Sonic Forces review When fan service doesn’t go far enough
Sonic Forces creators' good intentions and interesting ideas don't amount to much in a game so clumsy and limited in design. It certainly doesn't help that Forces follows right on the heels of Sonic Mania, a game that not only demonstrated a more focused design sensibility but also did a far better job of realizing its creators' ambitions. Forces may have had a larger budget than Mania, but it feels like the poorer creation all around. Unless your dearest dream has always been to play a Sonic game as your own original fan art character, Sonic Forces doesn't have much to offer.
They reviewed it using a Switch copy of the game which may not have helped the score for across the board, although they give the other platforms the same score at the bottom. I wonder if they're using the Switch version as a stick to beat the others.
I strongly recommend reading the full Polygon review. It is really well written, and does an excellent job of highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of the game.
Sonic Forces is not a subpar game because Mania exists; it is subpar because it wrongly puts its message before its experience, leaving players to pay the ultimate sacrifice of cheap deaths over and over again in an unsatisfying product that had hints of so much promise.
Half of Polygon's review was just unfairly complaining about what the game isn't (sounds like they were really fresh off of Odyssey), and didn't mention the classic gameplay at all... because apparently just mentioning Mania is all the justification needed to implicitly deem it trash. Only a few points in it could be considered valid, like too many QTEs (they seem generous enough, though) or cinematic interludes, and those are fairly minor issues.
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I really don't trust Sonic reviews. Unless the game is universally agreed upon to be good like Colors or Generations, even decent games get destroyed for stuff that reviewers overlook WAY too often in other popular franchises. Like let's be honest, if reviewers actually reviewed on the Sonic Unleashed curve, more AAA games would be DESTROYED by them.
Adobe took money out of my account (Even though I wanted to end my subscription, whatever, another year long ride) and I put more money in Sunday Night. Amazon didn't try and take payment twice.
Amazon didn't tell me there was even a payment issue.
Until midnight of the damn launch day:
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Never liked Sonic. 3D sonic in my opinion is has always been underwhelming. Reviews for this is isn’t shocking and is what I expected. Sonic should stick to 2d.
I really don't trust Sonic reviews. Unless the game is universally agreed upon to be good like Colors or Generations, even decent games get destroyed for stuff that reviewers overlook WAY too often in other popular franchises. Like let's be honest, if reviewers actually reviewed on the Sonic Unleashed curve, more AAA games would be DESTROYED by them.
Pretty much this. Besides, the majority of the internet already showed the response they anticipate for the game since the demo, regardless of it's actual quality. I'm not even that much of a Sonic Fan, but the few 3D games I played aren't nearly as bad as people make them out to be... an the 2D games aren't as good as people make them out to be, so...
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