Sonic Frontiers: Things I Was Wrong About. (?/10)
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
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So Sonic Frontiers is finally out, and it's time for me to come clean on the things I think I got wrong when discussing the game pre-release, to after playing and beating the game. I'm not much of a game reviewer, but you can consider this my Sonic Frontiers review, if you will.
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Music: Sonic Adventure - Crazy Robo (E-101β)
Is there anything you thought about the game pre-release that you ended up being wrong about? Let me know!
Nope i guess i was right combat is fun and the bosses are really fun
Mario Better
i was wrong about cyber space. i thought "it can't be as bad as premy says" boy was I wrong.
@@knucklestheradred774 "Mario Better" --- as a sonic fan... you're not wrong.
I was wrong about the islands being short and boring but I actually am spending a lot of time on chaos and ares island
Edit: I was also wrong about super sonic, we can't use him in the open world, sadly
It would’ve been so cool if you got to play a stage as knuckles, Amy & Tails to restore sonics cyber corruption.
I actually thought they were going to do that I'm sad they didn't
@@corelink518 Same
@@corelink518 same but now that they’ve gotten sonics play style down im hoping they’ll start experimenting with other characters again in a potential sequel or just another game using this open-zone format
@@nojk949 an adventure/06 hybrid would work well in the new format
On god woulda been perfect in game
Honestly I'm just glad everyone is having fun
Same, even though the game isn't universally praised and criticality acclaimed by everyone (which was silly to think in the first place lol) it's nice to see a bunch of Sonic fans just not at each others throats again.
There's something for everyone in this game whether that be lore or exploration in the game
what i dont like is the exploraiton that you need to collect all those things to continue the story. I just only now collected all amy tokens after 3 days! they should had made it only action not add exploration to it for no reason!
@@Frogadier_00 sonic team is finally improving on stuff that didn't do well in forces and i'm really happy about it
But what i was MORE excited about was the story, man did it deliver, yeah it wasn't anything too mind-blowing (sadly no new super form, big oof) but i was SO happy with the characters' interactions!! And tails finally acknowledging his inconstancy as a Character (like a normal person would) got me really happy!
There's endless better games out there so there won't be a shortage of fun anytime soon, brother😅👍
Good man making a whole video clarifying what you misjudged, most people would just ignore it. I get that you were super skeptical but I’m glad you enjoyed the game, it’s good to see sonic fans genuinely having fun with a sonic game again.
The fact that Iizuka seemingly had to BEG for the game get one more year of development. Have they forgotten 06?
I'm sure they haven't but I wish the internet would. It's been almost 20 years now 🥱
what i dont like is the exploraiton that you need to collect all those things to continue the story. I just only now collected all amy tokens after 3 days! they should had made it only action not add exploration to it for no reason!
@@shredderorokusaki3013
That's... The whole point of the game. Exploration bruh
It seems to me like Sonic team has changed a lot since 2006 but SEGA didn't. It's really SEGA who should be hated on not Sonic team.
Hopefully after this games general success they can give Sonic Team more than 60 people to work on Fron2iers. If this game had double or even triple the man power, things get done that much faster, which means more time for polish and more content to be added
The EDM is fire. I think the EDM and more NuMetal tracks we got in this game feels like a perfect successor to the old rock tracks we got in the 90s and early 2000s
I give it an 8/10. It was so damn good. You can feel they put their heart in this game. Though my mark could improve if they correct some bugs related to rolling and dropdash. Indeed, sometimes momentum of dropdash rolling stops in the process while it should continue.
I give frontiers a very lenient 7.5/10. just wish there were more stimulating enemies and level design with less automation. That being said frontiers has a solid foundation and hopefully the next title is a step up.
I feel that there is a great variety of enemies with different designs and attacks, much much better than previous games where you just boost through or homing attack.
I give it an 8 had so much fun. Fingers crossed for the future! Fr tho we are lucky as hell really thinking about it. That man had to beg to have this delayed. I really want to see what they would do without Sega down their throats like that 😭 they showed they are capable of something still. They just need to continue to go up from here. Hopefully they do
Tbh I think a lot of people have been saying this, that Sega is the only thing holding Sonic team back.
@@StarzNight9817 the weird thing is I don’t know why they do it because they give all their other teams that work on games like yakuza and Persona the time they need. And they’re perfectly fine with sonic team putting out a product that was clearly not finished.
there will always be rushes when you let in investors /shareholders who only care about their returns.
