Sonic Frontiers Thread - PS4, PS5, Xbox, Switch, PC

they are optional, they even went on record in saying so

I bet that a "no cyberspace walkthrough" is possible

 

what

 

This scream is probably the most pained death scream Sonic has ever done, dude sounds like he's passing a kidney stone

 

That scream is hilarious! Somehow, it also sounds genuinely pained and sincere.

 

https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkxpl4rnby_AyML3IXmc4bqGg98lgBJnwj6
I like the fact that they referenced SA1 fishing theme but then they change it in such a way that now it sounds incomplete and it triggers my OCD every time I hear it
https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkx9EnyZG8cZab6gX6Il_cqdGUAOkqQTKZr

 

Seeing Unleashed again shows just how beautiful and gorgeous that game looked in 2008 and how unpolished Frontiers looks today by comparison. It's like the engine wasn't optimized for this game.

 

Oh wait, no, I'm sorry, my mistake, both 8-yeae-old Jimmy and 42-year-old Samantha will recognize that this specific curve of terrain is from Sky Babylon Act 2 from Sonic Rush Adventure for the Nintendo DS, toss their controller in abject rage, and vow to never ever play a Cyber Space level again.

/s just to be clear

It's a bug.

https://xcancel.com/Sonic_Frontier/status/1584827898753871872?t=DfYLFSFW2LUSGRZdfbZI4Q&s=19

 

Crazy how I feel like they went from showing too little about the game to WAY too much for my liking. I stopped watching movie trailers and extended game previews about 2 years ago because I found myself enjoying things more without loaded expectations, good or bad, due to trailers and I found myself enjoying things a lot more.

I've only watched the previews for the first island and have been trying to avoid any other clips as much as possible because I want more of the game to be a surprise than not. I think they've shown enough to sell the average person on the game at least in any case.

It's cool for people who want to see as much as possible before November 4th but for me this has been enough.

 

I don't think there is any Sonic game that has this much rail grinding, has there?

 

Aventure 2 had its fair share of it, but this game takes it to the next level from what we've seen yeah. Wish we had physics to go along with it!

 

Heroes had two entire levels dedicated to just rail grinding, and it doesn't exactly let up afterward.

 

IIRC they said the game doesn't have much rail grinding in your initial playthrough but they add more as you clear more cyberspace levels to make it easier to backtrack.

If you're talking about during Cyberspace then I haven't watched any trailer since September so you can disregard what I'm saying here but that's what they said is going on in the open zone.

 

Heroes is the first time grinding became annoyingly overdone to me. SA2 had a pretty amazing implementation considering it was their first attempt. Outside the huge downward spiral in the beginning of Final Rush, most grinding sections kept you pretty active. Even that part of Final Rush tried with the item boxes on parallel rails, but with the rail switch being so janky, I rarely ever try (in fact, I imagine most of us just drop down and land near the bottom anyway lol).

 

Ngl I’m excited to play a version of Sky Rail where I’m not shitting myself over every single bottomless pit because I’m so afraid rail switching or homing attacking the wrong way will kill me.

 

Found this on reddit, it's a map of Kronos Island.

Spoiler: Spoilers for those who don't want to see the full map of Kronos Island has

I'm going to assume that the gigantic unexplored landmass is the parts of the world the Voice doesn't want you to go through. Also notice that all of the Emeralds are in the bottom half (the last Emerald you get when fighting the titan, as seen in the TGS trailer).

Sooooo yeah, you're definitely coming back to the island. I'm pretty sure the little pond on the top left is this area too:

 

Hopefully next Sonic game I can be excited to play some new 3D levels, it has been such a long time since we last got some of those that are actually well-designed and fun to replay.

 

Oh sweet, looks like there's a lot to do. Can't wait!

 

Ian Flynn was interviewed by Famitsu.
https://www.famitsu.com/news/202210/24280337.html

 

That's awesome.

 

Holy damn, this is actually pretty badass.

https://xcancel.com/existingdebeing/status/1584894367395123200

The Spin Slash -> Parry -> Phantom Rush -> Quick Cyloop -> Grand Slam combo was actually amazing.

EDIT: Oh my Christ, two clips.

https://xcancel.com/iTsDakiii/status/1584918577374793735

In this one, the player USED THE TRICK SYSTEM TO DODGE THE PROJECTILES then Drop Dashed away. Holy shit.