The Sonic Frontiers DLC - RadicalSoda 

0:58 Fun fact: SEGA can't use the Sonic 1 and 2 songs if they don't pay royalties to Masato Nakamura (the guy from Dreams Come True that composed the songs), which is most likely the reason there aren't any songs from those games.

In the codes section in the HedgeModManager there are 2 codes which fix the air boost and stomp not resetting. Located in the fixes/gameplay category on the codes tree. You can also find plenty of physics based codes that gives Sonic more momentum when using things like the drop or spin dash.

24:55 the distorted and twisted music is so goddamn funny here

these DLCs were definitely just sonic team going "fuck it" and trying out all the weird shit they could come up with and I am honestly all for it. there's definitely a lot of jank and numerous issues (not to mention SOMEONE at sonic team definitely had a grudge against us with this difficulty spike lmao), but overall it definitely leaves me hopeful for the next game and I'm definitely looking forward to see how they build off of all this going forward

The music for Sonic 1 and 2 are copyright owned by the one who composed them who has since left Sega.

It wouldn't be a radical soda frontiers review if sega didn't put out a patch a couple days later making the video somewhat irrelevant

They're indeed listening to feedback. The game director Morio Kishimoto has been constantly listening to opinions and ideas on twitter and other social media accounts.

ROB @ 4:00 If you use the hedgehog manager it's actually a patch file in the settings in there for the boost and stomp reset. It's actually been there for a long time It doesn't prove the game by a lot along if fixing rotations jumps there's a lot of neat stuff in that would recommend!

Somebody's probably mentioned it by now, but the lookout koco are required to unlock the towers for Sonic to climb, needing to collect a certain amount for each to open.

This video revealed to me that Amy's wheel has Sonic-riders style drift boost chaining, where you go faster the more drift boosts you do back to back. How I missed this I'll never know, but God, PLEASE Sega, a new Sonic Riders, I must have it.

One thing I'll say is that spindashing through the DLC 3 levels was very fun. I really enjoyed the honeycomb level and the chemical plant one with all the floating platforms!

21:55 But I did! and oh my god, it took me. FORTY. HOURS. TO BEAT MASTER KING COCO'S TRIAL ON EXTREME. and I still don't believe it has a 3 frame window cause it is so fast sonic doesn't even do the parry animation so you can't tell if he even did it. AND THE BLOODY, BLOODY, BLOODY SNAKE SECOND BOSS can toss right off with them missiles and delayed attacks.

Radical, you actually can turn the birthday hud off. Just go to Extras (or wherever you go to switch Sonic's cosmetics like his shoes) and you can turn it off from there.

You can tell by the lyrics of “I’m Here” that the “other story” DLC was the intended story of the game but they had to cut it for time

They actually dropped a patch earlier that fixes some of the issues in Final Horizons, such as knuckles' gliding being more like it was in Adventure and he doesn't do that little animation before he glides

the lookout koco from the cyberspace levels is what unlocks the towers, but its pointless to get it from them because theyre just all over the map in the cyloop treasure chest things

You've become one of my favorite reviewers here on RU-vid. Your Pokemon Sword and Shield review was recommended to me earlier this year and since watching it, I've gone back and watched all of your videos. I love your sense of humor.

Lore wise, I think they actually can interact with the worlds, because they're stuck in-between Cyberspace and the Islands. If they were stuck in Cyberspace, they wouldn't have this strange appearance, they would just have been like when Eggman was stuck in Cyberspace.

Looking forward to watching this later, your vids never fail to be amazing. Very happy with what we got with the free updates (like the spindash even if it is overpowered) despite the flaws the final update has with how unfair some things and the out of nowhere difficulty spike, I had a fun time, nice being able to play as Amy, Knuckles and Tails after so long, and some of the challenges were pretty fun to eventually get through and figure out, actually taught me how to get better at the game like dealing more damage. I just hope from this point forward they do continue to improve and not repeat mistakes, I have big hopes as I know they are capable but still… please SEGA and sonic team. That final part with sonics new transformation and the music and battle was super good (apart from the fact the game didn’t teach you that you can switch targets to hit a certain part) also the cutscenes with Sages song and being alive with Eggman warmed my heart. Ty rad for your amazing reviews as always, I know I say it a lot but I mean it, they make my day. Looking forward to future vids like returning to unleashed. Stay well Rad. 💫

While the difficulty is too high tuned for the final trial. I kinda get what they were going for because it being so tight means it forces you to learn all the tricks that end up being needed to beat the end/supreme.

