Sonic The Hedgehog Games

Which game do you play the most in Sonic Mega Collection?

  • Sonic 1

    Votes: 27 4.8%
  • Sonic 2

    Votes: 103 18.2%
  • Sonic 3 and Knuckles

    Votes: 223 39.4%
  • Sonic 3D Blast

    Votes: 19 3.4%
  • Sonic Spinball

    Votes: 23 4.1%
  • Dr. Robotnik's Meanbean Machine

    Votes: 79 14.0%
  • they're all good in my opinion

    Votes: 92 16.3%

  • Total voters
    566
Finished and platinumed Sonic Frontiers today(wanted to beat it before the new Pokémon) and I think this is definitely one of the better Sonic games in a long time. It had some issues, but I actually really want them to stick with this gameplay style and just improve upon it, because I think with a few tweaks it could be a great standards for Sonic games. Story was actually really good too, actually fleshing out and developed characters as well as introducing a really good one(seriously, Eggman becoming a dad is something weirdly interesting that I want more of.

Boss fights were a great spectacle, exploring the zones was fun, and just sprinting full tilt across the landscape was a lot of fun. There’s still a bit of jank there, of course, but I’d say it’s a really solid/good 7 or 8 out of 10 overall.

8/10 is me letting out my full Sonic fanboy, admittedly.
Speaking of 8/10...

 
X-posting from the Balan Wonderworld thread:
>Insider trading
>in Japan since the Nomura case (2012) and the subsequent tightening of the law for this specific crime in 2013

lol, lmao even. Get fucked, Naka. Even if it is his first crime, he's going to lose more money than he wanted to get from this.
Here is the english translation of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act, where this and other financial crimes are regulated in Japan.

