The big debate is how much player expression is actually realistic. People wanted Sonic CD’s intro in terms of traversal but Sega thinks it’s impossible without springs, rails and boost pads etc automating everything.
The pop-in is actually a nod to sonic moving faster than the speed of light, so the objects don't actually show up in his cornea until he runs headfirst into them. Bravo Sega
@@angeihd no it sucks, even slowest sonic should be able tu run circles around seagull... Game just sucks that's all there is to it. In fact using wildlife to show how fast so i is would be grate idea to show the difference but that would require at least one of the devs to finish basic game design tutorial.
@@dopeville2009 You're saying the user scores were paid for? That would be the biggest waste of money and anyone can add to them. No publication goes by user scores for accolades.
@@widerekxxanimations6842 lmao game looks great no lie. it’s gonna be game of the year for serious and for joke. i’m sure it’ll get some updates but some of the jank is classic 3D sonic
@@bluefin844 The Sonic community is used to being fed shit. So, calling this $60 rip off that's worse than early ps2 games "great" means nothing coming from you
When the trailer came out the first thing I thought was, "oh god it's another "open world game", the next was " this looks like some messed around in the Unity engine for a couple of hours"
the part where sonic hit his head on the rock then sorta just slid down onto the ground was an astonishing level of animation that even the animators of bookworm adventures struggle to recreate. a true masterpiece.
Its not open world. Also he's attempting to leave the tutorial area early. BOTW also doesn't let you leave the plateau without learning the mechanics first. The second instance of him being walled off is him attempting to enter the end game boss arena early, which is ultimately an invisible dome you can run around. It isn't blocking his access to the waypoint marker.
I saw a thread of people happy about sonic mania 2 being cancelled and excited for more 3d sonic games. So that means we won't get any good sonic games until it goes back to 2D
When you're faster than the speed of light, you can only live in darkness. I guess the team really believed that, and wanted players to feel that speed
@@bb3k761 I'll respect your opinion, but I happened to like the game quite a lot. By no means was it perfect, but I don't think it deserves any hate. It's ok if you didn't have as much fun with it as I did.
@@bb3k761 Bruh what, how is BotW not revolutionary? It set the standards for Open World games, and many games even copied its open world formula, even Elden Ring.
not really though, the controls are pretty tight, and I really like the direction - I see a lotttttt of positives in this game and hope they keep going in this direction for the next one
Dunkey yelling “I played KNACKKK!!!” at 4:28 is one of the greatest Dunkey moments of all time. Honestly that whole super sonic segment killed me. Please attend my funeral, no regrets.
@@Nu63 it's because people in the Sonic community are super hyped about this game (I beat it day 3 after launch) Is it perfect? No, but it's the best Sonic game since Sonic Adventure 2, and the style and humor haven't really aged well in there for once characters have personality and some kind of story, it's a good foundation. A lot of people, including me, are hyping up this game way more then needs be because of the quality of this one compared to erm... Sonic Forces which is hands down the worst entry ever made in the series
@@booker8316 Yes, people understand that it's "the best Sonic game in ages." The humour comes from the fact Sonic fans have reached such exceptionally low standards that they praise complete mediocrity. I say as someone who was very much a Sonic fan until I just accepted over the decades that giving them any money is a misallocation of resources, even when they manage to create something average.
My favourite part was when Sonic said "Don't drink the water. They put something in it, to make you forget. I don't even remember how I got here" classic Sonic
The user reviews are nothing but little babies whining about the Dark Souls-style gameplay and minimalist storytelling. I never thought we'd get to the day when user reviews are even worse than the critical consensus, but here we are.
@@Los499 the honeymoon phase is over dude, how are you still dickriding elden ring? the game isnt that great, its a bloated mess that compromised on fromsoft's design philosophy. actually one of their worst games to date. its a 7/10 on a *good* day.
@@Los499 Yeah every review is some combination of "Empty world" (There's literally something crammed into every nook and cranny in the game, I assume they wanted like a hub city or something?) "No story" (The story is there but it's not in your face because it's not the point) "Boss rush and too difficult" (What did you think it was going to be? It's FromSoftware and it's the most accessible title they've ever released.) Hopefully it wins GotY so I can get some sanity back.
The reason this game has so much pop in is because none of these new systems have blast processing like the genesis did. If Sega released this on the Genesis, it'd be a 10/10.
True words. Only the Genesis could process no pop in, that's why Sonic 3 has good graphics, gameplay, and most importantly, momentum, a thing that could not be replicated in modern hardware.
@@GUNUFofficial Sonic as a "game" is an afterthought. The entire sad state of the series comes down to the fact that since 2005 he's essentially been the fluffy lovable mascot of a company who mainly pulls sales from people gambling at pachinko machines.
Say what you want about sonic frontiers but when sonic looked into the horizon and said "There's a lot of frontiers here" I shed a single tear from my eye, thank you Sonic Team.
I don't think anyone else on the internet can break Dunkey's monopoly on the gag of "babbling frantically while trying to cacth up to what is happening, drowned out under the noise of tremendous chaos." Flawless execution, every time.
Thank you so much for this incredible video, Santa Claus, and for introducing me to Dunkey's Castle which is truly the world's first open-zone store. I was delighted to discover that the store's international shipping policy even contained strand-type elements.
@@The_Jovian give it till the end of the month and we’ll all hate frontiers and order will be restored to the universe. sonic games can’t be good anymore
Maybe BOTW just ain't that gr8 (it's amazing but mostly on the first few playthroughs) . And while odyssey is great too, it also has its moments of repetition where some moons just either don't add anything or are just not fun to get.
