YO, ya boy put a lot of work into this vid for the past few months and wanna try branching off into more content like this where I show off a bit more of myself. Let me know what you all think and if you would wanna see more of this in the future ✌️
@@rickyrackey7930 No, he just plain sucks. He has no energy, sounds like a mediocre David Humphrey impression and is too old. And besides, Shadow's whole shtick is ALREADY being jaded. What do you want him, in a retirement home ?
You do you, dude, but this game is such a low budgeted mismanaged mess where the flaws outweighs its few good baby steps, and it doesn't make me hopeful for the future. I'd rather play Project 06 instead.
so kishimoto said on twitter that there was a version of the game with a working parry, but playtesters kept messing it up, so they just made it infinite. In my opinion, maybe they should have made it like it is on easy mode, and on hard mode they have a strict timing for it
In my opinion, this game is such a breath of fresh air not just in terms of Sonic games, but my personal library of games. After I played Sonic Forces(which is the worst game in the series IMO) I thought maybe I just grew out of Sonic. I was always a fan but being left with that catastrophe of a game and being forced to wait years for the next one was a draining experience, and I built resentment for the series. But this game reminded me why I love this series.
I'm pretty sure one of the reasons Sonic Team was given a smaller budget after games like Lost World and Boom bombed as hard as they did, and that's likely why the games felt so half baked and full of reused stuff but after Frontiers reached numbers about triple what it was expected, Sonic Team is getting a big boost in budget
I’ll come back later to watch this video in full, but I just really wanted to say that thumbnail is awesome! Immediately got my attention and I stared at it for a good second or two, just really wanted to say that lol
At some point, my uncle and I were talking about the pop-in in Frontiers, and I mentioned the idea of platforms and such fading in like Infinite's phantom ruby effect. The idea was to match the aesthetic of the game, while also not taking away from the experience with certain distractions. Well, it may be a bit distracting, but it'll at least be cool. And you'll get used to it after the first 5 times honestly.
The problem with games like Colors and Lost world had was that Sonic Team let themselves fall into the "It's for kids so everything needs to be dumbed down and overly simple" mentality due to the fear of getting more backlash at the time. For a while, Sonic was being sanitized to please as much of a mass market as possible which ironically made the series exactly what it challenged back in the 90's, just another shallow mascot platformer.
Great video! I love your humor a LOT, and your thoughts on the game are amazing. One thing, though-- Required timed parries are also too hard for me, 40-something little Pen, who loves Sonic and has since the Adventure days, and REALLY APPRECIATED the fact that this was a game that catered to my damn disability for once. (I would have been fine with timed parries being required on harder difficulties, though.) Pretty much everything else you've said, I absolutely agree with, and good news-- Sega has apparently increased Sonic Team's budget after Frontiers's record-setting sales. So hopefully the next game can live up to its potential.
This is an incredible video 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Your commentary, editing, and pacing of this video was great! It kept me engaged the whole time. Im an old, long time sonic fan so im used to watching these long video essays. And yours was entertaining the whole way through 👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾
As a first time viewer this video is fire dude, sonic frontiers may be a bit rough around the edges but it's fun and has alot of room for improvement can't wait to see what sonic team cooks next after this game 👀
It's a mediocre mismanaged game made on a tiny budget, if you think empty wastelands and minigames chores is the right way for Sonic, you're in for a rude awakening. This is so boring it only made me more apathetic towards Sonic.
I’m digging this video bro very good content // can you do more lore videos that connect the adventure series to the ancients and the similar looking mystic ruin looking relics around starfield island
No.....Just no. Just stop pretending this Ancients bs Ian Flynn came up with somehow makes sense within the context of the Adventure games. It's dumb, it's another generic dead civilization, the Chaos Emeralds being an alien engine part is stupid. Just stop....
The only COD killer I can think of is if SM2 really released because if it did it would've killed the CID franchise which activision was afraid of which is one of the many reasons why they shut it down.
Don’t forget that the people that was riding with sonic knew nothing about him and I mind you do the people that wrote sonic colors all the way up to forces all I can say is why would sonic team even hire them if they knew nothing about their games and I mind you they literally looked up Wikipedia, they didn’t even play a game. They just looked up on Wikipedia that was just heartbreaking to hear when I heard that it’s probably won’t learn knowledge now but it still hurt.
