didnt like it? Or something? who cares? you people are cringe. Play the game. It feels like garbage.)… Expand
  12. Tabdelno
    Feb 19, 2023
    0
    SO many of the critiques miss the point— the overall game style is fantastic, the movement feels great, the "puzzles" are satisfying— it's just a great experience.
  13. Eriksnb
    Nov 25, 2022
    0
    Parece que pegaram Death stranger e colocaram o somic lá, jogo feio demais pqp
  14. DarkSign
    Nov 11, 2022
    2
    De lo peor que he probado este año, se me bugueó en el tutorial, el popping es horrible, aparecen las cosas de la nada mientras corres, el mundo es super antinatural, los coleccionables son una copia mal hecha de los kologs del botw y de postre si das vueltas en circulos te salen mas rings de los k te puede quitar ningún enemigo, recompensas de defensa, ataque, historia y de desbloquearDe lo peor que he probado este año, se me bugueó en el tutorial, el popping es horrible, aparecen las cosas de la nada mientras corres, el mundo es super antinatural, los coleccionables son una copia mal hecha de los kologs del botw y de postre si das vueltas en circulos te salen mas rings de los k te puede quitar ningún enemigo, recompensas de defensa, ataque, historia y de desbloquear habilidades mas rapido que haciendo puzzles o luchando, vamos que si das vueltas en circulos 20 min estás a lvl max y tienes toda la historia y skills desbloqueadas. De postre el combate es malísimo, tanto que te ponen una skill de autocombo para que lo haga todo y te lo ahorres, no se como no les ha dado verguenza sacar algo tan roto.… Expand
  15. Thekekcritic
    Nov 28, 2022
    0
    game looks ok but the user score is too high and i want to balance it up, peace
  16. TeoEmil
    Nov 13, 2022
    0
    Glitchy tech demo, but overall a nice step for sonic after years of terrible games. The highlights are cringe the dialogue is awful and sound dead. All the cool sonic moments that the fans praise just end up cringe, something a 10 year old would get excited over basically
  17. Blackvomit
    Dec 24, 2022
    0
    This game is trash. Buggy, abysmal story and voice acting, unintuitive and just generally unfun. Most unpleasant gaming experience I’ve had in years. Bummed I can’t be refunded on this trash
  18. CTJX
    Nov 20, 2022
    0
    RPGasai Reviews: Sonic Frontiers
    Definitely needs to be polished more
    Should of maybe been in the oven for a few more mouths
    Game is really just 4 big maps since one of the 5 is just a lore dump map
  19. OnigiriP
    Nov 12, 2022
    0
    Otro intento fallido por revivir una franquicia que no tiene pies ni cabeza, Sonic murio en Battle 2.
  20. Kerslake1991
    Nov 26, 2022
    0
    The worst game I've ever played. Everything you wouldn't want in a sonic game thrown into some grey dull open world area. Cyberspace levels give it some playability but they're not even half the size of the originals. By far the biggest disappointment and disastrous game ever made.

    To finish it off you can do fishing... Completely mental
  21. Diegames
    Nov 11, 2022
    2
    Jogo muito aquem da grandeza da franquia. É legal tentar inovar mas derrapa no básico e acaba sendo bastante similar a outros jogos do gênero. Valeu a intenção mas faltaram muitos atributos importantes para se tornar um grande jogo.
  22. BigDad02
    Nov 11, 2022
    2
    Gameplay extremamente cansativa e faltou muito capricho na construção dos cenários. A jogabilidade é falha em vários momentos e não consegue cativar. Acredito que somente quem é fã da franquia conseguirá de alguma forma ser cativado pelo jogo. Prometia muito mas ao meu ver não entregou a altura da grandeza da franquia, infelizmente.
  23. Chrismerchy
    Nov 27, 2022
    0
  24. GrahimAbi
    Nov 10, 2022
    4
    Very stiff game and a bit boring at times, but better than some Sonic even though the level is very low.
  25. Criispy
    Nov 15, 2022
    1
    a buggy mess with lots of pop-in and overall glitchy gameplay.
    the dialogue makes me cringe and I don't recommend it.
  26. Vitor2333
    Nov 20, 2022
    0
    jogo muito bom, apesar dos bugs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  27. Shaheed
    Nov 19, 2022
    1
    The start of the game was great; exploring the first two worlds were fun but then by the time you get to the third world the game starts losing its quality, adding way too much 2D sections. I don’t like the game as much as I thought I would. I feel disappointed.
  28. HASHBROWNM1X
    Nov 15, 2022
    0
    Even worse than a game devoid of good ideas, this is a game that has tons of ideas that are almost fun, or almost work, and sticks the landing on none of them. One of the most frustrating bizzare messes ever made. Also, it's been 30 years. At a bare minimum Sonic should control competantly but they haven't even been able yo get the fine details of that correct in 3D ever. There was a pointEven worse than a game devoid of good ideas, this is a game that has tons of ideas that are almost fun, or almost work, and sticks the landing on none of them. One of the most frustrating bizzare messes ever made. Also, it's been 30 years. At a bare minimum Sonic should control competantly but they haven't even been able yo get the fine details of that correct in 3D ever. There was a point in time where a certain level of jank with the controls was acceptable but we have far outpaced that time. This game is inexcusable and because Sonic fans grade on a curve Sonic Team will think that this is good enough and never make something better.… Expand
  29. JoeBamaFortnite
    Nov 10, 2022
    1
    I was going to give this game an 8/10, but then i realized that it is a Sonic Game so......
    Overall, Fortnite is better.
  30. Turolia
    Nov 10, 2022
    3
    While not the worst sonic game, it feels half baked with the open world and generic art design, along with the uninteresting story. Also Christ the pop in is too much
  31. Lwx101
    Nov 10, 2022
    4
    Boring combat, soulless and bloated open world and a very forgettable soundtrack. The actual sonic stages are great but are criminally short.
  32. Milo3333
    Nov 10, 2022
    3
    El juego tiene un buen apartado gráfico pero no convence tanto para ser de Sonic
    Las mecánicas son toscas y falta mucho
  33. Rakso78
    Nov 11, 2022
    1
    Me parecio repetitivo y poco atrapante, una historia bastante meh y un gameplay curioso que no me terminó por encantar
  34. qmarenco7
    Nov 11, 2022
    1
    Un mundo muy vacío, seguro los fans de este juego le ponen calificaciones altas, en lo personal un juego aburrido, mejor esperen a que lo pongan gratis
  35. jdjvc2121
    Nov 11, 2022
    3
    Excelente juego un mundo abierto poco vacío pero si es el camino a seguir en las próximas entregas
  36. JairoAntonio85
    Nov 12, 2022
    0
    BASURA DE JUEGO! El popping es el peor que he visto en decadas, el mundo abierto esta vacio e inerte, los gráficos son super anticuados, el diseño de enemigos es soso y poco creativo, todos los enemigos son triangulos genericos. No compren esta basura!!!
  37. RubyDB
    Nov 14, 2022
    0
    Sonic Frontiers is a lot of things, but the only consistent thing about it is how inconsistent it is. Buried under a flurry of glitches, the poor and sometimes unresponsive controls, the horribly drab story, and an artistic direction that hardly fits the series at all, is the faint *flicker* of a game that sounds good on paper, but in actual execution is just a mess.