Frontiers is like this. Yes, you could pull the chicken out the oven now and it will be edible, but It could do with being left in the oven for just a bit longer.
It took me 28 hours to 100% all 5 islands, all achievements on steam completed, maxed out all stats, all egg memos collected and all fish types too, cyberspace stages missions completed. The length was good 👍 I can see why people are saying game time was like 10 hours or 13 but I feel like they didn't try to enjoy most of what the game has got to offer, they just rushed through.
I don't think it's rushing but If you take out all the extra padding to 100% each Island. Then realistically this game is about 10-13 hours.
Most of the challenges are just the same things you already did and not even at a harder difficulty. Like that one challenge where a ball appears in the sky and you just have to touch it. Or the constant parry challenges, where you just hold the trigger buttons and wait.
@@AizakkuAnalysis This is basically how I describe Mario Odyssey.
I don't think Chaos Island's focus on 2D was the result of a compromise for the length. To me it was a clear design choice that they went with and made it the 2D island to have it feel different than the others. Don't get me wrong disliking the 2D is completely fine I get it
11:50 Ouranos definitely has the best cyberspace stages
That was the island where I did the least cyberspace lmao, fishing was OP over there
That city stage that starts like speed highway was generations level
@@premydaremy should go back to them at some point, some of the stages are fully original and feel more enjoyable to play because it was actually designed around the games control like 4-3, 4-4, or 4-2
and 8/9 stages are 3d stages
@@KnucklesWTD a lot of them have generations level design
I'm proud of you Prem; it takes a big man to be willing to admit when he is wrong.
On a more serious note though, I have been putting in hours in the frontiers, although I haven't beaten it yet (don't ask me why), I can safely say that as long as Sonic team decides to properly build upon Frontiers' foundation in the right way, the next decade is looking pretty good for our Blue blur
Yeah I was never expecting Frontiers to be a 10/10 or anything, since this is a very experimental game.
I was excited to see the direction the series is looking to follow AFTER this game & I can just say if they don't follow Frontiers formula & keep going back to the old shit again, I'm gonna try & start a movement to free Sonic from Sega's grips because that company is the literal only reason Sonic games have been bad since 06.
@@CaptainCFalcon imagine what Sonic would look like in the hands of capable companies like Nintendo, as long as Nintendo doesn't do us dirty by finishing Sonic to the shadow realm.
As I type this, I now want a Sonic game made by Sakurai (yes I know Nintendo doesn't own him)
i kinda love this game, but even then i'm not blind to the flaws it has, i just hope they don't scrap the ideas here..
i'd love to see the next game not re-use the same level themes for umpteenth time and have the other characters playable again.
Easily the best review of the game. I guess the main problem I had with the game is how all the platforms and rails felt really out of place, compared to the environment. I also didn't like how many dash pads there were, that I'd sometimes accidentally run into just for me to be locked out of control for a few moments to go somewhere I didn't want to go to. Or worst yet, being forced into 2D platforming when I didn't want to do that at that time.
Also Prem, you should totally make a video about Heroes' controls. More people need to acknowledge the goat.
All Original stages/islands
No 2D
Multiple playable characters
Momentum Physics/Adventure control
Fix stiffness in animations
Quality of life additions
As a VGM nerd, I have to say that the OST in this game is absolute fire. Definitely a top 3 Sonic game OST.
I put 20 hours into this game I have fully completed it, and still can't help but put it at 3 or 4/10. I wanted to like this game, and I had fun for the first island, kinda samey at the second, the third was the worst because of the 2d, 4th I wasn't impressed because of the lack of everything just ubisoft towers, and the 5th felt too heavy on progression walls.
I feel like I was let down, to be honest I feel like I got a bad copy of the game somehow.
I just hope this makes Sega realize they need to get off Sonic Team's ass (enough with the useless meddling) .
And give them the budgets they deserve again.
And while my problems with Frontiers remains the same, I will admit I was wrong about Kishimoto.
I wish him the best on his next game.
will say this .. there are no invinstabilty frames when you get hit so when you get hit twice in a row before you even can stand you are dead
If anything sonic frontiers exposed how reviewers play the game for 1 hour and then go pump out a review LMAO which I knew all along.
I would watch a video on why Sonic Heroes controls really well
Chaos island was probably the hardest island for me I was trying to get to the center of the island for the chaos emerald
That Cyberspace was Good 😢
Yeah honestly after playing it I didn’t hate the idea of them reusing the level design because of the different controls. It made them feel fresh and speedrunning them is pretty fun
there is no cyberspace that is good.
