I bought Sonic Frontiers yesterday. I don’t know why, I thought it seemed interesting. Anyways I’m two hours in and so far I think it kinda sucks. It’s so unpolished and feels very cheap. My least favorite thing about it is the visuals and the music. It feels like it takes place in the movie Annihilation or something. Even the “normal” Sonic levels feel weirdly creepy and sad. Also why does Sonic sound like he’s 40 years old? Also the level design is ridiculous, it just feels like there’s random stuff everywhere. I feel like kind of a sucker for buying this game for $60. But I do like the fact that Big the Cat is in it.
It had that hugely negative buzz when it premiered because it looked so empty and boring. All the iconic music gone and replaced with ambient sounding music.
Then it seems like the fanbase jumped on the negativity to try and counter it, because as soon as the demo was released, there was a bunch of praise for the game.
But I was just over here looking at it thinking, nah, this still looks as bland and empty as the trailers. Like what the heck?