Here is the info and the pages so that you can look it up for yourself, I did shorten some things though:
Crime:
Article 166 (Prohibited Acts of Corporate Insiders)
  • (1) A person listed in any of the following items (hereinafter referred to as a "Corporate Insider" in this Article) who has come to know a Material Fact Pertaining to Business or Other Matters of a Listed Company, etc. (in the case of a Corporate Insider pertaining to a Subsidiary Company of the Listed Company, etc. (excluding a person who falls under the category of Corporate Insider pertaining to the Listed Company, etc.), limited to any Material Fact Pertaining to Business or Other Matters of the Subsidiary Company that are listed in items (5) to (8 ) of the following paragraph; the same shall apply hereinafter) in a manner as prescribed in the respective items shall not make sales or purchase, other types of transfer for value or acceptance of such transfer for value, or Derivative Transactions (hereinafter referred to as "Sales and Purchase, etc." in this Article) of Specified Securities, etc. pertaining to the Listed Company, etc. before the material facts pertaining to business or other matters are Publicized. The same shall apply for one year to a Corporate Insider who comes to know a Material Fact Pertaining to Business or Other Matters of the Listed Company, etc. in a manner as prescribed in any of the following items even after he/she ceased to be a Corporate Insider listed in the items:
    • (i) an Officer (in cases where the accounting advisor is a juridical person, a member of the accounting advisor), agent, employee or other worker (hereinafter referred to as "Officers, etc." in this and the following Article) of the Listed Company, etc. (including its Parent Company and Subsidiary Companies; hereinafter the same shall apply in this paragraph): where such Officers, etc. has come to know a material fact in the course of his/her duty;
    • (ii) a shareholder who has the right prescribed in Article 433(1) of the Companies Act, an ordinary equity investor prescribed in the Act on Preferred Equity Investment who is specified by a Cabinet Office Ordinance as being deemed to have the right similar to said right, or a member who has the right prescribed in Article 433(3) of said Act of the Listed Company, etc. (including an Officer, etc. of such a shareholder, ordinary equity investor or member in cases where such a shareholder, ordinary equity investor or member is a juridical person (including an organization without judicial personality for which the representative person or administrator has been designated; hereinafter the same shall apply in this Article and the following Article), and an agent or employee of such a shareholder, ordinary equity investor or member in cases where such a shareholder, ordinary equity investor or member is a person other than a juridical person): where such a shareholder, ordinary equity investor or member has come to know a material fact in the course of exercise of the right;
    • (iii) a person who has statutory authority over the Listed Company, etc.: where such a person has come to know a material fact in the course of exercise of the authority;
    • (iv) a person other than an Officer, etc. of the Listed Company, etc. who has concluded, or is in negotiation to conclude, a contract with the Listed Company, etc. (including an Officer, etc. of such a person in cases where such a person is a juridical person, and an agent or employee of such a person in cases where such a person is a person other than a juridical person): where such a person has come to know a material fact in the course of conclusion of, negotiation for, or performance of the contract; and
    • (v) an Officer, etc. of a person listed in item (ii) or the preceding item who is a juridical person (limited to the Officer, etc. of the juridical person in cases where other Officer, etc. of the juridical person, for which said Officer, etc. works, comes to know a Material Fact Pertaining to Business or Other Matters of a Listed Company, etc. as prescribed in item (ii) or the preceding item): where such an Officer, etc. has come to know a material fact in the course of his/her duty.
  • (2) The term "Material Fact Pertaining to Business or Other Matters" as used in the preceding paragraph means any of the following facts (excluding a fact which is regarded under the criteria specified by a Cabinet Office Ordinance as one that may have only minor influence on investors' Investment Decisions with regard to item (i), (ii), (v) and (vi)):
    • (i) a decision by the organ of the Listed Company, etc. which is responsible for making decisions on the execution of the operations of the Listed Company, etc. to carry out any of the following matters, or a decision by said organ not to carry out the matter which is decided to be carried out in such a decision (limited to acts that have already been Publicized):
      • (a) solicitation of persons who subscribe for shares issued or treasury shares disposed of by a stock company (including persons who subscribe for preferred equity investment issued by a Cooperative Structured Financial Institution) as prescribed in Article 199(1) of the Companies Act - 765 - (including solicitation to be made under laws and regulations in a foreign state equivalent to that provision of the Companies Act (limited to cases where the Listed Company, etc. is a foreign company; hereinafter the same shall apply in this Article) in the case of solicitation for persons who subscribe for treasury shares), or solicitation of persons who subscribe for Share Options for Subscription as prescribed in Article 238(1) of said Act;
      • (b) reduction of the amount of the stated capital;
      • (c) reduction of the amount of capital reserve or retained earnings reserve;
      • (d) acquisition of its own shares by the Listed Company, etc. as prescribed in Article 156(1) of the Companies Act (including the cases where it is applied by replacing certain terms under the provisions of Articles 163 and 165 (3) of said Act) or under laws and regulations in a foreign state equivalent to these provisions of said Act (limited to cases where the Listed Company, etc. is a foreign company; hereinafter the same shall apply in this Article);
      • (e) allotment of share without contribution;
      • f) share split (including split of preferred equity investment prescribed in the Act on Preferred Equity Investment);
      • (g) dividend of surplus;
      • (h) share exchange;
      • (i) share transfer;
      • (j) merger;
      • (k) company split;
      • (l) transfer or acquisition of transfer of whole or part of its business;
      • (m) dissolution (excluding dissolution as a result of merger);
      • (n) commercialization of new products or new technology; or
      • (o) business alliance or other matters specified by a Cabinet Order as those equivalent to the matters listed in (a) to (n).