7:30 Your point about Ratchet and Clank 3 is partially correct. In Challenge Mode (new game plus), you can purchase the Mega Weapons - powered up versions of weapons that you've fully upgraded. Vendors demand a pretty penny for them but considering you don't have to worry much about multpile armour upgrades, and the bolt rewards in Annihilation Nation, it doesn't take too long to get the money for them all. A fun challenge in that game is to get through it without armour upgrades, you should try it 👌

17:10 Knuckles had a Homing Attack in Rivals 1&2, Advance 3 and Sonic Dash. So it isn't out of left field. Same for Tails, except Rivals 1, since he was only added in 2.

I just want to say, I really like the (new?) drawn RadicalSoda bird, very cute!

9:15 this part made me laugh because I remember being very disappointed that the island themes weren't in the original jukebox so I was ecstatic that they added them. They're honestly the only tracks I play in the jukebox

Yo Rob akshually these are not free DLC but rather *free updates* ☝️🤓 Edit: before you reply to me that updates are downloadable content therefore DLC, quick question, are patches DLC? You have to download a patch after all

The Final Update was very promising, but MAN the execution kind of fell flat. General thoughts were: 1. Amy? Super fun to play as! Her down-stomp jump/glide combo made traversing really fun. She was programmed well. 2. Knuckles? Handles like dogshit. There’s this one section (y’all know which one) where there’s a bunch of panels intersecting each other in a box and trying to climb it was like punching myself in the face each time. His surface pull or landing tracking or whatever you would call it was a nightmare. He controlled better in SONIC 06. 3. Tails? BROKEN… but still fun! His boost is probably a teeeeeeensy bit too unbalanced but after the bullshit with Knuckles, I welcome that. His attack functions way better than in 06, lol. 4. Koco trials… Fuck the Snake Trial. I had such a rotten time trying to beat it and at one point, I beat it with 3 seconds to spare and the game automatically failed me for no reason. The timer didn’t even hit zero. 5. Master King Koco’s trial: HORSESHIT. ABSOLUTE HORSESHIT. No way to practice perfect parries, the Wyvern battle is glitchy as fuck and his third attack with his tail is absolutely impossible to track (I got lucky a few times but most of the time I failed it, and the Knight battle… I don‘t know what happened but several of the quick time events with the button mash failed me before I even had the chance to start it (or right in the middle despite me still being within the time limit). Fun concept but man those battles REALLY needed to be polished. 6. Final battle… mixed bag, VERY mixed bag. I had no way of knowing to attack the tube on Titan Supreme because the tracker never lines up for it unless you very specifically mash the dodge button around its head, and using your Cycloop isn’t specified either. The final battle music was amazing though, and I like Super Cyber Sonic’s two forms. Just wished the animation for the cutscenes wasn’t so cheap… All in all, it was… fine. Glad it was free but man they need to fine-tune some stuff.

I feel like I should share my opinion on each update. Update 1 was pretty cool. It has some very features like the jukebox and the photo mode but the main part was the cyberspace and battle mode. The cyberspace challenge is ight but the battle rush challenge is very noice! Update 2 improved the game a whole ton with it's physics and gameplay. The challenges for the new koco are fairly challenging and I wish the spindash challenges were more unique. It's moreso just keeping a chain score and then ur done....spindash is very nice...especially in 2D cyberpsace stages. Update 3....yea I loved it but there are more problems with this than the other 2 updates...which I assume Rob will mention. Some of the towers are such a slog to climb, some of the new guardians are like unbeatable or take SO much time to beat, the master king trial is complete horseshit on hard or extreme.....but man I can't deny that I loved being able to play as Amy, Knuckles and Tails again. And that ending and final boss man.....phenomenal spectacle.

Unrelated to the video but I wanted to say it, I honestly enjoy listening your video game commentaries despite I'm not a fan of any of this games nor have I play them. The birb sprite here is really cool too and love the expression you made on it ^^ 💖

The reason why Sonic 1 and Sonic 2 tracks weren’t included in the jukebox is because SEGA would have to pay royalties to Nasato Nakamura. And they probably don’t want to do that because the jukebox update is free.