    Sonic himself has    Sonic Frontiers is a lot of things, but the only consistent thing about it is how inconsistent it is. Buried under a flurry of glitches, the poor and sometimes unresponsive controls, the horribly drab story, and an artistic direction that hardly fits the series at all, is the faint *flicker* of a game that sounds good on paper, but in actual execution is just a mess.

    Sonic himself has no actual sense of weight or inertia; I never properly felt like Sonic was even apart of this world, as most of his movement would either be completely unresponsive, or leave me a little disoriented. It especially terrible during boss fights, with him constantly falling off, or sometimes even THROUGH enemies and bosses. It was borderline impossible to avoid getting Sonic stuck on things, or keep him from slipping through terrain, while the character controller tries desperately to fight with the poorly curated worlds they've put Sonic in.

    Combat is even less engaging, being a step down from Unleashed 14 years back. Sonic's skill tree only expands to around 10 moves, few of which are actually more effective at taking out specific enemies than the last, comprised of simple two-button inputs that play a cutscene of Sonic attacking as opposed to actual involved combat. Compared to the Werehog's 40 move loadout, Sonic Frontiers' combos feels as repetitive as you could get, there's little room for experimenting in satisfying ways.

    The game's story is only unique to the series in that it practically wears obnoxious melodrama as a badge of honor. If it's not Sonic characters singing their deep-voiced personal woes to you, it's them randomly calling back to previous adventures in an attempt to pad out an otherwise empty and emotionless story. Nothing you'll see here is new to Sonic, and it's almost as if the characters themselves want you to know this, constantly calling back to old games, and sometimes even whining about the issues their stories had in the most direct and tone deaf way possible.

    Sonic Frontiers overall just feels like a poor attempt for Sega to move forward with the series, by a group of developers who don't understand why it was so beloved in the first place.    … Expand
  38. The_God_of_Boi
    Nov 14, 2022
    0
    This sonic game has somewhat good graphics but it's not always about graphics that can carry a game. It's about everything else from story, to voice acting, to gameplay, to bugs, etc. This game is buggy and poorly designed to the point I have already crashed 4 times in the past 45 minutes. I thought I was playing Sonic Frontiers, a game from 2022. Not Fallout: New Vegas, a game from 2012This sonic game has somewhat good graphics but it's not always about graphics that can carry a game. It's about everything else from story, to voice acting, to gameplay, to bugs, etc. This game is buggy and poorly designed to the point I have already crashed 4 times in the past 45 minutes. I thought I was playing Sonic Frontiers, a game from 2022. Not Fallout: New Vegas, a game from 2012 with all the crashing. Heck, even Cyberpunk 2077 crashed less for me when it was first released and that's saying something. The game needs fixing in performance before I can even give it a good review. If anything, the last good Sonic game was Sonic Mania and the only saving grace for this franchise isn't even a video game. It's their movies and their newest movie comes out in 2024 which they should delay since Avatar 3 could make this new Sonic movie flop.… Expand
  39. Pingus_Pongus
    Nov 14, 2022
    0
    Buggy, barren open world lacking detail and environment other than plain grass, bad game but OST good like other sonic games.
  40. jr2516
    Nov 14, 2022
    0
    Not good. Sonic should’ve never went open zone. Boring. Sonic Generations was the last good 3D Sonic. Definitely not worth $60. Sonic Team disappoints me.
  41. KingKeksi
    Nov 14, 2022
    0
    The pop in and the awkward voice acting just ruins this franchise that used to once be good
  42. Poefred
    Nov 14, 2022
    0
    Been a Sonic fan for decades, I'm usually the one defending the series from hoards of bad faith critique. I genuinely love most Sonic games and even the few I don't, most of the time I see some redeeming qualities. This though? I feel like I didn't even play the same game as everyone else. This is just them tripling down on everything people hated about stuff like Forces.

    It's just    Been a Sonic fan for decades, I'm usually the one defending the series from hoards of bad faith critique. I genuinely love most Sonic games and even the few I don't, most of the time I see some redeeming qualities. This though? I feel like I didn't even play the same game as everyone else. This is just them tripling down on everything people hated about stuff like Forces.

    It's just shallow level design and reused assets AGAIN. We really waited 5 years for them to put together like 15 green hill zone levels and a bunch of floating grind rails over a default unreal engine terrain. Being able to move in 360 degrees smoothly is cool but I'm not about to give this game points for taking one step towards being as fun to control as Sonic was almost 25 years ago. The movement is still extremely restrictive and does all it can to make player expression as downplayed as possible. And the levels are as basic as physically possible, to the point it doesn't even matter that the controls are decent. Walking down an empty hallway for 3 seconds is gonna be lame no matter how good or bad a game controls. Not to mention in the cyber space levels they gut your controls to be worse for some reason? Literally ripping level design from Generations made for you to drift around, and yet they removed the drift. Except for one level all about drifting ripped from Unleashed, where you have the slowest, most awkward drifting the series has ever seen made just for this stage.

    The level design in the "open zone" areas is comically bad. If they were isolated and presented in quite literally any other game they'd be laughed at as some of the most pitiful levels in platforming history. It's all just extremely binary worthless interactions. Homing attack when available, automatic grind rails, automatic wall running, dash pads EVERYWHERE pushing you through entire sections automatically. This game is so afraid of how bad people are at Sonic games they don't want to risk you failing a 5 second long platforming section by designing ANYTHING interesting. It's just 10-15 hours of constantly going through bite sized levels like this that all play the same.

