why i HATE sonic frontiers

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Hello, welcome back to a new video.

Sonic Frontier,

uh, let me see, action style

or high-speed style.

Hmm, I don't know what the difference is.

As an avid pro gamer of Sonic,

I think I am used to playing Sonic

Why is this so loud?

Why is this so loud?

Testing. Why is this

so loud? Testing.

Okay, I think that's good.

Oh my God, Robotnik!

Why is it glitching like that? So making

these weird square glitchy things.

Status report. Am I gonna review the new

Sonic game? Yep, that's why I bought it

and playing it now. No, no, how do

I skip this?

Just gonna play it quickly, see if it's

any good. You can't move the camera around

with the mouse.

Hmm, it looks nice.

How do I do that spinning thing?

Oh, hold Shift, it does like a boost.

So I'll play this for maybe an hour so

I've got some stuff for my video to review

it, and then I'll take a break, and then

we'll continue with Cyberpunk.

Your last YouTube upload was great.

Thanks. I think people really appreciate

when I put some editing, put a bit of

music. I guess it makes a big difference.

Okay, let's just start the game, see if

it's any good. I guess it's good the

camera automatically moves. Otherwise it'd

be hard. I think you're supposed to play

this with controller, aren't you? It's

kind of weird using keyboard.

What do I do? The problem with Sonic games

is it never really feels like you're doing

anything apart from pressing forwards.

Where is the skill? And it

always feels janky when you're moving left

to right. Oh, I use the mouse and it's

always the same homing attacks. This feels

like Sonic Adventure from Dreamcast.

Can't they do something new with it?

And then he does loop-de-loops. It's just

like you're running straight in a straight

line all the time.

This is on Switch too. Yeah, it's on

pretty much everything. It's supposed to

be like an open-world Sonic game, which

I've been saying they should make an

open-world Sonic game for years now. They

finally listened to me. I said they should

make a big open world with different hubs

and cities and areas. And then you use

Sonic's speed to travel around the world.

Seems like they finally decided to listen

to me. Oh, this looks pretty cool

actually. It looks weird,

like it looks really realistic, but it's

Sonic. I don't like how

slow the camera is though. How do I

increase the sensitivity? Escape doesn't

bring up the menu. What? Why does Sonic

look sad? Why is it raining?

Even the music's sad. It looks— the

world looks so depressing.

What'd you do here?

Okay,

I don't think I'm gonna like this game.

I'm just not feeling

it.

As an avid fan of Sonic and

platforming games in general, This game

just was not up to my standards.

I don't want to see the stupid tutorial.

You'll be uploading a Sonic video? Yeah,

I'm going to make a why I hate Sonic

Frontiers. Do not buy.

And I could say stuff like, I've been

saying they should make an open-world

Sonic game for years now. Seems like they

finally listened. Unfortunately, they did

a very bad job at it. The open world is

extremely bland, boring, dull, and

uninspired. Might I also add,

it is rather lacking in a certain luster.

The enemies are really dumb. All you have

to do is jump and spam the mouse button to

do a homing attack, and they provide

absolutely no challenge.

The puzzles just involve clicking on

springs and hoop things so you

automatically grab onto them. There's very

little in the way of actual challenge in

this game. Although the world is

fairly beautiful— brutiful— it is

extremely bland and unsaturated

and kind of depressing. And it's always

raining. Why is it always raining?

Sonic's supposed to be a colorful,

bubbly, friendly-looking game like

the beginning of Sonic 1 and 2. Green Zone

Hill, supposed to look all nice and

colorful. What is this? It's all gray.

Even the grass is like a weird muted shade

of green. What is this boss?

All you have to do is jump and press

homing attack.

How do you block? It's not Elden Ring, is

Oh, you can boost around it.

I can do kicks in the air.

I guess it's pretty cool, you can kind of

sprint around it.

Yeah, I'm a bit worried about Sega.