Oh yeah RadicalSoda, to answer your point about the Birthday decoration HUD at 9:08. There is a code in HedgeModManager for the PC version to turn off the Birthday HUD while still keeping the Party decorations around the islands. It's called "Hide Party Decorations" under the UI/Display category.

0:45 Dreams Comes True created the most of the soundtracks for Sonic 1 & 2, so it’s easier to go with songs Sega has exclusive copyright than go through them. Especially that it’s just some free DLC.

A new super Sonic form? Could it be...the legendary...super duper Sonic?!

I can say, ratchet and clank new game + (besides deadlock but for a different reason) doesn’t get harder, it basically makes you breeze through everything to get collectibles, bolts to upgrade stuff and that’s pretty much it. Deadlock unlocks a new difficulty

Oh yeah... the Look Out Kokos are meant to unlock the Trail Towers in the story of Update Three. I hardly ever touched the new Cyberspace stages because of how easy it was to find the new Kokos.

After re-watching your Ultimate review, I just wanted to say that Sonic Project '06 is the best Sonic game available to date. I don't know if you ever intend to look at fangames or fan-remakes, but P-06 is truly peak blue-guy.

4:34 WRONG, it was in one of the sky sanctuary modern missions.

Just got the CD soundtrack for this games 3rd update The Final Horizon the mail today at 2:34p.m. and it's the Sonic Frontiers Expansion Soundtrack: Paths Revisited CD and I'm listening to it while watching this! 5:40p.m. 12/19/2023

They shadow dropped a patch with movement fixes to all additional characters knuckles glide steer was significantly improved

I'm nearly in tears. I'm so happy they're doing better Thank you devs, for putting in the work to show you can Edit: A bit overemotional maybe but.... It's been so long since I've actually enjoyed a sonic game properly

So when will you start selling the fabled radical soda?

Cool new animated video thing, can’t wait to never see it appear again in another video after this one

Less than a week after you do this they randomly patch it. Ah, being a game reviewer...

It's called 'Super Sonic 2' in reference to Super Saiyan 2. See, it even has the little zappy zaps

@21:06-.-It's not even just that it's 3 frames, it also has a startup time! I don't know how many frames it takes, but you can tell when the pairy is active by looking at Sonic's animation, the pairy is considered active about when Sonic crosses his arms about. It is unbelievably annoying To notice an attack like half-a-second to a second-and-a-half before it hits and then not be able to counter it because the pairy took too long. I don't even believe that that isn't enough time for Sonic to react, if I was able to knock missiles back at enemies I feel like the time at which I start the Perry is more than enough time to prepare without the enemy be able to do anything back.

I do think the final update needed a few more months in the oven.

29:45 I didn't either but they're for unlocking the towers. If you don't get them, can't climb the towers but they're very easy to get

Master King's trial is the only part of the whole game where I had to lower the difficulty.

Not to be that guy, but Knuckles actually does the homing attack in Smash Ultimate for some reason, I always found it weird that the assist trophy does that but I guess its just canon now?

24:00 probably only if the parry animation and the hitbox isn't multiplied by delta time, which would mean that if the fps is lower then it lasts longer. not sure though and i dont have the game to find out

There is not a mod but there is a cheat code in the mod manager for this game that makes it so air dash is reset when you use a spring or homing attack an enemy.

“Sonic is not a triple A title, we should not kid ourselves” “Once you get used to the jank you will have a good time” that is an awful positive to give a title as that is just depressing. I am also curious to see if sega sonic team will add more forms during the end of future sonic titles, we will have to wait and see what the future hold.

The Lookout Coco's are meant to unlock the towers (They're essentially vault keys). While yes, you can get them from Cyberspace levels, they're more or less the only thing you get from cylooping treasure signs. If you cyloop every treasure sign you come across (like I did), you never need to play the Cyberspace levels...ever. Lookout Coco's are EVERYWHERE in the Final Horizon and it renders cyberapace null and void.

17:07 Actually, Knuckles has the Homing Attack in Sonic Rivals 1 and 2 And if ya REALLY wanna go for a reach, he and Tails can use the Homing Attack on enemies in Sonic Heroes if you're playing as Sonic

you’re killing it mister radical soda another banger video

for years i thought about an open world sonic game, a game that takes full advantage of sonics speed and the idea of clearing leavels in your own way a great idea with bad exicution... ^; ;^ damn!

