Sonic Frontiers is a bit messy, but overall it's pretty good. Compared to Forces and Lost World, I'd much rather play this any day.
I think the story is good! A huge step up in writing from some of the previous Sonic titles in the past few years. I won't say much else since there's a lot of mystery involved here in the story.
To describe the gameplay as simply as possible, you control Sonic and blast through open world areas filled with platforming challenges with a shit ton of collectables to grab. These collectables all help towards getting chaos emeralds which unlock the boss fights you need to beat to progress the story. I find these open world areas to be really fun! I especially love the final island you go to. Sonic controls well here, and you can change how he plays however you want in the options. They give you a lot to work with. If you want to play through linear levels, there are the cyberspace stages. They're fine, but short. Not much challenge to find here.
The music is alright. Before any updates for the game came out the soundtrack mostly consisted of solemn piano music that wasn't very memorable. The cyberspace levels and boss fights had the only memorable tracks but you don't spend that much time in either. After the first update, they added a jukebox which contained a bunch of classic music from previous titles. It's a neat addition, and you can even find more music out in the world to collect!
Overall, Sonic Frontiers is a good Sonic game! I think if you spend too long on an island collecting everything you can get bored quickly. Feel free to not collect everything you see and just progress the story if you feel that's the case. The game hands you a bunch of stuff without you really needing to put in much effort, especially in the fishing minigame, but perhaps you could say that's another issue itself.
I think the story is good! A huge step up in writing from some of the previous Sonic titles in the past few years. I won't say much else since there's a lot of mystery involved here in the story.
To describe the gameplay as simply as possible, you control Sonic and blast through open world areas filled with platforming challenges with a shit ton of collectables to grab. These collectables all help towards getting chaos emeralds which unlock the boss fights you need to beat to progress the story. I find these open world areas to be really fun! I especially love the final island you go to. Sonic controls well here, and you can change how he plays however you want in the options. They give you a lot to work with. If you want to play through linear levels, there are the cyberspace stages. They're fine, but short. Not much challenge to find here.
The music is alright. Before any updates for the game came out the soundtrack mostly consisted of solemn piano music that wasn't very memorable. The cyberspace levels and boss fights had the only memorable tracks but you don't spend that much time in either. After the first update, they added a jukebox which contained a bunch of classic music from previous titles. It's a neat addition, and you can even find more music out in the world to collect!
Overall, Sonic Frontiers is a good Sonic game! I think if you spend too long on an island collecting everything you can get bored quickly. Feel free to not collect everything you see and just progress the story if you feel that's the case. The game hands you a bunch of stuff without you really needing to put in much effort, especially in the fishing minigame, but perhaps you could say that's another issue itself.