Why i HATE Sonic Frontiers

Hello and welcome back to a new video. So

recently I've been playing the brand new

Sonic Frontiers, and as an avid fan of

Sonic games and action platforming games

in general, I just knew I had to play this

game. Unfortunately, so far it's been

rather bland, uninspired, and dull, and

also, might I add, rather lacking in

luster. And after playing this Sonic game

for a few hours, it has come to my

conclusion that I don't really like this

game and I cannot recommend the game. So

in an interesting twist of events, it

seems as though Team Sonic has decided to

take the Sonic franchise into an

open-world kind of game, and they've gone

for this kind of split gameplay where

you've got these 2 different types of game

zones. So the first kind of game zone is

one we are witnessing now. It's kind of

very traditional Sonic Adventure-esque

linear running in a straight line kind of

gameplay where you're just running

forwards in a straight line, zipping along

rails and jumping along springs, and then

you've got some robot enemies you can do

very basic homing attacks on. And if

you've played Sonic Adventure 1 or 2,

you'd be very familiar with these. Now,

this isn't really anything new or

interesting, and I don't really want to

spend too much time talking about it

because it literally feels just like

you're playing Sonic Adventure 2 but with

2022-type graphics. Now, the more

interesting part of Sonic Frontiers has to

be the open-world gameplay, and I've been

saying for years that they should make a

Sonic game where it's open world where

it's a big massive world and you've got

different hubs and cities and areas to go

to, and then you can use Sonic speed to

traverse the world instead of using a

vehicle or a mount. You could use Sonic

speed to run across the world, and it

seems as though someone at Team Sonic has

listened to me because they finally made

an open world Sonic game. Unfortunately,

the open world in this Sonic game is not

exactly how I envisioned it. The world in

Sonic Frontiers is very bland, bleak,

and kind of depressing. There's like this

very melancholic, sad, and depressing

undertone and vibe and atmosphere to the

world in Sonic Frontiers. And it seems to

be raining all the time, which also adds

to the kind of depressing feeling to the

world. If you played Death Stranding,

then you'll know what kind of world I am

describing. It really does feel like the

depressing wastelands you'll find in Death

Stranding. And I don't know why they've

gone for this kind of sad-looking,

depressing world. Even the music is kind

of sad. There's like this sad piano music

that's playing in the background. I guess

they're going for this kind of ethereal,

mysterious, mystic world that you kind of

see in Elden Ring. But unlike Elden Ring,

it doesn't really have any of the charm or

the cool, interesting castles off in the

distance. Elden Ring had a really

interesting open world that made you want

to explore every nook and cranny. But for

some reason, the open world in Sonic

Frontier just feels kind of boring and

bland and just feels like a massive barren

wasteland. The entire thing is just a load

of mountains covered in grass and some sea

around the edges. So after running around

the world in Sonic Frontier for a bit, I

just felt kind of sad and depressed

because even the grass, even the tone and

the shade of green they use for the grass,

is like a very muted and low saturated

color. Everything just seems so sad and

gray in this world. And what you do in

this world is not really very interesting.

So you've got some monuments and

structures that are covered in springs and

things you can grab onto and rings and

very basic robotic enemies. The whole gist

of the game is you run around this massive

playground, this massive world, and you

try and solve the different puzzles and

you do some platforming, collect some

rings. You use the speed booster things

and springs to zip around the world and

try to discover secrets and puzzles and

unlock things. You can also get these

points to upgrade Sonic and unlock new

abilities and skills, which I think is a

pretty interesting idea, although it's not

very— it's not a very in-depth skill

talent tree that you could spec into

different playstyles, which would have

been more interesting of a choice if they

went that way. So you go around this world

and you have to fight these robots. All of

the enemies in the game are these very

bland and boring basic-looking robots,

and these robot enemies are just not very

fun or engaging to fight with. Number one,

they look very boring. There's just like a

bunch of random triangles and shapes put

together with an evil red eye for a face,

and I just really find it boring to fight

robots. I want to fight some kind of

living creature, but because they want to

keep it family-friendly They go for robots

because there's no blood and it doesn't

really look violent if they explode into

little pieces. So you'll be fighting all

these randomly shaped robots and they do

different things. Some will attack you and

charge at you, and then you have to use

Sonic's speed and maneuverability to evade

the attacks. It's quite interesting how

it's kind of like Elden Ring where you've

got to dodge and block and look for

openings in the way you fight the enemies.

But I just found fighting the enemies to

be just spamming the mouse button to do

homing attacks. You also have these really

big giant robots which are like mini

bosses, and they've all got attack

patterns and openings you got to wait for

to attack them. It's very basic and bland

gameplay. Didn't really find that fighting

the enemies was any fun. It just felt like

a chore where I had to spam homing attacks

over and over again. And the rest of the

gameplay is trying to do the platforming,

running up platforms and going up lifts so

you can access rings and get higher and

higher to access some kind of unlockable

items or points so you can upgrade Sonic

even further. Now I don't know if the

entire game is like this, maybe later on

the game there's different stages, but so

far it just seems like the entire world is

this really bland looking mountainous

rocky island and just covered in grass and

stuff and a bunch of robots and big

monumental monolithic kind of structures

you have to try and climb up. But I'm

hoping that there's more interesting

stages later on in the game. I think they

really missed an opportunity to make some

kind of cyberpunk-looking city with

elevated highways and motorways that you

could run around on and maybe go down to

the street level as well to access stuff

in the shops and walk around the streets

with pedestrians and stuff. I think that

could have been a really interesting way

to take the game and maybe add some shops

or apartments. Basically just make it like

cyberpunk, but you're Sonic and you can

run around on the motorways. That would

have been way more interesting than just

running around this very bleak,

abandoned-looking deserted wasteland of

an island that's just covered in robots

and these weird puzzles where you've got

to move statues around to unlock gateways

that go to more boring and barren looking

areas. I just don't really feel like I was

having fun whilst playing the game, and

after about an hour of playing the game,

I just felt like it's not really any fun.

I feel kind of bored, and I decided to

turn it off. So unfortunately, for those

very reasons, I can't really recommend

this game, especially at £55, which is

pretty expensive. Maybe at £20, I might

give this game another shot when it comes

down in price a little bit, but I just

don't really feel like the game is that

interesting. I think it's a cool idea and

it's a cool concept that could do with

more refining and adding more stuff to it,

and I commend Sega and Sonic Team for

trying to take Sonic in this direction. I

think it's a cool idea, but as it is in

its current state, I can't really

recommend it, and I'll have to give it a

score of 4.2 out of 10. Thanks for

watching and goodbye.