All of these "How they fixed Sonic Frontiers" can be a lot shorter if y'all would just say "Hey guys, all the disapponting footage and gameplay was clearly Beta or even Alpha. That's why the animation is better now. Duh."
Sonic doesn't need to sound older to convey maturity. Functionally, the character is ageless. Whether he's 16, 18, or even 20, he's ultimately just meant to be a young, cool, anthropomorphic animal who lives like a nomad and stops bad guys. He should have a consistent-sounding voice (no different than other iconic characters like Mickey Mouse or Bugs Bunny) that evokes familiarity when you hear it. He doesn't have to suddenly sound 30 just because the story is more grimdark, especially when we know it doesn't truly signify anything in the overarching timeline of the universe (he's been on a million adventures before this, and he's gonna go on another million adventures afterwards with no discernable age-related changes). Sonic is an icon whose quintessential personality will always be that of a thrill-loving youngster with attitude, and in 10 years we're just gonna look back at this game as that time he had an oddly deep voice for no reason.
Sonic has been done a great disservice. I really wish they would just stop trying to make every game fast. Could you imagine sonic going on an actual adventure, that held real weight. When I see this game, it just looks empty and boring and you know you are just going to blast through it. When I saw the animated cartoons for Frontiers I got super excited that maybe they were making a slower paced more serious game, but this, I can already tell the entire game is just going to be meh, as most Sonic games are. But then again, I am just a 2D fan waiting for a 3D game with actual story that looks polished, interesting, and doesn't look like 9 year olds built the worlds. It just baffles me how far behind Sonic is in the gaming development world. We have games like Spiro and Ratchet and Clank, but Sonic still looks like this. Even Mario games on lesser platforms look more realized. As an aging gamer I really focus on games with great stories, and Sonic started out with such a great personality in the earlier cartoons and games. I wish they could play on that more, but as long as enough fans are happy, ill just be the outcast crapping on 3D sonic games lol
The gameplay looks great but idk why for me the realistic design of the environment makes it look kinda off when combined with obsticles, i think they should have stayed with the cartoonish design instead
I would say only thing they could make this fake better is more playable characters, but this formula works so well for just sonic this might be the first tube I don’t ask for multiple campaigns. (Well cyber levels with tails or something do seem cool but I’m talking about the whole game)
While I do agree that the boost mechanic already had its glory days in Unleashed and Generations, if there's one thing I do miss about the post-generation era is that Sonic still feels a bit slow. I mean, his name's Sonic, he's supposed to break the sound barrier, and I barely see any breakneck speeds here. Having said that, I will consider that the speed is slowed down for the sake of the demo, but all I want is that exhilerating acceleration I've grown to love when running as Sonic.
I was a bit worried about the game when IGN's gameplay stuff happened, but those worries began going away over the last few months. And now, it's one of the first games in a long time that I'm genuinely excited for. Even pre-ordered it for PC the other day too.
the evironments and backdrops still look incredibly boring and lifeless, and just like forces the cyberspace levels are like a minute long on top of being lazily recycled. And one of the worst parts is the lackluster soundtrack. This game will be better than forces for sure, but still mediocre
Overall it's great people see the good in this game. But until release the game still has to prove itself regardless of animations or any extras added before hand.
and so the Sonic cycle begins again. I'm just not buying it personally. I can see the potential, but the polish isn't there. The fundamental controls of Sonic still seem too similar to the controls we've had for years. They aren't tight and accurate, but they also don't need to be because the level design is too generous. This is apparent in the city cyber space footage. The wide open road is also a bad thing. You can see how slow Sonic shifts horizontally when going at high speeds. This combined with the wide road are meant to prevent you from barreling off the edge, but that should really just indicate that Sonic is too fast. His base speed, top speed, acceleration, deacceleration, and turning speed all need to be completely redesigned, but Sega still hasn't done that after all these years in the boost era. They design the levels off of Sonic's fundamentals but truthfully his fundamentals need to be tweaked to work better with actual precise stage design instead of making the stages play themselves as they have for years. Rail grinding is still on set tracks/lanes too. Admittedly though, Sonic's fundamentals and speed seem to be much more suited to the open world they've created, so I think that at the very least Sonic will feel much better to control there. I'm just still not sure if there is enough "level" to the open world to make it feel like a complete experience. As fun as Mario Odyssey was, I think that it's use of open world design made the gameplay suffer a lot because the challenges you had to complete to obtain one of the hundreds of mcguffins were often just too simple. I fear Sonic Frontiers might suffer the same fate. At the very least though, it will likely be a decent game; much better than Forces for sure. I just wish (and hope) we could get a 3D Sonic game that's truly outstanding for once.
The original footage of the game from IGN was all planned to cause controversy thus becoming viral. Next, they showed the game in a better state which caused hype. Everything was all planned, even the Gamecom and TGS demo leaks. All the drip feeds of information and including the Netflix series drops have been brilliant.
Long time Sonic fan myself, ever since the first game on Genesis. I wasn't impressed by the initial footage of this game. However, now it's looking damn good! I'm definitely buying it.
If this is the future type of content you'll be making than i'm glad to be here before 1k! I haven't felt this much hope for a Sonic game in so long! I was always a big fan and always hoped that the reputation of the games would get better, so seeing that they finally allow Sonic to move just as a car would in a 3D open space like GTA or sum; It makes me so unbelievably happy. I still want them to improve and optimize as much as they can not just on Sonic's gameplay and collision but the collision of all environments and how well they can aid Sonic in his traversal through them. There's already so many games who can pull this aspect off, so i hope great consideration for the world design has beentaken with care!
I still dont get the excitement. Generic enemies, an empty open world and constant pop in. Mostly I don't get why anyone still cares about Sonic. After a decade of horrible games who still cares
This is why you should never show off your alpha build. Sega went way too hard into trying to give an honest view of what they were going for way before it was ready. Then again, if this is their way to build hype for a game then it was worked amazingly well.
I'll be honest as much as the game looks like it's improved since the first trailer, but I'm going to be very cautiously optimistic about it and if it doesn't live up to the hype despite the improvements they made maybe it could be an okay or somewhere decent Sonic game.
