Why is it that whenever Sonic Team gets criticized they take all of the criticism WAY TOO FAR and end up making the worst fucking Sonic content they possibly can?!?!!!??

This DLC is the absolute fucking worst and I HATED every single fucking second of this.

- It is WAY too hard
- WAY too long
- Too much shit to collect and the map takes FOREVER to fully uncover
- The entire island is now covered in ugly ass floating platforms and obstacles that just make everything look way too cluttered and overwhelming
- Most of these new character interactions in-game are pointless additions and the character animations during these are literally non existent
- The new cyberspace stages are AWFUL!!! With terrible and confusing level design and WAY. TOO. MANY. FUCKING. COLLECTABLES!!!

Even the final boss!!! They were supposed to fix the final boss! and sure, it looks cooler now, but I had to look at a fucking YouTube video just to know how to REMOVE THE FUCKING CHORD OUT OF SUPREME'S FAT FUCKING HEAD, CUZ THE GAME DID NOT MAKE THAT CLEAR AT ALL!!!!

The only things I did like were the boss rush, the new version of I am here and flying all over the place as Tails in his mech...And only Tails, because the other two were not really all that fun to control compared to Sonic.

This DLC is just the worse. I was actually going to replay Sonic Frontiers for a third time just to use the spindash for the whole game, but this DLC completely killed my desire to do that.

It sucks and completely ruins the game. Just ignore it and pretend it doesn't exist, especially if you are a completionist...It's not worth it at all.

They really had something going. How did they fumble it this hard?

I liked the base game. It wasn't anything special but I enjoyed my time with it and was happy to see a good Sonic game from Sonic Team again after over a decade without one. This new content however is just filled with tons and tons of questionable design choices, and I'm aware that pre-patch it was far worse, so I can't even imagine how bad it was then.

Having new characters to play as was nice on paper but they all started out extremely un-fleshed out and were very unfun to play as until I started to unlock most of their skill trees, which required finding lots of Kocos and was very boring. Once those skills were unlocked though it became much more fun and I started to enjoy overworld exploration far more. The new cyberspace stages, on the other hand, aren't good at all though. Minus 4-D which I kind of liked. Having alternate paths is cool but it doesn't matter much when the level design is so obtuse and hard to traverse. Glad they're optional.

Over the course of the past few months I've heard tons of praise for the final boss. Lots of people have said the final boss is great and makes up for this campaign's faults. I have no idea what they're talking about. That boss fight sucked. Were we really playing the same game? I haven't played a game with a final boss fight with design that cryptic since Paper Mario: Sticker Star. I even had to restart the fight at one point because the boss got bugged. Any chance of this getting a higher score from me was ruined by that fight.

Sonic Frontiers made me cautiously optimistic for Sonic's future but this campaign destroyed most of that optimism. The fact the story makes almost zero noticeable changes from the main game's story and has basically the same outcome makes me wonder what reason this update even has to exist, beyond having an excuse to play as more characters. The effort for this really should have just gone into working on another project instead. I fear Sega has not learned from Frontiers' success and will continue to not give Sonic Team the time and budget they desperately need.

I think when people complained about the issues Frontiers had, Sonic Team were like "hold my rings" and went and added a whole loads of updates plus an entire DLC chapter totally for free.

This included tons of little fixes, as well as making Tails,
Knuckles and Amy playable in 3D for the first time in 10+ years! And for Tails and Amy, it's their best playable appearance to date, with Knuckles still being great but he has some room to improve. The story is essentially an alternative ending to the base game, with these other characters getting far more spotlight.

The giant final island is crammed with platforming challenges for every character and they are easily some of the best in the series. Sonics new linear stages are a huge step up.. however.. if there's one thing they took personally, was that the base game was too easy. This is one of the most difficult Sonic sections ever, and some of it is amazing.
The platforming that takes advantage of Momentum is incredible, but enemies are now extreme damage sponges. There are missions in sonic's levels which are literally huge pace breakers, as well as a fair bit of jank overall.

The new final boss is an absolute spectacle, giving us one of the coolest moments for Sonic ever, with the boss being hard but much more consistent than the original final boss.

However I will say some elements are just too difficult for a Sonic game, and it makes this a cautious reccomened - 7/10

i'm sorry but this dlc ruined this game for me, after finishing this dlc i hated frontiers more as a whole. the different characters were cool and i had fun playing as them, but the level design for the cyberspace levels is horrible especially level 4-h which took me 43 minutes just to complete. and some of the koco trials had ridiculous requirements that go from being easy to insanely hard and then easy again. the final boss was the only redeeming quality but unfortunately it was not very clear on what you're supposed to do to attack it which ruined that part for me as well since i was restarting my game over and over thinking the fight was bugged. i'm glad we were able to play the dlc for free, but i much would have prefered us having to wait for them to just finish the game before launch