![]() ![]() That does’t help the disjointed feeling of the plot for that matter. READ NOW: Sonic Frontiers System Requirements You can still tell that Sonic Frontiers is a Team Sonic game: their telltale jank is all over the place.įor instance, while the world is freely explorable, Sonic Team didn’t put quite enough attention into the fine details of plot and mission structuring, so it’s possible to completely skip vital pieces of information that you needed to know for one reason or another. That’s not to say that it’s all a bed of roses though. Sonic Team Rears Its Head Again Sonic’s sarcasm is his strongest power. ![]() It’s basically a redo of ‘grass world, ice world, fire world’ but it beats only having one type of place to explore. The first island is all grassy plains, the second is all deserts, etc. The world is basically split up into 5 different islands, each with their own environment design. There was a justifiable amount of fear that the entire game would have a single type of environment, but fortunately, that’s not the case. Most of the trailers showed the same area, a grassy plain covered in weird ancient ruins and doodads. ![]() The environment design in Sonic Frontiers is also worth talking about. The only slight annoyance is that while attack and defence can increase in leaps, speed and rings can only be levelled up one at a time, which is a bit clunky. Not that you should need to, things are mostly well-balanced enough that you can get by on skill alone, and just let your stats increase naturally as you enjoy playing the game. You can hit a maximum of 99 levels in each discipline, so you’ll be grinding a lot if you want to max out early. Levelling up your skills He’s gone Super Sonic, the problem’s chronic! The four stats are strength, defense, speed, and rings, and they define your maximum values in those four areas. You gather experience points by exploring the world that you can use to spend on new abilities, and can increase your four main stats by collecting certain items throughout the world. Sonic can level up now, but not in the ‘Sonic Chronicles’ kind of way. Oh yes, that’s another thing I forgot to mention. READ NOW: Sonic Frontiers – Spring is in the Air This means that combat has a bit of visual variety, especially when you take into account the various special moves you unlock as you level up. For instance, the homing attack is still a thing, but now Sonic actually attacks things instead of just throwing himself at them. Outside of how great running around as Sonic feels, there have been some basic but munich-needed revisions to the normal formula. You have plenty of time to see stuff coming and adjust your trajectory or stop, and you have moves that will immediately cancel your momentum to help in that effort.įor once, you actually feel in control of Sonic, and that is the essential factor that many 3D titles have missed. Your speed isn’t a problem because you’re using it to traverse a vast area. Normally, on those tight corridors that typified a majority of 3D sonic games, high speed can leave you bashing into walls or falling off stages, resulting in a need for forced gameplay sections.įrontiers get by this issue handily. ![]() The wide-open plains that make up the majority of the game world are perfect for the sort of speeds you traditionally move at in one of these games. Sonic Frontiers has an open and explorable world filled with challenges for you to approach at your own pace. Exploring the World of Sonic Frontiers Froggy! The game still features some control and camera issues that are common problems in other 3D Sonic titles, but the space you have to move in makes up for them. What is the key fundamental difference that makes this game work where others haven’t? So, what makes this game different? After all, we’ve all seen what happens with Sonic in 3D in recent years. Like every 3D Sonic game during the run-up to release, it was promising to be the revolutionary 3D sonic game that fans have been waiting for, but is it? Well, at least in my opinion, kind of, yeah.īUY NOW: Spider-Man Miles Morales (PC) – Green Man Gaming Sonic Frontiers is the latest 3D Sonic game, developed by Team Sonic and Published by Sega for the PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, and Xbox systems. The Low Down on Sonic Frontiers A clean miss. Imagine my surprise to find that Sonic Team has finally done, with Sonic Frontiers, something the fan-game community has been doing for years: giving Sonic a little bit of bloody breathing room. On the other, I wasn’t the most optimistic person regarding the game’s quality. On the one hand, I wanted this game to be good with all my heart. This is a bit of a weird position to be in as a Sonic Fan who has a mixed relationship with 3D Sonic games. ![]()
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