Sonic Frontiers

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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. Alink_xex
    Nov 10, 2022
    10
    La historia , la banda sonora te le gameplay me encantaron, uno de los mejores juegos de Sonic en mucho tiempo
  2. SonKosen
    Nov 10, 2022
    10
    I haven't had this much fun with a sonic game ins YEARS. Don't even get me started on the boss fights. I think sonic is finally back man!
  3. Pandox
    Nov 10, 2022
    10
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  4. Im_Star
    Nov 10, 2022
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This game is the best game on years i see in my life the game is too good and has an good history and it's too fun i love this game buy it!… Expand
  5. LegendGamerXZ
    Nov 10, 2022
    10
    This game has one of the best visuals, I ever seen in any video game of this year. I think this was worth the 5 year wait. Sonic Frontiers has the best boss fights such as the fight with the huge titan on Kronos Island and the music was on top, the music is fire. All I can say this game is way better than any Sonic game that was recently released.
  6. sonicjamie13
    Nov 10, 2022
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Sonic Frontiers is so flipping good if I’m gonna be honest I love the game all the boss fights were amazing the story chefs kiss the cyberspace was fire the music amazing the secret final boss was just galaga so kinda underwhelming but still had some good story and was hard but overall one of it not the best game I’ve ever played I love it to death… Expand
  7. TallestPurple
    Nov 14, 2022
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Sonic frontiers is by far the most complex and best developed game of Sonic. The only issue with the game are the pop ins and the 4 island, which is the northern part of kronos island. The final boss is fun but not compared to the previous titans fights. The game obviously have some bugs and the main systems like combat and general difficulty need an improvement. But overall the game is absolutely amazing, good graphics, good history, good characters personalities, good enemies and bosses. By far the best game since Sonic unleashed and frankly the best Sonic game ever made… Expand
  8. LosPollosAmogus
    Nov 13, 2022
    10
    THIS GAME IS AMAZING. The best Sonic Game ever made. Story 10/10 Gameplay 10/10 Musik 10/10
  9. sonicandamy
    Nov 10, 2022
    10
    Sonic frontiers has finally dethroned sonic adventure 2 as the overall general favorite 3D sonic game, congrats.
  10. Jonjoeeeeeeeeee
    Nov 10, 2022
    10
    Great gameplay, open zones could use more natural platforming and design, not floating platforms and rails. Story is great and keeps you captivated to keep playing. Sonic and friends finally feel like themselves and talk like actual friends. The combat has a certain level of jank to it but is overall pretty fun, I hope for more moves that really capitalize on Sonics speed next game. FirstGreat gameplay, open zones could use more natural platforming and design, not floating platforms and rails. Story is great and keeps you captivated to keep playing. Sonic and friends finally feel like themselves and talk like actual friends. The combat has a certain level of jank to it but is overall pretty fun, I hope for more moves that really capitalize on Sonics speed next game. First 2 islands are great but 3rd drops the same format and goes for 2D at every moment.… Expand
  11. Familyguylover
    Nov 10, 2022
    10
    Better than Family Guy Online

    Love my wife
    Sonic is a very obedient boy and acts very good in the first act of this game
  12. PlayDiegoGamer
    Nov 10, 2022
    10
    In my opinion this is one of the best Sonic games ever! The story, the gameplay, the music, this game is really good and i hope that Sonic Team continues making Sonic games like this one!
  13. cklemar
    Nov 10, 2022
    10
    The desperate search to be "way past cool" again... Is over

    As a 90's die hard Sonic fan through all mediums of the blue hedgehog. My love for sonic started to die with just about everyone in the world, after sonic generations. It faltered many times before but after Generations, Sonic lost what made Sonic... Sonic... Gone was the flair, ambition, and magic that made Sonic seem    The desperate search to be "way past cool" again... Is over