I thought the point of the cyberspace levels was they were supposed to be based on the characters’ memories, plus being throwbacks sort of like the Doom 1 and 2 levels that showed up as Easter eggs in Doom 2016.
Nah, this game is just mere baby steps, but still has WAY TOO MANY issues to be considered good, let alone be a right step. The core gameplay is a chore : Boost to win through an empty wasteland, solving/being forced to do the same tedious minigames over and over, pointless 2D sections, the nonexistent momentum physics make all those flimsy custom features pretty pointless, the Boost is frankly useless and nerfed and so are Rings with the life system gone, the air Boost is awful as it drops you like a brick, while I'm glad they brought back the Light Dash, I don't get why do they think an inconsistent double jump is somehow preferable. Yes, mini bosses and combat are cool ideas, but the first are way too frequent to a fault, and the other is too janky and awkward looking, not to mention redundant. Same goes for the Titans : awesome concept, awkward low production values of animations and effects really bringing down cool spectacle. And little plot relevance as nothing more than Shadow Of the Colossus rip-offs and red herrings. Which is a shame, because many of them have awesome songs. Don't like Knight's theme song nor EDM, they're just unbearable. The Cyberspace stages are HORRIBLE. It's Forces 2.0 with the same tired recycled visuals and recycled level design from better games that just feel insulting. The plot is empty and drags on without anything meaningful going on until the 4th island, too much reliance on "member this old thing" lines, as if memberberries mean "acknowledging continuity". It was fine at first but then became a crutch. Roger Craig Smith just DOES NOT work as Sonic, he sounds so utterly bored and uninterested. Even Mike Pollock sounds phoned in, using his normal conversational tone. Not to mention, Eggman was put aside, whining about being trapped for the entire game. Sage was such a nonexistent character : she doesn't pose a threat to Sonic, she comes out to scold him up until the end. And the whole corny father/daughter thing with Eggman is not only diminishing Eggman as a villain but also based on nothing but exposition. And even then, their only interactions consist of Eggman complaining while Sage drops filler info. Amy and Knuckles are....okay, especially liked Knuckles, but these voice actors don't fit and relegating these characters to just bland dialogues and not do anything is self defeating. Tails is just a glorified mouthpiece by Ian Flynn to criticize the 2010s games for how he was mishandled, but it comes across as heavy-handed. Why even BOTHER acknowledging Lost World and Forces and still harp on how Tails needs to be on his own ? We went through this already OVER 20 years ago. Who in the hell was the true villain even supposed to be ? Some talking moon ? Ugghhhh The Ancients are just a cookie cutter generic extinct alien civilization, and making the Chaos Emeralds an alien engine is so stupid. Whoever told you that hack Ian Flynn is a good writer is in denial, his track record under Archie was mixed. IDW Sonic is dull, convoluted yet incredibly shallow, many characters have been derailed, or some dumb story arcs like a Metal Zombie virus plot drag on and on. And Flynn is WAY too lenient on memberberries or giving his own boring OCs the spotlight. Unleashed introduced me to this series, the Adventure games made me fall in love with it, Colors AND Generations drove me away (yes, I don't like Generations either). Mania was just a glorified ROM hack. This game just left me.....apathetic. There are single elements that I like, but on the whole, it's just a mismanaged, low budgeted drag. I don't trust Ian Flynn as a writer either. And I'm utterly uninterested at the prospect of new characters being playable if this is the frame in which they're in. It's just so mediocre and half hearted. The only thing keeping me vaguely interested in this franchise is ChaosX's P06, but that's it. Frontiers only made me more jaded and apathetic.