Because I remember TotalBiscuit tried

boycotting Sega because back then

I think a bunch of YouTubers got copyright

strikes from Sega for— I don't even

remember why— for some coverage of a Sega

game. And then TotalBiscuit was trying to

pressure Sega into apologizing by

boycotting them, as if Sega's gonna give a

shit. He ended up giving up and lifting

his boycott.

I bet they were trembling in their boots.

So maybe I won't upload gameplay footage,

I'll just do like a Microsoft Paint and

just write Sonic.

But I don't think they would really care

because I'm just like a tiny channel with

12k subs.

Also, I'm not sure if I would— I guess I

would care if I got 90-day livestream

strike on YouTube.

I'm here again. So funny when your

girlfriend came home. Yeah, she suddenly

came home yesterday at 5 PM instead of 6

PM. She didn't even tell me she was on the

way home. Usually she says I'm coming home

now. And then all of a sudden I hear key

jangling, the door unlocking.

Fortunately, the key is kind of annoying

to get into the hole here, so it takes a

few seconds to get it in and then twist

it. So it gave me some time to quickly

grab my mic and put it into my bag.

Oh, what are these stupid puzzles? Turn

the statue.

Yeah, the stream is still up. Just skip

all the way to the end, and then I just

go, oh, my girlfriend's back, I gotta go.

And then I quickly unplug the mic, put

into my bag.

The stream kept going. You could hear

audio of ruffling. Really? Maybe

Streamlabs switched to another mic. Maybe

it switched to the laptop inbuilt mic

after I unplugged my main mic.

Did you hear her speaking? I had to

quickly press the Windows button and then

right-click on Streamlabs and press close.

Oh, you get skills like a talent tree.

I got 17 skill points.

Sonic Boom.

They should let you specialize into like

speed, fighting, or I

don't know. She really looks like Chihiro

from the back. Yeah, I know. You should

see her face from the side. She looks Like

a Thai version of Chihiro. It's really

weird. I had

such weird dreams last night. I had one

nightmare. Me and the Thai girlfriend were

in a shop, and then this random guy starts

following us. It turns out this guy is

also one of her exes, and for some reason

all of her exes were Muslim, and she had

like 10 exes, and she was dating all of

them all at the same time secretly. And

then they found out that she was dating 9

other guys, and then they all started

trying to get revenge on her. And then I

get pulled into this mess, and then she

reveals that she knows about my YouTube

channel. It was such a weird dream.

And then we walk out the store, and I'm

thinking, okay, we're going home now. And

then she gets into a car with the guy that

was following us and drives off with him,

and I was just left at the shop. It was so

weird. I had

so many weird dreams. I think I had a

dream about Chihiro as well.

I feel like my mind is getting so messed

up from screwing over all

these women. It's like when I got drunk in

Manchester, all these feelings of guilt

and regret came out. I guess

I don't treat women very nicely,

but when you're horny, you kind of don't

care in the moment.

I do feel guilty about Chihiro a lot,

but in the moment I was just so caught up

in the whole YouTube thing.

I keep dying. Evade enemies.

Okay, so it is like Elden Ring. I can't

just smash through everything.

Cyloop while moving. What's that do?

That's kind of cool. You have to actually

dodge.

What if I like this game? It's £50. Oh my

god, I'm gonna waste all my money on

games. Hopefully I'll make some back on

Twitch. Make sure you don't

repeat history with Taichi Hero. I don't

know if I can make any promises.

Because I'm gonna have to leave Thailand,

aren't I? Return to the digital

dimension again. How?

Use that.

I'm getting weird Zelda vibes from this.

You're in this big world full of ancient

relics. It's got a weird vibe to it, not

like a Sonic vibe. I don't like how the

enemy's always stupid robots. I swear,

fighting robots in games is the most

boring thing ever. I want to fight like a

monster or some big animal.

Why— what about dinosaurs? Surely Sonic's

homeworld would be full of like weird

animals as well, like Sonic. Why is always

boring, soulless,

cold,

emotionless robots you're fighting?