    As a 90's die hard Sonic fan through all mediums of the blue hedgehog. My love for sonic started to die with just about everyone in the world, after sonic generations. It faltered many times before but after Generations, Sonic lost what made Sonic... Sonic... Gone was the flair, ambition, and magic that made Sonic seem literally, way past cool.... Originally I chalked it up to just growing out of it by the early 2010's... Hitting 20 I thought meh, Sonic just isnt it. With Lost world and Boom on release making me not even want to get the game, let alone play them. Sonic became childish.... Lifeless... broken... and in 2017 here comes Mania.... WOOOOO a return to form! Well.... on the 2D front.... And I played it to hell. and here comes Forces later that year... Will 3D Sonic come back to Form? Will I return to my childhood, will I feel "Cool" playing it?
    Short answer. NO. Sonic Forces was trash. But I will give it credit for one thing. It made me realize me not liking it, had nothing to do with me not loving Sonic anymore... It had everything to do with Sonic being just again, fundamentally lost. It made me realize I desperately wanted a "good" Sonic game. But yeah, Sega was probably not going to deliver that to us anytime soon...
    In comes 2021 with the Frontiers reveal, to the trailer, something seemed different. It looked like Sega for better or worse was taking a shot, at something outside the plastic box.. And my instinct was to be guarded... but be excited! Through all the press release, and trailers, and demo showcases... I let my self get hype, but knew this might be the nail in the coffin... But there was a chance...

    Playing Frontiers. Playing as Sonic.... FEEEELS like playing Sonic.
    Never have I played a Sonic game and felt like I was Sonic The Hedgehog. Controls are tight, world is huge. You go FAST. Obstacles are fun. Momentum feels good. The world is beautiful. The story is MYSTERIOUS. The soundtrack. Is FANTASTIC. The Cyber space levels are INCREDIBLE.... The Boss fights are UNBELIEVEABLE.

    If you are a Sonic Fan. This is it, you will love this game. The promised land is here. And hopefully Sega continues to build and iron out off of this formula...

    10/10    … Expand
  14. jpolo1224
    Nov 10, 2022
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. A colossal step in the right direction. Sonic Team finally got their act together and decided to steer Sonic back closer to his roots. The story is much more grounded, the cheesy and corny jokes from past titles are toned down tremendously. The music absolutely slaps, the feeling of speed from just running around the islands and the surprisingly fun and versatile combat moves keep me playing the game. The games atmosphere is very calming and relaxing, with fishing being the calmest. The story is a huge step in the right direction, they’ve established that all past games and the comics are canon. They give Egg-man and Sonic actual characterization in this game, along with the rest of the cast. Overall I’ve really enjoyed this game and was pleasantly surprised by Sonic Team’s efforts. It’s no Unleashed, but it’s better than any past title in the last 10 years.… Expand
  15. khaosblue
    Nov 10, 2022
    10
    This! This is the next step in the right direction. The openness. The thrill. The speed. SONIC IS BACK. Besides the gameplay it is a real treat to those who has followed the series! Please play this game.
  16. SAUD_9886
    Nov 10, 2022
    10
    Best sonic game. While the game fouces is to collect tokens and keys to progress, it's fun to play around with those ralis and platforming and sloving the secrets of the islands. the combat system is really fun it gets so hard at the last but good And the cyper space is surprisingly fun, it has that feeling of speed running which is good. The controling in sonic is the best in 3d. And theBest sonic game. While the game fouces is to collect tokens and keys to progress, it's fun to play around with those ralis and platforming and sloving the secrets of the islands. the combat system is really fun it gets so hard at the last but good And the cyper space is surprisingly fun, it has that feeling of speed running which is good. The controling in sonic is the best in 3d. And the story ahhhhh man. I didn't feel a story or emotional for so long time for Sonic,don't get me started in the references as well. I'm very glad Ian Flynn is here♡ overall it's great experience.… Expand
  17. Akirian
    Nov 11, 2022
    10
    Such a good game. Ignore critic rating, users are the only ones that matter. Best game of 2022
  18. duofucu
    Nov 10, 2022
    10
    This game is outstanding. There are a few flaws though, cyberspce controls are a little odd and the airboost isnt the best. Despite these flaws this game is EXTREMLEY good.
  19. natetg96
    Nov 10, 2022
    10
    Sonic is the best he has ever been. Open zones are a ton of fun to explore and the minibosses are very satisfying to defeat. The titan bosses are the best bosses have ever been in the series. Cyberspace levels, although have a tad bit of jank, are mostly well designed and fun to master in speedruns
  20. peak_game_revie
    Nov 10, 2022
    10
    10/10 EASY GOTY. Also heres the horrible digital trends review copy and pasted:

    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    10/10 EASY GOTY. Also heres the horrible digital trends review copy and pasted:

    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 double down on the strengths of newer titles like Sonic Generations and Sonic Mania, or older successes like the Sonic Adventure series.    … Expand
  21. Dfam
    Nov 10, 2022
    10
    Overall this is a very good Sonic game, the best since Unleashed and Generations, Sonic controls AWESOME in the open zones, I also love the DropDash incorporation ( The best feeling of being in control of the character of all the games in the franchise ) and it’s very satisfying upgrading Sonic stats, the combat is really good, the exploration, and I love that the game let you change SonicOverall this is a very good Sonic game, the best since Unleashed and Generations, Sonic controls AWESOME in the open zones, I also love the DropDash incorporation ( The best feeling of being in control of the character of all the games in the franchise ) and it’s very satisfying upgrading Sonic stats, the combat is really good, the exploration, and I love that the game let you change Sonic acceleration, turning speed, boost speed, and more, I love the customization in that way, the story of this game is really really good, Ian is the best, the only thing that I don’t like it’s the reused assets from cyberspace, Green Hill, Chemical Plant, and Sky Santuary, and the physics in the Cyberspace levels, I’m loving this new generation of Sonic games!… Expand
  22. RaulDavid255
    Nov 10, 2022
    10
    Un aire fresco a la franquicia de Sonic siendo este uno de sus mejores juegos en formato 3D desde hace mucho tiempo.
  23. AYTT56
    Nov 11, 2022
    10
    This game is truly amazing if you havent played it yet i strongly recommend 10/10 sonic is back
  24. fhiteb_12
    Nov 10, 2022
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Esse jogo e muito bom, apesar de não ser perfeito, em vários aspectos ele e impecável, ele possui um combate divertido, que dependendo da forma que você pode realizar combos fluidos, os gráficos mesmo não sendo espetaculares são ok, esse jogo possui poucos bugs, com exceção do Pop-in que realmente e o maior problema desse jogo em relação a bugs e defeitos técnicos, porém não e algo que atrapalha muito a gameplay, normalmente com o tempo que eu tive jogando, acabei ignorando com o tempo, A movimentação do Sonic no mundo aberto e bem divertida, você pode facilmente explorar o mundo sem muitas dificuldades, e sempre achar algo pra fazer, como puzzles, baús Mini Bosses e inimigos diferenciados , e se você acaba enjoando de fazer tudo isso, você pode cortar caminho pescando com o Big the cat, num minigame relaxante que você pode usar tanto para passar o tempo, tanto pra conseguir recompensas que vão te ajudar muito na sua aventura, os minibosses e inimigos que enfrentamos no caminho costumam a variar bastante um do outro, e a cada ilha eles ficam mais complexos e difíceis, nunca enjoando, e também tem os looding interativos que e uma mecânica qual sentia falta nos jogos, qual você pode aprender golpes ou executar mecânicas novas, as músicas são espetaculares, novamente a Sega se superando nas músicas do jogo, com uma trilha sensacional, principalmente nos Bosses de cada ilha, que são os que tem as melhores músicas para mim, falando nos Bosses, mais um ponto positivo, os bosses são extremamente criativos, concerteza um dos pontos mais altos do jogo inteiro, apesar do tempo em que você os derrota ser curto, o que eu queria que fosse um pouco maior, os cyber-spaces são um tanto repetitivos em cenário, queria que eles variassem mais em cenários, por que são sempre os mesmos, e as vezes fica bem chato, além da movimentação 3D no cyberspace não ser tão boa, apesar da movimentação 2D ser ótima, um ponto que eu não gostei muito, foi o uso exagerado do 2D na terceira ilha, que acaba atrapalhando as vezes, por que os itens as vezes caiem no chão, ou pro lado, e não dá para pegar, por que você acaba ficando preso na perspectiva 2D, e a 5 ilha acaba sendo bem repetitiva as vezes apesar de também ser boa, a história e excelente e profunda, e um dos melhores pontos, e espero realmente que a Sega explore mais disso, já não aguentava mais o Sonic parecendo um carro de corrida sendo obrigado a seguir um caminho pre-definido, esse jogo tem o potencial de mudar Sonic para sempre.… Expand
  25. Lampone00
    Nov 10, 2022
    10
    No game is perfect, but this game is really good, I would give it a 9 because I’m a Sonic Fan, but I would be too biased. Anyway, 06 was 16 (f word) years ago. Who. Cares. It was bad? Yes, maybe. However it isn’t that bad to be still talked 16 years later. Grow up. Anyway, back to Frontiers review.

