Why I HATE Sonic Forces on Switch Lite

Hello and welcome back to a new video game

review. So today I am going to do a review

of Sonic Forces and explain

to you why it is a terrible game and why

you shouldn't buy it and why I regret

buying it. So first of all, I bought this

game on the Switch because I'm actually a

bit of a Sonic fan. One of the games I

grew up playing as a kid was Sonic

Adventure and Sonic on the Mega Drive 1

and 2, and I thought, wow, finally a brand

new Sonic game on the Switch.

That's so amazing, I can rediscover my

childhood. And then I got Sonic Forces and

I was just completely disappointed with

this rubbish game, and let me tell you

why. So first of all, they try and get you

with the nostalgia. Look at the menu

design. But you look at the game and

you think, yeah, it looks okay, what's

wrong with it? Well, it doesn't play like

a Sonic game should. So first

of all, the controls are just horrible.

It feels terrible. The responsiveness is

rubbish, and for some reason it feels like

you're not actually controlling your

character. It feels like you've got some

kind of steering assist turned on, like

auto-aim. I'm not even— you just have to

push forward on the thumbstick like this,

and, uh, it kind of steers left and right

for you. So press B to jump.

Oh, thanks so much, hint. I really needed

to be told how to jump, did I? So it just

feels like you're not really controlling

the character, you're just pressing

forwards and then it's steering Sonic for

you. And then you barely have to

do anything. There's no skill involved.

Look, it's all auto-aim. It automatically

targets the enemy. It automatically

chooses the direction. All you have to do

is press forwards and press B.

And I think that's a huge spider. Oh my

God, Jesus,

Jesus! That is huge.

I have to evacuate this area. Hold on.

Oh my God, it's coming towards me.

Even the spider doesn't like Sonic. Okay,

let me just move here.

Bloody spider. Where is it?

Anyway, back to the review.

I can't even do a review. Anyway, uh,

back to the review. Where am I? Okay, so

after the third-person gameplay,

it switches to a side— I didn't even say

hey Siri. Fuck, get lost Siri,

go away. Siri, go away.

Thank you. Anyway, um, yeah, so it

switches to this side view,

and again, you don't really have to do

much. You just hold down the right

thumbstick like this— I mean, the left

thumbstick. You hold it down pressing the

right direction. You just keep spamming

the B button to jump.

And it just feels really

easy to play. There doesn't, doesn't

really feel like there's any skill

involved compared to the Mega Drive

Classics, where those Mega Drive Classics

were brutal and unforgiving. You had to be

really good at the game to get anywhere.

This one just kind of plays it for you.

You just have to put minimum input. Into

the game like this. Look, I'm not even

doing anything, I'm just spamming the B

button. And the camera angles are

very annoying. It keeps switching from

behind view and then side view and then

like a 3D dynamic view. And what's this

view? Am I even controlling him?

I don't think I am.

And all these robots and monsters just

stand in the way like that. They don't

even put up any kind of challenge. You

just jump over or spam B. The whole game

is just like spam this and spam that. And

why is Sonic's legs so long?

Since when Sonic have such long legs?

Just looks weird.

Yeah, so that's the first level.

Who cares about the story in Sonic? No

one. So this is a problem, you see. Look,

Sonic is defeated, so the rest of the game

you don't even get to play as Sonic.

You have to play as all these other random

characters that I've never heard of

before.

So you have like the B characters. So A

characters would be Sonic, and then you

have the B characters who are like Tails

and Amy, and then you have the C

characters. But this is a stupid thing,

you have to create your own character.

How dumb is this? What the hell is that

supposed to be?

So you don't even get to play as Sonic in

a Sonic game. They want you to make your

own character, and there's all this

customization. You can choose which animal

your character is, so you can be a

hedgehog. You could make your character

look like Sonic, I guess.

Different hairstyles. You can make him

blue, make him white.

You've got all this customization. It's so

weird. It's like I'm playing The Sims.

What are these eyes?

That just looks creepy. Look, I can make a

fake Sonic. That's like one of those fake

meme Sonics. Sanic.

Sanic the Hedgehog. Okay.

Looks great. So most of the game you're

not actually playing as Sonic, you're

playing as your own custom character,

which is a stupid idea because I think

most people are playing this because they

like Sonic the character and they want to

be Sonic, not some custom created

character, not some random character.

So let me show you what the actual game

was like. If the game was like in the

first level in the beginning, that'd be

fine. It was okay, it was playable, it

looked good, you were playing as Sonic.

But the rest of the game you're just

playing as your own character for the most

part. It's also taking so long to get into

the game. Come on,

Jesus.

Okay, so here is my character.

Who is Espio? What the hell is this?

Okay, so the rest of the game is like

this. You've got your own character and

he's got different moves, pretty much the

same as Sonic's moves. You jump and he

dashes towards them. He's got like a

sliding thing, and he can also do like a

Spider-Man swing, which is just ripping

off Spider-Man completely.

Such a terrible game. I don't know why

they thought this was good. Why didn't

they just stick to the original reason

why people loved Sonic? It's because you

get to play as Sonic and there's great

platforming. And running action. This is

just weird. Is it supposed to be like

Spider-Man? Why does the camera angle keep

switching between side view to behind

view?

And then all the enemies just stand in the

middle of the road like that, and you just

have to spam B. I give this game a 1 out

of 10. I think it's really bad. Boring,

terrible gameplay, doesn't feel fun, and

you don't even get to play Sonic. Oh look,

it's the grinding thing from Sonic

Adventure. I used to

really love Sonic Adventure. I thought it

was a great story, great gameplay, and I

feel like they're trying to recreate that,

but they're failing so badly. I love Sonic

Adventure 2. The music was great. I felt

really epic playing as Sonic, but this

game just feels sad,

you know? It's like a wannabe Sonic

Adventure.

I don't feel any motivation to carry on

playing this.

Okay.

See if this game gets any fun later on.

No, I'm just jumping, spamming B.

Look at this, it's not even hard. I'm just

pressing the B button over and over.

Not even hard.

Well, that was a review of Sonic Forces.

Big waste of money. Definitely do not buy

it. Uh, yeah,