    The combat is just button mashing with EXTREMELY light RPG mechanics. Animate a couple flashy special moves where sonic moves all over the place and people are tricked into thinking it's exciting. In reality fights are very scripted. The core gameplay mechanics can literally change on a per-enemy basis. Winning a fight means you followed the script, deviating from said script just pops up janky interactions at best. And that's for the actually "engaging" fights, a lot of them are very mindless. And for the RPG stuff, it's mostly tied to...fishing. The most bare bones fishing minigame the industry has ever seen, that has more in common with a gachapon machine than actual fishing. But yeah you just fish for like 10-20 minutes and your strength and defense levels will be higher than if you 100% the rest of the game otherwise. Tied together with a parry mechanic that asks you to hold the button and wait to be attacked, as there's no timing required.

    Which leads into the challenges. Stand here and parry something, you have 40 seconds to do this. Then a different one, parry that same thing but 3 times with a full minute to do so. Parry has no depth to it, you hold down the button and wait. This takes 5 seconds to do at most. This is how deep the game as a whole is, it's just worthless interactions. These insulting challenges were bad enough let alone seeing them copy pasted later in the game. The other challenges really aren't much better. At best we have one that resembles a minigame in club penguin that sonic boom also used. Theres some that have you go to a location. Sonic can run across the whole map in about a minute but hey, see if you can run 20 feet away in 90 seconds with no hazards in the way.

    The super sonic fights are lame. Just like the combat they try to make it seem exciting by throwing a visual mess on screen. But unlike past games where Super Sonic had unique mechanics, you're just doing the same attacks you were doing on grunt enemies. Meaning, the first boss is just holding parry until it attacks, then button mashing. The second is more of an auto scroller where you wait for it to get close enough then button mashing. I thought the third was alright as it had a moment where you have to actually aim an attack for once. The final boss had me speechless in a *I don't know if I can follow this series anymore* kind of way.

    The story is boring. I was hyped for Ian Flynn to write it but it seems like he was given nothing to work with. I appreciate that they're trying to tidy up the mess the previous writers left but otherwise it's so melodramatic and unfun. Sonic and Amy especially have very pretentiously modern sounding voice direction. Most cutscenes play out like stiff elder scrolls conversations in presentation.

    This game is at best, a unity asset flip.    … Expand
  43. Shreanos
    Nov 14, 2022
    1
    Lackluster story, Gameplay gets boring very quickly, looks like a bunch of assets put on a default open world map, Sonic sounds like **** upgrades feel meaningless, they blatantly take level design from former games, the game is just **** The innovation isn't there, the passion isn't there, the game is desperately trying to grab fans and bring them back in which it succeeds at. But justLackluster story, Gameplay gets boring very quickly, looks like a bunch of assets put on a default open world map, Sonic sounds like **** upgrades feel meaningless, they blatantly take level design from former games, the game is just **** The innovation isn't there, the passion isn't there, the game is desperately trying to grab fans and bring them back in which it succeeds at. But just because its build such a large fanbase to defend it doesn't make it good. I think its lazy and overpriced and rated way too highly by many. Sonic really needs to go back to the Adventure days rather than copying Breath Of The Wild.… Expand
  44. MrBread01
    Nov 15, 2022
    2
    The game it just didn't lived up to the hype.
    There is a lot of random pop-ups, the map is bland, the story is not entertaining,the puzzles are just the worst. The one thing I like it was running around with Sonic and (maybe) some ost music. I would give my experience a 2/10
  45. scaler24
    Nov 15, 2022
    0
    The Sonic tram somehow still struggles to catch the magic from SA1 and SA2 after all these years.
  46. TinklingGourd
    Nov 15, 2022
    2
    The visuals are boring to look at. The colors are so desaturated, uninteresting to the eye, devoid of any artstyle that evokes "Sonic". Sonic's model pops out so badly in all of this because of its own saturated colors and lighting. The enemies are uninteresting geometric designs lacking any character, that look like they were pulled out from another kind of game.
    Sonic Team learned    The visuals are boring to look at. The colors are so desaturated, uninteresting to the eye, devoid of any artstyle that evokes "Sonic". Sonic's model pops out so badly in all of this because of its own saturated colors and lighting. The enemies are uninteresting geometric designs lacking any character, that look like they were pulled out from another kind of game.
    Sonic Team learned nothing from Sonic '06's bland enemy designs.

    A lot of the cutscenes feel like they were done in Source Film Maker lacking any proper framing, lighting, dynamic angles or emotion from the characters.
    In-game when characters interact with each other, they barely move their limbs to express any kind of emotion or reaction. There's a handful cutscenes where this is not as much of an issue which shows cutscene animation was an afterthought for the most part.

    The "open world" nature works for Sonic's high speed but the concept is not utilized well. Entire sections are blocked off with invisible walls, you cannot abuse momentum to go through sections in different ways as there really is not much of it and the level design is very uninteresting. Random floating rails, springs and platforms is something that gets repeated over and over in all of the island areas. Not only they look jarring but also serve as padding, as if you fail and fall down, you'll have to do it all over again. Complete with objects sometimes glitching and randomly popping in the view potentially obstructing your flow.

    The game wants to feel that their combat system is clever but most of the time you can just get away with mashing random buttons and if that doesn't work, just draw a circle around an object with the Cyloop ability and see if that helps. Rinse and repeat.

    The physics feel buggy, Sonic reacts to the smallest bump on the terrain and glitches around which makes it look so jarring. It feels even worse when he has to scale on moving objects such as the giant bosses. The physics for some reason feel a lot worse in the Cyberspace levels.

    The puzzles feel like a very last minute addition and they break the game's pace. Easily the worst padding and section of the game. Sonic Team learned nothing about breaking the pace with Big's fishing back in Sonic Adventure. Speaking of fishing, the fishing minigame is very shallow, just requiring you to wait and press a button to win. It lacks any depth that other fishing minigames have, such as reel fighting with the fish and watching your line tension.

    Sonic is the only person playable in this game. Again. For the longest time, Sonic Team refuses to let us play with any of the other characters. If anything they could have had Knuckles accompany Sonic and handle all of the combat and climbing. Better yet, this should have been a Knuckles game, the entirety of the story feels more personal to Knuckles if anything.

    Story was okay for what it was trying to do, but some moments felt forced and some other moments had buildup but did not go anywhere in the end.

    The music feels very melancholic and generic all the time, the Cyberspace tracks are the best and these levels do not last long but are the best tracks that remind you of Sonic's peppy character.
    The sound effects sometimes feel that they don't fit with the context, like the Sonic Adventure woosh sfx used for an enemy's short dash move.

    The voice acting feels very forced and weird, the characters' voices sound like nothing we ever heard from this series. Sometimes they sound too serious to the point I can hear their normal talking voice surface.

