7/10

The gameplay is amazing, except for some gimmicks and everything about Jeanne's missions, but hey, bayonetta 1 had problems with gimmicks too, some even worse (fucking insta-kills quick time events)i think i prefer bayonetta 2 gameplay a bit more tho. however this game lost a lot of the charm in the franchise, gameplay-wise and specially story-wise. Games of this genre don't need complex stories but holy f*ck this one is garbage and even desrespectful for the fans.

I liked playing as Viola and i really like her adition to the series, but they didn't know what to do with her in the story, actually, not even the classic characters are great in this game besides idk, Enzo e Rodin, it's just pure badly writed mess that left a bad flavor in my mounth, for the love of god Platinum Games hire a screenwriter.





JUSTICE FOR JEANNE, SHE NEEDS TO GO BACK TO BEING THE BADASS BITCH SHE WAS IN BAYO 1!

What a lot of people either fail to realise or refuse to believe is that the best Sonic games are the flawed ones. The games that try to innovate with bold ideas unbecoming of a Sonic game, or any game. We've had 'perfect' Sonic games before like Sonic Mania or Sonic Generations and those games are great but they can't hold a candle to the way-too-serious tone of Sonic Adventure 2, the quaint but pointless Adventure Fields of Sonic Adventure, the audacity to make half the game a slow beat-em-up in Sonic Unleashed. People love Sonic for its ambition, not its accomplishments. People love games for their imperfections the same way they love people despite their flaws. Sonic Team has, for decades now, dared to do things that are new, bold, and weird. Sonic Frontiers is a continuation of that vision, and to reduce it to petty statements of "open world 🤓 sega hire this man 🤓 serious plot in cartoon rat game 🤓 the controls 🤓 but he's slow" is a pitch-perfect demonstration of how Sonic is doomed to fail. Look at your favourite games and try earnestly telling yourself they're flawless.

Credit to smaench for planting this seed in my brain, actual review when I'm done playing it and can let my thoughts digest rather than spewing unfiltered drivel onto your webzone.