    • (ii) the occurrence of any of the following facts in the Listed Company, etc.:
      • (a) damage arising from disaster or in the course of performing operations;
      • (b) any change of its Major Shareholders;
      • (c) facts that may be a ground for delisting or recession of registration of Regulated Securities or Options pertaining thereto; or
      • (d) matters specified by a Cabinet Order as those equivalent to the matters listed in (a) to (c).
    • (iii) existence of difference (limited to that which is regarded under the criteria specified by a Cabinet Office Ordinance as a difference that may have a material influence on investors' Investment Decisions) between, on one hand, the latest Publicized forecasts (or Publicized actual figures of the preceding business year in the case of lack of such forecasts) of net sales, current profits or net income (hereinafter referred to as "Net Sales, etc." in this Article) or of the dividend prescribed in (g) of item (i) of the Listed Company, etc. or of Sales, etc. of the Corporate Group to which the Listed Company, etc. belongs, and, on the other hand, new forecasts thereof newly prepared by the Listed Company, etc. or the results in the settlement of - 767 - account for the business year of the Listed Company, etc.;
    • (iv) in addition to the facts specified in the preceding three items, material facts concerning operation, business or property of the Listed Company, etc. that may have a significant influence on investors' Investment Decisions;
    • (v) a decision by the organ of a Subsidiary Company of the Listed Company, etc. which is responsible for making decisions on the execution of the operations of the Subsidiary Company to have the Subsidiary Company carry out any of the following matters, or a decision by said organ not to have the Subsidiary Company carry out the matter which is decided to be carried out in such a decision (limited to acts that have already been Publicized):
      • (a) share exchange;
      • (b) share transfer;
      • (c) merger;
      • (d) company split;
      • (e) transfer or acquisition of transfer of whole or part of its business;
      • (f) dissolution (excluding dissolution as a result of merger);
      • (g) commercialization of new products or new technology; or
      • (h) business alliance or other matters specified by a Cabinet Order as those equivalent to the matters listed in (a) to (g).
    • (vi) occurrence of any of the following facts in a Subsidiary Company of the Listed Company, etc.:
      • (a) damage arising from disaster or in the course of performing operations; or
      • (b) any of the matters specified by a Cabinet Order as those equivalent to the matter specified in (a).
    • (vii) existence of difference (limited to that which is regarded under the criteria specified by a Cabinet Office Ordinance as a difference that may have a material influence on investors' Investment Decisions) between, on one hand, the latest Publicized forecasts (or Publicized actual figures of the preceding business year in the case of lack of such forecasts) of Net Sales, etc. of a Subsidiary Company (limited to a Subsidiary Company which has issued Securities specified in Article 2(1)(v), (vii) or (ix) and listed in a Financial Instruments Exchange or other Subsidiary Company specified by a Cabinet Office Ordinance) of the Listed Company, etc., and, on the other hand, new forecasts thereof newly prepared by the Subsidiary Company or the results in the settlement of account for the business year of the Subsidiary Company; or
    • (viii) in addition to the facts specified in the preceding three items, material facts concerning operation, business or property of a Subsidiary Company of the Listed Company, etc. that may have a significant influence on investors' Investment Decisions.
  • (3) A person who has received from a Corporate Insider (including a Corporate Insider prescribed in the second sentence of paragraph (1); hereinafter the same shall apply in this paragraph) information on a Material Fact Pertaining to Business or Other Matters referred to in paragraph (1) that the Corporate Insider has come to know in a manner as prescribed in any of the items of said paragraph (excluding a person who is listed in any of the items of said paragraph and has come to know the Material Fact Pertaining to Business or Other Matters in a manner as prescribed in the respective items of said paragraph), or other Officer, etc. of a juridical person who comes to know such a Material Fact Pertaining to Business or Other Matters in relation to the duty of a person who also belongs to the juridical person and has received information on the Material Fact Pertaining to Business or Other Matters in the course of his/her duty, shall not make sales or purchases, etc. of Regulated Securities, etc. of the Listed Company, etc. before the Material Fact Pertaining to Business or Other Matters is Publicized.
  • (4) The term "Publicized" as used in paragraph (1), items (i), (iii), (v) and (vii) of paragraph (2) and the preceding paragraph means taking, by the Listed Company, etc. or the Subsidiary Company of the Listed Company, etc., of measures specified by a Cabinet Order as those for making information available to a large number of persons with regard to the Material Fact Pertaining to Business or Other Matters referred to in paragraph (1) of the Listed Company, etc., the decision by the organ of the Listed Company, etc. which is responsible for making decisions on the execution of the operations of the Listed Company, etc., Net Sales, etc. or the dividend prescribed in (g) of item (i) of paragraph (2) of the Listed Company, etc., Sales, etc. of the - 770 - Corporate Group to which the Listed Company, etc. belongs, the decision by the organ of the Subsidiary Company of the Listed Company, etc. which is responsible for making decisions on the execution of the operations of the Subsidiary Company or Net Sales, etc. of the Subsidiary Company of the Listed Company, etc. (in the case of the Subsidiary Company, limited to the Material Fact Pertaining to Business or Other Matters referred to in paragraph (1) of the Subsidiary Company, the decision by the organ of the Subsidiary Company which is responsible for making decisions on the execution of the operations of the Subsidiary Company or Net Sales, etc. of the Subsidiary Company; hereinafter the same shall apply in this paragraph), or making documents specified in Article 25(1) (excluding documents specified in Article 25(1)(xi)) submitted by the Listed Company, etc. or the Subsidiary Company of Listed Company, etc. available for public inspection under Article 25(1) in cases where the above-mentioned matters are stated in these documents.