I love how studios are taking that leap of faith like Shenmue did and are now making their games in Dreams. Truly pushing the frontiers of game development.
@@codskilclanchannel6420 People in the YT comments are the type of people who would look up a recipe, see that it has more than 3 steps, and be like "I ain't reading all that"
I swear, the environment looks like someone was playing around in Unreal and made their own fan game. Just a couple retouches on the awkwardly plastered terrain, level it out so players don't get stuck, and retouch the spaz on some of the bosses, and maybe you can show it to the sonic team! Oh, oh wait...
I can appreciate this video much more now that I played and finished the game myself, since I realize I didn't have nearly as much of an awful time with it as Dunkey did.
@@rowleyryan9025 yea in the like, 2 pieces of dialogue shown in the video compared to the entire rest of the game where he talks like a normal person, bit of an unfair statement
Honestly, it just seems to me that the sonic fandom has been betrayed and abused so much and so often that they'd naturally latch on to any game that'd be passable by other franchise standards.
It's first thing I do, if you get invisible wall you know game sucks. If it's open world game a d areas are locked behind invisible wall or story progression and not behind op enemies it sucks. It takes like 5minutes of dicking around in open world to know if game is any good or not.
Please form your own opinions, dunkey is a funny guy but he's also a human and humans have opinions, you don't have to agree on everything that dunkey says
@@dangerousdoings8066 it’s sarcasm, look at my channel guy. Quite capable of thinking for myself. Learn to read people before putting them down and telling them to change.. now change and grow as a person please.
The game has so many callbacks to previous games in the series; Sonic tripping on a rock and faceplanting into the dirt is a reference to the Mach Speed sections of Sonic 06.
@@lordqwertythepyromancer3458 Was more so referring to the fact that you copied everything including the channel name, subscriber count and subscribe button
@@banditosdoritos Oh! Yeah I did that just to show that I didn't just pull a random number out of a hat, and that you can pull that same data quite easily.
It looks like a tech demo, and I've seen people talking smack on Sonic Utopia for having an empty world even though it's a fan made game and feels better than anything sonic team have put out in years. People will go to any length to defend their sacred cow
It's a shame folks misunderstood your intentions here and went to review bomb the game on Metacritic. I got caught up in believing you'd called for some review bomb crusade but that's not the case at all. It's clear you still had a lot of fun with Frontiers, it shows in your punchy editing and humour. I'm probably in agreement with most of the criticisms you pointed out, and yet I enjoyed it regardless. Good video.
The thing is, this is a joke video, the "dunkview" thing is nowhere to be seen yet sonic fans and dunkey fans are having a big war because of a video made to entertain lmao
@@MaskedMazterI’m biased cuz I’m a huge Sonic fan but there were tons of things in this game to enjoy. But honestly, I think Frontiers is the best for people who already loved/were familiar with Sonic lol
He used another Sonic team video games music at the very beginning. A Little gem called Billy Hatcher and The Giant egg, which is also critically acclaimed as the greatest game ever made. Which is in fact, indisputable
This game will always confuse me. Cartoony characters dropped into this world with high detail textures. The characters dont fit the environment at all. Who's original idea was this
@@dullblade7320 Sonic Unleashed, Colors, Generations, Forces ALL have cartoon Sonic in realistic enviroments, I do count adventure games too, ' cause If graphics were as advance back then, It would also give the feeling that sonic is a cartoon interacting with the real world. My Point is: Sonic has been like this for a long time, i don't see why complain about this now
@@arthurgoes1994 They looked as realistic as Pixar or Illumination movies. This looks like a mod with Sonic to a game that has nothing to do with Sonic.
You can do that all over the map. There are spots everywhere that can send you flying. The invisible wall has only been noticeable on the first island so far. The rest of the levels are surrounded by water.
I like how the first Island puzzle is fairly complicated with you having to actual sit there and figure out right placement for all of the paths to meet correctly.... just for the second island puzzle to literally just be "put da same color ball in the same color thing, ta da! you did it!" Like wtf???? Lmao.
I was surprised at how they just implemented the light puzzle for it to only come back in one more challenge on a smaller scale and nothing else remotely like the light puzzle from Kronos Island ever came back. And then the third one was pinball
@@TOM-ro7rt Yeah they give you the path but trying to figure out how to align each of the guiding stones is a bit challenging. Sure yeah it's not mind bendingly hard but it's certainly more challenging than "yellow ball goes into yellow holder" lmao.
Sega did something remarkable in this game, they've made an complete open world, and they put borders everywhere if you stray off the main path. Thank you for always bringing something new to the table, Sega
I know dunkey made it look that way in the video for comedic effect, but it's really not like that. i barely ever encounter any invisible walls, and i usually already had enough collectibles to open the locked content straight away
It’s so weird how the actual setting totally doesn’t look like it aesthetically belongs in a sonic game at all. Definitely agree with dunkey making the halo infinite reference at the start.
It's because they looked at BOTW and Odyssey, and thought the reason they worked was because "woah, these classic characters are in unfamiliar worlds!"
@@DengueBurger No, his point is that they did more to make it work because that's just a general idea. A lot of both games fleshed that concept out thoroughly. Frontiers taking that at face value is what he's getting at.
I held off on watching this because I didn't want spoilers. Having beaten the game and finally watching this video I have to ask...why were people so mad at this video?!? It was hilarious!
because he is clearly overly judgemental about everything in the game, almost makes it looks like he has a personal grudge against it and is using comedy to shit on the game
@@shubhuman izzzzz fiiiiine, I still enjoyed the game. Hell, I had the same troubles he had. Without criticism, Sonic wouldn't be what he is today. Besides, while I love Bunkey, it's not like I always 100% agree wif 'im.
