Hello everyone, most of you know me as Soniccrew128.
If not, then what I do is mostly on this channel is My Little Pony content, but I’m also rising to do some Sonic Content as well.
So be sure to check out some of my Sonic related videos if you haven’t seen them yet.
Well..... It's the month of November.
You know what that means?!?!?!
Sonic Forces is here!!!!!
At the Sonic’s 25th Anniversary party, it was revealed that SEGA was making a brand new Modern Sonic game called Project Sonic 2017.
And when I saw the trailer, I was excited to see what they are going for. It seems like they're aiming for a darker tone for this game.
And by the time SXSW came, we were giving new info for the game, which was revealed to be Sonic Forces. And everyone was excited for this game when we saw the first look at the gameplay, which played like Sonic Unleashed, Colors, and Generations.
Since then, I’ve been so hyped for this new Sonic game, more hyped than I was in Sonic Generations. It has been so long since we had a great new 3D Sonic game.
Sonic Lost World was ok, but not as good. And let's not get into that one game that should not be named.
But now since Sonic Forces is here, it’s time to dive in and see if this game could be another great Sonic game for all of us to remember.
So without further ado everybody, welcome to my review on Sonic Forces.
For this review, I’ve have three topics that I will be discussing and I will give my opinions on it later at the end of the video.
So just a heads up, this video will contain spoilers for the game if your planning to played it, or you can just spoil yourself, I really don’t care.
Anyways we’re gonna dive right first into our first topic : Gameplay.
Sonic Forces is a evolution of Sonic Colors, and Sonic Generations with new twists in the game.
For this Sonic title, we have three gameplay styles : Modern Sonic, Classic Sonic, and Custom Avatar.
And there's also Tag Team, which is both Modern Sonic, and Avatar. (I forgot about Rental Avatar too)
And this game is running on a brand new engine called “The Hedgehog Engine 2”. Which like the old engine but with new enhancements added to it.
So let’s take a look at our first gameplay style that everybody loves : Modern Sonic.
The Modern Sonic gameplay acts like the previous titles from Colors to Generations.
You have fast running 3D sections, 2D sections, with homing attacks, stomp, and boost.
But their are new and returning powers to the gameplay.
One is when Sonic Boosts in the air, it isn’t like a very quick boost. What happens is he can continuously boost in the air as long as the gauge is filled.
One thing that has return to Modern Sonic’s gameplay is the wisps, which helps Sonic fill up his boost gauge like in Sonic Colors.
The bad side of Sonic’s gameplay is he doesn’t include light speed dash, drifting, or wall jumping.
Only the Avatar can do the wall jump in only one stage.
While the levels are fun, their are sections that are just automated which is really not ok.
The next gameplay style is: Classic Sonic.
This gameplay basically acts like in Sonic Generations. We have the classic 2D platforming, running, jumping, and spin dash from Sonic Generations.
But this time we have the drop dash from Sonic Mania which is a nice feature.
However, Classic Sonic’s gameplay is a bit strange in this title.
Like his speed quickly slows down when he runs into a dashpad, while in Generations it doesn’t do that. So that makes it difficult to get to areas in the stage.
Nothing much else to say about Classic Sonic’s gameplay so let’s move on to our final gameplay style: The Custom Avatar (OC)
This is the first time that Sonic Team has had a customizable character that we can play along side with Sonic.
For this character you can choose between a dog, wolf, rabbit, bear, cat, bird, and hedgehog.
You can personalize your character with what type of gender, their colors, their type of voice they can have, and what equipment/clothes they can wear.
For abilities, the custom character is able to keep up with Sonic with his/her high running speeds,
uses a grappling gear to launch in the air, turn corners quickly, and to attack enemies,
and he/her can control a weapon called Wispons, which is a gun that can be performed by different kinds of wisps like Burst, Lighting, Drill, and Cube.
Your type of species can also vary the abilities that you can have with your character.
Like for example, a Bird can perform a double jump,
a Rabbit can have longer invincibility when hit,
and a Wolf can draw items close to them.
For the stages, it’s like Modern Sonic’s levels but without the boost, and with enemies that you have to sometimes destroy to progress.
Before we move into the next topic, I will mention two things that can be considered gameplay styles (but not really for me), which is Tag Team, and Rental Avatar.
Tag Team is a combination of Modern Sonic and Avatar, where you control one character at a time, but you can switch who you play as when you hit a button that the character can do.
At some point in the stages, you and Sonic perform a Double Boost, which is like Sonic’s Boost but two times faster.
For Rental Avatar, this is basically where your able to "borrow" someone’s avatar, and you can switch them out during stages,
which can help get to paths that your character can’t get to.
And that pretty much wraps up everything gameplay wise, so let’s move in to our next topic which is one of my favorite things to come from this game: Music.
The music for Sonic Forces is composed by Tomoya Ohtani, who has work on many music for the series such as Unleashed, Colors, Lost World, and Runners.
For Forces, the music ranges from rocking synth music with lyrics (which has been a long time since we had vocals), to symphony orchestra music.
While their are so many songs from this game that I love, I’m gonna quickly list my......
And now ladies and gentleman, it’s time to talk about the last topic that everyone has been asking about since this game’s announcement....
What is the story of Sonic Forces?
The game starts as we see Eggman in which I assume is his OC creator lab, and he shouts out that he will use his ultimate weapon to build the eggman empire, and conquer the world.
Yeah he sure sounds like it, but how serious is he?
After Sonic gets a message from Tails that eggman’s forces has taken over the city and he comes and rescues everybody,
it appears that Eggman has an Army of Villains on his side.
Everyone's here......Shadow,
Metal Sonic,
Chaos,
and that guy.