    “Uh, Sonic should’ve died in 2D” What about Mario then? “Same thing for Mario” No. After    No game is perfect, but this game is really good, I would give it a 9 because I’m a Sonic Fan, but I would be too biased. Anyway, 06 was 16 (f word) years ago. Who. Cares. It was bad? Yes, maybe. However it isn’t that bad to be still talked 16 years later. Grow up. Anyway, back to Frontiers review.

    “Uh, Sonic should’ve died in 2D”

    What about Mario then?

    “Same thing for Mario”

    No. After 10 years of cringe-jokes, bad writing we finally got a game where Sonic takes itself seriously again. It was never meant for kids. It was meant for everyone. Yeah the movies did him dirty (I’m not saying the movies are bad, they are REALLY good. Thing is, they made Sonic character for kids. It make sense since he’s still a kid there but then everyone will think he is. When he’s not.)

    “Image being a kid, he would be bored playing this game”

    Are you that kid? Stop self projecting. Why we have to treat Kids like they are stupid? Super Paper Mario was 14 years ago. Do I really have to explain what I’m saying? That game aged like fine wine. Bowser’s Inside Story is another one. And this will do the same because it’s good. It’s so good. Cyberspace is the “eh, okay” of the game, I see the potential, it can be improved. And here I thought I would hate this game, I hate open worlds and I don’t like Zelda at all, but I respect it because that’s just me, Zelda makes good games. Wait, silly me, this is an “Open Zone” game (coping? Maybe) but well, I liked it. Maybe that’s why it worked. I recommend it to you all.


    Edit: Edited to 10 because apparently people are review bombing this with 0.    … Expand
  26. CatTraiter
    Nov 10, 2022
    10
    Great game I’d give 8/10 only reason I’m scoring higher is because there is a lot of dumb reviews that are being this game down and it’s completely unfair
  27. Axel10
    Nov 10, 2022
    10
    Es muy buen juego la verdad, en si mi calificación es un 8 por que no tiene doblaje latino y las gráficas la verdad dejan mucho que desear, pero le pongo 10 para apoyar el juego, ya que la crítica no fue muy imparcial que digamos, la verdad exageran un poco, no es como dicen, es un juego decente, y a mi me gusto.
  28. dlightbulb
    Nov 10, 2022
    10
    Absolutely love this game. It's so atmospheric and the open world setting is brilliant. So much to discover and the more you play, the more you learn and get used to the great controls and battle moves. Some really cool ways of fighting and rushing around the brilliantly realised world. The best Sonic game in years and a really exciting step forward in the right direction.
  29. AminTvi
    Nov 10, 2022
    10
    Franchement je comprends pas pk tout le Monde crache sur Sonic frontiers. On est pas fan de Sonic pour ce qu'on aimerait ce qu'il soit mais pour ce qu'il est. Et à ce que je sache on à jamais joué à Sonic pour ses graphismes, les FPS ou quoique ce soit. On joue Sonic pour l'expérience qu'il peux offrir les musiques, la course le combat style Sonic. Des histoires parfois peut-être simpleFranchement je comprends pas pk tout le Monde crache sur Sonic frontiers. On est pas fan de Sonic pour ce qu'on aimerait ce qu'il soit mais pour ce qu'il est. Et à ce que je sache on à jamais joué à Sonic pour ses graphismes, les FPS ou quoique ce soit. On joue Sonic pour l'expérience qu'il peux offrir les musiques, la course le combat style Sonic. Des histoires parfois peut-être simple serte mais si vous voulez du grand scénarios, alors qu'est-ce que vous branler ici? Retourner voir gode of War si vous voulez du graphisme... Puis au moin les jeux Sonic à au moin l'audace d'innover contrairement un certain plombier qui nous recyclé le même jeux depuis 40 balais et personne dis rien. Où pire Pokémon Arceus qui est juste dégueulasse mais c pas grave parce que c Pokémon, franchement c'est de l'hypocrisie, c dégueulasse, ouij suis vénère, et moi qui joué à tout les jeux Sonic du 1er jusqu'au dernier Sonic frontiers est juste génial.… Expand
  30. daniel45454
    Nov 11, 2022
    10
    Better than the GOD OF WAR. WITHOUT A DOUBT IT IS THE BEST. WHY THE PRESS LOW THE NOTE TO THIS GAME? BECAUSE THEY WERE PAID SO THAT THE GOD OF WAR BECOMES MORE
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70

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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