I really don't know, I heard numerous accounts of people review bombing the game because of dunkey but I never watched the video to avoid spoilers. Back then I thought to myself "Dunkey isn't the type of guy to ask his fan base to review bomb a game", turns out he wasn't. I guess it was just some people who were butthurt because their favorite game got a lower rating than Sonic.
I think because it kinda beats it a bit too hard even for things it's not directly responsible. I mean it's painted in a light that it's worse than Sonic Forces where it kinda blurs the line between parody and misinformation about a product especially since most people did not encounter some of the problems shown entirely.
Love the part where Sonic glitched between two boulders and had to chew his legs off to escape. It has a little something for everyone.
Average playthrough takes about 127 hours
Can't wait for the deviantart pics.
lmfaoooooooo
That actually might be really easy for him, since his legs are so thin it make him look like a speedy stickman.
127 rings
I nearly cried when Hank said: “Sonic, you’re the fastest person I know, but you’re too slow to catch up to this seagull.”
This is truly when Sonic became slower than the seagull
Sonic: I AM THE SEAGULL!
Read that in Hanks voice
Sonic you seem kinda sus lately
*fastest mario
this game legit feels like a mod for a completely different game where the characters are replaced with Sonic characters
The big debate is how much player expression is actually realistic. People wanted Sonic CD’s intro in terms of traversal but Sega thinks it’s impossible without springs, rails and boost pads etc automating everything.
Kinda falls off towards the later islands.
Breath of the wild
the natural looking environments are never a good match up for Sonic and co., who all look like old school cartoons
It's a Nier Automata mod
More games should have a pop up that tells me that Knuckles is in an unstable state.
amen
One can hope...
I could of really used that pop up in Kingdom Hearts 3.
He needs to know de way, that's why.
The pop-in is actually a nod to sonic moving faster than the speed of light, so the objects don't actually show up in his cornea until he runs headfirst into them. Bravo Sega
Thanks Dice
Sravo Bega
wait if Sonic's moving faster than the speed of light then how fast was that seagull going?
@@Elphienis also faster than the speed of light
ITS A FEATURE YOU FOOLS!!
The seagul being faster than Sonic is hilarious
Why? it is atmospheric scenery. if you collect your rings to the maximum ring count, you get to actually BE faster than the seagulls.
@@angeihd yeah but the seagull is only using 10% of its power. You DON'T wanna see the seagull go into mega mondo mode
Wow this seagull is faster than sonic!!!
@@chucklnuts2206 ok this got me good 👌
@@angeihd no it sucks, even slowest sonic should be able tu run circles around seagull... Game just sucks that's all there is to it. In fact using wildlife to show how fast so i is would be grate idea to show the difference but that would require at least one of the devs to finish basic game design tutorial.
The ending showing all the metacritic scores for other games made my face genuinely go “:(“
I physically recoiled when I saw this rated higher than BOTW
The rating is complete fake.
Elden ring got a fucking 7 what is this
These are user scores
@@superresistant8041 i know, it's the same as Sonic fans teaming up to elevate the scores of the game
Dunkey leaving the “made in dreams” sticker during actual sonic gameplay is so perfect
He used in in shenmue 3 also
How did I not even notice this until just now
This is like the 4th time he’s done the “Made in dreams” watermark joke and it still cracks me up
my brother in christ that was actually a dreams game. that was not Sonic Frontiers
@@1MILKgames swoosh
@@1MILKgames he put it on the actual game multiple times, not just in that bit. rewatch the video.
I haven't even noticed some of them I only remember this and shenmue
@@Vordt_ oh my god thank you for pointing that out i am in tears
The last part where Dunkey just flashed up a bunch of games that were rated just as high as Sonic Frontiers is fucking hilarious
Rated higher than Elden Ring, Breath of the Wild, and Red Dead
proof that who ever is rating these things is getting paid off
@@dopeville2009 it says user scores.... who paying off the player base? Because I'll take some of that money if that is the case
Edit: Spelling
@@dopeville2009 You're saying the user scores were paid for? That would be the biggest waste of money and anyone can add to them. No publication goes by user scores for accolades.
@@lambasted6886 no he said playing not paying learn to read smh my head
Ah yes, Elden Ring is 7.8, Sonic Frontiers is 8.8, truly a masterpiece.
ok
Same type of bias you see in “Dogs or Cats” polls.
Phantom Pain greatest Metal Gear all time was 8.2 .
ER has some major problems
To be fair sonic games all play differently
I love how humble they made sonic this game, the way he lets the seagulls win is truly narrative genius.
No comment with 1k likes... very well😊
This game really makes you feel like Knuckles in an unstable state.
the state of Ohio?
Goddamit i was writing the same joke! see you in hell, Spidahman!
I ship Tails and Sonic
@@thegoldendiamond6762 for the love of god no, I’ve seen the fan art
@@markerikson7423 Knuckles also approved that
Sonic tripping on a stair and tumbling to his death is extremely realistic
yeah i’m ngl this showed me some of the neat physics interactions i needed to see
@@hisradiancelordnasty yeah the physics are, something
@@widerekxxanimations6842 lmao game looks great no lie. it’s gonna be game of the year for serious and for joke. i’m sure it’ll get some updates but some of the jank is classic 3D sonic
HAHAHA, Joe Biden, HAHAHA, this comment thread is toxic now
Omori
I love how dunkey doesn't even have to say anything negative to show how he dislikes a game lol
Verbally roasting it is enough
but he roasted it hard
The game practically show itself
@@SafirAksel wow
I laughed way too hard at the score comparisons at the end.