I know Robotnik is about robots and he

makes robots, but can't there be some

other bosses like big massive dinosaur

maybe? Now there's Shadow.

You fight Shadow, don't you?

Robots are family-friendly. Yeah, there's

no blood. It doesn't matter if they

explode into pieces. So boring.

I wish they made like an adult Sonic where

there's blood and gore. Like Sonic, Sonic

booms through a big T-Rex and then

blast a bloody hole through his gut.

That'd be so funny.

Adult-rated Sonic.

Oh crap, why does these stupid tips keep

The game looks good, I have to say. I like

the kind of realistic visuals of it,

but it just— it feels like Sonic on

depression. It's like a depressing vibe to

the world and stuff, not like Sonic

Adventure 1 or 2.

This looks really boring. I'm hoping it

gets more interesting. The world is just

really bleak. It feels like they're trying

to do an Elden Ring empty and sad lonely

world.

It's even got like sad piano music. Can

you hear the music?

I think it's a clever idea to make the

world big and then use Sonic's speed to

get around.

What happened in the beginning? Not much.

There was like this beginning zone which

was like— it's like Green Hill Zone

of colorful and stuff, like a racetrack,

and then you go into this open world area.

Look at when he kicks, his legs stretch

out. Look how long his legs get.

What do I do?

Reach the goal. Clear with rank S time.

Clear with 80 rings.

They should just make like an open-world

city like GTA or Cyberpunk with motorways

and highways going above the city,

and that's where you'll run around on.

And then you can go down to the street

level as well, like Spider-Man

but with motorways that you run, you run

about on.

What am I supposed to do? I don't

As an avid fan of Sonic,

I don't know if I'll use gameplay footage

for my video. A bit scared of what Sega

could do.

Yeah, this is pretty boring, isn't it?

I'll play maybe one more hour and then

refund it, and then I want to get back to

What's that?

Oh no, no.

Oh, what? Why didn't he jump onto the

platform? Oh, for fuck's sake. Oh,

platforming is so annoying.

Oh,

I don't understand.

Oh yeah, you can draw stuff, can't you? I

saw someone draw a dick. Like that,

and then coins came out. Air boost.

Uh-huh.

I actually have— remember I made a video

about Warhammer that was made by Sega,

and I blurred out— oh, I could just pixel—

I'm so dumb. Why don't I just do what I

did last time? Remember I made that

Warhammer Total War 3 video and I just

pixelated it because I was scared about

Sega? Yeah, I'll just pixelate the footage

and then say I'm scared that Sega might do

something, because if I pixelate the

footage, Sega can't technically say it's

copyright, can they? It's just like a load

of blurred pixels and the viewers can

still see what's happening.

I'm a genius. Press Z near rings.

I didn't know that was a combo.

I think this would be way better with a

controller.

This has to be the most advanced combat

system I've ever seen in a Sonic game.

It's actually got combos and different

attacks and moves. Usually it's just

homing attack that he does.

What do I do?

Yeah, with Sonic's speed, they could make

him do some really cool fight scenes where

he's just really quick.

Dodge. Oh, you can dodge like Elden

Homing attack, air boost, wall run. How'd

you do that? D and Shift.

It's kind of uncomfortable. Parry,

hold Q and E. Oh, you can block.

Mouse button, mouse button control.

Oh, you can kind of Yeah,

this is really hard with the keyboard.

You can kind of do like a ground attack

like that.

Interesting. Control in the air does a

stomp.

D and then Shift.

Press Z. Near rings.

They didn't even let me do it. Double

jump.

Okay, can we just

play the game, not do tutorials?

This looks more like Sonic now. But these

stages— there's like the open world stage

and then there's these high-speed stages.

Stages, which I'm

not a massive fan of. This just feels like

Sonic Adventure. It feels almost identical

to Sonic Adventure now.

