we dont need 2d sonic fans making the 3d games

It’s set up like a tutorial, even though the game only really tells you a small handful of important details and leaves the rest for you to figure out. The game’s opening doesn’t do much to dissuade those suspicions either, as you’re initially thrown into a Green Hill (yes, again) inspired boost stage before being dumped on a rather bland linear path that has you solving incredibly simple puzzles and doing some very basic combat. It left me assuming that the boost stages would be the core focus of the game and that the larger areas basically just acted as large hubs to mess around in until the next one. Prior to release, the creators threw around the phrase ‘Open Zone’ whilst denying that was the same as Open World – but refusing to elaborate on why that is. That failure to get across how Sonic Frontiers actually plays is something that resulted in a certain degree of confusion going in, and that unfortunately leads to a pretty poor initial experience. Thankfully, this time their experiment worked. From that awful IGN gameplay footage to creator interviews where they fail to get across how the game actually plays, all signs pointed to yet another colossal flop for our hedgehog. Needless to say, when they announced Sonic Frontiers was going to be yet another radical shift in the formula, I wasn’t very optimistic. Sonic had an identity crisis, and Sega refused to stick with something and refine it instead, just throwing any new good concept into the bin and starting something new instead. The problem was that instead of building upon it, Sonic Team quickly started changing the formula so much that it got to a point where every single game was vastly different to the last. Sonic Adventure was a surprisingly competent adaption of the blue blur’s antics and, despite some issues here and there, laid a great foundation for what was to come.

We dont need 2d sonic fans making the 3d games