Thats sonic fanbase for you
Rdr2 having a 8.6 should be illegal
@@bigmanliamdon't tell me it should be lower
@@DrRAZI99 higher
I cried way too hard at the score comparisons at the end.
That ending bit with the ratings speaks more volumes than any dialogue could
@@bluefin844 crazy what the vocal majority can accomplish 💀
I love the game but seeing games that deserve better get dunked on hurt a bit.
@@bluefin844 The Sonic community is used to being fed shit. So, calling this $60 rip off that's worse than early ps2 games "great" means nothing coming from you
@@CraftyCarrot
By "vocal minority", do you mean the majority of game critics who gave it a good score?
@@vividcolorandrichaudio6134 72 on yellow is not good.
The open world design in Sonic Frontiers looks like every custom skatepark I ever made in THPS.
When the trailer came out the first thing I thought was, "oh god it's another "open world game", the next was " this looks like some messed around in the Unity engine for a couple of hours"
It's almost guaranteed to be a PSO2 NGS asset that they instead used for Sonic Frontiers.
It felt just as fun too, chaining them together and getting a flow going.
If you want a good "open world" Sonic level, look up Sonic GT.
It is a fan game but it has the best 3d level design for Sonic
Minus the spikes I would put all around the park limiting movement… IT IS LIKE THAT!
the part where sonic hit his head on the rock then sorta just slid down onto the ground was an astonishing level of animation that even the animators of bookworm adventures struggle to recreate. a true masterpiece.
Knuckles is in an unstable state? That really sucks, man. I hope he sees a therapist and learns new ways to cope :(
I hope he learns new ways to cpu
Hope he gets on copium.
I hope he finds the way
Did you know knuckles evolves into fist 😏
Nothing goes together like open-world gameplay and random invisible walls
Love the part in red dead redemption two where the horse stops and tells you that you haven't unlocked that part yet.
Its not open world. Also he's attempting to leave the tutorial area early. BOTW also doesn't let you leave the plateau without learning the mechanics first. The second instance of him being walled off is him attempting to enter the end game boss arena early, which is ultimately an invisible dome you can run around. It isn't blocking his access to the waypoint marker.
@@ians_parks Can't defend trash piles but it is open world when it just throws is yuck everywhere and doesnt give two cents where you go from there.
@@ians_parks bruh finally someone with actual take here
@@ians_parks if devs don't want you going somewhere, then design it like that. There's no defense for this. Design a better game ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
"knuckles is in an unstable state" will never not make me laugh
My favorite part lmao so random😂
WAIT, PEOPLE RATED THIS GAME HIGHER THAN SONIC MANIA ?!?!?
I saw a thread of people happy about sonic mania 2 being cancelled and excited for more 3d sonic games. So that means we won't get any good sonic games until it goes back to 2D
No, sonic mania had more reviews at the time, which would lower the score, and sonic frontiers only had 1000, so of course it would be higher.
@@hawkeyedsentinel4648 SEGA can't even make good 2D Sonic games anymore. I say they just kill off the franchise at this point.
The pop in really enhances the sense of speed, as you barrel across the land faster than the game can even render it
When you're faster than the speed of light, you can only live in darkness. I guess the team really believed that, and wanted players to feel that speed
Forget FTL.
Faster Than Rendering is the way to go.
@@howisthis8849
Hold your ground on what? You didnt even say anything :0
Literally everyone has already made that joke before you...
@@bardledoo4023 Did this joke triggers you?
The best thing about this game is how Sonic's voice now sounds like some 35 year old man going through a midlife crises.
So he sounds like a Sonic fan?
I feel called out
He's on his 30th anniversary so he's getting up there lol
See I sad the same thing but my brother said he always sounded like that....
Isn't he voiced over by guy who have been voiced over main character of dying light 1 or 2 ?
This game is even more incredible with the mods. Watching giganto hit the craziest gangnam style brings it straight to a 10
Remember when Sonic was Nintendo’s competition? 💀
still see a good load comparing Frontiers to Odyssey 😂 it's not the 90's anymore there's levels to this
Hats off to the Sonic Team for introducing playability to the Sonic franchise, I hear rumours that the next entry will include polish
Absolutely astonishing work from Sonic Team.
Nail polish or shoe polish? Because development polish just got the fuck out.
nareszcie, tego brakowało w sonicu
noway sonic is gonna go to poland!?
like wtf. it's literally sonic 2006 2
Nearly a week of this game's release and I never realized the seagulls are faster than Sonic.
Nearly a week of this game's release and I never launched it 😎
You could actually see the seagulls outrun Sonic in the trailers or gameplay reveals months ago.
Seagulls are as fast as sonic
Sonic fans: 88/100
It's realistic, seagulls are faster than hedgehogs
But are the seagulls faster than Eggman?
7:35 sonic frontiers above botw is crazy☠️
Ain't no way in hell this has a higher score than Breath of the Wild
To be fair Botw is so popular that the “this game is overrated” crowd caught up with its score. Same thing will and HAS happened to Frontiers
It's because BotW is more popular, so it attracted many haters.
@@bb3k761 I'll respect your opinion, but I happened to like the game quite a lot. By no means was it perfect, but I don't think it deserves any hate. It's ok if you didn't have as much fun with it as I did.
@@bb3k761 Bruh what, how is BotW not revolutionary? It set the standards for Open World games, and many games even copied its open world formula, even Elden Ring.
BoTW is a proof of concept pretending to be a game
The fact that Sonic can just go to a nearby pond and catch a fucking Marlin easily makes this a 10/10 game.
