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The Sonic Frontiers *SPOILER* Thread (With Unmarked Spoilers)

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  1. JaxTH

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    Jack shit.
    There is legit just a Sonic 3 screenshot while Knuckles is having a flashback on the second island.
     
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  2. OK so I'm officially done with this game for now. Accidently overwrote my save file and I'm back at the beginning and I'm no mood to replay it.

    Maybe later, I dunno. have fun

    I'm out.
     
  3. JaxTH

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    Jack shit.
    What about the auto-save?
     
  4. What do you think I'm referring to...
     
  5. Turbohog

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    Okay, I'm a few hours in and I'm at the second island. So far, I'm having much more fun with the open world than I expected (although I would much prefer something more physics based like Sonic Utopia). The cyber stages are by far the worst part of the game. I didn't play Forces, but the levels seem on par with that game's levels, maybe worse. Sonic just handles weird in cyber space and is frustrating to control. The cyber levels also just are not really fun or interesting? Nothing even remotely close to unleashed/generations quality. In a sequel, I hope they abandon boost stages completely and make more Adventure-esque stages that retain the control of the open world.

    Also, there is an absolutely terrible puzzle required to proceed to the first boss. It seems possible to get into a state where it can literally not be finished until you restart the game.
     
  6. UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGH,

    I have to do that puzzle again....
     
  7. Turbohog

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    There is already a short guide on YouTube for it here:

    I highly recommend using it. I figured out the state of my puzzle became unsolvable because it literally had a different beginning state than the video.

    Some combat thoughts: it's decent, but not really what I look for in a Sonic game. It devolves into button mashing for me - especially with Super Sonic. I like the cyloop in combat though.

    More cyberspace thoughts: I really don't understand why they didn't copy paste textures from more levels. Green Hill in particular gets old extremely fast.
     
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    Cyberspace has rolling physics, but only when you let go of the stick? This tweet goes into it in more detail. No spoilers in said tweet but I figured to post it here just in case. It's very odd and explains a lot of the pre-release footage we've seen when it comes to rolling in cyberspace stages.
    https://twitter.com/NexusD98/status/1589049806701621249
     
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    So uh, cosmetics? Are the cross-promotional stuff we've seen all there is to wear in the game? Are there no unlockable skins on top of that?
     
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    I did not unlock any cosmetics in the first island. Doesn't look like that's in the game.

    Another criticism: Modern Sonic Team is embarrassingly over-reliant on springs, dash panels, zip-lines, rainbow-rings, grind rails, and balloons. There is functionally no difference between any of the islands because none of them have unique gimmicks. Having some unique gameplay differences between the islands (and the awful cyber stages) would go a long way in keeping things fresh.
     
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  11. JaxTH

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    My problem is I think things should be more automated than they are. Sometimes you NEED to double jump into a boost but it's over a bottomless pits while you are grinding for example.

    Also the third island sucks, but I did so much fishing that all the emeralds automatically unlocked so I won't have to do any cyber stages there. I think I've only done five cyber stages total so far.
     
  12. Childish

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    huh that's interesting... Could you eloborate on it? I'm curious if it's from Origins or original Sonic 3.
     
  13. JaxTH

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    Jack shit.
    It was a screenshot of Knuckles chuckling on Angel Island right after he takes the emeralds from Sonic.
     
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    And since the screenshot was in widescreen and Knuckles had his player palette, safe to assume it's from headcannon's version.
     
  15. Childish

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    I find funny it's just a screenshot. Guess they still don't wanna make a classic model for knuckles lol. Are there any other interesting references?
     
  16. I've been avoiding this thread in general, because I want to go in as blind as possible, but I did accidentally see a video on Twitter of Sonic boosting into an angled piece of geometry in the open world and being sent absolutely flying across the map. It reminded me a lot of SA1, where you could get a ridiculous amount of airtime with the spindash. I had loads of fun as a kid spindashing like a maniac and skipping chunks of the levels. I hope they don't patch the physics to 'fix' them - keep 'em busted. It's more fun that way lol
     
  17. Harper

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    Tails references his past adventures and it shows screenshots of SA1 and Forces.
     
  18. Mana

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    That's overthinking it. They just wanted to reference the Classic game with a screenshot. Classic Sonic's head sprite shows up in a few places as a "health bar" for a few specific challenges too.
     
  19. Dark Sonic

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    Seems like this story is going out of its way to tear down all previous universe walls and dump them all back into one, more cohesive yet chronologically confusing universe. Bout time.

    Flynn once again cleaning up the messes he was given, only this time it was Sega’s mess and not Archie’s/Penders’
     
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    People likely won't give them it, but Sonic Team should get more credit for how they conveyed the story as well.

    I remember people skeptical about how Sonic Team will put the penned paper into the digital video game environment, but the character animation*, expression, and framing also does a lot to make the writing work.
     
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