![]() ![]() New IPs that turn into bad games full of technical hiccups are doomed propositions. ![]() ![]() While I have grown less fond of Sonic by the passing year, my 6 year old kid is obsessed with anything Sonic related, and it is thanks to that obsession that I have been playing Sonic Frontiers with him. Kids (and even a segment of the adult gaming population) love Sonic. Still, when Sega designed the cute blue hedgehog, and its supporting characters in the late 1980s and 1990s, the company had stumbled upon a commercial winner. Sonic Has a Bright Future…I ThinkĮver since Sonic Adventure 2, it could be argued that Sonic 3-D games have been pedestrian at best, and completely terrible at worst. Out of the three headlines that we will discuss here, only one is positive, and that’s Sonic Frontiers’ commercial success despite the game’s ho-hum critical response of 71 Metacritic (C’mon the game is far from a masterpiece, but it is the best Sonic in decades, perhaps a low 80s rating was warranted here). One would think that we might have travelled back to the 1990s, but sadly, that is not case. Square Enix, Sega and Nintendo, have all made head lines this week. ![]()
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