Bro that was a straight up oarfish this is GOTY it really makes you feel like Big the Cat the Fisherman
The Alligator caught me by surprise
That shit ain't a pond, that's a god damn worm hole. You can fish up the god damn Ten commandments from it.
It really is sonic AOT
I thought that was hilarious when i saw that
_"A good new direction for the franchise. Needed another year in the oven."_
-Every review of this game ever.
i would say "it has a little something for everyone".
"An incoherent piece of garbage... 3rd best Sonic game to date!"
not really though, the controls are pretty tight, and I really like the direction - I see a lotttttt of positives in this game and hope they keep going in this direction for the next one
@@LokiBeckonswow just don’t have cyberspace or make it better
@@Buttersaemmel In other words, it won't satisfy anyone in particular.
I love how no matter the game, Dunkey is able to bring out it’s full jank.
Fr, I played it and I got a single weird death. That's it for the whole game experience when it comes to bugs and glitches.
Sonic frontuers is a janky Sonic game. This video wasn't a lie
@@mart5610Sonic frontuers is a truly disappointing game, sonic frontiers on the otherhand is a MASTAPEICE
Dunkey yelling “I played KNACKKK!!!” at 4:28 is one of the greatest Dunkey moments of all time. Honestly that whole super sonic segment killed me. Please attend my funeral, no regrets.
Absolutely love how he left the elden ring score up just a bit longer than the others to really let that one sink in
No lies, I thought those scores were reasonable - just not Sonic's rating.
@@Nu63 Elden Ring is at least a 9 what are you talking about?
It made me physically ill
@@Nu63 it's because people in the Sonic community are super hyped about this game (I beat it day 3 after launch) Is it perfect? No, but it's the best Sonic game since Sonic Adventure 2, and the style and humor haven't really aged well in there
for once characters have personality and some kind of story, it's a good foundation.
A lot of people, including me, are hyping up this game way more then needs be because of the quality of this one compared to erm...
Sonic Forces
which is hands down the worst entry ever made in the series
@@booker8316 Yes, people understand that it's "the best Sonic game in ages." The humour comes from the fact Sonic fans have reached such exceptionally low standards that they praise complete mediocrity.
I say as someone who was very much a Sonic fan until I just accepted over the decades that giving them any money is a misallocation of resources, even when they manage to create something average.
My favourite part was when Sonic said "Don't drink the water. They put something in it, to make you forget. I don't even remember how I got here" classic Sonic
No, Modern Sonic.
this dude drank too much of the water and posted his own comment 14 times from the severe dementia
@@tangelaspaghetti5174 and a few hours later blew up the citadel and said a 1-liner
@@pyregg1572 and a few hours later blew up the citadel and said a 1-liner
blew something up, said something after
The music go hard tho at least Dunkey acknowledged that
Sure does
That's the case with most sonic games.
*even sonic 06 has a great OST*
No Rouge the Bat? What a price to pay...
Aww man no titties the bat in the new sega game
That Elden Ring score is criminal
The user reviews are nothing but little babies whining about the Dark Souls-style gameplay and minimalist storytelling. I never thought we'd get to the day when user reviews are even worse than the critical consensus, but here we are.
@@Los499 the honeymoon phase is over dude, how are you still dickriding elden ring? the game isnt that great, its a bloated mess that compromised on fromsoft's design philosophy. actually one of their worst games to date.
its a 7/10 on a *good* day.
@@Los499 Yeah every review is some combination of "Empty world" (There's literally something crammed into every nook and cranny in the game, I assume they wanted like a hub city or something?) "No story" (The story is there but it's not in your face because it's not the point) "Boss rush and too difficult" (What did you think it was going to be? It's FromSoftware and it's the most accessible title they've ever released.) Hopefully it wins GotY so I can get some sanity back.
@@hunter251125 sadly bill Clinton got the award
@@hunter251125 why would it matter to you whether it gets goty or not?`
The reason this game has so much pop in is because none of these new systems have blast processing like the genesis did. If Sega released this on the Genesis, it'd be a 10/10.
True words. Only the Genesis could process no pop in, that's why Sonic 3 has good graphics, gameplay, and most importantly, momentum, a thing that could not be replicated in modern hardware.
Damn processing. Why is it so blast!
@@gabeznl3591 no you see they forgot middle-aged man from Sonic 06 so it’s a 6/10 at least
geometry dash reference (blast processing)
@@Anguloose blast processing was a marketing term by sega...
I love that all of Sonic's friends react to his "that was fun" line with a collective, "Oh, shut the f-ck up."
It’s like they know what kind of game they’re in
@@swans184 the kind of game that's half-baked, kind of like Big
It’s how I respond to anyone touting sonic games are any good.
Joss Whedon must pay for what he did to dialogue
@@AlpacaLips39 there's at least a dozen good Sonic games.
I love how at 1:13 you can hear a little bit of his frustration .
"Polish? Yeah I know what Nail Polish is."
-Sega 2022
💀💀💀💀💀
Amazing to see strand-type games making a comeback
Strand type games have a little something for everyone.
Wrong. It's an open-ZONE game. One of its kind
@@zic3le583 Open Strand Zone Type Game, we're pushing the boundaries here.
thank you
@@zic3le583 learn to take a joke, sonic defender
I love that Big Mode shines a light on aspirational student projects like this. Warms my heart!
Gottem
Just a small indie game studio
Back in my days, Sonic's greatest enemy was the camera man. I miss those days.
Now his greatest enemy is Sega... Oh wait Sega's been his greatest enemy since 2006 💀
@@superbodoque7860 there have been good sonic games past 2006.
