Even Station Square had better worldbuilding.

Adding to the eyesore is the atrocious amount of pop-in throughout - even on a PS5!

Collect memory tokens to unlock new conversations!

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Level up Sonic’s speed and other attributes!

Oh, and here’s a fishing mini-game with Big the Cat!

It’s all slapped together and explained with a quick tutorial boxout, and then off you go.

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These feel even grander when you’re taking on larger colossi-jot down enemies, or the main boss Titans.

But again these fall short of the imaginative levels of the earlier 3D Sonic games.

Just how many times can you recycle Green Hill or Chemical Plant?

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‘Not enough’, the answer looks like it’s.

The targets however often feel inconsistent.

Sonic Team’s Takashi Iizuka has spoken about how Frontiers is set to pave the way for the series.

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