Sonic Forces

Ever since the garbage that has been Sonic Boom, I was hoping when SEGA would just stop, rethink their actions, and go back to what made them great. When I first saw Classic Sonic in the trailer, I got a bit excited that this would be a sequel to Generations or a new experience. But, nope. It's just Super Mario Odyssey with the main focus being the OCs, a lower budget, horrible, unwanted voice acting, boring story and villains, unnecessary side characters, and trash character development. What's the point of having most of the characters here if they're just cheerleaders and aren't playable? However, what SEGA did to Tails is unforgivable. In Adventure 2, he defeated Eggman on his own, but since Unleashed, he's just a mere background character that does absolutely nothing. Wow, what a way to go.

This game has a huge list of problems but for each problem theres two good things. This game is not the 25th we deserved but is still entertaing enough to exist.

Sonic fumbles once again in this mediocre addition to the franchise. Really, what can I say that hasn't been said: the levels are short, the physics wonky as heck, Classic Sonic is a dead cow being milked to its limits, mischaracterization of characters, and I'm just scraping the bottom of the barrel here.

Some of the redeeming qualities of this game is the soundtrack, the custom creator, the environments of the stages, some set pieces are pretty cool, but that's about it.

Not bad, but not very good.

So this is an interesting game for sure, I'm not really sure what to think of it. On the one hand is it as bad as some people would have you believe? No, not really. Would I say that I think the game is great? Probably not either. It's in this weird state where I think that the hate it gets is unwarranted but I'd hesitate to recommend this game entirely.

Basically put, if you like the way Generations or Unleashed played and would like more levels in that style then this is more of the same with regards to game play. But the story is a bit rubbish and some of the bosses are a bit on the weak side but I don't have many complaints with either the visuals, the music or the performance. They're all pretty good.

So I'd say, pick this up on sale if you'd like a "Generations level pack" but this is not really the game I wanted or needed, but I enjoyed my time with the game play and collectables that you can hunt for

Sonic Forces is far from being the best of the franchise, but quite an enjoyable game. Probably the biggest issue is the story is sorta weak. The cutscenes can be seen rushed and doesn't tell us much about Sonic's journey. And the controls can be repetitive sometimes. But what makes up for it is fantastic graphics, some of the nice gameplay especially when you get to make a avatar for the game and likable charm from the previous Sonic games. Overall, it's definitely not the best Sonic game. But can't say it's the worst either.