@@GUNUFofficial Sonic as a "game" is an afterthought. The entire sad state of the series comes down to the fact that since 2005 he's essentially been the fluffy lovable mascot of a company who mainly pulls sales from people gambling at pachinko machines.
It still is bruv what you mean
4:24 I! PLAYED!! KNACK!!! best line ever
Say what you want about sonic frontiers but when sonic looked into the horizon and said "There's a lot of frontiers here" I shed a single tear from my eye, thank you Sonic Team.
i didnt know morbious meme can be transformed to this
@@bluejacketergazu2447 I didn't know people were still using it in general.
@@esunadotwav it's the among us meme all over again.
"Well that sure is a frontier" - Sonic Frontier
A single tear.. It was the front tear, that's why it came out of your eyeball first. Sonic Front Tears.
sonic shouting 'ive played knack' everytime he has to button mash has became one of my favourite in-jokes
ok
My second favorite is "you're that ninja"
Thats the type of in-joke for an in-bred, keep it going!
KNACK III BABY!!!
This game looks like the Skyrim landscape with it's old graphics and then they added a sonic the hedgehog mod in it.
"Knuckles is in an unstable state" me too buddy me too
I don't think anyone else on the internet can break Dunkey's monopoly on the gag of "babbling frantically while trying to cacth up to what is happening, drowned out under the noise of tremendous chaos." Flawless execution, every time.
Dunkey scholars call this his "Popeye bit"
you can't put quotation marks if it isnt a quotation
@@frydsaman6857 But he did
@@frydsaman6857 he did just do
@@Sahbla ik
the little hit at 3:54 gets me. it looks like it shouldnt happen
Thank you I've now watched it like 20 times in a row.
LMAOAOAOAOO im now seeing it but tbh thats kinda realistic
and the way it makes sound too
Soft thud of his head hitting a rock giving him severe internal bleedings, sending him right into a coma which must be why this game is what it is.
no way its 2012 republican presidential nominee mitt romney
Thank you so much for this incredible video, Santa Claus, and for introducing me to Dunkey's Castle which is truly the world's first open-zone store. I was delighted to discover that the store's international shipping policy even contained strand-type elements.
"I played knack" for any button mash sequence will always be my favorite running joke
The scene with the metacritic scores is actually outrageous, the fact that sonic frontiers is rated above BOTW makes me genuinely perplexed.
Brand new games are always rated higher, there's nothing perplexing about it. Just give it a couple weeks
@@The_Jovian give it till the end of the month and we’ll all hate frontiers and order will be restored to the universe. sonic games can’t be good anymore
It's the sonic cycle all over give it a few months and fans will start to think it's not great
@@logandunlap9156 Why wait? We can start right now
Maybe BOTW just ain't that gr8 (it's amazing but mostly on the first few playthroughs) . And while odyssey is great too, it also has its moments of repetition where some moons just either don't add anything or are just not fun to get.
I love how studios are taking that leap of faith like Shenmue did and are now making their games in Dreams. Truly pushing the frontiers of game development.
Knack 2
I ain’t reading allat
We Will never see the last Shenmue, the developer guy Will be dead
Lmao
@@codskilclanchannel6420 People in the YT comments are the type of people who would look up a recipe, see that it has more than 3 steps, and be like "I ain't reading all that"
I swear, the environment looks like someone was playing around in Unreal and made their own fan game. Just a couple retouches on the awkwardly plastered terrain, level it out so players don't get stuck, and retouch the spaz on some of the bosses, and maybe you can show it to the sonic team! Oh, oh wait...
I can appreciate this video much more now that I played and finished the game myself, since I realize I didn't have nearly as much of an awful time with it as Dunkey did.
I did.. I…did..
It’s so weird to hear sonic talk like an actual person and not crack jokes every 5 seconds
anti-gex
He talks like a Marvel character in this one bro
Bless Ian Flynn
@@rowleyryan9025 yea in the like, 2 pieces of dialogue shown in the video compared to the entire rest of the game where he talks like a normal person, bit of an unfair statement
He sounds like mirage from apex lmao
Really exciting to see that Sonic finally has a Strand-type game
i would buy this game if it was ten dollars and just fishing and chilling with Big
Honestly, it just seems to me that the sonic fandom has been betrayed and abused so much and so often that they'd naturally latch on to any game that'd be passable by other franchise standards.
The game isn't even bad but you're kinda right, I just hope it doesn't get to the point of pokemon fans 💀
@@GetShrekd forces was so ass lol
That clip of Buddy Rich playing a metal fill was genius
As a big band fan, I got excited. Dunkey videos have a little something for everyone.
Fuckin’ sent
I didn't think anyone else would catch that 👏👏👏
My fav moment
@@CrimsonOptics dunkey is a jazz fan- I think he referred to Trane’s Giant Steps in some other video.
Sonic's idle animation is the same as mine, a relatable masterpiece
Not a masterpiece! they forgot middle-aged man from Sonic 06 so it’s at least a 6/10
I'd considered it a masterpiece until I discovered that you cannot be a goombas 😞
@@Jdudhhsuxbsksj true
@@evdestroy4121 now if they did added him AND Big Wheel!? Mastapiece…
This is the fastest strand-type game yet, truly a technological marvel in gaming.
if there's one thing we can all agree on it's that sonic games never fail to make amazing buttrock
One of the best fishing games I've ever seen 10/10
Even better then Shenmue 3
@@KarpetBurn even better than rdr2 as you've seen in the ratings
Big stupid looking cat blob but the fishing variety is good
It amazes me how in every open world game dunkey reviews.. we will always get a clip of him trying to Scale a wall.