It’s fun as hell, even with the Reused layouts the New controls and somewhat altered level design make it Great in my opinion, 2D control is kinda ass tho no matter how much you get used to it.
I actually do quite like most of the levels, I just don't like the reuse, the controls, and the homing attack.
The controls were the only thing I genuinely disliked to be honest
I’m probably going to wait for sale.
ngl wdym by "grandiose" because kronos was one of the smallest islands if im not mistaken, both ares and chaos are considerably larger
I avoided eggmans memos till I beat the game and wow it was twist in there but I did call the obvious body nod and connected the dots before it was hinted
Probably the one thing I wasn't sure about regarding Eggman in this game (spoilers ahead for those who haven't completed the story) was that despite having teamed up with Sonic and co on numerous occasions, this time around, he seems more negligent in doing so. He's teamed up with Sonic in several games, even willingly, but again, he's being very negligent to cooperate with Sonic in Frontiers, even when he knows damn well that it's his only viable option. Idk this just felt weird to me.
Man this is a good game
Actually if you wanted an idea for how Rhea could have been or a missed opportunity for one of the islands to have, just make an island in Cyber Space, maybe portals that lead out into the physical world as a sort of inverse of how the other areas are.
Your idea is incredible, so sad that we couldn't get something else to go with it.
i was hoping we'd get a SNOW island, IMAGINE HOW COOL THAT WOULD'VE BEEN
@@AltKaxREAL Ya, I would have liked a frozen island too.
Something I was wrong about was I thought Rhea island was kronos post content when you beat the titan…
At the moment I’m about 19 hours into Frontiers and on the 4th island (mainly because I went in with the intention of 100% right off the bat) and I’ve gotta say, Prem’s thoughts on Frontiers is exactly how I feel about the game too.
I’d rank Frontiers (in turns of the boost games) like this:
1. Unleashed
2. Generations
3. Colors
4. Frontiers
5. Forces
Now the only reason Colors is above Frontiers is because I recently started 100%ing it and I found myself really enjoying it. I use to be a big hater of Colors not too long ago because of how much I hate the story and characterization of Sonic and Tails but I tend to just ignore that part now.
Now for my Ranking for Frontiers in terms of Mainline games it goes like this, keep in mind I haven’t played through Heroes, Shadow (yes I consider Shadow mainline), Generations, S3&K and Unleashed (although I may not have played through them yet, I have watched playthroughs).:
1. Unleashed
2. Adventure 2
3. S3&K
4. Adventure
5. Generations
6. Heroes
7. Sonic 2
8. Colors
9. Frontiers
10. 06
11. Sonic 1
12. Lost World
13. Forces
14. Shadow
Shadow is the new unleashed, basically I am saying it’s so underrated and a lot better then most people act like it is. Yeah he uses guns and says Damn a lot but it plays like the adventure games and the guns work for the most part. The missions do vary and you do have to play the game 10 times to unlock the final ending but it’s no more than 2-3 hours a playthough and you can pick and swap what levels you do, so it’s really not that bad, better then 06 for sure.
I consider it a 7/10, but I loved it like a 10/10
Yo, didn't expect to to see you here
Actually do please make a video explaining why you like the heroes controls. I would pay to see that.
I'll give it a 9 or an 8, the game was really fun to be honest and I enjoyed the voice acting to be honest. I feel like you're being a extremely picky on the voice acting and this is coming from someone that isn't a fan of Rogue as Sonic outside of Sonic Boom
As much as they could've abused a snow island and like a beach island it wouldn't fit the theme of the game. Nothing is wrong with chaos one of the cutscenes shows it getting basically being broken apart so it being multiple islands basically floating matches its theme imo. As for the Rhea and Ouranos island fiasco thinking about real life humanity i dont put it past them to reuse the islands design beacause; when an continent breaks apart from a state or country would you give it, its own name or would you reuse the old name classic human logic they would rename it. As there is probably an explanation why they reused the design and music i will go on a limb and say (for my own sanity) that the last two islands were apart of kronos and they just broke off and became their own island overtime because pretty sure the story of the "rocks" in sonic frontiers is years maybe more have passed so the islands could've just broken off overtime due to the abuse of the area. Imo. But hey, thats just a theory, A GAME THEORY!
