Whether you’re stuck collecting a hundred Knuckles medals or Amy Hearts, or going through any number of the other small puzzle sections, these activities served as padding around the meat of the adventure to establish that 15-hour main runtime.Īiming for quality over quantity is the way forward here, and it would be exciting to see what Sonic Team could do if it pivoted towards incorporating staple characters such as Tails, Knuckles, and Shadow into your arsenal instead of just Sonic himself.

Now that Frontiers’ developers are riding the high, the time is right to expand on what worked and go bigger and better than ever.įor as much as I love Sonic Frontiers, the biggest problem that I have with the game is the sheer amount of busy work required to get to its epic boss fights and exciting platforming challenges. Sonic the Hedgehog has been enjoying a resurgence in the years that have passed one of the franchise's greatest missteps You only need to look as far as the two incredibly popular live-action movies and the solid Netflix Sonic Prime show to see that the fastest thing alive is back on top. Sonic Team clearly took the criticism in stride and came back with something revolutionary for the character. You only need to cast your mind back a number of years to the disastrous Sonic Forces, a game so paint-by-numbers with uninspired level design, uninspired boss fights, bad music, a painfully bad narrative, and iffy performance to see that something had to change. While far from a flawless game, the evolved formula that came about with the game going open zone made for a satisfying break from the mediocre level design of the more confined previous titles. It’s also now the most monetarily successful Sonic the Hedgehog game to date, with over 3.5 million copies sold as of May 2023 (via VG Charts).

We gave the game a near-perfect score of 4.5 stars praising the boss fights, phenomenal soundtrack and open-zone gameplay. Sonic Frontiers has had a good run in the half a year since it debuted, not only critically but commercially, too.

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