That what all plp do in open world
It's a common thing to do. It tells you how the game handles certain things.
It's first thing I do, if you get invisible wall you know game sucks. If it's open world game a d areas are locked behind invisible wall or story progression and not behind op enemies it sucks. It takes like 5minutes of dicking around in open world to know if game is any good or not.
Once you go botw, you never go back
@@tonyvisente5286 elden ring
When I think of Sonic, the first thing I think of is a stamina meter that quickly depletes from him simply running.
Please form your own opinions, dunkey is a funny guy but he's also a human and humans have opinions, you don't have to agree on everything that dunkey says
OH YES WE DO
@@SupportTheLittleGuy that’s a terrible mentality please change and grow as a perosn
@@dangerousdoings8066 NO. TELL ME
WHAT TO DO PLZ K THANKS
@@SupportTheLittleGuy change and grow as a person
@@dangerousdoings8066 it’s sarcasm, look at my channel guy. Quite capable of thinking for myself. Learn to read people before putting them down and telling them to change.. now change and grow as a person please.
The ending with the reviews was comedy gold
That was definitely the most painful part of the video
I had to look it up to see if it was true. It... was.
how is elden ring lower than this abomination
It just shows you that reviews mean literally nothing these days.
Yea.. and that slap of Elden Ring, ouch.
The game has so many callbacks to previous games in the series; Sonic tripping on a rock and faceplanting into the dirt is a reference to the Mach Speed sections of Sonic 06.
Especially the tumbling breakdance he does
i never got past kingdom valley mach speed
ok
The technical issues are, in fact, a tribute to Sonic 06. Did you guys seriously think they were not deliberate?
Hilarious
This is truly the first blaze your own trail type game
Wow no dislikes, another Dunkey classic loved by everyone and all social media sites
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@@lordqwertythepyromancer3458 Time for your medication
@@banditosdoritos ?
It's called "Return youtube dislikes", millions of people use it mate.
@@lordqwertythepyromancer3458 Was more so referring to the fact that you copied everything including the channel name, subscriber count and subscribe button
@@banditosdoritos Oh! Yeah I did that just to show that I didn't just pull a random number out of a hat, and that you can pull that same data quite easily.
It’s nice to see the Sonic Universe shift into strand type game play. I truly see this becoming the future of video gaming
honestly now that you mention it would death stranding be more fun if it was faster?
@@metadreamland that was the only thing preventing it from being game of the century
Worlds first frontier-type game. Truly innovative
Isn't "Papers Please" a thing?
clearly you've never played Brave Frontier
But it has that strand type feel to it too.
Worlds most original and thought provoking comment. Amazing
you forgot about the cycle frontier
This game looks and feels unpolished asf.
It looks like a tech demo, and I've seen people talking smack on Sonic Utopia for having an empty world even though it's a fan made game and feels better than anything sonic team have put out in years.
People will go to any length to defend their sacred cow
And that's why I switched to Crash and Spyro
Embarrassing considering Sonic Unleashed, a PS3/Xbox 360 game from 2008, looks more polished and has better graphics than Sonic Frontiers 💀
It's a shame folks misunderstood your intentions here and went to review bomb the game on Metacritic. I got caught up in believing you'd called for some review bomb crusade but that's not the case at all. It's clear you still had a lot of fun with Frontiers, it shows in your punchy editing and humour. I'm probably in agreement with most of the criticisms you pointed out, and yet I enjoyed it regardless. Good video.
Sheep will be sheep i guess.
I'm glad you enjoyed it. It gives me hope that I can keep scamming people who don't care about quality in games.
this is why i dont take metacritic scores seriously
I thought we as a society were done with "That was a thing!" and "Those were words!" humor
kid named marvel:
I hate these jokes, and it looks like they're here to stay.
@@TailsGuy72 Well at least we can validate each other
Sonic fans be like 'oh well it was written by Ian Flynn and not the dumb meta era writers, so the joke is funny now
I think sonic saying “that was a thing” was just him trying to say he has no idea what the hell just happened
The part where Sonic visited Los Pollos Hermanos was truly a gaming moment
Bravo Vince!
This is the review everyone was foaming at the mouth over? It doesn't seem that ruthless and negative
The thing is, this is a joke video, the "dunkview" thing is nowhere to be seen yet sonic fans and dunkey fans are having a big war because of a video made to entertain lmao
"Sonic just reviewed his own game" killed me right at the start.
This is the first strand-type sonic game in history, sonic team never disappoints
Except for the lacking of the hot
female characters we are used to
@@Mjhd47 The Sonic franchise is hot chick heaven after all
@@Mjhd47 how used to it are we?
Tails even appearing as a hologram a-la Die Hardman.
@@blakechiles3628 since valentine's day is on the corner
The "Sonic, no!" at 3:47 honestly sounds more emotional than most games these days
Well except GoW
@@ChangedMyNameFinally69 they said most not all lmfao
@@denjias He's just listing out what games he thinks are an exception, you think that's wrong?
@@ChangedMyNameFinally69 Seeing as GoW is not really a video game but a movie, yeah.
@@B0XMATTER Nah Ragnarok has decent gameplay, they fixed the issue everyone had with the first being a glorified cutscene
It's so sad how many people didn't even play the game their just basing their thoughts off of dunkey. Like he didn't even show the good parts xD.
