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I would probably give it a 6, giving how unpolished it is bundled some minor actual fun activites.

And yet the game would still get a higher score than Frontiers from you guys anyway...

A low 4/10 from NL and a divisive comment section agreeing or disagreeing on the review is why review scores should be abandoned and why there's gotta be better management with who plays what game and if they like the genre or not.

Nintendo got embarrassed that Valve made their own Switch and made it much superior than their own console.

@Specter_of-the_OLED Yes I do know 2021 was Sonic's 30th anniversary but unless they had nothing bigger in their plans (like Movie 2 in 2022) it wouldn't go well sales-wise to release Frontiers this year, let alone whatever kind of quality we're going to expect but for the reason that how messy SEGA's management is, most can expect bare minimum

Introducing...Super Mario NFTs for only 40,000 Nintendo Coins (equivalent to $4 million)

I have no idea why they wanted to release Frontiers in 2021 in the first place.

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RIP Doom fans.

I thought this day will never come. My goodness. Kingdom Hearts fans are getting real good tonight.

Yeah, good to know.

They thought he would be locked forever and now they released him. He's out for a kill again, great job.

Also I don't think SEGA had to do with these accidents, because...do they make balloons for the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade?

Christ, no one cares about Sonic's 30 year history and especially no one cares about what you think of this franchise with the same old "2D good, 3D bad" cliche. Congrats on wasting your precious time writing this garbage, Mr. Stuart.

But...why use Sonic Chronicles art of all other RPGs SEGA made? It doesn't mention that this is going to be a new Sonic RPG (which will still lead to many people believe it's going to be a Chronicles sequel), just a new RPG. At least for the thumbnail you could just go with Phantasy Star or Skies of Arcadia for a more reasonable imagination for what that new RPG is going to be.

@Snatcher If this community didn't change much, we will still have people having a stench over how awful Unleashed is because you play most of the game as Werehog and that it has lots of performance issues. The fact that we have a good amount of people telling that Unleashed is one of the better Sonic games is...something.

@Frailbay30 Why making Sonic spin-offs with stuff that Mario has is considered a bad idea? You could blame Nintendo for that too.

@Arn0ld No, Generations it it's real best form is not available on the Switch and SA2 is pushed away because it isn't as good as people used to say back then.

@Wesker Why would you say something so controversial yet so brave?

@Alpha008 You can blame Blind Squirrel instead.

@Fangleman32 There's Generations but you won't get it's Console/PC version on a Nintendo console

> The Blue Blur has starred in quite a few legitimately great games over the years, but he’s also been in just about as many clunkers that tanked his reputation. Sonic has especially struggled when it’s come to his forays into 3D environments

For crying out loud, would you guys and everyone in the gaming journalism NOT START a Sonic review with the same old "Sonic had a rough transition to 3D"? We have gone up 15 years after Sonic's actual lowest 3D point and yet this stuff STILL occures as if nothing's changed. How does anyone get paid for this?

Not surprised. Got too much media attention.

I would buy it for one dollar.

@EriXz Not everyone owns a Wii and a copy of Colors these days.

@nocdaes I'll rather want Sonic to die then getting sold to another company like Nintendo.

@TheFrenchiestFry I appreciate you thinking that but it's not gonna happen.

Why turn back from the teaser and say it you revealed it "a tad bit too early"? Now everyone here are just going to assume it's going to be a repeat in history

As much as I like it to happen for real, this is all but a rumor which has been done over.

Does it really matter about games that aren't high budget 3D games, especially when it comes to 2D games? If we are getting a high budget 2D game from a company like Nintendo, of course it will cost 60 bucks.

@everynowandben I did and stopped playing 1/4th of it's way. It wasn't good, much like all Pokemon. Sounds ridiculous but i'm not trying to convince everyone to play other games than Pokemon because people will still like this series.

@Snatcher Right, you could have made your comment more clear then.

Because...it will be absolutely ridiculous? Nobody with a right mind would play golf while running at the same time while everyone is knocking out eachother over who can get a hole first. But yeah, it's only a silly idea.

Now that is a one cool easter egg. Sunshine 2 happening would be great but of course that won't happen easily.

@everynowandben You gave Sword & Shield a 9/10, I don't think that makes you any better.

@Snatcher Nowhere in the development did they used builds from a certain fangame. I assume you mean the Retro/Star Engine, which is Whitehead's own made engine and was also only used in 2 fangames, yes, but Mania does not use assets from any of them. Calling them "Sonic fans" is rather unprofessional, they are talented and professional developers who learned how to make games and just so happen to be big fans of Sonic.

@Snatcher Never have I heard when Whitehead and his team worked on a fangame that was called Sonic Mania, Mania was created as a official game from the start of it's development and the devs weren't just brought in to SEGA's HQ because they felt like it.

@PBandSmelly Pretty funny you say that, considering this is Nintendo Life of all.

@everynowandben Sounds like you are playing Sonic games the wrong way.

@Snatcher I'm sorry, "fan game"? Mania is a actual sold product by SEGA, it is a official game from bottom to top.

Late here but the poll is quite unbalanced and misses on a few important titles (like Generations on consoles of course) and all of that is simply due to the fact that this poll includes Sonic games that are "available on Nintendo consoles", not to mention that users here are delusional and mostly do not care about Sonic, giving a few games there too high or too low place they deserve. The old retrospective reviews on certain games (like SA2B) add more to the problems of this said poll. At least they are generous to put Sonic 3 at #1 because anyone outside of being a Sonic fan would put Sonic 2 or Mania because that is what everyone perfers. Thanks but no thanks.

That's actually kinda cute and neat. Doesn't add much to represent Sonic but hey, still something for his 30th anniversary.

@Chlocean Of course I am. I am just speaking with an opinion, because I am being honest if Game Grumps was EVER really funny.

@FX29 It's kinda like as if you said ALL 3D Sonic games were mediocre, but yeah those are average. Also where Secret Rings at? Forgettable?

@Snatcher No, it's not a bad thing, it's just that Sonic 3 doesn't give me any nostalgia even if it was my first Sonic game. I'm okay living that and it still makes me like Sonic 3.

@Snatcher My first Sonic game was Sonic 3 actually, although I do not have any nostalgia from my 1st playthrough.

@Marioracer That's understandable. Iizuka does try to maintain the quality of Sonic games, the big problem is which director he works with.

3&K and Mania are undoubtedly the best. 2 is definitely better from 1 but it's not perfect and I hope people on this website acknowledge that.

@DavidMac > In the 2D games they had creative level design where you were essentially zooming through tunnels, but it didn’t feel like tunnels, because you couldn’t fall off the Z axis.

...that is how 3D Mario was made for the same reason and all other 3D platformers. What Sonic makes it different?

@Chlocean As if Game Grumps was funny to begin with.

@Crockin Cash in, what? There weren't much platformers between the NES and the SNES era that were trying to compete against Mario, let alone succeeding it. Sonic was created, yes to rival Mario but he also showcased a distinct identity and appeal that made him unique unlike anything before it. He not only gave proof that platformers can be anything but "haha funny guy jumps on platforms" but also that, eventually, Mr. Jumpman won't be sitting long on his throne, someone will have to replace him, even if it's temporarily

@FX29 Since when? 2006 and that's it? lol