  • (5) The term "Parent Company" as used in paragraph (1) and the following Article means a company which falls under the category of company specified by a Cabinet Order as that have a control of another company (including a Cooperative Structured Financial Institution; hereinafter the same shall apply in this paragraph) as specified by a Cabinet Order, and the term "Subsidiary Company" as used in this Article means a company stated as a company which belongs to the Corporate Group to which another company belongs in the latest statement prescribed in Article 5(1), the latest Annual Securities Report prescribed in Article 24(1), the latest Quarterly Securities Report prescribed in Article 24-4-7(1) or (2), or the latest Semiannual Securities Report prescribed in Article 24-5(1) submitted by the other company which have been made available for public inspection under Article 25(1).
  • (6) The provisions of paragraphs (1) and (3) shall not apply to the following - 771 - cases:
    • (i) where a person who has the right prescribed in Article 202(1)(i) of the Companies Act (including the right to receive an allotment of preferred equity investment prescribed in the Act on Preferred Equity Investment) acquires share certificates (including preferred equity investment certificates prescribed in the Act on Preferred Equity Investment) by exercising said right;
    • (ii) where a person who has a share option acquires share certificates by exercising said share option;
    • (ii-2) a person who has acquired an option pertaining to Regulated Securities, etc. makes Sales and Purchase, etc. of Regulated Securities, etc. by exercising the option;
    • (iii) where purchase of shares is demanded under Articles 116(1), 469(1), 785(1), 797(1) or 806(1) or sales or purchases, etc. is made under statutory obligations;
    • (iv) where purchase (or acquisition, in case of an option; the same shall apply in the following item) or other type of acceptance of transfer for value of Regulated Securities, etc. of the Listed Company, etc. or an option pertaining to sales and purchase thereof (limited to an option of which - 772 - exercise will place the person exercising it in the position of the buyer in the transaction to be conducted based on it) is made in response to a request made by a decision of the board of directors of the Listed Company, etc. (including a request made by a decision of an executive officer, in the case of a company with Committees) in order to cope with a Tender Offer for Share Certificates, etc. (meaning Share Certificates, etc. as defined in Article 27-2(1)) of the Listed Company, etc. launched under Article 27-2(1) (limited to cases where the main clause of Article 27-2(1) applies) or other act specified as one equivalent to such a Tender Offer in a Cabinet Order;
    • (iv-2) where, after resolution of a shareholder meeting or board of directors of the Listed Company, etc. (including a decision of an executive officer in the case of a company with Committees) (limited to resolution on the matters listed in any of the items of Article 156(1) of Companies Act) made under Article 156(1) of said Act (including the cases where it is applied by replacing certain terms under the provisions of Articles 163 and 165(3) of said Act; hereinafter the same shall apply in this item) or resolution or - 773 - other similar decision of the Listed Company, etc. made under laws and regulations of a foreign state equivalent to these provisions with regard to acquisition of own shares provided in Article 156(1) of said Act or laws and regulations of a foreign state equivalent to these provisions (these resolutions or decisions are hereinafter referred to as "Resolution of Shareholder Meeting, etc." in this item) is Publicized as provided by paragraph (1) (including a decision of the organ of the Listed Company, etc. which is responsible for making decisions on the execution of the operations of the Listed Company, etc., when the Resolution of Shareholder Meeting, etc. has the same content as the organ's decision and it has been Publicized as provided by paragraph (1) before the Resolution of Shareholder Meeting, etc. is made), purchase of share certificates of said own shares, Securities indicating the rights pertaining to such share certificates specified in Article 2(1)(xx) or other Securities specified by a Cabinet Order (hereinafter referred to as "Share Certificates, etc." in this item) or an option pertaining to sales and purchases of the Share Certificates, etc. (limited to an option of which exercise will place the person exercising it in the position of the buyer in the transaction to be conducted based on it; hereinafter the same shall apply in this item) is made under the Resolution of Shareholder Meeting, etc. (excluding the cases where no Material Fact Pertaining to Business or Other Matters provided in paragraph (1) other than the decision on acquisition of said own shares made by the organ of the Listed Company, etc. which is responsible for making decisions on the execution of the operations of the Listed Company, etc. has been Publicized as provided in said paragraph (excluding the cases where purchase of Share Certificates, etc. of said own shares or an option pertaining to such Share Certificates, etc. is made pursuant to this item with regard to acquisition of own shares under Article 156(1) of said Act or laws and regulations of a foreign state equivalent thereto other than acquisition of said own shares));
    • (v) where Sales and Purchase, etc. is made pursuant to the provisions of a Cabinet Order referred to in Article 159(3);
    • (vi) where Sales and Purchase, etc. of bonds (excluding bond with share option) or other Securities specified by a Cabinet Order is made (excluding cases designated in a Cabinet Office Ordinance);
    • (vii) where Sales and Purchase, etc. is made between persons falling under any of the categories specified in paragraph (1) or (3) through neither a Financial Instruments Exchange Market nor an Over-the-Counter Securities Market (excluding the cases where both parties in the Sales and Purchase, etc. recognize that Sales and Purchase, etc. of Regulated Securities, etc. pertaining to the Sales and Purchase, etc. is to be made further in violation of the provision of paragraph (1) or (3)); or
    • (viii) where Sales and Purchase, etc. is made as performance of a contract for Sales and Purchase, etc. of Regulated Securities, etc. of the Listed Company, etc. concluded before coming to know a Material Fact Pertaining to Business or Other Matters prescribed in paragraph (1) of the Listed Company, etc. or as implementation of a plan for Sales and Purchase, etc. of Regulated Securities, etc. of the Listed Company, etc. decided before coming to know a Material Fact Pertaining to Business or Other Matters of the Listed Company, etc., or where Sales and Purchase, etc. that is obviously based on other special circumstances equivalent to these cases is made (limited to cases specified by a Cabinet Office Ordinance).