Took me like 8 months to actually commit to beating this game. I don’t understand how someone can commit to this game and beat it in 3 days. Didn’t you ever get bored?
I’ll wait till the game goes on sale it’s not worth $70
Smart move. Definitely isn't worth it. Watch J Reviews. You'll see why.
Random quotes out of context:
Spectacle but no substance
It has a foundation, but now comes will they stick to it for the next game or toss it out for something else because trend following? Honestly, just waiting for another 5 years for potentially another stinker due to corporate management…I don’t know if I can stomach that. For once, you just want this company to prove you completely wrong…just once.
Agreed.
They are in a right direction, but they need to do something that blows everyone's minds. They can make a long game and throw in a bunch of end game content that adds to the replay value. Instead of being a game I play and finished, I want to it to be a game that I play and look forward to revisiting over and over again. Sonic Adventure 2 did it with 2-player versus, karts, missions with Ranks that reward you if you complete them all and the chao garden with a lot of other things in that already. Even though it wasn't that long, the stages didn't take 1 minute or 2 to complete if you were playing normally. But I'm happy they made obstacles that Sonic with emeralds would find impossible to beat. Now they need to find a way to deliver it again but keeping the energy going up instead of down towards the end of the story.
Personally, all islands are good but u can definitely see quality drop beyond the second island
Chaos has too much 2d, rhea is actually really good but its environment is just Kronos 2.0, and Ouranosaurus would've fine if rhea didn't also have the same environment as Kronos
If chaos was less 2d focused and rhea was like a snow/ice island, i would've definitely liked the game more
Story wasn't bad its good but nothing great either, not mad or disappointed, its still good, just definitely was expecting more from Ian specially because of metal virus
Kishimoto was right. Took me 25hrs to beat if you're aiming aiming for 100% or platinum
Kishimoto said 40-60 hours to 100%.
I cant lie, I’m glad this game isn’t perfect. If sonic team made a 10/10 game, we’d probably be expecting 10/10 games or 9/10 games for the next 10 years of sonic games that has the open zone gameplay, as I think Izuka or kishimoto said they want to use this gameplay style for sonics future games, this hopefully means sonic team will learn their mistakes with this game and improve upon the next game
Because the fact that they tried to do something different, and can say they have a new genre type for open world design- its not peak but it surely fricken works- its a solid 9 outta 10. There plenty you can skip, there plenty of favorite type of content you can find here, overall you'll have a good time even if the jank gets in the way of a consistent time.
It's definitely the best open zone game ever made ;")
But it's the only- *gets shot*
what i dont like is the exploraiton that you need to collect all those things to continue the story. I just only now collected all amy tokens after 3 days! they should had made it only action not add exploration to it for no reason!
@@lpfan4491 what i dont like is the exploraiton that you need to collect all those things to continue the story. I just only now collected all amy tokens after 3 days! they should had made it only action not add exploration to it for no reason!
@@shredderorokusaki3013 that's kinda what open world games do my dude lol
@@tarrencerichard8196 I DID IT YESTERDAY. i FISHED MORE THAN 200 fishres and then bought all the amy tokens! Fishing is the eaiser way as they say because finding them while exploring thei land and killing enemies takes longer. i fished for more than 1 hour and got plenty of tokens that i then sued them to buy lot of amy tokens!
Is it really short??? How did everyone beat it so fast
I wouldn't say short. But more so the difficulty isn't that much even on Hard. What made it seemingly easy was the fact that you can increase Sonic's attack which let's him be able to clap most things he encounters in 1 hit or a single combo. That and there's the fact that Sonic can continously use his special skills, and get infinite rings. One thing that made it extremely easy for me is the fact that you can literally hold "parry" and Sonic will automatically deflect an attack no matter how long you hold it for. The challenges aren't even challenges because Sonic already moves fast enough to reach most obstacles. But honestly, the only games I can recall that was actually long was Unleashed.
Everyone hasn’t beat it. Only 8% of players beat 5th island so far
I finished the game in 14 hours.. about 60%,69%,70%,100% and 60%.. Now i have been trying to complete the platinum trophy.. i Did all the maps on 100% and im about 84% Of my Sonic frontiers thing.. my play time is 20hrs and i only now need 50 times Combo rush and Some other stuff..
