It's hard to blindly recommend this game.

Frontiers struggles in a lot of places, from inconsistent level design to frankly annoying collectible design (why yes, you do need 300 of this one collectible to hear one side story) to frustrating achievement design (Combo Crackerjack).

When it's good, it's amazing. Running through the world feels super fun. The open-world bosses are fun (except when the game re-spawns bosses you've already beaten...). The bosses at the end of each world are fun. And the game's writing is great. It brings a genuine heartfelt story and mature characters that get you to care about the relationships between them.

But when it's bad, oh, it's bad. About 1/3 of the levels are frustrating and require rather precise maneuvers to achieve S rank times on. Then 1/3 of the levels you can sit for 30 seconds and still hit an S rank with ease. Sonic sometimes just stops dead if you do a certain combination of inputs, completely losing all his momentum. Camera control gets randomly taken away from you at certain times, making it hard to control Sonic in the open world (especially that one enemy on Ares island...). And some mini boss designs are...well, frustrating, at best.

Overall, I feel like this is a good game. It's rough around the edges, probably worth waiting to buy on discount/sale, but if you like Sonic or platforming games, this is probably worth playing eventually.

It's hard to blindly recommend this game. Frontiers struggles in a lot of places, from inconsistent level design to frankly annoying collectible design (why yes, you do need 300 of this one collectible to hear one side story) to frustrating achievement design (Combo Crackerjack). When it's good, it's amazing. Running through the world feels super fun. The open-world bosses are fun (except when the game re-spawns bosses you've already beaten...). The bosses at the end of each world are fun. And the game's writing is great. It brings a genuine heartfelt story and mature characters that get you to care about the relationships between them. But when it's bad, oh, it's bad. About 1/3 of the levels are frustrating and require rather precise maneuvers to achieve S rank times on. Then 1/3 of the levels you can sit for 30 seconds and still hit an S rank with ease. Sonic sometimes just stops dead if you do a certain combination of inputs, completely losing all his momentum. Camera control gets randomly taken away from you at certain times, making it hard to control Sonic in the open world (especially that one enemy on Ares island...). And some mini boss designs are...well, frustrating, at best. Overall, I feel like this is a good game. It's rough around the edges, probably worth waiting to buy on discount/sale, but if you like Sonic or platforming games, this is probably worth playing eventually.