You must have low standards then. Sonic Adventure, Sonoc 06, and Sonic Unleashef had better open worlds with people and stuff to do. All you have in Frontiers is a open sandbox. There's nothing to do, but go on rails and the controls are worse than Sonic Generations, Colors, and Unleashed, which it was supposed to improve. Also, it's just another modern Sonic game where Sonic is the only one who can help, despite other characters. This had pretentious writing, and if we're comparing this to Sonic Unleashed, Sonic Adventure 1 and 2, both Sonic Riders games, both Sonic Rush games, and even Sonic Heroes, this game fails. I don't know how old you are, but it sounds like you never played the old games, and I hope you play them to understand the point I'm trying to put across. Sonic died after Generations, and I can't name a single modern Sonic game after Genrations, not Mania since it's the old formula, that actually inovated lile how Sonic Adventure 1, 2, Sonic Heroes, Sonic Unleashed, and Sonic Generations did. Even Sonic Rush innovated the series. This game's mechanics have been better done in any other game, and quite frankly, saying this game brought back the story and gameplay of what made Sonic great is insulting.
@@yrooxrksvi7142 I'm well aware this game is very flawed, but the flaws aren't dealbreakers for me when I enjoy the rest as much as I do. Mediocre or not.
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YO, ya boy put a lot of work into this vid for the past few months and wanna try branching off into more content like this where I show off a bit more of myself. Let me know what you all think and if you would wanna see more of this in the future ✌️
I think with the correct writing, Kirk Thornton can play a more jaded Shadow.
@@rickyrackey7930 No, he just plain sucks. He has no energy, sounds like a mediocre David Humphrey impression and is too old. And besides, Shadow's whole shtick is ALREADY being jaded. What do you want him, in a retirement home ?
You do you, dude, but this game is such a low budgeted mismanaged mess where the flaws outweighs its few good baby steps, and it doesn't make me hopeful for the future. I'd rather play Project 06 instead.
@@yrooxrksvi7142 Updates are coming, Negative Nancy.
@@rickyrackey7930 Yeah and ? Consoomer.
The fact you're an Xenoblade Chronicles fan and a Sonic fan makes this channel so much better for me in my opinion, great work!
so kishimoto said on twitter that there was a version of the game with a working parry, but playtesters kept messing it up, so they just made it infinite. In my opinion, maybe they should have made it like it is on easy mode, and on hard mode they have a strict timing for it
That's exactly what they should have done
11:08 wow, so original. I absolutely didn’t seen that joke of a joke anywhere else🙄
In my opinion, this game is such a breath of fresh air not just in terms of Sonic games, but my personal library of games. After I played Sonic Forces(which is the worst game in the series IMO) I thought maybe I just grew out of Sonic. I was always a fan but being left with that catastrophe of a game and being forced to wait years for the next one was a draining experience, and I built resentment for the series. But this game reminded me why I love this series.
You deserve a lot more subs dude, your content is so good and entertaining
I'm pretty sure one of the reasons Sonic Team was given a smaller budget after games like Lost World and Boom bombed as hard as they did, and that's likely why the games felt so half baked and full of reused stuff
but after Frontiers reached numbers about triple what it was expected, Sonic Team is getting a big boost in budget
Your theory about the parry is true! Kishimoto addressed this in one of his tweets. Hoping the DLC will create more challenge like adding timing.
I’ll come back later to watch this video in full, but I just really wanted to say that thumbnail is awesome! Immediately got my attention and I stared at it for a good second or two, just really wanted to say that lol
Fr bro
At some point, my uncle and I were talking about the pop-in in Frontiers, and I mentioned the idea of platforms and such fading in like Infinite's phantom ruby effect. The idea was to match the aesthetic of the game, while also not taking away from the experience with certain distractions. Well, it may be a bit distracting, but it'll at least be cool. And you'll get used to it after the first 5 times honestly.
The problem with games like Colors and Lost world had was that Sonic Team let themselves fall into the "It's for kids so everything needs to be dumbed down and overly simple" mentality due to the fear of getting more backlash at the time. For a while, Sonic was being sanitized to please as much of a mass market as possible which ironically made the series exactly what it challenged back in the 90's, just another shallow mascot platformer.
I do not understand in the slightest why youbget so little recognitionz this is REALLY good content!
Great video! I love your humor a LOT, and your thoughts on the game are amazing. One thing, though-- Required timed parries are also too hard for me, 40-something little Pen, who loves Sonic and has since the Adventure days, and REALLY APPRECIATED the fact that this was a game that catered to my damn disability for once. (I would have been fine with timed parries being required on harder difficulties, though.) Pretty much everything else you've said, I absolutely agree with, and good news-- Sega has apparently increased Sonic Team's budget after Frontiers's record-setting sales. So hopefully the next game can live up to its potential.
