10 Upcoming Video Games In HUGE Trouble
8. Sonic Frontiers
Look, even the most hardcore of Sonic fans can appreciate that low expectations are par the course for any new entry into the franchise, and our first glimpse at Sonic Frontiers' open-world gameplay back in June certainly lived down to that.
The gameplay reveal was met with overpowering apathy by both long-time fans of the series and journalists, who felt the open-world design was empty and uninspired, and the combat outrageously repetitive.
Some even compared it to an early-stage tech demo rather than a game set to hit stores less than six months later.
And while more recent footage looks a tad more encouraging, given how slyly Sega has marketed the game as of late, it's tough to expect anything above another mediocre Sonic offering.
It'd be great to be wrong, but Sega hasn't given us any reason to think otherwise. And no, producer Takashi Iizuka's confidence in the game doesn't even remotely count.