Sonic Frontiers

 PlayStation 5
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8.2

Generally favorable reviews- based on 2952 Ratings

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  3. Negative: 403 out of 2952
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  1. RandyBobandi
    Nov 13, 2022
    0
    The popin is terrible, the graphics look like a roblox game, and the voiceacting and story was below my low expectations. This game has founded a cult following which baffles me to this day.
  2. ruddy44
    Nov 13, 2022
    0
    An unpolished farce with bland environments, stale animations, characters that don't mesh with the more realistic graphics, cringe-worthy dialogue, and shallow gameplay. I'd be impressed if this was a build of the game a year before being set to release. The only good things about the game are what it tried to emulate from Breath of the wild.
  3. moorelp
    Nov 13, 2022
    0
    Game is a mess. Bugs everywhere. Not fun to play at all. Was not a fan. Bad game. Not a good game.
  4. Wheatbread
    Nov 14, 2022
    0
    Buggy unfinished BOTW ripoff. The pop in is abysmal and the game locks story progression behind helping Sonic’s annoying friends. This game is proof that Sonic Team simply lacks the ability to makes good games. They haven’t made a good game, ever. The Sonic franchise is a laughing stock and this game is proof that the hedgehog should be put down. For a game running on Unreal Engine 5,Buggy unfinished BOTW ripoff. The pop in is abysmal and the game locks story progression behind helping Sonic’s annoying friends. This game is proof that Sonic Team simply lacks the ability to makes good games. They haven’t made a good game, ever. The Sonic franchise is a laughing stock and this game is proof that the hedgehog should be put down. For a game running on Unreal Engine 5, you’d think it would look as good as other games running on that engine. But no, it looks like a game that a 5 year old would make on Roblox, and I’ve seen some talented 5 year olds on there. Not to mention it using STOCK ASSETS!! The open world segments look like a generic unity project and the cyber world levels look lifeless. Where’s the palm trees? What about the colour or the blocky terrain? Sonic never worked well in a realistic environment, and upping the resolution just makes him stick out more. I wouldn’t be surprised if Sega tried making Sonic kiss a human again. In fact, I’m surprised Sega didn’t make this game a remake of Sonic 06. This game is the final nail in the Sonic series’ coffin. They should end the series and merge Sonic Team into a studio that makes actually good games, such as the Yakuza studio.… Expand
  5. Bureauman
    Nov 14, 2022
    0
    in terms of gameplay, story, characters and overall it's horrible

    but it's an excellent cure for insomnia.
  6. Jimof
    Nov 14, 2022
    0
    I don’t understand how anyone can like this game. It’s clearly unpolished and full of jank. Any who has played good games with good stories wouldn’t like this. Sonic’s speed is run in a so called open zone yes, but I can do that with any other fangame if I wanted to run around in a empt sandbox with poorly designed enemies.
  7. lumilaura
    Nov 14, 2022
    0
    normally i never review games but this game definitely squeezed one out of me. what a remarkable step up from sonic forces! the game isn't perfect, absolutely not, games rarely ever are. but this was an enjoyable experience for me through and through, controlling sonic, despite occasional shortcomings was inherently fun and gratifying, the story kept me very engaged and the music is anormally i never review games but this game definitely squeezed one out of me. what a remarkable step up from sonic forces! the game isn't perfect, absolutely not, games rarely ever are. but this was an enjoyable experience for me through and through, controlling sonic, despite occasional shortcomings was inherently fun and gratifying, the story kept me very engaged and the music is a 10/10 in my eyes.… Expand
  8. 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
  9. JonesyFortnight
    Nov 14, 2022
    0
    Genuinely a crime how this game that has constant pop in, bugs, and extremely visually unappealing level design that looks like it was a bunch of assets scrapped together in Unity in baby's first rollercoaster game has a higher user review score than Elden Ring or MGSV
  10. 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.
  11. ILOVESONIC2013
    Nov 14, 2022
    0
    this game is TRASH and mid as **** it's full of bugs and the dialog makes no sense like wtf. all characters talk like their in a marvel movie
  12. drphilly21
    Nov 14, 2022
    0
    on behalf Of the Sd eteraiment Team, &nd video game monkey, game is: very good, пенис
  13. 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.
  14. KingKeksi
    Nov 14, 2022
    0
    The pop in and the awkward voice acting just ruins this franchise that used to once be good
  15. swj711
    Nov 14, 2022
    0
    Hideous aesthetic, lazy design, buggy mess, cringe fiesta. Typical sonic game
  16. 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
  17. SecretDonkeyFan
    Nov 14, 2022
    0
    (serious review) On behalf of all sonic fans, this game disappointing. It's just not a fun game. You should not have fun with this game. It's buggy, jumpy, you jump around a lot. It's that type of game, if you enjoy that type of game then buy this game.
  18. MooningManz
    Nov 14, 2022
    0
    Just generally very unpolished and unfinished in a lot of ways, needed more time. Open zone is okay, I respect it a lot for trying something new but they don't go far enough with it at all, combat in it is not fun. With all that being said I would be lying if I said I didn't have some fun with this game, its an interesting foundation and one that I hope is built and improved upon.PoorlyJust generally very unpolished and unfinished in a lot of ways, needed more time. Open zone is okay, I respect it a lot for trying something new but they don't go far enough with it at all, combat in it is not fun. With all that being said I would be lying if I said I didn't have some fun with this game, its an interesting foundation and one that I hope is built and improved upon.Poorly designed in a great number of aspects, can be very janky, cyberspace levels suck and make forces' levels look great, pretty buggy (I've had 3 crashes so far among other bugs).… Expand
  19. Angeezer
    Nov 15, 2022
    0
    El mejor perro juego que existe en el mundo, si le pones menos de 8 eres un ardido, no leo lloros.
    El verdadero GOTY
  20. scaler24
    Nov 15, 2022
    0
    The Sonic tram somehow still struggles to catch the magic from SA1 and SA2 after all these years.
  21. 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”
  22. 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.
  23. 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
  24. 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
  25. rmeads
    Nov 17, 2022
    0
    Unfinished broken jank. Also automated, locked-in 2D platforming kind of defeats the 'open zone' concept. Needed at least another year in the oven. Maybe two.
  26. CharlieTj07
    Nov 17, 2022
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Sonic Frontiers es genial hasta que llegas a Rhea, la cuarta isla (la parte que no se ha podido explorar de Kronos anteriormente)
    Y luego el final del juego es horrible, y el boss final definitivo es el peor boss final de la historia de los videojuegos    … Expand
  27. ardaaa
    Nov 18, 2022
    0
    it is sobad graphics are trash animations are trash level design and world is trash gameplay is trash **** you sonic all of the games of sonic is trash
  28. 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.
  29. 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.
  30. 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.
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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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