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shikamaru317 on 16 January 2023
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Finished off Sonic Frontiers just now with 1000 GS. My thoughts:

The Good

  • Best storyline in a Sonic game to date, by quite some margin. Lots of touching moments and some big moments of character development for side characters, coupled with a fascinating backstory about the alien race who brought the chaos emeralds to Earth
  • Best combat in a Sonic game to date, the action RPG like combat upgrades are a big step forward for the series
  • The open world design is great, a nice mix of open world games that came before coupled with very Sonic like small platforming challenges and puzzles scattered throughout
  • Fantastic soundtrack, as is usual of Sonic games
  • Great performances by the voice cast, their best work to date imo
  • Boss fights were tons of fun
  • Fun Nier Automata like bullet hell hacking minigame
  • Tons of nostalgic nods to earlier games in the series, including a pinball minigames loosely based on Sonic Spinball
  • I encountered no bugs of noteworthiness

The Not So Good

  • There are a few minigames that gate you off from main story progression which can be a tad difficult at times
  • The speed/ring upgrades are painfully slow, you lose nearly an hour getting all 99 levels of each, as each point is spent one at a time, with a slow little animation that plays on each upgrade, in addition to a poorly designed UI here that makes backing out the top option, meaning you need to D-pad back down to your upgrade after spending each point. Sonic Team could easily patch in an option to spend points 10 or 20 at a time and fixing the UI, but so far haven't after 2 months on the market.
  • Speed upgrades only change your boost speed when not at max ring count, would have been nice if speed upgrades improved your base, non-boost speed, as well as some small boosts to your supercharged, max ring count boost speed
  • A few of the open world platforming challenges have frustrating camera locks, which you can accidentally enter, and then have to backtrack to exit
  • The rather meh jumping physics haven't really been improved now after several games in a row, jumps still feel overly floaty with poor in air direction changing and landing aiming. The 2D platforming sections in particularly feel way too floaty at times

Overall score: 9.1/10

Definitely the best 2022 game I have played so far, only TMNT comes close.