Punishments (added comments here but IANAL, so take these with a grain of salt):
  • A person who falls under any of the following items shall be punished by imprisonment with work for not more than five years or by a fine of not more - 863 - than five million yen, or both: (...)
    • (xiii) a person who has violated the provisions of Article 166(1) or (3) or Article 167 (1) or (3).
Just as described here.
  • (1) The following property shall be confiscated; provided, however, that in cases where it is not appropriate to confiscate whole or part of said property in light of the situation of its acquisition, progress in performance of the obligation to pay damages, and other circumstances, such property may be exempted from confiscation:
    • (i) property gained through criminal acts set forth in Article 197(1)(v) or (2) or Article 197-2(xiii); and
    • (ii) property gained in exchange for property set forth in the preceding item, or in cases where property set forth in the preceding item is an option or other rights, property gained through exercising said rights.
  • (2) When the property is to be confiscated under the provisions of the preceding paragraph and if it is impossible to confiscate it, the value thereof shall be collected from the offender.
The gains are confiscated. If this isn't possible for some reason, Naka has to pay out of his pocket.
  • (1) Where the representative person of a juridical person (including organizations without judicial personality for which the representative persons or administrators have been designated; hereinafter the same shall apply in this paragraph and the following paragraph) or a agent, employee, or other worker of a juridical person or individual has, with regard to the business or property of the juridical person or individual, violated any of the provisions set forth in the following items, not only shall the offender be punished but also said juridical person shall be punished by the fine prescribed in the respective items and said individual shall be punished by the fine prescribed in the provisions referred to in the respective items:
    • (i) Article 197: a fine of not more than 700 million yen;
    • (ii) Article 197-2 (excluding item (xi) and (xii)): a fine of not more than 500 million yen;
If Naka was an registered employee of SE while committing the crime, SE has to pay a hefty fine too.
 