This is an incredible video 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Your commentary, editing, and pacing of this video was great! It kept me engaged the whole time. Im an old, long time sonic fan so im used to watching these long video essays. And yours was entertaining the whole way through 👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾
Running with your hands back is ALWAYS a Sonic thing, NEVER a naruto thing
You're amazing dawg i can't believe you only have 4k. Trust me if you keep this up you're gonna get big someday
As a first time viewer this video is fire dude, sonic frontiers may be a bit rough around the edges but it's fun and has alot of room for improvement can't wait to see what sonic team cooks next after this game 👀
This is fantastic video, keep up the good work.
Incredible video, and yeah my feelings with this game, match yours as well. Making me feel like a Sonic fan again and proud of it
It's a mediocre mismanaged game made on a tiny budget, if you think empty wastelands and minigames chores is the right way for Sonic, you're in for a rude awakening. This is so boring it only made me more apathetic towards Sonic.
22:35 is a neat visual gag. good vid
Great video man :)
I’m digging this video bro very good content // can you do more lore videos that connect the adventure series to the ancients and the similar looking mystic ruin looking relics around starfield island
No.....Just no. Just stop pretending this Ancients bs Ian Flynn came up with somehow makes sense within the context of the Adventure games. It's dumb, it's another generic dead civilization, the Chaos Emeralds being an alien engine part is stupid. Just stop....
Hope you will get more recognised
19:18 FACTS I like how they take inspirations from fan games 34:11 man facts
21:33 yeah I made that mistake
18:23
2:20 I've never stopped.
When knight puts his shield up Dodge to the right and you can keep on hitting him your welcome 👍
Ramen: i wish more of the cyber space levels were actual chalanges to S rank
*Sonic frontiers steps in with the new update*
Oh, they came up with more filler for those god-awful stages. Whoop-de-doo.....
The only COD killer I can think of is if SM2 really released because if it did it would've killed the CID franchise which activision was afraid of which is one of the many reasons why they shut it down.
2:10 bro I thought I was the person who did this when I was younger.
Don’t forget that the people that was riding with sonic knew nothing about him and I mind you do the people that wrote sonic colors all the way up to forces all I can say is why would sonic team even hire them if they knew nothing about their games and I mind you they literally looked up Wikipedia, they didn’t even play a game. They just looked up on Wikipedia that was just heartbreaking to hear when I heard that it’s probably won’t learn knowledge now but it still hurt.
Not only are you a Xenoblade and Sonic fan, but 1:48 - 2:15 was exactly me 💀
I thought the point of the cyberspace levels was they were supposed to be based on the characters’ memories, plus being throwbacks sort of like the Doom 1 and 2 levels that showed up as Easter eggs in Doom 2016.
Ohhhh, because somehow people only remember GHZ, Chemical Plant and Sky Sanctuary. Who gives af about "muh easter eggs"....
-33:40 facts
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start of the video has bro using the pirated anime trying to avoid a takedown format lmao /lh
And my comment got deleted. Great.
What'd you say?
The movement in this game is so good, i just love to jump off a rail at high speed
You must be high to call janky automation "so good" lmfao
Nah, this game is just mere baby steps, but still has WAY TOO MANY issues to be considered good, let alone be a right step. The core gameplay is a chore : Boost to win through an empty wasteland, solving/being forced to do the same tedious minigames over and over, pointless 2D sections, the nonexistent momentum physics make all those flimsy custom features pretty pointless, the Boost is frankly useless and nerfed and so are Rings with the life system gone, the air Boost is awful as it drops you like a brick, while I'm glad they brought back the Light Dash, I don't get why do they think an inconsistent double jump is somehow preferable. Yes, mini bosses and combat are cool ideas, but the first are way too frequent to a fault, and the other is too janky and awkward looking, not to mention redundant. Same goes for the Titans : awesome concept, awkward low production values of animations and effects really bringing down cool spectacle. And little plot relevance as nothing more than Shadow Of the Colossus rip-offs and red herrings. Which is a shame, because many of them have awesome songs.
