Sonic Forces Reviews
For every cool idea in Sonic Forces, there is a half-hearted execution, and while that may give me warm memories of my childhood, it doesn't make for something I could whole heartedly recommend.
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
Like Sonic? Play Sonic Mania. Played Sonic Mania? Play it some more. While Sonic Forces looks fantastic, it's one of the least engaging games in the entire series.
Sonic Forces is the latest edition of games starring our beloved blue, hyperactive hedgehog. This time we get to fight the evil Eggman as three characters; Sonic, Sonic from another dimension and Rookie – your own, personalized avatar. Does this new Sonic-game live up to the unfamtomably popular, early games? We think not.
Review in Swedish | Read full review
Sonic Forces has an intriguing concept and shows some high production values, but at the end of the day this translates in some shallow and rambling ideas, and a main character that fails to create any empathy with the player. It's not a bad game per se, but an anonymous one.
Review in Italian | Read full review
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
Sonic Forces consistently fails more than it succeeds, squandering the opportunity to build on the series' past successes.
Sonic Forces creators' good intentions and interesting ideas don't amount to much in a game so clumsy and limited in design. It certainly doesn't help that Forces follows right on the heels of Sonic Mania, a game that not only demonstrated a more focused design sensibility but also did a far better job of realizing its creators' ambitions. Forces may have had a larger budget than Mania, but it feels like the poorer creation all around. Unless your dearest dream has always been to play a Sonic game as your own original fan art character, Sonic Forces doesn't have much to offer.
Sonic Forces is a spectacular but empty sugar rush that's over in a blur. Once again, Sonic's return to form falls flat.
Fans might get a kick out of designing their own character, but weak platforming stops Forces dead in its tracks.
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
Sonic Forces has polish in some key places, but fails to bring that polish to every facet of its design.
It may look lovely and run well, but Sonic Forces' uninspired level design and lack of flow prevent it being much fun to play.
Sonic Forces is an easy, soft and repetitive experience in which Sonic Teams shows again how the "good times" of the IP seem to stay in the past. A perfect product for the youngest players but with a huge lack of creativity.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
While I see potential in Sonic Forces, the execution just isn't there, especially with the Switch edition. In the future I really hope Sega reinvents the wheel, taking a more Mario Odyssey adventure approach. The whole level-based 3D "thing" hasn't worked out so frequently that it's worth a shot.
Think of it as a Sonic games for the toddlers at home. Even so, it keeps some mistakes from which Sonic Team should have learned a long time ago.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Sonic Forces is a disappointing rehash of everything that has been done wrong with the Sonic franchise in the past. There were some good ideas here, but none of them were executed in a way that was fun or enjoyable.
Sonic Forces is a mixed bag, but the bad outweighs the good. Its few bright spots - mostly in the form of classic Sonic - get dimmed by the muddled mess of the weaker elements, and the lack of content doesn't help. The game's biggest achievement is the reminder of old school Sonic's superior gameplay.
While the technology is mostly convincing, the new Sonic lacks game depth and scope.
Review in German | Read full review