I don't like these stages. They're just

not— I don't know, this feels like it's

on, on rails. I mean, it's literally on

rails and you're just holding

the forward button and then occasionally

jumping.

I got a B. I remember playing Sonic

Adventure 2 and then trying really hard to

get A's and A+'s on every stage.

I guess some replayability can be found

there.

Boost, light dash, and stomp.

That's just not nice to control.

Try using WASD and Z at the same time and

control. It's like trying to play the

I watched the Sonic movie. It was okay,

but the last fight with Sonic and the

giant Robotnik thing was kind of lame.

You know what they should do to make this

better? Put dungeons and then loot. I

think loot— every game needs loot.

You need to have this feeling that you're

improving your character, going from zero

to hero. Maybe armor for Sonic? No,

that'd be lame. I mean stuff like shoe

upgrades so he runs faster, or maybe

different kinds of shoes. Certain shoes

could be faster, and then other shoes

could have better acceleration, other

shoes could have higher top speed. Or

maybe mountain climbing ability for some

shoes. And then he should have different

types of gloves that maybe slow

him down but makes his punches harder.

See, they should hire me. I'm full of

I guess traversing the world for That was

quite fun. What's that?

Do you think Sega would do a copyright

strike on Twitch? I never had copyright

problems on Twitch before. That's the good

thing about Twitch. It doesn't seem like

creators strike each other like they

do on YouTube.

I thought some of the fight scenes with

Sonic and Knuckles was okay in the movie.

I hate all the human bits. You know,

every single movie that's about a

video game character or some cartoon like

Transformers, they always ruin it with all

the stupid human scenes. Even Godzilla. I

watched Godzilla: King of Monsters on TV,

and I just wanted to watch Godzilla and

the monsters fight. But they kept

interrupting the fight scenes with these

stupid human characters. Who cares about

the humans? So, oh no, look, the soldier

character and the black woman, they're

running now and she tripped over and hurt

her leg. Boo-hoo. I want to see Godzilla

fight. Not— I don't really care about

these stupid little human side characters.

Can't they just focus on the actual

interesting things? Like in Transformers,

I just want to see the Transformers

transform and fight and do cool stuff. I

don't care about this stupid Shia LaBeouf

character or the humans.

Every movie, they have to have some human

characters in it.

I think they think that it helps the

viewer have some kind of connection to the

movie if there's human characters in it.

People just want to watch these movies to

see the fight scenes. Story's never

interesting.

What do I do with this? Why doesn't it

I can't kill this thing.

Maybe I'll

just run away.

I've got no rings. One ring. It keeps

regenerating, stupid balls. Oh, what's

that? Oh my God,

everything's trying to kill me.

So there's like puzzles just scattered all

over the world and bosses.

The whole game is just doing random

puzzles and

bosses.

How long have I played? Have to play under

2 hours. I've only played 36 minutes. I'm

already bored of it. Okay, we'll play a

bit more. It has to be more interesting

later, maybe.

Yeah, I'm probably gonna refund this.

It's just not that fun.

I don't like these enemies.

What do I do?

Where do I go?

The water looks nice. Oh, you can even

drown. It's got oxygen.

They should make it so you could run on

the water surface if you're going fast

enough. Why didn't they do that like

Ninja.

Hold Q and E to parry.

I parried, didn't do anything.

Another boss. What's this one?

Says I have to go over there.

Is the game up to your standards? No,

it is extremely dull, boring, bland, and

dare I say, lacking in lustre.

Oh look, it's a big thing. How'd you kill

this?

Punch its foot.

Doesn't do anything.

Oh.

What do I do? Have you run up

its arm? Whoa.

Okay, so that's how you do it.

Oh, the red ones push you away. Go up.

I nearly got up there.

I can't get up there. The red ones keep

pushing me away.

How'd you do this?

Uh-huh.

What? I only got one ring,

so he won't go up the arm.

Oh my God, this is so annoying.

Oh no.