    Sonic Team needs to allocate time to actually create a GAME and not an engine + a tech demo packaging it as a complete $60 game. They wasted time creating an engine with Forces and they did it again with Frontiers and barely had any time left to flesh out meaningful game mechanics to go with it.    … Expand
  47. sonicwsnevrgood
    Nov 16, 2022
    0
    sonic was never good. the ost is lackluster, the game looks like an unreal engine with an blue possum slapped on, the game’s bugs and glitches make it unplayable, only good character is big and the story is far too cheesy. 0/10.

    “heh, Johny Cage…. DI….terrible…. MORTAL KOMBAT!!!” “-I thought you were gonna up smash me”
  48. Dyeboah
    Nov 21, 2022
    0
    Poorly designed boring empty wasteland. SEGA should stop trying to make 3D sonic games and stick to the 2D gems such as sonic mania.
  49. zack04
    Nov 16, 2022
    0
    i've always loved sonic in a more serious setting just look at half of the fan created games animations etc that depict sonic in this way .The fanbase really wanted this since sonic unleashed /06 where sonic's story's were grand and epic and serious sonic could actually get hurt sega is finally acknowledging that and steering away from the saturday morning cartoon writing that the seriesi've always loved sonic in a more serious setting just look at half of the fan created games animations etc that depict sonic in this way .The fanbase really wanted this since sonic unleashed /06 where sonic's story's were grand and epic and serious sonic could actually get hurt sega is finally acknowledging that and steering away from the saturday morning cartoon writing that the series had during the 2010's into a more seinin/shonen style off writing .as for the game it has it's flaws it's not perfect but it's NOT a carbon copy of any open world game i've ever played. running around the open world feels fun and i enjoy the little platforming segments and the control is really tight accept cyberspace those levels feel very janky other than that it's a solid game worth the price… Expand
  50. FofoTec
    Nov 16, 2022
    0
    mierda está bien bugeado y más lo niveles especiales aparte de ser mierda están bien bugeados y tiene el final más mierda de todos, Definitivamente un juego de mierda o peor que eso
  51. Federatie
    Nov 17, 2022
    4
    A step forward in one of the worst ways possible. Sonic Frontiers is an extremely mediocre game that isn't on the same standard of anything released at the moment. It clearly needed a lot more development time with assets being slapped all over the place. The ''cyberspace'' or basically the old school levels are quite decent, but with the camera being horrible for this current year itA step forward in one of the worst ways possible. Sonic Frontiers is an extremely mediocre game that isn't on the same standard of anything released at the moment. It clearly needed a lot more development time with assets being slapped all over the place. The ''cyberspace'' or basically the old school levels are quite decent, but with the camera being horrible for this current year it ruins most of that as well. It has potential, but this isn't it. Most reviews here will tell you it's a step up from previous games.. well there wasn't much to step up from was there?… Expand
  52. ConnieFTW
    Nov 18, 2022
    0
    Bad.
    Animations that don't load properly, 'open gameplay' that tells you that you can't do that yet, objects not loading in until you smack into them at mach 50. Seagulls that fly faster than you. Bad voice acting, bad gameplay, terrible world design. Overall the game is jank.
  53. PercivalZ
    Nov 19, 2022
    0
    Its amazing, the music is so godly good, the gameplay its sooo fun, moving around the island feels so good. Its no perfect, but is more than enoyable.
  54. TheAlmightyBlue
    Nov 19, 2022
    2
    Less of a review and more of an assessment. If you're a frustrated sonic fan like me, or a consumer who was duped by the cult of positivity around this game, come weary soul.

    Sonic fans love to talk about a "Step forward" So much so, they never even consider where they're currently standing. For the past decade, Sonic has been nothing but terrible release after terrible release. This    Less of a review and more of an assessment. If you're a frustrated sonic fan like me, or a consumer who was duped by the cult of positivity around this game, come weary soul.

    Sonic fans love to talk about a "Step forward" So much so, they never even consider where they're currently standing. For the past decade, Sonic has been nothing but terrible release after terrible release. This game is no exception. Instead of giving it the dismantling it bloody well deserves, they look forward "positively" about the next installment. It's an admirable sentiment, But they neglect something: we're not at the next installment, now are we? We don't know when, where or what the next installment will be. We don't know it's quality. We don't know if it will be rushed, and we don't know if Sega files bankruptcy between now and then as the economy crumbles.
    And what happens if you point all of this out or fairly critique the game? They will smash down harder than a Bio-Lizard with a space colony up its rear. And they will flood you with endless bad faith justifications for their - let's be frank - brand addiction. Didn't play the game because you can tell by looking that it's not what you want? "You're being toxic. You didn't play it so you cant say anything negative" Played a little and hated it? "You're being toxic. You need to spend [arbitrary number] hours playing to give it a fair shake." You 100% completed it? "You're being toxic. You like the game if you completed it so why are you complaining?" The fandom has ushered in this dubious state of affairs and they cheer it on with uproarious applause... Every bad remaster of a decade+ old game? Blame the fans, because they create a culture where awfulness is acceptable.

    There's a fascinating irony about all of this - Sonic in his early days was about moving forward, and freedom but ever since 06, the series has stagnated. There is this insultingly cynical recycling of Nostalgic locals. that have ruined those stages for me in their original games in retrospect. Control and freedom has been surgically stolen from the player with each installment until you got the brain-dead mechanics of Forces, and after a 5 year hiatus from games with next to no information, Frontiers drunkenly staggers onto market immediately making it apparent why Sonic's control has been removed from you:
    Sega, and Sonic Team have no idea what they're doing and you can tell. I do not care how "Mean" this sounds to the hard working devs," a functional company would have dressed every single individual responsible for these missteps down and fired them. and replaced them with a bevy of the many talented modders and fangame creators that exist in their fandom. Sega's most prominent IP cannot seem to get a good reputation in gaming - this is how studios get shut down. I'm not being overdramatic, this kind of stuff destroys consumer trust, and the fans who cheer it on are kicking a quality can down the road when they themselves have the power to stop it by voting with their wallet.

    Sonic suffers from Poor leadership and incompetency. Why are there so many control sliders? It's not "accessibility," It's a crutch. It's because they themselves don't know how to program a Sonic that feels intuitive to play and outsourced that responsibility to the player with the cynical abandon of a self checkout.
    Even with the sliders, Sonic looks and feels like ass to play. He sticks to the ground, loses all momentum when jumping, feels unnaturally scripted, cannot intuitively run on terrain Sonic (the character) absolutely should be able to run on (unless the game tells you to), goes flying facing sideways off small pebbles and the combat feels incongruous with his movement setup. There are zero excuses for this: Even shooters have begun to grasp physics, movement, and character consistency. And this doesn't even address the rampant rendering issues.

