Steam's user-rating convinced me to pull the trigger on Frontiers yesterday afternoon. Too early to tell if I agree with that rating yet.

Just under six hours in, just about to (hopefully) 100% the first island.

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I believe I now realize how Frontiers got that 95% user rating.

The island titan fights. And the music that goes with them.

That's the first boss of the game.

The. First. Boss.

They put final bosses of the franchise's past to absolute shame.

I've managed to avoid spoilers so far, so I'd really like to finish it in the next few days.

Stop the talk of Sonic Adventure 3.

Bring on Sonic Frontiers 2.

If Kellin Quinn and Tyler Smyth want to keep coming back, then by gods, I believe we'll have a successor to Crush 40.

Hope to have this game beaten by tonight, then it's back to horse words.

And maybe hedgehog/fox/echidna/seedrian words.

So I finally made the time, and looked at the first two 'IGN First' videos for Sonic Frontiers.

Here's what I think happened: Sonic Team took a pair of really shitty binoculars, looked across the street into Nintendo's office while they were making Breath of the Wild, and went "ooh, let's do that."

The last two years of Sonic content has been absolutely phenomenal. Let's recap:

Record-breaking film.
Legendary 30th anniversary concert.
Record-breaking film #2.

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...But it's been known to happen.

That was all. (No this is not the actual dialogue, which is really quite touching in the game. If they absolutely had to acknowledge the character abortion that was Forces, this was one of the best ways to do it.)

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Yesterday’s Writing Stats:
Novel: 1,675
Species Swap Contest: 377
Thanksgiving Collab: 418
Total Words Written: 2,470

Yesterday’s Reading Stats:
Fanfiction: 3,311

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I’m really bad at buying and playing new video games. Partly the money thing, partly timing doesn’t work out, partly cause I want to see if it’s good first. But I’ve loved Sonic since forever and I want to play frontiers! Today! The release day!

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To be fair, having these absolute fire 2000's-style heavy metal headbangers as your boss fight themes is bound to have an effect on you.

Still haven't decided my favorite, and maybe I never will.

Still not openly discussing spoilers or story content; not sure how far along Phazon is with his playthrough.

Sonic Frontiers has finally de-throned Sonic Heroes as the bestselling 3D Sonic game of all time.

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God damn.

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God damn.

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