I'm sorry but Adventure 1 - Heros voice acting is on par with most early 2000 dubs, they aren't that good mainly because they weren't given legitimate scrips but still, I'd take Frontiers 100% over those 3 games no matter how charming they are either way good seudo review
I got 27 hrs but I 100% everything including the fishing on each island
I didn't underestimate the game at all, I feel like a lot of people can have redemption which was the game sonic frontiers from the controversial game sonic forces
Frontiers is like a 7.5 for me. Reusing the first island was a big hit and cyberspace drags it back from a 9. Combat is interesting. sometimes buggy but it still exceeds the werehog idc.
ive now completed frontiers yesterday and i can say is that i wish the game was shorter but with alot more refind polish and better thought out level design, 1. after areas island the game becomes a 2d obsicale course rather than a open world sandbox and it kinda ruins the fun after a while and 2. yet again the final boss fight is a massive dissapointment, so id recomend skipping the hard mode ver, frontiers is not a bad game at all, heck its a very great game but id definatley overhyped it and i shouldve been more skeptical going into it cause it would be better in the future to make a shorter game but with more expansive less worlds than just 2 that are great but 3 that are bland and overused. (7.5/10)
We need new game plus in a patch
Should do a video on Lunistice
Wow nice honest review 7 seems to be the average does it live up to the hype ?????????
I would have been happy if cyberspace was only 2d
Open world only 3d
I preferred that set up in either space
2d open world felt weird
And 3d cyberspace felt worse because of the control jank
I think the game is 7-8. still haven't decided. I only just beat the game. I played it on switch and I'll probably 100 percent on pc. I just hope we don't have to wait another 5 fucking years for the next game. bro I'll be done with school by then. at the very least give us dlc. I want 3 dlc islands for each of the characters
Cyberspace being a third of the game was a huge cap too
Secret Rings takes the cake for worst control, literally no arguments lol
Nah the game has pufferfish so 10/10 best sonic game ever. Only thing I want now is a Chao garden.
I'm not gonna say i hated it, but i didnt have a lot of fun. Many many things bothered me throughout the whole game. I honestly give it a 6 just because it was the best we got in the past 10 years but i dont see why people give this game high ratings just because they had low expectations lol doesn't make sense to me
No sonic game will ever be like adventure 2 again
No way he said "frontiers 2"
NOT EVERY GAME NEEDS A SEQUEL. People assume we will get a sequel without any evidence as soon as the first comes out. It's not like we have a mario odyssey 2.
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Feels like a demo/template for a future game. Idk what’s up with the open world experiment for the future trend but it’s getting old.
So after just beating the game today at about 17 hours, I'd have to give it an 7.5- 8 out of 10. The final boss really made me upset because...yeah you already know. There was the monologue which was freaking awesome, but yeah...
I found the combat to be very fun, along with the open world. Cyberspace should've kept the open world physics and had more than 4 environments. Honestly I would've rated it higher but that final boss is just so... ugh. Why did we have to play as sage in the titan spamming lb and rb instead of super sonic or a new super form of sonic while beating the shit out of a cosmic deity, backed by crush 40 belting out live and learn lol.
The story I thought was really good I told myself I would be satisfied if it's better than the meta era and it it far better than the 2010 Sonic stories just one thing Amy says at the end of the game she references two characters one that makes sense and the other makes no sense at all that made me bring the story down to a 8 or a out of 10 just for the story alone that's what I would give it just cause of that one terrible line really Amy you mention a character from Sonic boom that makes no sense. The voice acting I thought they all did a great job especially the main character cast sounds much better than the 2010 Sonic games.
I was wrong about getting the game day one
I like Sonic Frontiers
Eh. Its okay. I usually only care for lore rather than gameplay. Its definitely fun. Loved the boss fights. I'd put this in my top 5.
Only thing I dislike.. Was the too many references.
Is it worth buying?
I feel like through the months leading to frontiers release, you consistently had the most realistic expectations and the most valid criticism, you were the hype check guy for me, and your opinions on the game perfectly matched mine in most ocasions. Like the platforming, you were wrong about that, but it wasnt really your fault since the trailers literally showed nothing remotely interesting in terms of platforming, the open world becoming boring after a while, thats something i also thought could happen, since i didnt see how this repetitive use of grind rails could hold up for 20 hours, the cyberspace being reused, etc.
Im so glad the game turned out great and i havent played it yet but im so escited to do so.
However, the act of silencing reasonable criticism exerced by the community, going as far as harrasing content creators for criticising sega shenagigans shouldnt be forgotten, this type of behavior is ridiculous and i hope this changes when frontiers 2 comes around.