    I give the game credit for it's music. Doesn't brick a system and that's about it - below the bare minimum. If the community were more honest, this game would hover around a 5 or a 6 rating. It's ok to like the concept or idea for the future, but guys, this is a sixty dollar game. I didn't buy into a glorified alpha or a promise of what's to come "later". I brought this game. I want to have fun with this game now. I don't care about "potential" because none of that currently exists.

    ...It feels like the Sonic community stopped caring about the quality of a release and are just happy to get one, which I empathize with. Still, I will never appreciate positive review bombing a game at the expense of the consumer. When the afterglow wears of, Sonic fans will acknowledge it's bad everyone will mock it for decades, and the cycle will repeat - as it did for forces, as it did for Lost World, and as it did for Generations. Sonic is a dying gaming icon. He'll exist in other forms, sure, but as a game? My predictions aren't green hills for the blue blur.    … Expand
  55. DonkeyWalnuts69
    Nov 19, 2022
    0
    This game is going down in history. It should have come out on PS2 and then it would have been a classic. As it is I can only recommend it to five people - one for each Play Station.
  56. Pumkinghost
    Nov 19, 2022
    0
    This game is awful. Sonic Team can't make good games. I'm done with this franchise.
  57. SonicUndergroun
    Nov 20, 2022
    0
    this game is **** awful, Sonia and Manic from Sonic Underground are NOWHERE to be found
  58. SonikFrontidos
    Nov 20, 2022
    0
    If Elden Ring is 7.8, Sonic Frontiers is -34.5. Sega should've stayed in the past when it was actually good. Now their name is forever destroyed. Welcome in the BioWare team.
  59. Fucj
    Nov 21, 2022
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Sonic fans have honestly had so many awful games shoved down their throats that even the slightest glistening turd is indistinguishable from a diamond to them. This game is not good. The sonic fandom just make me sad.… Expand
  60. Spook_JPG
    Nov 21, 2022
    1
    Holy **** is this game bad, first of all all of the obstacles and stuff feels forced and just not like a part of the game th maps look boring with some average ass hills desert and bro stage 3 is just the worst, the combat is boring and it only becomes somewhat okay at bosses but bosses are just gimmicks that you have to repeat over and over again the skill system feels out of place. TheHoly **** is this game bad, first of all all of the obstacles and stuff feels forced and just not like a part of the game th maps look boring with some average ass hills desert and bro stage 3 is just the worst, the combat is boring and it only becomes somewhat okay at bosses but bosses are just gimmicks that you have to repeat over and over again the skill system feels out of place. The story is ass, and now the grapchics are never important in a game but holy **** this feels more like a browser game rather than a next gen game. The game was probably rushed because sega notice that oh **** sonic is popular we have to make quick money. If you wanna play a good sonic game just play the original bro it is very good.… Expand
  61. Uberacy
    Nov 23, 2022
    3
    I have finished the game now. To see such weak game receive so many 10's especially considering the AAA price tag is just outrageous.

    So many recycled assets. The sensation of open world game is completely ruined because there are a bunch of cut-and-paste parts of previous Sonic games just glued around, full of automation. You can be walking just doing your business and boom, you    I have finished the game now. To see such weak game receive so many 10's especially considering the AAA price tag is just outrageous.

    So many recycled assets. The sensation of open world game is completely ruined because there are a bunch of cut-and-paste parts of previous Sonic games just glued around, full of automation. You can be walking just doing your business and boom, you touched a dashpad and now you are stuck in a series of automated springs.

    I wonder if Sonic fans plays any other games different than Sonic games. There are a ton of better games out there with this pricetag. The game feels as unpolished sometimes as a fangame made by an amateur programmer.    … Expand
  62. andrewa3143
    Nov 24, 2022
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. On god, no cap, no kizzy, this game made my mother commit suicide.

    I hate how sonic dies at the end.    … Expand
  63. ClassicAmy
    Nov 26, 2022
    0
    No sonic underground stuff and music is horrible with no humor and characters suck alot
  64. Monkeykong68
    Nov 28, 2022
    0
    this is actually pretty solid game i really fricking liked it if you dot expect something extraordinarily amazing then you will like it too and holy crap that soundtrack tho
  65. Ihatesonic091
    Nov 29, 2022
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Honestly it wasn't as fun as I thought it could have been *hdhdhdhddhdhdhdhdhdhdhdh… Expand
  66. Szy33
    Nov 29, 2022
    0
    Worst game this a scam like bad it is like generate world and add sonic mod
  67. ChaoPWR
    Dec 2, 2022
    1
    Overhyped. Games doesn't deserve more than a 6/10. It's maybe a good step forward, but it's not enough. Feels like they didn't finish the game and just released it for the 'November Tuesday'. They didn't even marketed it right, so nobody even notice that it was on Tuesday, so what's the point?

    They could do so much better. They wanted the same impact like 'Sonic Adventure' did, but    Overhyped. Games doesn't deserve more than a 6/10. It's maybe a good step forward, but it's not enough. Feels like they didn't finish the game and just released it for the 'November Tuesday'. They didn't even marketed it right, so nobody even notice that it was on Tuesday, so what's the point?

    They could do so much better.

    They wanted the same impact like 'Sonic Adventure' did, but if you compere this two, Frontiers is soooo bad.
    Like all the stage has the same old design, and that fine for some levels, but not ALL OF THEM. Not even single one new design. When in SA every lvl was different. In SA it was interesting to replay the stages, and you could play some new missions after completing the game. Here almost all stages you could beet at 100% from the first try.
    But if you read about first open-world Sonic game, and decided not to finish some island at 100% you couldn't come back later, cuz it's not open-world. And after game is finished, that's it. You can only start a new game.

    And the whole thing with collect memories is super boring. They could do them like 10-20 instead of 100, just hide them and make interesting to look for. Like give us the real memories of characters, instead of just some figures.
    And why the only two female characters both have Hearts as they memories figures, while Tails and Knuckles have unique ones? Probably cuz they stop working on the game after 3 island. Or mb they are just sexists and didn't come up with something interesting for girls but hearts. Idk.

    They should did Amy, Knuckles and Tails playable from the start, to show us what happening to them. And the fishing part looking so stupid.... I loved playing as Big in SA, but here it looks ridiculous. But i should agree, it's useful, cuz at the last island you would be soo bored of the game, and you wont wanna look for the memories for the 4 time, so catch some fish and trade for the memories instead is sooo good to finish earlier.

