Sonic Forces Reviews
Sonic Forces is yet another chapter in the Sonic saga that fails to bring justice to one of the biggest franchise of the '90s. Forces is not the Sonic game we were waiting for: trivial and too much easy, despite a difficult-to-manage gameplay that can easily cause frustration. SEGA must take a break and change direction in order to let its brand shine again, and we really hope that Sonic Team could find a formula to achieve it to make Sonic great again.
Review in Italian | Read full review
A few months after a terrific Sonic Mania, Sonic Team gives us a short, unchallenging game lacking fresh ideas and unable to fix some issues from previous disappointing iterations. Don't hope to get magic of the first days back with Sonic Forces.
Review in French | Read full review
It may look lovely and run well, but Sonic Forces' uninspired level design and lack of flow prevent it being much fun to play.
There is too much wrong with Sonic Forces to recommend it to everyone, but if you're hankering for 3D Sonic, and you've finished every other Sonic game, then check it out on sale.
Sonic Forces could've been much better if developers paid more attention to the levels structure, physics of the characters and controls. Perhaps in the future Sonic Team will make the necessary updates to the mechanics with patches, but right now the game is raw and unfinished.
Review in Russian | Read full review
We get the impression that Sonic Team wanted Forces to be the Best Sonic Game Ever, with a Greatest Hits package of everything good in the series, but they didn't have the time, money or talent to accomplish this.
The famous weaknesses of the 3D Sonics are still present, but the sheer wealth and variety of stages and missions largely makes up for them in my eyes.
It’s not the 3D Sonic game we wanted but it’s the one we’ve got. Sonic Forces gives us glimpses of what a good Sonic 3D game could look like but it does so much wrong that it’s not worth your time or money unless you’re a truly die-hard Sonic fan.
Sonic Forces is a decent time.
Sonic Forces is a flawed and unremarkable game, despite occasionally providing moments of decent enjoyment.
On top of the joy of creating and playing as your own character, there's a lot of goofy charm that makes Sonic Forces hard to be too disappointed with. The graphics are colorful and engaging, and the music is a pumping backdrop for extreme team-ups, super-speed cinematics, and lots of ruminations on the power of friendship. There are some really fun levels in the mix, too, and surprisingly strong boss fights make for some unexpected highlights. But Sonic Forces doesn't build on its handful of good ideas as much as it should, and it screeches to a halt just as it seems to hit its stride.
Sonic Forces is a disappointing step back for the franchise. Uninteresting level design and subpar gameplay on all three playable characters make for a game that can be frustrating to get through. The nonsense story is poorly written and makes more tonal shifts than Mariah Carey with an ice cube down her back. The game is perfectly fine for the younger audience it's targeting, and we're sure they'll enjoy it for what it is, but in the wake of Sonic Mania's tremendous success, the problems 3D Sonic has always faced are becoming much harder to ignore.
Despite a few new ideas and sublime soundtrack, I cannot for recommend picking up Sonic Forces on any platform until a low bargain bin sale. It's just embarrassing the iconic character hasn't been given the right treatment in his next generation debut, perhaps 3D sonic games are over? Or the franchise needs to stay buried.
While the technology is mostly convincing, the new Sonic lacks game depth and scope.
Review in German | Read full review
Sonic Forces consistently fails more than it succeeds, squandering the opportunity to build on the series' past successes.
The good news is that Sonic Forces is not the disaster it could easily have been. There's a fairly enjoyable, silly romp here, that's got some nicely handled fan service. The bad news is that it still makes so many of the same mistakes synonymous with the series' 3D past.
2017 is the year the Sonic franchise stops running from itself. Sonic Mania and Sonic Forces celebrate different eras, but they both take the same shameless “all-in” approach. Sonic Forces is a confident game, serving up a story and stages that go for broke, while dodging the pitfalls of the past. As long as you're not a hardline 3D Sonic hater, this earnest, entertaining adventure is worth a spin.
How many more hedgehogs have to suffer before SEGA understands that Sonic should use only 2D platformer genre?
Review in Polish | Read full review