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It seems this game left Jimbo so assblasted he gave it a 15, the lowest critic score so far.
Lol who cares what that Britbong tranny thinks, let's hear from resident Sonic autist Ryan Bloom instead:
Ryan said:
It is the best worst Sonic game ever made. For reference, I haven’t played it any further than what has been seen on my streams, which compose of these two vods:

Kronos Island (4hrs, 14min)
Ares Island (4hrs, 59min)
I have been playing a little off stream, but it’s mostly to clean up and 100% the islands we’ve already seen. I never advance the story off stream. So, as of this writing, I am still at the very start of Chaos Island.

It’s a lot of the same old problems we’ve been dealing with for what feels like an entire generation of Sonic games, but it hits just enough of the right notes where, instead of feeling like total garbage, it’s charming.

A lot of people have been invoking comparisons to games like Sonic Adventure and I think that’s apt. It’s one of those games where when it’s bad, it’s the worst game ever made. But when it’s good, it shakes the pillars of creation.

Somebody at Sega overheard “what if Platinum Games made a Sonic?” and so every big boss bites off a piece of Metal Gear Rising. It’s amazing.

Everything between that… ehhh. Like I said, it’s a lot of the same problems. They micromanage Sonic’s controls on a per-level basis, they don’t really seem to understand what makes going fast feel fun, stage ranks vary wildly from being insultingly easy to infuriatingly impossible without any rhyme or reason, and there are basic elements of control that just don’t make any sense. Like how if you let go of the analog stick, Sonic stops on a dime, no matter how fast you were going. How does a decision like that make it through FOUR YEARS of focus testing and QA but nobody ever says “hey this feels like garbage”? Which is to say nothing of the drop dash, which requires so many button presses and is so pointless it may as well not even exist.

The story is taking me a while to warm up to. I appreciate the strong, clear characterization. Sonic finally emotes again! He’s not just some generic cardboard hero. He has a personality now! Everybody does! He razzes Knuckles and Knuckles razzes him back and they shoot each other a 😏 look. That’s great.

But your introduction to the story is awful. Everything about Amy on Kronos island feels like it comes out of nowhere. There’s no context to what she’s doing or why, and Sonic never really asks, it’s just “Hey Sonic, I’m standing out in the middle of this featureless empty field, can you help me find this Koco’s true love?”

Who? What? Why? Sonic asks none of these questions. He just goes “okay, sure.”

And a lot of the storytelling feels like that. A lot of characters standing out in the middle of absolutely nowhere, nearly impossible to see, and most of it optional. Very easy to miss. Once you get to the second island, and I understood I had to hunt out these talk locations using the map, it started to gel with me a little better. It’s just everything about Amy’s feels very… non-sequitur.

But what Knuckles had was a lot better and a lot more coherent. Lots of good lore food. Some of that was I think me just figuring out the game’s overall tone and pacing, too.

I’m also not super in love with the open world maps themselves. They feel very much like somebody dropped Sonic in to somebody else’s photoscanned assets. I was telling a friend this last night, but there are entire areas in Ares Island that are devoid of any rings, enemies, or puzzles, but they let you run around there anyway, even though there are places that don’t feel like they were made for Sonic.

And as somebody who as played a lot of “we loaded Sonic in to a map from another game” fan games… it has that vibe. Loose, and jittery, and the camera can’t quite cope, and Sonic’s physics don’t interact with the terrain right, etc. That’s the open world in Frontiers, to me. It really IS “Sega Hire This Man.”

On top of just being bland as hell, too. They are extremely poorly laid out, there’s not enough good landmarks, there’s not enough to make them feel truly lived-in… it’s just a random collection of assets surrounding a generic theme like “plains” or “desert” or “volcano” without any consideration of making anything feel like a place. It’s boring and easy to get lost in the bigger zones.