As always thanks for the content premy and yeah next sonic game is sonic heroes 2 fingers crossed, goddamit i want that sequel so much
Kronos - favourite island
Ares - favourite boss fight
Chaos - favourite boss theme
Rhea - uh...favourite platforming?
Ouranos - favourite background music (the first half of Ouranos anyway. For some god forsaken reason the island starts playing music from Kronos during the second half)
uh... favourite bgm?
I haven’t played ouranos yet but isn’t the music the same as Kronos?
@@oreogod1985 no
@@GTSW1FT It is?
Ouranos and Kronos cycle the same songs
@@oreogod1985 It is, I have played the game and the music identical.
This game is awesome imo
Best 3D Sonic game in years
Edit: Look I know for a decade we got games like Forces, Lost World, and Boom but before that we mostly had some banger 3D games, so it's good to see we have another one after so long. 💀
The only good 3D Sonic game in years
Let's be honest, that's not exactly a high bar to clear...
@@sezunemizuhana3870
Considering that the other two mainline games that came out in the last decade were Lost World and Forces, yes the bar is extremely low 😂
I agree. to me it is almost at adventure series quality. just needed more polish at the end, I hated the 2D segments.
@@sezunemizuhana3870 Yeah, still waiting for Colors and generations to be surpassed.
I gotta say, once you start abusing Rail Physics, the Open Zone just gets leagues more fun to traverse in vanilla. Sonic can freaking *fly* if you boost and Jump at the right angle, making collecting the Memory Tokens a lot more quick and fun.
I get so much pleasure from making a risky jump off a rail to fly for a couple miles and adjust Sonic into a Memory Token high up in the sky, into a Boost Ring, or onto another rail that’ll skip a cinematic angle part to save some time and get somewhere faster.
Especially in Ares, there’s this one connector rail you get after solving a small puzzle that can shoot you straight in the air and it helped the collector in me a LOT when it comes to reaching Memory Tokens that seem to have an unclear starting point.
Traversing it at first may have been fine enough for doing the story, but once you start trying to go for 100% on the Islands and discover how to abuse the Rail physics, man, the game just feels perfect. I know the Physics mod exists and honestly prefer it for the Cyberspace levels but, for the Open Zone, I might just prefer the racking my brain to try and figure out how I can use the rails to get some serious air and maneuver Sonic to where I want to go.
TL:DR The rail physics make the Open Zone so much more fun once you get a feel for how to use them.
I don't know how you use Rails for that, but if you can find places where the ground completely cuts off so Sonic can't continue walking on it, you can boost & carry all of that momentum in a specific direction & angle.
That giant wall in Ares Island makes a fantastic place to yeet yourself into orbit lol
I liked the cyberspace stages more then I thought I would honestly.
ditto. especially the stages on the last island. more unique level design that wasn't too bad albeit short and 4-2 was my favourite stage on the game
@@jmcfar03 Same, also the music just goes IN! it vibes with me, personally.
Agreed, those last few were honestly the highlight of the game for me
There was one stage that drive me nuts when getting s rank
I found them to be very focused on platforming without sacrificing speed, but also enabling OP shortcuts like in SA1 with boost jumping. I wish this quality would be accompanied with original visuals and layouts.
I personally really think Sonic Frontiers is a solid 8 and 8.5 because Sonic is Back! I really enjoyed the open world and everything it had to offer! I enjoyed the combat the environment I enjoyed a little bit of cyberspace it could be better but as is I enjoyed it. The super sonic boss really had me hyped everytime I had a super sonic boss it reminds when I'm fighting perfect dark gaia to me is the best super sonic boss fight of all time.
But I enjoyed the mini games The story and everything really.
I do wished the Cutscenes were CGI cuz it make everything Crisp.
Overall 8.5/10
Easily the best sonic game in 11 years
Thank You Sega! And ur review Prem
I really enjoyed sonic frontiers its a shame that the game ran out of steam after the 3rd island, the good stuff in this game are the best things in the sonic series in general, overall an 8/10 game, I'm looking forward what they do to the new formula
And I'm ready to see what the modders can do with the open zones themselves
I liked the 4th and 5th islands
Ironically, I think Ouranos is the best island. And that is why it sucks that they couldn't give it a unique audio-visual theme or an actual place in the plot.(Like, it literally doesn't exist in the lore. Eggman says there are only 3 islands and the cast never even acknoledges why they are suddenly on this new landmass, they just teleport there the moment they start searching the emeralds, lmao)
@@lpfan4491 I agree with everything you just said lmao
Eh... saying the highs in Frontiers are the best thing in the entire series feels like a gross overexageration. It's got some solid ideas, but the execution would've benefitted from more polish all around (from presention, to sound design, to Cyberspace, etc.)
