While this might appear as a standard open-world game on the surface, in practice it’s actually something that plays out like a much faster version of Super Mario Odyssey or Banjo-Kazooie.Īlthough it takes a lot of cues from the ‘boost’ style Sonic games, where Sonic can move at intense speeds at the press of a button, it’s much more freeform than before. Littered around each map are a series of platforming challenges, puzzles, enemies and bosses to fight, and a whole lot of collectible doohickeys. Rather than take on a series of levels in a linear order, Sonic is instead let loose to run around enormous islands, going wherever and doing whatever he pleases. The key differentiator between Sonic Frontiers and all its predecessors comes down to the new ‘open zone’ format the game touts. Sonic Team seems to have taken those criticisms quite personally, as we now have Sonic Frontiers, their grandest and most experimental game to date. It and its predecessor Sonic Lost World were seen as average-at-best experiments, being lamented for being lesser experiences and their lack of ambition.
Five years ago, Sonic Forces released to an overwhelmingly mild reception. It’s been quite a while since the last mainline Sonic game.
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