22:35 Hey that soft lock could’ve been worse, it could’ve been right after beating the most painful Titan in this trial, AKA Wyvern, and right before you get to Knight…like what happened to me in my last playthrough… 🤬 this trial Edit:I say that and 5 days later, they patch the update to fix the trial (at least from what I’ve heard/seen), and make Tails, Knuckles, and Amy actually able to do crap in a fight instead of before where I avoided a fight at all costs with those three cause Sonic was the only one I had a chance with which isn’t great for the guy literally named after fists, but now it seems like they’re actually useful, plus Knuckles’ glide was fixed as well apparently (I haven’t been able to try these yet since I had to immediately head to my shift at work after school today which was 6 1/2 hours so I’m gonna try it tomorrow). Kishimoto, dude, you and your team already gained enough of my respect from this game, how much more do you need? Edit 2:Yep it’s definitely better

cant wait for the Vanoss Radical Soda colab

9:45 Where's me FEELIN GOOD at ROBERT.

You might know this but you don't have to do the action chain challenge to get the spindash. In update 3, it gives Sonic the spindash automatically if you don't have it

I really enjoy the video, but the reason that the trials dont feel like sonic is mastering his cyber corruption by doing them is because he isnt. The trials are just a challenge from the koco to see if sonic is worthy for them to give him power themselves i think

The new cyberspace stages are entirely built around the Ouranos island ones. that's why sky sanctuary is never used. even the new remixes are based the exact same tracks that normally plays in these levels in ouranos

Was genuinely waiting to hear your view on it, i wanted to watch the streams but ever since working watching streams is essentially impossible. Though you i will say this considering other "sonictubers" opinions your one as the whole free content actually really positive. Thanks radical!

Therapist: Biblically Accurate Parking Lot doesn't exist, it can't hurt you Biblically Accurate Parking Lot: 32:57

While I definitely think the alternate Final Story is a bit of an improvement over the original one, there is something I'm just now realizing this after five months. The whole premise of the alternate Final Story is that Tails, Knuckles, Amy, and Eggman are trying to locate the seven Chaos Emeralds **while** Sonic is learning to control his cyber corruption (albeit Eggman is doing it off-screen). And during Sonic's little endeavor, he has to fight the three main titans, right? And that involves him going Super Sonic. My question is, how in the world is Sonic doing that if he doesn't have all the emeralds yet? Doesn't Eggman literally bring Sonic the purple emerald just before fighting The End? Is it the Coco putting him through some sort of advanced simulation? Is it time travel? What's the deal here?! (I'm exaggerating, of course, but it does raise those questions all the same) Another thing I feel was... unneeded was "Super Sonic 2". Much like what you said in the video, it seemed a bit pointless since that title technically belongs to Hyper Sonic, being a more powerful version of Super Sonic charged by the Super Emeralds. I feel like Sega should've just left it with Cyber Sonic, because honestly I found it kinda sad how that form went heavily underutilized, appearing for a mere half a minute. Honestly, I thought the transformation shown in the DLC trailer was a little tease for Cyber Sonic without showing off the full form, and... while I was half right, I was expecting that form to have a little more importance then what we got. In the end, the alternate Final Story was, as I said, a bit of an improvement overall. Was it perfect? No, not at all. But, it does show that Sega cares about Sonic, or is at least starting to care again. And, honestly, it's giving me hope for the future of Sonic games (sucks that Superstars was pretty underwhelming, but outside of that, I'm still optimistic)

Man, I would love some songs from hit sega game Flicky

I cheated to finish the stupid boss rush. And then I cheated to finish Nega Supreme or whatever. I spent almost as long trying to finish Update 3 as I did finishing the base game. I love the story elements present in the alternate timeline thing, as well as the additions of what felt like Frontiers 2 alpha mechanics, but it consistently felt like Sonic Team was taking out their frustration with the fanbase on everyone who dared try to play through the new content.

18:35 My exact reaction XD I love flying that thing everywhere

Was really looking forward to this!! Can’t wait to see what you thought!

great video, thoroughly enjoyed it! now when's the review on update 4 coming out

man, i love that lil bird thing. banger vid as always homie

RADICALSODA LIKES A MODERN SONIC GAME???? ITA A MIRACLE

Knuckles has used the homing attack in Sonic Dash and Super Smash Bros Ultimate (assist trophy) and a few other games

Hyper Sonic was *right* there, Sega!