Takes a Big man to Admit he’s wrong, takes a bigger man to make a whole video on it.
Hi Big
what i dont like is the exploraiton that you need to collect all those things to continue the story. I just only now collected all amy tokens after 3 days! they should had made it only action not add exploration to it for no reason!
@@shredderorokusaki3013 bro I think you just suck at the game, I got all the Amy tokens on my first day
@@Terminal_Apotos I DID IT YESTERDAY. i FISHED MORE THAN 200 fishres and then bought all the amy tokens! Fishing is the eaiser way as they say because finding them while exploring thei land and killing enemies takes longer. i fished for more than 1 hour and got plenty of tokens that i then sued them to buy lot of amy tokens!
@@shredderorokusaki3013 you did not have to fish at all that early bruh, or for that long (would not have taken any longer than 5 minutes to get enough for the whole island if you REALLY needed to)
Started watching you a year and half ago and it’s been such a ride with you leading up to this game! I appreciate your honesty and jokes and often find myself cackling like in this video 😂🤣
12:18 I mean, Ohtani's tracks are not all that bad, especially considering he also composed the Super Sonic boss tracks too
The game needs patches, its just a bit too unpolished. I also kinda've wished the game had a bit more combat options.
I give it a 9/10 because holy shit, this game blew my mind. My expectations were very low at first but now, oh my god I’m in love with this game. This is my second favorite sonic game. Good job team, sonic is back
I love how they ported over Sky Rail and it’s even slower than SA2.
I got a hot take: I don’t normally like 2D sections in my 3D Sonic games, but I really liked Chaos Island’s 2D platforming challenges. I was not expecting it to be anything crazy after the 5th straight booster pad took me into 2D, but I thought it was actually pretty good. Not better than the first 2 islands, but nowhere near as bad as Colors Act 4.
I don't normally like 2D in 3D either tbh and it's the reason why I didn't like chaos island, because everytime you're trying to go somewhere there's a high chance you might get thrown into a 2D by a stray boost pad or something and some of them you can't really back out
I agree with your Points, but I feel like sega should completely leave the forces type sonic because although frontiers is different from forces sonic it's too similar and I would like some all new physics
Yeah, Frontiers is a 7/10. Some definite highs like the open world and the boss fights, but some pretty bad low points too such as cyberspace being extremely recycled for the most part and the final boss being pretty bad. Overall, fun game that could be improved upon with a sequel.
My favorite part of the game was eggman being a dad hands down
I'm curious to see if sage will ACTUALLY be brought back in future games (i really hope she will)
It actually took me 18 and a half hours to beat the game, and I've playing Sonic games for almost 20 years.
Did it take 18 hours to beat the story or 100%
@@jalengholson8595 The story
It’s a shame we couldn’t get prem to 70k before frontiers came out 😔
I agree with what most of what you said. It's a 7/10 Sonic game for me. It's good, but it could've been better.
So many little issues really irked me. I did all of the Cyberspace Stages and did all missions... even when I got the hang of the "physics" it was still not fun for me. I hated how janky and heavy he felt. Also, using an Air Boost then hitting a spring and NOT have another Air Boost to chain movement sucked so bad. And confused me a number of times.
I love the boss fights in the game... sans the Final Boss as phase 1 and 2 were so disjointed and let me wondering "why?".
Music is great as always. For the most part.
Sonic controls pretty great in the open world, but I REALLY disliked Chaos Island for the number of 2D sections and how to get around the islands. I thought you had to use the Metal Birds enemies to fly over to the next spot. You can, but that's not the "right" way to do. Much to my frustration even though I found an alternative way. Well the islands are beautiful they're not as memorable or eye-catching like past Sonic levels from the Adventure Era like Metal Harbor, the Frog Forest from Heroes, Shadow with the Digital Computer realm, just to name a few.
I can't see myself doing multiple playthroughs. How long it takes to level up Sonic's Speed and Ring level is ridiculous, unskippable cutscenes, no way to refight the Titans without doing a New Game, nothing to do Post-Game, and overall not that much content. The story is really fine too, I love they're exploring the origins of the Emeralds while also adding more mysteries to them. It's just too much work just to get to the more fun elements of Frontiers.
