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@calbeau
No it's called nothing because Nintendo spends their time on making fun games, and doesn't have extra time to burn to call their engine the Wa Hoo Engine

@Sequel
I have my popcorn and poncho ready. It's gonna be a blood bath lol

The reason it will look comparable on the Switch and a High End PC is because it won't look impressive on either. Also your enemies are low asset polygons how hard is that to render?

@Snatcher
It came out on Switch the same day as the Xbox and PC. So it wasn't a solely focused Switch port

@Serpenterror
You may be the first person to call Lost World a good Sonic Game instead of a Mario Galaxy rip off. In fact it's sitting at a 63% on Metacritic with a 7.2 audience rating.

@Snatcher
Ok well for a better example, Persona 5 Royal loads are extremely short, a few seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVhNVEMzEQo

This game was made with more powerful hardware in mind, but somehow their team was competent enough to make a great port

@Snatcher
It wasn't made for more powerful consoles it's using an upgraded engine from 2005

@Snatcher
Pokemon Sword and Shield had extremely fast load times, many games hit under 15 seconds in fact. That is a very long time it may not seem like it, but sit there and count:
1 Mississippi, 2 Mississippi so forth, now do that 5 times

@Snatcher
15 sec load times would be great it that was one and done, but the game stops you so many times to get yet another cut scene and then has load times again that it adds up. I watched some of the leaked footage where sonic is traveling with Amy and is stopped no less than 4 times to discover another one of those round rock babies and a whole cutscene plays out. It was jarring how frequent it happened in the span of 5 mins

@PrinceRetro
The Modern Sonic Fanbase is ok with any slop that comes their way. I will allow Sonic Team to dig their own grave

@Dizavid
The difference between Arceus and Frontiers is despite the bland graphics of Arceus it at least looked like they had an overall look and style going on that made sense for the series. Sonic Frontiers has enemies that looks poorly designed and meant for another game entirely, grind rails, speed boosts and jump pads randomly thrown onto generic environments.

I can take bad graphics but bad game design and mechanics grind my gears.

@tadams587
The players need to hold their horses and wait for reviews of this game, they ultimately may not need the free shoes

@Snatcher
The Switch version has load times up to 15 seconds, severe pop in and frame rate issues. The Digital Foundry video on this game will be worth watching for sure.

@strollin_stu
You can 100% cancel a pre-order

Also there is plenty of footage of the game running on the Xbox Series X, PS5 and Switch to make a full comparison

@strollin_stu
The people playing it early now on the Switch are playing the full retail release

@johnvboy
I think any interested parties should at least wait until Monday to see if it's a dumpster fire or at least average. And waiting for a used copy or a sale seems like the right move

@Snatcher
I've watched multiple youtubers show off hours worth of the Switch gameplay, I don't think they all played this same piano music.

@Snatcher
https://youtu.be/K56TthsiFGs

Here's a boss fight from early on in the game and the music doesn't change even a little. Just light piano music

@johnvboy
Please watch some early gameplay, it doesn't sound the same as always. It's very tame compared to all other Sonic games

@Mauzuri
On Monday the reviews will hit. I think the range it will fall in on Metacritic is 40-60

@Mauzuri
I hope you have fun making that terrible decision. It's ok to have a bad soundtrack if the overall game is fun, the problem with Frontiers is it won't be fun like BOTW

@Mauzuri
Sonic isn't known for generic orchestral music

He's more mad because people are getting to hear the boring overworld music early

@Snatcher
I appreciate your level headed view of this, I apologize if I am coming across as a grump. As my name implies, I have been a gamer for over 30 years and grew up with Mario and Sonic. I would want nothing more than to be proven wrong with Sonic Frontiers and for it turn out to be an excellent game.

However them holding the review embargo until the day before release shows to me how confident they are in their game. God of War Ragnarok released it's review embargo several days prior to launch.

So to quickly bullet point my worries:
1.) Sonic Teams track record
2.) Review embargo until the day before launch
3.) My eyes and ears (what I've seen and heard of this game)

@Orpheus79V
The pop in is present in all systems, not just the Switch. I can't wait for the digital foundry video on this game from the gameplay on the Switch I've seen it looks like 600p docked, 30 fps (but dips all over the place). Also you are admitting on a public form that you either pirated an unreleased game or that you bought an illegally obtained copy. Either way not very smart

@Snatcher
My reasoning I doubt they will stick the landing and we are heading for another Forces or Boom, is the following:
1.) Every gameplay video I've seen (and I've watched the leaked Switch footage too) looks janky. Massive pop-in on all system, janky animations, and terrible level design (nothing seems to have a rhyme or reason)

2.) The cinematics look to be of subpar quality and there isn't much story as far as I can tell. Robotnik puts a device on an ancient pillar to gain his polygon robot army but gets sucked in.