We see a new villain has come in and starts attacking Sonic, which he literally kicks his butt and Sonic falls unconscious (or dead).
Ok...
Now their going serious.
Months later, Eggman has taken control over 99% of the world, and Sonic’s friends has formed a resistance team to try and take back the world.
Finally, a good roll that Knuckles can play in this game. Play this music over this cutscene please!
When finally get to see our custom character has come to join the resistance.
(MY OC! DO NOT STEAL!)
This game does have the ability to put your character into cutscenes in the game. Which is awesome.
The team then discovers that Sonic is alive, but kept imprisoned on the Death Egg, yeah apparently eggman built it again.
Meanwhile, we see Tails working on a functionless Omega, and suddenly Chaos appears.
Ugh, jeez can we just please make Tails more braver?!?!
In recent Sonic titles, Tails has been just Sonic’s hype man, and is just too cowardly fight anymore.
We haven’t seen Tails fight a single thing since the Adventure series.
And just like that, Chaos is defeated. Just a simple hit can destroy him.
Oh- oh yeah spoiler alert :
There is no Chaos Boss (Everyone : WHAT?!?!?)
So while Tails and Classic Sonic team up to defeat Eggman, the resistance head into space to save Sonic.
Oh hey look, Sonic's ok! There's not a single scratch or bruise on him. And I thought he was being tortured.
I guess they must of tortured him by dunking him in water, but we don’t see that sadly.
After Sonic defeats Zavok, which he disappears into thin air, Sonic escapes and runs in to save the avatar from being attacked.
I guess SonAmy is still a thing after the Boom incident.
Sonic and the Avatar escape the Death Egg and return home to the resistance base.
Afterwards, Sliver is being attacked by Infinite, which Sonic comes in and fights him.
AKA, The EDgIeSt Oc YoU'Ll EvER sEE
After Sonic defeats Infinite, he flees and runs away leaving Sonic still confused about his powers.
Meanwhile, Tails and Classic Sonic head for Green Hill to go after Eggman.
Yeah, uh……. You’ve already did that. Don't you remember?
Tails and Classic Sonic then go looking for the gang, and they soon meet up with the Custom Character who picks up a red looking gem that Infinite dropped earlier.
They soon meet up with Modern Sonic and Tails is happy.
Woah woah woah woah woah wait. Wait! Game! Come here. Come here. Yeah, yeah you, come on, come on.
“It’s been Generations since I’ve seen you.” You really thought you could slide in that horrible joke?
GO INTO THE CORNER OF PAINFULLY PUSHED PUNS!
Tails then tells the gang about Eggman’s plan that will destroy them all, when suddenly we hear that Shadow is attacking the city, and Sonic goes after him.
Shadow explains that Infinite can create Virtual reality villains, which replicate the originals but they are soulless and stronger than the original.
Yeah.... sure they are.....
While the gang waits for Sonic’s return, the resistance forms an attack on Metropolis to take back the city. But the plan failed, because of Infinite destroying their forces.
Jesus, Infinite is the most badass villan we've ever had yet!
But for some reason, he still lets the heroes live.
Tails and Classic infiltrates Eggman's computer network and finds that the Phantom Ruby has a weakness, which is destroy the Death Egg.
Meanwhile, Sonic and the Custom Character go and defeat the Metal Sonic.
YEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!
Yay we destroyed the Death Egg. Again!
Believing they have the upper hand, the Resistance attacks Eggman's capital in Metropolis, but it is revealed to be a trap as Eggman unveils his plot.
However, Sonic and the Avatar escape seconds later with the Double Boost or in Sonic’s case:
The power of friendship/teamwork.
Is this series trying to become like My Little Pony?
With a hidden backup power source under Metropolis, Eggman has Infinite create a massive sun over the planet so that it will crash down and destroy the entire Resistance.
Thinking fast, the Rookie uses the prototype Phantom Ruby to dispel the virtual sun, saving everybody.
After destroying the sun, Sonic and the Avatar battle Infinite and defeat him for good.
However, Eggman unveils yet another backup plan, moving the Phantom Ruby into one of his Death Egg Robots and fighting Sonic and his friends directly.
Tails : I'm just gonna stand back here and do nothing!
Working together, Modern Sonic, Classic Sonic, and the Avatar destroy Eggman's robot and defeat him with, again, the power of teamwork/friendship.
With the Phantom Ruby destroyed, Classic Sonic returns to his own dimension.
YEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sonic and his friends decide to rebuild the world and the Resistance disbands.
And the Avatar soon tells them that they are leaving, which later Sonic and the Avatar both part ways.
And that Ladies and Gentlemen was Sonic Forces. Now we come to the question that some of you are asking me: What is my opinion on the game?
Well...... for that, I have to say.........
This game is not gonna be for everybody.
Sonic Forces has it’s fun, the levels are fine, the custom character is great, as well as the music, and the story is somewhat decent.
But for all it’s effort, there are issues with it that I wish Sonic Team could’ve fixed, and the game should’ve been more longer.
Which is probably why we have $40 price instead of $60 price.
But for me, I have to say this is a game that is meant for the fans who love to recent Sonic titles with Unleashed to Generations.
So for the adventure series fans, you’re just gonna have to keep on waiting. Not everyone is gonna be happy with this game, and I can totally see why.
I still had fun playing the game after all of those bad problems with it. I just really hope Sonic Team can someday learn from their mistakes and improve them for the future titles.
So with all that said, here is my rating for Sonic Forces.
So what are your thoughts on the game? Leave them in the comments, and be sure to leave a like. Thank you guys so much for watching, and I’ll see you guys next time.
Oh yeah, also uh... this is the only review I'm ever doing. So don't leave any suggestions please.