Recent reviews by Acire

The added items are basically all amazing, the survivors are a ton of fun, the stages are mostly good, unfortunately most of the enemies suck and Voidling is not a well-designed boss. Overall still worth the money, just be warned that you will grow to hate Larva very VERY quickly

this is the most deceptively content-dense game I've ever played oh my god I don't even have any of the DLC yet and the game just keeps GOING and I have no idea when it's ever going to END

Yeah, I suppose on the whole I'd recommend this. I played Shadow Generations first in an attempt to pre-empt spoilers, and while that didn't entirely work I still found myself loving this game. Everything about it was incredible, and I have no regrets. Sonic Generations, on the other hand... misery. Complete and utter misery. I hated nearly every second of playing this game. Classic Sonic just feels awful to use, Modern Sonic is better but doesn't have great levels, and the bosses are hot garbage to the degree that somehow the Time Eater is the *best* one. And it's not even that good. Buy it for Shadow, not for Sonic.

I've gotten to the point where I keep the game open with an autoclicker running while I'm at work or am otherwise out of the house help me

For the most part, this DLC is amazing now. The items all have at least some notable use case, the survivors are all really good (though admittedly I don't use them much), the new stages are great, and it's great to have more skins for previous survivors. It's very much not perfect, however - all three of the new enemies are terrible to fight (Child and Scorch Wurm do obscene amounts of damage and actively avoid you, Halcyonite is incredibly janky) and False Son is not a particularly great boss to fight without looping. I'd still very much consider it worth buying, but it's the weakest of the three DLCs I think. Ignore older reviews though, this DLC was FAR worse on launch.

ORIGINAL REVIEW (September 16, 2024): I've been playing Risk of Rain 2 nonstop for around 2.5 years now, and uh yeah this DLC is a disappointment. The new stages are awesome and Seeker's pretty fun (haven't used Chef or the secret survivor yet) but the new enemies are not particularly fun to fight (why can Scorch Wurms be Overloading), the items aren't great with a couple notable exceptions, the False Son isn't very fun to fight from the couple attempts I've done, Gilded elites are way too tanky for how common they are, and Twisted elites are just awful game design. Definitely not worth the $15, hopefully I'll be able to update this review later to make it positive but honestly I'm not even sure about that :(

UPDATE (May 15, 2025): most of these issues are fixed lol, enemies still aren't the best to fight but the elites are fixed, items are great, survivors are great, and False Son isn't *total* ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ to fight. definitely worth the money now

hi yes this game is very fun please play it

Best visual novel ever made. Anyone who disagrees is wrong.

I never really got the feel for the gameplay, but holy ♥♥♥♥ this game is something special. Everything about this game just comes together into a package I don't think can be replicated anytime soon. Rocking soundtrack too.

9/10. pretty much everything was phenomenal (music, story, gameplay) but they did fumble the final boss a bit (first part was easier than the rest of the bosses, second part was... well I'll just say a letdown).

soundtrack's probably the best one of the year, only song I didn't exactly care for was I'm Here (the main theme, funnily enough) but the boss themes are SO ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ GOOD ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ THEY WENT SO NUTS ON THESE WHY WAS THIS SNUBBED AT THE GAME AWARDS

graphics are another thing I should mention, as shown in pre-release stuff there is a decent bit of pop-in but there was only one time I really minded it tbh. there were also a couple instances where the shadows freaked out, but again I didn't really mind.

controls are great, not 100% perfect but eh I doubt I've ever played a 3D game with perfect controls. Sonic feels great to control, though funnily enough maybe a bit slow. you can upgrade his speed at certain places, but it did feel a bit clunky to do.

combat's a crucial part of this game, and thankfully it works really well. there were a couple instances where I got ganged up on by some lesser enemies and they could attack me while I was attacking other enemies, which got a bit annoying, but it wasn't unbearable.

thankfully the combat was fun to execute, though some moves felt a bit odd to perform. probably just my inexperience with the character action genre tho. skill tree was cool but honestly I didn't really get why these were necessary inclusions. eh, probably just me.

just remembered, the performance. loading times could be a bit long, which did get annoying at some points (reloading my save, going in and out of cyber space, etc.) but at least with the cyber space there was the training stuff to do while you waited. nice time waster.

story's phenomenal, as should be expected from Ian Flynn (the main guy in charge of the Sonic comics since like 2006). Sage is an amazing character and I hope she comes back in a future game. really cool to see some more Sonic lore honestly, hope to see more of that

oh yeah THE BOSS FIGHTS dude the music combined with the gameplay and the spectacle of it all just became such an amazing experience every time, especially with the second boss. I'm not spoiling a thing here, these need to be experienced. (well, the main three at least).

so yeah all in all Sonic Frontiers isn't a perfect game by any means but it's just such an amazing experience that it's entirely worth playing for that alone. probably my favorite game of the year, though tbf I've only played Kirby and the Forgotten Land and Splatoon 3. buy this game. if you're hesitant, get it on sale. but you need to play this game.

Genuinely better than Super Mario Odyssey. Great writing, amazing soundtrack, great level design... really my only true issue is that the hookshot is located in chapter 3, yet is necessary for a level in chapter 2. Aside from that, this game is nearly perfect.