Congrats Sonic Forces! Tradition for the win!

This game is like 2x the price of my normal regional pricing of a triple a game. It's near the price of Steam's Gold Edition of Shadow of War then add 0.50 USD

Let me know when Sega comes to there senses and make Sonic Adventure 3.

Just stahp, Sega. Jesus. Take the hint from Mania's positive reception - nobody wants this kind of trash, especially NOT Sonic fans.

Sonic fans still will eat this up, especially @uninspiredcup, who's still in denial for Super Mario Odyssey grand sales and stellar reviews.

I thought Sonic Heroes and Sonic 2006 was Sonic Adventure 3 and 4? XP

Polygon is still rubbish, but Sonic Mania and Mario Odyssey killed all hype for Sonic Forces.

The wii version of unleashed was decent. What little I tried of the hd version was awful. i felt sonic controlled decently in the wii version compared to the hd version.Never played 06.

So why is Classic Sonic in this game again?

To remind you it use to be good.

In all reality sonic mania was trash as well.

It had an amazing first level then the game went progressively downhill with each stage, turning into pure shit with the water level. It never recovered.

Music was top notch though

@Nuck81: Lol, sure thing hoss. While the first level is amazing, there are better later in the game. I haven't finished it yet, but I've only ran into one level I didn't enjoy so far.

Sonic tradition is to make every game identical to the last one. And if there is any innovation, it is always to the worse.

Eh. technically not true. The Time Travel mechanic in Sega CD was great, and it's generally considered the best game by many. Sonic 3 also added a bunch of interactivity the prior titles lacked.

The most obviose innovation to the series is probably tails, which allowed for multiplayer as well as a simple AI companion to do extra damage or pick up extra rings.

Super Sonic also appeared and become a norm in Sonic 2 encouraging players to replay/explore the environment for chaos emeralds.

Now thats just wrong. Mania is killer.

@drrollinstein: you must have incredibly low standards for games

Have you played the game? Because its hella fun. Being bad at the water level doesnt make it a bad game. GG at platformers.

@TheEroica: Polygon? You are using Polygon? the same people who gave Shadow Warrior 2 a 5/10? yeah try harder OP.

The holy trinity of 3d platformers. Knack/Lucky's Tale/Sonic Forces. Suck it Nintendo!

1. Dude, your trolling is really bad.

2. I just said one thing about Sonic and you became instantly irritated

3. All I ever said was I'm having fun with New Colossus and the newest COD. Yeah, I'm having fun with those games and you keep making a big deal out of that.

4. You haven't played New Colossus

5. You haven't played COD WWII

6. You haven't played Sonic Forces

7. You're kind of a jerk, that quickly becomes irritated and starts attacking games another person likes for no reason whatsoever, other than being a jerk.

You're resorting to personal attacks for a completely valid (100% correct), criticism.

I am a jerk though.

Refer to point 1

If it was a troll, you were triggered.

If it was valid, you were misinformed and hypocritical.

Sour grapes won't change that.

Refer to point 1

Refer to point 7

@drrollinstein: yes, I bought it on PS4. That's why I praised the music and can speak from experience how downhill the game gets as you progress.

I still wouldn't call it trash though lol. No reason to jump to extremes.

It's not broken, it's not terribly designed, it's just a mediocre platformer. Vibrant visuals, nice music, slick presentation all around, and some average gameplay. Personally about a 6/10, but I can see an argument for 7.

Every gamer and his grandma should have known the next 3d Sonic game, after those other 20 3d Sonic games before it sucked, would indeed suck.

Obviously they are selling, though. So I see no reason why they would stop making this crap.

^ ^ This.

Sega, please, get rid of the entire Sonic Team. Sonic Mania is the perfect example of it being possible to create good Sonic titles. Sonic Team just doesn't know what they are doing.

@ArchoNils2: Hey they did a good job of Puyo Puyo Tetris. Maybe rename them the Puyo Puyo Team. :)

@ConanTheStoner: that's fair

Okay, I give you that. It was a fun game, a bit overpriced and the story mode was horrible, but I did like the gameplay

@ArchoNils2: The story itself was horrible but I thought the challenges did a very good job of teaching the different skills in the game(s).

Yeah i agree, gameplay was great. I just really hated the "story" and I still think it's a hefty price for a puzzle game. If it wasn't so early in the Switchs life, I probably wouldn't have bought it at that price point.

@ArchoNils2: All the same, Sonic Team did a good job of the game. :)

Uh... Colors (Wii) and Generations (PS3, 360)? Not sure what the hell happened that made Sonic Team suck again.

Wont lie the trailer got me hyped....I might bargain bin it one day like I do most sonic when I need that itch scratched

The vast majority of Mario games (especially the newer 2D stuff) start with the same grassy themed level. They just give them different names...

@TheEroica: I actually enjoyed about 2/3 of Sonic Lost World. I had moderate hope for this. Oh well.

When will the review embargo for Sonic Forces be removed?

Decided to pre-order it last night and I played over an hour of it this morning before I had to come to work. It's been pretty easy, but I'm having fun with it. I'm excited to get back to it tonight. I'll have to get Sonic Mania soon too

PC versions having technical issues.

Hmm...I need to see some more reviews other than just Polygon

@uninspiredcup: I won't play it until the evening over here, but supposedly a patch was just released that fixes most of the crashes. I don't know what's happened to SEGA Europe, but they've been off with PC releases as of late.

It has already been removed. Reviews on most sites for the game should be up by the end of the week.

No, it isn't. Even Alex Kidd is a better platformer, let alone Sonic.

Err, techincally not true. Most so called innovations and new styles were simply copied from other video games. Sonic Pinball, and Sonic 3D are good examples of this.

Huh?

Oh yea, forgot about the introduction of the spin-dash are well, instant momentum.

That's your opinion man,

meanwhile I still love replaying NES mario games on SNES with Super Mario All-stars

@super600: Eventhough the embargo has been lifted, it seems that review sites are really not in a rush to post their reviews. I assume that Sonic Forces in not like Super Mario Odyssey.