Fundamentally the ideas of Sonic Frontiers and it’s free expansion ‘The Final Horizon’ are what make the game excel, but those are just ideas and are hardly ever executed well within the game.
This stands very true in this expansion, design choices in this are actually baffling at points and none of the platforming segments are fun, they’re just painstakingly annoying and poorly designed, maybe for another platformer they could be good, but definitely not for Sonic.
The format of the game consists of playing as (mainly) Sonic, Amy, Knuckles and Tails and retrieving Chaos Emeralds (for like the 6th time in the game?) in order for Sonic to take down the true final boss ‘The End’ (very original name). Trials also need to be completed for some reason and they consist around platforming up a tall tower and battling an enemy at the end. None of this is fun which is unfortunate as I actually feel all the characters in the game besides Amy play really well and I enjoyed my brief time with them. I didn’t do any of the new cyberspace levels as frankly I don’t care and the game doesn’t even HINT at you that they exist which is strange?
The final segment of the expansion is what truly baffles me, who thought it was remotely ok to do a boss rush of bosses from the main game with level restrictions and no extra rings which quickly drain? Final boss was not good either, though the music slaps all around in the expansion though none of it is memorable which is a big issue compared to the likes of Open Your Heart, Live And Learn, Sonic Heroes, His World etc etc, hell even Sonic Forces had memorable songs.
Only positives I can really give this are the characters being fun though nothing compliments that.
(wow that was a bad expansion.)
This stands very true in this expansion, design choices in this are actually baffling at points and none of the platforming segments are fun, they’re just painstakingly annoying and poorly designed, maybe for another platformer they could be good, but definitely not for Sonic.
The format of the game consists of playing as (mainly) Sonic, Amy, Knuckles and Tails and retrieving Chaos Emeralds (for like the 6th time in the game?) in order for Sonic to take down the true final boss ‘The End’ (very original name). Trials also need to be completed for some reason and they consist around platforming up a tall tower and battling an enemy at the end. None of this is fun which is unfortunate as I actually feel all the characters in the game besides Amy play really well and I enjoyed my brief time with them. I didn’t do any of the new cyberspace levels as frankly I don’t care and the game doesn’t even HINT at you that they exist which is strange?
The final segment of the expansion is what truly baffles me, who thought it was remotely ok to do a boss rush of bosses from the main game with level restrictions and no extra rings which quickly drain? Final boss was not good either, though the music slaps all around in the expansion though none of it is memorable which is a big issue compared to the likes of Open Your Heart, Live And Learn, Sonic Heroes, His World etc etc, hell even Sonic Forces had memorable songs.
Only positives I can really give this are the characters being fun though nothing compliments that.
(wow that was a bad expansion.)