21:44 good to see even a vet of sonic struggles with this bullshit 31:50 so an actual fact. If you literally just stick towards the middle you can _fly_ over damn near the entire stage with the spindash. It is stupid, but at the same time hilarious and clearly cyber tails did not know how to react cause he gets lost and rubber bands like CRAZY

I get the feeling from the cyberspace stages for Update 3 that they really learned something about how to make modern sonic platforming engaging and fun, and I really hope they take what they learned into future titles. I dread Sonic's curse of completely scrapping everything and starting over, this is the first time since Gens where it felt like they're trying to take what worked and make it better instead of reinventing things entirely. Which is ironic since the gameplay loop of Open Zone as a whole and the added combat kinda does that already, except now the "gimmick" is something that's actually been received decently. Fingers crossed!

And today I found out kellin has a song in the sonic franchise. Cool

4:40 No. They absolutely did not change the drift pads to be invisible. How on earth did you even manage to make that happen??

Sega got the idea for that 3-frame parry from Smash Bros. Ultimate where it is also terribly implemented.

Rob, just wanted to ask wether you'll ever review Sonic BOOM? I mean it is a LONG game, but in your quest to ben the one sonic guy (I'm joking but you made a similar joke yourself) I think it is the one game that apparently is as lowly regarded as 06, even though I don't understand that. Yes, they are unfinished, but they can be fun. Anyways, cheers for this video. It's a good one. can't wait to see what game you'll make a video on next.

The bombs are necessary to access higher platforms that are needed for 1 or 2 objectives in the level about the boxes

Noticed the miku-inspired figure in the intro, do you have enough thoughts on vocaloids to make a video about them?

27:09 Sanic Seizure

Love the cartoon segments!

Nah, I fucking HATE the tarot card gimmick for Amy. The thing that was once meant to ground her as a regular, everyday girl to a Japanese audience has now become this weird gimmick that's replaced her entire identity and has become the only thing Amy is nowadays. She is now the tarot card girl because she has that as a hobby. It's like making all of Tails' moveset and his entire identity based around mint just because he likes mint (not that the official social media haven't tried to do that, mind you). He wouldn't spin his tails, he wouldn't be smart, he wouldn't create any robots, he wouldn't be Sonic's friend. He would just be the guy who eats mint and throws mint at his opponents.

3:59 I think there's some kind of code on the hedgehog mod manager called "Fix air boost reset" in the codes section ofc.

27:14 Fleetway Super Sonic reference!

Knuckles had the homing attack in Rivals iirc

Lovin the scribbly art style in the thumbnail!

3:53 there's a code in the mod manager in the physics codes

Hell yeah an animated review

i Saw The Update 3 Ending BUT it Would be Bit Better! By 1: Playing As CyberSonic & Not SuperSonic 2 2: Supreme: The End Boss Battle Style Also Would be Better By Swapping SuperSonic 2 & his Super Friends Than WHY Didn’t We Go into Space AGAIN,By Beating The Normal Moon As CyberSonic & Seeing His Friends in CyberForms While The Moon Transform into Their ACTUAL “True End” a Titan Corruption The Purple Moon Combine ALL The TITANS Together Becoming a New Boss!

@Radical Soda, the purple koko, the news one, are intended to be collected so that sonic can move on with his tower trails, i figured it out when i was rushing the dlc, other than that, i think the cap for how many you need is low to begin with

Currently in the middle of this wondering why the combat challenges are so hard and the platforming became Only Up!

25:22 it's called that in the files but I don't really see that being it's real name, I've always called it overcharged supersonic

Thank you for giving me an entertaining video to watch while I had a nosebleed for 20 minutes. :)

31:24 - You roll up into a ball and get locked into it as you fall to your demise, huh? Sounds to me like Sonic got scammed, that's not the Spindash! It's -Grand Metropolis- Yoshi's Egg Roll from Smash Bros!

I don’t know if I mentioned this before but the reason there’s no Sonic 1 or 2 songs is that SEGA actually doesn’t own any of those songs. They have to ask permission from the composer first whenever they want to use it or remix songs from those games.

When this game first came out, I saw it as a 6/10 game. With the DLC, its an 8/10. Overall, pretty good for free content.

I had a dream last night that I won a RadicalSoda: Seasons 1-3 on Blu-Ray in an online giveaway. Weird coincidence.

Yeah so about that stomp boost reset after a jump, it’s not a mod, it’s just a code in the hedgemodmanager in the codes section