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

I figure there will be day 1 patches? I'm not sure it's worth it to check it BestBuy is breaking the street date. (Probably not)

 

It seems like you can use the Spin Cycle to spam short cycles and max out on rings, get collectibles, etc. There doesn't seem to be any limit on it, so that's an easy way to cheese the difficulty.

 

This is probably my favorite song from the game so far.

This kind of high octane is the stuff I absolutely love and even if the fight is half the quality of the song I'll be satisfied, music absolutely makes experiences for me.

 

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Can someone confirm if it's true that there's only 3 Playable Islands? The marketing and even the playable Demos showed 5 Islands so it's gonna suck if that is the case.

 

It was already confirmed there will have 5 islands, even the name of the last two was unintentionally revealed at the Sonic Official Stream.

 

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* Game is still fun, but I think Ares Island is my least favorite island so far aesthetically. Nowhere near as beautiful to look at as Kronos.

* My favorite thing to do is drop dash out of a trick into an air boost. Shit never fails to be satisfying.

* The enemy encounters are definitely getting progressively harder, so I will need to master combat soon.

* QTE's are back....lovely.

* Sonic & Knuckles banter is good.

* Eggman & SAGE have that parental relationship going on....oh boy; anyone who has has seen Neon Genesis Evangelion should know where this is going.



I'm still enjoying myself, but they definitely put way more attention and detail into Kronos.

 

Last two island spoilers:

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Yeeaaah about that

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In addition, another player finished Kronos at 100% completion and all this was blocked off, despite returning to the island to complete it:


Edit: And just to confirm

 

Yeaaaaah this month's gonna be the month of Ragnarok for me. I can't believe how little shit this game appears to actually have in it. It's bad enough that the art direction is this lifeless, but having even less stuff than I was expecting is just woof.

 

Super Knuckles gets mentioned, though it's in "quotes" so it's probably meant to be a joke.

 

Getting into a Drop Dash is pretty easy once you learn it, double with the fact that you can double jump from anything like a spring.

I know for a fact that in Mania you can only Drop Dash from a jump and not simply being in ball form.

 

"it would take three times as long to 100% the game" was definitelu an exaggeration, lol. I can easily see people less experienced than a regular Sonic fan taking 20 hours to beat the story, but definitely not much more than that to 100%.

 

Someone tell me how to manually save in this damn game. You can't save while doing any kind of challenge yet there are challenges around you all the time!

 

The opening overworld tutorial section seems to prevent you from saving at all, but after that once you are standing still on solid ground it will allow you to save.

 

Shadow the Hedgehog aliens and Riders aliens mentioned
The little chao mask things' true forms are aliens that look like Chaos
Chaos Emeralds originally came from their planet and came to the Sonic planet because they were drawn to the Master Emerald
There are Robotnik voice recordings you can find called Egg Memos that explain some stuff from his side
The final boss is a QTE. Lol.

In a mildly hilarious twist of fate, it seems that this game's strongest point is actually its story and characters. Though I think it suffers from the usual problem this writer has with everything being references and "remember whens". It's nice and all that everyone gets good story moments, but I'd sacrifice all of that (and probably buy the game) if you could actually play as them.

Every time Sonic frees one of them from their Ideya Capture, he suffers from further corruption. By the time he frees all three of them, he is totally corrupted and goes into a coma. Rather than doing the amazing thing and suddenly revealing that you can now play as Tails, Knuckles, and Amy and need to finish Sonic's mission for him, they all just decide to go back into their cages so Sonic can continue to be the singular playable character.

 

Pretty sure it took me longer to platinum Forces…

That was probably mostly due to grinding out multiple Avatars, but still

 

Welll....that's still longer than Forces tbf.

 

I wouldn't want a longer game personally. Like at all.
If anything, I'm actually pretty happy this didn't turn out to be a ubisoft grindfest with stupidly large maps, a skill tree larger than the amazon rainforest and a thousand different collectibles that don't do anything.
Like did anyone actually sit down and collect the ten billion korok seeds in BotW? How is this fun?

I mean the "open zone" moniker makes a lot of sense if we think about it.
This really feels like an evolution of what Adventure and Unleashed brought to the table, basically beefing up the hub worlds at the cost of the action stages.
What I'd want for the next game is to keep expending on both so we can reach a point where these two elements are of equal value...wishful thinking, maybe? I honestly don't know with Sonic Team haha, but I'm pretty excited to see what the future brings :p

 

People are mostly pointing out length because of Kishimoto's statements, some people in particular (premydemy) seem incredibly invested in proving that he totally lied.

12 hours to beat the game is amazing for a Sonic game. I agree I'd rather have that than a bloated mess. It takes longer to platinum Forces but that's entirely because of the immense amounts of grinding and repetition to get all the Avatar gear.

Again, another thing I'd praise, it doesn't wear out it's welcome. Took me over two hours to find mostly everything in Kronos Island (i feel people would take slightly longer otherwise) and that was a busy two hours. Got halfway through the skill tree (though I've done a lot of air tricks) and got my ATK to lvl. 10.

Leveling up Speed seems realllly slow, though. I think I got 20 Kocos and that amounted to... one level lol.