Perhaps it's because I played Sonic Adventure 2 Battle on the PC with mods before I played Frontiers on PS4 Pro (I'm not getting the PC version because of DRM), but I had MORE fun playing SA2B than Frontiers even though I really enjoyed Frontiers. Just playing as the other characters besides Sonic, the Chao Garden, the Speed Stages of Sonic and Shadow.
And I agree with you... I love Sonic Heroes and I don't mind the slippery physics at time. I might have to find a way to play Heroes on PC now. Was that ever released on Steam?
I do NOT like Amy's voice direction AT ALL, shit sounds really bad
I honestly thought chaos island was the most fun to explore. Figuring out how to get around felt adventurous, and the 2D sections never botherd me. I spent the most time on chaos island too. But I can see how some people could come to dislike chaos island.
Chaos island is a bitch to 100% map tho. I'm trying to get to this one mini island for the last challenge but having the hardest time 😭
@@tarrencerichard8196 I got the map to 100% but yeah a few of the islands were a pain to figure out. The one that the robot blows open the underground entrance to in particular I spent a LONG time trying to figure out how to get there before doing the Tails event. I actually flew on one of the flying robots that let you get on top of it over to the island and ran up the side of the cliff to get there out of order before hacking the robot because that was the only way I could figure out that let me get there lol.
@@hsiang7 for real. It's wack that they expected me to find the Blue Chaos Emerald FIRST on Chaos Island, cause after I got the Yellow Emerald I got teleported next to the Blue Emerald that was STILL ACTIVE in the cutscene where Sage uses the Knight lol.
Of course right now we're all taking in the new game, but I unironically look forward to the point 2-3 years from now when we're back in a drought and constantly discussing leaks lmao.
A sequel will be out by then
Here’s the thing, I’m a big sonic fan and pretty decent at gaming, but I’ve already put 14 hours in and am halfway through the second island because I’m basically 100%ing as I go. Don’t appreciate you saying playing 30 hours is for people who “suck at video games”
you want me to rush through snd not experience the game?
I’d say I’ll easily put 45 hours in, and I just beat SA2 for the first time on GameCube which took like 50 hours clocked? You gotta realize sometimes people step away while on pause, running the playtime up.
Kishimoto said 20-30 hours to beat MAIN game and 40-60 hours to 100%. What you're referring to has nothing to do with what I said.
If you leave the game running while playing it then that has nothing to do with anything lol.
@@premydaremy took me 28 hours to 100% with all achievements
Overall I enjoyed the game but I can think of a few improvements such as level music, certain story/character bits (overall it’s good/fine but it’s not perfect and there are some things I would change), level themes, final boss, and how certain levels are done but it’s overall very good I agree
I do like all the references to past games and character interactions like that.
I wish the the levels had more platforming built into the ground and had them be longer and I wish the level themes had more to them.
I didn’t find chaos noticeably worse myself
But yeah while not perfect overall it’s still good and I’m looking forward to see what they can do with this style of sonic game going forward
I love this game but I CAN'T STAND the pop-in, it's really unbearable in my opinion
Unlike switch force, my man prem genuinely apologizes for the REAL mistakes he's made. Prem is true from the heart.
I wouldn't call them mistakes tbh, just predictions that didn't go the way I thought they would. This video is a reflection of that.
@@premydaremy my bad homie
Eggman doesn't alot in this story, but gotta love how they took the time to humanize him in a way the games haven't really tried to do before, maybe minus the credits in SA2 with him talking about looking up to his grandfather.
Yeah, Eggman’s dialogue and overall presence was pretty terrible, but his relationship with SAGE was the best thing to come out of this game. Sage in general was MVP (she rescued this story, honestly).
Have you heard the eggman memos?
THANK YOU for calling out that EDM from Ohtani lmao.
Most of it just isn't it for me, oh well.
This game is alright but could be better, it could really use a Boss Rush Mode since the Titan Fights are so epic, Combat Rankings like Devil May Cry and Metal Gear Rising on how many hits and combos you can pull off, Leveling Up Speed and Ring Capacity faster in large amounts instead of just one at a time it’s so slow and tedious, and of course what Prem stresses the most, Cutscene Skipping, Sonic Team should play Kingdom Hearts and add skipping cutscene from it. Speedrunners are not gonna like not being able to skip them.