Sonic Forces - Nintendo Switch (Digital)

Sonic Forces is the type of game that puts you on a watchlist. If you only play like one or two Sonic games before and don't care about basically anything in your games, it's fine, but for people who do love Sonic at least the slightest bit, this game is trash. The game has no substance to it. In the Sonic (he's not modern, he's just Sonic) and Avatar stages, the 3D parts are so shallow that quite a lot of the 3D parts you can beat without barely pressing anything. There's so much automation that it shouldn't even be there, but there's so little of the 3D (at least in the Sonic stages) that it just becomes another 2D filled rehashed, which at that point a new Sonic Rush game should've been made. The Avatar stages are kinda neat since the customization options is only real rewards you get for S-Ranking stages, but they really don't do much and are also pretty shallow. Sometimes there's a double boost section in some of the stages, and these are so automated, that you don't even have to press the button at all, and you'll still do it just fine. Classic Sonic is also back and he's totally shoehorned in. Just comparing it to Generations, his level design is so plain and boring and doesn't take advantage of the space being 3D. But when also comparing it to Mania, the pure 2D level design is way better and the repeated level themes from the Genesis games are so much more interesting and fun to play than this. The presentation of the game is pretty bland when compared from the Sonic games of the previous generation of consoles, let alone the games from the PS2 generation and the Dreamcast games. The models feel very ridged and there's barely any movement on the models, to the point where Sonic doesn't have any idle animations. The environmental graphics feel very plastic (like Lost World) in comparison to the lush and beautiful landscapes of Unleashed and Generations. The music is good, but you can just listen to that on Youtube or Spotify. The story wants to be cool and serious like previous games, but fails at this with the unfunny and out of character dialogue and the rushed pacing. The world doesn't even have normal humans when the past games have shown they're in towns everywhere. This game is just an absolute mess. Go play Sonic Mania or even go back and play any other Sonic on previous consoles instead of this.

This game needs more checkpoints because when you die you basiclly start from the beginning again. there is also to many things going on at one time enemies then jumping a lot.