Ah yes the good parts non existing
@@MaskedMazterI’m biased cuz I’m a huge Sonic fan but there were tons of things in this game to enjoy. But honestly, I think Frontiers is the best for people who already loved/were familiar with Sonic lol
this game is garbage
welcome to biased media
He used another Sonic team video games music at the very beginning. A Little gem called Billy Hatcher and The Giant egg, which is also critically acclaimed as the greatest game ever made. Which is in fact, indisputable
Jokes aside it’s funny how much more competent it was in comparison to every 3D Sonic game.
@@Thisisthegreatestatofalltime Yeah nah
@@markandrew287ok anime
This game really makes you feel like it was made 5 years after Sonic Forces
this joke really makes me FEEL like I want to kill myself
by sega
more like 5 minutes. how the hell did they work on this tech demo for 5 years
@@bun197 tell me you haven't played the game without telling me you haven't played the game
@@Yoshhhhh No no, he's onto something.
Dude, the Buddy Rich drum cut was absolutely incredible.
@@swisserty Why not?
I'm sure Mr Rich would appreciate the joke :D
@@swisserty please don't say please don't say that
@@leomuller2841 please don’t say please don’t say please don’t say that
He may be a dunkey, but he is cultured 👌
Drake the type of guy to say “so…that was a thing” after defeating Giganto
This game will always confuse me. Cartoony characters dropped into this world with high detail textures. The characters dont fit the environment at all. Who's original idea was this
I thought the same thing when the trailer dropped. Sonic team clearly have no direction and its kind of sad
That's been a thing since Sonic Adventure
@@arthurgoes1994 No, the adventure games had more of an anime or cartoon art style, Sonic 06 was the only past game with a pseudo-realistic look.
@@dullblade7320 Sonic Unleashed, Colors, Generations, Forces ALL have cartoon Sonic in realistic enviroments, I do count adventure games too, ' cause If graphics were as advance back then, It would also give the feeling that sonic is a cartoon interacting with the real world. My Point is: Sonic has been like this for a long time, i don't see why complain about this now
@@arthurgoes1994 They looked as realistic as Pixar or Illumination movies. This looks like a mod with Sonic to a game that has nothing to do with Sonic.
Sonic looping on that thing and reaching the top of the hill was the coolest part of the game but was immediately ruined by an invisible wall
You can do that all over the map. There are spots everywhere that can send you flying. The invisible wall has only been noticeable on the first island so far. The rest of the levels are surrounded by water.
I like how the first Island puzzle is fairly complicated with you having to actual sit there and figure out right placement for all of the paths to meet correctly.... just for the second island puzzle to literally just be "put da same color ball in the same color thing, ta da! you did it!" Like wtf???? Lmao.
I was surprised at how they just implemented the light puzzle for it to only come back in one more challenge on a smaller scale and nothing else remotely like the light puzzle from Kronos Island ever came back. And then the third one was pinball
The light puzzle literally shows you the path
The game's difficulty is completely backwards. Like how level 1-2 is the hardest level in the game and everything after it is cake.
@@TOM-ro7rt Yeah they give you the path but trying to figure out how to align each of the guiding stones is a bit challenging. Sure yeah it's not mind bendingly hard but it's certainly more challenging than "yellow ball goes into yellow holder" lmao.
Lmao my exact thoughts. Half of the puzzles in the game are so braindead easy, that they shouldn't even be in the game at all
The fact that this game has a higher user score than Zelda BOTW is hilarious.
I legitimately thought the dream gameplay was just a glitch in the real game
Sega did something remarkable in this game, they've made an complete open world, and they put borders everywhere if you stray off the main path. Thank you for always bringing something new to the table, Sega
Lmao
I know, I love the Linear Openworld.
I know dunkey made it look that way in the video for comedic effect, but it's really not like that. i barely ever encounter any invisible walls, and i usually already had enough collectibles to open the locked content straight away
@@mvnkycheez Wrong. Dunkey didn't do that out of comedic effect.
@@mvnkycheez I have no idea where Dunkey found an invisible wall I'm legit impressed.
It’s so weird how the actual setting totally doesn’t look like it aesthetically belongs in a sonic game at all. Definitely agree with dunkey making the halo infinite reference at the start.
It's because they looked at BOTW and Odyssey, and thought the reason they worked was because "woah, these classic characters are in unfamiliar worlds!"
True
That’s ok, it’s epic
@@raveoreynolds6049 it’s true, it does “work” ya nerd
@@DengueBurger No, his point is that they did more to make it work because that's just a general idea. A lot of both games fleshed that concept out thoroughly. Frontiers taking that at face value is what he's getting at.
I held off on watching this because I didn't want spoilers. Having beaten the game and finally watching this video I have to ask...why were people so mad at this video?!?
It was hilarious!
because he is clearly overly judgemental about everything in the game, almost makes it looks like he has a personal grudge against it and is using comedy to shit on the game
@@shubhuman izzzzz fiiiiine, I still enjoyed the game. Hell, I had the same troubles he had. Without criticism, Sonic wouldn't be what he is today.
Besides, while I love Bunkey, it's not like I always 100% agree wif 'im.
I really don't know, I heard numerous accounts of people review bombing the game because of dunkey but I never watched the video to avoid spoilers. Back then I thought to myself "Dunkey isn't the type of guy to ask his fan base to review bomb a game", turns out he wasn't. I guess it was just some people who were butthurt because their favorite game got a lower rating than Sonic.
@@shubhuman its his style of comedy and its funny asf
I think because it kinda beats it a bit too hard even for things it's not directly responsible. I mean it's painted in a light that it's worse than Sonic Forces where it kinda blurs the line between parody and misinformation about a product especially since most people did not encounter some of the problems shown entirely.
I like frontiers but WTF IS THAT SCORE!? HIGHER THAN SONIC MANIA!? NO WAY DUDE.