    And some Koko instead of Chao? Really? Nah, chao deserve something better than this game anyway.
    I could say so much more, but im just pissed that game has 8 score and someone even voting for the game of the year. It would be so lame if developers would see that people liked it and will continued to make games like this.    … Expand
  68. Sasir
    Dec 31, 2022
    2
    Structures dedicated to movement are not integrated on the scenery, but rather floating without explanation. The combat is too simple. the puzzles are too easy even towards the end of the game. The last island is basically filler, with not much happening on it. The story is not told organically, but on disconnected pieces. The final boss is one of the worst I've ever seen, specially onStructures dedicated to movement are not integrated on the scenery, but rather floating without explanation. The combat is too simple. the puzzles are too easy even towards the end of the game. The last island is basically filler, with not much happening on it. The story is not told organically, but on disconnected pieces. The final boss is one of the worst I've ever seen, specially on hard.

    Outside of that, the movement is nice.    … Expand
  69. gergreehh
    Dec 6, 2022
    0
    “Sonic fans”？？？？？？？？？？？？？？？？？？？？？？？？？？？？？？？？？？？？？？？？？？？？？？？？？？？？？？？？？？？？？？？？
  70. Moon0607
    Dec 8, 2022
    4
    No, this doesn't deserve GOTY.
    This is just a pathetic attempt at copying what is making other games popular without understanding what is fun about it. Inconsistent story, tedious missions and awful movement.
    **** off sega
  71. Eviku
    Dec 10, 2022
    0
    This game is so awesome. I had hours of fun thanks to this game, it had been so long since I had fun like this with a Sonic game, this is the path I would like Sonic games to follow for the good of the character.
  72. Max552
    Dec 31, 2022
    0
    Can't say I was a fan. Played and found it too easy and quite boring. I really don't see the fuss about these games.
  73. kamikitsu
    Jan 4, 2023
    3
    Honestly an underwhelming and overhyped experience. As enjoyable as a Ubisoft open world game.
  74. Davosh
    Jan 9, 2023
    0
    This game is so **** ass that I can't even explain it. The gameplay drags on, characters are derailed, personalities are annoying, landscapes are uninteresting, the game does not provide an enjoyable experience. This is worse then sonic R. I would rather be constipated and **** out bricks for the rest of my life then deal with this piece of **** game that functions worse then a 2020s pokemon game.
  75. otavio13232
    Jan 20, 2023
    0
    uma merda uma merda uma merda uma merda uma merda uma merda uma merda uma merda uma merda uma merda uma merda uma merda
  76. Mogmog000
    Jan 24, 2023
    0
    The map is unnecessarily large and collecting items is a hassle.
    There are no interesting stages.
    Bosses are hard and enemy designs are unattractive.
  77. Komalium
    May 9, 2023
    0
    This is what SEGA calls a triple A game, it has terrible controls and very bad pop in considering the price.
  78. NightRxnner
    May 15, 2023
    0
    Mid game not even fun full of glitches and its a cash grab on open world, stick to 2D when it comes to Sonic.
  79. ShadowBestGame
    May 21, 2023
    0
    Everyone says it's a good sonic game but it's just a game made in unity by a fan with a little effort pls start screen or early levels just use the nostalgia factor in cyber space the hub just me It makes you sick just like the main enemies taken from an anime and Sage's (I don't even remember what it's called) final sacrifice didn't cause me anything, and the ""open world"" its the mostEveryone says it's a good sonic game but it's just a game made in unity by a fan with a little effort pls start screen or early levels just use the nostalgia factor in cyber space the hub just me It makes you sick just like the main enemies taken from an anime and Sage's (I don't even remember what it's called) final sacrifice didn't cause me anything, and the ""open world"" its the most unity fan project ever, just puto a sonic model into a badass mountain and its done sonic frontiers, but I could ignore this if it wasn't that everyone loves his music, it's good but it's not for a sonic game, we come from great songs like "live and learn", what im made of" or even "endless possibility" so that now they come out with some made voices that just sound ""good"" because they use programs, it is not the essence of the usual modern sonic , the frontiers ost is nothing more than the black sheep and that nobody should want from the sonic saga, forces and 06 will have a lot of problems but even I enjoy these games more than this generic open world… Expand
  80. Mertcanius
    Jun 30, 2023
    0
    **** MONKEY ASS **** GAME SONIC **** KYS BRO WHAT THE **** IS THIS **** TRANSPHOBIC **** OH MY **** GOD BETTER THAN **** ELDEN RING????`??`THE **** SONIC FANS SHOULD KYS LEARN **** THINKING OH MY **** GOD THIS GAME IS SO **** BAD AND THIS **** IS BETTER THAN ELDEN RING=???=?=?=?=?
    test : ****
    (if you like sonic you should kill yourself)
  81. SN4K3Y
    Jul 26, 2023
    1
    I would give a higher score but the controls for super sonic weren’t working for me at all, and my controller isn’t broken
  82. Genyamamoto
    Jan 28, 2023
    0
    Open zone game.???? More like broken bone game. Dunked was right about the game. It’s very strand like and boring for us average western gamers.
  83. BabyGreed
    Dec 6, 2022
    0
    Don't like the game sorry. The game is terrible. I'm sorry Make something else instead of an open world game. I really miss Sonic doing the high-speed action from Sonic Colors Or Sonic Generations But the open-world. The only thing that gets good is when he gets into the cyberspace. That's it. So Sorry Sega. Metacritic > https://thegameawards.com/brackets/players-voice Do you believe SonicDon't like the game sorry. The game is terrible. I'm sorry Make something else instead of an open world game. I really miss Sonic doing the high-speed action from Sonic Colors Or Sonic Generations But the open-world. The only thing that gets good is when he gets into the cyberspace. That's it. So Sorry Sega. Metacritic > https://thegameawards.com/brackets/players-voice Do you believe Sonic Frontiers is up there in the GAME AWARDS? Make your Votes there, too.… Expand
  84. greninjaX
    Jul 5, 2023
    0
    well, sonic's attempt at an "open zone" game turned out to be a massive turd.
  85. Jubal64
    Dec 4, 2022
    4
    The game is more of a glorified tech demo, only reason it has a high user score is because of sonic fanboys high on copium, it has good ideas but terrible execution and design.
  86. MGZeroes
    Mar 13, 2023
    2
    This game looks and plays like they tried to copy Breath of the Wild just by watching gameplay videos.