Sonic can climb walls.

Oh, he can climb up them.

He won't Now

I'm gonna die.

Ah, oh, not again.

I can't be bothered.

Stupid boss. Okay, I'll try one more

time.

You won't go up it there.

Whoa, why is he flying? What's happening?

That was weird.

How'd you climb?

I think you can run up his leg somehow,

then he gets stuck. Stuck under the skirt

Maybe— I think you can go up his arm,

it's just really difficult.

Yes! Oh, come on, I did it!

Why won't he go up here?

He goes up it, but then flies off

backwards. Gotta run into his b-hole.

This is so annoying.

Ah, you see, he flies backwards when he

runs up the arc.

Onto the platform after running up. Which

platform? 'Cause when you go up the arm,

he flies off backwards.

Maybe up this hill?

No. Last time I was climbing up his leg.

I forgot how to do that.

Ah, where's he

going?

There is a platform here, but it's Kind of

far away.

Oh, oh, I nearly got— oh, I got it, I got

Finally! That was so

Better get something good.

What was that?

Didn't give me anything.

Search for friends.

Okay, where are my friends?

Oh, it's Amy.

Hello? Is someone there?

Help me!

Well, I think I have formed my opinion of

the game.

I like how there's a little speedometer at

the bottom right. Like you're driving a

car. They should have the miles per hour

indicated as well, like 60 miles

per hour. Oh my

God, uh, it's pretty

boring, isn't it?

Do you think the game gets better later

What? He just fell off it. Okay, I think

I'm done. I'm gonna refund it. I just

don't think this is gonna be fun.

Can you climb? I think you can climb.

Ola111, I'd rate the game 4.2

out of 10.

I think I prefer Cyberpunk.

I think it's a cool idea how they went for

an open-world game.

I don't know why I don't like it. It's

just a bit bland,

and I

don't like puzzles.

I like Cyberpunk because, well, I like

action and guns and bloody combat.

And I like leveling up characters and

getting new abilities. You get abilities

on this, I guess, but it's not

the same. They should put some

guns in it.

Give Sonic a katana.

What's that?

Whoops, fella.

It's funny how it's like they can never

seem to make a good Sonic game.

I kind of like Sonic Adventure 2. I played

that a lot when I was a kid.

They keep trying different things, seeing

what would work well.

Oh.

Ah,

hello.

Uh, I think I'm done.

Okay, I'm gonna go and make my video now.

Oh look, it's got chow things.

What are they?

They should have gone to sci-fi world,

like with buildings and stuff. Yeah,

like I said earlier, they should make like

a cyberpunk city that has all these

highways and motorways going around

it and through it, like elevated

motorways. And then you can like race and

run on those and then go down to the

street level and then there's people and

This world is just kind of bland. It's

just a load of mountains and waterfalls.

It looks like one of those No Man's Sky,

really bland and boring randomly generated

worlds. I died again.

I like the world in Elden Ring because

Elden Ring looked bleak and bland as well,

but it had all these cool castles off in

the distance that you can go and travel

This has these strange obelisk structure,

structure things as well, but they don't

look very interesting.

Maybe if you like puzzles, you would enjoy

it. And exploring the world and

running. It looks

a bit like Death Stranding with the

bleakness.

Okay, I'm done. I'm gonna refund it. I'm

gonna make my video and then I'm going to

brush my teeth, or should I brush my teeth

and then make the video? Uh,

I've got to download the footage, so I

think I'll brush my teeth, shower,

then make the video, and then come back

for Cyberpunk. Can I stay streaming? I

think I'll— I'll have to

end the stream because I got to download

and upload stuff, and then I'll start a

new stream. We'll do Cyberpunk. So see you

in about maybe half

an hour. I can do all that, I think. Half

an hour shouldn't take me long to make the

video. I'll just say, as an avid fan of

Sonic, blah blah blah,

not really worth £55. Okay, so see

you in 40-ish minutes.