the fact they cant even properly launch a pseudo 7 year old game without issues still plaguing it is truly breathtaking.

This game rocks my socks

This Game Sucks And It Is not Fun Because RNG is not fun. ♥♥♥♥ you devs And I would never pay for You're ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game.

When Sonic Frontiers was first revealed, I honestly thought it looked like ♥♥♥♥.

Looking in with no context; the rails being just there on the islands with seemingly no rhyme or reason wasn't pretty, the footage looked awful, the gameplay was from a toddler and last but not least the constant pop-in of assets. While I can't say things like the aforementioned pop-in are changed drastically from what we first saw, it sort of just clicks in a lot of aspects that weren't really demonstrated in pre-release footage. Sega dropped THE BALL on this one for a while there marketing-wise.

Anyway, rant aside I think there's a lot to love and hate about this game. The gameplay albeit isn't nearly as in depth as you'd hope, it almost feels like going in with that kind of expectation is just unrealistic but they managed to make something that's just fun and hype as ♥♥♥♥. Learning the new combos on the skill tree then mixing and matching those and chaining it all, mmmmm, something about it makes my brain tickle. That's about all I can say on combat- except THE BOSS FIGHTS. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. I couldn't help but not smile for every single one of them. The music overall I'll go into later but the boss music is some of the best in the franchise imo, its the perfect mix of just edgy enough but not too edgy, you know what I mean? I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ love that ♥♥♥♥. I won't go into the fights much more because they are meant to be experienced fresh. Getting into the open-zone gameplay, I very much loved a lot of what they were doing here, aside from the glaring problem that is the third island's camera system. The game will constantly put you into the 2D perspective seeming almost random at first but its just a weird design choice that I do not like at all, not that all 2D is bad in this game just here on the third island its very strange. Finally, the cyberspace levels being this games version of the boost formula levels but most of them are short and sweet. Only a handful are truly challenging to get S rank, but those ones are HARD. Other than that, I don't have much to say about it other than its better than how Sonic Forces (last mainline Sonic game) felt by a mile.

THE MUSIC IS ALL ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ INSANE ASS ♥♥♥♥!!!!! I have no idea how they managed to make such a diverse soundtrack for this game and almost every song being an absolute banger. From the building atmosphere of the piano and strings in the island themes to what is closer to mostly EDM and/or dubstep in cyberspace levels, to the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ boss themes being a lot of screaming but IT STILL ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ WORKS. Something I realized after writing this originally is that every island has multiple themes and changes once you have a new Chaos emerald, and I just have to say the way it builds up is natural and works BUT every track still has its own kick to it, giving you another reason to go back to them again and again. The fact you can use the newly-added jukebox to play all the different variants (and also music from the rest of the series) is also great so you can see how they build onto each other while just playing the game

I enjoy the story for what it is here, even though after the final update it still kind of lacks that punch at the end though I didn't really mind how the story concluded. The cutscenes are all really stylish and sometimes VERY anime-inspired (almost every time if it's JUST combat related) which kinda works for me with Sonic, like he's just some kinda rodent super saiyan and we just accept that?? Yes. The dialogue for when you find others on the island isn't bad but for the most part are just a few lines of banter between Sonic and his friends, nothing super substantial but definitely adds some character outside of the main story.

Overall, this game surpassed all my expectations and then a lot more. I truly enjoyed almost all of my time with this game and I will be coming back for more with the updates (Edit: D:) and the already steadily growing modding community. If you're looking for a game that's just plain fun and speedy, I can't recommend this game enough.

it makes you feel like a kid again, just buy it