    I feel like I've seen it all after 2 hours. Played up to the Giganto boss. It's all repetitive. Collectibles and nothing more. Worst of all, if you pick up a collectible on one of the flying rails, you get thrown somewhere forward and have to go back to pick up the other    This game looks and plays like they tried to copy Breath of the Wild just by watching gameplay videos.

    I feel like I've seen it all after 2 hours.
    Played up to the Giganto boss.

    It's all repetitive. Collectibles and nothing more.
    Worst of all, if you pick up a collectible on one of the flying rails,
    you get thrown somewhere forward and have to go back to pick up the other collectibles on one of the other flying rails.
    It's really just an Unreal Engine map with Sonic objects inserted. Uncreative and boring.
    A few speedpads just lie on the floor.

    The Cyberspace levels are pretty straightforward and short.
    As far as I know they always use the same three or four designs.
    One of them is Green Hill.
    Also reuses level designs from previous games in Cyberspace.

    Sonic's speed is frustratingly slow, and you lose momentum every time you don't run straight ahead.
    All attacks except the Cyloop are just cutscenes with no feedback or anything.
    Combat in this game is really just button mashing.

    The game has too many graphical problems.
    Especially the popping of objects from 10 metres away looks really stupid.
    On an RTX 3080ti and Ryzen 5 5600x.

    The physics are buggy.
    Sonic keeps getting stuck on the ground and walls.
    In the tower boss, Sonic always got stuck on the boss during the cyloop because you can climb on it.

    I just watched the story on youtube because I returned the game.
    At least it is better than anything that has come out since Colours.
    But that doesn't mean anything because it doesn't reach the story of the other games.
    It's still mainly just a Sonic story.

    And you can only play as Sonic...

    In any case, I can confirm that I saw everything within 2 hours due to the copy-paste content.
    Outrageous to charge 60 Euros for this.    … Expand
  87. KyriaTheMystic
    Dec 8, 2022
    0
    Easily some of the best characterization of the characters in some time. Sonic, Tails, Amy are all ACTUAL characters in this game like in the comics. Eggman has character development?! Like, holy **** Also the music is just peak Sonic.
  88. Daymond800
    Dec 12, 2022
    0
    So much potential but squandered by Sega Co.’s absolutely mind-bogglingly stupid antics. It happens every time. Above a potentially capable game dev team are a bunch of dumb apes pulling the strings. These apes are the Sega Executives. And they constantly make the choice of starving this team of the sufficient resources that they need: Budget, time, manpower, and proper management.

    This    So much potential but squandered by Sega Co.’s absolutely mind-bogglingly stupid antics. It happens every time. Above a potentially capable game dev team are a bunch of dumb apes pulling the strings. These apes are the Sega Executives. And they constantly make the choice of starving this team of the sufficient resources that they need: Budget, time, manpower, and proper management.

    This is most egregiously seen with the content in the game. There’s supposed to be 5 “Open Zone” islands in the game, but 2 of them are just reuse of the first one. And the third island is basically restricted to flat 2D instead of actual 3D like the rest of the game.

    So in reality there’s more like only Two Open islands, and there’s only really 3 themes: Grassy field, Desert, and Volcano. That’s really it.

    In reality, diehard Sonic fans will likely like the game because it’s Sonic, period. But casuals will likely play this game once and then forget it, if they bother to play it at all.

    Me, I’m kind of in between. I like Sonic too much to see it constantly miss its own potential because of a few dumb greedy apes at the top, so I can’t support this.    … Expand
  89. nosonicfrontier
    Jan 29, 2023
    0
    Este juego yo le tenia esperanca pere a sido un fracaso sus bugs su diseño le dadia un uno por su musca pero si no contamos la musica pues se lleva un cero y me gusta mas sonic forces que esto
  90. grumankind
    Jan 30, 2023
    3
    это лишь субъективное мнение и того что вы прочитает скорее всего не будет иметь никакого смысла..

    итак фронты это как по мне уже халтурная игра, с кривым и непонятным сюжетом, никак не связаным с другими играми ( ну кто бы сомневался ), это пародия на соника в оболочке ландшафтов из зельды и нихрена непонятной боёвкой, я читал други отзывы и думаю, люди играют форсесы и говорят что    это лишь субъективное мнение и того что вы прочитает скорее всего не будет иметь никакого смысла..

    итак фронты это как по мне уже халтурная игра, с кривым и непонятным сюжетом, никак не связаным с другими играми ( ну кто бы сомневался ), это пародия на соника в оболочке ландшафтов из зельды и нихрена непонятной боёвкой, я читал други отзывы и думаю, люди играют форсесы и говорят что последние игры самые лучше игры вообще а другие говно, морально закрывая глаза на колорсы которые хоть что то привнесли в серию, и мне очень обидно наблюдать что такие игры оценивают хоть как то, мне кажется что уже пора понять что серия загнуась ещё 10 лет тому назад, это всё, мне кажется что уже нет надежд на хоть что то хорошее с этой серией....    … Expand
  91. FartTesticles
    Feb 3, 2023
    3
    this game actually just took a **** on my balls because of how bad it is. I pre-ordered this game, expecting this to be the game of the year. but yet there are still feces on my balls. they pooped on my balls. why don't you just take my entire wallet and take a huge dooker on my balls. the development team of this game actually pulled down their pants and took a fat steaming log on mythis game actually just took a **** on my balls because of how bad it is. I pre-ordered this game, expecting this to be the game of the year. but yet there are still feces on my balls. they pooped on my balls. why don't you just take my entire wallet and take a huge dooker on my balls. the development team of this game actually pulled down their pants and took a fat steaming log on my balls. **** you. next time make a good game and don't lay a stinky johnson on my testicles.… Expand
  92. Osfor64
    Feb 2, 2023
    4
    This is an amazing game I do not understand the rating has an incredible gameplay and spectacular music a history ok and exaggeratedly beautiful graphics
  93. Jimbok3rr17
    Mar 20, 2023
    0
    Game very bad it is just Botw for ps5 lol but it was bad very very very bad I like this game
  94. SmartBatto
    Jun 8, 2023
    1
    People are rating the game as "10" and saying "It has its flaws" did Sega pay them or something?

    I'm going to start by saying I grew up with Sonic, I've seen the ups and downs, and I watched the Cartoon. I've enjoyed everything Sega has made to this point. I loved '06 as buggy and bad as it was and even Forces. I also love open-world games, Saints Row IV, Genshin Impact to a degree,    People are rating the game as "10" and saying "It has its flaws" did Sega pay them or something?

