We go hands on with Sonic Frontiers, the newly open world take on the blue blur's platforming adventures. Can this bold new direction stick the landing?
Switch owners can take advantage of the latest SEGA / Atlus sale on the eShop for June 2024, which includes the lowest price ever for Sonic Frontiers. A bunch of other titles are also discounted.
A new patch for Sonic Frontiers resolves the game's controversial difficulties and many other polarizing elements.
From GameWatcher: "Publisher Sega has lofty plans for its Sonic IP, aiming to develop it in such a way that it will "catch up and surpass Mario" in the future.
Sonic and Mario have always been competitors, but where Nintendo has managed to consistently stick the landing with its titles – even when stepping outside its comfort zone – Sega's output has often received a mixed reception from both fans and critics.
im a huge sonic fan, but that will never happen.
mario games have solid gameplay in every game he is in.
mario is also more child friendly and easier to play.
Mario is brimming with quality and Nintendo will take time with it. Other than Panasonic Era, usually quality games. So SEGA prepare to take your time and don't cheap out.
By selling it to Xbox so we can hear that 25 million players tried the game for 5 minutes? Then every sheep and journo can pretend that Phil is the King of Japan and Sega is nothing without him, the Nintendo should give in and sell to MS and that Sony only makes movie games not classic games.
Lol
Making games like Frontiers is not going to help them achieve that.
Also Superstars was average at best
They should have stuck on the Sonic Mania train, then work towards Sonic Adventure 3
the time for this passed, sega. back in the Nintendo vs. Genesis days when Sonic was the new mascot on the block maybe.
So for the millennials who grew up on him, it's relatable now?
Doesn't sound too promising. I'm a bit shocked there was a playable demo sent out already. Judging from the videos I've seen I though this game was way earlier in development than it apparently is. I was going to give it the benefit of the doubt that what we saw was just a tech demo and there was still lots of changes to come to make it feel more like a sonic game, but open world. That woulda been kinda cool, but if it's just a wide open world like what we've seen with little around, I'm gonna have to wait for reviews once the game is released cus Sega has a bad track record with Sonic games. When they're great, they're great, but there are just too many stinkers. Wait and see, but I'm not too optimistic anymore.