3.) The enemies all look lame, you are fighting have rendered shapes, even the big bosses are very static and stay in place until you zoom up the one path they allow and auto attack their "face"

4.) I have watched hours worth of footage and it looks the exact same no matter which World they are on, the Cyber levels looks short and boring.

5.) Sonic Team has lost a huge amount of talent and haven't been able to pull it together to make an exciting Sonic game in years and sadly making the game bigger isn't go to be the saving grace.

@Snatcher
You seem to be very selective then with who you are following for information about Sonic Frontiers because there are plenty of people who have played it and have many complaints about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh6wDnBUv5A

@NEMO86
Which hot human babe he'll kiss

@Olmectron
Jack Black could and would easily rock a King Koopa suit

@ZapNCrap
Isn't Luigi suppose to be taller than Mario, Charlie Day is barely taller than Danny DeVito

I know the Switch is an after thought to EA but for a company that likes to make stupid amounts of money I am surprised the following from EA hasn't been ported to the Switch:
The Simpson's Game
Titanfall 2
Dante's Inferno
Sims 4
Madden
Mass Effect Trilogy
Any Battlefield Game
Mirror's Edge 1 and/or 2

And many more

@martynstuff
Play the Simpon's Game on the Xbox 360 for a better memory of it

@JH1022
I'm not like you, I enjoy my games for what they are, and a game running at 30 fps or even mid to high 20s doesn't bother me.

I two weeks of bliss not being slowed down by Mei, I can't wait

The Simpsons Game was pretty funny through out and looked like you were controlling an episode of the show. Simpson's Hit and Run was dethroned by this often forgotten game.

@Grumblevolcano
Fenyx Rising was a true open world game, much more densely populated than Frontiers and it ran fine on the Switch

@eaglebob345
If you are not excited about Sifu and It Takes Two coming to the Switch, you may want to sell your system and find a different hobby

@strollin_stu
The day before launch review embargo gives me pause for concern. That and Sonic Team's awful track record

@dil_power
James Gunn has taken the reigns of the DC Universe movies, so I have a glimmer of hope. He did great work with Guardians of the Galaxy, and made a Suicide Squad movie that didn't suck

@MatthewTaranto
The funny thing is, even from just SpongeBob, Nickelodeon has the budget to have given this game the same time, energy and money that Smash Bros got. But Nick is a cheap, cheap company who loves to get money off nostalgia alone. I mean look at the three Nickelodeon Racer games for further proof.

Would have been nice to have Dib in the game, so you can have epic Zim vs Dib fights

@WallyWest
My question is their video using the day 1 patch? I feel it may not be, since it usually takes them a few days to make their videos

@WallyWest
With a comment like that, I feel you haven't played Bayonetta 3. I did this morning for 4 hours and it handled the game just fine, 60 frames per second no less

I bought the Guardians of the Galaxy cloud version on the Switch and it was great. Never really had any internet issues while docked, handheld or out and about on my Phones 5g hotspot. So if you have garbage Internet don't do cloud gaming but if you have good to great Internet have fun.

@ChopperDX
She may be counting Smash Bros 3DS, U and Ultimate since Bayonetta appeared in those. However Bayonetta in those games is voiced by Hale

@emj2010
Pokemon games are made for Children, they are not meant to be difficult in any form. The fact that adults enjoy playing Pokemon games is not ever going to influence the Pokemon company

@ketrac
So you are in favor of a semi open World Pokemon game? Mario Odyssey had good performance due to:
Low amount of characters on screen at once
Smaller semi-open world environments
No Multiplayer
Developed by a team who has made many console games for generations, this is Pokemon Teams third outing.

@Baler
Ok you are allowed to believe whatever you want, no matter how wrong that belief is.

@Baler
Sonic Worlds got between a 6/10 and 7/10 on most publications at the time. I think the main critiques were that it didn't feel like a Sonic game and felt like a cheap imitation of Mario Galaxy. Also being that it came out on the Wii U (a failure of a system) many publications at the time were quite harsh to a lot of its exclusives.

@LikelySatan
What I've seen of it doesn't look promising, it looks confused and will most likely be riff with bugs and poor performance. Sonic Team has not proven themselves in over a decade that they can make a big Sonic game that doesn't crash and burn