    I'm going to start by saying I grew up with Sonic, I've seen the ups and downs, and I watched the Cartoon. I've enjoyed everything Sega has made to this point. I loved '06 as buggy and bad as it was and even Forces. I also love open-world games, Saints Row IV, Genshin Impact to a degree, Spiderman Games, etc. This game itself is just terrible though. This feels like a step in the right direction alright... After walking a mile back.

    I can only think of Three things I actually liked about the game and that's:
    -Super Sonic for Bosses 1, 2, and 3. (Boss 4 was just bad.)
    -The Rail Bits actually felt nice to play.
    -And the Licensed Music.

    The cons:
    -Cyberspace levels were too short in the sense that some were only about 30 seconds long
    -The combat was extremely rough and didn't feel like Sonic, I would much rather have the homing attack with instant-pop enemies back than have this combat again. They either don't drop enough exp to be worth the time to fight them, or they take too long to even be fun so I just started skipping them all together and just spent time grinding exp on springs and when I did get in fights, I would just Spam Sonic Boom or the Multi-Homing Shot because the combat felt very clunky since you had to rely on dodging or parrying most of the time. Heck if it wasn't Boss/Guardian I would go in for a combo and straight see them pull out a barrier after two hits.
    -Sonic himself feels broken as his boost just feels like he's just picking up running speed from a brisk walk instead of running at the speed of sound, no one can push that hedgehog around, we got ourselves a situation, stuck in a new location, without any explanation. His homing attack just feels like a gap closer and not something you can chain together, His boost speed is tied to his ring count which is a bad thing because I would much rather not have to keep my HP LOW to easily achieve max boost speed.
    -When people talk about momentum being an issue it's with the fact that the combat isn't fluid and momentum stops dead in its tracks with almost everything because Guardians always cut away at them, sonic is always stopping dead in his tracks to making comments before you can resume running even with the option turned off, The combat is more stop and fight or run away instead of the instant pop enemies that would just keep the pace going. The amount of collectables needed to do anything is terrible since you need gears for Portals to give you keys to get you emeralds, but you can't do any of that without wandering around and either finding a gear randomly or through fighting a guardian which is very boring. The amount of memory tokens is also bad for the main story since at one point I had to collect 100+ to progress. I don't mind getting collectables but that's a bit much. Like Side stories? Sure! but I wanted to get through the story, once I hit that wall I had to be bored again.

    -I also hit several invisible walls because I wasn't at that point in the story yet, so instead of say a red glitchy forcefield or whatever, Sonic just flies away like he was coated in butter and dies.

    -This game feels like Breath of the Wild featuring Sonic because of the Kokos and overall gameplay and the narrative of "Something terrible is sleeping and you need to beat it because it will destroy everything and it's also the cause of the enemies." I hate the Kokos and wound up skipping EVERY cutscene that had them in them because of the terrible noise they make for even existing, I would much rather they be silent than sound like toddlers with rattles, I WOULD RATHER HEAR OMACHAO 24/7 AND Use the rings I collect for stat upgrades than to collect the stupid rock babies that belong in a dumpster, I probably missed half of the story but oh well. They're everywhere, the two old people (As well as a lot of this game) are unnecessary, and I went out of my way to avoid them as much as possible.

    This game should have been just another game like Unleashed, '06, Forces, or Colors. I am someone who prefers that Sonic stick to his actual gameplay of zipping around with simplicity for attacks and a boost that feels like I going to break the sound barrier while racing through a stage with objects flying forward with wind ripples that this. All you BotW fans can stay out of Sonic, this game was not the right one.    … Expand
  95. Star_yost
    Jul 31, 2023
    4
    Sonic frontiers isn't really good. there are other sonic games better then this one. The Sonic Team tried a "Open Zone" world but didn't do a very good job there just floating Platforms and makes they sky look awful. there are various Bounce springs and rails that make you go into places you did not want to go. VERY repetitive each zone you have to get the chaos emerald and they do notSonic frontiers isn't really good. there are other sonic games better then this one. The Sonic Team tried a "Open Zone" world but didn't do a very good job there just floating Platforms and makes they sky look awful. there are various Bounce springs and rails that make you go into places you did not want to go. VERY repetitive each zone you have to get the chaos emerald and they do not make it different each zone is basically the same. The combat isn't that great the "parry" move is broken and you can hold it as long as you want so it's not really a parry is it a parry is a high risk reward but in this game it isn't Another thing is all the collectables there a lot of "tokens" your are required to get to proceed in the story and the Koco aren't great either there like the Korok In Botw but dumbed down you just grab them with no puzzle and they can upgrade your speed and other things. Also speaking of Puzzles. The puzzle's in this game are too easy and require no thinking But This game isn't all bad though Roger Craig Smith Does a fantastic job in this game. Sonic is no longer annoying and non serious they balance his character out by having him saying jokes but not all the time to where it's annoying. another thing is sonic's Friends they also not annoying like Sonic Force's I Actually Enjoy the Dialogue Between Sonic and his friend's. The boss battle's are amazing I love the inclusion of super sonic and the music is great but sadly that's all I have good to say about this game - 4/10… Expand
  96. haterofallgames
    Aug 23, 2023
    0
    security system TAKES CONTROL OF SQUIDWARD'S HOUSE AND BEGINS ATTACKING THE CITY!! LEAVING THE MAYOR TO GIVE SQUIDWARD COMMUNITY SERVICE FOR THE DAMAGE HE CAUSED!! EVEN THOUGH SPONGEBOB AND PATRICK WERE IN HIS HOUSE THE WHOLE **** TIME!! AND WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR EVERYTHING, YEAH! **** THIS EPISODE!
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 90 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 52 out of 90
  2. Mixed: 32 out of 90
  3. Negative: 6 out of 90
  1. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Jan 24, 2024
    60
    The idea and vision of the game is absolutely fabulous. In practice, however, the game is brought down by its execution, which you can see through after a short while and then the game has nothing to surprise you with. [Issue#324]
  2. PSX Extreme
    Feb 22, 2023
    30
    There 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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  3. GameOver.gr
    Feb 4, 2023
    80
    Finally, after almost 25years of half measures and mostly mediocre titles, Sonic has finally reached the 3D levels of gameplay it needed to reach. Yes, the pop in is absolutely inexcusable and the ancient gatekeeping grindy methods damage the flow of the game for no reason, but a wonderfully built base exists here, with a highly entertaining adventure in wonderfully melancholic world and a surprisingly well founded story, thankfully clean of Sonic’s annoying 3rd tier friends!
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