But, again, when the vocals kick in and you’re barrel rolling with a cyber dragon at 600mph through the sky? Who cares about anything else.

TL;DR: On par from what I've heard others say.
 
I guess why I’m upset to see Frontiers doing so well is that I fail to see how it’s different from the previous games aside from the open world.
Well if you ask me, there are 3 reasons I liked it
1) the gameplay loop of the open world of doing mini challanges to get enough medals and unlocking all the map I found it enjoyable.
2) the open world controls feel great once you tune them to how you like em, it gives you a lot of options for the physics to make them feel great.
3) the level design in the cyberspace stages is great most of the time, even for the levels that are not just pretty much generation stages, and they managed to make them complement the gameplay well.
Its not close to my favorite, but it has good spectacle, fun gameplay and it can be challenging at time, so I think its a good 7 to 8 out of 10 game
 
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I guess why I’m upset to see Frontiers doing so well is that I fail to see how it’s different from the previous games aside from the open world.
To add to the other reasons, writing/story is really good too. And if you care about Sonic lore at all, they go all in with it.
 
Well if you ask me, there are 3 reasons I liked it
1) the gameplay loop of the open world of doing mini challanges to get enough medals and unlocking all the map I found it enjoyable.
2) the open world controls feel great once you tune them to how you like em, it gives you a lot of options for the physics to make them feel great.
3) the level design in the cyberspace stages is great most of the time, even for the levels that are not just pretty much generation stages, and they managed to make them complement the gameplay well.
Its not close to my favorite, but it has good spectacle, fun gameplay and it can be challenging at time, so I think its a good 7 to 8 out of 10 game
tl;dr it’s good? I’m still not getting it. Specifically, what’s different about it that makes better than other Boost games?

I mean, if you can't see the difference, you might want to actually play the game to see what people are talking about.
I don’t have a computer

To add to the other reasons, writing/story is really good too. And if you care about Sonic lore at all, they go all in with it.
So far I’ve gotten the impression that it amounts to Ian’s need to reference old things
 
tl;dr it’s good? I’m still not getting it. Specifically, what’s different about it that makes better than other Boost games?


I don’t have a computer


So far I’ve gotten the impression that it amounts to Ian’s need to reference old things
Well, I still like Generations more because the levels are longer and are pretty consistently good, but for the levels that are the same designs as other games I find it more enjoyable to play because of fun tech, but that is not something that everyone will like, the physics for the cyberspace are a bit hard to get used to, but I think that once you do they work pretty great, tho I would wish sonic still had the drift
 
Well, I still like Generations more because the levels are longer and are pretty consistently good, but for the levels that are the same designs as other games I find it more enjoyable to play because of fun tech, but that is not something that everyone will like, the physics for the cyberspace are a bit hard to get used to, but I think that once you do they work pretty great, tho I would wish sonic still had the drift
But how is it different and better?
 
But how is it different and better?
Dude I really dont understand what you even want me to say, I just like the gameplay more and thats it. Play the damn game and make up your own mind or just dont talk about the game
 
I just want to know what’s different. I don’t get what’s not to get
Because I dont understand whats hard to see whats different, look at any trailer of the game, it clearly is a completely different style of game other than the cyberspace that are maybe like 10% of the game, the game feels closer to control to something like sonic adventure than any boost game, even the cyberspace levels feel more 3d instead of feeling like it pushes you forward
 
Because I dont understand whats hard to see whats different, look at any trailer of the game, it clearly is a completely different style of game other than the cyberspace that are maybe like 10% of the game, the game feels closer to control to something like sonic adventure than any boost game, even the cyberspace levels feel more 3d instead of feeling like it pushes you forward
If it’s so easy for you to see it, then why don’t you tell me?
 
I dont know if this is just me, but i keep seeing a lot of chiding on people for enjoying Frontiers, it's not like when Forces came out and everyone laughed at the desperate cope from Sonic autists, but more of a "Quit having fun!" sorta blow up
To be fair, it has been what? Around 10 years since Sonic has gotten any sort of win (I don't count mania for obvious reasons)?

I think some people just aren't used to Sonic being spoken in a positive light for once.
 
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