Sonic Frontiers - the game

[Sane]

This is my favourite part of the cycle . 

[Keyboard Koala]

 

Sold!!

[SMD]

fucking shit

[Keyboard Koala]

Overview trailer:

 

 

[Not Thread Owner]

This looks so shit. Even the palette seems wrong.

[Qazimod]

 

What? They're just going to drop emerald collecting and a Super transformation into a trailer like that?

 

Maybe the world is so open that each region has seven emeralds and a big boss to defeat in your Super form.  

[Down by Law]

I think this looks great (surprise surprise) Those bite sized arcade style , gotta go fast stages combined with the downtime of a huge overworked with stuff to do (and always fun, giant ramps to grind) seems like the perfect mix to me. 

 

Also Big the cat fishing game I mean come on now 🤣 better than Forces already 

 

[Nick R]

Nothing to do with Frontiers but here's an impressive fan-made cel-shaded Sonic:

 

 

[Keyboard Koala]

On 14/09/2022 at 08:12, deKay said:

This looks so shit. Even the palette seems wrong.

 

 

[Keyboard Koala]

On 14/09/2022 at 20:41, Down by Law said:

I think this looks great (surprise surprise) Those bite sized arcade style , gotta go fast stages combined with the downtime of a huge overworked with stuff to do (and always fun, giant ramps to grind) seems like the perfect mix to me. 

 

Also Big the cat fishing game I mean come on now  better than Forces already 

 

 

Forces was an utter abomination though. I was a fan of Colours, and I even found a lot to like in Lost World, and seeing as it's the same director (who also did Forces, but nvmd that one eh), here's hoping it might be a return to form. But this would mean that it's all on schedule with the whole Sonic cycle of course. 

[Down by Law]

 

4 minute combat overview. That parry and phantom rush looks pretty slick... still got a good feeling about this one

The music sounds like something from Nights. Hope it's in the full game

[Not Thread Owner]

13 hours ago, Down by Law said:

combat

What

[Cyhwuhx]

11 hours ago, deKay said:

What

 

'Hog of War: & Knuckles.

[Keyboard Koala]

12 hours ago, deKay said:

What

 

Good combat?

[cowfields]

Sonic one had combat. Unless you never got past act 3 of green hill zone as a conscientious objector. 
 

The combat should have been made kind of similar, ie run and dodge and get the odd jump in. Everyone politely hovering in mid air to allow sonic to sonic boom repeatedly is a bit odd. 
 

it looks like a good game to me. Just not really a sonic game. Like some kind of fan mod. 

[Down by Law]

 

2:45 👏

Looks like we're in for another great soundtrack at any rate. 150 tracks, 6 CDs.

There is also a 2LP and 4LP vinyl release from data discs, which is incomplete, but should carry all the main themes across.

 

 

[Kayin Amoh]

That is magnificent.

[mikeyl]

Instagram forced some ads for this game to me, know nothing about it. But what the hell Sonic Vs Shadow of the Colossus?? This looks amazing! It’s gonna be shit ain’t it?

[Kayin Amoh]

I'm optimistic. Not expecting a masterpiece, but I think I'll like it.

[mikeyl]

These things are always gonna be something like a 6/7 out of ten. Probably fundamentally impossible for a Sonic game to be a 10. But imagine the scenes.

[SMD]

Sonic Mania: "am I a joke to you?" 

[Keyboard Koala]

If it's closer to the quality and gameplay of Lost World and Colors rather than the tape-everywhere Forces, I might just get this one. 

[Down by Law]

Tomoya Ohtoni cyberspace levels mix. 4m mark goes pretty hard 😁

[Down by Law]

Loads of new footage here. Seems to be locked 60fps now, pop in still a but shit but positive impressions. "Combat is fun, exploration is exciting, and the story is exciting"

 

 

What we all really want though is the lo-fi chill Big the Cat Fishing Footage !

 

 

Contrast with the banging choonz of the Cyberspace gameplay

 

 

[Paulando]

I mean… every modern 3D Sonic level looks the same as the last one. A few springs, some floating enemies to homing attack, 3 rails that you switch between like a smartphone endless runner, an on-rails loop, then repeat.

[Keyboard Koala]

At least we're getting another one of those great cartoons to go with it:

 

 

[Down by Law]

Reviews drop this afternoon - fingers crossed its a good one. In the meantime heres someone who has really nailed the movement possibilities in Frontiers.

 

 

[Paulando]

Gah, obviously I’ll be looking at reviews first, and I’m acutely aware that 3D Sonic games have been shite for as long as there’s been 3D Sonic games, but it looks a fun game to mess around in. Like Burnout Paradise almost?

[Mr. Gerbik]

"Sonic Burnout" does feel like an appropriate name for a Sonic game now that you mention it!

[Paulando]

Can someone please get rid of that ‘neé Zap’ rubbish from the thread title.