Sonic Frontiers review — Stop laughing

Poor Sonic is often the butt of jokes, even after starring in two hit films and a stellar retro revival with 2017’s Sonic Mania. But the Blue Blur’s lows often stick out more than his highs. To be fair, they are pretty low lows. Titles like Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) and Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric are some of the worst widely released games of all times.

Those are both 3D platformers — the format where Sonic has struggled the most. Some titles like the Sonic Adventure games have a lot of charm, even if they have aged into feeling more like B-movie camp than the triple-A releases they once were. But for every decent to good 3D outing like Sonic Generations, you have mediocre to terrible efforts like Sonic Unleashed and Sonic Forces.