Sonic Forces

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.

Loved that you can make your own avatar, loved the plot, loved the backgrounds, but the gameplay is terrible.

For the most part it's super easy (so easy it's boring), but then there will just be a part of the map you have no way of knowing about so you can't not die a few times. Seems like the developers where like, "Let's make the game so easy a three year old can play it, but let's make sure they die a few times at random parts of the game just so they think it's hard."

Once you have played the entire map once you can play it again with your eyes closed. It's all about knowing where that one place you need to jump is.

Would have been a better game if it were open world instead of everything on a track.

Sonic Forces is a sad story. It had the potential of being one of Sonic's best games yet, and instead it became one of Sonic's most mediocre and disappointing games to date. The story tries to be the next SA1 or SA2, but instead the story had a villain with a cringe backstory, questionable usage of characters (cough cough Tails), a world that's like cardboard, a Mary Sue OC, and combined this all with a laughable script that try's to take itself both seriously and funny and with awful acting leads a game that overall, is painfully mediocre at its best, and an insult to the fans at its worst. Sonic could do WAY better than this insult of a game

Honestly, this game is a mix. While there's some bad moments like certain controls or plot holes. The rest of the game is decent. Sure it's a letdown for Sonic's 25th anniversary compared to mania, but when looked at alone it's surprisingly fun to play. Playing as 3 characters is a great refreshment for the series. Sure two of them are sonic and one is a character customization result, but at least we get more playstyles. My only complaint is that the main villain Infinite is just bad. His reason for becoming evil is because Shadow called him weak. That's as if someone tracked down a random YouTuber just because they commented "KYS lol." also the rest of infinite is just the "Evil dark and edgy" stereotype we all know but don't like. He's basically a Great Value Shadow that's past the expiration date. The soundtrack is great about 75-85% of the time, the level design isn't bad due to the fact only 3 people worked on it, the free dlc "Episode Shadow" is fun and I'm honestly glad to play as shadow after so long. If you want to get this game, get it when it's on sale because even though for me it's one of my favorite sonic games, it still has some minimal problems that can be fixed.

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.