Don't like Knight's theme song nor EDM, they're just unbearable.
The Cyberspace stages are HORRIBLE. It's Forces 2.0 with the same tired recycled visuals and recycled level design from better games that just feel insulting.
The plot is empty and drags on without anything meaningful going on until the 4th island, too much reliance on "member this old thing" lines, as if memberberries mean "acknowledging continuity". It was fine at first but then became a crutch. Roger Craig Smith just DOES NOT work as Sonic, he sounds so utterly bored and uninterested. Even Mike Pollock sounds phoned in, using his normal conversational tone. Not to mention, Eggman was put aside, whining about being trapped for the entire game.
Sage was such a nonexistent character : she doesn't pose a threat to Sonic, she comes out to scold him up until the end. And the whole corny father/daughter thing with Eggman is not only diminishing Eggman as a villain but also based on nothing but exposition. And even then, their only interactions consist of Eggman complaining while Sage drops filler info.
Amy and Knuckles are....okay, especially liked Knuckles, but these voice actors don't fit and relegating these characters to just bland dialogues and not do anything is self defeating. Tails is just a glorified mouthpiece by Ian Flynn to criticize the 2010s games for how he was mishandled, but it comes across as heavy-handed. Why even BOTHER acknowledging Lost World and Forces and still harp on how Tails needs to be on his own ? We went through this already OVER 20 years ago. Who in the hell was the true villain even supposed to be ? Some talking moon ? Ugghhhh
The Ancients are just a cookie cutter generic extinct alien civilization, and making the Chaos Emeralds an alien engine is so stupid.
Whoever told you that hack Ian Flynn is a good writer is in denial, his track record under Archie was mixed. IDW Sonic is dull, convoluted yet incredibly shallow, many characters have been derailed, or some dumb story arcs like a Metal Zombie virus plot drag on and on. And Flynn is WAY too lenient on memberberries or giving his own boring OCs the spotlight.
Unleashed introduced me to this series, the Adventure games made me fall in love with it, Colors AND Generations drove me away (yes, I don't like Generations either). Mania was just a glorified ROM hack. This game just left me.....apathetic. There are single elements that I like, but on the whole, it's just a mismanaged, low budgeted drag. I don't trust Ian Flynn as a writer either. And I'm utterly uninterested at the prospect of new characters being playable if this is the frame in which they're in.
It's just so mediocre and half hearted. The only thing keeping me vaguely interested in this franchise is ChaosX's P06, but that's it. Frontiers only made me more jaded and apathetic.
frontiers is actually really good on switch lmfao
HAHAHAHAHAHA 😂😂😂 Right
@@yrooxrksvi7142 genuinely don't have a problem with it on switch considering I've played it on both switch and ps5 and there's barely any difference
You must have low standards then. Sonic Adventure, Sonoc 06, and Sonic Unleashef had better open worlds with people and stuff to do. All you have in Frontiers is a open sandbox. There's nothing to do, but go on rails and the controls are worse than Sonic Generations, Colors, and Unleashed, which it was supposed to improve. Also, it's just another modern Sonic game where Sonic is the only one who can help, despite other characters. This had pretentious writing, and if we're comparing this to Sonic Unleashed, Sonic Adventure 1 and 2, both Sonic Riders games, both Sonic Rush games, and even Sonic Heroes, this game fails. I don't know how old you are, but it sounds like you never played the old games, and I hope you play them to understand the point I'm trying to put across. Sonic died after Generations, and I can't name a single modern Sonic game after Genrations, not Mania since it's the old formula, that actually inovated lile how Sonic Adventure 1, 2, Sonic Heroes, Sonic Unleashed, and Sonic Generations did. Even Sonic Rush innovated the series. This game's mechanics have been better done in any other game, and quite frankly, saying this game brought back the story and gameplay of what made Sonic great is insulting.
Or... people have opinions
@@djroscurro9859 Or they have low standards. This game is honestly mediocre.
@@yrooxrksvi7142 I'm well aware this game is very flawed, but the flaws aren't dealbreakers for me when I enjoy the rest as much as I do. Mediocre or not.
@@djroscurro9859 So you have low standards and are settling for a mediocre, low-budget unfocused game. Got it.